Senate Republicans are growing increasingly exasperated over President Trump's refusal to give them permission to move tough bipartisan sanctions legislation against Russia and countries that buy its oil.
Ukrainian children have been taken to over 200 different facilities across Russia, including locations where they have been subjected to forced "re-education" and military training in a clear violation of international law, according to new research.
-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) Sep 16, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Why did they support putin's puppet for president if they didn't want america doing putin's bidding?
#12: Too bad no Cassius, Brutus, or Casca amongst our runanga of Republican senators, right Doc Sarvis? blogger.googleusercontent.com
#14: Remember this Republican Senator and the later revealed tapes? www.youtube.com
Quite a parallel between 1968 and 2024 when you look at the machinations and intrigues of supporting or not supporting a brutal regime.
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Trump has never stopped trying to make his boss his BFF:
olgalautman.substack.com - U.S. Starts Buying Eggs From Russia | And Treasury issues a waiver for some diamonds - 2025-09-06
reason.com - Trump Forcibly Returns Russian Dissenters who Fled Putin -2025-09-07
By Julie Roginsky @ saltypolitics.substack.com
saltypolitics.substack.com - Trump Working with KGB Successor on Deportations - 2025-09-09
saltypolitics.substack.com - Trump Unleashes the Dogs of War | Trump's greatest diversion from his failures is American carnage - 2025-09-07
Active Measures - Series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 1 - Active Measures: An Intro To the KGB Playbook
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 2 - Active Measures: Laying the Groundwork (2008 " 2012)
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 3 - Active Measures: Guns, Spies and Trump
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 4 - Active Measures: Putin's God Squad
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 5 - Active Measures: Nazis, the Kremlin and Trump
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 6 - Active Measures: How the Kremlin Penetrated Fox News and Right-Wing Media
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 7 - Active Measures: The Kremlin's Troll Factory
saltypolitics.substack.com - Chapter 8 - Active Measures: The Trump Miss Universe Play
Diversion: "Russiagate Hoax" | "Not Russia, Russia, Russia..."
Just a sample of how wide Russian disinfo campaigns and networks spread - Operation Overload / Matryoshka:
www.wired.com - A Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using Free AI Tools to Fuel a 'Content Explosion'
Consumer-grade AI tools have supercharged Russian-aligned disinformation as pictures, videos, QR codes, and fake websites have proliferated.
www.sgdsn.gouv.fr - Matryoshka - Operation Overload - A pro-Russian campaign targeting media and fact-checking community
There are Matryoshka trolls on this site. Effeteposer is the most obvious low-level Russian one, some others are paid or "influenced" by and into dis/misinfo and become true believers, seeking similar "content" to reinforce [sometimes newly found] confirmation bias.
That's how Putin / Bannon / Trump tactic of "flooding the zone with s**t" works.
The NYT article which pissed off Trump didn't mention that son of Steve Witcoff, Zach Witcoff, a co-founder of WLF, became a buddy and crypto mentor of Barron Trump ('DeFi Visionary') before starting the company that is majority-owned by Trumps:
www.nytimes.com - Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches - 2025-09-15
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