#Pistorius hat recht, dem #Angriffskrieg #Russlands gegen die #Ukraine muss mit Stärke begegnet werden. Aber #Europa importiert weiter russische Energie. Das zu stoppen wäre ein Zeichen von Stärke. Von #Taurus ganz zu schweigen. taz.de/Ganz-Europa-...

Excellent piece by @cerianbond.bsky.social. Central message: we can’t afford Ukraine to lose, so we’d better ensure that Russia is defeated, and as long as Trump is around, that needs to be done without significant American help. Needs effort. But well within European capacity. Now get to work!

Britain has announced the largest package of sanctions against Russia since the early days of the Ukraine war to mark four years since the full-scale invasion.

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy demands clear date to join EU

Today marks the fourth year of the Russia–Ukraine war. The notion that “time is on the Russian side” betrays a lack of strategic patience and, even, squandered opportunities to exploit Moscow’s growing structural vulnerabilities, write @jkobzova.bsky.sociall and Leo Litra. 👉 https://bit.ly/3LLfQzs

Aus gegebenem Anlass: Für die #Ukraine dauert der Krieg nicht 4 Jahre, sondern 12 Jahre! Wird deutlich, wenn man die Gedenkwand in #Kiew abschreitet für all jene, die schon vor 2022 getötet wurden.

Poland has banned Chinese-made vehicles from entering all secure military facilities, citing security threats relating to the gathering of sensitive data. It has also barred military personnel from connecting their work phones to the systems of such cars.

Just sent out this post. It warns against buying weapons as the basis of military power. European states have a great opportunity to benefit from their defense spending in the coming years, buying lots of US weapons will stymie that. Building capacity is the key. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

OTD in 2022 your Prez predicted the exact invasion date. See as it seems such a mystery how He did it, your Prez will reveal the secret in following thread.

Under Trump, the United States has become the primary threat to the territorial integrity of a NATO ally. He's destroying America's most important alliance

"The Baltic states and Poland are investing heavily in border fortifications, drawing on lessons from Ukraine that Russian forces must be slowed at the start of any incursion." Read @keirgiles.bsky.social's latest for @foreignpolicy.com on Europe's response to Russia's war against Ukraine.

Some thoughts on how we have failed Ukraine over the past four years lukemcgee.substack.com/p/weve-faile...

🪄 Vláda ve své nové hospodářské strategii maluje růžové zítřky. Ceníme ambicióznost, uvidíme ale, kolik z toho opět zůstane jen na papíře. Budeme to hlídat a držet naší zemi palce! 👉 Celý přehled zde: texty.hlidacstatu.cz/2026/02/24/co-prinasi-nova-hospodarska-strategie-babisovy-vlady

X’s algorithms are not neutral tools, but an editorial force, shaping real worldviews. And unlike much of what you read on X, this finding is based on rigorous research. 👉 Read the full story: tcnv.link/CSXfxg6

The Kingdom of Morocco has lost a case at the highest civil court against newspapers @zeit.de and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Morocco wanted to get rid of the suspicion to be a customer or user of #Pegasus #spyware. www.bundesgerichtshof.de/SharedDocs/P...

Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.

We paid tribute to the fallen heroes of Ukraine at Maidan. I am also thinking of their comrades, bravely holding the line in the trenches. Fighting for peace. Fighting for a better future for their children. Fighting for a free and sovereign Ukraine, at the heart of a free Europe.

Friends, The full-scale war has changed all of us. War is not some news feed. That's an experience that cuts through you and changes you forever. I am a different person today. We're all human, including me. The war is a terrible trauma and everyone survives through it differently. 📷AP

Why are 🇪🇺President von der Leyen and 🇬🇧PM Starmer both still clinging to their 'surrender deals' with Trump even after the Supreme Court took away the tariff threat? My piece on what this is really about: davekeating.substack.com/p/though-she...

“If you cave to trump early, you end up losing twice. You lose what you lost when you caved, and then you lose again psychologically when you realize that, oh, I didn’t have to do it. “ ~Timothy Snyder. But looks like @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu still hasn’t learned after like, the 4th or 5th time?

Trump announced last weekend he was bumping his global tariffs up to 15% but then never signed the order so it’s 10% today not 15. He also claimed a hospital ship was on the way to Greenland which never actually happened either. Everything is totally fine.

Four years in, Britons and Danes most likely to say they want Ukraine to win the war against Russia, and care a great deal/fair amount that it does so 🇩🇰 79% 🇬🇧 70% 🇩🇪 51% 🇫🇷 45% 🇪🇸 44% 🇮🇹 32% *1-9% want Russia to win and care that it does so yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

Big new report out from us today looking at the state of UK-EU alignment and divergence. The key findings are that 1) the UK govt is turning to greater 'alignment' with EU rules as 'Brexit benefits' from divergence have been hard to come by. But 2) alignment is much easier said than done.

Rather unusual for the EP President to so publicly sign a decision where a crucial bit, the agreement from the Council, is still missing due to the Hungarian veto:

An important warning by @gabrielagreilinger.com

BREAKING: The EU Omnibus I was officially adopted today. What took 5 years to build was dismantled in under 12 months — with no public consultation, nor impact assessment and against the Charter. The good news: it’s now challengeable in court. www.esgtoday.com/eu-states-gi...

Cyprus rules out revisiting frozen Russian assets loan for Ukraine

A full decade, & the major media outlets are continuing to cover him as if he was just a normal president & this were a normal SOTU & neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party & I'm so very tired.

People ask me how I feel on the anniversary of the full-scale invasion, when bombs began to fall on peaceful cities and columns of RU tanks marched on Kyiv. To be honest, nothing special. Just another day of war, which has become part of our lives. And destroyed everything we call normal life.

For the 4th year in a row, we are coming together in Amsterdam to demonstrate our support to Ukraine. The Ukrainian spirit is stronger than Russian steel and can’t be broken. We are deeply thankful to the Ukrainians for defending our freedom. We will always stand with you! 🇳🇱🇺🇦

For 🇪🇺 govs “supporting 🇺🇦 still seems like supporting a football team: they are happy to pay to watch, but defeat would not be the end of the world for them. They are too complacent, however. 🇷🇺 is already conducting a wider campaign of disruptive activity all over 🇪🇺.” www.cer.eu/insights/fou...

Ian McKellen reads a poem called The First Letter to the Corinthians. It was written by Artur Dron,Ukrainian Defender,writer,poet. Please listen to it.These words are powerful and true 📹: Ukraine WOW

Russia launched its full-scale invasion exactly four years ago. If anyone had told us, during that first month, that this would be the situation four years later, we would have instantly called it a massive Ukrainian victory and a staggering Russian defeat

I think this is definitely a factor. One parallel that's inexact but possibly relevant is how Eisenhower fell in love with covert operations in 1953/54 (Iran, Guatemala). Seems so easy, don't see/care about long-term consequences. Luck runs out (Bay of Pigs).

Some of us said "Wait, they had to wait until dawn to attack? Boy are they fucked."

Exclusive: Iran nears deal to buy supersonic anti-ship missiles from China Great reporting from Reuters' @irishjreuters.bsky.social @phreuters.bsky.social @gavinfinch.bsky.social

💰Context on the Hungary/Slovakia–Ukraine oil spat: before the company's statement of a Russian attack on the Friendship/Druzhba (Barátság) pipeline and a halt in supplies, four MOL executives sold large blocks of shares. Suspected insider dealing was reported, @24.hu.web.brid.gy writes.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Thank you to Greenland for providing emergency medical care to a US sailor on board the submarine, since we did not have adequate resources in the area to treat him. I’m sorry that our president felt the need to cover up our shortcomings with a deranged ghost hospital ship post.

Black man doing the white man's dirty job: Eastern European edition.

Just before the elections, Hungary's government is fast-tracking the sale of land and buildings around Budapest's main railway stations that are likely worth hundreds of millions of euros... "buyers are rumored to be companies and businessmen with close ties to the ruling circle."

Old enough to remember @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu closing Art 7(1) procedure & releasing €137bn in 2024, primarily on back of rule of law undertakings which will not materialise. As denounced at the time, this has enabled obstructionism at no cost while undermining Comm's credibility

Update: the Speaker decided to do an even better thing than stuffing Nawrocki's draft in the drawer - he will refer it to the Venice Commission, which will likely not hold back in its assessment. It's also welcome to see a Polish official treat VC seriously and yes that's a subskeet. 14/

🇵🇱⚖️President Nawrocki vetoes the law reforming the National Council of Judiciary, dispelling any hopes the Polish government had of reforming the rule of law through new legislation. Major, but expected, defeat for the new MoJ Waldemark Żurek and his plans. 1/

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇵🇱 Simply incredible journalism by @shaunwalker7.bsky.social and The Guardian crew, complete with some jaw-dropping findings.

💰Viktor Orbán's government just confirmed my scoop: they are indeed planning to sell prime real estate in Budapest just two days before the parliamentary election...

🖤 8 years since the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and justice is still pending. Oligarch Marián Kočner was acquitted of ordering the killing, but the verdict was overturned. In this book excerpt, Tomáš Madleňák explains the errors & the grounds for the retrial which has just started.

Proruské a dezinformační skupiny spustily vlivovou operaci proti větrné energii v ČR Co je velmi varovné, jak se vláda při první ruské vlivové operaci velmi rychle sesypala a začíná pod jejím tlakem otáčet www.visegradsky-jezdec.cz/utok-ruska-v...

The $26 that Lou Reed sang about taking in his hand to “up to Lexington, one-two-five” in 1967 would be ~$250 today. The 15¢ Bob Dylan sang about being handed in 1965 would be ~$1.50 today. The “funky dollar bill” Funkadelic sang about in 1970 would be ~ $8.60 today.