The Strongman Fantasy (updated 11/24) And dictatorship in real life

Quite a few Americans like the idea of strongman rule. Essential to it is the idea that a strongman will be your strongman. He won't.
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In today’s #vatniksoup, I’ll introduce a Canadian journalist and alleged Soviet/Russian spy, David Pugliese (@davidpugliese). He’s best-known for his articles about “Ukrainian Nazis”, and for allegedly being a spy for both the Soviet Union and later Russia.

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Buttigieg has that combination of knowing what he is doing and caring about the rest of us. We are going to miss that.

Let’s run the government like a business, drive the car like a bicycle, and play the guitar like a piano

I’ve been messing with airplane navigation systems for years and you’ve done nothing. Now we might responsible killing some people in a crash.

Some of your leaders are afraid they’ll now have to do something.

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Cold-sweat and heart palpitations here. Please take down this pic! I dont want anyone else to panic🙏🏻

The 3 raiders of Modern Apocalypse.

Wladimir Klitschko jabs Joe Rogan for spreading Russian propaganda Legendary Ukrainian boxer wants an invite onto the top U.S. podcast to rebut pro-Kremlin narratives.

Wladimir Klitschko jabs Joe Rogan for spreading Russian propaganda

A Third World War? Let's help those who are holding it back

What is preventing World War III? Ukrainians are containing the ongoing war in Europe to their own country; they are deterring war in the Pacific; and they are preventing spread of nuclear weapons. These scenarios have not played out because Ukrainians take risks
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Please retweet in advance.
This will be a long thread in which I will explain and show the approach of mass corporate defaults in Russia.
I will also show that Putin's economy is currently in the worst possible position.
Here is the IFX-CBONDS G-SPREAD index
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Yes, the group that Russia's been loading up with weapons and coordinates to blow up western commercial ships has also joined Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Det er absurd at forestille sig, Ukraine nogensinde igen underkaster sig Rusland. Fred med de faldne, de døde, sultede og myrdede. Støt den danske Ukraine komité på
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The mechanics of exactly how the new Russia, Iran, North Korea, China axis of aggression functions to dismantle western democracy and collect resource rich territories while NATO sleeps.

Noget har 'vredet' anker skævt på sabotagemistænkt kinesisk skib Det er uvist, hvornår ankeret er blevet beskadiget, men en ekspert peger på, at det er naturligt at undersøge det i relation til den mulige sabotage i Østersøen.

”Something has 'twisted' anchor on Chinese ship suspected of sabotage”

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OTD in 2013 Euromaidan began. One pic shows Soros/CIA agent paid to oust a flawlessly elected democratic President & turn Ukraine into failed fascist state

Other pic shows genuine Pro Russian volunteers with absolutely nothing to do with Russia with equipment bought from a shop

Russian inflation is out of control.

With a median salary of 34,200 rubles/month, Russians now have an average weekly grocery spend of 8889 rubles, up 28% this year.

Let's hope the US is wise enough not to bail them out again.

Next time anybody tells you Crimea voted to be with Russia, listen to Girkin!

That’s how Russian voting works, at gunpoint

They never voted until after they rounded up everybody at gunpoint!

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At this point, we seem to have achieved herd immunity to Trump nonsense.

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It is Putin “thanking” Scholz for the chat. Maybe he should call again?

Another underwater cable between Sweden and Lithuania has also been damaged.

Article 5 moment?

⚠️ C-Lion1 submarine communications cable, laid along the bottom of the Baltic Sea between Finland and Germany, has been cut, - Ilta-Sanomat

❗️The reasons for the incident are being investigated. Its length is almost 1200 km.

Here are losses I could identify for the 16th

97 💀
7864 👻 in 86 past days
#SkullThone

losses.ukrdailyupdate.com

"I think there is sort of a faction in the Republican Party that has a strange kind of... sort of homoerotic fascination for Putin."

Yeah... I definitely noticed this as well.

Welcome back to Denmark🇩🇰 It seems you are not alone in going back to Europe😔