The Daily Populous

Pete Buttigieg warns Democrats can't go back to status quo after President Trump.

In his conversation with NPR, Buttigieg warned that Democrats can't, and shouldn't, try to restore everything in the government that President Trump has broken this year.

The Democrats, he said, have been "too attached to a status quo that has been failing us for a long time." »

Russian soldiers call the practice a sacrifice to Baba Yaga, a fearsome witch from Slavic folklore who feasts on her victims.

NATO’s secretary general said recently that 100,000 Russian soldiers had died in 2025 alone.

Sverdlin said this is what he hears voiced most often from the Russian soldiers he helps to desert. »

Direct flights from Moscow to North Korea have begun this week, amid a strengthening of ties between the two nations and a decline in options for Russian tourists travelling abroad.

Nordwind Airlines – which used to carry Russians to holiday destinations in Europe before the EU imposed a ban on Russian flights – had tickets priced at 45,000 rubles ($570).

They signed a mutual defence pact last year when the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, visited North Korea. »

His framing of the United States as China’s primary threat appears to downplay a more immediate and complex challenge: Russia.

While China indeed seeks to reduce American pressure, the US is distant and not engaged in a destructive war.

While not their optimal outcome, a severely weakened Russia aligns with broader Western objectives of regional stability without direct escalation. »