Ukraine Independence Day

24 Sunday Aug 2025

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Ukraine’s Monster — Barbaric Russia : Black Thursday | Holodomor | Invasion of Crimea | Invasion of Donbas.

Also Related on BackChannels

FTAC: Endemic Russian Anti-Semitism — A Note
Linkage: Israel-Ukraine; Russia-Dictatorships & Terrorists

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American Coward and Sellout – Donald Trump Hands Over Ukraine

16 Saturday Aug 2025

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The slings and arrows of outrageous slurs — “vile ignoramus” has become my latest favorite — appear never to reach the armored, delusional, malignantly narcissistic, and unreachable Ill Trumpolini (another fave). His realm: mafia realpolitik along the lines of “your money or your wife” — or both (plus other “property”) according to Jeffrey Epstein via assorted reportage. This week, he predictably added to his ignominious reputation by offering Putin everything asked for: expanded land assets for Russia; the submission of Ukraine to Russia; the abandonment of Ukraine by NATO to Russia.

Related in the News: https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/15/trump-putin-alaska-meeting-summit-news-updates | Elsewhere: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/08/16/ukraine-washington-zelensky-russia-trump/; https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/us/politics/trump-putin-summit-ukrainians.html.

Related for Background: https://www.reuters.com/article/world/toppled-mafia-president-cost-ukraine-up-to-100-billion-prosecutor-says-idUSBREA3T0KA/ | https://transparency.eu/corruption-opulence-and-decadence-in-ukraine/ | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Donbas | https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/02/24/ukraines-black-thursday/

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A Note on Archaic Moscow, Modern Integrity, the Palestinians, and Feudal-Medieval Mafia.

02 Saturday Aug 2025

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I don’t do “Hasbara”, i.e., Jewish or Israeli public relations.

I’m not interested in promoting American “Yankee Doodle” flapjack about the genius of the American Enterprise in Democracy, especially when that “democracy has served up a foreign infection for its head of state (related: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/19/detecting-post-soviet-russias-black-narrative-of-revenge-for-89-and-91/; https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/29/czechoslovakia-spied-on-trump-to-exploit-ties-to-highest-echelons-of-us-power; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2024/11/08/well-have-it-fixed-so-good-said-donald-trump/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2025/02/18/trump-piracy-board-disarm-and-plunder-the-united-states-of-america/; https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property–find the same on X through the hash tag #RussiaRussiaRussia).

My interest: American modern culture and related art and humanism–and expressive of it, my own American neighborhood.

With Donald Trump in power, American may share the feeling of being marched forward into a past characterized by the power of feudal-medieval mafia to (in retrospect, inevitably) destroy themselves.

How many Americans — how many American neighbors — sunk in hunger or pain will quietly dissolve before power into a living death–or death–without a fight for their right to the dignity of their existence beneath the security umbrella of a nation that has their back?

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On my desktop earlier today: https://www.kyleorton.com/p/nyt-media-coverage-israel-hamas-gaza.

Moscow and its manipulation Palestinian “leaders” have lied to Palestinians for decades as regards their Jewish neighbors. Kyle Orton’s astute observation of plain factual “pro-Palestinian” errors may provide the fuel for a right revolutionary fire against . . . lies, for both Israelis and Palestinians might benefit from the kind of truth that may be questioned, explored with integrity, and affirmed, corrected, or trashed.

The study finds that the Times admitted seventy-two errors in its coverage of the war, forty-eight of them (fully two-thirds) directly against Israel. It is a point that authors do not stress, but should have: there is not a single case of false Times reporting that negatively affected the image of HAMAS. If incompetence was all that was going on here, the “mistakes” would not all be in the same direction. As telling on this point, the “errors were identified by external sources” and when corrections were issued they were often “late, vague, and sometimes evasive”.

Orton goes on to cover bias, deceptions, and misrepresentations in The New York Times‘ reporting on the Israeli-Hamas war.

For denizens of the American Far Left (or Far Right) one would think carelessness with information would be resented–the same informs the equivalent of lies with intent to manipulate popular perception while massaging along the way egos with malign narcissistic, partisan, and ultimately only selfish ends. They are those who worry about how they may look rather than how things are and what might bring improvements in security and in the enjoyment of life.

So why play along with falsehoods?

Palestinians have been basically bullshitted into slavery (as well as certain suicide-by-war and death) by their own (related on this blog: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2021/07/26/ftac-palestinian-kgb-the-palestinians-abused-and-plundered-by-their-own/).

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Criminals, including political ones, advance their interests through coercion (blackmail, bribery, intimidation, and patronage), fraud (misrepresentations), and force (violence). Any in and of the modern west may only wonder how some in and near Gaza may feel about being bullied, essentially, into a compliant posture toward retrograde and vicious power.

Above: Palestinians kill one another during the 2007 “Battle for Gaza“.

The interests of modern societies are not in power but in area-wide qualities of living of concern to the health of environments and of species supported, much including our own. For assorted cavemen, cowards, and criminals, coercive power, corruption, and wealth appear all that matter.

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Malignarcs: Ali the Thief; VladolphPutler; Mafia Don.

18 Wednesday Jun 2025

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The malignant narcissists share the same hidden misery in their fear of public humiliation and shame. Never give in, never give up, never back down? In modern life, cooperation, dignity, and freedom win for independent, modern, responsible, and responsive mentalities–cognizance, consciousness, emotion, and empathy comprising human virtues and nothing like the “mind viruses” of feudal-medieval mafia, all of them damaged goods made callous and deadened by their earliest experiences and adult excesses. Call them what they have been always: criminals and political criminals.

Ali the Thief

The 82-year-old Iranian woman keeps the documents that upended her life in an old suitcase near her bed. She removes them carefully and peers at the tiny Persian script.

There’s the court order authorizing the takeover of her children’s three Tehran apartments in a multi-story building the family had owned for years. There’s the letter announcing the sale of one of the units. And there’s the notice demanding she pay rent on her own apartment on the top floor.

Pari Vahdat-e-Hagh ultimately lost her property. It was taken by an organization that is controlled by the most powerful man in Iran: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. She now lives alone in a cramped, three-room apartment in Europe, thousands of miles from Tehran.

Stecklow, Steve, Babak Dehghanpisheh, and Yeganeh Torbati. “Khamenei controls massive financial empire built on property seizures.” Series: Assets of the Ayatollah: The economic empire behind Iran’s supreme leader. Reuters, November 11, 2013.

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For Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the image and power of his most pious religious position covers, in fact, an immensely ruthless callousness, greed, and self-aggrandizing and entirely self-serving madness. Man of God? Man of Peace? Thief, evidently, and murderer in his own feudal-medieval political and religious mode: see NCRI, “Iran: Khamenei’s New Record in Execution and Crimes, January 2, 2025.

Vladolph Putler

Putin’s pretext for his 2014 invasion of Crimea along with Donetsk and Luhansk–the Donbas–had been his duty to save a surrounded Russian culture in Ukraine–and never mind the comfortability of complacent Russian enclaves in Ukraine–from the bogey of Ukrainian tyranny, a thought as faked up and self-serving as his hallucinated Ukrainian Nazis. As a delusional and surreal malignant narcissist, the not-so-great Russian leader and mediocre mafia, secret police, and political thug had intended to make himself look like a hero. Instead, he provoked Russians in Ukraine to fight with Ukraine, and not a few of them as Russian partisans for Ukraine in Russia.

Today by way of Putin’s petulant lunacy, Russia has suffered more than a million military casualties of war. Financial losses appear immeasurable for their being multiple dimensions involved but staggering in the region of $100 billion and up (query AI on “Russia’s financial losses related to invasions of Ukraine”), and the direct losses to its defense appear in the Odessa Journal (June 18, 2025) approximately as follows — note: I’ve made the list alpha, adjusted typography for this blog, and edited with, I hope, experienced judgment:

Estimated total Russian combat losses from 24.02.22 to 18.06.25

Russian Military Casualties of War: about 1007160 (+1040) persons. Note: more than one thousand Russian soldiers have been dying per day in Ukraine. The numbers in parentheses indicate expected additional losses at the time of initial publication.

  • aircraft: 416 (+0)tanks: 10947 (+7)
  • anti-aircraft systems: 1187 (+0)
  • artillery systems: 29265 (+37)
  • boats: 28 (+0)
  • cruise missiles: 3369 (+23)
  • helicopters: 337 (+0)
  • MLRS: 1420 (+1)
  • special equipment: 3916 (+0)
  • submarines: 1 (+0)
  • troop-carrying AFVs:22845 (+31)
  • UAV operational-tactical level: 41165 (+184)
  • vehicles and fuel tanks: 52312 (+137)
  • warships: 28 (+0)

What kind of crazy drives a dictator? And what might turn him off?

From January 20, 2023 on this blog: “FTAC: Why Putin Won’t Stop Until Stopped.”

Vladolph has yet to do anything that would refute the psychology involved. In his own head, his posture appears courageous, heroic, and unassailable, and that’s what he believes he must project. There is no reasoning with his mentality.

Donald Trump has turned out the same way.

Mafia Don

I’ve published this bloc a time or two on X:

https://money.cnn.com/2016/03/28/news/trump-apartment-tenants/; https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-tenants-lawsuit/2020/12/04/db4a82e6-367a-11eb-8d38-6aea1adb3839_story.html; https://thehill.com/homenews/news/528714-tenants-sue-trump-over-scheme-that-increased-their-rent-report/; https://www.newsweek.com/2016/10/28/donald-trump-business-busts-victims-511034.html.

A glance a the CNN URL cited tells just how greedy, ruthless, self-serving, and sideways ol’ Mafia Don has been in his unbridled ambitions and related methods of getting his way:

It began in 1981. Trump bought a 14-story building on prime real estate facing New York City’s Central Park.

His plan was to tear down the building and replace it with luxury condos. But first he needed a small band of rent-stabilized tenants out of there.

To succeed, Trump played rough, according to lawsuits filed by the tenants. Renters said he cut heat and hot water, and he imposed tough building rules. Trump even proposed sheltering homeless people in the building.

It went on for five years as Trump fought tenants, real estate lawyers, New York state regulators and city officials.

Pagliery, Jose. “Donald Trump was a nightmare landlord in the 1980s.” CNN Money, March 28, 2016.

When Winston Churchill delivered his resounding speech advocating a stubborn resistance to Hitler’s aggression and purpose–“Never give in, never give in, never give in . . . .“–he spoke for all of Great Britain against barbarous aggression of a mass-murdering tyrant; when Donald Trump repeats his admonishment to never give up, never give in, and never quit, he repeats basically his own cheerleading formed in the process of his own embattlement. He has lived through and with a process today well known to psychologists–here’s my distillation of it: https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/10/malignant-narcissistic-process-distilled/ –and as with his fellows of similar class, he must appear always courageous-heroic and unassailable before the public and those who would otherwise humiliate and shame him. His own image creates his politics, not a nation’s more authentic challenges and predicaments.

The grim phantoms of history–whatever was thought to have been left behind in the many ways of the dreaded horsemen–Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death–have ways of appearing before us just when we think we have beaten them. So here are the three insults to modern humanity, each one callous and crude, greedy as sin, without boundaries or limits, an sickeningly delusional with criminal and messianic intents, and the authentic among those good and noble must wonder how they are to be met. That they will be “met” we may be certain for time evolves communities more than it resigns any to again living in caves and by tooth and claw, arrow or spear, or sword and shield, but for the living cohort subject to the will of evil leaders, all pay a price in the producing of better and more secure and permanent good circumstance.

For Americans, I believe it appears the “American Experiment” has taken its one giant step backward with Donald Trump as well as the “tech-bro threat” of a degrading and dehumanizing AI future, so perhaps we must all look forward to envisioning the character of our best possible “two steps forward” and then find ways of joining together and in irresistible force to get that next and better world.

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On X: Afghani Veterans Who Served in The Global War on Terror (GWOT) in Trumpolini’s Limbo

08 Sunday Jun 2025

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#AmericanCharacterAndIntegrityMatter #TruthMatters

They fought to keep #Americans safe–and they were not Americans.

#WeAreAmericans, as represented by past Administrations and national policy across decades, and we promised #AfghaniForces attached to the #GlobalWarOnTerror #GWOT #CoalitionOfTheWilling refuge in the #UnitedStatesOfAmerica. That’s what we stood for when we stood with #RealAmericans.

X #AmericanVeteran #GVC #GrumpyCombatVeteran #WillSelber.

For over twenty years, I’ve spent my life training, studying, and preparing to fight for my country. Even when my country turned its back on our Afghan allies, I, along with thousands of others, tried our very best to “relocate” (IYKYK) thousands of Afghan families to safety. Out of twenty years of futility, it was the only piece of honor that kept many Afghan combat veterans afloat with hope. Now, however, it seems that some of our Afghan allies might be detained and eventually deported – https://www.gcvfriends.com/p/its-not-your-fault.

#DumbDonald #AmericanPromisesBroken

Related Online

NPR. “Many Afghans living in the U.S. fear being tortured or killed if they get deported.” Podcast and transcript. May 7, 2025.

Schneider, Andrew. “Former Afghan soldier arrested at Houston-area home by ICE, stripped of asylum protections, attorney says. Houston Public Media, June 3, 2025.

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Trumpian Vision: Personal Patronage System –> Enserfment, Gulag, Sovietization

31 Saturday May 2025

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Enserfment refers to the virtual enslavement of workers to select business owners and industrialists beneath the umbrella of a vast system of patronage headed by a leader invested with absolute power in relation to all persons and property–one to whom there should be no difference between the two in their treatment–within his domain.

Free men would never stand for it; easily led and subjugated men would–and will.

With America boarded, commanded by a wealthy criminal, disarmed from the top, and prepared for plundering, Americans may have only their agitating protest for power, a not insignificant power but perhaps a power the same criminal mentality in high office may choose to ignore with impunity and thereby dismiss as merely a bothersome noise.

To produce enserfment: break the country’s economy as well as confidence in it; reduce the middle class; shrink government support for basic standards of living as well as modern healthcare. Who among the patronized wealthy should care about those impoverished and without means for even their own basic dignity and independence? And who among those reduced in means as well as access to education and defense against illness–or aid with established conditions–will have the capability, cognizance, desire, and energy to defend the democracy that had in fact become The Great Society, i.e., a national culture and government strong and stable and methodically given to improvements beneath the remit of the nation’s secular democratic republic?

Donald Trump’s reactionary clique would do away with basic defenses against the potential ravishing of the nation’s human and natural complement by private interests. For example, both Jeff Bezos (e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/business/economy/amazon-labor-nlrb.html) and Elon Musk (e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/business/spacex-elon-musk-nlrb-workers.html) have sought to neutralize the venerable National Labor Relations Board defending workers from each titan’s own unconscionable greed and venality.

For an example of the same illness in a different dimension, here’s coverage of the Trump Administration’s assault on the natural beauty and environmental health of the nation: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/01/trump-air-climate-pollution-regulation-100-days.

Donald’s Gulag

A second Trump administration threatens to accelerate mass incarceration, further dehumanize people in our criminal legal system, engage in a death penalty “killing spree,” and reverse many reforms gained over the last two decades.

Trump’s proposals are dangerous on two levels. First, with respect to the federal system, Trump will seek to double down on the failed policies of the past: encouraging brutal policing practices, pursuing extreme sentences, and expanding the use of the death penalty. Second, Trump’s racist and extremist rhetoric may embolden states that have previously embraced reform to return to failed crime policies, fueling mass incarceration and widening racial inequality – https://www.aclu.org/trump-on-the-criminal-legal-system.

Before reporters entered the room, Trump even suggested to Bukele he should build more prisons because the mega-prison isn’t “big enough” to hold “the homegrowns” he wants to send from the U.S.

“We’re studying the laws right now,” Trump said, after earlier saying they “always have to obey the law.”

He made a similar comment about sending Americans to foreign prisons in February, saying back then as well that the laws would be need to be checked – https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-send-us-citizens-foreign-prisons-legal-experts/story?id=120834167.

With President Trump, an American felon has arrived in power as a political force. We may keep in mind that he faces at least three additional felony-level trials should he ever lose power: election interference in relation to January 6, 2021; classified documents abuse for the haul he tried to hide at Mar-A-Lago; attempted election fixing for his “perfect phone call” begging for a fraudulent win in Georgia. As an American President who perhaps has his position confused with that of a mafia don, he’s bound to have some enemies he believes deserve prison for disliking him vocally. Why should he differ from any other fascist contemporary in power or personality to be dredged out of the more repugnant patches of history?

As it stands, anyone Donald Trump says is a criminal may be treated as one given his own arrogant, ignorant, and impudent lawlessness.

Sovietization

The boot in the face, the knock on the door, the secret police — the tropes of dystopian literature have arrived in corrosive small displays.

The “fake news” proves real and Trump-approved news as delusional as its judge; the Republican Party (for cowards, criminals, sycophants, and traitors) has shown the nation the independence of the rubber-stamping Soviet Duma; the agencies most devoted to fighting crime and securing the homeland have been handed over to clowns unqualified for public service by their defects in character, education, and experience. Bottom line: the longer Trump remains in power, the greater his opportunities for exploiting the capabilities of the Federal government for his own financial and political gain. Add in “emotional gain”, i.e., “Narcissistic Supply” and the illusion — to be sustained by himself for himself — of unlimited public adoration and validation. After all, he’s making America great again and information contrary to that must be diminished. The tools of the Soviet to be embraced by Trump-Putin:

  • Agitprop, Disinformation, Mass Perceptual Control
  • Dictatorship (Confined-Exclusive Political Control)
  • Enserfment and Mass Incarceration
  • Neutralized Critical Press
  • Political Mafia
  • Political Repression
  • Psychiatric Abuse; Punitive Psychiatry
  • Punitive Surveillance State
  • Secret Political Police
  • Totalitarianism

The “leadership” of the worst of all political worlds must convince or force its population to believe it lives in the best of all possible worlds. There are ways for “power” to do that, and they are all on display in America, China, Hungary, North Korea, and Russia, i.e., the states in which the leading thug and related associates strive to control the image of the “great leader” and “greatest state” by controlling the elements in government and in media that contribute to it.

Donald Trump appears to be laying the groundwork for a deeply authoritarian and criminal American government by abusing his power to engage in the kind of nepotism that encourages loyalty unto himself and related blind and unconscionable sycophancy. While he’s finding the American Federal Government’s defensive capabilities present, he’s only in his first year of leading American democracy to ruin.

Realpolitik

In the process of faking American leadership, Donald Trump has — as suggested above — run into real American official and popular resistance. Trump’s tariff drive and trade war against all balanced, open, and stable markets has not been smooth while efforts in other dimensions lurch around like pinballs against administrative and judicial bumpers. Trump, as he has promised with elections, prefers rigged machines.

Against Trump’s chaotic know-nothing recklessness, the American system stands but unsteadily with its confused institutions, their powers in Trumpian antibodies, and Trump’s own driven narcissistic delusions and related stupidity.

Related Online

In addition to the potential look-ups given and inline URLs, the following articles may have application as regards the American economy and its criminal leadership. Some entries have been added following publication.

Broadwater, Luke. “Trump officials intensify attacks on judges as court losses mount.” The New York Times, May 29, 2025.

Ito, Aka. “Offices are about to get very, very grouchy.” Business Insider, May 5, 2025.

Newman, Andy. “Trump nominates a former far-right podcast host to head a federal ethics watchdog.” The New York Times, May 29, 2025.

Romm, Tony and Ana Swanson. “Trump’s tariff defeat injects more uncertainty into U.S. trade policy.” The New York Times, May 29, 2025.

Samuels, Brett. “Trump White House steps up attacks on courts after tariff ruling.” The Hill, May 31, 2025.

Smith, David. “Why Trump is really going after Harvard.” The Guardian, June 1, 2025.

Whitehurst, Lindsay and Josh Boak. “Federal court blocks Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs under emergency powers law.” AP News, May 29, 2025.

Related on X

#AmericaUnderAssault #MafiaDon #MuskTrumpPutin #RussiaRussiaRussia #TrumpPutin

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America Under Assault by Musk, Trump, Putin

05 Saturday Apr 2025

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Russia, Russia, Russia!

From Cold War to Cold Takeover–The Big Picture Background

https://conflict-backchannels.com/2022/07/19/detecting-post-soviet-russias-black-narrative-of-revenge-for-89-and-91/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2024/11/08/well-have-it-fixed-so-good-said-donald-trump/; https://conflict-backchannels.com/2025/02/18/trump-piracy-board-disarm-and-plunder-the-united-states-of-america/; https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-trump-property/.

Donald Trump’s ambition may be to establish his own vast system of patronage in place of the governments of the United States of America, transforming himself into a king and producing a three-tiered state of royalty, financially productive associates, laboring serfs, and dispossessed and disposable slaves. Big crayon? Yes–but he’s dumb and in his hands, power has turned out one big plug ugly crayon for ruling the land by fraud, force, and coercion. That’s the guidance of the world he knows and the world fit to his own malign narcissism. First: bankrupt the state; second: transfer state assets into private hands in the Soviet post-Soviet manner; third: marry criminal methods with state power and produce the American Mafia State to mirror the Russian one.

The two “families” represented by Moscow’s Tsar and Washington’s King will be finally at peace with one another–and the American and Russian people will hate both but have no choice as regards their displacement.

Americans vs. Trump’s Criminal Foreign Infection

Americans in yet unknown numbers will be on the streets of the nation’s capitals today and millions more will be watching through media how protest works where politically criminal power could care less about listening and much less about empathy and reason before their own aggrandizement and greed. Moreover, so I believe, Trump has set out deliberately to debase Americans and bankrupt the nation in a manner that fits his own embattled, isolated, and persecuted image of himself, an image in fact expressive of his own paranoid-delusional malignant narcissism. Whatever the character in numbers and tone the popular protest, state security elements sworn on oath to defend the Constitution of the United States of America needs must set their own stance as regards their conscience and honor as well as their purpose in light of the damaged, traitorous, and treacherous usurping power in the White House.

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Criminal Mentality: Pete Hegseth Stop Lying

25 Tuesday Mar 2025

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In a stunning exercise of will over reality, it looks like Trump appointed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is going to attempt to invalidate Jeffrey Goldberg’s story in The Atlantic in its entirety as “fake news”, thereby eliminating any expectations Americans may have in relation to knowing the truth about anything–their government will tell them what they know, and the government will lie.

When asked about Goldberg’s access to the chat, Hegseth told reporters Monday, “Nobody was texting war plans, and that’s all I have to say about that.”

Who you gonna believe–through his proxy the dictator wannabe and malignant narcissist crying about “fake news”, the mainstream media, the world being against him, and so on, or the long experienced and responsible editor of The Atlantic?

Criminals and very sick people cover their tracks, deny their worst deeds, and paint through public display and words images of themselves as the best of souls. Some cover their tracks; some get caught and go to jail; some lie their way through life and have jobs in the Trump White House.

Cited Reference

Goldberg, Jeffrey. “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans: U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.” The Atlantic, March 24, 2025.

Suter, Tara. “Atlantic journalist pushes back on Hegseth comments: ‘He was texting war plans’.” The Hill, March 24, 2025.

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