These judges are trying to play president, GOP lawmaker says
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., discusses keeping the country safe from terrorists amid President Donald Trump's battle with the judiciary on 'Hannity
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https://youtu.be/rKkjuVSMifI
Dems are trying to ‘synthesize a candidate': Adam Carolla
The Adam Carolla Show’ host Adam Carolla breaks down how Democrats lack the ability to be authentic on ‘The Ingraham
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https://youtu.be/fFLDGu2rpHA
Gutfeld: Chris Cuomo just can't let go of Trump
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the 'Gutfeld!' panel discuss comedian Tim Dillon debating Chris Cuomo over Hunter Biden’s addictive behavior.
(Fredo wants to pretend he supports Trump now, but is critical for what he’s doing, Bannon was on his show last week, and he’s still as stupid as he’s ever been. How he gets conservatives on his show is beyond me. He’s really a cheap fake because he wants to distance himself from Joe and Dems.)
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https://youtu.be/yBoXdaBnLfg
Gutfeld: Only Democrats could politicize sit-ups
Fox News host Greg Gutfeld and the 'Gutfeld!' panel discuss the Democratic Party's views on fitness. (They are so out of touch they are using Swallowell as a face of a real man on how to save the party . Ask yourself, why did they publish their plans to learn how to talk to young men. Why didn’t they try it first for some success, instead of releasing this failing movie plot Schitt probably wrote. The can’t even see that Swallowell is universally seen as a jerk, by conservatives.)
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https://youtu.be/YVWYQ9DBKkM
Watters: Biden’s former mouthpiece makes major news
Fox News host Jesse Watters gives his take on former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre switching her party affiliation to independent. A lot Dems are dishing dirt on her.
(She is so fucking outrageous pretending she wants to friends with everyone, she wants to bridge the partisan gap, but she gives her rules on how to do it; even Dems are saying she’s cringy and trying to make money. How does she imagine she’s respected and beloved? Comer needs to subpoena her, and grill her for 8 hours.)
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https://youtu.be/prTOGoyM2lQ
Biden breaks silence on autopen scandal, he knew what he was doing. Good admission maybe he can be court marshaled for being a fake President and occupied the Office
Supposedly Bidan releases this statement, I’m sure he didn’t write this. Sounds like Jill trying to build up his bullshit legacy. I’m sure the democrats want to keep him locked up at home.
>>23125186 yes true that
>>23125179 did an article come out on the whistleblower?
(KEK, Lefties Losing it in real life)
Karine Jean-Pierre is leaving the Democratic Party. Her former White House colleagues have some thoughts. 1/2
Several who worked alongside the former press secretary responded to her book announcement with derision and contempt. 6/4/25
Karine Jean-Pierre’s announcement that she’s leaving the Democratic Party — timed with the rollout of a new book —has detonated long-simmering grievancesamong her former White House colleagues about Jean-Pierre’s pursuit of celebrity and personal media exposure while serving as then-President Joe Biden’s press secretary.
The attention-grabbing ploylit up Democratic and Biden alumni texting groups and reignited frustrations that burned for years about Jean-Pierre, according to seven former Biden administration officials granted anonymity to describe private conversations.
One former official recalled thatJean-Pierre had joked about becoming an independent even while on the job in the Biden White House, an off-key commentfor someone ostensibly serving as a major messenger for the Democratic Party. Another former official said thatJean-Pierre had begun working during the Biden administration with a New York-based publicist and had copied that person on official emailsbefore some of Jean-Pierre’s White House colleagues intervened.
“Everyone thinks this is a grift,” the first former official said of Jean-Pierre’s book project.
As Biden’s press secretary, Jean-Pierre’s halting,ineffectual briefings exasperated reporters and routinely offered material for the Republican Party’s main account on X.She frustrated colleagues throughout the West Wing forfocusing on raising her own profilewhile leaving the hands-on management of media relations and the White House press shop to other aides.
While it’s unclear how she will portray Biden or her time in the White House in the book, titled “Independent: A Look Inside a Broken White House, Outside the Party Lines,”several former colleagues expressed confusion at how Jean-Pierre seemingly intends to paint Biden as a victim while pinning her own decision to leave the party on his “broken” White House.
The teasing of the book project by the Hachette imprint stated thatJean-Pierre will offer her view of the three weeks of turmoil following Biden’s miserable debatelast summer that culminated with him dropping his reelection bid, a result the book’s promotional material blames in part on “a betrayal by the Democratic party.
Jean-Pierre’s former staffers offered withering criticism of what they see as anopportunistic grift.
“She made a joke about being an independent last year and now it’s a book. All ideas are monetary — even the dumb ones,” said one of the former staffers.
Caitlin Legacki, a Democratic strategist who worked in the Commerce Department’s communications shop during Biden’s term, also took issue with the book’s apparent premise.
“Kamala Harris and the entire Biden/Harris campaign did hero’s work (KEK) to avoid losing 400 electoral votes and giving Republicans a supermajority in Congress, which is what would have happened if he stayed on the ticket,” she said. “It’s more productive to focus on that, and thank Biden for doing the responsible thing by stepping aside, than it is to pretend this was an unwarranted act of betrayal.”
Democrats, Legacki continued, should shift their focus to the effects of Republican’s “Big Beautiful Bill. “People will literally die because of Republican Medicaid cuts. Kids will go hungry because of SNAP cuts,” she said. “The only reason we stand a chance to reduce the harm inflicted is the Democratic Party did the right thing here.It’s completely nuts to be more upset that the Party didn’t prioritize Joe Biden’s ego and keep him on the ticket than to thank god we averted complete and total disaster.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/04/karine-jean-pierre-leaving-democratic-party-00385060
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A New York-based publicist,Gilda Squire, worked informally with Jean-Pierre while she was in the White Houseand was, on multiple occasions, copied on official emails before staffers raised the issue, another former official said. Squire previously served as publicity director for HarperCollins Publishers and also did PR for Penguin Putnam Publishing, according to her LinkedIn. And Jean-Pierre was the subject of several lengthy profiles in lifestyle publications, including Vogue and Women’s Health and traveled to New York to appear on The View.
At one point, staffers raised Jean-Pierre’s frequent interactions from the White House with Squire to the White House counsel’s office, as well asher frequent public appearances at galas and other events she attended in a personal capacity, according to two former officials familiar with the matter.
The Office of Legal Counsel did provide clear guidanceon the requirements fordisclosing outside appearances and any gifts received to Jean-Pierre’s staff, who conveyed the information to her, the two former officials said.
According to one of the former officials and another former official,Jean-Pierre had been hoping for a post-White House job as a co-host on The View, following the template of her predecessor, Jen Psaki, who departed the job after just more than a year for an anchor job at MSNBC.
But no such opportunity materializedfor Jean-Pierre, a factor three of her former colleagues surmised that likely led to the book.
While a number of former colleagues kept their comments private,Jeremy Edwards, who served in the press shop under Jean-Pierre, posted a succinct response to her book project on X: “lol.”
Jean-Pierre wouldn’t be the first press secretary in recent years to turn against her boss or former colleagues. Stephanie Grisham; But whereas Grisham was never allowed to brief at the podium,Jean-Pierre was the public face of the administration for two and half years.
One Democratic operative who worked with Jean-Pierre prior to her White House tenurecalled the sudden turnabout “the most grift-y thing I’ve seen in a long time, and that’s saying something in Washington.”
“SHE was the public face telling us all that this White House was on track and that Biden was amazing. And now she doesn’t even want to be a Democrat????” one of the former Biden White House officials said via text. “She’s making herself the middle ground here when Republicans hate her. She’s not in any position to be a connector of our two party system and assuming she could be, is just ego.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/04/karine-jean-pierre-leaving-democratic-party-00385060
KEK more staffers should write more books on Bidan and the WH, the Dems lose their minds when they are all grifters
Trump 101: Inside world leaders’ playbook for surviving the Oval Office meeting
Trump’s meetings are unpredictable. This is how foreign leaders prepare.
ELI STOKOLS, ROBBIE GRAMER and NICK TAYLOR-VAISEY 06/05/2025
(This is pathetic but funny)1/2
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer came carrying a signed letter from the king. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa brought along two golf champs.Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney repeatedly practiced his elevator pitch ahead of his Oval Office meeting.
On Thursday, it’s German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s turn to meet with President Donald Trump. Ahead of his first White House visit,the German press has offered some unsolicited advice: lean into their shared affinity for golf.
Numerous foreign leaders have invested heavily in the choreography of a face-to-face with the U.S. president. The meetings, which U.S. officials have downplayed as “just another world leader coming to visit,” come with huge stakes at home and abroad for those leaders. How to handle a mercurial American president prone to ambushing his guests requires unique preparation.
“How to survive your Trump meeting,” as an American lobbyist who advises foreign governments calls it, has become a cottage industry for lobbyists, consultants and national security experts in Washington. That’s according to interviews with a dozen government officials, diplomats and advisers.
Most of these officials were granted anonymity to speak openly about how foreign governments manage Trump.
Even Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his team prepared assiduously, hearing from key Republicans on Capitol Hill what amounted to a ‘Trump 101’ crash course on how to engage with the president, according to three congressional staffers and two other people briefed on the matter.
That now infamous meeting went off the rails anyway — exponentially increasing the anxiety of other world leaders about taking part in Trump’s newest reality show, an unscripted Oval Office get-to-know-you session featuring several Cabinet officials and playing out live before the White House press corps and broadcast instantly around the world.
The Zelenskyy meeting “was a real ‘oh shit’ moment for other leaders,” said one senior U.S. congressional aide familiar with the planning that went into that meeting. “They saw this public gauntlet they’d have to run. How do I avoid the Dumpster fire Zelenskyy fell into?”
Managing Trump is nothing new for foreign leaders who saw how the U.S. president operated during his first term.But the efforts to coddle a lifelong public performer, who can shift quickly from charming to contentious, have intensified since Trump took office for the second time in January, noticeably more confident and far less restrained in his approach to the job.
“What Zelenskyy went through was a huge lesson learned for other world leaders. Without a doubt,everyone’s been studying that really closely,” said another American who engages with the Ukrainian government on how to manage U.S. ties.
Japan’s new prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba,the second head of state invited to the White House after Trump’s inauguration,prepared for his early February visit by studying graphics showing Japan as the top foreign investor in the U.S.and brainstorming with aides about what demands Trump might make, Ishiba’s aides said at the time. When asked by reporters during his Oval Office sit-down what he thought of the president, Ishiba said, through a translator,that Trump’s television career made him “intimidating” but that he was “powerful” and “sincere” in person.
Carney, whose condemnations of Trump’s bullying “51st State” rhetoric propelled his Liberal coalition to an unlikely electoral victory this spring, spoke with several official and informal advisers in the run-up to his post-election White House visit in early May. One person who spoke with the prime minister, granted anonymity to discuss the private conversation, said they counseled him to distill his message into a couple clear phrases and repeat them as needed.
“With Trump, you want to make sure there is one core sentence, even two to three core sentences you are going to find a way to get out no matter what,” the person who advised Carney continued. “And you don’t need to talk that much. Let him speak.”
Carney followed the advice, emphasizing that Canada was “not for sale” but that the two countries were “stronger when they work together.” It proved effective in lowering the temperature: Trump complimented Carney’s initial statement and, shortly after the prime minister left the White House, described the conversation as a “great meeting” with “no tension.” (Carney just sat there and couldn’t get a word in, he was not impressive at all)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/05/trump-world-leader-meetings-prep-00387802
(==Really this is hilarious)
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The person said they gave the same advice to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre before his White House visit in late April. Pp“The reason the Zelenskyy meeting went so badly was Zelenskyy was trying to spar like an equal,” they said. “That is not allowed in the meeting.”==
The risk of entering Trump’s lion’s den can be worth the reward for world leaders. Trump pared back his musings of acquiring Canada as a 51st state after the meeting with Carney. Finnish President Alexander Stubb, who traveled to Mar-a-Lago in late March just to play a round of golf with Trump, later convinced the U.S. president to reverse a decision on building icebreakers and purchase those ships from Finland.
South Africa’s Ramaphosa, who similarly tried to connect with Trump over golf by bringing (White==) South African golfers Retief Goosen and Ernie Els with him to the White House, received a harsher treatment. Trump, eager to highlight unfounded allegations about a “genocide” targeting South Africa’s white farmers, turned down the lights and played on a television wheeled into the Oval an unsourced video of what he said were gravesites.
Forced into a defensive posture, Ramaphosa expressed uncertainty about the scenes depicted but did not directly criticize Trump, even as he tried to dispel the notion that a genocide was occuring. However awkward his meeting, the South African leader, unlike Zelenskyy months earlier, managed to avoid a bigger blow-up.
Brian Clow, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s top adviser during Trump’s first term and the early days of the ongoing trade war,revealed the blueprint for dealing with the president.
“Even if Trump says some outrageous things, you’ve got to choose if you’re going to interject or disagree — because it may be counterproductive in the long term if you get into too much of a back and forth.” Translation: don’t get Zelenskyy-ed.
Clow’s next piece of advice: vibes matter. “You’ve got to prepare for the overall toneand approach that you want to take,” Clow said. “That can be just as important as the policy issues.”
He suggested calling up the White House in advance, Clow said: “Scope out how conversations might go,what could come up. That can actually influence how the meeting itself goes.”
But preparation can only go so far with a U.S. president famous for unpredictability, Clow said.In March, Trump raised an obscure 1908 border treaty with Trudeau as he mused about erasing the border between the two countries. Trudeau was forced to deflect ian the moment.
The big takeaway:
“Tread carefully,” Clow advised anybody who walks into the Oval Office. “This is Trump’s show, and you’ve got to let him do his thing.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/05/trump-world-leader-meetings-prep-00387802
(I would say, these steps seem like things you’d do in any high level meeting, did these people really need this advice? They saw and worked with him for four years, his unpredictability is pretty predictable. That’s why we love him.)
KEK:Translation: don’t get Zelenskyy-ed.And when it comes to apology do it yourself, or don’t let it be known that France wrote the apology Zelensky sent via X.
I love this video
“Every once in a while, the lion has to show the jackals who he is.”
5 Jun, 2025 11:10
Pentagon redirects missile components from Kiev to own forces – WSJ
Fuzes meant for Ukraine’s air defense have been diverted to US units in the Middle East, according to the outlet
The Pentagon has redirected key missile components originally intended for Ukraine’s air defense to American forces in the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing a confidential notification sent to Congress last week.The move comes as US President Donald Trump has been winding down support for Ukraine since entering office.
According to the WSJ, the moveconcerns proximity fuzes used in ground-based Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System(APKWS) – a guided rocket system thatUkraine has reportedly been using for the past several yearsto shoot down drones. The fuzes were acquired under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative under former US President Joe Biden. Although funding for the initiative has already been spent, previously approved shipments are still scheduled to arrive in Ukraine later this year and the next.
However, the WSJ has claimed thatUS Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized the transfer of the fuzes via an internal memo last month, designating it as a “Secretary of Defense Identified Urgent Issue.” The decision was reportedly communicated to the Senate Armed Services Committee, although the Pentagon has declined to comment publicly.
Citing anonymous sources and internal documents, the WSJ said the US Air Force intends touse the reallocated fuzes in rockets mounted on F-16 and F-15E fighter jets. The redirection was permitted under an emergency military spending bill passed last year.
Celeste Wallander, who served as a senior Defense Department official during the Biden administration, told the WSJ that while the systems have been “vital” to Ukraine’s air defense, there is also an “urgent requirement to protect US personnel and basesin the Middle East against Houthi and potentially Iranian drone attacks.”
The WSJ reportcomes after Hegseth skipped a NATO meeting this week focused on coordinating military aid to Ukraine.
It marked thefirst time the head of the Pentagon had misseda gathering of the group and came amid Hegseth’s repeated criticism of continued US involvement in the Ukraine conflict.
President Trump has frequently questioned continued military support for Ukraine, and has called for the conflict to be resolved diplomatically while pushing Moscow and Kiev to reach a peace deal.
Russian officials have condemned foreign arms shipments to Kiev throughout the conflict, arguing they will not alter the course of the war but will lead to further escalation and casualties.
(Since Zelensky says he’s never paying back the U.S. for billions, take all the equipment back.)
https://www.rt.com/news/618682-us-redirects-kiev-missile-components/
5 Jun, 2025 07:36
Trump views Zelensky as ‘bad guy’ – NYT
The US president believes that the Ukrainian leader “is edging the world to the precipice of nuclear war,” the report says
US President Donald Trump is frustrated with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, seeing him as a “bad guy” who is pushing the world closer to nuclear conflict, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing sources.
Unnamed Trump advisers told the NYT that the president is “exasperated” with both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Zelensky,but “reserves special animosity” for the Ukrainian leader, who he has publicly criticized on several occasions.
AlthoughTrump has said it is “understandable”that Ukraine wants to keep fighting, his stance toward Zelensky is notably harsher than toward Putin, the report says. The US president reportedly tends to be more deferential to his Russian counterpart, and previously believed that their “very, very good relationship” would help end the conflict. Because of this, he has thus far refrained from imposing new sanctions on Moscow. (Putin is a World Leader, Zelensky is a fake president of a shithole country, plus there’s much more history with Russia as an ally.)
On Wednesday, the two leaders held a 75-minute phone conversation in which Trump said they discussed Ukraine’s recent attack on Russian airbases that reportedly host strategic aircraft. “President Putin did say, and very strongly, that he will have to respond to the recent attack on the airfields,” Trump said.
The Kremlin confirmed the conversation. Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov said Putin informed Trump of Ukraine’s efforts to derail peace talks between Moscow and Kiev, including “terrorist” attacks on civilian targets. Ushakov was apparently referring to incidents of railroad sabotage in the regions of Bryansk and Kursk in which seven people died and more than 100 were injured.
Following the call,Zelenskyposted a statement on Telegram, saying:“If the world reacts weakly to Putin’s threats, then he perceives this as the world’s readiness to turn a blind eye to his actions… If the strong do not stop Putin, it means that they share responsibility with him.”(Fuck Off Zelensky, you are a coward. Be careful Z, be very careful!)
Trump previously engaged in a public spat with Zelensky when the two met at the White House in late February. At the time, the US president accused Zelensky of “gambling with World War III,” and of being “disrespectful” and ungrateful for American support.
https://www.rt.com/news/618671-trump-views-zelensky-bad-guy/
5 Jun, 2025 07:37
Ukrainian general reassigned days after stepping down
Mikhail Drapaty’s abrupt return reveals increasing infighting among military leaders, reports have claimed
Ukrainian General Mikhail Drapaty has been assigned to a top military post just days after submitting his resignation as the head of Ukraine’s Land Forces.The move comes amid reports of increased infighting among senior Ukrainian military officials.
Kiev’s forces have experienced setbacks on the battlefield since late 2023, following an attempted counteroffensive that failed to breach Russian defenses. Reports of mounting frustration and internal tensions have circulated as battlefield momentum has shifted in Russia’s favor.
Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky announced on Tuesday that Drapaty – who had resigned afteraccepting responsibility for fatal Russian strikes on military training sites– will now lead aspecialized command established in 2020 to help align Ukraine’s armed forces with NATO operational methods. The position is currently tasked with overseeing frontline operations against Russia.
In his new role, Drapaty will “focus solely on combat issues,” while a separate appointee will manage troop training, Zelensky said. The move is part of a broader reshuffle within Ukraine’s military leadership.
Announcing his resignation,Drapaty had criticized the Ukrainian military’s failure to learn from past mistakes or to hold senior officers accountable. He condemned what he described as a culture of mutual self-protection within senior ranks, calling it “poison for the army” and sayingUkraine “cannot win” without reforms to its armed forces. Drapaty reiterated his call for changes in a statement confirming his reassignment.
Critics blame entrenched interests in the Ukrainian military for pervasive corruption, disregard for soldiers’ lives, tendency to cover up battlefield problems from superiors up the command chain, and impunity for wrongdoing.
Several media outlets have interpreted Drapaty’s remarks as a veiled critique of General Aleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s commander-in-chief. Commentary on the Strana.ua website has suggested that Zelensky’s leadership shake-up may have been designed to balance influence between Syrsky’s supporters and dissenting voices within the military.
Zelensky dismissed Syrsky’s predecessor, General Valery Zaluzhny, in early 2024 after Zaluzhny publicly questioned Kiev’s strategic outlook. He argued that the conflict with Russia had reached a stalemate, contradicting public assurances from civilian leaders. Zaluzhny was sacked from the military and appointed ambassador to the UK.
The Ukrainian military has since undergone multiple reshuffles of leadership, as the situation on the frontline increasingly turned in Russia’s favor. Drapaty was given command of the Land Forces in November 2024.
(The U.S. Military never air their dirty laundry like this, Ukraine is a mess.)
https://www.rt.com/russia/618645-drapaty-new-command-zelensky/
5 Jun, 2025 13:01
Kremlin confirms Putin warning after Ukrainian drone strikes
US President Donald Trump previously said Vladimir Putin has warned him of an upcoming response
Russian President Vladimir Putin told his US counterpart, Donald Trump, that Moscow would respond to Ukraine’s recent attacks on Russian airbases, the Kremlin has confirmed.
Following a phone call with Putin on Wednesday, Trump announced on his Truth Social account that the two leaders had discussed Ukraine’s recent drone strikes on docked Russian airplanes and “various other attacks.” According to Trump, Putin had told him “very strongly that he will have to respond” to the attacks.
Speaking to journalists on Thursday, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Putin had told Trump about an upcoming response. However, Peskov did not disclose any details about what theretaliation would entail, stating only that it would be carried out “when and how our military deems appropriate.”
Ukrainian drones hit multiple Russian airbases on Sunday in a coordinated assault. Targets ranged from Murmansk in the Arctic to Irkutsk in Siberia.
Kiev claims the strikes damaged or destroyed approximately 40 Russian military aircraft, including Tu-95 and Tu-22 long-range bombers. Moscow, however, has stated that the aircraft were only damaged and would undergo repairs.
Kiev also committed railway sabotage over the weekend, killing at least seven people and injuring over 110 in Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk regions.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB)also reported on Thursday that an explosive device had damaged a railway track in Voronezh Region, and that the blast had occurred “directly in front of an approaching train.”
Severe consequences were only prevented by “the professional actions of the train driver and crew, who noticed the track damage and carried out emergency braking,” the agency added.
Putin has described the railway sabotage incidents as “undoubtedly a terrorist act”committed by the “illegitimate regime in Kiev,”claiming that it was “gradually turning into a terrorist organization.”
Shortly after Trump and Putin’s phone call on Wednesday, the US Embassy in Kiev issued a security alert, warning of a “continued risk of significant air attacks.” The US State Department has advised Americans currently in Ukraine to identify shelter locations in advance and keep reserves of water, food, and medication.
(Putin warned him because there are a lot of Americans there, which was very nice.)
https://www.rt.com/russia/618690-kremlin-confirms-putin-warning/
5 Jun, 2025 12:38
NATO aspirant reining in pro-bloc propaganda
Georgia is set to fold a 20-year-old NGO advocating Western integration into the Foreign Ministry
The Georgian government is setto fold a media center promoting Western integration into the Foreign Ministry, according to its director.
The Information Center on NATO and EU, based in Tbilisi, was launched in 2005 under then-President Mikhail Saakashvili to build public support for Georgia’s membership in both blocs.
An employee at the Center said in a social media post on Wednesday thathe had received formal notification indicating the outlet would be closed by July 1.Director Tamara Tsuleiskiri later clarified that the NGO’s functions would continue under the Foreign Ministrybut that the current legal structure would be dissolved. Georgian officials confirmed the restructuring to the news agency Interpress.
In 2008, NATO designated Georgia and Ukraine as potential future members, despite objections from several European leaders over concerns that the move would antagonize Moscow, which perceives the US-led military bloc as expansionist and hostile.
Months later, Saakashvili launched a military operation against the then-breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia, during which Russian peacekeepers stationed in the area were killed. Moscow responded swiftly, leading to a military defeat for Georgia, and shortly after recognized the region’s independence.
The failed gamble damaged Saakashvili’s popularity and paved the way for the rise of the Georgian Dream party, which has taken a more skeptical view of the West.
Last August, on the anniversary of the conflict, the party’s ruling council issued a statement alleging that Saakashvili’s actions “were not a result of his mental instability,but a result of instructions from the outside and a well-planned betrayal.”
Georgian Dream secured a sweeping victory in parliamentary elections last October. A coalition of pro-Western parties claimed the vote was rigged and launched street protests aimed at forcing the new government to step down. The EU and the US expressed support for the opposition’s tactics —actions the Georgian government described as foreign interference.
Georgian officials have accused the opposition of mimicking the strategy used in Ukrainein 2014 during the Western-backed Maidan coup. They have also alleged they are facing foreign pressure for not aligning with Kiev in its conflict with Moscow.Western nations, meanwhile, have accused the =current government of “undermining democracy” by passing legislation that mandates disclosure of foreign grants by domestic political organizations==. (They implemented FARA just like the U.S., the EU doesn’t like that because they pay NGOs to enact color revolutions, to force them into the EU control.)
Georgia has suspended accession talks with Brussels due to the tensions, but says it still seeks eventual membership in both the EU and NATO.
(The EU is not going to exist, or must be reformed in a couple of years, it’s no longer a joint economic council it’s become a corrupt political coalition.)
https://www.rt.com/russia/618684-georgia-nato-eu-center/
5 Jun, 2025 11:29
Russia bans British Council
The prosecutor general has designated the organization as “undesirable” for promoting the UK’s interests under the guise of teaching English
The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has banned the British Council from operating in the country,accusing it of spreading LGBTQ propaganda and undermining Russia’s domestic and foreign policy.
An official statement on Thursday accused thecouncil of portraying itself as an independent organization while aligning its activities with UK government priorities, reporting to the British Parliament, and receiving funding from the UK Foreign Office.
“Under the guise of educational and cultural work, including various outreach events and English language teaching, the Council in fact promotes long-term British interests and values in the fields of education, culture, and youth policy,” the Prosecutor General’s Office stated.
Russian prosecutors also accused the British Council of being involved in promoting and supporting the LGBTQ movement, which is banned in Russia, and implementing projects aimed at “systematically discrediting Russia’s domestic and foreign policy.”
According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, one of thecouncil’s objectives is to “eradicate Russian identity among the populations of former Soviet republics,” including as part of a consortium with other organizations designated as undesirable. In particular, the British Council is implementing a program of so-called “cultural engagement” designed to unite the Baltic community around an anti-Russian agenda, officials claimed.
Prosecutors were referring to the former Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, which have taken a hardline anti-Russian stance since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, showing particular hostility toward the significant Russian minorities living in these countries.
The British Council, established in 1934 and registered as a charity in the UK, once operated more than a dozen offices across Russia. In 2007, the Russian Foreign Ministry ordered the council to shut down its offices outside Moscow, accusing it of violating tax regulations. In March 2018, the council was told to cease operations in Russia, citing unresolved issues over its legal status.
Last month, Moscow banned the London-based NGO Amnesty International for allegedly preparing global Russophobic projects and supporting the Ukrainian military.
In April, Russia alsooutlawed the US-based NGO Hope Harbor Society, designating it as “undesirable” over allegations of funding the Ukrainian militaryand coordinating anti-Russian protests in the US and abroad. The Elton John AIDS Foundation received the same designation, with authorities accusing it of promoting a pro-LGBTQ agenda in Russia.
Organizations given the “undesirable”designation are prohibited from operating in Russia, while individuals or entities found providing financial or other forms of support to them may face legal consequences.
https://www.rt.com/russia/618677-russia-bans-british-council/
US Congress had hearings yesterday on NGOs leading to the conclusion they make no money, they take money to undermine America! Cut them all loose. They are deadly to countries, families and children.