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April 16, 2020 | 8,875 Comments »

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  1. Mikkele-

    “All here are mad except thou and I” and I’m not sure about thee….!!

    You forget that most here on this site have forgotten more than you ever knew nor could know with your stultified comprehension-good only for cribbing from the Internet.

  2. @Adam

    They are said to be digging a line of trenches along their front lines, suggesting that they are planning or at least hoping to remain a long time.

    One thing to note, an advancing army does not need significant earthworks.

    Also, the extension of the lines of communications into Russia presents Ukraine with a liability to maintain that force, and it requires increase in men and munitions with this new front which has no strategic value to preserve Ukraine’s 1991 borders, which are still crumbling as recently as yesterday. Importantly, in an article referencing the Kursk invasion, the spokesman for the Ukrainian 110th Mech Brigade told Politico that

    We have been getting even less ammo than before and Russians are pushing

    So will we see if this 400-1200 sq mile toehold in Russia come to completely undermine Ukraine’s hold on what used to be Ukraine? As Russia is now increasing its already advancing gains towards the capture of Pokrovsk (a tongue twister to be certain) it would seem to be somewhat curious that Ukraine would so recklessly abandon or at minimum endanger its control over the Dombas. So while it has been falsely claimed that Russian troops are being drained from the Dombas, it seems clear that Ukrainian arms are instead being drained from that collapsing front to feed Ukraine’s Russian front. Notably, Pokrovsk, unlike Kursk, stands as a strategic objective, and one which Russia is likely to gain, sooner now because of the Kursk invasion if this report from Ukraine’s own forces are to be believed.

  3. People must understand that all news from Ukraine has been very strictly censored. I have seen videos of the Ukrainian attacks on civilians in Odessa and Donbass and they are Holocaust type of situations. One video, I have lost the URL, is a true eye opener. It is total open attack on civilians . I have to search for this so I can share it widely. These were things we got nowhere near knowing about.

  4. Not me I was quoting Michael perhaps forgot italics but your points are good

    History is not on their side but is on the side of Putin. He entered Ukraine in order to halt a real genocide of Russian speakers

  5. @Felix

    Peloni seem to have been confused by pro-Russian propaganda at the moment.

    Not likely.

    In fact, Ukraine has been retreating over the past year for three reasons:
    1. They lack force generation
    2. They lack munitions
    3. They lack morale

    While the issue of morale may see a temporary increase due to the Kursk invasion, the reasons for Ukraine’s low morale can not be addressed in Kursk, namely the ongoing losses in Dombass, the fact that the war in Dombass is lost, the new conscription law, and the new tax law.

    What is more, the gains in Kursk have resulted in at most the capture of a small portion of Kursk, while the vital possession of the mineral rich and sea access in Dombass has been nearly completely ceded to Russian forces. Also, the Russian reinforcements coming to Kursk are not coming from Dombas, which is why the ongoing gains in Dombas are still ongoing. The Kursk raid increased the line of scrimmage between Russia and Ukraine, but Ukraine has not increased the forces it can field to defend that line of scrimmage, while the same can not be stated for Russia. Some Russians are describing the Kursk invasion as a Russian trap laid for Ukraine, and while this is silly propaganda, the reality is that Ukraine did itself no great favor beyond feeding their addiction to headlines in attacking in Kursk.

    The longevity of the Kursk raid will be known with time, but I am not betting on the side whose lack of success over the past year has been due to having too few men and too few arms to prevent its ongoing retreat.

    One more thing to note, is that is it reasonable that the Ukrainians will have the psychological drive to hold onto Russian territory when they failed to be driven to do so with Ukrainian territory? Well, we shall see, but I feel safe in betting on the Russians to win in Dombas, to win in Kursk, and to win the war, not because of Russian propaganda, but because they have a force generation capacity as well as an arms production capacity which the Ukrainians simply can not match.

    By the way, if the war were to be decided based on imagination and fake news productions, well, Russia wouldn’t have a prayer, but fortunately for Russia, this war will be decided by numbers, numbers of men and munitions, and fake news can not change this reality.

  6. “I just found this 1936 book, The Yellow Spot, which documents in detail the beginnings of Nazi persecution of Jews in Germany, with lots of photos and facsimiles from Nazi media.

    The terror in reading this book is in the knowledge that the horrific facts recounted here in mind-numbing detail – the pogroms, the arrests, the anti-Jewish laws, the ordinary Germans enthusiastically joining the hate – were only the opening act to what was to come. All of the events in this book occurred from 1933-35, more than three years prior to Kristallnacht.

    The echoes to today’s modern antisemitism are striking. ”

    https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-yellow-spot-detailed.html

  7. Peloni,

    It’s as I expected — you have NO NAP to substantiate anything.

    BTW, if and when you DO produce a map, I do not want you to give me a map of Kiev from 1827. I want to see a map from the beginning of the failed Russian offensive of 2023/24, which includes both the Kursk region and the Donetsk basin.

    As you well know, you have no proof concerning what Adam has said: Ukrainian territorial gains in Kursk far outstrip Russian gains in Donetsk; and Ukraine is well on the way to doubling its gains. Again, SHOW ME THE MAP. I don’t want any more BS from you.

  8. @Michael

    …found “information” about massive Russian advances this past year.

    Russia has made massive advances over the past year. Recall that it was just six months ago that Russia took the vital stronghold of Avdiika which withstood assaults for a decade, a structure which should have been manned by upwards of 50,000 men or more, but fell while being defended by a fraction of that number – and that is just one of three pressing issues which has brought Ukraine to a steady retreat ever since while suffering massive casualties. Hence Adam is quite correct in stating

    Russia’s advances into Ukraine so far this year have been devastating to Ukrainians and have resulted in immense Ukrainian casualties

  9. Hi, Adam

    I don’t know where you, Ted, Peloni et al found “information” about massive Russian advances this past year. If you look at the actual map

    https://liveuamap.com/

    of the situation on the ground, and compare it with a similar map from a year ago, you will find that, despite an incredible loss of live (recently 1200 Russians killed or captured every day), the ground situation is essentially static — except, notably, for the fact that Ukrainian forces now control part of Russia.

    Pick any map you choose. Edgar, Peloni, Ted, etc. do not dare show ANY map; because no map in the world actually SHOW the bull crap they are talking. This is all I have to say to you illiterates:

    GO FIND A MAP, ANY MAP, THAT SHOWS, DURING THE PAST YEAR, RUSSIAN CAPTURING MORE TERRITORY THAN UKRAINE.

    Just produce the map. I won’t respond for more ignorant bullshit.

  10. Felix

    I never said this or anything remotely like it. Never even thought anything like it. You seem to have confused me with someone else. I have never “ecchoed the BBC.”

    I do think that Ukrainian troops have advanced into Russian territory in the Kursk region. But nearly everyone, including Ted and Peloni, have agreed that this has actually happened. But I haver said, or even thought, that “it far exceeds all the Russian advances into Ukraine so far this year.” Russia’s advances into Ukraine so far this year have been devastating to Ukrainians and have resulted in immense Ukrainian casualties, despite the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian soldiers, and their willingness sacrifice their lives for their country. Whether the Ukrainian counteroffensive in Kurak will result in serious damage to Russia is unknown at this point. It remains to be seen. I think it has undermined the prestige of the Russian military, and possibly the Russian government, in the eyes of the Russian people.

  11. Adam

    You do no more than echo the BBC
    Ted and Peloni seem to have been confused by pro-Russian propaganda at the moment. This Ukrainian advance is very, very real. It far exceeds all the Russian advances into Ukraine so far this year.”

    How can a Jew be an echo of the BBC?

    A real hard one.

  12. The Ukrainian lies are delivered to the world by a middle class operating layer of reporters. But more and more Ukrainian youth and workers have grown in their scepticism. This is ideological. They hate the lies.

  13. Hi, Peloni

    Before Feb. 2022, Ukraine and Russia had a good chance of resolving their differences.

    I didn’t say how long before Feb. 2022, nor how good a chance Russia and Ukraine had; so the quibbling is of questionable value. As long as Russian troops remain in Ukraine, there is ZERO chance of of reconciliation.

    Russia’s latest contribution to the “peace” effort has been increased:

    …Kyiv officials said there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage in the capital. However, Kyiv region governor Ruslan Kravchenko said two private houses were destroyed and 16 others were damaged by falling debris.
    Local residents look at a crater that appeared during a Russian missile strike outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug. 18, 2024.
    Local residents look at a crater that appeared during a Russian missile strike outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug. 18, 2024.

    “Russia always knows where it is hitting with its missiles and bombs, and this is deliberate and targeted Russian terror,” President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Telegram.

    He said Russia had launched more than 40 missiles, 750 guided aerial bombs and 200 attack drones this week against Ukrainian villages and cities….

    https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-launches-3rd-ballistic-missile-attack-on-kyiv-this-month/7747206.html

    Just think, Peloni: Putin’s answer to a limited Ukrainian incursion into Russia, has been massive bombing of Ukraine’s CAPITAL. It doesn’t take a genius, to realize that the “tit-for-tat” he is begging for, is a massive Ukrainian attack on Moscow.

    Now, won’t that be jolly peaceful!

  14. @Michael

    Before Feb. 2022, Ukraine and Russia had a good chance of resolving their differences.

    You fail to appreciate that the differences were between the US and Russia, and that Ukraine was merely America’s stooge in this game. Hence, there was no chance of resolving the differences, as was made plain by the revelation that the Minsk agreement was used by the West in bad faith to build up Ukraine’s military to use against Russia. The only thing to which the Russian invasion put an end was the pretense that there was any chance of the resolving the differences which existed without war.

    Russia was wiling to negotiate before and after their invasion, but the West had no intention of negotiating anything. They wanted regime change in Russia and believed they could achieve it, and in this they badly miscalculated.

    Regarding where things stand in Kursk, let us see what comes in the coming days and weeks. Fake News has been Ukraine’s greatest asset in this war, but Fake News can not hide reality forever. We will soon see which sources were blowing smoke and which were reporting news.

    We have a chance of seeing the situation saved, if Donald Trump is returned to the US presidency.

    Yes, well first he has to win the election, and right now the Dems are clearly acting as if they do not need the support of the electorate to win the election, which has me quite concerned. So on this too, we will have to wait and see how things go.

  15. Hi, Peloni. You said,

    Russia is already cutting the supply lines to the Ukrainians at Kursk

    ???

    Russian troops retreat across the Seym River, destroy bridges as Ukrainian Forces advance in Kursk region

    https://ukrainetoday.org/russian-troops-retreat-across-the-seym-river-destroy-bridges-as-ukrainian-forces-advance-in-kursk-region/

    Russia is currently trying to escape encirclement south of the Seym, where the Ukrainians have them in a pincer move from the E and W. In the Dnipro R. region, meanwhile, the Russians have been suffering tremendous losses, over 1000 killed and wounded every day, in return for very little gain.

    Before Feb. 2022, Ukraine and Russia had a good chance of resolving their differences. The Russian full-scale offensive put an end to that. We have a chance of seeing the situation saved, if Donald Trump is returned to the US presidency. I don’t expect to live much longer, either way. God’s will be done.

  16. @Michael

    You may not be old enough to remember…

    Don’t let the 1986 in my username fool you. I was very much old enough to remember that event, as well as the German reunification which took place less than a year later – something to which I was very much opposed, and over which I penned my first political essay, though I found no one to publish it.

    In any event, as I have said, we will see which of our perspectives prove more accurate, but I maintain that your conclusion that the Ukrainian raid will have any relevance similar to the fall of the Berlin Wall is ridiculous. As you said, this is my opinion.

    this Ukrainian advance has gained far more territory than all the Russian advances of the past year.

    You fail to grasp the reality that this war will not be won by seizing territory but by destroying enemy forces. The overextension of Ukrainian lines into Kursk will prove no more useful to their cause than was their ridiculous foothold at Krinky on the far side of the Dnipro River, which only served to provide the Russians with a ready Ukrainian slaughterhouse for over a year. As I noted below, Russia is already cutting the supply lines to the Ukrainians at Kursk, and expect their coming isolation will be soon followed by their elimination. But again, time will tell which of us is correct in our beliefs.

  17. Peloni, let’s stick to the facts.

    1. “the Ukrainian raid was as impactful as the fall of the Berlin Wall.”

    The comments have scrolled off-page; but I’m quite sure I said that the fact that this is the first invasion of a non-nuclear state into a nuclear state, EVER made this incursion as impactful as the fall of the Berlin wall. You may not be old enough to remember the latter, but I am. The event was treated as a matter of little importance; and indeed it was — except that it was just a signature moment of something much larger; and within very few years it would lead to the collapse not only of the Warsaw Pact, but of the Soviet Union as well.

    The successful invasion of nuclear-armed “super-power” Russia, by a country that was up until now considered a second-rank, non-nuclear power, has a similar significance as the fall of the Berlin Wall: both are events once thought impossible; but they are harbingers of what, in a few short years, will be a completely changed world. That is my opinion. Believe it or not, as you will.

    2. ” If the Ukrainian raid in Kursk could change the Russian advance into a Russian retreat, it will have had a significant impact on the war”

    I don’t believe I even commented on the impact of the Kursk invasion on the current war. Now that you mention it, though, it has been noted that this Ukrainian advance has gained far more territory than all the Russian advances of the past year.

    BTW the Ukrainians do not have to dig many trenches — the fleeing Russians left an intact, strong defensive system for them to use.

  18. @Michael

    Ted and Peloni seem to have been confused by pro-Russian propaganda at the moment.

    Ironic that you should state such a thing after having recently claimed that the Ukrainian raid was as impactful as the fall of the Berlin Wall.

    As I noted before, nothing which is being achieved by the raid into Ukraine is sustainable, and neither is it changing the trajectory of Ukraine’s movement along the line of contact, which has been consistently to retreat over the past year. If the Ukrainian raid in Kursk could change the Russian advance into a Russian retreat, it will have had a significant impact on the war, even as it would be less significant than the fall of the Berlin Wall. Contrary to your belief that this raid changes everything, Russia continues to gain ground and the Ukrainians raiders are being encircled.

    Hence, I would suggest your overselling the impact of the Ukrainian raid is due to your being confused by the Fake News in which you find value. Well, I leave you to your fantasies, and simply suggest we wait and see how long this Ukrainian gambit lasts before ultimately being extinguished due to Russian encirclement and a lack of Ukrainian resupply. As we will likely see come to be, the trenches now being dug by the Ukrainians will serve to be their graves – there will be no prisoners taken as they have been marked as terrorists and as such they are marked of execution, everyone of them.

  19. Hello, Ted. You said,

    I follow only the Russian accounts

    I believe you!

    Adam, you said,

    “Some pro-Ukraine podcasters claim that Russia is beginning to suffer shortages of petoleum products and many other supplies.”

    I have heard this too, but have not verified it. Considering what you said about potential peace talks between the two belligerents, I doubt that we will see any real movement unless Donald Trump regains the presidency.

  20. Ted and Peloni: Please save my post about possible peace negotiations btween Russia and Ukraine in this space. This post disappeared when I pushed the comment button. Regrettable in my opinion because I think that many Israpundit readers, might appreciate a summary of the current state of proposals for a negotiated peace between the two sides in this conflict, and what Western, mainly American and British commentators and the Ukrainian press are reporting about the peace proposals of both Russia and Ukraine.

  21. Some pro-Ukraine podcasters claim that Russia is beginning to suffer shortages of petoleum products and many other supplies. These podcasters claim that among other things, Russia has banned the export ofrefined petrolem products, such as gasoline or kerosine, because all of their allegedly dwindling supplies are needed at home, both the provide fuel for the Russian army in Ukraine and provide for the needs of Russian civilians. These podcasters and bloggers also claim that machinery is breaking down at many Russian factories and oil wells, and that the because the Western companies that assisted Russia in designing and buiolding these plants, and in providing replacements for worn out and proken machinery, are no longer willing to provides these services to Russiabeccause of the Western government’s sanctions. As a result, it is alleged, many Russian factories, power plants, and oil wells have already been forced to shut down, and many more will have to be shut down by December or January, making it impossible for Russia to continue the war. Putin’s calling for a negotiated end of the war and putting forward a peace plan are said to be mptivated by his belief that Russia will soon run out of the resources to continue the war. Ukraine suffers from all the same probablems, even more accutely than Russia. And so President Zelensky has also announced Ukraine;s desire for peace and proposed a Ukrainian peace plan. Obviously there is a considerable distance between the two peace proposals. But both sides have expressed a willingness to negotiate in an effort to narrow the gap. Most Western sources think that the negotiations are most likely to take place in Turkey, which has retained reasonably good relations with both sides throughout the war. In addition, Turkey has been the site of earlier efforts at negotiations between the two warring states, Switzerland has also been prooposed a a possible mediator between the two countries, since like Turkey it has maintained reasonably good relations with both Russia and Ukraine over the past two and a half years of war.

    But will there be peace? Ameerican patriot Patrick Henry,once declared in the Virginia House of t in the Virgina House of Burgesses, “All men cry peace, but their is no peace.” Is possible that the same situation may prevail in Russia and Ukraine a year from now? At least that what the pessimistic commentators think.

  22. HI, Adam

    The Ukrainians are said to be in control of perhapps 400 square kilometers on the Russian side of the Russian-Ukrainian border.

    That is an extremely conservative estimate. Ukraine now controls about 1000 sq, km (390 sq. mi.) of Russian territory, but is very likely to quickly capture a similar amount to the west of its current position. They have just destroyed one of only three bridges across the Seym River, completely cutting off that part of Kursk Oblast. The bridge in question has been completely destroyed.

    https://youtu.be/KFFGuNXja6Q

    I don’t know at the moment, how much trench-digging the Ukrainians are doing. They captured the entire Russian defense line, almost without a fight. It is a sturdy line, and should serve the Ukrainians well this winter.

    The following Polish report describes many successful strikes against Russian airfields deep in Russia, and other advances, as you note.

    https://youtu.be/DBEmPLmgM1I

    Ted and Peloni seem to have been confused by pro-Russian propaganda at the moment. This Ukrainian advance is very, very real. It far exceeds all the Russian advances into Ukraine so far this year.

  23. News reports from the other “parallel universe” with respectt o Ukraine. The Ukrainians are said to be in control of perhapps 400 square kilometers on the Russian side of the Russian-Ukrainian border. They are said to be digging a line of trenches along their front lines, suggesting that they are planning or at least hoping to remain a long time. Some pro-Ukraine sources also claim that Ukraine has succeeded in damaging several brides and roads that the Russian military uses to transport soldiers and supplies to Ukraine. But some Ukrainian news outlets suggest that this may not be true and that the roads and bridges have not been damaged sufficiently to prevent their use by the Russian forces. There seems to be general agreement, however, from pro-Ukraine sources that the Ukraine air arm has succeeded in severely damaging a Russian air base, I think in Crimea, destroying oil and weapns storage facitlities at the base and aslso destroying a few Russian aircraft stationed.

    The Ukrainians also claim that their drones have succeeded in causing explosions at at least two oil storage facilities over the past week. They are been sending drones to damge oil storage facilities for some time, even before their recent “”incusion into Russian territory.

  24. We haven’t heard from Reader in some time now. I hope he is doing well and will soon drop in to share his thoughts. He often presents views which are challenging to consider.

  25. UKRAINE HUMILIATES PUTIN!

    Latest from Ukrainian Invasion of Kursk, Russia:
    Frances Martel13 Aug 2024
    6:27

    The acting governor of Kursk, Russia – a border region Ukraine launched an invasion into last week – told Russian strongman Vladimir Putin on Monday he has evacuated 121,000 people from their homes and plans to move another 59,000 out of threatened areas as soon as possible.

    https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/08/13/report-russia-evacuating-180000-people-from-border-over-ukraine-invasion/

    “Ukraine, in one week, reportedly took in more ground than Russia gained in 2024”

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKHn903rzcI

  26. @Ted: Thanks for your response. Actually, I thought the articles at the top of the page, each in its own neat box was highlighting the classic articles you want everybody to see, but after reviewing that, I see that they also have a private title.

  27. @dreuvini
    Just as the Seminal posts and the JO posts are intended to highligh my classic articles so is the reappearance of three articles written by me which have been stuck at the top. Although you have read them , many, many people have not.

    So bear with us as we keep them prominently displayed.

  28. ADAM=

    I just recalled a quote from A D’Israeli Book I have, although not read for about 50 or more years. This was a book in which he detailed his actual political policies as far as I recall.

    He said that
    “a politician must have a right hand of steel and a heart of brass….”
    Royalty is exactly the same.

    Anyway all this happened nearly 200 years ago and any effects proved ephemeral.
    Jews were sill subject to strong Jew-hate in England right up to WW2-even after…And look at TODAY….. It never went anywhere, but stayed right there.

    You should read a few criminal or mystery books written before then where the “Jew” is ALWAYS referred to as”the Jew, not an Englishman or a swiss or Frenchman , but “the Jew”. always eveil , thinking only of “the expense,” rubbing his greasy hands , his greasy curly hair, his difficulty with the English language, his lisp, hooked nose flabby lips, unclean appearance and very rarely -if ever- in a heroic part, but the opposite, cowardly or villainous.

    Just yesterday re reading all my Tarzan books much loved from youth,Burroughs wrote in a character, which for utter, VILE anti-Semitism can’t be topped. He spends a whole trip after treasure worth 400,000L bemoaning the 2000L eggspense” of the trip and his 20 guinea safari suit.

    Sickening, which I hadn;t recalled on first reading.
    But of course then I’d bee brought to regard Jew Hate as normal, although I fought it like hell, principally in the Boxing Ring, very successfully T.G.

    But like Montifiore’s dinner, it’s now all long gone, as if it never existed.

  29. ADAM-
    Yes Adam and I agree. I knew several of very the most long winded Rabbonim ever born. Nonetheless they were wery interesting and informative to talk to personally.

    But back to facts you and I know (maybe not you??) that the Birkat Mamozon is quite short, about 5 mins+ with some beautiful music in it.

  30. Hi Ted, I see the same interesting articles each time I access the website. Could you mark new articles with NEW or something? Although the repeated article are interesting, the only reason to visit them again us if they contain new info.

  31. @Edgar. It is certainly possible that some of the other guests at Moses Montefiore’s dinner were sycophantic towards the royal family, because in this era nearly all Englishmen and women , not just Jews, were royal sycophants. Also, I agree with you for royals to be very patient when listening to long, dull speeches or ceremonies because that was one of their jobs, and still is, part of their jobs,

    However, I know from personal experience that there are some rabbis and rabinical students who drone on when reciting the after-dinner grace, too long for the comfort of non-Orthodox guests at Chabad house Sabbath dinners. After a sumptuous feast, some of the non-orthodox guests, including myself, would be desperate to get to the bathroom, and would feel that a five-minute grace was holding them back for too long. I even remember one occasion when the presiding rabbi noticed that some of us were squirming when the rabbinical student who was reciting the grace was going on too long for the comfort of some guests. So he gave hand signals to the grace-sayer to speed up the pace–which he did.

  32. @peloni. I agree with you that the Biden-Harris-Blinken-Obama administration makes use of the FBI to go after its political opponents. And it is therefore very likely that Ritter was targeted because of his pro-Russian views. However, this is still something of a milestone, since as far as I know this is the first time that the FBI has targeted someone for a home raid because of his opposition to the administrations’ support for Ukraine in the Russo-Ukrainian war. Past harassments had been directed at activists for other causes. Most often supporters of Donald Trump.

    Will be interesting to see if the many other internet bloggers and podcasters who are pro-Russian will be targeted as well, making Ritter a precedent setter. But hey probably won’t go after Tucker Carlson because he is too popular, and it will create too much of an uproard.

  33. @Adam

    He suggested that the FBI was trying to silence him because of his efforts to promote merican-Russian reconciliation and his opposition to U.S. military assistance to Ukraine.

    Of course, Ritter is correct. Setting up false flags such as the Whitmer kidnapping, harassing humiliating political opposition candidates such as with the Trump ‘cases’, and threatening legal and financial ruin on an unaccepting American public as with the Jan 6 show trials seems to be the limit of the use of the FBI of late.

  34. Scott Ritter’s house was raided by the FBI today in an investigation into possible violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act. I am giving Israpundit people because I know that articles by Ritter have occasionally been published on Israpundit.

    In a press conference after the raid, Mr. Ritter said that the raid and investigation was an attempt to deny him freedom of press. He suggested that the FBI was trying to silence him because of his efforts to promote merican-Russian reconciliation and his opposition to U.S. military assistance to Ukraine.

  35. Congress bans Hamas from entering USA
    A bill barring anyone who took part in the October 7th massacre or participating organizations passed by a vote of 422 to 2, with one abstention.

    – Arutz Sheva, today