Jo Siebenharder
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Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it.
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it.
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❗️The Russian army must be restricted to ensure a lasting peace in Ukraine, — EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas
"If Russia could conquer Ukraine militarily, it would have already done so. Putin cannot achieve his goals on the battlefield, so he will try to negotiate them…
"If Russia could conquer Ukraine militarily, it would have already done so. Putin cannot achieve his goals on the battlefield, so he will try to negotiate them…
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
❗️The Russian army must be restricted to ensure a lasting peace in Ukraine, — EU's top diplomat Kaja Kallas
"If Russia could conquer Ukraine militarily, it would have already done so. Putin cannot achieve his goals on the battlefield, so he will try to negotiate them…
"If Russia could conquer Ukraine militarily, it would have already done so. Putin cannot achieve his goals on the battlefield, so he will try to negotiate them…
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Poland selects A26 for Orka sub program.
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news.cision.com/saab/r/swede...
Sweden and Saab selected for Poland’s new submarines
The Swedish government's offer of Saab’s A26 submarines to Poland has been selected by the Polish
news.cision.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Poland selects A26 for Orka sub program.
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news.cision.com/saab/r/swede...
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Anecdotally, while I was looking for a source to refer to for this article with the search words ”Russia rejects US peace plan”, I found media articles on that topic from November 2024, February, May, June, September, and October 2025.
Made an effort to establish a timeline of this latest iteration of essentially the same old attempt by the Trump administration to force a peace deal, doomed to fail like the previous three times.
The number of plot twists would have been amusing, if it wasn’t so cruel to Ukraine.
The number of plot twists would have been amusing, if it wasn’t so cruel to Ukraine.
The Rise and Fall of the Dim-Wit Plan
The latest iteration of a "secret US-Russia peace plan for Ukraine" would have been funny, if it wasn't so cruel to Ukraine.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Anecdotally, while I was looking for a source to refer to for this article with the search words ”Russia rejects US peace plan”, I found media articles on that topic from November 2024, February, May, June, September, and October 2025.
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you mean to tell me that a talk show host going with "this guy has arranged the military medals he won badly" as a PR strategy against a combat veteran didn't work?
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
you mean to tell me that a talk show host going with "this guy has arranged the military medals he won badly" as a PR strategy against a combat veteran didn't work?
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A good reminder to anyone who even looks that way to never trust America again
November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A good reminder to anyone who even looks that way to never trust America again
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Notice that MAGA never refers to Putin as a “warmonger.” You know, the guy who started the war, bombs civilian population centers daily, & refuses to sign a ceasefire. Nope, according to MAGA, Putin isn’t the warmonger - it’s the people who support Ukraine’s refusal to surrender.
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Notice that MAGA never refers to Putin as a “warmonger.” You know, the guy who started the war, bombs civilian population centers daily, & refuses to sign a ceasefire. Nope, according to MAGA, Putin isn’t the warmonger - it’s the people who support Ukraine’s refusal to surrender.
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Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Three things about the Witkoff tapes:
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
1) It appears Western intelligence services have decided to let Witkoff (and Trump) know they have recordings of their traitorous conversations w/Russia.
2) This Ukraine "deal" was all Witkoff's idea.
3) Congressional leaders should demand he be fired.
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Minna takes apart the Dim-Wit Pact with usual astuteness 👏👇
"The mind-boggling aspect of all this is that the US government keeps throwing such diplomatically unserious drafts at Ukraine & Europe, who then duly have to engage with them in good faith and try to make something reasonable out of it."
"The mind-boggling aspect of all this is that the US government keeps throwing such diplomatically unserious drafts at Ukraine & Europe, who then duly have to engage with them in good faith and try to make something reasonable out of it."
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Minna takes apart the Dim-Wit Pact with usual astuteness 👏👇
"The mind-boggling aspect of all this is that the US government keeps throwing such diplomatically unserious drafts at Ukraine & Europe, who then duly have to engage with them in good faith and try to make something reasonable out of it."
"The mind-boggling aspect of all this is that the US government keeps throwing such diplomatically unserious drafts at Ukraine & Europe, who then duly have to engage with them in good faith and try to make something reasonable out of it."
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Remember when the trump administration colluding with the Kremlin was a "democrat hoax"?
November 26, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Remember when the trump administration colluding with the Kremlin was a "democrat hoax"?
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I’m not a judge, but Witkoff should sit in prison for the rest of his life
November 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I’m not a judge, but Witkoff should sit in prison for the rest of his life
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Smells like treason to me
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Smells like treason to me
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Sure. I'll stop this war and let all these psychopaths come home and make me look like I can't control Russia. Cos I won't be able to control Russia.
The point that isn't in the plan.
The point that isn't in the plan.
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Sure. I'll stop this war and let all these psychopaths come home and make me look like I can't control Russia. Cos I won't be able to control Russia.
The point that isn't in the plan.
The point that isn't in the plan.
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5/5 Europe and Ukraine need to stop expecting anything from Trump. He is compromised by Putin, and Putin sees Europe as an enemy.
Trump negotiating Europe’s future with Putin is a disaster, especially when Europe pays for everything and the US pays nothing
Trump negotiating Europe’s future with Putin is a disaster, especially when Europe pays for everything and the US pays nothing
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 AM
5/5 Europe and Ukraine need to stop expecting anything from Trump. He is compromised by Putin, and Putin sees Europe as an enemy.
Trump negotiating Europe’s future with Putin is a disaster, especially when Europe pays for everything and the US pays nothing
Trump negotiating Europe’s future with Putin is a disaster, especially when Europe pays for everything and the US pays nothing
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Witkoff works for terrorist Russia and in a normal timeline would be investigated by the FBI.
There is no way he is a Kremlin shill for free
There is no way he is a Kremlin shill for free
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukra...
www.bloomberg.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Witkoff works for terrorist Russia and in a normal timeline would be investigated by the FBI.
There is no way he is a Kremlin shill for free
There is no way he is a Kremlin shill for free
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"What we are doing, more likely than not, is making excuses for Trump that could lead to our own destruction as a free and open society. Every excuse for Trump is a reason for acceptance and delay. It is a hope that in the end he will make the right decision. Though he never does."
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"What we are doing, more likely than not, is making excuses for Trump that could lead to our own destruction as a free and open society. Every excuse for Trump is a reason for acceptance and delay. It is a hope that in the end he will make the right decision. Though he never does."
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"By making excuses for Trump, by hoping, dreaming really, that in the end he will be good for Ukraine, Europeans have weakened themselves and failed to take the steps necessary to look after themselves and the security of their own continent."
Just sent out this free piece. When the stories of the 28-point plan were first written, too many people went into overdrive to try and make excuses for Trump (He was not informed! He was not involved!). open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
We Seem Intent On Making Excuses For Trump Until He Destroys Us
Phillips’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication.
open.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
"By making excuses for Trump, by hoping, dreaming really, that in the end he will be good for Ukraine, Europeans have weakened themselves and failed to take the steps necessary to look after themselves and the security of their own continent."
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Good read from Minna 👇
We're enabling an idiotic senile psychopath, who not only gets stuck in dementia loops sending us down the same dead-end roads every couple of months and never learning - but who surrounds himself with active Kremlin assets.
People are dying while we play his pointless games
We're enabling an idiotic senile psychopath, who not only gets stuck in dementia loops sending us down the same dead-end roads every couple of months and never learning - but who surrounds himself with active Kremlin assets.
People are dying while we play his pointless games
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Good read from Minna 👇
We're enabling an idiotic senile psychopath, who not only gets stuck in dementia loops sending us down the same dead-end roads every couple of months and never learning - but who surrounds himself with active Kremlin assets.
People are dying while we play his pointless games
We're enabling an idiotic senile psychopath, who not only gets stuck in dementia loops sending us down the same dead-end roads every couple of months and never learning - but who surrounds himself with active Kremlin assets.
People are dying while we play his pointless games
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By @alanderminna.bsky.social: "Now it is time for Europe to take a more proactive stance, stop wasting time jumping through the same hoops with Trump, and start focusing on squeezing Russia until it has to start negotiating seriously."
minnalander.substack.com/p/the-rise-a...
minnalander.substack.com/p/the-rise-a...
The Rise and Fall of the Dim-Wit Plan
The latest iteration of a "secret US-Russia peace plan for Ukraine" would have been funny, if it wasn't so cruel to Ukraine.
minnalander.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
By @alanderminna.bsky.social: "Now it is time for Europe to take a more proactive stance, stop wasting time jumping through the same hoops with Trump, and start focusing on squeezing Russia until it has to start negotiating seriously."
minnalander.substack.com/p/the-rise-a...
minnalander.substack.com/p/the-rise-a...
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there are still many Western or other "experts" who treat Mearsheimer like a credible voice on Russia's war against Ukraine. He might have written some interesting articles or books. But that didn't prevent him from uttering sheer and dangerous nonsense.
Meanwhile, Mearsheimer unlocks new levels of unhinged Kremlin propaganda every day--now absurdly calling Ru's invasion of a non-NATO member "a NATO invasion of Ru". His newest gem is going on my undergraduate lecture entitled "5 reasons why Ru's invasion of Ukraine is NOT NATO's fault"
November 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
there are still many Western or other "experts" who treat Mearsheimer like a credible voice on Russia's war against Ukraine. He might have written some interesting articles or books. But that didn't prevent him from uttering sheer and dangerous nonsense.
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Manu of the arguments used to justify Russian aggression against Ukraine are the same Putin has used against the EU’s Baltic members.
Ukraine is defending Europe
Europe must defend Ukraine
Ukraine is defending Europe
Europe must defend Ukraine
On RTE’s 6-1 News I noted that core issues such as territorial integrity and the post-war security architecture remain unresolved
Officials in the Baltic states repeatedly stressed to me that the outcome in Ukraine is not localised. It will shape Europe’s strategic landscape for many years to come
Officials in the Baltic states repeatedly stressed to me that the outcome in Ukraine is not localised. It will shape Europe’s strategic landscape for many years to come
November 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Manu of the arguments used to justify Russian aggression against Ukraine are the same Putin has used against the EU’s Baltic members.
Ukraine is defending Europe
Europe must defend Ukraine
Ukraine is defending Europe
Europe must defend Ukraine
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US- vs. Russia these days, it's no longer a superpower rivalry. It is not about differing values or ideologies ("democracy vs. autocracy").
It's dealmaking between an oligarchy built by ex-spies and an oligarchy run by real estate investors and tech bros.
It's dealmaking between an oligarchy built by ex-spies and an oligarchy run by real estate investors and tech bros.
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 PM
US- vs. Russia these days, it's no longer a superpower rivalry. It is not about differing values or ideologies ("democracy vs. autocracy").
It's dealmaking between an oligarchy built by ex-spies and an oligarchy run by real estate investors and tech bros.
It's dealmaking between an oligarchy built by ex-spies and an oligarchy run by real estate investors and tech bros.
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We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago begins in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering.
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
Russian Unreality and American Weakness
Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history
snyder.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago begins in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering.
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
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”Polen har valt försvarsbolaget Saab som leverantör av tre stycken ubåtar. Det meddelar landets försvarsminister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz vid en presskonferens i Warszawa under onsdagen.”
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Polen vill köpa tre ubåtar från Saab
Polen har valt försvarsbolaget Saab som leverantör av tre stycken ubåtar. Det meddelar landets försvarsminister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz vid en…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:33 PM
”Polen har valt försvarsbolaget Saab som leverantör av tre stycken ubåtar. Det meddelar landets försvarsminister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz vid en presskonferens i Warszawa under onsdagen.”
www.di.se/live/polen-v...
www.di.se/live/polen-v...