“The gas giant #Gazprom, which has been an engine of Russia's economy, will pay a decadelong price for Russian leader Vladimir #Putin's invasion of #Ukraine.
The U.K. newspaper Financial Times reported Wednesday that it had seen research commissioned by the energy group's leaders that predicted Gazprom probably will not be able to recover for years the gas sales it lost due to the war started by Putin.” https://www.newsweek.com/gas-gazprom-putin-war-costly-impact-1908467
Less than a month before #Russia’s “presidential elections,” the #Kremlin commissioned a secret sociological survey. The survey reveals how voters actually felt about the presidential “candidates,” and where the country’s center of actual opposition lies.
For example, 23 % of respondents, or virtually one in four people, said they would not vote for #Putin under any circumstances.
#Biden calls #America’s democratic values the “grounding wire of our global power” & its #alliances “our greatest asset.” …#Trump, called for withdrawing American forces in #Europe & #Asia & has promised… to cut loose even our closest #allies if they don’t do as he tells them. …Trump sees all countries as unreliable, the relations between them #transactional. That sentiment has spread throughout a #GOP that once championed America’s values abroad…
During his 40 months in office, events have tested #Biden’s vision of American world leadership. #Alliances haven’t been enough to win a new European #war in #Ukraine. US #power & leverage haven’t prevented a #humanitarian catastrophe in the #MiddleEast, marked by alleged #WarCrimes. #Putin is trying to assemble an axis of #autocrats from #Tehran to #Beijing. In #China, the US faces an adversary potentially its equal in economic & military power intent on tearing down the American #GlobalOrder.
V. Putin has masterminded the killing of hundreds of thousands of Russians, an untold number of Ukrainians, the disruption of the global economy, and unimagined hardship among the Russian populace.
Two pro-Russian activists in Germany, whose ties to the Kremlin were revealed in a Reuters investigation last year, have left Germany and moved to Russia, the couple’s lawyer said in a statement on Monday. #AureFreePress#News#press#headline#Ukraine#Russia#Putin#EU#NATO
Americans who plan to vote for #TFG don't care that #Ukraine & some C's in the fmr Eastern bloc would lose to #Russia, but if they knew #democracy would be threatened here &...
Bulgarian MIN & others believe -a TFG win would result in a redrawing of the map of Europe -enable & embolden #Putin while weakening the NATO alliance *undoing of many of the gains that came to the West thru winning the Cold War & of many of the most impt. achievements forged in the wake of WWII. https://newrepublic.com/article/182170/former-eastern-bloc-terrified-trump-presidency
The New York Times traced how a web of politicians aligned with President Vladimir #Putin’s party carried out a campaign to permanently transfer Ukrainian children from #Kherson.
I don't get why the #republicans (specifically the #MAGA wing) can't just accept people for who they are and allow them to live “their” lives #lgbtq#trans etc.
I mean…
We accept that they are dumber than dirt and willing to follow an even bigger idiot to no end. I mean those people are really really dumb. Yet we allow them to live here doing and saying whatever they want.
Something obviously needs to change and I suggest that if they think that #Russia and #Putin are so great and would like to see America be a little more like Russia — then fucking move there ya dumb ass muppets.
The U.S. is for ambitious people that want to see progress towards a future that makes sense to more than just 23% of the country.
🚨Fascist leaders: Putin, Orbàn... say TFG is the victim of pol' persecution.
Rs in Congress used the opp. to echo Putin & Orbàn.
US: used to be an expert at #IrregularWarfare -use of propaganda, proxies, or ppl willing to betray their own country. #Putin supervised spying & propaganda ops in E Germany. He turned the tables on us -successfully used IW to help get #TFG into the WH & before 2020 election scaring Americans re Antifa... & now for the 2024 election.