Month: January 2026

Trump has made the US openly imperialist.The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow)NBC News: Does the US still want to make Canada the 51st state?

MARCO RUBIO: I think the president has stated repeatedly he thinks Canada would be better off as a state.  @atrupar (2025)

Fact-check: Canadians do not want to become a part of the US.
Video
  —  https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/2006786222002487380

— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) Jan 1, 2026

Senior republicans have a choice:
Lie with Trump or anger Trump.
Speaker Johnson is all for lying with Trump.The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow)Mike Johnson: The January 6 insurrectionists as “people who were just there and happened to be walking through the building.”  @atrupar (April 2024)
Video
  —  https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/2006767043065033051

— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) Jan 1, 2026

Sometimes Trump makes some minor negative comment on Russia or Putin to conceal his full-fledged support for Putin’s aggression.
Trump’s problem is that most of the GOP still supports Ukraine so he needs to cheat them.
Make no mistake: Trump serves Putin.NSTRIKE (@NSTRIKE01)🇺🇸 Donald Trump posted an important update on his TRUTH Social page with the headline:

🔴 “Statement on the attack on Putin’s residence shows that it is precisely the Russian Federation that is obstructing peace.”

🔵 According to an investigation conducted by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), it has been confirmed that on December 28, Ukraine did not attack Vladimir Putin’s residence, but rather carried out the strike on a military facility located in the Novgorod region.—  https://x.com/NSTRIKE01/status/2006639969796772143

— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) Jan 1, 2026