"Putin's need to co-opt Kyiv's history as Russia's own was necessary to argue that Ukraine is Russia. That said, it is important to understand that Putin's contrived Russian history lessons are simply a smokescreen.
Putin's war against Ukraine is in reality a war against the West and against NATO in particular. NATO, as currently constituted, is the biggest obstacle preventing Putin from reconstituting the Warsaw Pact.
Under the guise of peace talks, Abu Dhabi gave Putin an opening to attack NATO and the 32 member states that comprise the defensive pact that has kept the peace in Western Europe since the end of World War II.
Foolishly, Witkoff and Kushner fell into Putin's trap when they strong-armed European NATO allies into agreeing to discuss Europe's security architecture after the end of the war in Ukraine. That is, of course, code for NATO.
In other words, Witkoff and Kushner put NATO's future on the negotiating table " in effect agreeing to give Russia a say in what it looks like."
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Much more in the article, including a swift debunking of Putin's fake claims on Ukraine.
The article starts with, "Unwittingly or not", which clearly points to the lack of any real concern at all for either NATO or Ukraine on Trump's part... he's always on the side of the Dictator in Question.
The RNC fumbled by thinking they had a mandate, let's see if the D's handle it better.
#14 | POSTED BY KWRX25
Republicans barely won. By a slim very narrow majority ... one or two percentage points. I personally could not believe how close the races were. And yet they claimed a mandate! They thought they had a mandate. What they had was a chance to prove themselves to the American voter.
WASHINGTON " U.S. House Republican leaders said Tuesday voters have given them a "mandate" to enact as much conservative policy as possible once they gain unified control of the federal government in January, but declined to provide details about exactly what policies they'd seek to enact.
"The American people want us to implement and deliver that America first agenda," said Speaker Mike Johnson. "And we have to do that while we have that energy and that excitement, beginning on the very first day of the Congress in the new year."[
And they failed miserably.
But I do agree. Let's see if the D's can do better.
Will republicans give them a chance to blow it? Or will they block obstruct and undermine everything they try?
Yeah ... let's see!