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Next .. Trump's Nuclear Bravado

by Oui Sat Aug 2nd, 2025 at 08:51:43 AM EST

These are strategic M.A.D. weapons, stealth who in the hell knows where they are? Bravado for escalation of rhetoric with no real effect.

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Trump moves U.S. nuclear submarines in rare warning to Russia

A series of threats unprecedented even during the Cold War in times of coexistence with the U.S.S.R. ... Putin know your place ... just a regional power, don't wield a big stick or you will suffer BIG.

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US and NATO threaten to take Kaliningrad with AI-powered attack systems

World War III Will be Led by Palantir-Musk AI Warfare

Similar to the buildup to arm Ukraine since the Orange Revolution and in earnest post Maidan coup d'état of 24 Feb. 2014, the tag team Biden-Trump is arming Europe in the final battle with the Soviet Empire.


Sabotage Behind the Front Lines

Operation “Spiderweb”: Ukrainian/NATO Attack on Russia: A new Pearl Harbor? Complete Escalation? Are the Lunatics back?

The Ukrainian attack on Russia is not what Western media claims. It is a PR campaign, planned by Western powers, executed by its proxy. We’ve done the research and we’re presenting the facts and possible consequences.

Three Psychos – Senators Graham and Blumenthal with (President) Zelensky in Kiev

Red Lines Crossed

The US and others played a significant role in the Ukrainian attack, a fact that the Western media has failed to mention.

Russia’s strategic bombers, such as Tu-95 and Tu-160, have been stationed in open areas as required by the START-3 treaty (Treaty on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms) between the United States and the Russian Federation. This treaty, signed in 2010, obliged the parties to ensure transparency regarding nuclear weapons, including the possibility of satellite monitoring and inspections.

As of June 2025, the New START Treaty is still legally binding for the United States, even though Russia has in 2023 suspended (not ended!) its participation. The treaty itself remains in force until February 4, 2026, following its 5-year extension in 2021. The US has not withdrawn from the treaty or suspended its obligations. Therefore, the U.S. remains bound by the treaty’s limits and continues to report its compliance (although verification mechanisms have broken down since Russia’s suspension).

Attempts to undermine Russia’s nuclear capability are not limited to the current attacks on strategic bombers. Other incidents aimed at weakening the nuclear deterrence have been recorded earlier: attacks on the early warning system in 2023-2024, Ukrainian forces attempted to strike missile early warning system radar stations (e.g. Voronezh-DM radar at Armavir and the Voronezh-M radar near Orsk) These radars are integral components of Russia’s strategic nuclear deterrent, designed to detect incoming ballistic missile threats.

3 Years earlier under Joe Biden ...

Moscow Reels, Lashes Out At Lithuania Over Kaliningrad Cutoff | RFERL - 20 June 2022 |

Russia has demanded that Vilnius immediately reverse new restrictions on shipments of Russian goods that are subject to EU sanctions through Lithuanian territory to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.

The Kremlin called the Lithuanian move "unprecedented" and "illegal," while the Russian Foreign Ministry said the restriction was "openly hostile" and suggested Moscow would "take actions to protect its national interests."

Kaliningrad is wedged between Lithuania and Poland, where the Pregolya River feeds into the Baltic Sea. It has about half a million inhabitants.
Lithuanian officials imposed the restrictions beginning on June 20 in an effort to shore up punitive measures that followed Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine on February 24.

"The decision is indeed unprecedented. It violates every possible rule," said Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov.

"We understand that it stems from the European Union's decision to expand sanctions to the transit of goods. We believe that it is illegal, too."

Western governments warned Moscow of fierce sanctions and other backlash if Russian troops amassed for months near the Ukrainian border invaded their smaller neighbor to the west.

Lithuanian officials have suggested Russia can ship goods by sea to Kaliningrad, Russia's only ice-free port year-round.

The Baltic states and other former Soviet republics have expressed concerns for years amid signs of an expansionist or revanchist Moscow under former KGB officer Putin and his blend of Russian nationalism and Soviet nostalgia.

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Russia Ukraine War: Trump Slams Medvedev After Putin Ally Mocks Ukraine War Deadline | WION News |

Nuclear arms race Trump escalates with stealth subs threat on Moscow - BBC Newshour today.

Trump Escalates Nuclear Brinksmanship With Russia Over Social Media Spat | TIME |

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'KGB Have You By The Balls!' Trump vs Putin | War + Tariffs With Jeffrey Sachs | Piers Morgan

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Sun Aug 3rd, 2025 at 03:50:47 PM EST
'He has trouble completing a thought': bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump's mental acuity | The Guardian Opinion |

Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump's increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored

For more than a year Trump, 79, has exhibited odd behavior at campaign events, in interviews, in his spontaneous remarks and at press conferences. The president repeatedly drifts off topic, including during a cabinet meeting this month when he spent 15 minutes talking about decorating, and appears to misremember simple facts about his government and his life.

Over the weekend Trump, during a meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, abruptly switched from discussing immigration to saying this: "The other thing I say to Europe: we've - we will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They're killing us. They're killing the beauty of our scenery."

Trump proceeded to speak, non-stop and unprompted, for two minutes about windmills, claiming without evidence that they drive whales "loco" and that wind energy "kills the birds" (the proportion of birds killed by turbines is tiny compared with the amount killed by domestic cats and from flying into power lines).

The abrupt changes in conversation are an example of Trump "digressing without thinking - he'll just switch topics without self-regulation, without having a coherent narrative", said Harry Segal, a senior lecturer in the psychology department at Cornell University and in the psychiatry department at Weill Cornell Medicine.

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A high-profile example came in mid-July, when Trump claimed his uncle, the late professor John Trump, had taught Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, at MIT.

Trump recalled: "I said: 'What kind of a student was he, Uncle John? Dr John Trump.' I said: `What kind of a student?' And then he said: 'Seriously, good.' He said: 'He'd correct - he'd go around correcting everybody.' But it didn't work out too well for him."

The problem is: that cannot possibly be true. First, Trump's uncle died in 1985, and Kaczynski was only publicly identified as the Unabomber in 1996. Second, Kaczynski did not study at MIT.

"The story makes no sense whatsoever, but it's told in a very warm, reflective way, as if he's remembering it," Segal said. "This level of thinking really has been deteriorating."

Confabulation

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Sun Aug 3rd, 2025 at 08:48:53 PM EST
Disturbing: Trump's History Of Nuclear Nuttiness

DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics

    We never thought we'd say this, but we actually agree with Washington fossil John Bolton:

    "It seems that Trump doesn't really understand how our nuclear navy works...

    ...The nuclear submarines aren't just sitting in port -- they're already in position to retaliate against a Russian nuclear strike."

What's really disturbing about this Trumpian behavior is that it takes place at a time of increasingly bellicose Western rhetoric accompanied by escalated provocations aimed at Russia, including an attack on Russia's strategic bombers. It also reflects a fairly consistent pattern of nutty words and, worse, ill considered and even underhanded actions by Trump in the area of nuclear arms. Consider past actions by Trump during Trump 1.0.

Trump's mental decline is undeniable -- so what now? | The Hill |

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide

by Oui on Mon Aug 4th, 2025 at 05:18:11 AM EST
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    Larry Johnson : Ukraine On Its Last Leg.



Amnesia and Gaza Genocide
by Oui on Mon Aug 4th, 2025 at 08:24:49 PM EST


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