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#NorthKorea

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"Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is expected to travel this week to Moscow, where he could meet with Putin...

"Arms deliveries to Ukraine have already resumed through a Polish logistics center, the foreign ministers of Ukraine and Poland announced Wednesday. The deliveries go through a NATO and U.S. hub in the eastern Polish city of Rzeszow that’s has been used to ferry Western weapons into neighboring Ukraine about 70 kilometers (45 miles) away.

"The U.S. government has also restored Ukraine’s access to unclassified commercial satellite pictures provided by Maxar Technologies through a program Washington runs, Maxar spokesperson Tomi Maxted told The Associated Press. The images help Ukraine plan attacks, assess their success and monitor Russian movements.

"The developments came amid intensifying Russian efforts to push Ukrainian forces out of the Kremlin’s Kursk region that have yielded breakthroughs in recent days, Ukrainian soldiers told AP.

"Ukrainian forces made a daring raid into the Russian region last August in the first foreign occupation of Russian territory since World War II. They have held on despite intense pressure from tens of thousands of Russian and North Korean troops."
apnews.com/article/russia-ukra

No less than 76 #Democrats just voted with Republicans to overturn the #IRS's "defi broker rule" which would have required crypto firms like #MarcAndreessen's #Uniswap to collect information on their users and in so doing discourage the use of these platforms for #moneylaundering by criminals and rogue nuclear states (#NorthKorea *loves* Uniswap) and by the very wealthy to avoid paying #taxes.

The new wave of #memecoin scams like #TrumpCoin are also all facilitated/perpetrated by these decentralized trading platforms.

If any of these people are your representative you should do what you can to make sure they are primaried because they are not representing your interests. At a minimum call them and yell at them (this works better than most people think!)

The corruption of the US government by #crypto bros is extremely bipartisan.

* Full roll call of vote: clerk.house.gov/Votes/202571

#uspol#defi#DOGE
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@nswigger

When in reality it is one of:
#russia
#northkorea
#china
#hacktivists

Probably in that order of likelihood.

It's not that I doubt the skill of the hacktivists but for a #geopolitical foe the timing has never been better to attack any US company and use that to foment even more internal unrest, backbiting and so on.

The enemies of the US don't need to fire a shot, just judiciously spritz a little kerosene here and there.

Right now we are our own worst enemies.

Thanks #Trump !