Today is 86th anniversary of my membership in Democratic Party. (In my part of the Bronx, Dem memberhip was conveyed at Baptism.) I asked Sen Mark Kelly why he rebuffed the Deputy National Intel Officer who blew whistle on the Russia lies of CIA’s Brennan. https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMPGsgAe8DQfjXnZeqpKL-WwA7wiHkOt4uy6Et1XxnxSziFobaU5KosPQ6YhFIjHg/photo/AF1QipMHwOakwYvzyItACKh7sjUGUrQn7Ub1VFUQDin0?key=WkJLMmJuX203RjV5Ync2UjRKemVQenFmZTFvNjFB
US Amb to Israel Mike Huckabee should not have quit seminary without learning Deuteronomy 15:4 “God gifts Israelites land, so there will be no poor there”, and brings justice, including food, for the orphan, widow, refugee. Emphasis runs throughout the Bible.
On August 23 Putin said he sees “such light at the end of the tunnel” for better ties with US. “я думаю, такой свет в конце тоннеля всё-таки замаячил.” Lavrov took same positive line https://nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/video/russia-s-lavrov-says-putin-wants-peace-even-as-strikes-on-ukraine-ramp-up-full-interview-245660741587 charging that Zelensky is the fly in the ointment.
Was Russia’s “special military operation” unprovoked, illegal, full-scale”, as US corporate media claim? At USC, I laid out the facts – just the facts – documented with simple slides. Why FACTS still controversial? Few know them. (Start at minute 12:00) https://raymcgovern.com/2024/10/23/the-truth-about-ukraine/
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Reality Intrudes FINALLY: Obama 2015: “Arming Ukrainians would encourage the notion they could defeat the far more powerful Russians.” Trump 2025: “The Ukrainians are fighting a force that’s clearly much more powerful … and it’s not like they’ve stopped.”
Hopeful harbinger: Windsock journalist Anatol Lieven does an 180-degree:
(1) “Ukraine has already won the war”, March 18, 2022
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/03/18/has-ukraine-already-won-the-war/
(2) August 17, 2025 “Why Trump gets it right on Ukraine … which seems to be in the process of losing…”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-ukraine-russia-agreement/
Steve Witkoff, tell Trump No “Coalition of the (Braindead) Willing” tomorrow without Hungary’s Orban & Slovakia’s Fico, whose brains not dead.