Russia’s financial system enters dangerous territory. New data shows Russians are pulling cash out of banks at five times the rate of last year, triggering fresh fears of a liquidity crisis.
🇺🇸 🇺🇦 #Jay is an American living in Kyiv, since before the start of the full-scale invasion of #Ukraine, reporting on the war on several social media platforms
Trump showed no interest in details of US-Ukraine peace plan, says WP
" "You tell him, 'I’m going to try to get a deal.' He will say, 'Great, go see what you can do.' And that's the level of detail he has," the official said. "
#Russia Alexandr Sheptura complains that on the Kinburn Spit only one out of five trips to deliver logistics or personnel is successful, majority is abruptly terminated by #Ukraine drones, leading to “loss of vehicles and personnel”.
Russia has been playing people and states against each other for centuries. With the advent of the internet, the range of their propaganda empire merely extended over the Atlantic & the Pacific.
"Ukraine is grateful to the United States, to every American heart, and personally to President Trump for the assistance that – starting with the Javelins – has been saving Ukrainian lives."
"Three things happened in the last week that have befuddled a lot of observers, but which might best be understood as the kinds of developments we’ll see increasingly as the power structure around Trump grows fragile and fluid:"
"A positively giddy Trump welcomed Zohran Mamdani to the White House
'The White House' rolled out yet another plan to sell out Ukraine to Russia
Marjorie Taylor Greene announced she will quit in early January
All of these, in my opinion, arose out of and reflect Trump’s increasing political weakness, his separate mental and physical decline, and the fight for power that results."
"The controversial 28-point plan dropped suddenly by the Trump administration to Ukraine as a take-it-or-leave it proposition mere days ago was mostly the result of several weeks of negotiations behind the scenes between Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart Kirill Dmitriev that excluded not only Ukraine and its allies but even some key US officials."
~ Natalia Drozdiak, Alberto Nardelli and Mario Parker
"The most telling development, however, are competing and quickly evolving stories from Senator Mike Rounds (who would lead opposition to such a plan in the Senate) and Marco Rubio about whether this is a US plan."
There is a growing power vacuum around the weakened, mentally incompetent Trump, and those who sense opportunity are seizing it.
"Here we are again. Donald Trump is doing everything in his seemingly unlimited power to make sure Putin gets what he wants after starting this illegal and immoral war against Ukraine.
He is clearly in the tank FOR Russia and AGAINST America.
A short while ago, President #Zelensky said on X he is "grateful to every leader & to everyone around the world who supports Ukraine & our principled stances".