Topic: russia
Ukraine’s Starlink cap was real; four official accounts of it cannot all be true
Ukraine’s military Starlink lost its link above about 100 mph on Oct. 14. Musk says the U.S. government sets such limits. Trump, Rubio and Hegseth say the government set none.
Witkoff’s praise of Putin as a humanitarian clashes with the ICC and UN record
Witkoff told Putin, “You are a humanitarian also, sir,” after Russia freed a wrongfully detained American. An ICC warrant and UN findings on deported children say otherwise.
London Economic: Did Yandex Strikes Silence Reform UK’s Bots?
Ukraine struck three Yandex data centres and Cloudflare traffic crashed, but every research team tracking actual influence accounts found no significant decline.
Did a Putin-Connected Russian Official Secretly Pay for Trump Jr.’s Wedding?
ProPublica found a Kremlin-decorated IBA president paid six figures for Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding. Both claims are Mostly True, with key caveats on ‘bankrolled’ and ‘oligarch.’
Fact-Check: Trump’s Truth Social Attack on Maggie Haberman’s “Regime Change”
Trump calls the co-authored Regime Change book ‘largely fiction’ — but his own White House confirmed its accuracy. His electoral stats are mostly correct; his tape denial is unproven; his Iran…
Trump Calls for Obama’s Arrest: A Fact-Check of Every Claim
Trump posted 55 times in three hours calling for Obama’s arrest on treason charges — every specific claim he made has been investigated and debunked, most of them by Trump’s own appointees.
Hungary’s Reckoning: Orban’s Corruption, Magyar’s Revolution, and the Geopolitics of a NATO Ally Between Washington and Moscow
After 16 years of Orban’s rule, Hungary’s new PM Peter Magyar is exposing systematic corruption while navigating the country’s Cold War-rooted position between the US, Russia, and the EU.
Russian Interference, the Comey Firing, and the Long Campaign to Make It All Disappear
Russia ran a sweeping operation to elect Trump in 2016, every major investigation confirmed it, Trump fired the FBI director investigating it, pardoned those convicted by it, and is now prosecuting…