Our struggles for independence from the rule of a king started with something as simple as a complaint of being taxed without our input. You remember, right? It was called the Boston Tea Party.
A short overview of what lead up to the “Boston Tea Party”:
While you may be familiar with a movement in the recent past called the Tea Party, it was, perhaps, a misnomer. For the Tea Party was a bit of a precursor to MAGA, the group that supports Donald Trump. Or at least they were part of the Republican Party, which has veered so far to the right as to be unrecognizable.
So now that brings us to today, where we have the “Trump Tariffs” and his “Big, Beautiful Bill”. The tariffs are nothing more than a tax on goods that are imported into this country. That tax will be passed on down the food chain until it reaches the end users, which are you and me. This will lead to reciprocal tariffs by our trading partners on the goods we sell them. Both of these taxes will affect us through higher costs of goods we purchase and hurt our companies that sell overseas affecting their markets and our jobs. After Trump’s first term our agriculture markets took some time to recover from his tariffs.
The “Big, Beautiful Bill” is nothing more than a transfer of wealth to the higher income strata of American society. It has made Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy permanent and cut social programs which help lower income Americans survive. This while eliminating thousands of jobs in the public sector which were in place in departments set up to help our government function smoothly. While you may not have seen the ramifications of these Trump and Republican polices, unless you are one of those fired or rounded up and deported, you will eventually. Someone once said that the United States economy is like a battleship, it doesn’t turn on a dime. And, despite what you may have thought, it was doing quite well under Biden, when compared to other countries.
So where does that leave us? I hold out little hope that the true MAGA followers will ever realize what they have done by supporting Trump and his enablers. Even as many lose their jobs and their families sink further into poverty. They have drunk the Kool-Aid of the Trump cult. If those who voted for Trump, voted third party, or simply sat out the election do not come to understand what they are throwing away, then this country is in serious trouble.
So it was hard to celebrate the 4th of July this year. But, I cannot leave this post with such a depressing ending. Because I do see signs out there of that America which stood together in times of trouble, the America we fought for in our revolution, the America that gives hope for our future.
On July 4th there was a catastrophic flood in Texas. A short video:
They call this a historic flood, but I suspect it will become more of the norm in our future. But what we saw, again, was the strength of those who were affected. We saw people helping each other. We saw some of the grit and determination that this country was founded on. I don’t know if the people there were Trump supporters or not, but they stood together as Americans and that is what really made this country great. It is what we need to get back to, helping all of our citizens, not just those who are fortunate to be born to wealthy parents, and have no clue as to what many Americans are going through. My heart goes out to those affected by those Texas floods. Even as I write this it appears that more flooding may be on the way.
I just ran across this video tonight and want to add it to this post, because the point made is important. What do we really want our country to be?
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Trump has made his 'big' announcement regarding Russia's continued war against Ukraine. Tariffs. Maybe tariffs, in 50 days. Or maybe TACOs instead.
Whoop-de-do!
"Trump's announcement of a 50-day grace period was greeted
with relief by investors in Russia, where the rouble recovered
from earlier losses and stock markets rose."
Reuters
It seems Trump is very much standing behind Bondi on Epstein telling his followers to forget about Epstein.
Oh, Trump was so involved with Epstein.
Trump...Russia's friend.
"Trump is very much standing behind Bondi…"
Quite curious.
Trump is very much not known for his loyalty to his minions.
I would guess that Trump is actually standing behind the idea that there should be no further disclosures of 'the Epstein files' and he's quite content for outrage over that decision to be directed mostly towards Bondi rather than at himself.
Surprisingly, Lara Trump, who's contemplating a run for the Senate to replace Thom Tillis from North Carolina has said she believes further disclosures will soon be forthcoming on the Epstein questions. Politico Seems a little off message.
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Changing subjects: Trump has now dissed the Congressional efforts to impose a new round of sanctions on Russia, after announcing his own version instead (which version drove the Russian stock market up not down.). The Senate version has 85 co-sponsors on record--well over the veto-proof level. But Senate Majority Leader John Thune has decided to not bring that legislation up for a vote now that Trump has casually dismissed it. Politico
Apparently, according to Trump, the Epstein "list" was made up by Obama and Comey.
Blaming Obama and Comey is something of a reach, but they are Trumpkins. Maybe they'll decide to believe it.
The cracks in MAGA appear to be growing. Even Joe Rogan is starting to speak out against the ICE raids. The Epstein thing has legs. It seems to be the one thing the left and right agree on. Everyone wants to know the dirt.
But the real question is will half of the country's flirtation with fascism end, and if so will it end before there is no way back?
"The Epstein thing has legs."
The "Epstein thing" is a conspiracy fantasy gone awry. The QAnon contingent has gone mainstream in the Trumpkan/Republican party, and this is one of their fever dream fantasies come back to bite Trump in the ass. (I must say I'm hugely amused by that.) I don't think Epstein would have kept "a client list". (This is not to say that Trump's name doesn't appear prominently in Epstein's records or in the investigation of Epstein, just that I don't think Epstein would have kept a 'client list' as such.)
In the meantime…. Trump has been telling congressmen that he's about ready to fire Jerome Powell, head of the fed. (And then told the press that such a move was "highly unlikely".) It's a potential distraction from the Epstein fuss, so he's feeding the headline machine there.
As for the cracks growing larger, well, that was inevitable. The Italians came to regret Mussolini; the Germans finally repented of their fawning over Hitler. I'm just wondering, like you, if our reckoning will come while there's still time to turn back America's rising tide of fascism. I'm not sure 'bout that. I think we'll know shortly.
If the Democrats win a majority in the Senate in the mid-terms they'll almost certainly take the House as well. Will Trump allow that to happen? Or will he declare that to be a national disaster and a national emergency and attempt to impose martial law at that point? And if the Democrats don't take the Senate, the reckoning might be put off a little longer, maybe too long.
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And… It looks like the tariff letters are going to come to a political head fairly soon. The Epstein questions may soon have to compete with outrage and unsteadiness from the big money people on Wall Street (usually a Republican constituency).
Slovakia is going to allow the proposed new round of E.U. sanctions against Russia to take effect. Reuters (Hungary's vote has been 'suspended' for awhile now for offenses against the E.U. rules on how to handle political dissent, so the sanctions can pass without Viktor Orbàn's consent..)
It sounds like MAGA infliencers are lining up behind Trump with regard to Epstein.
And Trump is vehemently denying that he wrote the raunchy Birthday letter for Epstein"s 50th birthday which the WSJ published an article about. Trump is suing.
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We'll see how people feel if Trump's tariffs actually take effect and everything implodes. Here in Minnesota manufacturing is already down. People are not going to like seeing their retirement investments disappear.
That paltry $6,000 tax credit for seniors will mean nothing with healthcare taking a hit and prices going through the roof.
"…MAGA influencers are lining up behind Trump…"
Pavlov's dogs…. He attacked a media target and they fell into their customary response.
Word's going around that Trump's getting 'frustrated' with and 'tired' of defending Pam Bondi.
Ain't a whole hell of a lot he can do 'bout it though. He quits defending her and the MAGA uprising will just get worse. And he dumps her instead then she's off the hook, but he's not.
This ain't a problem he can solve by throwing away Pam Bondi.
New polls are suggesting that many Americans are tiring of Trump's immigration actions. And, it appears they are even less successful at removing undocumented immigrants from the country than his predeccesors.
"New polls are suggesting that many Americans are tiring of
Trump's immigration actions…"
I'd seen signs of that as well. A big part of his problem is his insistance that he was going to target rapists and murderers and gangsters and all that like he promised he would. But those folks tend to avoid cops, to hide from the law. They're harder to find.
Worker bees are much easier to find. So the ICE agents have been leaning into raids on employers, farmers' fields, packing plants, construction sites, etc. Churches are also fertile hunting grounds. Immigrants tend to congregate in immigrant-friendly churches. ICE can catch bunches of immigrants at once, accuse them of being criminals at church and deport them. They're also grabbing some immigrants as they show up for their previously scheduled court appearances.
The public is catching on to this.
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Tidbit: Trump is demanding that the Washington Commanders change their name back to the Washington Redskins, and that the Cleveland Guardians change back to the Cleveland Indians. WaPo The Great Orange Culture War continues.
The public is catching on to this.
And when this starts to really hit home, as in the public realizes that there won't be enough workers for certain things, they are going to be even more pissed off then they already are at the Gestapo like tactics.
The Great Orange Culture War continues.
And he continues to pander to the racist elements of his base.
I found this tidbit tucked away in my newspaper.
Hackers exploited a major security flaw in widely used Microsoft server software to launch a global attack on government agencies and businesses in the past few days, breaching U.S. federal and state agencies, universities, energy companies and an Asian telecommunications company, according to state officials and private researchers. The U.S. government and partners in Canada and Australia are investigating the compromise of SharePoint servers, which provide a platform for sharing and managing documents. Tens of thousands of such servers are at risk, experts said, and Microsoft has issued no patch for the flaw, leaving victims around the world scrambling to respond.
I would have thought it would have been front page news.
Trump's move to have the DoJ "meet with" Ghislaine Maxwell would have the QAnon consipiracy fans in fits if it weren't Trump making that move. This is the sort of stuff conspiracy buffs live for. But this one puts them to a dilemma. By their very nature, and by force of long habit, they want to believe in the conspiracy. But they also want to believe Trump.
Kinda hard to predict which way they'll break when they break.
Politico is reporting that the Chinese are behind the server hack mentioned earlier in this thread. That'll probably increase attention to it.
Trump's been engaged in an almost frantic effort to generate headlines of late.
He's accused Barrack Obama of "treason", even opened an investigation against him personally. Going further against Obama, he's made the brand new claim that Obama and other favorite Democratic targets "made up" the Epstein files. He's releasing the FBI files on the FBI bugging of Martin Luther King ᴊʀ. He's made an in-person tour of the construction site of the Federal Reserve Board's headquarters renovation (which renovation actually long preceded Jerome Powell's tenure). Etc.
This is all being snapped up by Trump's captive media (FoxNews, OANN, Radio-Right-Wing,…that batch) and drowns out any coverage they might give to the Epstein saga.
But none of it seems to be effectively competing with the Epstein headlines on mainstream media. This does not bother Trump; his people don't pay attention to mainstream media; they have siloed themselves away from that source of information. However: Most importantly, the internet conspiracy silos that usually support Trump, they ain't buyin' into the distractions this time. That's what's got Trump all up in a lather over the continued Epstein headlines.
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Changing topic:
Trump's special envoy team has withdrawn from negotiations with Hamas for a permanent peace agreement, claiming that Hamas doesn't want peace. That's probably true. Hamas' charter calls for them to destroy Israel and chase the Jews back into the sea. That's the stated primary goal of Hamas and it's not been realized yet. Doesn't sound like a peaceful endeavor. Apparently this has finally pierced Trump's silo.
But…, I was thinkin' that probably Trump has finally just given up on that Nobel Peace Prize he'd been anglin' for.
It sounds like the NIH and our nuclear agency were among those hacked.
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Trump is desperately trying to deflect attention away from the Epstein "files" issue.
They reported in my paper yesterday that Trump's name does appear in the Epstein documents and that Bondi told Trump that. It is not clear how it appears though.
Bondi told Trump that his name appeared multiple times sometime in May. We don't know what she may have told him about the context. He became immediately disinterested in producing any more information on the subject, and hostile to any questions put to him. CNN and Politico both have published timelines.
Politico: Trump has threatened punitive trade tariffs against Thailand and Cambodia if they don't settle the little border war that's broken out between them this past week.
He seems to think the threat of tariffs is a universal 'trump card', if you'll pardon the pun.
It's his only 'card". He doesn't understand subtle diplomacy.
The Noble Peace prize? What a joke.
Trump's efforts to explain away his one-time friendship with Jeffrey Epstein don't seem to be helping. His most recent mention that Epstein 'stole' a then teenage masseuse from her employ at Mar-a-Lago certainly doesn't seem to have helped.
Not at all. I believe that girl was the same one who was pictured with Prince Andrew and later committed suicide.
Trump's efforts early on to bury this story just reinforced the sneaking suspicion that he was trying to hide something.
Trump has put off his universal tariffs another week, until the 7th of August.
This after he said there'd be no more extensions just a few days ago.
Ron DeSantis has declared this to be "Hulk Hogan Day" in Florida and the flying of flags at half mast to mourn his passing.
Trump has put off his universal tariffs another week, until the 7th of August.
Well, it seems some tariffs are on and the stock market doesn't like either that or the adjusted jobs report. Trump didn't like the adjusted jobs report either and has promptly fired the Labor Commissioner.
He can fire but that won't hide the results of his horrendous economic policies. People notice when stores close and when people lose their jobs. Our local Walmart is closing, as are two smaller stores in my town. That is so far.
"… and has promptly fired the Labor Commissioner."
I believe he wants the people working for the government to notice that he will shoot the messenger. Make them think twice 'bout releasing information he don't want the citizenry to know.
On the other hand, the bad news on the jobs front does increase the probability that The Fed will drop interest rates after its September review. Trump'll like that if it happens.
Democrats have left Texas to avoid the vote on re-districting. Not quite sure why, it didn't work last time and it won't work this time. The MAGA fascist cult rolls on.
"Not quite sure why…"
Politics.
All the Representatives and half the Senators are running for reëlection in 2026. Democrat pols will need to demonstrate their bona fides if they expect to make it out of the Democratic primaries and move on to the general election.
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Putin is once again trying to stall any meeting with Zelenskyy and stall action by Trump in the meantime. Politico.EU
Nebraska Representative Mike Flood held a Town Hall. It didn't go well for him. But I have been wondering, he is a Republican, so were all of those people booing and calling him a fascist Republicans, or Democrats who attended to be as disruptive as possible? Is there any hope that there are actually people on the Republican side that actually understand what is going on and will stand up and oppose Trump & Co? Is there any hope that our democracy will survive?
Mr. Flood's district encompasses the small city of Lincoln, Nebraska, home to the University of Nebraska.
And…
I see that Mr. Flood's meeting was held on the university grounds. Politico That's just askin' for trouble.
I am seriously dubious of what Trump himself is reporting as "great progress" in his campaign to implement a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. I think Putin's managed to play him again. Hope I'm wrong and that Putin is willing to agree to a ceasefire in order to prevent secondary sanctions that will further limit its ability to sell its oil. Don't think so though. I think Putin's once again managed to play him.
It's tariff day!
The Trump administration sent an anonymous "White House official" (Politico) out to tell the media that Putin would have to meet with Zelenskyy before Trump would meet with Putin. Later in the day Trump personally appeared for a suddenly called meeting with the press wherein he denied imposing any such requirement.
Sounds like Trump doesn't really know what he's doing--wingin' it by the whim of the moment I'd reckon it.
Well, now we know what's driving Trump's vacillations over a meeting with Putin. Putin has agreed to meet one-on-one with Trump and Trump has agreed to that meeting in spite of Putin's continued refusal to participate in a ceasefire.
Score one for Putin.
Russia's Deputy Ambassador to the UN has said that Putin and Trump have agreed to the location of their upcoming meeting but don't want to publicly release that information yet. Reuters. The date and time are still up in the air it would seem.
I heard the UAE for the meet.
Trump makes so many serves it's making my head spin. He's also taking all of the oxygen out of the room. There must be other news out there for the press to cover.
Yes, there is, the effects of his poor policies are starting to come home to roost. Prices are starting to inch up. Missing workers are starting to be noticed. The dog days of summer are here...
I heard the National Weather Service is looking to re-hire 450 people. Apparently there is some concern about the lack of critical people that DOGE cut. Gee, yeah think?
I wonder if they will notice the results of RFK, aka Trump, cutting funding for mRNA vaccines?
"I heard the UAE for the meet."
One thing's for certain. IF Putin goes through with a meeting with Trump he will not allow Trump to pull an ambush like Trump perpetrated on Zelenskyy (and has repeated, to a lesser extent, against some other world leaders, especially from the Third World).
That may mean no joint Q and A and photo-op at the end of their meeting.
↑↑ IF there's a meeting. I'm not sure Putin will go through with it, or that Trump will, for that matter. Trump might sense that he's not gonna get any concessions outta Putin and pull out of negotiations for a meeting at almost any time.
Oops, guess I was wrong. Alaska is the place. Maybe Sarah Palin's house?
Trump said it's gonna be Alaska, but he hasn't said where in Alaska; Putin hasn't said anything.
I am ashamed for the United States. Granted, the United States has never adopted the Rome Statute (the treaty establishing the International Criminal Court), but I'm still ashamed that we'd host an indicted war criminal.
(I suspect the appeal of Alaska is both it's remoteness, making protests unlikely, and the intentional insult to the ICC.)
The Alaska locale has apparently been confirmed by a spokesman for the Kremlin. BBC
I am not ashamed of the United States, I am ashamed of those 76 million people who voted to destroy it by electing a man who does not hold the ideals this country was founded upon. Shame on them.
They continue to stand idly by while a sitting president wipes his feet on the Constitution.
In what may be an intentional "leak", or may be a case of a staff member going rogue, NBC Nightly News has reported that the White House is considering sending an invitation to Zelenskyy to join Putin and Trump in Alaska.
(I'd have to guess that Trump's been hearing the ground rumbling 'bout Putin gettin' over on him.)
It would be reality TV at its finest and garner Trump a lot of attention.
"…ashamed of the United States…"
I wrote "ashamed for the United States" not "ashamed of" same. But, not to quibble about the nuance there…
I will go it one further and say I'm fairly ashamed of the Millenial generation and the subsequent Gen Y who're accepting with a shrug the Trump administration's efforts to increase the usage of and reliance on fossil fuels and to inflame global warming. They're gonna have to live with it, as are their children and subsequent generations. And this casual acceptance of that reversal of our prior efforts to remedy the problem quite simply disgusts me.
I'm about at the "to Hell with them" stage--let's burn as cheaply as we can while we're still here. Let them deal with the consequences for their avoidance of the problem. They should know better. They should be filling the streets. In fact they do know better. They just don't care. Too busy worrying 'bout "woke" transexuals and queers.
So, is the calling out of the National Guard to take over "policing" in DC a trial run for martial law?
I wrote "ashamed for the United States...
Ok. I can't go there, I get too upset. I have to place blame directly on the people who are supporting Trump and his agenda. Disgust is a good word for my feelings too. And they were offended because people called them stupid.
"So, is the calling out of the National Guard to take over
'policing' in DC a trial run for martial law?"
That's the way I read it. (Rule is he's got 30 days to get this move approved by Congress. The House Republicans have already moved to back him up. Politico He'll be lookin' at that vote for an indication on his chances of sucessfully imposing martial law nationally after the mid-term elections.)
I think he's keeping Hegseth and company in at the DoD and Pentagon in spite of their multiple screwups to date for the same reason. (Not to mention the sycophants Bondi and rest of the crew he's installed in the DoJ.)
Russia started an intense new assault in Ukraine's Donetsk region yesterday. It's a message to the Ukrainians to not resist the demands Putin puts on the table in his meeting with Trump on Friday. Reuters (It's widely expected Putin will demand control of all of the Donetsk region among other gains.)
Meanwhile, Trump is trying to depress expectations for his meeting with Putin, suggesting he's just gonna be there to listen to what Putin has to say--no further expectations. In other words, Putin gets another slip of his pariah status; he gets to walk around on American soil and make demands and pontificate and most importantly he avoids implementation of those sanctions Trump had threatened to impose on Russia last week, but didn't.
And Trump gets squat.
Looks like Trump is going to try to keep the feds in charge of security in DC. No doubt an effort to tamp down on real dissent should it arise.
Looks like Putin is gonna try to dangle a potential nuclear arms control agreement in front of Trump to dissuade him from further sanctions while the Russian assault on Ukraine continues. (Trump should remember that Russia persistently violated the last nuclear arms control agreement we had with them, and would likely do so again.)
I believe you predicted the Texas Democrats would fail in their efforts to evade redistricting in Texas. Politico tells us they're now preparing to concede the loss.
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Today's the day Trump is supposed to meet with Putin. Trump's measure of success is getting a second meeting with Putin. Putin's measure of success is stalling further American sanctions. Shouldn't be hard to figure out what's likely to happen. Putin agrees to a second meeting (probably not including Zelenskyy) and thereby stalls further American sanctions would be the likeliest outcome. Putin wins; Trump gets played.
It sounds like Putin was pushing all of Trump's buttons in that meeting, even playing the Biden card. That is, that Biden wouldn't listen, whereas Trump is.
I suspect that Trump will get played handily.
There was some major stroking going on there.
"I suspect that Trump will get played handily."
Trump got played. Meeting's over. Elvis has left the building. Total snow job and he fell for it again as he almost always does.
Trump had an exclusive after-summit spin session with Sean Hannity on FoxNews. (Wherein he let it be known that it was up to Putin and Zelenskyy to arrange their own meeting to follow up on his own special greatness, and to invite him to the meeting if they so chose.) They both agreed Trump was wonderful.
It was all fairly pathetic though, probably didn't even fool the Trumpkins.
I don't think Trump can spin this one. I think that'll become fairly obvious even to him in short order. I don't know how he'll react to that revelation.
I just noticed Trump made an overnight post on his personal social network.
He's abandoned his quest for a ceasefire and agreed to Putin's argument that Ukraine should enter into a finalized "peace settlement" with Russia and quit seeking a preliminary ceasefire. This is a total capitulation. And, if followed up by a switch back to supporting Russia in this war, it will live up to Ukraine's worst fears.
Word's gone out that Zelenskyy will be sheparded to his meeting with Trump by Finnish President Alexander Stubb and perhaps NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. There may be others. Both of the men mentioned are supposedly Trump "favorites" in Europe and they're hoping to guarantee there's no repeat of an earlier Zelenskyy trip to the oval office during which JD Vance led Trump in what's widely considered to have been a premeditated public ambush of Zelenskyy. Politico British Prime Minister Starmer and French Presiden Macron are leading a teleconference among a "coalition of the willing" in support of Ukraine (and hoping to get a link in with Trump as part of the Zelenskyy meeting).
Europe is not happy. Probably don't matter to Trump.
No, nothing seems to matter to Trump except Trump. I'm not quite sure why he even tries to keep up an illusion that it does?
Could it be because there is even a slight concern that even re-districting may not help him keep an election if his base turns on him?
I am not saying that they would, of course. They seem too far gone in his lies to change course, and they do not seem to care about the authoritarian nature of Trump as it suites their agenda.
Change in plans. Brit Starmer and French Macron are hosting the teleconference today instead and are traveling to D.C. tomorrow with Zelenskyy, Stubb, and Rutte. They evidently intend to try to change Trump's mind about those sanctions, at the very least make sure there's no ambush of Zelenskyy again.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will also be joining the trek.
Trump's post last night on his "Truth" social network was clearly designed to put pressure on Zelenskyy to capitulate to Putin's demands. (And yesterday's public comments by "Li'l Marco" displayed a clear frustration with Zelenskyy for bringing 'backup' to Washington with him for today's meeting with Trump.)
Neither of these bode well for Ukraine today.
Trump has prepared his counterstrike against the Europeans gangin' up on him. He's scheduled an hour with him and his crew on Zelenskyy alone (including a 'photo-op', which is where it blew up last time) before he lets the European leaders join the conversation.
Counterstrike by the Europeans; they started showing up early, before the meeting with Zelenskyy commenced. (No doubt they'll be cooling their heels in the White House equivalent of a network 'green room'.)
Well, the Europeans got out of the White House without a blowup. I'd say their plan to backstop Zelenskyy was mostly successful.
Trump says the next step is a bilateral meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy, and that he's gonna to work on arranging that.
We'll see….
I heard something the other day on one of the Ukrainian YouTube channels that Belarus was moving troops to the Ukrainian border again.
Trump was touting some sort of security guarantee for Ukraine, but has since made it clear that would not include American boots on the ground.
This post most properly belongs in this thread rather than the new one:
It seems that Putin is not going to coöperate with Trump's desire for a quick meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy (with or without the attendance of Trump himself). Politico Makes Trump's position on 'security guarantees' rather a moot point.
"Belarus was moving troops…"
Reuters has noted an announcement by Belarus and Iran about strengthening their military ties. (There's also a story goin' 'round 'bout the Iranians being not too pleased they didn't get any more help from the Russians when Netanyahu and Trump decided to bomb the shit outt them. I'm not sure how that fits into this story though.)
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