For anyone not reading the article he is specifically talking about any troops Ukraine has left in the Kursk region as there has been a general pullback into Ukraine from Kursk in the last few days. This is not about the wider peace negotiations.

Step two of the Russian play book is to identify a “sympathetic” group in the target country. They don’t have to be American, just close enough for propagandists to sell as “oppressed”.

Ooo thank you.

Can we do a territory with limited autonomy? That way we can’t infect your politics.

Yeah. At this stage, after this much back and forth, this is a serious statement. It wasn’t just a one off dementia thing. This statement was the thrust of what he was saying so this is what he wanted to say. He’s not campaigning anymore, or justifying policy anymore. It was a direct extortion attempt on an entire country by the man in charge of the world’s most powerful military.

Trade deficits are also often structured that way on purpose because the alternative is the smaller country not allowing any trade in from the larger country.

Hey just one thing. Please don’t do illegal things to people wearing MAGA hats. They aren’t worth it and American conservative media will just use it to fuel the fire.

It’ll be more than that. There’ll be millions of Americans who won’t stand for it either. To think of it though, that might be the point. Something so heinous, yet legal (barely), that it legitimately compromises our security and forces martial law and a state of emergency he can exploit.

That’s the thing they formed an “interagency taskforce” so it was Forest Service, BLM, Corrections, FBI, Federal Police, ICE, DHS, etc etc etc. You couldn’t point to any one agency, which was part of the problem. The other problem is it was an obvious end run around Posse Comitatus. He couldn’t get the military to deploy illegally so he made his own little army.

Putin doesn’t have the entirety of the two provinces he’s claiming. He wants the entirety of the two provinces for a couple reasons. First it gives him a domestic win. Second it screws the Ukrainian defensive lines. Right now they are situated in a way that Russia has to fight through towns that Ukraine can fortify to make them costly. If they use the province borders, they’re relatively arbitrary and Ukraine’s line of defense has to be set up further back, where they can force Russia into towns again. This favors Russia because in a couple years when they finish rebuilding their military they can just take the next area and tell everyone they get to keep that in the next ceasefire.

Possible, and harmless to Russia since Biden’s administration sanctioned pretty much everything they could already. I will not be surprised though if Trump announces he’s relaxing sanctions based on a promise from Putin to consider future negotiations.

Waiting breathlessly for Trump’s announcement that Zelensky is unwilling to talk peace and Putin is a victim…

That is a breath taking claim to power. If you entered on a visa of any kind they are claiming they can review that specific event and deport you no matter what your current status is.

That reporter missed a very important question, do they believe they can do this to a naturalized citizen?

Our safety agency actually rejected the headlights that turn off around other cars, in favor of LED lights that blind the fuck out of everyone no matter what setting you use.

That tells you everything you need to know about American “safety”.

The glass is not bullet resistant. The doors barely qualify, if they don’t have to stand up to an actual firefight.

They were any federal agent that volunteered. So anyone with a badge in federal employment.

You need to roll with a large group to have that effect. And even then the police might just drop a bomb on you.

We never had allies, we barely knew those countries, they might have gotten coffee for us at some point?

/s

If you guys do that take pictures and send them to America so we can put them in political ads.

Honestly yeah, if a paperwork fuck up can get you detained for more than 24 hours there’s something seriously wrong and travelling there is dangerous for the border police alone.