Kevin Rothrock
Kevin Rothrock“China beats you with trade. Russia beats you with war.”
Odd how Trump fluctuates between talking about Russian KIA losses, possibly inflating them wildly, describing the war as unsustainable for Moscow, and then later he characterizes Russia as an unbeatable horde.
Kevin RothrockKadyrov's son, Adam (his presumed eventual successor), danced at a musical contest performance over the weekend, gold-plated pistol on his hip. Ramzan Kadyrov's body attended the event, too, propped up in a balcony seat. https://t.me/RKadyrov_95/5896
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Kevin RothrockMore than 100 arrests at a rap concert on Aug 9 in Warsaw where the unrest included the display of flags associated with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which carried out the Volhynia massacre/genocide in WWII. https://www.pap.pl/ru/russian/news/policiya-varshavy-peredala-v-prokuraturu-dokumenty-v-svyazi-s-lozungami-na-koncerte
Kevin RothrockRussian Z-channels respond to reports that Azerbaijan might start arming Ukraine if Russia keeps hitting its gas compressor facilities in Ukraine. The view here is that Azeri gas moving through Ukraine is more damaging to Russian interests than whatever weapons Baku might send. https://t.me/sashakots/55458
Kevin RothrockThe playing cards metaphor has officially jumped the shark.
Kevin RothrockRussia has started sending conscription (not to be confused with combat mobilization) summons via text message. Recipients are barred from leaving the country and must report to the local draft board within a week. After 20 days, lots more restriction kick in.
https://t.me/iditelesom_help/6061?single
Kevin RothrockPortland preschool politics. Multnomah County tries to accommodate the governor and state officials, who want universal PRE-K scaled back for fear that it's chasing out high-earners. But voters chose this program. A halfsies indexing plan would cut taxes, maybe killing the program slowly.
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Kevin RothrockThe Washington Post and the US media generally have a very amusing policy of explicitly and repeatedly designating every pro-Kremlin source, but nobody is cited as "pro-Ukraine" or "pro-Europe," etc, naturally.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/10/putin-trump-russia-ukraine-summit/