During a phone call, Donald Trump hinted to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that he should nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize, as Pakistan had done. Modi sharply rejected the idea, stating that the ceasefire with Islamabad was achieved without U.S. involvement.

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— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) 30 August 2025 at 21:59

This refusal marked a turning point in relations: Washington imposed 50% tariffs on Indian goods, while in India, Trump was openly called a "traitor" and his effigy was burned at a festival. - NYT

— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) 30 August 2025 at 21:59

I'm 100% convinced that Trump's tariffs on India for buying Russian oil actually have fuck all to do with Ukraine or trying to punish Russia and are in fact because Trump has a stick up his ass regarding India and India refused to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Hence why America has still issued ZERO NEW sanctions on Russia, hence why they aren't tariffing China for buying Russian oil, or any other country really, it's only India they're picking on, and I don't really have any sympathy for India and sure it may hurt Russia but the real reason that Trump did it isn't about Ukraine at all. It's because Modi hurt his ego.

🇨🇳 A video from a Chinese factory testing its camera was found in the downed Russian Gerbera UAV.

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 30 August 2025 at 21:26

So, JD vance made a comment the other day (i think on USA today originally), saying that he would be ready to step in if anything had happened to trump. The fact that he is actually saying this, says quite a bit imho, because this is already known. VP's always have to step up and become president if the president becomes incapacitated. This led to the rumor that Trump is dead........

Right now, Trump is basically at the point at where Biden was at during the beginning of his last term. Even then there were some senior moments, but by the end of the term, he sometimes just lost his train of thought and it frequently looked like he was confused. If trump follows the same trajectory then he'll be cooked by the end of his term. However, i keep seeing online that he has symptoms of frontotemporal dementia, in which case, he'll be done much more quickly. His difficulty walking is a sign of that. You also see issues in using language for those that are cursed with this form of dementia. So, it will be a slow slide downward or a fast one, we shall see. But vance is drooling at becoming president, he wants it. He would step up in a heartbeat.

Would anybody have any other thoughts on this?

Not sure what to think. Trump is horrible and him being out of the WH would be awesome. But Vance is owned, body and soul, by the most evil German to have lived since Hitler snuffed it in 1945.  The one advantage to him might be if the MAGA cult turns out to be a cult of personality and falls apart once that personality is on his way out the door.

President Zelensky announced that new strikes deep inside Russia are imminent, with both forces and capabilities already in place.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 31 August 2025 at 12:18

Launch footage of Ukraine's new Flamingo cruise missile.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 31 August 2025 at 12:08

New satellite imagery confirms Ukraine’s strike on a Russian border outpost near Voloshyne, west of Armyansk, according to Crimean Wind Group. The barracks were completely destroyed, with one Russian serviceman killed and several wounded. Six Khivus-class hovercraft were also reportedly destroyed.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 31 August 2025 at 15:19

It has started. Sources from Militarnyi confirm it was Ukraine’s new Flamingo cruise missiles, not Neptune, that struck the FSB outpost near Armyansk on August 30. The powerful strike destroyed the main building and six hovercraft, as seen in satellite images.

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— NOELREPORTS (@noelreports.com) 31 August 2025 at 17:04

Here is a little more that I found on the situation on Trump's health and JD Vance



https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.economictimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-trump-dead-rumours-did-trumps-niece-drop-shocking-clues-and-made-chilling-health-revelation-what-you-need-to-know/amp_articleshow/123601862.cms

Right on the cult of personality thing, and that's exactly why he will be much weaker than trump has been. He won't have this huge fanbase that trumpnhas brought with him. 

Vance will have Peter Thiel pulling the strings. And the other basic problem is that Congress and the courts will still be just as awful. 

Still, at this point, we’re stuck with Vance if Trump becomes unable to perform (that’s what she said!) so hopefully Vance will face the same pangs of conscience that Pence did when it became clear that MAGA 1.0 was going off the rails. 

I've said it repeatedly in the past few months that Trump's mental state in his first year is at the stage of Biden's fourth year. But for a lot of people this isn't obvious because Trump saying stupid things now is not distinguishable from all the stupid things he said before dementia set in.

Even The Daily Show already ran a segment about this, first showing the excuses that Democrats made about Biden's health in year 4, followed by the excuses that Republicans are making about Trump's health in year 1. They matched so closely that it was hilarious.

Biden could drag himself over the finish line because his term was almost up. But Trump... it would take a miracle for him to last that long. What makes matters much worse is that Republicans aren't containing the craziness of Trump at all whereas the Democrats didn't allow policies to be influenced by weak moments of an aging president.

Vance as a replacement is hardly going to be an upgrade as far as policies go, but there's the slim hope that he isn't going to be accepted as Trump's heir by the MAGA crowd. But it's more probable that MAGA will go with the flow and that Vance turns out to be more calculated and ruthless when it comes to abolishing the USA's democracy and turning it into a dictatorship. Vance certainly has these ambitions because he talked about these things before he became nominated as Trump's candidate for vice presidency.

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— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) 1 September 2025 at 11:05

But Trump told us that Russia said Ukraine's territorial integrity beyond what they've already stolen is safe and pinkie promised that they won't take any more at a later date, they only want Donetsk! Lol.

In all seriousness, everyone knows that Russia's goal at minimum is to take the rest of Kherson, Mykolaiv and Odessa, that has always been their bare minimum goal, because it cuts Ukraine off from the Black Sea which would seriously hurt Ukraine's economy, it allows Russia to bring back its Navy into the Black Sea and take control of even more of the Black Sea, it also gives Russia a direct connection to Moldova which we already know they have ambitions on taking over, they have their direct link to their Russian Nazis in Transnistria.