🇬🇧 David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, 1907

🇷🇺 🇹🇷 🇺🇦 Analysis | Russia struck two Turkish-operated vessels near Odesa and framed the attacks as intentional warnings to Kyiv. Turkey responded by shooting down a Russian reconnaissance drone over the Black Sea.

Turkey is one of the few NATO states still providing Russia commercial and diplomatic space. Turkish ports handle oil products and dual-use components Russia struggles to source elsewhere. Turkish banks help navigate sanctions. Turkish firms keep Russian logistics chains running.

President Erdoğan publicly demanded Putin stop attacks on ports and energy infrastructure. Turkish officials warned against turning the Black Sea into a confrontation zone.

If Ankara rethinks this relationship, Russia faces slower trade, fewer loopholes, and tighter restrictions on the goods sustaining its war economy.

📎 Euromaidan Press

Immigrants and Their Idea Nation Lie

Vivek Ramaswamy is not, and will never be, an American: Vivek Ramaswamy has taken to the pages of the New York Times to lecture heritage Americans about what their country really means. According to this son of Indian immigrants—born in 1985 to parents who arrived after the 1965 Immigration Act abolished the national origins system—America […]

https://voxday.net/2025/12/23/immigrants-and-their-idea-nation-lie/

I love how after the first row it kinda just gave up and it becomes more cursed the further down you read

☕️ZOMBIE RULES☙ Tuesday, December 23, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS🦠

At least one Senator has begun openly arguing for our solution to the silent filibuster — only 49 to go. That, and lots more great essential news in today's roundup.

https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/zombie-rules-tuesday-december-23

"Of all the Central Intelligence Agency secrets revealed to the world by the so-called Church Committee of the 1970s, perhaps none captured the American public's imagination as vividly as the agency's "heart attack gun."

https://www.military.com/history/cias-heart-attack-gun-cold-war-weapon-targeted-assassinations.html

Q3 GDP came in at 4.3%, BLOWING PAST expectations of 3.2%. 60 of 61 Bloomberg Economists got it WRONG, but “TRUMP,” and some other Geniuses, got it right. The SUCCESS is due to Good Government, and TARIFFS. Consumer spending is STRONG, Net Exports are WAY UP, Imports and Trade Deficits are WAY DOWN, and there is NO INFLATION! Because of my Tax Bill (THE GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL) and TARIFFS, INVESTMENT IS SETTING RECORDS. The Trump Economic Golden Age is FULL steam ahead — “You haven’t seen anything yet!” Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Donald J. Trump Truth Social 12.23.25 10:11 AM EST

🏙 Giant skyscraper stabiliser

The Taipei 101 skyscraper is equipped with a tuned mass damper weighing 728 tonnes that stabilises it during strong winds and earthquakes. During a magnitude 6.9 earthquake, it appears that the damper is moving, but it is actually the building that is moving while the damper remains stationary.

Jet carrying Libya’s top brass crashes in Türkiye – media

Turkish authorities have confirmed that they lost contact with the aircraft after it requested an emergency landing The Dassault Falcon 50 private jet carrying senior Libyan military officials is feared to have crashed, southwest...
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These guys do a good job expounding on Knox’s noble train of artillery. https://youtu.be/g7yLcBUhvhM