davidrlurie
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I will concede that this has been a pointless interchange. Thanks
November 26, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I will concede that this has been a pointless interchange. Thanks
I dunno. Your tweet paraphrases claims I just read retweeted on Ravid's Twitter account. So he is clearly not blocking everyone who has been saying it.
November 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I dunno. Your tweet paraphrases claims I just read retweeted on Ravid's Twitter account. So he is clearly not blocking everyone who has been saying it.
Given how utterly debased, and full of idiots like Witkoff, the Regime is, I suppose I agree that it is a "perfect" Trumper document, and will be recognized by history as such.
November 26, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Given how utterly debased, and full of idiots like Witkoff, the Regime is, I suppose I agree that it is a "perfect" Trumper document, and will be recognized by history as such.
I thought Bill Browder and others were joking about that, until I read it myself. So I am definitely glad, as a supporter of Ukraine, that it was published.
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 AM
I thought Bill Browder and others were joking about that, until I read it myself. So I am definitely glad, as a supporter of Ukraine, that it was published.
And then translated. Which made the document an immediate (deserved) subject of mockery.
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
And then translated. Which made the document an immediate (deserved) subject of mockery.
Except that, as became clear once Ravid reported the actual language, it was literally written in Russian.
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Except that, as became clear once Ravid reported the actual language, it was literally written in Russian.
Your contentions truly puzzle me; I have no particular interest in defending Ravid (and he certainly doesn't need a defense). But I just, honestly, don't get it.
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Your contentions truly puzzle me; I have no particular interest in defending Ravid (and he certainly doesn't need a defense). But I just, honestly, don't get it.
He accurately reported the contents of the plan, which ended up (predictably) jump starting the opposition to (and mockery) of it.
www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...
Trump's full 28-point Ukraine-Russia peace plan
The full plan was obtained by Axios and verified by Ukrainian and U.S. officials.
www.axios.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:19 AM
He accurately reported the contents of the plan, which ended up (predictably) jump starting the opposition to (and mockery) of it.
www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...
www.axios.com/2025/11/20/t...
What was the lie that he reported?
November 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
What was the lie that he reported?
The claim he was "used" is odd and plainly inaccurate. All leakers are assumed to have agendas. This leaker was a fool.
November 26, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The claim he was "used" is odd and plainly inaccurate. All leakers are assumed to have agendas. This leaker was a fool.
You are reading edotorial content into what was accurate reporting. And again, the leak was a disaster for Witkoff and his Russian cronies.
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
You are reading edotorial content into what was accurate reporting. And again, the leak was a disaster for Witkoff and his Russian cronies.
It was certainly better for the public to learn sooner, rather than later, that Trump and Witkoff were trying to coerce Ukraine, again, into a Russian-authored "deal."
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
It was certainly better for the public to learn sooner, rather than later, that Trump and Witkoff were trying to coerce Ukraine, again, into a Russian-authored "deal."
Art of the autocratic deal.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Art of the autocratic deal.