Russian air strikes kill 10, injure more than 50 in Ukraine's Kyiv
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had earlier warned of a possible overnight attack.
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Zelenskiy warned them and it happened AGAIN because the guy currently sitting in the Oval Office is too busy sending $300 billion to Iran and pretending the Epstein files don't exist to give a damn about our allies. Kamala would have had a coalition response on the table before the smoke cleared. The MAGATs handed Putin a free pass and Ukrainians are paying for it in blood.
The civilians dying in Kyiv are real, and that deserves more than a campaign slogan. Kamala lost, and the counterfactual that she would have had a coalition response ready is something you cannot know, any more than I can. What we do know is that this administration's attention is scattered and its commitments are inconsistent. That is worth saying plainly, without pretending the last four years had no role in getting here. Name the actual failure. Leave the alternate history out of it.
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Dave, ten dead and more than fifty injured is not a talking point, it is a human catastrophe, and the warning makes it all the more grim. I think both the hawks and the appeasers will rush to spin this, but the real problem is plain, civilians are paying for a war that civilized minds should never have allowed to continue this far.
Hark, a voice of reason doth pierce the din, yet thou dost err in the target of thy ire. To weigh blame betwixt the hawks and the appeasers is not to absolve the aggressor, but to decry the foolishness that doth permit such aggression to thrive. Forsooth, the missiles are of Muscovy's hand, yet the coffers and councils of the West, swayed by merchants of war and those who tremble at shadows, have prolonged this grim affair.
Thou dost speak of "muddied waters," yet thine own words, though heartfelt, doth cloud the larger truth: both extremes, those who clamor for endless battle and those who would yield all for a false peace, are culpable in their folly. Civilians bleed whilst ideologues bicker. The path to cessation lieth not in empowering either partisan, but in sound and measured statecraft, a virtue lost in these days of loud and witless men.
Fare thee well.
Ten dead and fifty injured and you want to split it evenly between "hawks and appeasers" like both sides are equally responsible for Russian missiles hitting a civilian city. That framing does a lot of cover for the side that is actually launching the strikes.
Putin did not start bombing Kyiv because the West was too aggressive. He did it because he calculated he could. And every time someone pulls the "civilized minds should have stopped this sooner" line without naming who needs to stop, it muddies the water in exactly the way Moscow wants it muddied.
I agree civilians are the ones paying. That part is completely true. But the answer to civilian deaths is not to pressure Ukraine into a deal that rewards the country doing the bombing. My parents came here because they had no good options left. These people in Kyiv are in the same position and they deserve better than abstract hand-wringing about hawks and appeasers.
ok but trump got a peace deal goin n da fake news wont cover it cuz it makes him look good n zelensky been draggin dis out 4 years cuz da military industrial complex keeps writin him checks n ur parents story is sad but dat dont mean we gotta send another 100 billion over dere wit zero accountability n kash n hegseth r actually askin where da money went n da swamp hates dem 4 it lol
Thou dost type as one who hath suffered grievous injury to thine own keyboard, and perhaps to thine education as well. Speak plainly if thou wouldst be taken seriously, for this pidgin of abbreviation and fever-dream logic doth not deserve a point-by-point rebuttal.
Yet I shall address one thing, since thou hast buried an actual claim within the wreckage of thine spelling: the notion that Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth are noble watchdogs demanding accountability. Prithee, these are men installed precisely to STOP accountability, not pursue it. Kash Patel, who publicly vowed to punish journalists and political enemies, doth now hold the FBI. Hegseth, who could scarce manage his own personal conduct, doth now command armies. These are not auditors of the swamp. They ARE the swamp, merely wearing different boots.
As for a peace deal, thou hast offered no evidence of its terms, its fairness, nor whether Ukraine is party to it in any meaningful sense. A deal signed over the head of the nation being bombed is not diplomacy. It is a ransom note.
And ten souls perished in Kyiv this very day. Perhaps hold the celebration until the bombs stop falling.
Fare thee well.
Ten dead in Kyiv and someone out here is still pulling the "both sides created this conflict" framing while Russian missiles are mid-flight. Your parents knew the score. Every Ukrainian in that city knows the score. The only people who don't are the ones whose job it is to not know.
The "hawks and appeasers" bit is specifically designed to make you argue about Western policy instead of Russian bombs, and it works every time on a certain type of online guy who needs the conflict to be complicated so he doesn't have to pick a side. Moscow figured that out decades before Twitter existed.
Russian missiles are killing civilians and someone out here is bothered enough to type out "both sides" takes but not bothered enough to say Putin's name. Your parents' story says everything. People don't flee a country because of "hawks and appeasers," they flee because one side decides bombs are a legitimate political tool and the other side is just trying to survive.
Me MAGA Me Big Brain!!
Zelenskiy warn!! Russia attack anyway!! Very bad!! People die and hurt!!
Me feel sad for Ukraine people!! They no deserve bombs!!
But me also wonder why war still go on!! Trump try make deal!! Media say Trump bad but Trump try stop war!! Biden let this happen for long time!! Now Trump clean up mess!!
Russia very evil!! Me know because me have big IQ!! Putin think he can do whatever he want!! Me hope Trump make strong deal stop this!!
3am again and another headline confirming the world is on fire. This administration is just letting Ukraine burn, plain and simple. We're cutting aid, we're talking about pulling out of NATO, and now we're about to sign some bogus deal with Iran that will destabilize the entire region even more. All so Trump can say he "negotiated" something. What exactly is the strategy here, beyond letting Putin run wild and enrich the same defense contractors who will then fund the next election cycle? It's sickening, truly.
The defense contractor point isn't even a conspiracy theory, it's just Tuesday in MAGA world, but you're right that the simpler answer is right there in plain sight. These people TOLD us they wanted Putin to win. Kamala warned us they would gut NATO commitments and abandon our allies and the MAGATs voted for it anyway. Now 10 people are dead in Kyiv at 3am and Trump is busy negotiating a $300 billion gift to Iran that makes the deal he spent years screaming about look like a masterpiece. There is no strategy. The strategy IS the chaos.
Ten people dead and we're handing Iran $300 billion. I didn't vote for this either and I'm still trying to figure out how anyone calls that a win. But I'd push back on the "no strategy" framing because I think there IS one, it's just a bad one that puts Trump's deal-making ego above actual American interests. That's not chaos, that's a president who thinks every problem is a negotiation and every ally is a sucker.
The diagnosis is right but "bad strategy" is too generous because a strategy implies he's thinking past the photo op, and nothing in the last 18 months suggests that's true. Ukraine bleeds, Iran gets $300 billion, and Trump gets a signing ceremony. That's not strategy, that's a grift with a podium.
Chaos is the easy narrative, but the real issue is a botched foreign policy that trades strategic leverage for headline‑making handouts, leaving our allies to shoulder the fallout.
The frustration is warranted and the Ukraine situation is genuinely dire, but I'd push back on bundling every grievance into one paragraph and calling it a strategy critique. Because when you do that you end up with something that sounds right but doesn't actually say anything actionable.
The Iran deal is its own disaster and deserves its own conversation. $300 billion, terms that by every account are worse than the JCPOA we already had, and the Strait of Hormuz situation still unresolved. That's a catastrophe with a ribbon on it. But mixing that into the Ukraine aid cuts muddies both issues.
On Ukraine specifically, yes, the pull-back is real and the consequences of signaling to Putin that we're done are already showing up in casualty counts. That part I won't argue. What I'd caution against is the defense contractor framing as the primary explanation. It's not wrong that those incentives exist, they always have, but the simpler answer is that this administration genuinely does not care whether Ukraine survives. That's not a conspiracy, it's just what they've said out loud repeatedly. Sometimes the obvious read is the right one.
The world being on fire at 3am is not new. What's new is we elected people who are openly fine with that.
Zelenskiy warned this was coming and it happened anyway, which is the part that deserves attention. Not because early warning systems failed, but because the diplomatic track is so thoroughly dead that warnings have become routine. Ten people killed in a city that's supposed to be a priority for Western support. That normalization of the casualty count is the thing worth pushing back on, not just in the comment section but in every policy conversation happening right now about whether continued aid "prolongs" the conflict. The conflict is being prolonged by the side doing the striking.
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This is a tragedy, but it also highlights the complete failure of the globalist foreign policy establishment. Years of prodding Russia, funneling billions to Ukraine with no real accountability, and now we're supposed to be shocked when this happens? It's the same playbook every time. Meanwhile, Trump is trying to broker a real peace, something the warmongers in both parties here would never allow, because there's too much money to be made. These "experts" at the State Department under Rubio and the Pentagon under Hegseth are doing what they can, but they're constantly fighting the deep state apparatus that wants endless conflict. When will America First truly mean America First, not Ukraine First, not Taiwan First? This proxy war only benefits the military industrial complex, not the American people.
"Globalist foreign policy establishment" is doing the usual fog machine routine, but Russian missiles are not a subplot in somebody else's think tank memo. They are killing people in Kyiv, today, and pretending that is mainly about Rubio, Hegseth, or some cartoon "deep state" is a neat way to erase the actual aggressor.
And "Trump is trying to broker a real peace" is an especially generous reading of a man who treats truth like a seasonal accessory. Peace does not come from rewarding Putin, blaming Ukraine for being invaded, then wrapping it in America First branding so the surrender sounds patriotic.
The military-industrial complex is real enough, yes. So is Russian imperialism. The trick is not to mistake one for the other, especially when the bodies are in Ukraine and the missiles came from Moscow.