The long term shrinking opportunity increases the risk of a Russian attack on a NATO country in the next 5+ years
âEurope has enough money, technological know-how, and even an industrial base that can be improved to meet the challenge of strategic autonomy. But it will not happen overnight, and Trump has opened a window of vulnerability. If Europe needs 5-10 years to become capable without the US, does it make sense from Putinâs perspective to give Europe that time? Therefore, the most important goals for Europe are currently to keep Ukraine afloat and to avoid a disorderly US withdrawal from Europe.â
Russians shamelessly hunting civilians, since nobody in the West has the backbone to do anything about it.
https://x.com/ZarinaZabrisky/status/1942452371457499344
wow 
ignore the âfor sample purposes onlyâ sticker there and all those cobwebs and dust 
Pentagon to send Kyiv 10 Patriot missiles
Trump promised to immediately send Ukraine ten Patriot missiles, Axios writes. This is less than planned as part of US aid before it was suspended, the article says. The US President also announced plans to help find other ways to supply these weapons, two sources told the portal. Germany is named as a potential âdonorâ.
Trumpâs symbolic handout to Zelensky. To get him off his back.
But what is really going onâŚ
Trump to Send Ukraine âAdditional Defensive Weaponsâ
âWeâre going to send some more weapons. We have to. They have to be able to defend themselves. Theyâre getting hit very hard now. Weâre going to have to send more weapons, defensive weapons primarily, but theyâre getting hit very, very hard. So many people are dying in that mess.â
According to insider information from The Wall Street Journal, Trump assured ZelenskŃy that the U.S. would send as much military aid as it can afford. Biden had a formulation of âas much as Ukraine needs.â Feel the difference?! Trump emphasized that he is not responsible for the pause in weapons deliveries. Meanwhile, the Pentagon stated:
âAt President Trumpâs direction, the Department of Defense is sending additional defensive weapons to Ukraine to ensure the Ukrainians can defend themselves while we work to secure a lasting peace and ensure the killing stops. Our framework for the president of the United States to evaluate military shipments across the globe remains in effect and is integral to our America First defense priorities.â
The U.S. is playing good cop-bad cop. Trump is the âgood copâ - he didnât prohibit before and is now allowing weapons transfers. But only defensive and âas much as the Pentagon can.â The Pentagon is the âbad copâ - it will follow the âAmerica Firstâ principle and cut off supplies whenever it wants. Through this simple scheme, responsibility for frontline developments is NOT on Trump. Plus, the White House has perfected the mechanism of drip-feeding weapons to Ukraineâs Armed Forces to keep ZelenskyŃ more compliant when needed
Poor little Zelensky is too stupid to see what it is all about. 
give it rest already âzelenskyâ you and your buddies will never ever win. 
Correct assessment (apart from the Zelenskyy bit obviously - no official will call out thin skinned Trump and hold him accountable).
It really shows how weak the US is coming off that Russian propagandists are joyous over the actions of the Trump admin.
Itâs up to Europe and Ukraine to wreck Russian imperialism. The US is not a reliable partner anymore.
âthe elites are willing to stay within the red lines â but what terrifies them is that they donât know where those lines are anymore.â
"This looks less like a deliberate purge, and more like the convulsions of a system in slow-motion crisis. A business elite increasingly engaged in cannibalistic competition for diminishing assets, a Kremlin that mistrusts the people on whom it depends to run its country and economy, that demands compliance with unspoken, unfixed and unclear rules. It certainly doesnât mean Putinism is headed for some imminent fall. But it does demonstrate that even as the war machine continues to grind on, the damage being done to the Russian regime is very real.
Russia, enemy of Europe:
https://x.com/cossackgundi/status/1942629900214518234
problem is despite his bluster, I think heâs going to slow or delay any sanctions being passed, and also going to drip supplies to Ukraine. Just like now even though 30 Patriot missiles were already on the way and already promised and authorized by the previous administration, heâs doing Ukraine a favor to release 10 of those 30 to them.
No matter what, he is still going to act that way, whether itâs pro-Russia or anti-ukraine in its intention.
Who knew Muskâs Grok, no matter how much he re-trains it to try and favor MAGA narratives, is consistent in pissing off vatniks and pro-Russia trolls.
He canât punish Putin without rewarding Ukraine and itâs killing him.
Great reflection. Sadly, those who need it wonât read it.
"In Russiaâs case, the collapse of the Soviet Union left a profound psychic scar. Putin called it âthe greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century.â Rather than acknowledge the grief or confusion that followed, the Kremlin built a story: Russia as eternal, misunderstood, betrayed by the West.
Ukraine, in this myth, is not a sovereign country with its own voice, but a misbehaving child of a once-mighty empire. In this view, aspirations toward democracy are not signs of agency but threats to stability. Cultural independence becomes treason. Reality is bent in service of an identity that cannot bear to feel humiliated or forgotten.
This is collective narcissism: the projection of weakness outward, the denial of vulnerability inward. It builds national pride not on self-knowledge, but on fantasy. The result is a fragile strength, a defensive posture that lashes out rather than reflects.
In the United States, the wound is different, but the mechanism often echoes the same pattern. Donald Trumpâs promise to âMake America Great Againâ was not just a slogan â it was a narrative balm for people who felt abandoned, disoriented, or invisible in a changing world.
The nostalgia embedded in that phrase isnât necessarily a longing for policy â itâs a longing for supremacy, clarity, and simplicity. Itâs the same impulse to cover over pain with projection: to blame others, to romanticize the past, to reject complexity.
Narcissism, whether personal or collective, doesnât begin in arrogance. It begins in pain. A wound that feels too dangerous to name â too humiliating to acknowledge â gets buried. And what grows over it is a mask: invincibility, righteousness, exceptionalism.
But the pain doesnât disappear. It distorts. And it demands constant maintenance.
So, how do we heal? Whatâs the alternative?"
"In Ukraine, Iâve seen a kind of cultural resilience that doesnât rely on fantasy. People write poetry about loss, gather in liturgies that name sorrow, and rebuild even in the midst of grief. Their strength doesnât come from pretending not to be hurt. It comes from facing pain head-on and refusing to let it define the future.
In the Christian tradition, thereâs a word for this: transformation. Not through domination or denial, but through truth-telling, mourning, and imagination. The wounded Christ is not hidden from view but held up for the world to see â not as spectacle, but as testimony.
In this vision, healing is not a return to former glory, but a movement toward wholeness. Not power over others, but communion with them.
Collective narcissism tempts us to craft identities out of denial. It thrives on stories of victimhood that never admit weakness. But genuine healing â national or personal â requires something much harder: the courage to feel pain, the humility to learn from it, and the imagination to build something new from its ashes."
Trump is spending A LOT of political capital continuing to fund ukraine, his base is turning on him.
How can he be spending political capital when all he does is vaguely state he might do something?
Are you drunk? Trumps base wouldnt turn on him if he got caught on video raping a child. Trump reminds me of Edwin Edwards, famous for saying the only way he would lose an election was if he was found in bed with âa dead woman or live boy.â
Trump shits all over his"base" snd they just beg for more. If told thrm to, they would all get âslava ukraniyaâ tatoos.
because he was supported by many isolationists based on his rhetoric
There is a huge chunk of the american population that sees no benefit to supporting Ukraine outside of moral questions