Maybe also contain the plague. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Can we put in more requests? Ukraine, if you’re listening, please take out Russian organized crime and crap Russian vodka.

Guys — they’re right. Ukraine really is trying to influence our elections.

I hear they have hockey. Maybe he’ll do shots with the team and decide to stay.

As an old Iraq-hand i ask…to what end? And tell me how this ends.

Yes, but doing so will only further draw down or critical stocks. He could also order a resort to more plentiful but less precise dumb bombs—leading to more pointless civilian deaths.

I think it’s likely there will be some attempt to muck with the results…which is why best case scenario the margins are huge and any effort is meaningless. I wrote about this for Lawfare:

Rarely has a President sold out so much for so little gain. Excellent explainer from David Frum on how little price relief this will provide. It’s remarkable how willing Trump is to openly sell out our national interest in exchange for Ukrainian blood. So both foolish—and a stain on our nation.

100%

Appreciate it!

Divide and conquer - the oldest trick in the book.

For not the first time, the world’s collective response to the U.S. President is — what the hell are you talking about?

“If they don’t attack us—kill our children, we won’t attack their diesel.” - Volodymr Zelenskyy The leader of a democratic nation shouldn’t have to beg America to not fund the war killing its children. The time is long past to choose good over evil. We should be ashamed of our leaders.

“America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin’s war machine…Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine.” — Mike Pence I briefed him as Vice President. He’s right. Lifting sanctions doesn’t buy peace. It funds the war. Slava Ukraini.

As is your God given right. :)

Connect with others, donate to campaigns, organize, and vote like everything matters. A new congress will need to exercise its full power, but there’s a reason Article I is the legislative branch.

And he tells Ukrainians to find “a new leader.” Russian strikes have killed more than 80 Ukrainians since Wednesday. Today a glide bomb in Zaporizhzhia killed 17, three of them children. Which side is America on? Slava Ukraini.