🚨 BREAKING: Billionaire Sir Richard Branson launches a SCATHING attack on Trump and his disturbing relationship with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. This is EXACTLY the kind of criticism that gets under Trump's skin. “I never thought I would have to say this in my lifetime, but this is 2026, and sadly, nothing is as it used to be,” Branson, the founder of Virgin Group, wrote on LinkedIn. “The Trump administration has become an enabler of autocrats and dictators, putting their personal whims above the interests of the American people and the free world. What is it about Putin that makes President Trump humiliate himself before him?” “How can America's allies ever trust this administration again when it is now turning against them in a time of war and suffering?” he asked. Trump has repeatedly betrayed our Ukrainian allies in recent days. First, he announced a shocking deal with Putin to allow millions of barrels of Russian diesel onto global markets — a move that would directly funnel money into Russia's war effort. Then he launched a coordinated smear campaign against President Zelenskyy, claiming that Putin was “easier to deal with.” The betrayals escalated when Washington reportedly failed to provide Kyiv with its usual early warning of an imminent Russian ballistic missile attack. Now it appears that the White House ordered a temporary suspension of Starshield, the military version of Elon Musk's Starlink, on which Ukrainian forces depend. “The restrictions on Starlink/Starshield and the inexplicable failure to provide warnings of Russian missile launches have already resulted in needless deaths of Ukrainian civilians,” Branson wrote. “How much worse can this get?” “If one thing is clear, it is that European leaders must overcome their initial shock at Trump's recent actions and step up. This is about Europe's freedom as much as Ukraine's sovereignty. Both are worth fighting for,” he continued. “Every option must now be on the table — from transferring frozen Russian assets to Ukraine to supplying advanced weapons systems such as Germany's Taurus missiles.” “Why, oh why, is this happening? We cannot allow the free world to be dismantled before our eyes,” Branson concluded. We couldn't agree more. Trump is an enemy of Ukraine, an enemy of democracy, and an enemy of the American people. When Democrats return to power, we will have an enormous task ahead of us. Every trace of this dreadful man's legacy must be erased.

“We have seen Ukrainian strikes on ships in the Black Sea. American companies called us and said, ‘Hey, our oil was on that ship!’” Mr. Rubio, with all due disrespect, perhaps American companies simply shouldn't be buying Russian oil in the first place? And don't McDonald's and Coca-Cola call from Ukraine to complain about Russian strikes?

Trump has revised the map of Ukraine and generously given the country a few oceans. He actually said it out loud: “Most of Ukraine has been lost, its oceans and seas are gone.” Of course, this is hardly surprising coming from someone who confuses Albania with Armenia. But the president of the United States genuinely seems to believe that Ukraine has lost everything, rather than understanding that only part of its territory is under Russian occupation. And if, in Trump's mind, everything is already lost, that mind can produce only one conclusion: Kyiv must surrender. What it cannot understand is why Kyiv refuses to do so. Following the same logic, that mind concludes that the global fuel crisis is not Trump's own fault, even though his actions led Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz, but Ukraine's fault for bombing Russian oil refineries. Meanwhile, according to Trump, Russian oil supplies represent “millions of barrels at low prices around the world.” In reality, oil imports from Russia, especially into the United States, are an insignificant fraction that changes practically nothing. But they symbolize Russia's return to the global market, another favor to his “friend Vladimir,” and an attack on the European Union. And if Trump continues playing his game of deliberately losing to Russia, we may soon discover that Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia had very good reasons to sound their sirens throughout the weekend. They could genuinely find themselves under attack. Latvia would be the first to suffer. It has a large Russian-speaking population, an even larger number of people waiting for Russia to arrive, a six-lane highway running from Pskov through Riga toward the sea, and more than 270 kilometers of border with Russia that are far from adequately defended. Meanwhile, Trump deliberately looks away as Russia is already destabilizing EU countries, from the Baltic states all the way to Paris. In France, this takes the form of mass protests supposedly organized by students. In Poland, it takes the form of terrorist attacks in schools, disrupting normal life throughout the country. There is a theory that this turbulence will continue until the American midterm elections on November 3. But that idea is far too optimistic. Instability will not simply disappear after the elections. Russian ambitions have been inflamed far too much by Trump's daily statements. In the photo: Trump on the shores of the Great All-Ukrainian Ocean.