RaMurmoka
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“Now that I’m free to be myself, who am I?” (Mary Oliver)
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Trump on NATO:
"The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call".
We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.
"The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call".
We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.
January 21, 2026 at 2:26 PM
Trump on NATO:
"The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call".
We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.
"The problem with NATO is that we'll be there for them 100% but I'm not sure that they'd be there for us, if we gave them the call".
We did get the call on 9/11. 26 NATO members sent troops to defend the US. Hundreds died doing so. It was the only time Article 5 has been activated.
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Iceland, Greenland.
Greenland, Iceland.
Greenland, Iceland.
Trump is now confusing Greenland and Iceland: "They're not there for us on Iceland, that I can tell you. Our stock market took the first dip yesterday because of Iceland. So Iceland has already cost us a lot of money."
January 21, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Iceland, Greenland.
Greenland, Iceland.
Greenland, Iceland.
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Trump wants to conquer Greenland - a NATO ally. Watch my full weekend video at the Substack link in my reply where I give a deep-dive on the latest with Greenland, Iran and other big stories from this week.
January 17, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Trump wants to conquer Greenland - a NATO ally. Watch my full weekend video at the Substack link in my reply where I give a deep-dive on the latest with Greenland, Iran and other big stories from this week.
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Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t. www.wired.com/story/people...
People Who Drink Bottled Water on a Daily Basis Ingest 90,000 More Microplastic Particles Each Year
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who...
www.wired.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t. www.wired.com/story/people...
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"The world’s in agony, but defiant peoples still shake the lampshade of the sky.
The stinging thorns of their screams
grow to the stars, into the cosmic blackness."
--Ukrainian poet and dissident Vasyl Stus
www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/shards...
The stinging thorns of their screams
grow to the stars, into the cosmic blackness."
--Ukrainian poet and dissident Vasyl Stus
www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/shards...
‘The shards of our pain keep calling us to battle’: Two Poems by Vasyl Stus
Vasyl Stus was an extraordinary Ukrainian poet and dissident who died in a labour camp in Russia three years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. As Bohdan Tokarskyi notes in his introduction to t...
www.londonukrainianreview.org
December 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
"The world’s in agony, but defiant peoples still shake the lampshade of the sky.
The stinging thorns of their screams
grow to the stars, into the cosmic blackness."
--Ukrainian poet and dissident Vasyl Stus
www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/shards...
The stinging thorns of their screams
grow to the stars, into the cosmic blackness."
--Ukrainian poet and dissident Vasyl Stus
www.londonukrainianreview.org/posts/shards...
Yeah, Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed - by stealing its children, killling its people, destroying its infrastructure, trying to deny its very existence.
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 29, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Yeah, Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed - by stealing its children, killling its people, destroying its infrastructure, trying to deny its very existence.
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US oligarch Elon Musk officially endorses the Pro-Russia collaborator Fidias Panayiotou.
Panayiotou voted in favour of international child rapists, kidnappers and then travelled to party with them and hold closed-door meetings.
Panayiotou voted in favour of international child rapists, kidnappers and then travelled to party with them and hold closed-door meetings.
December 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
US oligarch Elon Musk officially endorses the Pro-Russia collaborator Fidias Panayiotou.
Panayiotou voted in favour of international child rapists, kidnappers and then travelled to party with them and hold closed-door meetings.
Panayiotou voted in favour of international child rapists, kidnappers and then travelled to party with them and hold closed-door meetings.
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12 Dec: In Old Scandinavia, farmers set out a Julenek, a sheaf of grain kept from the summer harvest, for the birds to feast upon at #Christmas. Called the “Remembrance of Birds,” this act of #kindness was thought to ensure good luck and a plentiful harvest the following year.
December 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
12 Dec: In Old Scandinavia, farmers set out a Julenek, a sheaf of grain kept from the summer harvest, for the birds to feast upon at #Christmas. Called the “Remembrance of Birds,” this act of #kindness was thought to ensure good luck and a plentiful harvest the following year.
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💔 A European Parliament interpreter could not hold back tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman Oleksiv from Lviv.
The boy survived a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mother - it was the last time he saw her alive.
The boy survived a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mother - it was the last time he saw her alive.
December 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
💔 A European Parliament interpreter could not hold back tears during the speech of 11-year-old Roman Oleksiv from Lviv.
The boy survived a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mother - it was the last time he saw her alive.
The boy survived a missile strike on Vinnytsia on July 14, 2022, which killed his mother - it was the last time he saw her alive.
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NATO allies are Russia’s next target, Secretary General Mark Rutte warned at the Munich Security Conference, urging the alliance to prepare for a “scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:28 PM
NATO allies are Russia’s next target, Secretary General Mark Rutte warned at the Munich Security Conference, urging the alliance to prepare for a “scale of war our grandparents and great-grandparents endured.”
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If Trump really wanted to sanction Putin, he could. It would be no problem. Congress would go for any sanction he wanted. So any time Trump puts a condition on sanctions, it’s just another piece of evidence that he is protecting Putin from sanctions and helping Russia in the war.
September 13, 2025 at 3:31 PM
If Trump really wanted to sanction Putin, he could. It would be no problem. Congress would go for any sanction he wanted. So any time Trump puts a condition on sanctions, it’s just another piece of evidence that he is protecting Putin from sanctions and helping Russia in the war.
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China postures as a neutral mediator, but it has materially and politically backed Russia’s war and profits from it.
How China forgot promises and ‘debts’ to Ukraine, and backed Russia’s war
China postures as a neutral mediator, but it has materially and politically backed Russia’s war and profits from it.
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September 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
China postures as a neutral mediator, but it has materially and politically backed Russia’s war and profits from it.
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It would be hard to imagine an event that could have gone better from the point of view of the Russian leader, who made no public commitment to stop his assault on Ukraine and yet was treated as a valued friend. @katierogersnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
Trump and Putin Put on a Show of Friendship but Come Away Without a Deal
www.nytimes.com
August 16, 2025 at 2:13 AM
It would be hard to imagine an event that could have gone better from the point of view of the Russian leader, who made no public commitment to stop his assault on Ukraine and yet was treated as a valued friend. @katierogersnyt.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/u...
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The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
August 16, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions.
No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.
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FOX REPORTER: “The way it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. It seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled, got right into what he wanted to say, got his photo next to the president, then left.”
August 16, 2025 at 12:36 AM
FOX REPORTER: “The way it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. It seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled, got right into what he wanted to say, got his photo next to the president, then left.”
Rolling out a red carpet for a war criminal from an aggressor state in an of itself a big deal. And a terribly wrong, disturbing message.
No deal, and no answers, after brief Trump-Putin talks on Ukraine in Alaska
No deal, and no answers, after brief Trump-Putin talks on Ukraine in Alaska
US president claims ‘great progress’ with Russian leader but ends press conference abruptly without taking questions
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Trump-Putin summit – live updates
Donald Trump left more questions than answers on Friday as he claimed “great progress” in his high-stakes summit with Vladimir Putin but admitted that no deal had been reached to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.
The US president also suggested that it was now up to Volodymyr Zelenskyy to “get it done” and that a meeting would be set up between the Ukrainian president and Putin, which Trump might attend. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 16, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Rolling out a red carpet for a war criminal from an aggressor state in an of itself a big deal. And a terribly wrong, disturbing message.
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Trump just sent a 'shocking and disruptive' message with Putin meeting: New Yorker writer
Trump just sent a 'shocking and disruptive' message with Putin meeting: New Yorker writer
President Donald Trump has already blindsided Europe just by what has already happened concerning his hosting of Russia's Vladimir Putin in Alaska over a negotiation for ending the Russian invasion of Ukraine, New Yorker writer Susan Glasser told CNN's Jake Tapper."Susan, what did you make of the bo...
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August 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Trump just sent a 'shocking and disruptive' message with Putin meeting: New Yorker writer
Extending an open arms, red carpet treatment to an aggressor and war criminal. What a sad, shameful, and dangerous act.
August 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Extending an open arms, red carpet treatment to an aggressor and war criminal. What a sad, shameful, and dangerous act.
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As Putin heads to Alaska with his maps and narratives, here's an essay I wrote last year about one of his spurious justifications for Russia's illegal war of aggression—his ideological story that Russia is an ancient state, and Ukraine is historically Russian land
snyder.substack.com/p/putins-leg...
snyder.substack.com/p/putins-leg...
Putin's Legend
The Nonsensical Basis of a Terrible War
snyder.substack.com
August 15, 2025 at 2:48 PM
As Putin heads to Alaska with his maps and narratives, here's an essay I wrote last year about one of his spurious justifications for Russia's illegal war of aggression—his ideological story that Russia is an ancient state, and Ukraine is historically Russian land
snyder.substack.com/p/putins-leg...
snyder.substack.com/p/putins-leg...
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The dismantling of USAID has disrupted the global supply chain that provides a therapeutic food, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...
A $45 Treatment Can Save a Starving Child. US Aid Cuts Have Frozen the Supply
www.nytimes.com
August 15, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The dismantling of USAID has disrupted the global supply chain that provides a therapeutic food, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/h...
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Europe’s top leaders tell Trump not to sell out Ukraine at Alaska summit with Putin
Europe’s top leaders tell Trump not to sell out Ukraine at Alaska summit with Putin
Latest from Euractiv
www.euractiv.com
August 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Europe’s top leaders tell Trump not to sell out Ukraine at Alaska summit with Putin
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"The United States Can Stop Israel's Genocide With a Phone Call."
Without U.S. aid and support, Israel would not be able to occupy the Palestinians or commit genocide in Gaza. How can Americans persuade Trump to use his immense leverage and end the war?
thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-united...
Without U.S. aid and support, Israel would not be able to occupy the Palestinians or commit genocide in Gaza. How can Americans persuade Trump to use his immense leverage and end the war?
thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-united...
August 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
"The United States Can Stop Israel's Genocide With a Phone Call."
Without U.S. aid and support, Israel would not be able to occupy the Palestinians or commit genocide in Gaza. How can Americans persuade Trump to use his immense leverage and end the war?
thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-united...
Without U.S. aid and support, Israel would not be able to occupy the Palestinians or commit genocide in Gaza. How can Americans persuade Trump to use his immense leverage and end the war?
thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-united...
Receiving a war criminal in Alaska.
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15, with possible participation from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
August 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Receiving a war criminal in Alaska.
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🚨 Russian drone operators are deliberately targeting civilians in Ukraine, the UN reports.
FPV drones are now a leading cause of civilian deaths, with victims including aid workers, evacuees, and people near their homes.
FPV drones are now a leading cause of civilian deaths, with victims including aid workers, evacuees, and people near their homes.
Russia’s Drone Operators Are Targeting Civilians on Purpose, UN Finds
Russia's deployment of short-range drones targets civilians in Ukraine, raising concerns from the UN over increased casualties and humanitarian impact.
united24media.com
June 27, 2025 at 8:18 AM
🚨 Russian drone operators are deliberately targeting civilians in Ukraine, the UN reports.
FPV drones are now a leading cause of civilian deaths, with victims including aid workers, evacuees, and people near their homes.
FPV drones are now a leading cause of civilian deaths, with victims including aid workers, evacuees, and people near their homes.
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This is a really important story: on the danger of believing your own conspiracy theories. Iran did. Is the US next?
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
What America Can Learn From Iran’s Failure
The regime’s predicament shows what happens when conspiracies, rather than reality, shape decision making.
www.theatlantic.com
June 26, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This is a really important story: on the danger of believing your own conspiracy theories. Iran did. Is the US next?
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...