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  1. https://apnews.com/article/beef-argentina-us-consumers-prices-f7fadbe1b3fef4646f9c3623f901209a Tens of billions of dollars to bail out Argentinian farmers Buying beef from Argentina’s farmers Because of the tariff war, China is buying soybeans from Argentina that they would have bought from American farmers American farmers:
  2. Donald Trump said that during his talks with Volodymyr Zelensky, the idea of handing over Donbas to Russia was “never discussed.” According to him, the talks were only about freezing hostilities along the current front line. Earlier, The Washington Post reported that Vladimir Putin allegedly proposed to Trump ending the war in exchange for parts of the occupied Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions. Meanwhile, Financial Times claimed that Trump echoed Putin’s talking points and urged Zelensky to withdraw Ukrainian troops from Donbas, warning that otherwise Russia could “destroy” Ukraine The President of Ukraine revealed that it was U.S. Special Envoy Witkoff who brought up the idea of Ukraine giving up Donbas during their meeting in Washington. Zelensky responded firmly, saying that Russia’s so-called “referendums” were a farce conducted after the occupation. “The Russians claim they held a vote among ‘their people,’ but between the invasion and that so-called ‘referendum,’ ten years passed,” he said. When Witkoff referred to the fact that the results of these “referendums” were written into Russia’s Constitution, Zelensky replied: “If tomorrow Putin adds something else there — are we supposed to give it up again? And if I add two Russian regions to Ukraine’s Constitution, will they withdraw from those territories?”
  3. Real leadership Lithuanian Foreign Minister: “The only European city where Putin should end up is The Hague” Kęstutis Budrys said this before the start of the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Luxembourg. Budrys also stressed that he does not consider it possible for Putin’s plane to fly through Lithuanian airspace and advised the dictator to look for alternatives. It is the only road of this class that directly connects Poland with Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania Via Baltica plays a crucial role in the region’s security, defense, and economic development.
  4. One or two might be looking up, but yeah. Meanwhile, Orenburg appears to have another fire Local residents report a new fire at the Orenburg Gas Processing Plant. Eyewitnesses are posting videos of smoke, but regional emergency officials insist there’s “no fire.” Sure — the atmosphere just got a little overheated. A day earlier, the facility was already attacked by drones: according to Governor Yevgeny Solntsev, part of the infrastructure was damaged and one of the workshops caught fire.
  5. North of Austin, about 45 minutes out.
  6. This is the stuff of Tom Clancy novels - something spooked Xi pretty bad. Obviously, they were probably all corrupt like any highly-ranked Chinese official, but this size of a purge possibly means he heard one or more were plotting against him, or that somebody was plotting against him and he wasn't sure who. You also do that kind of stuff to break whatever hold they have on the forces/organizations that they control, because you can't trust them to follow your orders. It's extremely interesting. The fact that one was so highly-ranked and a Politburo member is something to watch.
  7. So how are tariffs doing? The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States" - WSJ What about American farmers?
  8. Yeah, I don't know what Venezuela promised Trump, but they aren't out of the woods yet - US Navy has moved 3 of their fleet replenishment oilers down there. You only do that if you expect a lot of naval activity.
  9. So are Robotaxis driving at night? Because I see Waymos driving at night.
  10. Or Embry-Riddle for that matter.
  11. This is the kind of shit that will take off with AI/is taking off. NSFW They are fucking with photos of Mariska Hargitay's mom and Sasha Alexander's mother-in-law.
  12. Putin really got Sweden off the fence
  13. We were camping this weekend, went to bed last night and it was in the low 70s, got up around 4am and it was in the mid/low 60s. Went back to sleep for a few hours. It was glorious. It wasn't glorious getting into town and getting a cell phone signal and seeing what transpired with Kentucky last night.
  14. A President of the United States still echoing Putin's talking points. I can just imagine him if he saw Red Dawn back in 1984 - "I don't know why those kids didn't just surrender when Soviet, Cuban and Nicaraguan soldiers landed in Colorado. The war was clearly over." The only good thing is he despises losing and there's no way Russia can sustain the current campaign against their O&G by the Ukrainians, and they damned sure can't cover it up, so he'll look like an idiot when Russians are standing in line for gas and can't heat their homes this winter. The flip side is we are apparently doing to Venezuela what Russia tried to do to Ukraine, and that's exactly the kind of thing Trump understands - hostile takeovers. I would like to think Zelenskyy knew they wouldn't get Tomahawks (it's been obvious for a while) but wanted something lesser so by asking for something he can't get he gets something lesser, and Trump thinks he's snubbing him by giving him something lesser. But it didn't sound like anything productive other than the US continuing to give up leadership of the free world. As somebody pointed out, "We went from all of Ukraine to surrendering, to the four oblasts and Crimea to now just Donetsk lol"
  15. It's now a "fire at a workshop" and never "damaged a single-point-of-failure processing tower thing that the whole refinery relies on and if it goes out of commission the refinery is shut down".
  16. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-drones-cause-fire-russian-gas-plant-governor-says-2025-10-19/
  17. @PTINS don’t know if this a new thing but Ukraine apparently trying to finish off fuel depots and the like hence the second and third strikes.
  18. Who knew we would become Russia. So whose resources are we after now?
  19. Mr. Art of the Deal is ensuring that Massie will vote to release the files.
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