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@admansky.bsky.social
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Pragmatist. Idealist. Contradiction. Paradox. Human. Lifelong lefty.

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
RELEASE (ALL OF) THE EPSTEIN FILES! #ResistTrump #Ukraine #Zelensky #Putin #Diesel 7/7
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If we really have to endure the streaming of a public execution, let it be that of this wretch, a man so foul as to betray the world for the sake of his extortionist/hero – though better to let him die in ignominy, alone and broke behind bars. 6/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
And how effective will such efforts be? Recall that Trump has essentially ignored/obstructed the Epstein Transparency Act. Trump is clearly in league with Putin. There is no room for question. The man is a traitor and needs to be removed. 5/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Republican House member, Brian Fitzpatrick has introduced a bill to prohibit Trump’s move, while a bipartisan group of senators has demanded Trump reverse course, but that we have arrived at this point is the point! 4/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Particularly when Putin is working with North Korea, China and Iran – against whom the US is waging a war, a foe whose military efforts against America are aided and abetted by Putin – each supposedly a US adversary, to defeat Trump’s idiotic Iranian assault. 3/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
How is this man still in office? How are Republicans running in the midterms – as well as the dozens of GOP Senators whose seats are not contested in this cycle – so silent as America effectively allies itself with Vladimir Putin? 2/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Week 90 (of 208) 🧵 No Words (well a few!) I am dumbstruck. Donald Trump’s removal of sanctions on Russian diesel fuel might just as well be a declaration of war by the US on Ukraine. 1/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As winter sets in, however, it is Donald Trump who could easily become the hero who keeps Putin from his goal. But won’t. Why not, Donald? RELEASE (ALL OF) THE EPSTEIN FILES! #ResistTrump #Ukraine #Zelensky #BudapestMemorandum #GOP #Biden #Obama 22/22
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Many European countries are working to ensure Putin fails as they know that if he is victorious, they will soon become targets themselves. Canada and others, too, are doing what they can to support Ukraine in its hour of need. 21/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
...and brought the Russian oil industry to its knees through its own homegrown ingenuity – in the process becoming the leader in drone technology and warfare. This winter looks very difficult for Ukraine. 20/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ukraine has proved a formidable foe, a fierce and industrious defender of its territory and its people. Against all odds, it has withstood assault by a powerful enemy for longer than World War I lasted, has endured betrayal after betrayal by a supposedly allied America... 19/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
...assurances from Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom that Ukraine’s sovereignty, borders, and independence would be respected. That was before Putin was in power and before Putin’s apparent puppet, Donald Trump, was president of the United States. 18/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Three years after gaining independence, through an agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum (1994), Ukraine surrendered the third largest nuclear arsenal in the world in exchange for... 17/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Indeed, Russia has increased the intensity of its attacks and the effectiveness of them in recent weeks, many targeting civil infrastructure and densely populated areas – if ever apprehended, Putin will die in prison for his war crimes. 16/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In recent weeks, Russia has unveiled and begun using new weapons that Ukraine cannot effectively defend against, suggesting that this winter will be the hardest of the war so far. 15/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At the same time, Trump has single-handedly undermined NATO, emboldening Putin, and making all of Europe more vulnerable to Russian attack. 14/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That, too, history will likely judge a mistake, but not much of one compared to the slew of decisions Trump has made that have significantly contributed to extending the war and the suffering of the Ukrainian people. 13/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Biden stepped up with massive amounts of assistance once the war had begun, but held back on providing weapons that would have allowed Ukraine to strike back deep into Russian territory for fear of provoking Putin. 12/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
At the time, Putin thought his army would reach Kyiv in a matter of weeks and that Ukraine would easily succumb. That was almost five years ago, yet the war grinds on. 11/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
That is now largely seen as a strategic error, one that ensured Putin would face little deterrence to his ambitions and one that perhaps contributed to the overconfidence the Russian leader had when he did invade Ukraine on February 24, 2022. 10/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
But Trump was actually continuing a policy that Obama had begun when Crimea was invaded in 2014 – no lethal assistance for Ukraine. 9/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This attempt at extortion led ultimately to the release of funds after Trump’s crime was exposed by a whistleblower, a revelation that also resulted in Trump’s first impeachment. 8/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
During that phone call, Trump pressured Zelensky to investigate his Democratic opponent in the then upcoming 2020 election, Joe Biden, as well as his son, Hunter Biden. 7/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
...a suspicion that later spawned the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller (which did not exonerate Trump). In 2019, Trump withheld $400 million approved by Congress for military assistance to Ukraine just weeks before he was to speak with its president, Volodymyr Zelensky. 6/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It raised eyebrows at the time, and Trump has long denied that he was behind that change, but it further bolstered a rising a suspicion that then candidate Trump might be unduly influenced by Moscow... 5/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
...remember that in 2014 Russia occupied (and still holds) Crimea, a part of Ukraine since independence in 1991 – to a commitment for “appropriate assistance”. 4/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Way back during Trump’s first run (2016), the Republican Party, against the wishes of most Republicans, changed the language in the party’s platform that referred to level of its support of Ukraine from a commitment to provide “lethal defensive weapons” against Russian aggression – 3/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Trump’s latest assistance to Putin – and not coincidentally to sinking GOP fortunes – is an attempt to turn public opinion against Ukraine by blaming them for high diesel prices, a phenomenon arising almost entirely as a result of his own war on Iran, 2/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Week 89 (of 208) 🧵 Winter Is Coming. The War In Ukraine Is Heating Up. It’s obvious to just about everybody now that the Trump administration is aiding Putin in his war against Ukraine, even as Putin is aiding Iran in its fight against the United States. 1/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In some measure, it’s a bold break with the recent past, but overall it is the choice of cowards, of people too small to lead even the worst of us. RELEASE (ALL OF) THE EPSTEIN FILES! #ResistTrump #MarcoRubio #InternationalRulesBasedOrder #UNWeek 12/12
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s a cruel, unjust and violent world Donald, Marco and the gang want to create, one where having the largest military in the world (by far) is some kind of ticket to untold wealth and power – if only for a few. 11/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you are weaker, you are prey, if you are stronger, you are to be revered (e.g. Xi). 10/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Instead of trying to enhance the lives of people all over the world, or even in their own country, the Trump administration has chosen to retreat from any leadership role and to pursue a policy of might makes right, and outright piracy (e.g. Venezuela). 9/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
His truth reveals the degree to which the current administration fails to understand the tremendous benefits and prosperity a (relatively) peaceful, stable world with reliable norms and rules has provided the United States for the past eight decades. 8/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the view of this administration is that the number one obligation of every government is the national interest of the country.” 7/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Answering questions in New York City during UN Week, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said a few days ago that “I think the limits of international norms is your national interest. These international norms people talk about – an I have reflected this, going back to the very beginning... 6/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump does not serve the people, he serves himself. He is not working for the betterment of American lives, let alone working toward the betterment of the world. 5/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And then came Trump. With what can only be interpreted as a complete lack of care or understanding of America’s place in the world, he leveraged the ignorance and resentment of a significant like-minded populace to attain power with the goal of self-enrichment and the evasion of justice. 4/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
American administrations for 80 years understood that through the establishment of an international rules based order, not only would the lives of billions be made better, but that in so doing, Americans themselves would thrive as never before. 3/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
...after the devastation of two conflicts that had cost millions of lives and sapped the strength of nations the world over. 2/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Week 88 (of 208)🧵 Marco Rubio Reveals the Truth About the New American Mission After the Second World War, the United States assumed the mantle of global leadership, creating programs and institutions intended to foster a peaceful and prosperous future... 1/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump, I am sure, is still using the Mercator projection and its bigly Greenland. An American Greenland? Tragic indeed! RELEASE (ALL OF) THE EPSTEIN FILES! #ResistTrump #Greenland #Denmark #NATO #Sovereignty #Canada 19/19
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
That projection gives a much more accurate sense of the relative scale of land masses. The sole opposing vote to adopting the Equal Earth projection came from the United States. 18/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Earlier this month, Greenland faced a significant demotion in terms of its scale on the world map when the United Nations voted 164 to 1 to replace the Mercator projection with the Equal Earth projection in maps it uses. 17/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Mercator maps show Greenland and Africa as comparable in scale, whereas in reality Greenland is about one fourteenth the size of the continent. 16/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Greenland is vast, but our perception of its size has been greatly exaggerated thanks to the near universal use of maps that use the Mercator projection, which stretches the scale of lands the further they are from the equator. 15/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
...an outcome that would be a slap in the face to all of the countries that stood up to Trump as he threatened Greenland earlier this year. 14/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Mark Carney was right to see that as ceding Canada’s sovereignty, and to walk away with alacrity. Time will tell if Greenlandic and Danish authorities have given it all away... 13/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Canada walked away from recent trade negotiations with the Trump adminstartion, in part, over a similar issue, with the US insisting it should have power over who Canada can do trade deals with in the future. 12/
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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
And what of the people of Greenland themselves? If the agreement with the US is as broad as Trump suggests, surely they should have a say in whether or not it is implemented given it will “FOREVER” affect them. 11/
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