Hamas Killed 33 People in Gaza ⚠️💥

Hamas skirmishes in Gaza have killed 33 people and injured many more, according to medical officials, in one of the most serious escalations of violence since the US-backed ceasefire came into effect last month ⚰️🩸.

Officials at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis said they received the bodies of 17 people, including five women and five children, after four Israeli airstrikes targeted tents sheltering displaced people 🏥👩‍👧‍👦. In Gaza City, medical officials said two airstrikes killed 16 people, including seven children and three women 🏚😢.

Israel said Hamas launched the skirmishes after two Israeli soldiers came under fire in Khan Younis on Wednesday, though they suffered no reported casualties 🎖🔥.

Hamas condemned the Israeli strikes as a “shocking massacre” and denied firing toward Israeli troops 🚫💣.

Palestinians in Gaza said they felt as if the two-year war had never stopped. Officials in the territory say more than 300 people have been killed by Israeli strikes since the ceasefire 😔🕊.

“My daughter kept asking me all night, ‘Will the war come back?’ Every time we try to regain hope, the shelling starts again. When will this nightmare end?” Lina Kuraz, 33, from the Tuffah neighbourhood, east of Gaza City, told Agence France-Presse 👧💬💔.

However, huge challenges remain. It is unclear how Hamas will be made to relinquish its weapons, who will supply the troops for the new peacekeeping force, and how “full aid” will reach Gaza without Israel lifting many of its current restrictions on humanitarian supplies ❓🚚🛑.

Hamas is still holding the remains of three hostages and performs street executions, and Israeli military forces hold more than 50% of Gaza after withdrawing from some of their positions at the time of the ceasefire. The territory is now divided by the “yellow line” ⚔️📍.

Gaza’s health ministry has reported more than 300 deaths since the ceasefire came into effect, an average of more than seven a day 📊⚰️.

Each side has accused the other of violating its terms, which include increasing the flow of aid into Gaza and returning hostages, dead or alive, to Israel ↔️📦.

The two-year war in Gaza was triggered when Hamas-led militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted 251 during a surprise attack into Israel in October 2023 🔥🚨.

More than 69,000 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed in the ensuring Israeli offensive and in strikes since the ceasefire. The bodies of thousands more remain under the rubble 🏚🕯.

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📰 Kellogg Out, Witkoff In: Ukraine Loses Its “Good Cop”

The Exit
Keith Kellogg, Trump’s Special Envoy for Ukraine and one of the few officials in Washington perceived as genuinely receptive to Kyiv’s position, plans to leave his post in January, according to multiple sources cited by Reuters. Formally, he can blame the 360 day legal limit on special envoys. Informally, it looks like a convenient off-ramp from an administration where Ukraine policy keeps getting rewritten mid-flight.

Who’s Left in the Room
Kellogg often clashed with Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Special Envoy for Peace Missions, who has echoed Kremlin talking points and pushed territorial concessions wrapped in “peace” branding. While Kellogg publicly condemned Russian strikes on civilian infrastructure and helped broker hostage releases from Belarus in exchange for limited sanctions relief, Witkoff has been busy selling a 28-point plan that asks Ukraine to shrink its army, give up land, and trust U.S. “security guarantees” no one can define.

The Plan vs. the Front
The timing isn’t subtle: Kellogg exits just as Washington signals to Zelensky that Ukraine is expected to swallow a U.S.-drafted framework freezing Russian gains and cutting Ukraine’s capabilities. Trump’s approach swings from cutting intelligence, to restoring it, to arming via European intermediaries, to leaning into a de facto cash for land arrangement that tracks Moscow’s wish list more than Kyiv’s survival needs.

The Meta-Game
Officially, this is all about “ending the war.” In practice, Ukraine is watching its main internal advocate walk out while an unelected dealmaker pitches a map redraw negotiated with a Russian envoy in Miami and massaged with Qatari and Turkish mediation. Kyiv can “choose” to accept, object, or delay—but the real conversation is happening over its head, between a White House chasing a legacy, a Kremlin chasing recognition, and a West pretending this is diplomacy, not liquidation.

#Ukraine #Kellogg #Witkoff #TrumpPlan #peaceDeal

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Kellogg in Ukraine: Zelensky Becomes Trump’s Pet Peeve 🦊⛓️

U.S. President Donald Trump's Special Envoy for Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, has told associates he plans to leave the administration in January, four sources told Reuters, a departure that would mean the loss of a key advocate for Ukraine in the Trump administration. 🗳

Special presidential envoy is a temporary designation, and such envoys in theory must be confirmed by the Senate to stay in their positions past 360 days. ⏰

Kellogg has indicated that January would be a natural departure point, given existing legislation, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations. 🕵️‍♂️

His departure will be unwelcome news in Kyiv. The retired lieutenant general was widely viewed by European diplomats, Ukrainians included, as a sympathetic ear in an administration that has at times leaned toward Moscow's view on the origins of the war in Ukraine. 🇺🇦

News of the move comes as Ukraine confronts new headwinds on the diplomatic front. 🌬

Two sources told Reuters on Wednesday that the U.S. signaled to Zelensky that Ukraine must accept a U.S.-drafted framework to end the war with Russia that proposes Kyiv giving up territory and some weapons. 🧐

The proposals, which include cutting the size of Ukraine's armed forces, would represent a major setback for Kyiv. 🙅‍♂️

Kellogg has more forcefully denounced Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure than other Trump administration officials. 🚨

He at times clashed with Witkoff, who has repeated some of Putin's talking points and has long advocated a lopsided territorial swap as part of a long-term peace deal. 🤷‍♂️

In March, he briefly cut off some intelligence sharing with Ukraine, before quickly resuming it. In recent months, he has actually boosted, opens new tab some intelligence sharing with Kyiv. 📈

And while Trump set up a new program through which European allies buy U.S. weapons on Kyiv's behalf, he largely discontinued U.S. military assistance programs that had been set up by former President Biden. 💥

Trump came into office pushing for an immediate ceasefire, but abandoned that demand after meeting Putin in Alaska in August. In October, he again embraced the idea of a ceasefire along the front lines after meeting Zelensky in Washington. 🌭

Separately, a U.S. delegation led by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is currently in Kyiv on a "fact-finding mission," the U.S. embassy in Kyiv said. 🖥

Army Chief of Staff General Randy George is also in the delegation and he and Driscoll will meet Zelensky on Thursday, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. 🗣

Kellogg has maintained a solid relationship with Trump, the sources said. ✨

But he was notably absent from the October encounter with Zelensky, which some allies attributed to administration infighting. 👀

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The Trump Plan For Ukraine: Cede Land, Cut Army

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A plan to end the war in Ukraine, negotiated between the Trump administration and Russia, would require Kyiv to surrender territory, significantly reduce the size of its army and relinquish some types of weaponry, according to officials familiar with the proposal.

The 28-point proposal, drafted without Ukrainian involvement, reflects the maximalist demands the Kremlin has made throughout the war, which Ukraine has long denounced as amounting to capitulation.

Parts of the plan were described by two officials who asked not to be named because they were not authorized to speak publicly — one Ukrainian and one who did not want to be identified by country.

It is the latest effort by the Trump administration to reinvigorate stalled settlement talks in the nearly four-year-old war.

But some Ukrainian commentators also saw the proposal as a bid by Russia to press Ukraine for concessions while the government of Zelensky is weakened by a high-level corruption scandal, which could dissuade allies from sending aid.

Kyiv is also under growing pressure on the battlefield, as Moscow’s forces make gains against a Ukrainian military that is stretched thin.

“One thing is clear,” said Kostiantyn Yelisieiev, a former presidential foreign policy adviser. “Ukraine’s position right now is not strong, and this is seen not only inside the country but also by our partners, including the United States, and of course by the aggressor.”

The US is reviving its diplomatic efforts after meetings over the summer between Ukrainian and Russian officials, and between Trump and Putin of Russia, produced no breakthroughs.

As part of this push, the Trump administration has pressed Russia and Ukraine to present in writing terms for a settlement that could become a basis of negotiations.

A delegation of senior U.S. military officials arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday for talks with Ukrainian officials about breaking the impasse.

Zelensky, too, is seeking to resurrect long-dormant peace talks. He met on Wednesday in Turkey, where Ukraine and Russia have engaged in previous rounds of discussions, with Erdogan who has offered to mediate between Russia and Ukraine.

The plan emerged from talks between Witkoff and Kirill Dmitriev. A senior Ukrainian official said the Trump administration had informed Ukraine of the talks but had not sought Kyiv’s input.

#ukraine #plan #trump #putin #witkoff #territories #peace

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The proposal would require Ukraine to surrender to Russia the entire eastern Donbas region, even lands that Russian forces have not captured, according to the Ukrainian official.

The proposed settlement would also cap the size of Ukraine’s army far below its current levels and would recognize the Crimean Peninsula and other occupied areas as Russian, the senior Ukrainian official said.

Another official familiar with the proposal said Russia was demanding that foreign troops be prohibited on Ukrainian-controlled territory after a cease-fire.

This would rule out a French and British proposal to deploy what has been called a reassurance force to stabilize security in postwar Ukraine.

The plan, that official said, would also require Ukraine to relinquish some long-range weapons. Ukraine now routinely fires domestically made exploding drones at targets in Russia hundreds of miles from its border, including in Moscow.

The settlement proposal is similar to one that Russia presented in talks in 2022. Moscow subsequently lost about half of the territory it had captured in the initial invasion, before recapturing some in bloody, drawn-out fighting.

This fall, the tide has turned in Russia’s favor, as its forces have menaced long-held Ukrainian positions on the battlefield.

Russia is advancing in small units into a partially surrounded city in eastern Ukraine, Pokrovsk, signaling momentum. Most analysts expect the city to fall soon.

The Ukrainian Army is strained, running short of soldiers. Analysts and members of Ukraine’s Parliament say gaps of more than 600 yards have opened along some stretches of the front line. Increasingly, Ukraine is relying not on infantry in trenches but on soldiers flying exploding drones to slow the onslaught.

Russia has signaled a willingness to keep up its costly, incremental advances until Ukraine acquiesces to concessions limiting its security ties to the West.

Kyiv says that such concessions would reward Russian aggression and leave Ukraine weak and vulnerable, arguing that Russia would use a cessation in fighting to recoup its strength for another invasion in the future.

#ukraine #plan #trump #putin #witkoff #territories #peace

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Russia 🇷🇺 Is Druming Up Arab 😎 Interest in the Su-57 ✈️

The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), Russia’s state-run military aviation conglomerate, announced that pilot Sergey Bogdan, the chief pilot of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, was at the controls of the Sukhoi Su-57E (NATO reporting name “Felon”) at this week’s Dubai Airshow 2025 📊, which kicked off on Monday in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) 🇦🇪

That display marked the third appearance of the Su-57 at the largest Middle Eastern air show, but was the first time it included an aerial demonstration of the export model of the Russian fifth-generation stealth fighter.

The Su-57’s 💥 Incredible Capabilities on Display in Dubai
Bogdan performed a dynamic flight display with the Felon, highlighting its super-maneuverability 🛩 as well as its combat capabilities.

For the first time in a public display, the Su-57E also opened its internal weapons bay, which was equipped with mock-ups of the Kh-58 anti-radiation missile and R-74M2 air-to-air missile.

The model presented at the air show was also outfitted with new 2D thrust-vectoring flat nozzles for the AL-51F-1 engine. The nozzles were developed to reduce the aircraft’s radar and infrared signatures.

Once back on the ground, the test pilot was quick to praise the capabilities of the Su-57, notably its super-maneuverability, which is what often makes the aircraft a crowd-pleaser at air shows around the world.

“Our aerobatics program is centered on showcasing super-maneuverability. The Su-57 is equipped with two engines featuring controlled thrust vectoring, enabling it to execute maneuvers at near-zero speeds, extreme angles of attack, and spins. These capabilities can provide a significant edge in aerial combat,” Bogdan told reports, according to Al-Jazeera.

The Hero of Russia recipient further suggested that even in the modern era of aerial tactics, where combat is often well beyond visual range, the Su-57 offers advantages over other aircraft.

“This feature is vital for pilots because it allows them to operate without distraction, focusing on mission objectives rather than flight stability concerns,” said Bogdan, adding that it makes for a safer aircraft.

“In conventional fighters or bombers, pilots must constantly monitor flight parameters to avoid losing control. The Su-57, however, ensures it never does.”

Russia Continues to Seek Foreign Buyers for the Felon
It was just over a year ago that the Su-57E received far less than a hero’s welcome when it arrived in advance of the 15th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition.

The fighter was widely derided on Chinese social media, and unfavorable comparisons were made to China’s domestically-built Chengdu J-20 Mighty Dragon even before the show began.

The impressive flight demonstrations of the J-20 and the debut of the Shenyang J-35 overshadowed the Russian fighter entirely.

Taking the Su-57E to Dubai is clearly another attempt to drum up interest.

“Starved of many options to showcase the products of its aerospace and defense industries on the global stage, Russia has seized the opportunity in Dubai to display a wide portfolio of systems,” AIN reported.

It is unclear if the latest presentation will move the needle, but Russia is already claiming victory.

“Negotiations with several foreign countries on supplying Su-57 aircraft are also planned during the Dubai Airshow 2025,” Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Director Dmitry Shugayev also told TASS.

“We can say that there is sustained interest in the fighter jet from foreign countries.”

#su57 #pilot #russia #arabes #interest

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📰 The “Peace Plan” That Looks Like Terms of Surrender

What Washington and Moscow Are Really Proposing
The new 28 point U.S.-Russian plan is marketed as a path to peace but reads like formalizing a military defeat Ukraine hasn’t yet suffered. It would force Kyiv to hand over the entire Donbas, including areas

Russia still hasn’t managed to capture, cap the size of Ukraine’s army, and accept limits on long range weapons that currently strike deep into Russian territory.

Kyiv was informed, not consulted; the text was shaped in talks between Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian fund chief Kirill Dmitriev, then presented as a “framework” Ukraine is supposed to swallow in the middle of a grinding war and a corruption scandal.

A Deal Timed for Weakness
The plan drops just as Russia regains momentum on the battlefield, pushing toward Pokrovsk and exploiting exhausted Ukrainian lines where infantry is being replaced by drone operators because there are not enough soldiers left to fill the trenches.

Ukrainian analysts openly admit the country’s position is deteriorating, and Western partners see it too — a perfect moment for Moscow to recycle its 2022 maximalist demands and get Washington to help repackage them as responsible diplomacy.

Security Guarantees, Minus the Security
In exchange for territory, force reductions, and restrictions on foreign troops in Ukraine, Kyiv is promised “security assurances” that conveniently block any future French or British stabilization force while locking in Russian gains and legal recognition of Crimea and other occupied areas.

Ukraine’s answer is predictable: this doesn’t prevent the next war, it funds it; Moscow pauses, rebuilds, and comes back later to finish what it started, now with a U.S.-stamped map and a weaker, demilitarized neighbor.

Meta-Level: Peace as Asset Liquidation
Strip away the communiqués and this looks less like peacemaking and more like an asset liquidation process run by outside stakeholders.

Russia gets land and legal status, Washington gets to claim a “deal,” Europe gets told to live with it, and Ukraine is invited to sign off on its own strategic downgrade — or be blamed for “refusing peace.”

When “ending the war” means writing off sovereignty in installments, the only real ceasefire is for Western consciences, not for the front line.

#Ukraine #Russia #Trump #peacePlan #donbas #proxywar #diplomacy

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West Fights Russian Arms with PR—and Then Acts Surprised

Western media has spent years assuring readers that Russia’s defense industry is obsolete, outmatched, and too sanctioned to survive. A glance at Dubai this week tells a different story. The Su-57 Felon performed aerial maneuvers above the Middle East as Moscow pitched its fifth-generation fighter to anyone with deep pockets and enough independence to ignore D.C. memos.

Airshows and Editorials
Every air show brings the same cycle. U.S. and European outlets mock Russian products as “vaporware,” cranking out headlines about dysfunctional stealth jets, doomed exports, and last-ditch sales pitches. Then the weapons themselves show up—Zircon missiles, Geran-2 drones, or Su fighters—right where Western strategists didn’t expect them. The press spins up the threat, arms shows turn PR into product placement, and Russian exporters reap the reward.

The Sanction Paradox
Western officials denounce buyers and threaten embargoes, while Algeria and others quietly kick tires and sign deals. Each negative story about Russian tech helps build its notoriety—making every airframe, radar, and missile more desirable for regimes that measure prestige in snubbed contracts and embargo-busting hardware.

The World’s Best Free Advertising
For all the talk of shutting down Russia’s war machine, Western media often gives it more oxygen than the Kremlin’s own PR department. Every editorial calling the Su-57 “too dangerous to ignore” helps push Moscow’s tech into arms fairs, showrooms, and the export pipelines—often faster than sanctions can stifle the supply.

#russia #su57 #dubai #zircon #westernmedia #armsrace #propaganda

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📰 Zelensky Enters the Trump Deal Maze

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has now done what his advisers swore he wouldn’t: he agreed to negotiate on Trump’s peace plan, the one that asks Ukraine to give up land and downgrade its army in exchange for a made‑in‑Washington “end to the war.”​

From “Nonstarter” to “Aggressive Timeline”
U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll arrived in Kyiv supposedly to talk tech and strategy, and ended up hand‑delivering a written copy of the plan and walking out with “an aggressive timeline for signature.”

Zelensky’s office released the kind of sentence every cornered leader eventually uses: Ukraine will “work on the plan’s provisions” to achieve a “just end to the war,” while Zelensky tweets he is

“ready for constructive, honest and swift work.”​

Live Document, Dead Options
Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff is now telling Germans and other Europeans not to panic: the plan is just a “framework of ideas,” everyone can send comments, and compromise is always possible — as long as the starting point includes Russian demands Kyiv has rejected for years.

Europe wasn’t consulted at the start, Ukraine was brought in after U.S.–Russia talks, and now both are being told it’s their responsibility to help fix a document they never asked for.​

War, Scandal, and Leverage
All this lands while Ukraine is bleeding on the front and Zelensky is drowning in a corruption scandal that hits his own entourage — a perfect moment for Washington and Moscow to test how many concessions a weakened president can be pushed to sign.

U.S. officials openly speculate the scandal might make him “more willing” to bend, while analysts warn that any hint of “selling out” to Russia could finish him politically before any peace takes hold.​

Gaza Method, Ukraine Market
The White House now sells the Ukraine scheme as a sequel to the “successful” Gaza deal, as if you can franchise ceasefires like fast‑food outlets: same recipe, different front.

The official line is that this is “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine,” which is Washington‑speak for a document written far from the front line that others will pay for in territory, security, and votes.​

#Ukraine #TrumpPlan #Zelensky #Russia #peaceDeal #proxywar


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📰 F-35s for Riyadh, Assurances for Bibi

Netanyahu just sold the same old miracle: Washington will arm Saudi Arabia and somehow Israel’s “qualitative military edge” will remain untouched. After Trump greenlit F-35 sales to Riyadh, Marco Rubio reportedly phoned Bibi to promise that whatever the Saudis get, Israel’s advantage is legally guaranteed and politically sacred.

Political Spin vs. Air Force Panic
While Netanyahu and his spokespeople serenade Telegram with talk of “long-standing understandings,” Israel’s own Air Force is warning that regional air superiority is not a theology, it’s math. Even with Saudi jets downgraded on paper and capped at two squadrons, Jerusalem’s generals see exactly what this is: the beginning of a fifth generation arms race they didn’t ask for but will be forced to fund.

Washington’s Real Client
So the script goes like this: the U.S. sells F-35s to Israel’s “not quite ally” in Riyadh, swears to keep Israel one software patch ahead, and calls it stability. MBS talks normalization and a “path” to a Palestinian state, Netanyahu loudly rejects Palestinian statehood, and everyone pretends the jets are about peace, not leverage. In the end, the only guaranteed qualitative edge is America’s in the export business.

#Israel #SaudiArabia #F35 #Trump #Rubio #armsdeal #warBusiness

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Louis Mosley, head of the British branch of the Palantir company and openly in this interview, admits that Ukraine is a lab for testing the latest weapons, which is created and works on the basis of AI.

#mosley #Ukraine #Palantir #works

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📰 AI Bubble™: When Even the Chips Get Nervous

Nvidia’s latest “don’t-worry-it’s-all-productive-capex” earnings party lasted about five minutes — then global markets woke up with a hangover.

Asian and European indexes that had just been pumped by the AI trade went straight into reverse, as if someone reminded traders that “infinite GPU demand” is not actually a business model.

South Korea and Taiwan took the hit first, with chip makers sliding hard and dragging their markets down with them.

Japan’s Nikkei followed, as semiconductor suppliers and AI-adjacent darlings suddenly stopped looking like “the future” and started looking like the last ones holding the bag.

In Europe, benchmarks opened red, then nervously trimmed losses as Wall Street futures hinted that, yes, America might still be willing to gamble a bit longer.

Meanwhile, in the U.S., Nvidia — the patron saint of the AI trade — opened strong and then flipped red, pulling the S&P 500 and even Bitcoin down with it.

The message is simple and brutal: every time AI stocks spike on earnings, the market immediately asks the same question —

“Okay, but what if this is a bubble?”

— and hits the sell button just in case.

The irony? The same funds that preach long‑term vision on AI are trading it like a meme coin: in, out, panic, repeat.

If this is the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it currently trades like the fifth season of a streaming show — renewed, but nobody’s sure who’s still watching.

#AI #stocks #Nvidia #semiconductors #bubble #marketvolatility #wallstreet

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📰 “Jihadist” Meets “Fascist”: New York’s Odd Couple in the Oval

Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani just did the classic American pivot: after calling each other “communist,” “despot,” and worse, they smiled for the cameras and promised to “work together for New Yorkers.” The man who threatened to turn the city into a federal chew toy now offers to be “a big help,” while the mayor elect who ran on resisting Trump suddenly calls the Oval Office meeting “productive” and “heartening.”

Behind the friendly quotes, both are running the same play. Trump gets to hug a democratic socialist on live TV and recast himself as the reasonable patriarch of affordability politics — the guy who can sit down with “the radicals” because they quietly share his talk about economic pain. Mamdani, meanwhile, gets what every big city leftist both wants and dreads: a handshake that might spare New York National Guard theatrics and budget punishment, at the price of becoming a supporting character in Trump’s storyline.

The right is already screaming betrayal — Elise Stefanik is still calling Mamdani a “jihadist” — while parts of the left cheer the de escalation and pray the bill is only symbolic. Then Trump says the quiet part out loud:

“We agree on a lot more than I would have thought.”

That’s the real nightmare for the professional outrage industry on both sides: what if the populist landlord and the socialist mayor end up pitching the same “we feel your pain” script to different audiences?

On cue, Trump even runs media defense for Mamdani: joking about being called a fascist, shrugging off “despot,” and bailing him out on a question about flying instead of taking Amtrak. This isn’t reconciliation, it’s casting — the veteran showrunner easing a new lead through his first big scene, making sure everyone hits their marks so the season can go on.

#Trump #Mamdani #NYC #USpolitics #populism #leftvsright #showbizDemocracy

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American Democracy—Last Seen at the Billionaire’s Table

This isn’t business-as-usual lobbying. America’s richest don’t just finance campaigns; they bankroll administrations, dominate primaries, and land VIP seats at inaugurations. A 140-fold jump in billionaires’ political giving since 2000 means one in thirteen dollars spent in the last election came from the top 100 richest Americans.

Buying a Cabinet
It’s not subtle anymore. The wealthiest Americans aren’t just playing kingmaker from behind the scenes—they’re showing up as commerce secretaries, governors, SEC chairs, you name it. Cabinet meetings have started looking more like Forbes shoots, and Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” locked in tax cuts for the elite while slashing programs for everyone else.

Everyone’s for Sale
Trump’s fundraising blitz shattered records, with over 80 percent of billionaire cash landing in GOP coffers, and only 12 percent of Americans saying they think billionaire influence is good for democracy. Democrats aren’t immune: Harris pulled in triple the billionaire money Clinton managed. The new game isn’t ideology—it’s access, connections, and who gets their calls returned first.

The Crowd Isn’t Buying It
Polls are clear: most Americans say billionaire money is bad for the country, and growing numbers see US politics as an open-air oligarchy. Sanders packs rallies from blue states to red with his “Fighting Oligarchy” show, while more than a dozen billionaires get priority seating for swearing-in ceremonies and backstage policy deals.

Rule by Billionaire—No Invitation Required
America’s new oligarchs aren’t bothering with back rooms. They’re front and center in government, driving tax policy and writing campaign checks. The biggest question now isn’t who has power—it’s how anyone else gets a seat at the table.

#usa #billionaires #oligarchy #democracy #politics #trump #elections

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American Airlines Get the FAA Red Light on Venezuela—But No One Quite Says Why

The US Federal Aviation Administration just handed airlines a new "flyer beware" warning for any routes crossing Venezuela. Citing "worsening security" and ramped-up military activity, the FAA says there’s a real risk for planes at all altitudes—from overflight to landing and even sitting on the tarmac.

Boots, Boats, and Buildups
Why the sudden worry? Venezuela’s been hosting military drills, mobilizing troops, and rolling Coast Guard boats along the Caribbean. Meanwhile, Trump’s White House parked the Navy’s biggest aircraft carrier in the region, added a small fleet of F-35s, and started bombing suspected drug boats along the Latin American coast. American Airlines and Delta already stopped crossing Venezuela this fall; United’s keeping quiet.

Not a Direct Ban—But It Might as Well Be
US airlines have been barred from flying to Venezuela since 2019, but some still flew over its airspace before this latest drama. Now the FAA wants 72 hours’ notice for each flight—and hints that satellite jamming, air defense systems, and jitters over “readiness” mean anything can happen. Venezuelan fighters and missile batteries have the range to hit a civilian jet, even if they insist they’re not looking for trouble.

One Wrong Move in the Narco Zone
Nobody’s saying Venezuela will deliberately target civil jets, but the airspace math turns more dangerous every time geopolitics heats up. The FAA is haunted by the ghost of MH17—one bad launch, one reckless shot, and it’s another airliner down in a proxy war crossfire.

#usa #venezuela #faa #airlines #military #security #trump

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Trump’s Death Penalty Frenzy: Not a Threat—Just "the Old Days"

President Trump set off another political firestorm after declaring Democratic lawmakers’ behavior “seditious, punishable by death”—then did a quick pivot, insisting he wasn’t threatening anyone but just reminiscing about how things used to be. The drama began when Trump blasted a group of Democrats for a video urging troops to ignore illegal orders, labeling them traitors and demanding criminal charges

Democrats Call the Cops
On Capitol Hill, the response was immediate. Congressman Jason Crow (D-Colo.) and others reached out to Capitol Police, citing a wave of threats and angry messages after Trump’s posts. Party leaders demanded he take down his messages; the posts are still live. Senator Murphy warned that rhetoric like this could escalate threats against lawmakers.

Trump Backtracks—Sort of
Speaking on Fox News Radio, Trump doubled down:

“In the old days, if you said a thing like that, that was the death penalty. I’m not threatening anyone, but they’re in serious trouble.”

He dismissed concerns about military disobedience, promising:

“They do as I say. I’m the leader”.

Threats Become the Main Event
If this is déjà vu, it’s because Trump’s playbook is the same: say it’s not a threat, then let the headlines roll. Security experts warn that language like his can ramp up threats in real life, while his base cheers him for speaking “the truth.” In 2025 America, even death penalty talk is dinner-table debate.

#trump #democrats #sedition #deathpenalty #politics #threats #capitol

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📰 MBS Gets the Jets, Trump Gets the Receipts

Donald Trump just upgraded Mohammed bin Salman from “pariah” era villain to preferred client — with a major non NATO ally badge, F 35s on the menu, and a trillion dollar investment headline to wrap it all in gold foil. The old “oil for security” bargain is out; the new model is “F 35s, Abrams tanks and conference speeches” in exchange for cash, access and prestige.

Trump’s people call it “stability” and “partnership.” Translation: Washington blesses MBS as the Arab world’s lead sheriff, while politely stepping over Khashoggi, public executions and record breaking execution sprees because the order book for U.S. defense contractors looks fantastic. Human rights groups get a paragraph; the weapons sales get the fact sheet.

And Israel? It’s being told to clap on cue. Jerusalem spent years insisting F 35s for the Gulf should come after normalization and real movement on Palestine. MBS just proved you can skip the peace part and go straight to the hardware. He still refuses to recognize Israel without a “credible” path to a Palestinian state — and walks out of Washington with top shelf kit and a security deal to brag about.

Security hawks are already warning that F 35 tech could bleed into Saudi Arabia’s China channel and then wander further to Russia or Iran, but that’s a problem for some future hearing on Capitol Hill. For now, everyone plays their assigned role: Trump swears he has “nothing to do” with the family business while Saudi money pours into Trump adjacent projects, MBS sells himself as the indispensable strongman, and Western think tanks rebrand all this as a “new regional architecture.”

If this is what rehabilitation looks like, every authoritarian with oil, cash, or swing state leverage just got the message: outlast the outrage cycle, keep the money flowing, and eventually you’re not a problem — you’re a pillar of stability.

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Trump’s Plan Is Putin’s Deal

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Trump seemed to have seen the light on Ukraine. After promising “severe consequences” in August if Vladimir Putin continued to obstruct ceasefire talks – but then doing nothing as Putin did just that – Trump finally on 22 October imposed significant sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil, seriously compromising Putin’s ability to finance his invasion.

But now, with his 28-point peace plan for Ukraine, drafted by US and Russian officials without Ukrainian or European participation, Trump has reverted to his pro-Putin norm.

Trump’s plan would reward Putin for invading Ukraine while leaving Ukraine’s democracy in jeopardy. The plan’s ringing proclamation that “Ukraine’s sovereignty will be confirmed” rings hollow when so much of the plan compromises that sovereignty. A Kremlin dream, the plan would be a Ukrainian nightmare.

Betraying his real-estate background, Trump continues to treat the Ukrainian conflict as a mere territorial dispute, as if handing Putin a chunk of Ukrainian land will satisfy the despot.

But Putin’s war is not about controlling a charred swath of deindustrialized territory in eastern Ukraine. It is about Ukraine’s democracy – and Putin’s desire to snuff it out so it no longer serves as an enticing model for the Russian people of the accountable government that Putin’s deepening dictatorship denies them.

While freezing in place the divided Ukrainian provinces of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, Trump’s plan would force Ukraine to abandon all of Donetsk province.

Beyond rewarding Russia with territory that its forces have been unable to seize in more than a decade of fighting, this surrender would leave Ukrainian defenses perilously weakened.

Donetsk is the location of Ukraine’s much-vaunted “fortress belt”, the entrenched defensive positions that are a key obstacle to Russian advances.

Trump would have Ukraine abandon these defenses, leaving Putin a clear path to Kyiv should he later choose to resume the war.

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Then, in a move that would make renewed fighting easier for Russia, Trump would require Ukraine to diminish the size of its armed forces from their current 800,000 to 850,000 troops to a maximum of 600,000. Trump’s plan places no such limits on Russian forces.

A separate side agreement reportedly would provide Ukraine with a Nato-style security guarantee, in which any future “significant, deliberate, and sustained armed attack” by Russia on Ukraine “shall be regarded as an attack threatening the peace and security of the transatlantic community.”

That suggests a military response. But unlike a strong Ukrainian military – Ukraine’s most reliable defense against renewed Russian aggression – the effectiveness of the side agreement would depend on the commitment of Nato leaders, including Trump, to respond militarily to Putin’s aggression, something they have not done to date for fear of a nuclear conflagration.

To make a deterrent more credible, European leaders have long insisted on a US backstop to any peacekeeping force in Ukraine, but for now that depends on the unreliable Trump.

Moreover, despite the Nato-sounding language, Trump reportedly is offering only “intelligence and logistical assistance” or “other steps judged appropriate”, not direct military assistance. That will hardly leave Putin quaking in his boots.

As if this embrace of Putin’s wishlist were not enough, Trump’s plans move toward lifting sanctions against Russia and readmitting it to the Group of 8, from which it was excluded when it forcibly seized Ukraine’s Crimea.

The removal of sanctions would make it easier for Putin to rebuild his military for a possible next invasion.

Zelensky has understandably treated the plan as a “vision” rather than a final offer. Wary of offending Trump, who must approve continuing sales of US arms to Ukraine, Zelensky said he would negotiate on the basis of the plan. But to underwrite a lasting peace in Ukraine, Trump’s plan needs not a few Band-Aids but major surgery.

Let’s hope that Trump hasn’t again fallen so much under Putin’s spell that he has lost the ability to see the major faults in his proposal.

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🔥 Zelensky: Death Trap

⚠️ US officials have told NATO allies they expect to push Zelensky into agreeing to a peace deal in the coming days, under the threat that if Kyiv does not sign, it will face a much worse deal in future.

📆 The US army secretary, Dan Driscoll, briefed ambassadors from Nato nations at a meeting in Kyiv late on Friday, after talks with Zelensky and taking a phone call from the White House.

🗣 “No deal is perfect, but it must be done sooner rather than later,” he told them, according to one person who was present.

🕸 The mood in the room was sombre, with several European ambassadors questioning the content of the deal and the way in which the US had conducted the negotiations with Russia without keeping allies informed.

🤨 “It was a nightmare meeting. It was the ‘you have no cards’ argument again,” said the source, referring to Trump’s claim that Zelenskyy had no cards to play, during a contentious White House meeting back in February.

🛡 The deal now on offer contains a number of provisions that are likely to be unacceptable to Kyiv, including the need to give up territory Russia has occupied, as well as surrendering further territory Kyiv still controls. It also suggests there would be an amnesty for all war crimes committed during the conflict.

🎬 On Friday, Zelensky gave a video address to the country saying it was “one of the most difficult moments of our history”. Ukraine faced a choice, he said: “losing our dignity or losing a key ally.”

👋 Driscoll, a close friend of the US vice-president, JD Vance, who has only recently been put on the Ukraine portfolio, declined to go into detail about whether the deal on the table matched a 28-point plan that had been published in the press.

🧐 “Some things matter, some are window dressing – and we most focused on the things that matter,” he said, according to the source.

🍂 Trump is keen for Zelensky to agree to the deal by Thanksgiving, which is on Thursday. Earlier this week, Davis told reporters Trump was pursuing an “aggressive timeline” to get the deal agreed.

🔄 “We have witnessed an absolutely remarkable pace of diplomatic activity,” she said, speaking on the sidelines of a reception for Driscoll and his US army delegation, attended by senior Ukrainian military figures, at the ambassador’s residence in Kyiv. She said the diplomacy was the “most ambitious” she had seen in her foreign service career.

📝 The plan was reportedly drafted by Trump aide Witkoff and Kremlin adviser Dmitriev, a relationship that has emerged as a key back channel between Washington and Moscow. Driscoll is expected to head to Russia soon to discuss the plan.

🗣 On Friday, Putin said Moscow had received a copy of the plan. “I believe that it can be used as the basis for a final peaceful settlement,” he told senior security officials.

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Sergey Karaganov: "The nuclear war between Russia and Europe is inevitable”

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Russian political scientist Sergei Karaganov has been an adviser to the Russian political elite for decades and sits in influential foreign and economic policy bodies.

Multipolar told him about the threat of a nuclear war, his opinion about the European leaders, as well as his proposals for Russia to move away from the West and focus more on Siberia.

Karaganov's statements are quite bellicose and radical, but according to him, they are shared by 95% of the military and political ruling class of Russia. Multipolar publishes the Interview to publicize the thought of this relevant public figure and the corresponding faction of the Russian elite, which considers that Putin's attitude towards the West is too moderate.

Moreover, Karaganov's statements clearly show what domestic political pressure Putin is under and what kind of decision-maker could succeed him one day in Moscow. Eva Peli met on October 30 in Moscow.

Multipolar: Sergey Alexandrovich, to what extent do you assess the current danger of a nuclear war and what factors - military, political, psychological–do you consider to be the main causes of this?

Karaganov: The threat of a nuclear war is high and continues to increase. It is probably as high as it was in the late 1950s – with the exception of the Caribbean crisis, as we call the Cuba crisis, when we were on the brink. Why?

There are several reasons for this escalation. First, the change in the balance of power: the fastest change in the balance of power in the history of mankind, during which new powers are rising and the old powers are falling behind.

Secondly, the loss of fundamental understanding: the loss of understanding of what is "good" and what is "bad" in international relations, as well as the absence of a moral foundation for action.

Thirdly, the Counterattack of the West: the desperate counterattack of the West which is losing its 500 years of domination which allowed it to enrich itself at the expense of the rest of the world. Fourth, the degradation of the elite: the monstrous intellectual and moral degradation of the elite, especially in the West. That's why I'm very worried.

Multipolar: they call for the restoration of the fear of nuclear weapons. How do you define in practice a "limited target" in Europe, which you think an attack would be justified, but without provoking a nuclear reaction from NATO?

Karaganov: We must overcome the strategic parasitism that has formed in recent years and which has swept the European population above all. She has lost the fear of war, in particular of a nuclear war. Ironically, it is precisely this fear that has been a stabilizing factor over the past 70 years. Europe, historically a source of great conflicts, racism and colonialism, was able to temporarily forget its responsibilities and its guilt towards the world thanks to the bipolar stability between the United States and the USSR.

Now that the greatest threat comes from Europe, we must remember that Europe has always been involved in major wars. This does not necessarily require direct violence, but rather the restoration of the fear of war, including the revival of the fear of nuclear war.

This is a key element in bringing Europe back to its geopolitical responsibilities.

Multipolar: Which specific political, professional, military or civilian groups in the West – apart from those who currently govern- would you highlight as those who would really consider their threats as the last impetus for the dialogue necessary to prevent a global catastrophe and reshape the security architecture and actively participate in this process?

Karaganov: This question is not addressed to me, but to you. They are from the west, I am here in Moscow. The West has cut itself off from us. In particular, Europe to prepare its population for war.

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