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Joined April 2010
I’m excited to announce a new feature-length documentary project I’m working on with my co-director @apoolos about Russia’s efforts to eradicate Evangelical Christians from the map of Ukraine to impose Russian Orthodoxy as the state religion. Please support this film by donating paypal.com/paypalme/simonost…
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Rubio on the Starlink slowdowns: "It sort of happened.” Watch my full update where I get into what pushed Musk to limit Ukraine’s access to Starlink.
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You're right, @elonmusk. Someone has grown very rich off money flowing from Ukraine. I work in Starlink supply to Ukraine, so I see these numbers firsthand. Ukrainians bought 117,000 terminals in September alone (~$42M), plus monthly subscriptions for each one. And that's just official commercial imports. Not counting government contracts, donor-funded deliveries, direct orders from your website or grey imports. No laundry machines needed. It goes straight to SpaceX.
What’s actually going on in Ukraine is that there is a massive incentive difference between the elites and the people. The former have grown very rich off the hundreds of billions flowing to Ukraine, while the latter’s children are conscripted to die in trenches.
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A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/po…
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Wait, I thought the West “provoked” you into invading Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin cited genetics to declare that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people” and reiterated his claim to Ukrainian territory, saying: “I think that it is not their territory but the historical territory of Russia.” wapo.st/48aZaZF
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You did their salute. Twice! I guess that makes you a far-left socialist too.
Hitler was a far left socialist. Literally in the name of his party!
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This week I'm looking at what pushed Musk to limit Ukraine’s access to Starlink and the secretive Russian aerospace company building Putin’s SpaceX rival.
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God, we're just scratching the surface with this guy, aren't we?
“In late spring 2020, a source I knew to be reliable called me with a story,” writes Matthew Cole. “The Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner’s phone and monitored him as he accessed a Dubai-based bank account. What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary and a one-time hit man. The story sounded preposterous, I told my source. And yet. Six months later, I found myself speaking with someone else about the UAE government and their use of mercenaries in conflicts around the Middle East and Africa when I asked, on a whim, whether they knew anything about Kushner and bank transfers from a UAE account. My acquaintance grew quiet. Then they replied, ‘Yes.’” Kushner’s lawyer denied the bank account existed. Read an exclusive excerpt from Cole’s book, ‘Princes and Thieves: Jared Kushner and Mohamed bin Zayed’s Secret Plot to Remake the Middle East’: vanityfair.visitlink.me/Q5_W…
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This week I'm looking at what pushed Musk to limit Ukraine’s access to Starlink and the secretive Russian aerospace company building Putin’s SpaceX rival.
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Welcome to the dumbest space race in history
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Watch the full interview here. Subscribe to support! sostrovsky.substack.com/p/si…
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What to know about Libya’s eastern parliament’s historic vote to back the 2019 maritime deal with Turkey, why this matters for the East Med, and what we can expect going forward. 🧵
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Betraying Ukraine and scapegoating Zelensky is not going to save Donald Trump in the midterms. Watch my full video where I break down how Trump is coming down on the wrong side of history. Link in next tweet.
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Betraying Ukraine and scapegoating Zelensky is not going to save Donald Trump in the midterms. Watch my full video where I break down how Trump is coming down on the wrong side of history. Link in next tweet.
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Then why is Netanyahu so chummy with Russia. Israel could be doing a lot more to help Ukraine.
Israeli PM Netanyahu says a strike on a Yandex center in Russia cut anti-Israel online activity from Russian users by 60%.
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Trump’s original Ambassador to Ukraine
A year and a half ago Trump stopped helping Ukraine defend itself, and put pressure on Zelenskyy to make a deal with Russia. Now, Trump is actively supporting Putin: waiving sanctions, disrupting StarShield, and making a diesel deal. (1/3)
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