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- Cyberattack on X, Musk claims that the IP addresses were from Ukraine. -Trump asked about the escalated Russian attacks (Missiles and in Kursk region starting March 7th) after news that he halted military aid and ISR to Ukraine by the Washington Post; he deflected an answer Ukrainian invasion force almost thrown out of Kursk. Russian internet/state media reporting on how they ambushed the Ukrainians from the rear by moving 800 troops through oil pipelines.

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our Sec Defense was a SS Officer, Comrade Commissar/Red Guard in a previous life..

The Trump team also voted on the side of Iran, Russia, China, North Korea at least twice before. The gradual withdrawal of the US from maintaining hegemony over the world is happening, least for the next 4 yrs as the authoritarian states are now becoming more powerful. As the US withdraws, its dominant influence over the markets of occupied countries in Europe and Asia will start to dissolve. Government, culture, and foreign markets where US multi-national corporations and high finance operate. As America weakens, this means that over time, the host nations of Europe and Asia will eventually be able to have more control of the direction of their own governments, their own culture, and then their own history. The psychological colonization of Americanism will start to dissolve as well and people are more free to move in their own paths. When the US established hegemony after WW2 they were the world's biggest factory, greatest navy by far, and had 40% of the nominal GDP. Now the situation is reversed (losing the navy to China, finances horrifying, and Nominal GDP shrunk in half of the original with out of control cost of living, de-industrialized with relatively weak exports (literally the US dollar is the most important export..)) and America's position, in terms of finance, real economy and military is extremely fractured. Perhaps one day there will be de-dollarization as the global reserve currency which is the goal of BRICS. This would crater the US standard of living and ability to run massive deficits.

tanya M has vanished for about 3-4 years

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The Russian army is currently approx. 640,000 men in Ukraine sub-divided into 3 sections: Frontline, Reserves, and Rear-area training and rebuilding. It is really not a big army to occupy a 1,300 kilometer frontline. Europe has vast manpower superiority over Russia and could easily supply all the infantry Ukraine would need if there were, say, over 1 million men willing to fight for Ukraine. But they are 3 years too late and it looks like Europeans do not have the stomach to fight in any type of war. Putin has accomplished perhaps 80% of his minimalist territorial goals (annexed in 2022) and managed to do this without rebuilding the Soviet Army, without mobilizing more reservists and causing a threat to his dictatorship. It seems that once he appointed an economist and his staff as defense minister they went for a strategy of recruiting contract troops with very generous benefits (like the US, if not relatively more) that would propel people willing to risk their lives into the Russian middle class. It seems that the war in a current negotiated settlement would end up with Ukraine being reduced into a base-ball shaped sized country with the south/east in Russia hands. And it is more likely than not that a restart of hostilities will happen some time down the line. And it would require the 'de-militarization' of Ukraine which is a non-starter for NATO. That is also a minimalist goal for Putin and he can't walk away from this war without disarming the Ukrainian ground force. And Ukraine's high demands in exchange for their massive sacrifices make negotiation very difficult. There is a possibility that Trump will fail and the Russians would just continue grinding the frontlines with artillery & drone warfare everyday for years if need be until Ukraine surrenders to their minimalist goals.

I disagree with a couple of your opinions. You seem to agree with some 'mainstream western media' views that are promoted by state governments (US/Europe) and the Democratic party. 1. The US military industrial complex is not militarily strong enough to defeat China by force. The Trump administration are pro-Russia China hawks that want a refocusing on China and repairing relations with Russia. They also want an imperial withdrawal from the occupation of Europe. After the American defeat in the middle east, the US military started pivoting towards war against Russia and China combined. Anti-NATO sentiments have been with Republicans for decades actually. European NATO countries are individually militarily quite weak. 2. On tariffs and other economics issue it is an extension of the corruption of Donald Trump helping his campaign donors but also part of the elitist (ultra rich) libertarian thinking that has been going on for decades as well. Purge the government, radically restructure the economy. This is what Elon Musk and the Tech bro ultra rich have been thinking about, an in some cases writing about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction First cause a recession, and from the ashes a new type economy will be born. It also resembles what a lot of American boomers (my dad's generation) have nostalgia for. The re-industrialization of the US and less trade with the outside world, and less debt. I agree that what Trump is doing is really disorganized and I have doubts that re-industrialization can ever happen in the way they want. 3. Russia decisively won the war in Ukraine in 2022. The West has no idea about Russian strategy or how they fight wars and have been misreporting/recycling pro-Ukrainian Ukr/US/UK/NATO propaganda for 3 years.

The Russians also attacked and advanced in the neck of Kursk 'bridgehead' after holding them in place for months. It seems like they might try to squeeze the Ukrainians out. This whole area was actually a fire sack where the Ukrainian brigades were hit with strikes all the time.

seems like the tennis court gives models that golden look reflection from the ground.

Trump Plans to Revoke Legal Status of 240,000 Ukrainians: Report https://www.newsweek.com/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-240k-ukrainians-report-2040504