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Dozens of Ukrainian children from a Russian-occupied city in Ukraine were taken to Belarus and sent to “emergency survival training” with the Belarusian military, according to local media.

The Belarus 4 Mogilev state television channel reported on Wednesday that 35 children from the city of Antratsyt in eastern Ukraine, which Russia has occupied since 2014, were sent to the eastern Belarusian city of Mogilev, where they were taught “how to behave in extreme situations” in exercises with the Belarusian military.

In the report, the children — some of whom are wearing tracksuits with Russian flags printed on their sleeves — are shown holding on to each other and covering their faces during a fire drill.

Thousands of Ukrainian children have been deported to Russia and Belarus from Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. In July 2023, Russian Children’s Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova put the figure of Ukrainian children “received” by Russia at 700,000, claiming most were accompanied by their parents or other relatives.

A study by Yale University found that between September 2022 and May 2023, over 2,400 Ukrainian children aged 6 to 17 were deported to Belarus from the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine, which are occupied by Russian forces.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko met with a group of deported Ukrainian kids last month, promising to “embrace these children, bring them to our home, keep them warm and make their childhood happier.”

In March 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Lvova-Belova, accusing them of overseeing the “unlawful deportation” of Ukrainian children.

March 3, 2015

This man is a mass murderer and a rapist. He deprived hundred thousands of women and men of their homes, their children and their lives. My mom, my friends were his victims. Only putin outdoes him in spreading nothing but grief and hatred.

Olga Lautman at Unmasking Russia:

When Trump first came to power in 2017, I repeatedly and publicly asked a question that has only grown harder to dismiss over the past decade: if someone deliberately set out to destroy the United States from within and dismantle its position in the world, what actions would be taken differently from what we are witnessing now? Trump’s conduct has never resembled mere incompetence, impulsiveness, or even corruption. Instead, it has always been a sustained pattern of national sabotage carried out through strategic chaos—one that Russia openly welcomes and is publicly celebrating as they watch America’s power, alliances, and credibility erode. The current crisis surrounding Greenland only reaffirms this. Greenland has become the clearest test yet of whether NATO can survive when the danger comes from inside the alliance, because Trump’s renewed threat to invade allied territory cannot be dismissed as bluster or theatrics, particularly given that NATO was created explicitly to contain and deter the Soviet Union and to prevent precisely this kind of coercion against Europe by a dominant power.

What makes this moment more disturbing is that it fits a pattern many decades in the making. After returning from the Soviet Union in the late 1980s—following a trip bearing the hallmarks of KGB cultivation—Trump’s political instincts consistently aligned not toward confronting adversaries but toward attacking U.S. allies, undermining NATO, and recasting American security partnerships as liabilities rather than strategic assets, a posture that mirrors long-standing Soviet and Russian objectives to fracture Western unity from within. That trajectory has now produced something far more concrete and dangerous. In an official letter circulated by National Security Council staff to multiple European ambassadors, Trump tied his fixation on Greenland to a personal grievance over the Nobel Prize, dismissed Denmark’s sovereignty outright, and declared that global security requires “complete and total control” of Greenland by the United States. This was not a private rant or campaign rhetoric but an official communication, transmitted through national security channels, informing allied governments that territorial seizure, grievance politics, corruption, and coercion are now the instruments of U.S. policy. The danger here is matched by the humiliation. An American president threatening an ally, denying the very concept of sovereignty, and framing global security around personal resentments is not projecting strength but advertising America’s institutional breakdown. Even if NATO continues to exist formally, no serious government can assume good faith after watching the United States weaponize its power against an ally through official channels while Congress remains inert and the public largely silent.

As this crisis unfolds, Congress is again AWOL. Where is the legislative branch while an American president threatens allied territory and flirts with invading a NATO partner? Are they on vacation again, issuing statements of concern while taking no concrete steps to block the use of force against allied states or even to assess whether Trump remains fit to exercise command authority? The absence of congressional action in the face of this escalation is not neutral. It is enabling, and it leaves unanswered why tools such as the 25th Amendment are not even being openly considered in response to conduct that endangers U.S. national security and global stability. This failure is compounded by the Supreme Court, which stripped meaningful constraints from the presidency by granting sweeping immunity, clearing the way for this mad king.

This pattern repeats across every major area of U.S. power. Under Trump, NATO has been hollowed out through constant signaling that collective defense is conditional and transactional, inviting adversaries to test boundaries while allies quietly plan for a future in which American guarantees no longer hold. Russia has responded exactly as expected, escalating militarization and attacks across Europe, because alliances do not survive when their leading power actively undermines them. Just as in his first term, Trump has worked to rehabilitate Russia’s standing on the world stage, treating Vladimir Putin not as a terrorist, aggressor, destabilizer, and architect of a genocidal war but as a legitimate negotiating partner, while elevating repressive despots like Alexander Lukashenko, who has turned Belarus into a launchpad for Russian aggression against both Ukraine and NATO countries, and Viktor Orbán, whose role inside the European Union has been to weaken democratic cohesion from within. This is the operational reality behind Trump’s decision to invite Putin and Lukashenko onto his so-called “Board of Peace” for Gaza, a move that attempts to provide international “legitimacy” to authoritarian murderers while sidelining democratic allies, international institutions, and most importantly, Palestinians.

Russian asset Donald Trump does Vladimir Putin’s bidding to destabilize the Western world.

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