Incoming national security adviser Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) said during an interview over the weekend the reason that Ukraine has been unable to beat Russia is because their conscription age is significantly higher than it should be, meaning that there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers that it could have access to that are not on the battlefield.
Waltz made the remarks during an interview on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; with Jonathan Karl when asked about President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s plans to end the war in Ukraine.
Waltz said: &#8220;It&#8217;s been striking to me just since President Trump&#8217;s election, how many people have gone from just unqualified blank checks — as long as it takes, whether that&#8217;s months, years, decades in terms of perpetuating this war, which really has bogged down to a World War I style meat grinder of people and resources with World War III consequences — to now even President Zelensky walking in the room in Paris and saying, &#8216;Ready to work with you to end this war. Let&#8217;s end it justly, responsibly, in a way that protects Ukraine&#8217;s future, but ends this thing and so, the entire world can move on from it.'&#8221;
He said that Trump is working hard to get a deal done between the two sides to bring the war to a quick close.
&#8220;The other thing that we&#8217;re going to need to see is really stabilizing things on the battlefield,&#8221; Waltz said. &#8220;And one of the things that we&#8217;ll be asking of the Ukrainians is they have real manpower issues. Their draft age right now is 26 years old, not 18, I don&#8217;t think a lot of people realize that.&#8221;
&#8220;They could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So when we hear about morale problems, when we hear about issues on the frontline, look, if the Ukrainians have asked the entire world to be all in for democracy, we need them to be all in for democracy.&#8221;
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&#8220;And they certainly have fought bravely. They certainly have taken a very noble and tough stand,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But we need to see those manpower shortages addressed. This isn&#8217;t just about munitions, ammunition, or writing more checks. It&#8217;s about seeing the frontlines stabilized, so that we can enter into some type of deal.&#8221;
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Rep. Mike Waltz: &#8220;There are going to be consequences to those who think they can take an American. There is going to no longer be any upside for anyone who harms Americans abroad.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/GNWOQzOXGc">pic.twitter.com/GNWOQzOXGc</a>
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1878568332741259523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 12, 2025</a></blockquote>

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President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> announced another $2.5 billion in military aid for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ukraine</a> on Monday as he continues ramping up financial support for the country in the final days of his presidency before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in for his second term. 
The assistance includes a $1.25 billion military aid package from the Defense Department and a $1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative. 
&#8220;Since Russia launched its further assault against Ukraine in February 2022, the United States has rallied the world to stand with the Ukrainian people, and it has been a top priority of mine to provide Ukraine with the support it needs to prevail,&#8221; Biden said in a statement.
&#8220;I’ve directed my Administration to continue surging as much assistance to Ukraine as quickly as possible—including drawing down older U.S. equipment for Ukraine, rapidly delivering it to the battlefield, and then revitalizing the U.S. defense industrial base to modernize and replenish our stockpiles with new weapons,&#8221; Biden added.
The military aid includes air defense munitions, artillery ammunition, Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems munitions, ammunition for rocket systems, air-to-ground munitions, missiles, communications equipment, and demolition equipment.
“This support is crucial to stabilizing the front lines—every additional supply from our partners means more saved lives of our soldiers,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky <a href="https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1873454861645197577" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Sunday, anticipating the aid. “We are also working to ensure that other partners maintain their support at the necessary level.”
Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-administration-announces-another-725-million-in-ukraine-military-aid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> an additional $725 million in military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine earlier this month and another $275 million last month. Under Biden, the U.S. has committed more than $183 billion to Ukraine. 
The Treasury Department also announced Monday that it would be given Ukraine $3.4 billion in direct budget support for &#8220;maintaining the critical government services.&#8221;
Trump has promised to wind down the war in Ukraine and negotiate a quick peace settlement. Earlier this month, he met with Zelensky and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, where they spoke about bringing the war to a close. 
“He wants to make peace,” Trump <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/08/us-news/trump-says-zelensky-is-ready-for-peace-as-he-dishes-to-post-on-meetings-with-world-leaders-and-jill-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> the New York Post about his conversation with Zelensky. “That’s new.”
“He wants to have a cease-fire,” he added. “He wants to make peace. We didn’t talk about the details. He thinks it’s time, and Putin should think it’s time because he’s lost — when you lose 700,000 people, it’s time.”
Trump has also been critical of Biden&#8217;s recent policy changes, such as allowing Ukraine to launch long-range American-supplied missiles into Russia. He described Biden&#8217;s decision as a &#8220;very stupid thing&#8221; to do.
Trump has maintained that Russia would not have invaded Ukraine had he been president, blaming the Biden administration for the costly war.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/russia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Russian</a> authorities arrested an Uzbekistan national on Wednesday who they say admitted to killing Russian general Igor Kirillov in a bombing on Tuesday.
The 29-year-old suspect, who was not named, was captured in a village on the outskirts of Moscow following the assassination.
Russian authorities claimed that the suspect confessed to being hired by Ukraine’s military intelligence service, known as the HUR, to carry out the attack.
The assassination came just a day after Ukraine accused Kirillov — who was the head of Russia’s nuclear, biological, and chemical protection forces — of war crimes involving the use of banned chemical weapons on the battlefield.
The suspect allegedly traveled to Moscow and placed a bomb under a scooter that was near Kirillov&#8217;s home. When Kirillov and one of his aides walked outside of the building where the scooter was located, the bomb detonated, killing both men.
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VIDEO: 🇷🇺 Russian army&#8217;s chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow blast
Igor Kirillov was killed in a brazen attack which has been claimed by Kyiv, becoming the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia yet as the Kremlin&#8217;s campaign in Ukraine drags on<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AFPVertical?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AFPVertical</a> <a href="https://t.co/vw0yHF30vz">pic.twitter.com/vw0yHF30vz</a>
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1869056017972986185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
The suspect drove a rental car to the scene and used a live video camera to give Ukraine&#8217;s intelligence services a live feed monitoring the general&#8217;s movements.
He was promised $100,000 and help getting to Europe, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/world/europe/russia-general-killing-suspect-uzbekistan.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur">reported</a>.
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Kirillov was accused by Ukraine of using the banned chemical weapon chloropicrin nearly 5,000 times against troops in Ukraine. He was sanctioned by the U.S. and the U.K. for using the weapon.
“Kirillov was a war criminal and an absolutely legitimate target, as he gave orders to use banned chemical substances against the Ukrainian military,” a Ukrainian official told CNN. “Such an inglorious end awaits all those who kill Ukrainians. Retribution for war crimes is inevitable.”
Ukraine has killed other top Russian military officials in targeted assassinations, including two in just the last month.
Ukraine&#8217;s security services took credit for the assassination of a senior commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Russian-occupied Crimea and the assassination of a senior Russian naval officer who ordered missile strikes on civilian targets.

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Ukraine assassinated a top Russian general inside Moscow on Tuesday morning, just a day after the country accused him of war crimes involving the use of chemical weapons on the battlefield.
General Igor Kirillov, 54, became the highest-ranking Russian official killed inside Russia since Russia invaded Ukraine nearly three years ago.
Kirillov and an aide were killed after they walked out of a residential building, and a scooter packed with explosives was detonated when the two men walked by.
The blast was so powerful that it damaged windows as high as the third floor of the building and shattered windows in buildings across the street, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/world/europe/russian-general-bombing-moscow.html">reported</a>. Investigators said that the bomb had the same explosive yield as two pounds of TNT.
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VIDEO: 🇷🇺 Russian army&#8217;s chemical weapons chief killed in Moscow blast
Igor Kirillov was killed in a brazen attack which has been claimed by Kyiv, becoming the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia yet as the Kremlin&#8217;s campaign in Ukraine drags on<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/AFPVertical?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#AFPVertical</a> <a href="https://t.co/vw0yHF30vz">pic.twitter.com/vw0yHF30vz</a>
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) <a href="https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1869056017972986185?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 17, 2024</a></blockquote>
Kirillov was the head of Russia’s nuclear, biological, and chemical protection forces and was wanted by Ukraine for his use of the banned chemical weapon chloropicrin against troops in Ukraine. He was sanctioned by the U.S. and the U.K. for using the weapon.
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“Kirillov was a war criminal and an absolutely legitimate target, as he gave orders to use banned chemical substances against the Ukrainian military,” a Ukrainian official told <a href="https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/russian-general-kirillov-moscow-explosion-ukraine-12-17-24-intl/index.html">CNN</a>. “Such an inglorious end awaits all those who kill Ukrainians. Retribution for war crimes is inevitable.”
The report said that there had been nearly 5,000 recorded instances of Russian troops using the illegal chemical weapon under Kirillov’s orders. 
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Ukraine has killed other top Russian military officials in targeted assassinations, including two in just the last month.
Ukraine&#8217;s security services took credit for the assassination of a senior commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Russian-occupied Crimea and the assassination of a senior Russian naval officer who ordered missile strikes on civilian targets.

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President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> signaled in an interview over the weekend that Ukraine should prepare itself for the possibility that it will receive less aid after he takes office and that NATO needs to be prepared to step up its spending or else risk the U.S. leaving the alliance.
Trump made the remarks during a Sunday interview with NBC News&#8217; Kristen Welker on &#8220;Meet The Press&#8221; when asked about foreign policy.
When asked if Ukraine should be prepared to receive less U.S. assistance, Trump responded: &#8220;Yeah. Probably. Sure.&#8221;
&#8220;We’re in for $350 billion. And Europe is in for $100 billion. Why isn’t Europe in for the same as us?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;The one thing that should happen is that Europe should come in for &#8212; they should equalize. And, you know, Biden, all he had to do, like I did with NATO, I said, &#8216;You’ve got to pay your bills.&#8217; They weren’t paying their bills.&#8221;
Trump noted that he got NATO member countries to greatly increase their contributions to the alliance after a lot of nations were not paying up and were just relying on the U.S. to carry their load for them.
&#8220;Europe is in for a fraction. And war with Russia is more important for Europe than it is for us,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It’s important for everybody, but it’s more important for Europe than it is for us. We have a little thing called an ocean in between us.&#8221;
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Trump said that the war needed to be brought to an end quickly because of the amount of destruction and death that it was bringing to the European continent.
&#8220;It’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen, and it should’ve never been allowed to happen,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Biden should’ve been able to stop it.&#8221;
He pledged that the U.S. would stay in NATO, but only if the other countries stepped up and fulfilled their obligations.
&#8220;If they play their bills, absolutely,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But NATO’s taking advantage of us. Number one, they take advantage of us on trade, meaning the European nations, okay, like terrible. They don’t take our cars, they don’t take our food product, they don’t take anything. It’s a disgrace. And on top of that, we defend them. So it’s a double-whammy. So let me just tell you, I was able to get hundreds of billions of dollars put into NATO just by a tough attitude. I said to the countries, &#8216;I’m not going to protect you unless you pay,&#8217; and they started paying. And that amounted to more than $600 billion. That’s a big thing. Otherwise they wouldn’t even be fighting. They wouldn’t have any money to fight. If they’re paying their bills, and if I think they’re doing a fair — they’re treating us fairly, the answer is absolutely I’d stay with NATO.&#8221;
When asked if he would consider leaving if they don&#8217;t pay up, Trump said: &#8220;Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely.&#8221;
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Trump says Ukraine should prepare itself for a change in how much assistance it gets and that NATO countries need to step up and start paying their fair share. <a href="https://t.co/mJOSKY1i1p">pic.twitter.com/mJOSKY1i1p</a>
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1865861719056150667?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 8, 2024</a></blockquote>

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/syria" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Syria</a> is on the verge of collapse as rapidly advancing Islamic terrorist rebels from the north have taken over vast swaths of land from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s forces.
In just a little over a week, the terrorist rebels have conquered Aleppo in northern Syria and have quickly moved south, capturing Hama and are now moving through Homs as they move toward the country’s capital city of Damascus.
The situation is so dire that Assad has evacuated his family to Russia and Iran has started to withdraw its military personnel from the country.
“Russia doesn’t have a plan to save Assad and doesn’t see one emerging as long as the Syrian president’s army continues to abandon its positions,” a source <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/12/06/russia-assads-rescue-citizens-leave-syria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Telegraph.
Experts on the Russian military said that the country would struggle to evacuate its main airbase in Syria before the terrorist rebels capture it. They believe that all the personnel will be evacuated, but much of the hardware, including some of the military planes used to back the Syrian regime, would be left behind.
Fighting in the Syrian civil war had remained largely quiet since 2020 when a ceasefire was struck, but recent events cracked the forces that had kept the current lines frozen.
The two main events that have changed the situation in the country were Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 and Iranian-backed Hamas terrorists launching an unprecedented terrorist attack in Israel on October 7, 2023.
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Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine has siphoned away support that it would send to back Assad&#8217;s forces in its fight against the rebel terrorists — primarily Hay&#8217;at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a <a href="https://www.dni.gov/nctc/ftos/hts_fto.html#:~:text=Hay'at%20Tahrir%20al%2DSham%20(HTS)%20is%20a,ida's%20former%20branch%20in%20Syria." target="_blank" rel="noopener">designated</a> Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) that evolved out of Al-Qaeda&#8217;s former branch in Syria.
HTS&#8217;s leader, Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, is a terrorist who has a <a href="https://rewardsforjustice.net/rewards/muhammad-al-jawlani/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$10 million bounty</a> on his head from the U.S. government.
&#8220;Amid the excitement surrounding the potential downfall of the brutal dictator Bashar al-Assad, analysts and the media often overlook that it is happening at the hands of jihadist groups,&#8221; <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/12/06/hayat-tahrir-al-sham-led-rebel-offensive-gains-ground-in-syria-as-islamist-coalition-nears-third-largest-city/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Joe Truzman, Senior Research Analyst and Editor at Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Long War Journal.
&#8220;The prospect of a Syrian state dominated by Islamist factions, especially if they gain access to advanced weaponry pilfered from regime arsenals, undoubtedly raises significant concerns in Israel and the surrounding region,&#8221; Truzman added.
Hamas&#8217; massacre of 1,200 people in October 2023 sparked war throughout the Middle East between Israel and Iran and all of Iran&#8217;s terrorist proxy groups. Israel has decimated the largest and most powerful of the terrorist groups, Lebanon-based Hezbollah, killing thousands of its fighters, wiping out most of its large arsenal of aerial munitions, and killing off its top leaders and nearly all of its senior commanders. Prior to being severely damaged by Israel&#8217;s superior military, Hezbollah was backing Assad in Syria and helped him keep power.
Israel was actively monitoring the situation and is believed to have <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/unconfirmed-report-idf-recently-struck-chemical-weapons-cache-in-syria/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">destroyed</a> a Syrian chemical weapons cache to prevent the weapons from falling into the hands of the terrorists.
&#8220;The IDF monitors developments and is prepared for all scenarios, offensive and defensive alike,&#8221; said Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi. &#8220;The IDF will not tolerate threats near the Lebanon-Syria border and will thwart any threat against the State of Israel.&#8221;

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On Sunday night, Joe Biden decided that now was the moment. Yes, he had promised he was not going to pardon his son, Hunter, on gun and tax charges, but hell, he’s leaving office. There is no reason for him to lie anymore.
So, he released a statement announcing he is pardoning his son on all charges, not just granting commutation of the sentence. He could have granted commutation, meaning he could have left all of the guilty pleas and convictions on the books without his son having to go to jail.
Instead, he decided to issue a full pardon, meaning that his son’s record was wiped clean. Biden didn’t just issue a full pardon for the things Hunter was convicted of or to which he pled guilty; he issued a full pardon dating all the way back to January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024, nearly an 11-year period.
A blanket pardon for everything Hunter had done.
Obvious was the hilarious spectacle of Biden issuing the pardon with roughly four hours remaining until December 1 was over. Theoretically, Hunter Biden could have done anything, even gone on a murder spree, and he would have gotten off scot-free.
The obvious question is: Why would he make the pardon applicable to the last 11 years?
The answer, of course, is because Hunter Biden was the bagman, as we all know.
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As I’ve discussed repeatedly, Joe Biden has spent his entire political career enriching his family since the time he was in the Senate from Delaware. He used his position to enrich his brothers, Frank and James. He used his position to enrich his sister, Valerie. He used his position in order to deploy Hunter Biden — his derelict, drug-addled son — all over the world and pick up stacks of cash on behalf of the family from China to Ukraine.
Much of that cash was apparently being held in trust for “the big guy,” according to contemporaneous email messages and texts that were sent by Hunter on that famous Hunter Biden laptop.
So why did Biden issue a pardon on everything?
Because he is afraid of, not just the charges that Hunter Biden was caught up in, but also of his connection to Joe that will be the subject of further investigation.
He&#8217;s trying to clear the decks so that Hunter Biden is now off the hook for absolutely everything, including his time at Burisma. It is not a coincidence this pardon begins January 1, 2014. When exactly did Hunter Biden join Burisma? Answer: April 2014.
Joe Biden is clearly attempting to wipe the books of his corruption or any possible investigation into the money that passed hands between foreign countries and Hunter Biden and then held by Hunter Biden for “the big guy.”
That is the goal here.
This is full-scale, obvious political corruption of the most unseemly sort.
Joe Biden put out <a href="https://x.com/townhallcom/status/1863381785494585436" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a statement</a>, saying:
<blockquote>Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.</blockquote>
If you say that you&#8217;re not going to interfere with the Justice Department&#8217;s decision-making and then you full-on pardon your son, after claiming that the Justice Department selectively prosecuted your son, that would be, technically, the largest scale of interference with the Department of Justice.
Sure, you let them waste millions of dollars prosecuting your son, only to pardon him later. But you are openly suggesting that they were corrupt, that they did something wrong, which they didn&#8217;t. 
Biden continued, “Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form.”
The reality, of course, is that Joe Biden&#8217;s son filled out a gun form claiming he was not a drug addict while he was, in fact, in full-scale drug addiction mode, snorting parmesan cheese off carpet, thinking that perhaps it was meth or cocaine. And that&#8217;s according to his own memoir.
If you lie on a gun registration form about not being a drug addict, the punishment is up to 10 years in jail or $250,000 in fines. Very often, those sorts of charges are brought.
With regard to Hunter Biden, if he were some poor kid from Appalachia, the chances that this kid would not have been prosecuted under the statute are very, very low.
But according to Joe Biden, it was all corrupt. That&#8217;s the real reason. It&#8217;s not because he&#8217;s trying to cover up what he did with his son. Hunter was the bag man.
The real issue here is that the Justice Department was going after his poor, innocent 51-year-old, totally derelict son, who happened to be picking up stacks of cash for him.
Biden stated:
<blockquote>Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently. The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election. Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room – with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.</blockquote>
To recall what happened in this case, the Justice Department tried to cut an unprecedented sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden. The nature of that deal is that there were essentially two sets of plea agreements. One was a plea agreement with regard to the gun charge, and the other added onto the tax charges along with anything else Hunter might have done.
The plea deal on the gun charge was out in the open. But then there was a secret agreement on the tax charges that included an addendum that covered any other crimes Hunter may have committed during this period. The judge in that case looked at the plea agreement and basically said, “What the hell is this? I can&#8217;t greenlight this deal.”
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The DOJ was never really going after the Bidens. That was the entire point. They were only forced to prosecute Hunter Biden after the judge stepped in and said no.
Biden stated, “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.”
He&#8217;s suggesting that if he doesn&#8217;t pardon Hunter, there will be further charges brought against Hunter Biden.
There&#8217;s one problem: Since Joe Biden has pardoned Hunter, Hunter can no longer plead the Fifth Amendment. If, for example, the DOJ of the Trump administration investigates and finds that Hunter Biden was likely picking up stacks of cash on behalf of his dad in foreign countries while his dad was vice president of the United States, Hunter can no longer plead the Fifth, because to plead the Fifth Amendment, he would have to say he would be incriminating himself.
But if you&#8217;ve been pardoned for the possible crimes, then you have no grounds for citing the Fifth Amendment.
Biden continued:
<blockquote>For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They’ll be fair-minded. Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.</blockquote>
One of the great liars in American history, Joe Biden. Just tell the American people the truth, says the man who ran on the presumption that he was not senile while everyone knew it was untrue. He is wildly dishonest. He openly said in July 2024 he would not pardon Hunter under any circumstances.
He lied.
And we should not be surprised.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/biden-administration" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Biden administration</a> announced on Monday that it would be sending another $725 million to Ukraine as it ramps up military aid to the country before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
The State Department <a href="https://www.state.gov/united-states-announces-significant-new-military-assistance-for-ukraine-14/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that it would be giving Ukraine a variety of military equipment including Stinger missiles, ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, artillery ammunition, drones, tube-launched, optically guided, wire-tracked missiles, small arms and ammunition, and other military supplies. 
“As part of the surge in security assistance that President Biden announced on September 26, the United States is providing another significant package of urgently needed weapons and equipment to our Ukrainian partners as they defend against Russia’s ongoing attacks,” the State Department said. “The United States and more than 50 nations stand united to ensure Ukraine has the capabilities it needs to defend itself against Russian aggression.”
The aid was supplied in addition to another $275 million in military aid the Biden administration <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-admin-sending-another-275m-in-military-aid-to-ukraine-before-trump-takes-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">committed</a> to on November 20. 
The aid comes as Biden enters the final month of his presidency and just after he made a major policy change to <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/17/us-news/donald-trump-jr-claims-biden-administration-is-trying-to-start-world-war-3-ahead-of-trumps-presidency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authorize</a> Ukraine to launch long-range American-supplied missiles into Russia. Donald Trump Jr. accused the Biden administration of trying to start a world war before his father’s inauguration in January.
“The Military Industrial Complex seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives. Gotta lock in those $Trillions. Life be damned!!! Imbeciles!” he <a href="https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1858242971373637784">posted</a> on X in response.  
The policy change was met with <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/4998825-us-ukraine-missile-policy-shift-biden-gop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mixed reactions</a> from Republicans who asked why Biden was making the change now. 
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-zelenskyy-nato-92069fae6a05fc03d6fb2643ecbb4b2a" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asserted</a> last week that the war could end if the country became part of NATO.  
“If we want to stop the hot stage of the war, we should take under the NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control. That’s what we need to do, fast. And then Ukraine can get back the other part of its territory diplomatically,” he said.
Trump <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-military-weapons-nuclear-42d5d374faf445b811c6abe422da05eb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has promised</a> to bring a quick end to the war, saying that he will negotiate peace. 
“We’re going to work very hard on Russia and Ukraine. It’s got to stop. Russia and Ukraine’s gotta stop,” he said in November.

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Ukraine President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/volodymyr-zelensky" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Volodymyr Zelensky</a> signaled on Friday that he is shifting his position on his country&#8217;s war against Russia.
Zelensky is now reportedly willing to concede territory to Russia to bring an end to the war that was started in 2022 when Russian forces invaded.
&#8220;If we want to stop the hot phase of the war, we need to take under the NATO umbrella the territory of Ukraine that we have under our control,&#8221; Zelensky <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/zelenskyy-suggests-hes-prepared-to-end-ukraine-war-in-return-for-nato-membership-even-if-russia-doesnt-immediately-return-seized-land-13263085" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in an interview with Sky News.
&#8220;We need to do it fast,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And then on the [occupied] territory of Ukraine, Ukraine can get them back in a diplomatic way.&#8221;
The Telegraph <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/zelensky-says-willing-cede-ukrainian-193636628.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Zelensky&#8217;s new remarks represented &#8220;a considerable shift in his position&#8221; after he previously indicated that Ukraine would fight Russia until the country regained complete control of all of its internationally recognized borders.
Zelensky said that he wants to work directly with President-elect Donald Trump, who has promised to bring a quick end to the war, but has declined to divulge details on how he will do it.
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&#8220;I want to work with him directly because there are different voices from people around him. And that&#8217;s why we need not to [allow] anybody around to destroy our communication,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It will be not helpful and will be destructive. We have to try to find the new model. I want to share with him ideas and I want to hear from him.&#8221;
He said that the two had a &#8220;very warm, good, constructive&#8221; conversation when they talked in September, adding that it was &#8220;an important first step.&#8221;
Zelensky&#8217;s remarks come after Trump appointed Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg to serve as his Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia.
Kellogg <a href="https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/america-first-russia-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a policy paper at the America First Policy Institute that Russia’s war in Ukraine was “an avoidable crisis that, due to the Biden Administration’s incompetent policies and rejection of the America First approach to national security, has entangled America in an endless war.”
He said the administration’s “risk-averse pattern in the armament of Ukraine coupled with a failure in diplomacy with Russia has prolonged the war in Ukraine, which now finds itself in a war of attrition with Russia.”
He wrote that the U.S. plans to seek “a cease-fire and negotiated settlement” to bring the war in Ukraine to an end.
“The United States would continue to arm Ukraine and strengthen its defenses to ensure Russia will make no further advances and will not attack again after a cease-fire or peace agreement,” he said. “Future American military aid, however, will require Ukraine to participate in peace talks with Russia.”

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President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> announced on Wednesday that he has selected retired Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg to serve as Assistant to the President and Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia.
&#8220;Keith has led a distinguished Military and Business career, including serving in highly sensitive National Security roles in my first Administration,&#8221; Trump said in a statement. &#8220;He was with me right from the beginning!&#8221;
&#8220;Together, we will secure PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, and Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN!&#8221; Trump added.
Kellogg served during Trump&#8217;s first term in office as a national security adviser to Vice President Mike Pence.
&#8220;I am honored by @realDonaldTrump&#8217;s appointment to serve as Assistant to the President and Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia,&#8221; Kellogg said in a post on X.
&#8220;It was the privilege of my life working for President Trump, and I look forward to working tirelessly to secure peace through strength while upholding America’s interests,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;I am ready with the commitment and dedication it deserves.&#8221;
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I am honored by <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a>&#8216;s appointment to serve as Assistant to the President and Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia. It was the privilege of my life working for President Trump, and I look forward to working tirelessly to secure peace through strength while upholding… <a href="https://t.co/Nj6TFFEyui">pic.twitter.com/Nj6TFFEyui</a>
— Keith Kellogg (@generalkellogg) <a href="https://twitter.com/generalkellogg/status/1861867967111463363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
During the Biden-era, Kellogg has served as the Co-Chairman of the Center for American Security at the America First Policy Institute.
Kellogg <a href="https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/america-first-russia-ukraine" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in a policy paper at the institute that Russia&#8217;s war in Ukraine was &#8220;an avoidable crisis that, due to the Biden Administration’s incompetent policies and rejection of the America First approach to national security, has entangled America in an endless war.&#8221;
He said the administration&#8217;s &#8220;risk-averse pattern in the armament of Ukraine coupled with a failure in diplomacy with Russia has prolonged the war in Ukraine, which now finds itself in a war of attrition with Russia.&#8221;
He wrote that the U.S. plans to seek &#8220;a cease-fire and negotiated settlement&#8221; to bring the war in Ukraine to an end.
&#8220;The United States would continue to arm Ukraine and strengthen its defenses to ensure Russia will make no further advances and will not attack again after a cease-fire or peace agreement,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Future American military aid, however, will require Ukraine to participate in peace talks with Russia.&#8221;

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The Biden administration announced Wednesday that it would provide Ukraine with another $275 million in military aid as it amps up support for the country before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. 
Secretary of State Antony Blinken <a href="https://www.state.gov/the-united-states-announces-significant-new-military-assistance-for-ukraine-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that the U.S. would give Ukraine ammunition for high mobility artillery rocket systems, TOW missiles, landmines, small arms and training equipment, and a variety of other ammunition and drones. 
“As part of the surge in security assistance that President Biden announced on September 26, the United States is providing another significant package of urgently needed weapons and equipment to our Ukrainian partners as they defend against Russia’s ongoing attacks,” Blinken said in a statement. “We will continue to provide Ukraine the support it needs to succeed on the battlefield and prevail in its defense against Russia’s aggression.”
On Thursday, Ukraine <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/world/europe/russia-ballistic-missile-ukraine-war.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Russia had struck the city of Dnipro with an intercontinental ballistic missile, but U.S. officials said that claim was unlikely. 
Earlier this week, President Joe Biden <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/11/17/us-news/donald-trump-jr-claims-biden-administration-is-trying-to-start-world-war-3-ahead-of-trumps-presidency/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">authorized</a> Ukraine to launch long-range American-supplied missiles into Russia. Donald Trump Jr. accused the Biden administration of trying to start a world war before his father&#8217;s inauguration in January.
“The Military Industrial Complex seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives. Gotta lock in those $Trillions. Life be damned!!! Imbeciles!” he posted on X on Monday. 
The policy change was met with <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/4998825-us-ukraine-missile-policy-shift-biden-gop/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mixed reactions</a> from Republicans who asked why Biden was making the change now. 
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“Better late than never, but it was late,” said Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “I’ve been urging the administration to untie their hands for two years, and every weapons system they drag their feet and then they finally approve it.”
Florida Rep. Cory Mills said Biden was doing it to undermine Trump&#8217;s foreign policy agenda. 
“Biden is going to do what Biden’s done the last four years, which is destroy the country, destroy our position on the world stage, try and weaken us in every way when it comes to negotiations, to make it more difficult for President Trump to go ahead and focus on the ‘America First’ agenda,” he said.  
Trump <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-military-weapons-nuclear-42d5d374faf445b811c6abe422da05eb" target="_blank" rel="noopener">has promised</a> to bring a quick end to the war, saying that he will negotiate peace. 
“We’re going to work very hard on Russia and Ukraine. It’s got to stop. Russia and Ukraine’s gotta stop,” he said earlier this month. 
Under Biden, the U.S. has committed $183 billion in aid to Ukraine.

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