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Macron, 100 Rafale jets to Zelensky. Maduro ultimatum. US prepares Russia embargo. Umerov AUDI 5000

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Tom Welsh
Tom Welsh
November 17, 2025

Russia has not made any “commitments” to the Kiev regime. On the contrary, Kiev has made a number of commitments to Russia, every one of which it has violated or retracted.

Tom Welsh
Tom Welsh
November 17, 2025

It’s hard to imagine what kind of understanding Washington could reach with Mr Maduro. How do you make friends with someone after calling him a drug lord and a murderer?

Mr Rubio seems to be some sort of attack dog whom Mr Trump unleashes when he wants to threaten someone. But I think Rubio is on dangerous ground, because Mr Trump is liable at any moment to change his mind and leave Rubio looking dishonest or foolish.

Tom Welsh
Tom Welsh
November 17, 2025

The US government should be very careful about telling other countries, “You are either with us or against us”. The USA has less than 5% of the world’s population, and at some point the other countries will start saying, “Well, if you put it that way… we’re not with you, so we must be against you”.

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Tom Welsh
Tom Welsh
November 17, 2025

Mr Zelensky’s all-black rig reminds me of what Peter O’Donnell called “the black coverall of action” in his Modesty Blaise strips and books.

But Modesty Blaise was better-looking. Come to think of it, so was Willie Garvin.

Tom Welsh
Tom Welsh
November 17, 2025

Hmmmm. So Kiev is going to have 250 jet fighters, but no pilots. So logically, the 250 fighters will have to remain on the ground. Hmmmm… I wonder if Mr Iskander will come visiting. Or any of his family and friends.

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Tom Welsh
Tom Welsh
November 17, 2025

If anyone is stuck for a Christmas present to give me, gold bars are acceptable. Ideally the 1 kg size or larger.

MoLa
MoLa
November 17, 2025

May be the Trump administration used the time to classify everything in the Epstein files what has been unclassified so far but what they don’t want to be released- could that an option. I don’t know

Diana
Diana
November 18, 2025

Where is the proof to back up Rubio’s accusations? Maduro won an election that was acknowledged by the world as free and fair. There is no evidence provided here that he has anything to do with a drugs cartel; it’s not enough to blow boats out of the water just by saying so. Is it so hard for the US to understand that Maduro seems popular in Venezuela and Machado (who never speaks in Spanish) is not wanted by anyone? Didn’t they learn their lesson with Juan Guido? The US population might be naive, but in other countries people well… Read more »

Tom
Tom
November 18, 2025

Who’s gonna fly these jets? Ukrainians cannot fly them and training will take years.

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