“Nothing is inevitable. Do not be alone and do not be dismayed. Find someone who is doing something you admire and join them.” -Timothy Snyder
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Kash Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker with Kremlin ties, documents show Patel, Trump’s nominee to be FBI director, was paid $25,000 last year by a film company that has promoted anti-Western views advanced by the Kremlin, documents show.

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Trump's Attack on America's National Security Trump’s Gift to Russia and China

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Russian state TV compares Trump to Lenin YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV hosts and pundits marveled at the state of American politics, rejoiced about Trump pausing all foreign aid — including US aid to Ukraine — and compared Trump to Lenin.
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The Trump executive orders that threaten democracy — Vox Ever since Donald Trump declared he’d act like a dictator on Day 1 during his presidential campaign, there have been real concerns that he’d be true to his word — that he’d take a series of unilateral...

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How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days He used the constitution to shatter the constitution.

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Hybrid threats need a response.

The Rio Treaty's Security Pact and Unintended Consequences of Threatening Canada, Greenland, and Panama The legal obligations the Trump administration has to Canada, Greenland, and Panama involves a NATO forerunner: the "Rio Treaty."

The Rio Treaty's Security Pact and Unintended Consequences of Threatening Canada, Greenland, and Panama

By Francisco Lobo

"What’s been missing from the commentary and analysis is a regional treaty, which serves the national security interests of the United States."

World Mysteries: More than 30 years after the break up of the Soviet Union….this is still on sale at a grocery store…. in a NATO country, no less.

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