Still living in the McCarthy era it seems - McCarthyism was a period of intense anti-communist paranoia in the United States during the late 1940s and 1950s. Driven by Cold War anxieties, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy recklessly accused government officials, educators, and artists of subversive Communist ties, ruining countless lives through blacklists and unsubstantiated allegations https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/4/trump-praises-army-rails-against-communism-in-us-250th-anniversary-speech

Sonja van den Ende My Comments at RT on the liberation of Konstantinovka in the DPR, Donbass
President Vladimir Putin has said the capture of the heavily fortified Ukrainian stronghold opens the way to Kramatorsk and Slavyansk. Russian troops have captured Kiev’s longstanding stronghold of Konstantinovka in the Ukrainian-controlled part of Donbass. The Defense Ministry also showed Putin drone footage from over Konstantinovka, with commanders pointing out former Ukrainian strongpoints, industrial sites, residential districts, and areas where Russian flags had been raised after the city came under Moscow’s control.