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Once we have eliminated all the impossible scenarios, the least improbable outcome of the war in Ukraine is a Russian victory. Any conceivable Russian victory now will entail such a loss of blood and treasure that it will have to be judged Pyrrhic at best. But it will be a victory nonetheless — and we in the West had better come to grips with that hard truth. Let’s begin by eliminating the impossible. The first unrealistic endgame is the reduction of Ukraine to a vassal state of the Russian empire. The second impossible scenario is the total defeat of the...

Footage has been posted on social networks showing the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “fighting” with Russian servicemen. However, the cameras get into the video, the voice of the director is heard and the soldiers react to the commands of the film crew. (Click link for short Video)

The 4 p.m. remarks will come after Biden calls transatlantic leaders. President Joe Biden was set to speak to the nation Friday afternoon on what the White House said are U.S. efforts to ease tensions over Ukraine, amid increased shelling and possible false-flag attacks Russia could use to falsely justify an invasion. Biden will make remarks after he holds a call with translatlantic leaders to discuss continued efforts at deterrence and diplomacy and what the White House called "Russia's buildup of military troops on the border of Ukraine." -snip- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will participate in the call, along...

With the conclusion of the first year of the Biden administration, White House chief of staff Ron Klain sought to end on a high, or at least higher, note by retweeting a column saying that 2021 was not "all bad." It was like bragging that a bad first date told you that the evening could have been worse. However, what really stood out in the column by Albert Hunt was the key rationale: the first year was "scandal free." ... ...Consider just three of the Voldemort scandals of 2020, or those scandals which must not be named by the media:

An executive order recently signed by President Joe Biden takes aim at American investors in the Chinese defense and surveillance industries, naming several companies connected to his son, Hunter Biden... ...Hunter Biden’s overseas business dealings were a significant source of controversy during the 2020 presidential election. Republicans presented Hunter Biden’s relationship with Bohai Harvest as evidence the Biden administration would go soft on China, while their counterparts on the Left broadly dismissed the allegations against Hunter as misinformation. This latest decision complicates both narratives, defying early predictions that Joe Biden would avoid standing up to China in a way that...

A BBC investigation into unaccompanied minor detention centers in Texas revealed alarming conditions under the Biden Administration. The BBC reports migrant children are exposed to disease, dangerous food, and sexual abuse while in confinement. As the flood of unaccompanied migrant children mounted through the spring, the Biden Administration quickly put up detention centers in multiple locations. The BBC reports the migrant children, mostly from Central America, face “heartbreaking” living conditions. Findings by the BBC from interviews with staff and migrant children revealed allegations of sexual abuse, COVID-19 and lice outbreaks, long waits for medical attention, a lack of clean clothes,...

Hunter Biden referred to Asians with the offensive term 'yellow' in a 2019 text conversation with his cousin Caroline Biden In the January 2019 texts, Caroline and Hunter were discussing setting him up with her rich, model friends Caroline asked Hunter: 'Do you want foreign or domestic. I can't give you f***ing Asian sorry. I'm not doing it' Hunter replied: 'Domesticated foreigner is fine. No yellow' His father Joe vowed last month to 'stop the hatred and the bias' against Asians Caroline, daughter of Joe Biden's brother Jim, was trying to help Hunter get over Hallie, brother Beau's widow and...

First daughter Ashley Biden dialed up the fashion by rocking a tuxedo at Wednesday’s virtual inaugural concert.

President Trump on Sunday night wished a speedy recovery to President-elect Joe Biden, who fractured his foot while playing with his dog over the weekend. “Get well soon!” Trump tweeted, along with a video of Biden leaving an orthopedic office in Delaware earlier in the day. Biden’s doctors said Sunday night the president-elect will need to wear a walking boot for several weeks as a result of the injury sustained on Saturday.

BREAKING - New leaked audio of Hunter Biden calling his "partner" the "******* spy chief of China"

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that he saw nothing criminal in Hunter Biden’s past business ties with Ukraine or Russia, marking out his disagreement with one of Donald Trump’s attack lines in the U.S. presidential election. -snip- “Yes, in Ukraine he (Hunter Biden) had or maybe still has a business, I don’t know. It doesn’t concern us. It concerns the Americans and the Ukrainians,” said Putin. “But well yes he had at least one company, which he practically headed up, and judging from everything he made good money. I don’t see anything criminal about this, at least we...

Hunter Biden’s alleged sex tapes and images showing him using drugs and engaging in sexual acts with several women have been uploaded on a Chinese digital video platform linked to Steve Bannon Saturday evening. The videos and images appeared to be uploaded by a single user on GTV, which is a subsidiary of GTV Media Group, founded by former Trump senior adviser Steve Bannon and Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui in April 2020. -snip- The release of Biden’s alleged private, explicit videos and images comes just 10 days before the presidential election as the Trump family continues their crusade to portray...

Former Vice President Joe Biden confirmed Wednesday night that his son Hunter will join him on the campaign trail amid controversy surrounding his personal life and business dealings. The Democratic presidential front-runner told the Reno Gazette Journal during a campaign stop in Reno, Nevada that he did not know when Hunter would campaign with him, saying that he was busy teaching at a West Coast law school. (RELATED: Sarah Sanders: ‘The Only Corruption In This Entire Process Has To Do With The Bidens’) “I see him. I talk to him and I’m proud of him,” Biden said of his son....

JUST IN: Rudy Giuliani just confirmed on Greg Kelly’s show (Newsmax) that there are pictures of underage girls on Hunter Biden’s hard drive. The information has already been turned over to Delaware State Police.

Joe Biden took the day off on Saturday after traveling to tiny events with around a dozen people earlier in the week. This also comes at the same time that emails, photos and soon videos from Hunter Biden’s laptop are being reported in the press.

Associates of a dissident Chinese billionaire made cryptic posts about 'three hard disks' about Hunter Biden which would cause 'a big money and sex scandal' almost two weeks before their release, it emerged Friday. An online post – which mentioned 'videos and dossiers' – appeared to anticipate the release of the cache of potentially damaging information about Joe Biden's son that first appeared in the New York Post this week. And on Friday a Dutch journalist revealed that Steve Bannon had boasted on September 28: 'I have the hard drive of Hunter Biden.' In an outtake from Nieuwsuur posted by...

CLEVELAND — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden released his 2019 tax returns Tuesday afternoon, just hours before his first debate with President Trump in Cleveland. “The American people deserve transparency from their leaders, it’s why as of today, I’ve released 22 years of my tax returns,” Biden tweeted Tuesday, 48 hours after the New York Times published leaked portions of what it said were the commander-in-chief’s financial records. The former veep and wife Jill Biden declared a gross income of $985,233 in 2019 and paid $299,346 in federal income tax, according to the financial disclosures published on the campaign website....

Hunter Biden is scheduled to speak at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night, during the curtain-raiser to his father's high-profile acceptance speech as the Democratic nominee. Why it matters: Trump and his allies have sought to exploit the controversy over Hunter Biden's paid board position at Ukrainian gas company Burisma — held while his father was the Obama administration's point man on Ukraine — to damage Joe Biden.

The Daily Beast has written a piece attacking Catherine Herridge, saying that Democrats “and some of her own colleagues” believe she’s pushing conservative conspiracy theories: Democrats on Capitol Hill have grown particularly irked by Catherine Herridge's work, believing she’s become a de facto clearing house for conservative conspiracy theorists who want to give their material the veneer of mainstream objectivity https://t.co/uCqHCBAdA1— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) May 15, 2020 I can’t get to the entire article because it’s blocked by a members only paywall. But the subtitle is this: All of this started when the Biden campaign attacked Herridge as a...

I am issuing this challenge to the President: in the next 48 hours, direct the production and distribution of respirator masks, gloves, protective face shields and gowns to fill every supply request made by a governor to the federal government. Lives are at stake.— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) March 30, 2020