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"The #Trump team, taking its cue from the #president, is trying to pursue two #ContradictoryVisions at the same time — to maintain #America’s status as the world’s leading power while also trying to scale down its international commitments. They want to simultaneously #dominate the #world and #withdraw from it."

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Or, put differently, Trump is #Stalin and everybody around him is trying to guess what he wants.

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Ukraine Daily summary - Sunday, February 16 2025

'Putin is weak. We must use that;' Zelensky's Munich speech in 5 key quotes -- Zelensky calls for creation of 'army of Europe' amid US support uncertainty. -- France to host emergency summit on Ukraine as Trump administration and Russian officials set to begin peace negotiations without Europe -- Making sense of Trump’s plan, if there is one, to end Russia’s war in Ukraine -- and more

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writeworks.ukUkraine Daily summary - Sunday, February 16 2025'Putin is weak. We must use that;' Zelensky's Munich speech in 5 key quotes -- Zelensky calls for creation of 'army of Europe' amid US support uncertainty. -- France to host emergency summit on Ukraine as Trump administration and Russian officials set to begin peace negotiations without Europe -- Making sense of Trump’s plan, if there is one, to end Russia’s war in Ukraine -- and more

‼️ « In order to mitigate […] issues with #QuotePosts / #repouets / RPs, we plan to include several features in our implementation:
You will be able to #choose whether your posts can be quoted at all.
You will be #notified when someone quotes you.
You will be able to #withdraw your post from the quoted context at any time.
We also want to build a tight integration for Quote Posts with the #reporting functionality, to help people to feel more safe. » ‼️
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I'm seeing a lot of posts calling on "the media" to call for Trump to step down.

In fact, it was "the media" that got us a reinvigorated campaign by someone whose approval rate doubled in a week and is on track to beat Trump.

Why would "the media" suggest that Republicans should get someone stronger, when the liberal media end game was successful?

The big challenge now is defeating all the state and local rules being pre-positioned to steal the election for Trump