They don’t know how war works and they don’t know how negotiations work—but they do know how grift works. Our oligarchs will make money, Putin will make money, and that’s the only "victory" they care about. As a war this is obviously a defeat for the US—had the US won it would be… https://t.co/cB8V7GNiFY

— Timothy Snyder (@TimothyDSnyder) 12 avril 2026

They don’t know how war works and they don’t know how negotiations work—but they do know how grift works. Our oligarchs will make money, Putin will make money, and that’s the only "victory" they care about. As a war this is obviously a defeat for the US—had the US won it would be

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The great military historian Lawrence Freedman with an excellent summary of the causes of US defeat in Iran.
Please read consider following. @LawDavF https://
samf.substack.com/p/the-causes-a
nd-consequences-of-trumps?r=i894e&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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🇨🇦🇺🇸La rupture est totale entre le Canada de Mark Carney et les États-Unis de Donald Trump.

Dans son discours à Montréal, il a notamment déclaré que « Les jours où notre armée envoyait 70 cents de chaque dollar aux États-Unis sont révolus ».

L'objectif pour Carney est de… https://t.co/t98A86D3Dg pic.twitter.com/60t6nB7jzM

— Louis Duclos (@ObsDelphi) 12 avril 2026

The break is total between Mark Carney's Canada and Donald Trump's United States. In his speech in Montreal, he notably declared that "The days when our military sent 70 cents out of every dollar to the United States are over." Carney's goal is to reduce dependence on the

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Wreckage of another drone with unexploded warhead found in Finland

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Given the huge early turnout in Hungary odds seem very high that Magyar wil defeat Orbán very decisively; the question in that case would be whether Orbán goes with the Ukrainian electoral interference lie he has been preparing and whether foreign actors support him.

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