Amusing how we've got Pussy Riot's Nadya Tolokonnikova mourning fighters from the Russian Volunteer Corps, founded by a neo-Nazi who calls himself "White Rex," as Lithuania threatens to revoke Leonid Volkov's residence permit for talking smack about Rex & about Zelensky's cabinet. What a world.

the year is 2027, china is refusing to admit any more european refugees, and emperor trump is bragging on the trump news network that his bloodless seizure of greenland cost zero american lives and killed only 40% of the local anti-oil population

Trump’s Venezuela bragging is what I’d expect from Zhirinovsky, had he lived to attack Ukraine in a VR game with the cheat codes on.

how genteel

The optics of this scandal are cross-eyed-inducing. Volkov sends a vitriolic DM to a disgruntled ex-employee (lol), cheering the (faked) killing of neo-Nazi leader "White Rex" (whom the ex-employee now works for, lol), & Volkov is now at risk of being booted from Lithuania.

Meduza

He doesn’t get along with neo-Nazis Navalny strategist Leonid Volkov under fire in Lithuania for disparaging paramilitary leader ‘White Rex’ and top Ukrainian officials — Meduza

Lithuania’s Migration Department is investigating Leonid Volkov, head of political projects at the Anti-Corruption Foundation. The move follow...

"Informal, through commentators and newspaper articles"? Am I led to understand that the "Russia once offered" claim is just tea-leaf divination?

Russia Once Offered U.S. Control of Venezuela for Free Rein in Ukraine

The exchange offer was recounted at the time in congressional testimony by Fiona Hill, who ran Russian and European affairs on the National Securit...

The UK and EU are missing the chance to pledge their entire armed forces to a peacekeeping operation in Ukraine. Since such an offer depends on a peace deal that Russia won't accept, the gesture would be a generosity that Europe never has to honor.

By being so adversarial toward America's European allies, the Trump admin will probably end up framing whatever the "Coalition of the Willing" slaps together as its big diplomatic achievement, especially after its peaceslop fails to meet Putin’s terms for capitulation.