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WSJ: Some U.S. officials say that Musk acted unilaterally and that Trump didn’t specifically order any retribution against Ukraine.
But a person familiar with the situation said Musk talked to multiple senior administration officials, including with Trump, before imposing the new speed cap, which Ukrainian officials said had allowed Russian missiles to evade their defenses.
WSJ: Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of the military-grade Starlink network used by Ukraine, according to U.S. officials and people familiar with the matter.
Trump and Musk have both expressed anger at Ukraine for attacking Russian diesel refineries, which Trump blames for high energy prices. Last week, Musk capped the connection speeds of Ukrainian devices, rendering some attack drones and interceptor drones virtually useless.
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🔥 Max Hastings gives Trump both barrels and not before time.
Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims during his first term. Now the lying, bullying and grotesque inversion of truth have become instruments of government, while billionaires and political courtiers compete for seats at his table.
The victims are the Ukrainian people being bombed, betrayed and blamed while Trump appeases Putin.
Hastings is right: democracies must stop treating industrial-scale dishonesty as background noise.
“This is a lie” must become our collective reply.
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Une dernière lecture avant d'aller dormir, mais celle-ci est importante. Les révélations se multiplient sur les décisions américaines concernant l'Ukraine, et ce que rapporte ce soir le Wall Street Journal mérite toute notre attention.
Selon le journal, Elon Musk aurait personnellement ordonné, le 14 octobre, de limiter les capacités de Starlink utilisées par l'armée ukrainienne, affectant non seulement les drones offensifs, mais aussi ceux chargés d'intercepter les attaques russes.
Cette décision intervient quelques jours après les critiques de Trump contre les frappes ukrainiennes sur les raffineries russes, qu'il accuse de contribuer à la hausse du diesel, à deux semaines des midterms. Musk avait lui-même déclaré que Zelensky était « allé trop loin ».
Plus troublant encore : Musk et Trump auraient discuté de ces restrictions, possiblement avant leur mise en œuvre selon une source du journal. Trump nie avoir donné l'ordre, tandis que la Maison-Blanche aurait elle-même cherché à comprendre qui avait pris cette décision.
Au-delà des responsabilités exactes, une question majeure se pose : comment un acteur privé peut-il disposer d'un tel pouvoir sur les capacités militaires et défensives d'un pays en guerre ?
Et pendant ce temps, ce sont les Ukrainiens qui en subissent les conséquences.
wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
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WATCH: President Trump’s full comments to CBS’s Nikole Killion about the war between Russia and Ukraine, arguing the land Russia has taken from Ukraine has gotten “bigger and bigger all the time, week by week,” and they have an “unlimited supply of people” to keep going, but not Ukraine....
“Russia would like to get it done. I think that — and you know, Russia is a big machine. They just keep grinding forward, and that’s what they’ve done. They’ve taken a very large piece of land, and, you know, you can say that Ukraine is doing well or poorly, but the land gets bigger and bigger all the time, week by week. It — just —they march forward. They just keep marching forward. They have an unlimited supply of people, whereas Ukraine, as you know, is — there’s a woman who’s, I guess, not exactly a very beautiful woman, nice woman, and she is on television recently talking about the fact that our men are gone. She’s a Ukrainian woman. Our men are gone. They’re lost. They’re dead. They’re in mental institutions. They’re walking around. They have no arms. They have no legs. In many cases, they’ve been hurt so badly; they’ve been just decimated, and it was very poignant. When I heard this, I said, boy, that’s some statement. And she said, Russia is a very big country. They can lose a lot of people in a war, and they have lost a lot of people. They lost 50 million people in the Second World War. They lose a lot of people, but they’re very big, and she said they have to settle this war. Look, Ukraine has lost a lot of people. Russia has lost a lot of people. Russia, though, is a giant nation. Ukraine is not. I can tell you this. We’ve been helping through Joe Biden originally, and he made a mistake because he should have done it through the European Union, and he should have been paid. European Union has quite a bit of money, although I have to tell you, they’re getting tired of spending it. But we gave $350 billion to Ukraine.”
“And, you know, I insisted on getting something for that money, and we got a very big chunk of land in rare Earth and other things, if anybody remembers. Let’s see what that amounts to, but Ukraine has to want to settle this war. Zelenskyy has to want to settle this war, and if he doesn’t, I think it’s going to be a very bad thing. Look, we have given tremendous amounts to Ukraine. We’ve got nothing back other than high diesel. We have — we have given probably possibly more money to Ukraine than almost anybody over the years. Hundreds of billions of dollars. We’ve gotten nothing back, and the American taxpayers are tired of it. We want Zelenskyy to make a deal. He can make a deal. He could have made a deal two years ago when we had our little chat in the Oval Office. We had a now quite well-remembered chat with JD, myself, some others. Zelenskyy could have made a good deal then, could have made a much better deal then probably, possibly, than he could make now, but he’s going to have to want to make a deal, because I don’t think his people are going to stand for it any longer. They’ve been fighting a war. So, last month they lost 32,000 people between the both of them. They’re mostly soldiers, mostly young soldiers, some people in a town that got hit or whatever, but mostly young soldiers. It doesn’t affect us much. It doesn’t affect us in theory at all. We’re not involved. What affects me is to see that many souls lost so needlessly, so what I’d like to see is I’d like to make a deal.”
“I’d like to see if they can make a deal. I thought, you know, I settled eight wars. I thought that would be the easiest one. The hatred between President Putin and President Zelensky is tremendous. I think that’s most of the reason they haven’t been able to make a deal, actually. But Ukraine has to want to make a deal because the United States has spent a fortune. Europe has spent a fortune. Europe is tired of it right now. They’re tired of it right now, and if they don’t make a deal, ultimately, it’s just going to get, in my opinion, it’s just really just going to get worse. You have a very big country in Russia. They have a lot of people. They have a lot of people to draw from. Ukraine does not have a lot of people to draw from, and it’s time to make a deal, and I say that — remember this though: We’ve given a lot to Ukraine. We’ve gotten absolutely nothing back except grief, death, tremendous monetary loss.”
“We’ve given incredible amounts of equipment, and military, primarily military equipment, but equipment of all kinds, and it’s time. I gave them javelins. When the stupid general for Russia — very stupid gentlemen — they had 1000 tanks riding up a concrete highway. They would have been in Ukraine in four hours going maximum tank speed — which is 48 miles an hour to be exact — nothing to stop them. The war would have been over in one day, and this very stupid general — I have no idea who he is. I doubt he’s still with us. I doubt he’s still living. He decided to hang a right onto the farmland and then take a left and go up to Kyiv, and rather than staying on the highway — the concrete highway, perfectly good highway where they were doing very nicely, would have been there in three and a half, four hours, and the whole war would have ended. He ended up getting stuck in the mud. It was like quicksand. They had — the night before, they had the heaviest rainfall they’ve had in ten years, and the land was soaking wet. It was like quicksand. This — I — most people don’t remember, but I do because it’s called war. You never know what happens. But he made a terrible decision, a legendarily bad decision. And the tanks got stuck. They couldn’t go forward. They couldn’t go back. They were dead, stuck, and they used the javelins. That’s the anti-tank weapon that I gave them. So, you know, the — the statement is Obama gave him sheets. I gave him javelins. So, I’ve helped Ukraine a lot, but it’s now time for them to end this war and stop all those young people from being killed.”
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Wow
El representante republicano 🔴 Don Bacon defiende abiertamente que los responsables de limitar el sistema Starlink/Starshield en Ucrania 🇺🇦, deben ser despedidos de inmediato.
“La mayoría de los estadounidenses quieren respuestas sobre quién dio la orden de reducir Starlink y el intercambio de inteligencia.
Queremos que los saquen del gobierno.
Trump abrazando a Putin es estúpido. Los presidentes estadounidenses no se acurrucan con dictadores ni criminales de guerra.
Reagan y Eisenhower lo rechazan.”
A su vez, Don Bacon 🔴 reafirma que Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 debe seguir apoyando a Ucrania 🇺🇦.
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Canada's $2.3B pivot away from Starlink isn't just about internet-it's a massive warning shot to Elon Musk over Ukraine.
PM Mark Carney directly cited Musk's sudden service cuts and data restrictions to Ukraine as the exact reason Canada must achieve total strategic autonomy. No ally wants to rely on one unpredictable billionaire who can pull the military plug during a war.
Canada isn't just protecting itself. The $2.3B contract expands Ottawa-based Telesat Lightspeed into a military-grade satellite network meant for secure Arctic and NORAD defense.
Telesat confirmed they plan to deploy this secure system directly to Ukraine and other allied nations.
Canada is literally funding the un-pluggable backup system Ukraine has been looking for. 🇨🇦
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President Trump has repeatedly shown us that he is unwilling to stand up to Vladimir Putin. The United States Congress cannot allow him to abandon the Ukrainian people.
Every Republican should join with Democrats to demand the President enforce the sanctions he signed into law.
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Trump has thrown in the towel, given up. He no longer wants to pretend to be President. His speeches are rehashed nonsense. He just wants to talk about vanity projects. He lets his mind wander, in public, to homoerotic fantasies. He isn’t hiding his allegiance to Putin and his abandonment of America and her friends. His scams are all exposed. He is a sick, tired, old queen who can’t keep the mask on. But, he’s still very dangerous because the more he can hurt others, the better he feels.
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This. Understand that, if Elon Musk truly ordered the slowdown of Starshield, a private corporation, SpaceX, acting at the behest of its CEO, effectively dictated aspects of another country's defense operations by restricting a critical service on which its military depends.
This seriously compromises the reliability and credibility of American defense companies and certainly makes SpaceX deeply suspect as a defense contractor.
The question remains whether the ultimate order came from the White House (as suggested by a separate Reuters report) or whether Musk acted independently.
It is clear that this entire episode needs to be investigated, and I strongly urge Congress to return from recess. The matter is too urgent to wait until after November 3.
If the WSJ reporting is accurate, this is yet another sordid episode in this administration's record. Should the next administration be Democratic, Elon Musk must be investigated and, if misconduct is established, held accountable.
The reliability and trustworthiness of both Musk and SpaceX are now very much in question.
Elon Musk ordered the slowdown of a military-grade version of Starlink relied on by Ukraine, U.S. officials and people familiar with the matter said wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli… via @WSJ
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"Some U.S. officials say that Musk acted unilaterally and that Trump didn’t specifically order any retribution against Ukraine. But a person familiar with the situation said Musk talked to multiple senior administration officials, including with Trump, before imposing the new speed cap, which Ukrainian officials said had allowed Russian missiles to evade their defenses."
Once again, for emphasis: this is Elon Musk unilaterally violating a contract between his company and a paying customer in a mission-critical situation, where lives were at risk and were almost certainly lost as a direct result of his actions, for purely personal reasons that had nothing to do with SpaceX's commercial interests.
It's as serious a breach of trust as can possibly be imagined. Who could possibly trust a contract with a Musk-controlled company now?
Full Congressional investigation is in order. ASAP. Ukrainians died and US diplomatic personnel plus US citizens were at grave risk. wsj.com/world/ukraine-starli…
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Trump: “Russia, frankly, has treated Ukraine pretty well. They haven’t really done much.”
WHAT. A. MONSTROUS. FUCKING. CUNT.
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Wir in Europa haben die verdammten Patriot-Raketen längst bezahlt. Sie liegen zur Lieferung bereit und könnten längst in der Ukraine sein, um Menschenleben zu retten.
Aber es fehlt eine Unterschrift: die von Pete Hegseth.
Sagt Selenskyj. Und die Washington Post bestätigt es: Der US-Verteidigungsminister hat die Lieferung der Patriot-Abfangraketen nicht abgelehnt. Er hat sie nur nicht freigegeben. Selbst europäische Staaten, die aus eigenen Beständen liefern wollen, warten auf das Okay aus Washington.
Und am Abend sagt Trump: „Wir haben der Ukraine viel gegeben. Sie hat uns nichts gegeben.“
Bezahlt hat Europa. Sterben tun die Ukrainer.
Und Washington tötet mit, indem es einfach einen verfi**ten Lieferschein nicht unterschreibt.
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We are past the point of political disagreement. We are witnessing a catastrophic collision between unchecked narcissism and obvious neurological decay. It is the most dangerous intersection in American history: a man with the absolute power of the Presidency and the absolute cognitive failure of a person no longer tethered to reality.
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Today, we had important talks with our American partners and with our other partners from Europe. Steve Witkoff was also here with us in Oslo, and Jared Kushner joined us online.
Ukraine immediately supported American proposal for an energy ceasefire. But Russia responded by continuing its attacks. We offered different options. We are ready not to hit sensitive parts of Russia’s energy sector if Russia stops hitting ours. Putin said no. But we’re working to find a solution.
We have some clear ideas on how to get to peace. And we are united with our European partners in this effort, and we want the Americans to take these ideas to the Russians. One of the important ideas is to move to a potential trilateral meeting of the leaders to address the issues that only the leaders can do.
Steve is going to Russia tomorrow. Let’s see what Putin has to say.
Thank you to everyone who stands with Ukraine and stands for peace.
From a joint press conference with Jonas Gahr Støre and Alex Stubb.
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BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Fox News' Chief Political Analyst Brit Hume just UNLOADED on Donald Trump for turning his back on Ukraine and towards Vladimir Putin. This is a must watch.
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BREAKING: GET HIM! Reporter Andrew Feinberg publicly humiliates Trump after he SNAPPED at him in the Oval Office and claimed to not know who he is.
The dementia is undeniable now...
"I had told him exactly who I was not five minutes before this exchange," Feinberg, a journalist for The Independent, wrote on X in response to a viral clip of Trump attacking him earlier today.
"No, no, listen to you!" a dull-faced, visibly confused Trump says in the video, pointing at the reporter. "Hey! I'm not playing. You better— You better— I don't know who the hell you are but you better be careful."
The inexplicable outburst had all of the hallmarks of a dementia patient lashing out in befuddlement. People suffering from this kind of cognitive decline often forget names and faces and end up angry, scared, and mean. You don't even have to do anything upsetting to set them off. Their own uncontrollable emotions do that.
Tellingly, it wasn't the only bizarre moment during the Oval Office press conference today. Trump also went after Feinberg for asking a different harmless question and growled at him in a strange voice, calling him a "sick person."
This President is clearly in free fall and the continued silence of the Republican Party is a damning indictment of their entire movement. These cowards are so addicted to power that they are going to let this man run the country into the ground as his brain melts out of his ears.
Please ❤️ and share if you support invoking the 25th Amendment!
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Trump’s own appointees asked the government’s election security agency to secretly hack a voting machine and send the results to the White House. The career staff refused.
ProPublica broke this story. Early in this term, political appointees at Homeland Security went to CISA with a request. Buy a voting machine in secret. Break into it. Don’t tell the company that makes it what you find. Report back so it can go to the White House. That’s the opposite of how CISA works. When it finds a weakness, the whole point is to get it patched.
One former official said the plan looked like something they could keep in their back pocket to invalidate any election results they don’t like. The staff kept telling the appointees it couldn’t be done. Part of the reason? DOGE had already laid off the specialists who could pull it off.
This is the agency Trump created. In 2020 it called that election the most secure in American history, and Trump fired the director for saying so. Since then a third of its workforce is gone, states say they’ll never share information with it again, and its election security plan came out at thirteen pages after early voting had already started.
So the agency built to protect the vote has been gutted, and the people who gutted it asked what was left to hack a voting machine. I break it all down in today’s show (link in reply).
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The greatest intelligence failure in American history may not have been a foreign operation. It may have been America's inability to protect itself from its own president.
For years, the evidence of Trump's extraordinary loyalty to Moscow has been mounting. His admiration for Putin, his attacks on NATO, his possession of highly classified American defence secrets, and his repeated willingness to advance Russian interests.
Yet the most extraordinary part of this entire scandal is the American state itself. The FBI, the intelligence community, Congress and the entire national security apparatus have proved incapable of protecting the country from a president whose conduct has repeatedly raised profound questions about his loyalty.
Russia spent decades trying to defeat the United States from the outside. Now Putin can watch an American president dismantle the Western order from within.
And the institutions built to defend America have been unable to stop him.
What an extraordinary national humiliation.
Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order, turning America into a Russian ally, @RadioFreeTom argues: theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1…
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Wow, the US truly has the most incompetent president in history.
Just listening to how clueless this man is, it’s no wonder we have been humiliated in Iran.
Trump: “The Russians had a thousand tanks riding up a concrete highway. They would have been in Ukraine in four hours, going maximum tank speed, which is 48 miles an hour, to be exact. Nothing to stop them. The war would have been over in one day. And this very stupid general - I have no idea who he is. I doubt he’s still with us. I doubt he’s still living. He decided to hang a right onto the farmland and then take a left and go up to Kyiv, rather than staying on the highway - the concrete highway, perfectly good highway - where they were doing very nicely. It would have been three and a half, four hours, and the whole war would have ended. He ended up getting stuck in the mud.”
Does he understand that Ukrainian troops destroyed all the bridges and cut off the retreat points, so the only option left was to go off the highway? I mean, if you have the IQ of a 10-year-old child, you should be able to get it.
I am honestly shocked at the basic level of ignorance. And this is the man who is in charge of the US Army.






























