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"This morning, Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke of Reuters reported that the Trump administration is preparing to deport the 240,000 Ukrainians who fled Russia’s attacks on Ukraine and have temporary legal status in the United States."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

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https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-6-2025

"Foreign affairs journalist Olga Nesterova reminded Americans that 'these people had to be completely financially independent, pay tax, pay all fees (around $2K) and have an affidavit from an American person to even come here.'

'This has nothing to do with strategic necessity or geopolitics,' Russia specialist Tom Nichols posted. 'This is just cruelty to show [Russian president Vladimir] Putin he has a new American ally.'"

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"I just went to the Washington Post front page and I copy/pasted a bunch of headlines with the title and subtitle. I wrote it all down here. And I think if you insert the words, 'the Kremlin,' instead of 'Trump' or 'Musk' or 'the White House'—just say 'the Kremlin' and ask yourself, 'Is that something that Kremlin would do to hurt us,' then maybe it would make more sense."

~ Greg Olear

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https://gregolear.substack.com/p/ramble-on-find-replace

"I don’t think Vance—or Trump, for that matter—really understands Putin’s burning hostility toward all Americans, especially American leaders. As I like to point out to fellow Americans, we hardly think about Russia at all, and thus can’t imagine the seething hatred many Russians have for us. ...

Russia has designs beyond Ukraine, and America is not exempt from them."

~ Natalia Antonova

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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/ukrainians-are-in-shock-america-allies-trump

"[The announcement that 240,000 Ukrainians will be deported] is gangster stuff. And while nothing about it is surprising, given who Trump is, it’s perilously close in a moral sense to hostage taking. ...

This is a population that is disproportionately young and disproportionately female—military aged males being generally barred from leaving Ukraine."

~ Benjamin Wittes

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https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--a-ukrainian-hostage-situation

"And while many of them can go to European countries or other third countries, there are good reasons why many of them have come here, as opposed to elsewhere. There are as many stories as there are individuals.

I should pause here and concede that the same is true of other categories of migrants whose temporary protective status is now at risk."

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"Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job."

~ Jamie Dettmer

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https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-allies-secret-talks-volodymyr-zelenskyy-opposition-ukraine-elections-yulia-tymoshenko-petro-poroshenko/

"Why wouldn’t he also be behind the scenes (maybe even along with his buds in the Russian government?) trying to mount a coup in Ukraine to get Zelenskyy out of power, and install maybe a more subservient pro-Russian leader — you know, somebody else who is Putin’s bitch — so Putin can just go ahead and seize the nation he thinks he’s entitled to?"

~ Evan Hurst

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https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-trying-to-do-secret-coups-for

"The attempt to humiliate Volodymyr Zelens'kyi in the Oval Office a week ago was an American strategic collapse. It heralded a new constellation of disorderly powers, obsessed with resources, seizing what they can. Inside that new disaster is something old and familiar that we might prefer not to see: antisemitism. The encounter in the White House was antisemitic."

~ Timothy Snyder

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https://snyder.substack.com/p/antisemitism-in-the-oval-office

"It was all there, in the Oval Office, in the shouting and in the interruptions, in the noises and in the silences. A courageous man seen as Jewish had to be brought down. When he said things that were simply true he was shouted down and called a propagandist. There was no acknowledgement of Zelens'kyi's bravery in remaining in Kyiv."

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@wdlindsy Um, Stephen Miller is from a Jewish family.

Putin does try to use antisemitism against Zelensky, but with Agent Krasnov it looks a lot more like rage against anyone better than him.