Partner at DGA Group, Adjunct Senior Fellow at Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Former Human Rights Watch (HRW). Opinions my own.
Joined August 2016
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Me siento muy honrado de haber recibido la Orden de Isabel la Católica de España por mi defensa de los derechos humanos y el Estado de derecho.
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😳 Trump snaps at another reporter: "Hey! I don't know who the hell you are but you better be careful"
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Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcpBv
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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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“Wait! WAIT! You better be careful… Quiet! QUIET! What’s wrong with you? Are you a sick person?”
The short-tempered thin-skinned dictator wannabe with cratering approval numbers repeatedly loses his shit at reporters. (H/T @atrupar)
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YIKES -- Trump loses his shit at a reporter for the third time during this Q&A -- "Wait wait -- Quiet. Quiet!!!! What's wrong with you? Are you a SICK person?"
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These are defensive weapons that Europeans have paid for
🚨 NEW: U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has yet to approve the transfer of a "significant" batch of Patriot interceptors for Ukraine, sources say.
"It's hard to call this a 'monthly supply,' because there's no set amount of how much you need for a month," a senior Ukrainian official says. "But it's significant."
Some in Kyiv suspect Washington is holding the missiles back on purpose to pressure Ukraine, as Russia keeps striking Ukrainian cities.
With @JimmySecUK
kyivindependent.com/its-sign…
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Things go from bad to worse. Trump 🇺🇸 seems to regret that 🇷🇺 didn’t conquer 🇺🇦 immediately, and blame the failure on some incompetent 🇷🇺 general. Who feeds him this strange stuff? Or does he just invent it because he wishes it was so?
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1938 Rubio: "What's so unusual about Prime Minister Chamberlain and Herr Hitler, the leaders of two of Europe's most powerful countries, communicating with one another about the fate of a smaller country? People need to grow up!"
Rubio on a potential Trump-Putin-Xi meeting: "People need to grow up when it comes to foreign policy a little bit, okay? I don't think it's unusual for the three most powerful nuclear-armed nations on Earth, for their leaders to communicate with one another...That should be something the world is enthused by."
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Trump was asked by Journalist Johnathan Karl that since he allegedly restored free speech in America whether that included people who are highly critical of him,his political opponents & for people who say things he doesn’t like including what he was asked at that exact moment.
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Enten: "Trump's net approval rating -- its all time low! -35 points, the worst he has ever been in the Reuters/Ipsos poll. Among independents he's 54 points underwater. NBC -- worst ever. ABC -- worst ever. Ipsos -- worst ever. Pew -- worst ever."
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This is appalling and infuriating. Withholding Patriots = killing Ukrainian civilians.
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This statement from the President of the United States of America, a position once also associated with the leader of the free world, is deeply disturbing.
No one wants to end this war more than Zelenskyy.
Putin does not.
And why should he when Trump is trying to help him win?
So disappointing. So embarrassing.
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Is JD Vance seriously suggesting that immigrants have brought a culture of revolution and protest TO FRANCE? @jonstewart
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump's approval falls to record low of 31% as midterms near, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds reut.rs/4yTNqGM reut.rs/4yTNqGM
ALT EXCLUSIVE: Trump's approval falls to record low of 31% as midterms near, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds
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"Mearsheimer merits attention because he lends academic respectability to those blaming the west for Russia’s bloody war of conquest. At a moment when the US has swung behind Russia's attempt to snuff out Ukraine, such cover is invaluable." ft.com/content/f2261796-20d1…
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We have the tools to fight back against Trump's outrageous sanctions against the International Criminal Court. We just need to use them. That begins with the European Union invoking its "blocking statute" to negate the sanctions on the ICC's home turf. trib.al/cMO67x3
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Will Republicans in Congress be willing to stand up AFTER the midterms to @POTUS's flagrant and impardonable betrayal of Ukraine on Putin's behalf?
And get to the bottom of the business deals Witkoff and Kushner are negotiating w/him?
nytimes.com/2026/10/19/us/po… via @NYTimes
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What is scandalous is that the Secretary of State still cannot explain what happened to the throttling of Starlink for Ukraine. By now, shouldn't he be able to explain precisely what happened if it was an innocent technical issue? This vague answer does not instill confidence.
🇺🇸🇺🇦 Marco Rubio:
I saw somebody associated with the Ukrainian government say that people in Ukraine are dying because the U.S. is denying them information.
That's scandalous. That's outrageous. That's simply not true. That's not accurate.
Trump is responding to the insinuation that somehow he is doing things to deliberately harm Ukraine, which is not fair and not true.
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COMMENTARY: Trump is Selling Out Ukraine to Putin
The president is turning the U.S. into an enemy of Ukraine and an ally of Russia. Will the American people let him do it?
rollingstone.com/politics/po…
