>>22689449 ==PB=

NATO is only set up to defend NATO countries they do not individually go in to defend Non NATO countries. If a NATO country is attacked by non nato then all nato countries come to their aid.

Ukraine is a non NATO country and cannot be defended by all of them. NATO as a body would have to vote on the invasion.

Ukraine is not in NATO, no NATO country is bound to go in and defend them if Ukraine and France go in.

Chernobyl is full of shit

this applies if a NATO country is attacked, not two NATO countries entering a non NATO country the others won’t enter

UK and France cannot drag other NATO countries into Ukraine which they are trying with the U.S.

That’s the reason why Zelenskyy begged for NATO membership for years

>>22689606

PS: one NATO country can call all others to war with them to attack a non nato, like Clinton did in the Balkans to deflect from his sex scandal- Monica

2 Mar, 2025 20:49

Americans divided on how they see Russia – pollBS

Partisan and generational divides shape US public opinion on Russia and Ukraine, a CBS News/YouGov poll shows

Americans are sharply divided over their perceptions of Russia, with a third of them claiming it is an ally, a =CBS News/YouGov== survey published on Sunday suggests.

A poll conducted between February 26 and 28 found that 34% of Americans consider Russia an ally or a friendly nation, while 32% view it as unfriendly and another 34% see it as an enemy.

Republican respondents were more likely to hold a favorable opinion, with 41% describing Russia as friendly or an ally, compared to fewer Democrats.

It also showed that while 52% support Ukraine, 44% maintain a neutral stance, and only 4% side with Russia. Opinions on US President Donald Trump’s position are similarly split: just 11% believe he supports Kiev, whereas 46% think he favors Moscow. Another 43% say Trump treats both countries equally. (That is not true at all)

Back in March 2024, a different CBS News survey showed 37% of Americans believed that Russia was their country’s enemy, while 3% of respondents claimed it is an ally.

After the Russia-Ukraine conflict escalated in 2022, CBS News found increased pressure on Russia, with 78% supporting economic sanctions and another 72% encouraging the US to send supplies and weapons to Kiev.

Trump’s approach marks a departure from his predecessor Joe Biden’s strategy of isolating Russia, as he seeks to normalize bilateral relations. Both Moscow and Washington have suggested that this shift provides hope for a swift resolution to the Ukraine conflict. In an effort to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, Trump held a 90-minute phone conversation with Putin on February 12.

https://www.rt.com/news/613591-americans-divided-on-how-they-see-russia/

Anons, have you ever been called to take a poll? I haven’t ever, and I’m not young.

2 Mar, 2025 16:31

Member state accuses EU of violating energy security guarantees – media

Addressing the bloc’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto reportedly cited a recent Ukrainian UAV attack on the TurkStream pipeline

Hungary has accused the European Union of failing to honor energy security guarantees it recently gave the country, state news channel Hirado reported on Sunday, citing a letter sent by Budapest to Brussels.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto reportedly warned the EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas that his country’s acquiescence in any further Ukraine-related decision would be contingent on the bloc’s ability to safeguard Budapest’s energy supplies.

The letter came hard on the heels of a Russian Defense Ministry report that three drones had been shot down near a key compressor station servicing the TurkStream gas pipeline on Friday. Moscow described the incident as a Ukrainian sabotage attempt.

In an article on Sunday, Hirado news program claimed that Foreign Minister Szijjarto had reminded Kallas that as recently as January 27, when the EU was deciding on extending sanctions against Russia, Brussels explicitly gave Budapest “four guarantees that Hungary’s energy supply would be secure.”

Szijjarto reportedly wrote that the bloc’s leadership had pledged to involve his country in negotiations over the resumption of Russian gas transit through Ukraine – an apparent reference to Kiev’s decision in late 2024 to terminate its five-year transit contract with Russian energy giant Gazprom. The diplomat pointed out that despite this promise, Budapest has been excluded from the respective talks, Hirado noted.

“Secondly, the European Commission also gave a guarantee that Ukraine would not attack the infrastructure responsible for energy transport to the EU,” Szijjarto wrote, adding that nonetheless, “Ukraine launched a drone attack on the Russkaya compressor station of the TurkStream on the night of February 28.”

The media outlet quoted the minister as expressing incredulity that an EU candidate nation (Ukraine) would seriously endanger the energy security of a current member state, with Brussels seemingly taking Kiev’s side and not Budapest’s.

The Hungarian diplomat made it clear that his country’s “position will largely be determined by the issues raised in this letter in the decisions regarding Ukraine in the coming period,” Hirado reported.

In a post on Facebook on Saturday, the official wrote that the inoperability of the TurkStream “would seriously endanger our energy security,” and thus encroach on Hungary’s sovereignty.

While Friday’s incident did not result in any damage to the energy infrastructure, a similar attack reported by the Russian Defense Ministry in January saw falling debris impact the facility.

TurkStream delivers Russian natural gas to Turkish customers and several European countries, including Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Greece.

https://www.rt.com/news/613585-media-hungarian-fm-eu-ukraine-energy-security/

Trump Will Bring America First Drug Prices by Knocking Out the Middlemen, Making Europe Pay Its Fair Share

(these are the people and corps that defeated him in 2020) 3/1/25

America First drug pricing has begun.

President Trump promised to lower drug prices in America. Contrary to typical politicians who like to score points with false promises but never get anything done, President Trump understands that middlemen, government bureaucracy, and European price controls make Americans pay more than other advanced countries for prescription drugs. And unlike past presidents, he’s doing something about it.

The Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) middlemen drive up drug prices by roughly 50 percent. PBMs and big insurance companies take 25 percent. Along with massive hospitals, they abuse a little-known government program called 340B to take another $66 billion or 10 percent. Government middlemen take the rest through statutory rebates and fees.

“We’re going to knock out the middleman. We’re going to get drug costs down at levels that nobody has ever seen before,” Trump said in December. “The horrible middleman that makes more money, frankly, than the drug companies, and they don’t do anything except they’re a middleman.”

PBMs negotiate drug prices and rebates with manufacturers, but instead of passing savings on to patients, they pocket most of them. This unseemly practice is one reason why Trump and the Federal Trade Commission are cracking down on the biggest PBMs.

President Trump will eliminate PBMs outright or significantly reduce their influence over drug pricing. During his first term, the Trump rebate rule would have forced PBMs to deliver billions and billions of savings for seniors. Biden ditched Trump’s rebate rule in his so-called Inflation Reduction Act. It cost seniors billions and made PBMs billions more. Reinstating the rebate rule will return billions to seniors and lower their drug prices.

This week, Trump signed an executive order to make healthcare prices transparent. “When healthcare prices are hidden, large corporate entities like hospitals and insurance companies benefit at the expense of American patients. Price transparency will lower healthcare prices and help patients and employers get the best deal on healthcare,” said the White House. Trump will expose 340B abuse through this executive order and lower drug prices even more by making the middlemen show their true prices.

Trump will bring lower drug prices by making Europe pay its fair share. Trump will end global free-riding and correct the long-standing imbalance in drug pricing in which European nations fail to pay their fair share for cures developed in America.

For decades, Americans have shouldered the high cost of drug development while Europe and other wealthy nations impose price controls on American exports that force pharmaceutical companies to sell below market value. This shifts the burden of research and development costs onto American consumers. It also creates shortages and deprives European patients of life-saving cures. Europe used to be the medical innovation leader. Price controls killed that. Right now, America is the medical innovation leader. But if we adopt European price controls, our leadership will end and China will take over. China is already taking steps to ensure that happens, betting on our failure to lead.

Trump will renegotiate international trade agreements to pressure foreign governments to pay fair market prices. Just as he compelled NATO allies to “pay their fair share”, Trump will hold European nations accountable for paying fair prices for pharmaceuticals—rather than relying on American taxpayers.

An America First drug policy will bring much-needed transparency and competition to the pharmaceutical market. By reforming PBMs and 340B, curbing the influence of middlemen, and ending global free-riding, the Trump administration will deliver the lower prescription drug prices that Americans need. That’s America First drug pricing.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/01/trump-will-bring-america-first-drug-prices-by-knocking-out-the-middlemen-making-europe-pay-its-fair-share/

Secretary Bessent: Treasury Department Appointing ‘Affordability Czar’3/2/25

Treasury SecretaryScott Bessentsaid Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that he would be appointing an “affordability czar” to tackle hight prices effecting consumers.

Partial transcript as follows:

MARGARET BRENNAN: I hear you that sometimes the data lags reality, but when we are talking about people’s perceptions of the economy, it’s just how they’re feeling right now, we see in our polling, 52% of Americans say Trump’s policies are making grocery prices go up. They explicitly said that on this bar chart you see there. So it’s an experience and a perception issue. When does that shift? When we see the benefits of the planning you say is underway?

BESSENT:Look, I think President Trump said that he’ll own the economy in six or 12 months, but I can tell you that we are working to get these prices down every day, but it took four years to get us here, and we’ve had five weeks so interest rates are down. That’s a very good start toward housing affordability, toward auto affordability, and we are tackling this. At Treasury we are going to appoint an affordability czar.We are going to have an affordability Council. We are laser focused on this–

BRENNAN: What does that mean? What’s an affordability czar?

BESSENT: Someone who picks the five or eight areas where this administration can make a big difference for working class Americans. KEK

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/03/02/secretary-bessent-treasury-department-appointing-affordability-czar/

https://youtu.be/CNQWsXP82XU

>>22689753

I love this guy, he absolutely tells the truth Margaret is arguing with a master Historian in the Economy

Exclusive — Nate Morris: Kentucky Senate Race a ‘Proxy War’ Between McConnell Inc. and MAGA3/2/25

There is a “proxy war” Senate race building between Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) camp and the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement, Kentucky businessman and potential Senate Republican candidate Nate Morris told Breitbart News on Saturday.

Morris spoke to Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle as McConnell will no longer seek reelection, setting up a battle to remove the influence of McConnell’s establishment influence in the U.S. Senate.

“This race is going to come down to a proxy war of McConnell Inc., the wholly owned subsidiaries of Mitch McConnell, like Andy Barr and Daniel Cameron, and MAGA. And the MAGA movement and the Trump candidate who’s going to finally rid Kentucky of the stranglehold that it has had on our state and our politics by the Mitch McConnell machine,” Morris said.

He lamented that the McConnell camp is stuck in the “1980s view” of the world that includes having America be the world’s policeman, supplying endless amounts of foreign aid instead of focusing on first improving the lives of Kentuckians and Americans.

“It’s Trump or McConnell, your choice,” he added.

“You have to take care of the American people and put them first,” Morris said.

Morris also cheered Trump’s defense of pursuing peace between Ukraine and Russia, as the 47th president seeks to strike an accord ending the years-long conflict between the two countries.

“We know that this war has been a sham from the very beginning. This has been completely ludicrous and the fact that we have had people in Washington onboth sides of the aisle backing up the truck and unloading billions and billions of dollars to Zelensky and his cronies is absolutely unacceptable, and I think it’s a defining moment, it’s finally Zelensky to the carpet to say, ‘what are you going to do for America, what are you going to do this situation right,'” the Kentucky businessman said.

Morris continued, “You have the opportunity for peace, as President Trump says, and he doesn’t want to talk about peace.”

(https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/02/exclusive-nate-morris-kentucky-senate-race-a-proxy-war-between-mcconnell-inc-and-maga/

>>22689689

Agreed, but Ukraine seems grosser and dirtier than Russia. Putin just throws his enemies down stairs, he doesn’t start wars. KEK

>>22689689

I think those polls are BS, a lot don’t even listen to the news. I’ve studied the history of Ukraine back to 2010, they have been ruled by US DOS for a long time and have almost been the most corrupt country since the early 2000s and earlier. There is no changing that place.

And don’t forget Nina Jankowicz setting her disinfo bureau since 2013-14 for the coup in 2014.

Zelensky is not concerned about his people, it’s about the money they are stealing.

At least Russians love their country and are not running to foreign countries to not be killed in war. There at least a loyalty to their country, which I don’t see in Ukraine everything is a scam in the gov there. I feel sorry for the innocent citizens.

When Zelenskyy attacks the leader of the country that have funded him billions, he seems to think that is ok. The little midget is hurting the perception of Ukraine being a victim.

Sorry I can’t stand that ass

>>22689689

I think Ukraine is a cursed country, look up the “Bloodlands” where millions of Russians, Polish and others were killed. And Ukraine has had Nazis there for a very long time before even before the Bloodlands

13 Years: The Legacy of Andrew Breitbart: The Cultural Shift That Changed the World3/1/25

This is cool but they don’t post the link

Politics is downstream from culture. It’s a sentiment that has echoed and reverberated throughout the conservative movement for years – a sentiment that originated with our founder, Andrew Breitbart.

Andrew always knew that culture was the single most significant factor that affected political change.

It’s 2025. The establishment media’s credibility is nonexistent, and they are in disarray. The influence of Hollywood celebrities has been rendered not only impotent but a detriment to those in politics relying on their endorsements. Sports figures and musicians are doing the Trump dance at major events in front of major crowds. DEI is disappearing as quickly as it appeared, and you can wear a MAGA hat in Los Angeles.

It’s safe to say that the culture has shifted; and, as Andrew predicted, the political landscape shifted right alongside it as a result.

It’s been 13 years since we lost Andrew, but his legacy will always live on, and he will be remembered as the original fighter and the one who understood how culture truly affected politics.

Nobody understood the media/political landscape better than Andrew, and nobody knew how to take on the left and expose hypocrisy more effectively.

Three years ago we put together a video tributethat brought together so many in the conservative movement who were influenced by this media savvy raconteur who taught us not only how to fight but how to do it with humor, strength, and facts — the man who taught us all how to walk toward fire.

Please take a few minutes to hear his words which always proved to be prescient, insightful, and entertaining, as well as the words of so many conservative thought leaders who were influenced by Andrew, the Happy Warrior.

WATCH the entire tribute: LEGACY: Andrew Breitbart in his own words and those who honor him.

IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE (Individual Tributes)

Clarence Thomas

Marco Rubio

Kristi Noem

Tucker Carlson

Mark Levin

Donald J. Trump

Jesse Watters

Candace Owens

Dennis Miller

Peter Schweizer

Jeffrey Steele

Jon Voight

James O’Keefe

Ben Shapiro

Ron DeSantis

Robert Davi

Megyn Kelly

Nigel Farage

Jerome Hudson

Steven Crowder

Newt Gingrich

Mike Pence

Sean Hannity

Steve Bannon

Nikki Haley

Pete Hegseth

Joel Pollak

Alex Marlow

Tom Cotton

Michael Savage

Katie Pavlich

David Webb

Kevin McCarthy

Dennis Prager

Greg Abbott

Brandon Darby

Dana Loesch

Charlie Kirk

Donald Trump Jr.

Matt Boyle

Mike Pompeo

Sebastian Gorka

Greg Gutfeld

Kristy Swanson

John Ondrasik

Ted Cruz

Mike Huckabee

Ric Grenell

Rand Paul

Charlie Hurt

Jeanine Pirro

Sean Spicer

Glenn Beck

Marsha Blackburn

Scott Walker

Larry Elder

John Nolte

Sarah Palin

American Heart by Jon Kahn

Walk Toward the Fire — written by Jeffrey Steele and Jon Kahn

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/03/01/13-years-the-legacy-of-andrew-breitbart-the-cultural-shift-that-changed-the-world/