Trump made a deal with a war criminal. He lifted sanctions on russian diesel. Putin will ship 4.8 million tons to American and global markets – roughly 4.5 billion dollars. That buys about 90,000 Shahed drones, or 1,800 Iskander missiles. Thousands of Ukrainians will die. Three weeks ago he signed a sanctions law. Yesterday he removed sanctions on russia and opened a market for russian oil. To the Ukrainian people: I am sorry. I am ashamed of our president, and of the Americans who put him in office. My country is now helping russia earn money while russia kills you. Two years ago I wrote that Trump would cut aid, block NATO, and push Ukraine to surrender territory. I was right. But I did not expect him to go so far as to support russia. And to those who voted for him and now see what he is: your silence is a choice. A morally bankrupt choice. Read the full article and share for the whole world to hear: romansheremeta.substack.com/…

Trump supporter: “I don’t think Ukraine war really happened. Fake news. Media. You can’t believe everything you see.”

When the defenders of Azovstal received the order to surrender in May 2022, Oleksandr Ivantsov ask his platoon commander not to include his name on the lists handed to the russians. Report his missing instead. “I was ready to die in battle,” he later told The New York Times. “But morally I was not ready to surrender.” He prepared a hiding place in a sewer manhole. He carried down mattresses, blankets, water, canned food, and sugar. For seven days, he remained underground in darkness. He thought through possible routes out of the plant and prepared a story to tell if the russians caught him. He tried to sleep as much as possible to make the hours pass. Read the full article on my Substack: romansheremeta.substack.com/…

Ken Paxton's anti-Ukrainian position tells you everything you need to know about his character and morals. Paxton has repeatedly attacked American support for Ukraine, portraying assistance to a country defending itself against Russian aggression as a waste of money. He accused President Zelenskyy of producing a “propaganda” to obtain more American assistance. He mocked Senator John Cornyn as the “Senator of Ukraine” because be supported Ukraine. What is particularly troubling is that Paxton directs his criticism toward Zelenskyy and American politicians supporting Ukraine, rather than toward Putin, whose invasion created this war. For me the candidate’s stance on Ukraine is a good indication of their moral character.

If it feels like we live in a world where all the rules have broken down – you’re not imagining it. They really have. Seven familiar foundations have broken down. They have come to an end. 1. The end of the world order. The end of the belief that the world has inviolable rules and principles, reliable alliances and allies. That values and agreements govern the world. That you can keep your defense budget small and focus solely on prosperity while someone else takes care of security. That there is a clear line between peace and war, and that war can be kept from crossing it. 2. The end of globalization. Most global trade passes through a handful of narrow straits. So-called barbarians can paralyze global trade protected by aircraft carriers – something that used to frustrate us in Sid Meier’s Civilization is now reality. Value chains can be abruptly and brutally severed. Products or services you have purchased can suddenly stop working because of a political decision made far away. Cost is no longer king – buying something from another continent now requires thinking about security. 3. The end of guaranteed growth. The economic model of growth through expansion rested on three things: population growth, expansion into new markets, and inexhaustible natural resources. All three have now hit their limits. Yet businesses are accustomed to always projecting more in their financial plans than the year before. Cheap money can no longer be taken for granted anywhere in the world. (That makes little difference to us – we never had it anyway.) And sometimes GDP keeps rising while every measure of quality of life declines. 4. The end of a way of life. Education used to be a lifelong route to upward mobility. Today, that elevator often fails, runs intermittently, and travels in both directions. The expectation that children will live better than their parents is fading. Meanwhile, fewer and fewer children will have to support more and more elderly people, putting the social contract between generations under severe strain. 5. The end of ideologies. The right and the left differ less and less in their economic platforms, competing instead in populism: who can make bigger, prettier promises and deliver nothing. Dreams of social consensus are futile. Meanwhile, informal groups representing particular interests – often focused on a single issue – are gaining more influence than formal institutions. 6. The end of faith in progress. Democracy and freedom have not triumphed worldwide, as many once expected after the collapse of the USSR. Formal education levels are rising, but maturity and wisdom are not keeping pace. The accumulation of knowledge does not translate into other good things: peace, prosperity, justice, and so on. None of this ended in a single day. It happened gradually, sometimes imperceptibly. But here we are. You’ll point out that I promised seven but only delivered six. Six isn’t a particularly appealing number, and everyone likes seven. So here is the seventh, which explains the others. 7. The end of predictability and certainty. In reality, the six familiar foundations above have not disappeared forever, all at once, everywhere, and for everyone. What has ended is our certainty that they are permanent and guaranteed. This is not the decline of the world. It is a rupture between eras – the old rules no longer apply, and the new ones have yet to be written. An interregnum. Who will define these new rules? Throughout history, interregnums have often been periods when small players on the system’s periphery set the new rules. Those who live at the edge, at the boundary, and are the first to see the dawn of new trends. Those with the courage to shape the rules. Those who have not been spoiled by a comfortable life at the center of the system. Those who can act amid uncertainty without waiting for guarantees from the world. Those who adapt faster. Perhaps that is us. Source: translated from the text of Valeriy Pekar

“Her legs were torn off, she was ripped to pieces.” A Russian drone killed 84-year-old woman Grandma Lora in Kherson as she was walking her goats, The New York Post reports. In a September interview, Lora said: “Everyone is afraid, but everyone still has hope.” Larisa Myronivna Vakulyuk, 84, known as Grandma Lora, died instantly when a Russian FPV drone struck her and her two goats in the Antonivskyi district of Kherson. Journalist Zarina Zabrisky, who had interviewed Vakulyuk a month earlier, described the aftermath: “Her legs were torn off, she was ripped to pieces. In my three and a half years covering this war, I have seen many deaths, but this was one of the hardest to witness.” Volunteer Andrii Petukhov found her remains alongside the dead goats, confirming that she died instantly and that the strike occurred during her morning walk. In her September interview, Vakulyuk said: “Everyone is afraid, but everyone still has hope,” capturing both fear and resilience amid the shelling of Kherson. The attack was one of several that day, which also injured four civilians and damaged homes, schools, and residential buildings across the city. Ukrainian and human rights groups call Kherson a “human safari zone” — an area where Russian drones and artillery deliberately hunt civilians. In July, outrage followed reports that a one-year-old boy was killed by a Russian drone while playing outside, showing how Moscow’s “human safari” now claims victims from infants to the elderly. Nearly 150 civilians were killed during the summer bombardments of Kherson in 2024, and hundreds more were injured. Russia continues to intensify daily drone strikes on populated areas. Source: Translated from Tymofiy Milovanov

Trump’s 10 historic presidential accomplishments! Renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Renamed Lake Ontario to Lake America. Renamed Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Super Intelligence (SI). Brought back plastic straws. Liberated American showerheads. Fought for stronger toilet flushing. Took on weak bathroom faucets. Defended dishwashers from government regulations. Protected washing machines from efficiency standards. Ordered the end of penny production. And all of this in less than two years! Future generations will surely remember the president who made American showers great again. Promises made. Promises kept.

“I thought the Russians were our allies during WW2?” Russia - or more precisely, the USSR - was our ally for a very brief time. But FDR and Churchill knew that it was a temporary alliance to defeat a greater foe - the horrific Nazi war machine. Since the Fall of Berlin in May, 1945, things immediately went “cold” between the US and the Soviet Union. By ‘46 Churchill had coined the phrase “Iron Curtain,” which remained until 1991. Glasnost, however, only lasted a decade or so. With Putin, the same repressive, totalitarian spirit remains. The Ukrainians know this. The US intelligence community knows this. All of our democratic allies around the world know this. My Dad, who fought in the South Pacific on the Battleship USS Mississippi, knew this. He was a staunch Reagan Republican who cheered when Reagan said that the USSR would fall. When the ex-KGB agent, Putin, came to power, he and his WW2 friends would say, “Here we go again,” referring to Putin’s totalitarianism and desire to reconstitute a modern Soviet-style empire. We must stand against Russian aggression, expansionism, and terrorism. Author: Kyle Duncan

An independent UN investigations concluded that russia is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by intentionally attacking civilian infrastructure. No way, we discovered that water is wet.

Elon Musk is the new George Soros. Only in the past two years, he spent on political campaigns more than Soros is all his life. Then he went out and outspent Soros’s entire lifetime of political giving in about two years. Musk buys politicians who then give him contracts and tax cuts. Plus, Musk get a to advance his fascist agenda.

Recently, Elon Musk claimed that Hitler was a far-left socialist because the word “socialist” appeared in the Nazi Party's name. I have heard this argument many times, mostly from people on the political right. And I understand why. Nobody wants to be associated with the Nazis. So some conservatives try to distance themselves from Nazism by claiming it was actually a left-wing ideology. But I have also seen the opposite. People on the far left often try to distance themselves from Soviet Communism, claiming that Stalin's dictatorship was not real communism. Both sides seem reluctant to acknowledge the darkest chapters associated with their ideological extremes. Yet historians overwhelmingly classify Nazism as far-right and Soviet Communism as far-left. And here is what I find particularly fascinating. Despite their opposing ideologies, both created one-party dictatorships. Both eliminated political opposition. Both relied on propaganda, surveillance, repression, and political terror. Both concentrated enormous power in the hands of their leaders. How could two opposing ideologies produce such similar political systems? As an economist who studies incentives and human behavior, I believe the answer has a lot to do with concentrated power. Read my new Substack article: economicsofpower.substack.co…

Ukraine has “provoked” Russia simply by existing. The destruction of the Ukrainian people has been Russia’s goal for centuries. Even the infamous interview between pro-russian propagandist Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin showed that Russia’s invasions of Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 had nothing to do with NATO. Instead, they stem from Putin’s obsession with the breakup of Kyivan Rus in the 12th century and the USSR in the 20th century. He cannot accept that Ukrainians are a distinct nation, so he seeks to erase Ukraine from existence. Putin claims that russia was founded in 862. However, at that time, Moscow was a swampy forest with no civilization, whereas Kyiv was a prosperous city. Kyiv was ruled by Askold and Dyr beginning in 860, even before the Rurikid dynasty took control in 882. By 1100, Kyiv had become the fourth-largest city in Europe (larger than Paris or London in those days), while Moscow was not founded until 1147. The founder of Moscow is even buried in Kyiv, and visitors can still see his grave today. The state was known as Rus. The Byzantine Emperor referred to it as “Rossia.” In the 13th century, the Pope called Danylo, the Ukrainian king, the “King of Rus,” while Alexander Nevsky was merely the “Duke of Suzdal.” Even in the 17th century, Ukrainian Hetman Bohdan Khmelnitskyi referred to himself as the “Hetman of Rus.” Moscow was originally a colony of Rus and was called “Zalissia” (meaning “the land beyond the forest”). Moscow established its first state only in 1157 and identified themselves as Suzdalese (from the city of Suzdal). Their first newspaper was titled “The News of the Moscovian State,” and coins from Peter I’s era were inscribed with “Moscovian ruble.” Ivan Fedorov, the first book printer of Moscovia, fled to Ukraine just two years after publishing his book and identified himself as Moscovian. However, in 1721, after conquering the lands of ancient Rus, Moscovia officially renamed itself to Russia and adopted the two-headed eagle from Byzantium. They then fabricated a story that Rus “migrated” to Moscow to escape the Golden Horde. Bottom line: As a political unit, Ukraine began in the 9th century as the Kingdom of Rus. Moscovia, on the other hand, began in 1157 as the Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal. Claiming that Russia began in Kyiv is as inaccurate as saying that Argentina began as the Kingdom of Castile in the 9th century or that the USA began as the Kingdom of Wessex in the 6th century.

Trump’s son secretly went on vacation with a Putin’s oligarch: The two went hunting together in Mongolia this August. Donald Trump Jr. arrived in Mongolia accompanied by the U.S. Secret Service and Republican donor Kevin Small. Later, Umar Kremlev flew in from Kazakhstan to join him, accompanied by businessman Artur Martirosov. As a reminder, Kremlev reportedly previously paid for Trump Jr.’s wedding in the Bahamas in secret. And we wonder why Trump is pro-russian?! Source: Financial Times

“Humanitarian” russians hit a university, a medical facility, and a bridge in Kyiv. One person was killed and 14 were injured. Most of those injured are students. The attack was sponsored by Trump and his supporters.

I report Trump. Now, where do I get my $1,000,000?

He pretended to be dead among the corpses in a Mariupol hospital. Then he heard a russian soldier with an amputated leg say, “The Germans did all this.” Ihor, callsign “Hare,” is a marine from the 38th Brigade. He survived the defense of Mariupol, a severe injury, captivity, and torture. It all began in Pavlopil, where the russians launched a massive assault with tanks, Grad rocket launchers, and artillery. His unit held its positions for five days before retreating to Mariupol. Then came the Illich Steel Plant, where Ihor suffered his worst injury. An eight-and-a-half-centimeter piece of shrapnel lodged in his body just below his heart. His arm and back were riddled with shrapnel wounds. He was evacuated to the Second Regional Hospital, where doctors simply stopped the bleeding and stitched up his wounds. There was no time for surgery. All around him lay people with severed limbs. Then the hospital was stormed. Russian soldiers entered the wards, searching for Ukrainian marines and Azov fighters. Ihor lay in his military uniform next to the body of a dead man. A nurse covered his marine tattoo with antiseptic green dye and bandages so nobody would recognize him. They moved him from place to place, hiding him among the dead, under constant shelling, without food or water. Five days of starvation. Nobody was even removing the bodies from the hospital wards anymore. It was then that the russians brought in one of their own wounded soldiers, whose leg had been amputated. Ihor heard the other soldiers trying to comfort him. The wounded russian said, “The Germans did all this.” Ihor would hear that same claim many more times during his captivity. When there seemed to be no way out, Ihor took the hand of a woman from a Turkish family who had come to collect a wounded civilian. “I am a Ukrainian marine. Please help me.” She ran away. He thought it was the end. But the woman returned with her neighbor, and together they led him out of the hospital, past russian soldiers pointing their rifles at them, claiming he was their brother. Under shelling, through checkpoints, with his wounded arm already beginning to rot, he finally reached their home. The family hid him for two weeks – in an old building, in a basement, and in the trunk of a wrecked car. Then came the port. From there, Azovstal. They traveled by sea in motorboats, under russian airstrikes. And on May 18 came the order to lay down their weapons. Captivity. Olenivka. Horlivka. Interrogations. Torture. Teeth knocked out. Documents he was forced to sign without even being able to see what he was signing. He had weighed 100 kilograms before captivity. When he emerged six months later, he weighed just 40. After Ihor was released in a prisoner exchange, he underwent rehabilitation and returned to military service. Under Ukrainian law, he could have been discharged because of his injuries. He chose to stay. “My brothers-in-arms are still there. I cannot just walk away.” Today, Ihor serves as the first sergeant of his company and continues to fight. Because he believes that as long as someone continues to hold the line, those still in captivity have a chance to return home. Source: translated from Oleh Bairak.

Trump is delusional. This is not an insult, but simply a statement of fact. He lives in an alternative reality that doesn’t exist. How else can you explain his claim that his approval rating is actually at 60%? A recent New York Times poll put Trump’s approval rating at 34% – the lowest for a president nearing the midterms. A New American Research Group poll put Trump’s approval rating at 29% – the worst in history.

The administration of Donald Trump is promoting former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for the post of UN Secretary-General. American officials have already approached Orbán with this proposal. According to journalists, he showed interest but has not yet made a final decision. The US believes that China and Russia may also support this idea, and the former Hungarian prime minister would become a joint candidate from three permanent members of the UN Security Council. According to an estimate by a US State Department representative, Orbán's candidacy could be supported by at least eight of the 15 Security Council members. He also believes that support could increase to as many as 10 Security Council members. An informal vote is scheduled in the UN Security Council on October 28 to assess support for candidates. Source: WSJ

Trump is selling out Ukraine. His goal is to undermine Ukraine’s capabilities and give russia a decisive advantage in the war. A new Reuters investigation reveals troubling details about the Trump administration’s treatment of Ukraine. Trump has repeatedly demanded that Ukraine stop attacking russian oil refineries – one of the few effective ways Ukraine can undermine russia’s ability to finance its war. According to President Zelenskyy, American officials threatened to cut off intelligence sharing if Ukraine continued these strikes. A U.S. official disputes this account. Trump has authorized russian diesel sales on international markets and waived certain sanctions, potentially providing Moscow with additional revenue. Reuters also reports that Trump has cultivated a relationship with Putin that departs from traditional U.S. foreign policy. Suriya Jayanti, a former U.S. official and Atlantic Council senior fellow, offered a particularly disturbing interpretation of these developments: the objective is not a genuine energy ceasefire, but to weaken Ukraine and give russia a decisive military advantage. Think about what is happening. Russia continues attacking Ukrainian cities, destroying energy infrastructure, and killing civilians. Meanwhile, the American administration is pressuring Ukraine to stop attacking the infrastructure that helps finance russia’s war. Ukraine is being pressured to restrain itself while its aggressor continues its attacks. The fundamental question is no longer simply whether Trump can negotiate peace. It is whether his administration’s actions are making Ukraine weaker and russia stronger. And the evidence reported by Reuters gives us serious reasons to ask that question. Source: Reuters, October 25, 2026.

Another Putin ally has fallen in Europe! After more than a decade of dominating Serbian politics, Aleksandar Vučić has conceded defeat in parliamentary elections to a student-led opposition movement. This is a major political earthquake in Europe. Vučić maintained close ties with Putin, refused to impose sanctions on russia over its invasion of Ukraine, and tried to balance relations between Moscow and the West. But after nearly two years of student-led protests against corruption and authoritarianism, Serbian voters have delivered a stunning rejection of his ruling party. According to preliminary projections, the opposition is expected to secure 135–140 seats in the 250-seat parliament. And here is what makes this victory particularly remarkable: It was students who helped bring down a political establishment that had dominated Serbia for more than a decade. First, Viktor Orbán lost power in Hungary. Now Vučić’s party has lost in Serbia. Two European leaders who maintained close relationships with Putin have suffered historic electoral defeats in the same year. Of course, this does not guarantee that Serbia will suddenly become pro-Ukrainian. But it creates an opportunity for a different relationship with Europe and a different approach toward russia. Putin is losing political allies in Europe. And that is good news for Ukraine. Congratulations to the people of Serbia!

Here is another good rule on how to vote from Rev. Benjamin Cremer: When it comes to voting, Christianity should sound like, "I'm thinking of the most vulnerable people among us and voting out of love for them," not "I'm voting for the candidates who hate the same people I do."