Electrical engineer, also #TeamPatriot
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JB Petten retweeted
Thanks to his Supreme Court appointees, Trump breaks the law freely, but companies and private individuals should think twice before following his orders to do so themselves.
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Corrupt autocracies prefer to do business with other corrupt autocracies because the profits are personal on both sides, not for the state or the country. No oversight, no investigations.
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Much of it will end with the exit of Trump and his gang, but the degradation of a society that is supposed to care about such things, and the failure of the laws and norms that are supposed to uphold them will linger. And it will get worse unless there's accountability.
"Donald Trump and his family are executing corruption at a scale never previously contemplated in the American experiment. If we are to ever graduate from this era of brazen graft, the first step is to notice." A service, from @MattWelch. reason.com/2026/07/09/the-mo…
JB Petten retweeted
Why is Trump making so many concessions to Russia now?
I think it's three things.
#HighStakes
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Who is running America’s defense policy?
JB Petten retweeted
🎯 Russia is a failed nation, a terror state, a mafia pretending to be a country, a people infected with an imperial virus, a gas station with nukes that barely has any gas left, a Chinese vassal that needs perpetual war to stay intact. It should be quarantined, not elevated.
This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China.
wsj.com/world/russia/putin-f…
JB Petten retweeted
Ten years ago today.
In just the last few days: Trump made a deal for the U.S. to buy Russian diesel, an economic lifeline for Putin; he and Elon Musk blamed each other for an order that slowed down Starlink satellite connectivity over Ukraine, hampering the country's defenses during a devastating Russian attack; and Trump waived sanctions on Russia that Congress, led by his late friend Lindsey Graham, had pushed for.
Now, Putin has proposed a summit with Trump and Xi to decide Ukraine’s fate for them, bulldoze a century of international cooperation, and frame Russia as an equal to the U.S. and China.
We’ll see if Putin’s puppet continues to dance on his strings.
JB Petten retweeted
One reason Putin was bold enough to invade Ukraine, then launch an all-out war, was that Europe was too dependent on Russian energy to fight back. Now that Europe is weaning itself off that catastrophic situation, the White House says they should buy Russian gas, for peace? 🤡
Идеи, которые возникают в Вашингтоне в последние недели, одна другой краше. После того как Дональд Трамп подписал указ, приостанавливающий действие ряда ограничений, предусмотренных «законом Грэма», стало известно о еще одной «прорывной» инициативе, которая якобы должна приблизить мир в Европе.
Одним из ключевых элементов «мирного плана» администрации Трампа стало предложение Европе возобновить закупки российского газа в больших объемах. Эмиссары Трампа поднимали эту тему в беседах с украинскими и европейскими чиновниками, в том числе с Владимиром Зеленским.
Американцы утверждали, что ради «стимулирования России к прекращению войны» Украине следует рассмотреть возможность возобновления работы газопроводов, проходящих по ее территории. Впрочем, как пишет NYT, европейцы отреагировали на эту идею резко отрицательно, хотя бы потому, что ее реализация свела бы на нет многолетние усилия Евросоюза по избавлению от зависимости от российского газа.
Но в администрации Трампа рассматривают экспорт российского газа как потенциальную составляющую мирного соглашения. При этом американцы учитывают возможные доходы Украины от транзита, а также то, что европейские избиратели, по их мнению, неизбежно захотят более дешевых энергоносителей.
Эти так называемые «компромиссные идеи» — уже даже не предложения о частичной капитуляции Украины. Это фактически предложение сдаться Путину всем континентом, вернув ему в руки любимый рычаг — возможность коррумпировать целые страны или развязывать «газовые войны» в случае неподчинения
JB Petten retweeted
Step by step, day by day, Americans experience the big social media platforms becoming Orwellian political censors. The US needs a federal government that will tax them and break them up; the democratic world needs to learn the lesson and protect itself.
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Trump's economic approval rating has fallen to 28%.
At this point in the 2018 midterms, Trump's economic approval was 49%.
About 3 in 4 Americans currently disapprove of Trump's handling of inflation and the cost of living.
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In the last week, two things have happened simultaneously in the Russia-Ukraine war: Trump, hoping to blame Iran raising gas prices on Ukraine, has turned on them, and Ukraine have done the most damage to Russia (from any cause) since World War II.
Glory to Ukraine.
JB Petten retweeted
It's all been bullshit. All of it. Diesel, energy deals, peace negotiations, everything between Trump Co. and Putin's mafia is a charade. All they're doing is laundering money and trying to lift sanctions. It's all they care about and all they know how to do.
The Trump/Putin deal gets worse. According to reports, the US was also offering $100 billion of frozen assets (that are in the custody of the EU) in exchange for a limited ceasefire. kyivpost.com/post/86720
JB Petten retweeted
The whole world needs to ban ALL flights to and from Russia
🚨☣️BREAKING: Plague outbreak expands, Russia BSL-3 lab accident - FIVE hospitals now quarantined🚨☣️
The plague outbreak in Siberia, Russia has expanded w/5 hospitals now under QUARANTINE: Irkutsk Hospitals No. 1, No.3, No.10, Ivano-Matreninskaya Children's Hospital, and an unnamed maternity hospital (Lyudi Baikala news, Moscow Times).
Quarantine is NOT voluntary. Even in the U.S., quarantine is among the most extraordinary measures gov't can impose on American citizens who haven't been convicted, or even accused, of committing a crime. Quarantine means being forcibly confined and medically examined by law. U.S. quarantine can be imposed on anyone infected by a legally quarantinable disease listed below (this can change). One should assume Russia's quarantine protocols are even more severe. As of 2026, under Executive Order 14047, legally quarantinable diseases in the U.S. are:
■ Plague
■ Smallpox
■ Viral hemorrhagic fevers
■ Cholera
■ Diphtheria
■ Yellow fever
■ Infectious tuberculosis
■ Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
■ Flu that can cause a pandemic
■ Measles
Photo: Russia’s RKhBZ defense troops perform nuclear, biological, and chemical defense training (w/permission from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation) — from BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO by Annie Jacobsen (Dutton, 2026).
ALT Russia’s RKhBZ defense troops perform nuclear, biological, and chemical defense training. (Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation), from BIOLOGICAL WAR: A SCENARIO by Annie Jacobsen (Dutton, 2026)
JB Petten retweeted
DHS reportedly collected data about anti-ICE protestors in Maine, uploading their photos and license plate numbers into a database.
That database was built by Palantir — which may be the most dangerous corporation in America. Watch.
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The last few days have answered this question yet again: because it might interfere with lucrative Russia deals for the Trump family.
The US has designated 3 countries as state sponsors of terrorism: Cuba, Iran, and North Korea.
How in the world can Russia not be on this list?
state.gov/state-sponsors-of-…
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As I’ve been writing about Putin for over 20 years, and as I warned Americans about Trump 10 years ago, when you realize that all their decisions are based on making money and clinging to the power needed to make more money, their actions start to make complete sense.
The Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the main U.S. negotiators. nytimes.com/2026/10/03/us/po…
