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Demotikos. Fair warning: I have zero tolerance or sympathy for autocrats or oligarchs. My views on them may be “extreme.”
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1/ Time to return to the topic of oligarchy, democracy, and what do we actually want from “resistance.” Please see posts below and apologies, I’d gotten out of habits learned on Twitter and neglected to number my “skeet’s”(?). To recap: we resist not to return to status quo ante but re-make society.
In the old days, we’d call that “a lick and a promise.” Short story: everyone knew you were an idiot to act on such nonsense bullshit. American leadership is apparently unfamiliar with the concept (they’re oh so fucking smart, you see); let’s see if 🇺🇦’s leaders are so gullible. I’m betting not.
⚡️ US to discuss Ukraine security guarantees after peace deal signed, Rubio tells allies.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured allies during a Nov. 25 call that the U.S. plans to address security guarantees once an agreement is reached, Politico reported.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured allies during a Nov. 25 call that the U.S. plans to address security guarantees once an agreement is reached, Politico reported.
US to discuss Ukraine security guarantees after peace deal signed, Rubio tells allies
Secretary of State Marco Rubio assured allies during a Nov. 25 call that the U.S. plans to address security guarantees once an agreement is reached, Politico reported.
kyivindependent.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
In the old days, we’d call that “a lick and a promise.” Short story: everyone knew you were an idiot to act on such nonsense bullshit. American leadership is apparently unfamiliar with the concept (they’re oh so fucking smart, you see); let’s see if 🇺🇦’s leaders are so gullible. I’m betting not.
1/ Since EU has negotiated a slightly less awful agreement, of course Krasnov is pleased. Even if Zelenskyy (insanely) agrees to this steMing pile of shit, I’d bet Putin rejects it. Why not? He just keeps gradually extracting more & more concessions w/ each iteration. 🇺🇦 needs to have a 3 pt plan:
⚡️Trump 'quite pleased' with Ukraine peace talks as Europe reportedly issues counterproposal to Russia.
Trump 'quite pleased' with Ukraine peace talks as Europe reportedly issues counterproposal to Russia
"I think we all recognize that part of getting a final end to this war will require for Ukraine to feel that it is safe and it is never going to be invaded or attacked again," U.S. Secretary of State ...
kyivindependent.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:02 AM
1/ Since EU has negotiated a slightly less awful agreement, of course Krasnov is pleased. Even if Zelenskyy (insanely) agrees to this steMing pile of shit, I’d bet Putin rejects it. Why not? He just keeps gradually extracting more & more concessions w/ each iteration. 🇺🇦 needs to have a 3 pt plan:
This “negotiated” modification remains capitulation and ensures 🇷🇺 can renew its campaign to destroy 🇺🇦 in short order. It’s Minsk redux. If Zelenskyy agrees to this, he goes from hero to traitor with the stroke of a pen. The guarantees - by 2 nations who’ve violated past pledges (🇺🇸🇷🇺) are worthless.
Reuters has published the full 28-point European counter-proposal to the U.S. peace plan for Ukraine. The counter-proposal, drafted by Europe's E3 powers of Britain, France and Germany, takes the U.S. plan as its basis but then goes through it point by point with suggested changes and deletions.
November 23, 2025 at 11:43 PM
This “negotiated” modification remains capitulation and ensures 🇷🇺 can renew its campaign to destroy 🇺🇦 in short order. It’s Minsk redux. If Zelenskyy agrees to this, he goes from hero to traitor with the stroke of a pen. The guarantees - by 2 nations who’ve violated past pledges (🇺🇸🇷🇺) are worthless.
Krasnov reposts this totally batshit stuff, proving he’s hell bent on being a dictator. Of course, he and his lickspittle administration critters will say ‘he’s just joking; get over it’. And the corrupt, sycophantic media will mostly ignore or treat it as ‘normal’. It’s fucking insane .
November 23, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Krasnov reposts this totally batshit stuff, proving he’s hell bent on being a dictator. Of course, he and his lickspittle administration critters will say ‘he’s just joking; get over it’. And the corrupt, sycophantic media will mostly ignore or treat it as ‘normal’. It’s fucking insane .
1/ Americans understand the military takes an oath to defend the Constitution. What does that really mean? Is it an oath to defend the 3 branches of government? Gerrymanders? The filibuster? Presidential pardons and vetos? I don’t think that’s what servicemen and women think their oath entails.
November 23, 2025 at 11:36 AM
1/ Americans understand the military takes an oath to defend the Constitution. What does that really mean? Is it an oath to defend the 3 branches of government? Gerrymanders? The filibuster? Presidential pardons and vetos? I don’t think that’s what servicemen and women think their oath entails.
Exactly so. Even if Krasnov isn’t a 🇷🇺 asset, he & his administration have demonstrated themselves to be feckless, clueless, incompetents. 🇹🇼 , 🇰🇷, 🇯🇵, 🇵🇭, 🇮🇩, 🇦🇺 - you’re on your own. Better recognize this isn’t going to change. 🇺🇸 ain’t coming & even if it did, it’ll fuck up things & run.
The current mess in DC only signals to Beijing that the US lacks unity, organization, and strategic vision to handle an even larger conflict, as the Pacific region is likely to become. Bombing Iran after Israel's SEAD or running masculine army ads doesn’t compensate for it
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Exactly so. Even if Krasnov isn’t a 🇷🇺 asset, he & his administration have demonstrated themselves to be feckless, clueless, incompetents. 🇹🇼 , 🇰🇷, 🇯🇵, 🇵🇭, 🇮🇩, 🇦🇺 - you’re on your own. Better recognize this isn’t going to change. 🇺🇸 ain’t coming & even if it did, it’ll fuck up things & run.
Unless & until US lawmakers vote to impeach Krasnov for high crimes and misdemeanours, their ‘railing’ against the deeds and words of his administration don’t amount to a pile of shit.
⚡️Rubio tells senators 28-point Ukraine peace deal is not a U.S. plan.
Speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum, U.S. senators critical of the 28-point peace plan said that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told them that the current proposal does not amount to the actual U.S. plan.
Speaking at the Halifax International Security Forum, U.S. senators critical of the 28-point peace plan said that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told them that the current proposal does not amount to the actual U.S. plan.
'Rewarding Russian butchery' — US lawmakers rail against Trump's Ukraine peace deal
"Rewarding Russian butchery would be disastrous to America’s interests," U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell said.
kyivindependent.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Unless & until US lawmakers vote to impeach Krasnov for high crimes and misdemeanours, their ‘railing’ against the deeds and words of his administration don’t amount to a pile of shit.
Yep. Pure unadulterated bullshit. If not American plan, why the ultimatum to accept it? Why the threat to cut off aid and Intel sharing if not accepted? Why did secretary of army Driscoll deliver it to Ukraine and EU? if it looks, walks, quacks like a duck it’s a fucking duck!
Friday: "Sign this by Thanksgiving or it's all over for you."
Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it." www.huffpost.com/entry/senato...
Saturday: "This is nothing to do with us, some other boys wrote it." www.huffpost.com/entry/senato...
U.S. Senators Say They Spoke With Rubio About Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Who Denied It Is A U.S. Plan
Senators said Rubio told them the peace plan Trump is pushing Kyiv to accept is a “wish list” of the Russians and not the actual U.S. plan.
www.huffpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Yep. Pure unadulterated bullshit. If not American plan, why the ultimatum to accept it? Why the threat to cut off aid and Intel sharing if not accepted? Why did secretary of army Driscoll deliver it to Ukraine and EU? if it looks, walks, quacks like a duck it’s a fucking duck!
Is America’s dirty deal for Ukraine the straw that breaks the back of EU reliance on American military and economic power? It ought to be, but I fear weak European leadership will once again fool itself into believing that USA is, if not dependable, a necessary ally. It is time for a clean break!
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Is America’s dirty deal for Ukraine the straw that breaks the back of EU reliance on American military and economic power? It ought to be, but I fear weak European leadership will once again fool itself into believing that USA is, if not dependable, a necessary ally. It is time for a clean break!
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The Trump administration in the US has abandoned Ukraine — this is a fact we must accept. Europeans should stop purchasing US weapons and instead prioritize strengthening the European defense industry as quickly as possible. All European citizens should pressure their respective gvt on this matter.
July 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The Trump administration in the US has abandoned Ukraine — this is a fact we must accept. Europeans should stop purchasing US weapons and instead prioritize strengthening the European defense industry as quickly as possible. All European citizens should pressure their respective gvt on this matter.
Absolute bullshit! If it wasn’t a 🇺🇸 proposal, why did Krasnov give 🇺🇦 until Thursday (27 Nov) to accept it? If not a 🇺🇸 plan, why did Krasnov suggest military aid (which is practically non-existent and mere mirage anyway) & intel sharing would be cut off if 🇺🇦 didn’t accept? Everything 🇺🇸 says is a lie.
November 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Absolute bullshit! If it wasn’t a 🇺🇸 proposal, why did Krasnov give 🇺🇦 until Thursday (27 Nov) to accept it? If not a 🇺🇸 plan, why did Krasnov suggest military aid (which is practically non-existent and mere mirage anyway) & intel sharing would be cut off if 🇺🇦 didn’t accept? Everything 🇺🇸 says is a lie.
Here’s the thing: working from any aspect of Krasnov’s ‘plan’ is to ascribe a legitimacy to it that it does not have. Krasnov & members of his Administration as well. The 🇺🇸 is not an ally, or a partner, anymore. It’s a Trojan Horse. It serves only Putin & Krasnov’s corruption. Wake up, EU, FFS!
🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦 Trump Pushes Ukraine, Europe Pushes Back
Ukraine and its European partners are pushing for fairer and more balanced changes to the plan. Merz also reminded Trump about the Budapest Memorandum.
Read more 👀⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/new-special-...
Ukraine and its European partners are pushing for fairer and more balanced changes to the plan. Merz also reminded Trump about the Budapest Memorandum.
Read more 👀⬇️
theukrainianreview.info/new-special-...
Trump Pushes Ukraine, Europe Pushes Back
Daniel Driscoll is now Donald Trump’s special representative. According to The Guardian, he plans to travel to Russia by the end of next week for talks with V
theukrainianreview.info
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Here’s the thing: working from any aspect of Krasnov’s ‘plan’ is to ascribe a legitimacy to it that it does not have. Krasnov & members of his Administration as well. The 🇺🇸 is not an ally, or a partner, anymore. It’s a Trojan Horse. It serves only Putin & Krasnov’s corruption. Wake up, EU, FFS!
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Hi All, just sent out this (mostly free). The Long Con of the Trump administration came to an end yesterday, as it was always going to do. We are back in the Oval Office with Trump and Vance ambushing Zelensky. The whole pivot to Ukraine was a sham to help Putin. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Long Con Comes To An End
The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Hi All, just sent out this (mostly free). The Long Con of the Trump administration came to an end yesterday, as it was always going to do. We are back in the Oval Office with Trump and Vance ambushing Zelensky. The whole pivot to Ukraine was a sham to help Putin. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Good analysis but omits one thing: A genesis. Trump is nothing if not vindictive. He hates Zelenskyy for not delivering on his demand for a faux investigation of Biden back in 2019. That let Biden win in 2020. Biden’s win could’ve put him in jail. This is revenge. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
The Long Con Comes To An End
The Trump Administration Takes Off The Mask (Again)
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Good analysis but omits one thing: A genesis. Trump is nothing if not vindictive. He hates Zelenskyy for not delivering on his demand for a faux investigation of Biden back in 2019. That let Biden win in 2020. Biden’s win could’ve put him in jail. This is revenge. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Remember when, during 1st term, Trump bulldozed a Montenegrin leader (i think) to get to front of a G20 gaggle? I thought ‘what an asshole.’ Now we know how little he thinks of EU. Turning 🇷🇺 frozen assets into 🇺🇸 slush fund & Trump leads the peace council? Bollocks! www.politico.eu/article/stev...
‘Witkoff needs a psychiatrist’: Europeans fume at Trump’s plan to profit from frozen Russian assets
Diplomats and officials react with outrage to new details of the U.S. peace plan, warning it could wreck their efforts to help Ukraine survive the war.
www.politico.eu
November 22, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Remember when, during 1st term, Trump bulldozed a Montenegrin leader (i think) to get to front of a G20 gaggle? I thought ‘what an asshole.’ Now we know how little he thinks of EU. Turning 🇷🇺 frozen assets into 🇺🇸 slush fund & Trump leads the peace council? Bollocks! www.politico.eu/article/stev...
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The GOP/Kremlin plan is nothing short of trying to defeat Ukraine since Russia can't do it. The disgusting fascist Republican administration and party is truly hell spawned demons parading around with crosses around their necks. Fight back here, help Ukraine. This is unacceptable surrender by DC.
November 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
The GOP/Kremlin plan is nothing short of trying to defeat Ukraine since Russia can't do it. The disgusting fascist Republican administration and party is truly hell spawned demons parading around with crosses around their necks. Fight back here, help Ukraine. This is unacceptable surrender by DC.
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Btw, I do hope people understand what they have seen today. It was a well-planned and deliberate ambush of Ukraine by Trump, to force the Ukrainians to bend the knee to Putin's dictatorship. It was not slip-shod, rushed, impulsive or an accident. It was prepared malice.
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Btw, I do hope people understand what they have seen today. It was a well-planned and deliberate ambush of Ukraine by Trump, to force the Ukrainians to bend the knee to Putin's dictatorship. It was not slip-shod, rushed, impulsive or an accident. It was prepared malice.
This has been foreseeable since November 2024. If it catches EU/NATO or 🇺🇦 flat-footed, they’ve no-one to blame but themselves. The sooner the umbilicus w/ 🇺🇸 is cut the better. An unreliable, untrustworthy ally is no asset but a liability, even a threat. The only object remains: 🇷🇺 total defeat.
❗️The United States has threatened to halt weapons supplies and intelligence sharing with Ukraine if Kyiv does not sign the American peace plan by November 27, Reuters reports.
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This has been foreseeable since November 2024. If it catches EU/NATO or 🇺🇦 flat-footed, they’ve no-one to blame but themselves. The sooner the umbilicus w/ 🇺🇸 is cut the better. An unreliable, untrustworthy ally is no asset but a liability, even a threat. The only object remains: 🇷🇺 total defeat.
1/ The 28-pt plan is an utterly frivolous & worthless piece of shit that results in 🇺🇸🇷🇺 enrichment, 🇺🇦 disarmament and dismemberment, 🇷🇺 rejoining the global economy, and security guarantees by 2 nations who have violated past guarantees.https://www.ft.com/content/79eefaf8-2fc1-47ac-9653-24cf6a0239f5
Read the full text of Trump’s 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
Proposed deal would limit size of Ukrainian forces and calls on Kyiv to withdraw troops from eastern Donetsk
www.ft.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
1/ The 28-pt plan is an utterly frivolous & worthless piece of shit that results in 🇺🇸🇷🇺 enrichment, 🇺🇦 disarmament and dismemberment, 🇷🇺 rejoining the global economy, and security guarantees by 2 nations who have violated past guarantees.https://www.ft.com/content/79eefaf8-2fc1-47ac-9653-24cf6a0239f5
President Zelenskyy: please inform the pedophile-in-chief, the morally bankrupt “leader” of a dysfunctional, dying republic, to shove his “Munich” demand so far up his ass, it gives his tongue a paper cut. Disarm & cede land?! For what? An illusory promise? 🇺🇸 already welshed on Budapest; no more.
🇺🇸‼️🇺🇦 The U.S. has signalled to Zelensky that Ukraine must accept a U.S.-drafted framework to end the war with Russia that proposes Kyiv giving up territory and some weapons, - Reuters
The proposals included cutting the size of Ukraine's armed forces, among other things.
The proposals included cutting the size of Ukraine's armed forces, among other things.
November 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
President Zelenskyy: please inform the pedophile-in-chief, the morally bankrupt “leader” of a dysfunctional, dying republic, to shove his “Munich” demand so far up his ass, it gives his tongue a paper cut. Disarm & cede land?! For what? An illusory promise? 🇺🇸 already welshed on Budapest; no more.
Thinking about the Senate Democrats’ capitulation this weekend, I’m thinking that civil wars don’t get started by uncompromising firebrands but rather by enfeebled geriatrics, clinging to a chimera of “bipartisanship” until any chance of staving off collapse is gone.
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Thinking about the Senate Democrats’ capitulation this weekend, I’m thinking that civil wars don’t get started by uncompromising firebrands but rather by enfeebled geriatrics, clinging to a chimera of “bipartisanship” until any chance of staving off collapse is gone.
“Turn the f*ckin volume up, you low IQ f*ckin f*ck”! Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs right out of the gate. Move over, Obama - this guy is an orator and a genuine change agent. You gotta be both, Barack, and you weren’t.
November 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
“Turn the f*ckin volume up, you low IQ f*ckin f*ck”! Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs right out of the gate. Move over, Obama - this guy is an orator and a genuine change agent. You gotta be both, Barack, and you weren’t.
Sorry, NATO’s general secretary is an uninspiring appeaser in just about every way. He’s about as useful as a “poop flavored lollie pop”. When does his pointless term of office end?
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:
Russia is not alone in its efforts to undermine global rules -it is working with China,North Korea,Iran,others, strengthening defense industrial cooperation to unprecedented levels&preparing for long-term confrontation
We cannot be naive. We must be prepared.
Russia is not alone in its efforts to undermine global rules -it is working with China,North Korea,Iran,others, strengthening defense industrial cooperation to unprecedented levels&preparing for long-term confrontation
We cannot be naive. We must be prepared.
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Sorry, NATO’s general secretary is an uninspiring appeaser in just about every way. He’s about as useful as a “poop flavored lollie pop”. When does his pointless term of office end?
1/ For media outlets trying to lionize Dick Cheney, I have only his words: "Go f*ck yourself." One of the most despicable politicians of the 20th Century, he's responsible for killing more Americans than bin Laden, not to mention fostering the 'unitary executive' BS that fuels Krasnov's tyranny.
November 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
1/ For media outlets trying to lionize Dick Cheney, I have only his words: "Go f*ck yourself." One of the most despicable politicians of the 20th Century, he's responsible for killing more Americans than bin Laden, not to mention fostering the 'unitary executive' BS that fuels Krasnov's tyranny.
1/ Krasnov and his corrupt cabal of christo-fascists won’t be content for long with “disappearing” immigrants alone. Sooner or later - and most likely sooner - US citizens of the wrong political outlook will start to vanish as well. Some think Trump’s resort to violence just shows his weakness.
Vanishing people from records is part of the protocol used by death squads and the worst South American dictatorships.
Thousands Of Jailed Immigrants in Chicago Have Vanished From Federal Records, Human Rights Attorneys Claim
"These are folks that have been here for decades, have long standing ties to the community, family members, employment, businesses that are all being torn apart," said one attorney
www.latintimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 AM
1/ Krasnov and his corrupt cabal of christo-fascists won’t be content for long with “disappearing” immigrants alone. Sooner or later - and most likely sooner - US citizens of the wrong political outlook will start to vanish as well. Some think Trump’s resort to violence just shows his weakness.