Given Trump’s Easter threats to carry out new war crimes in Iran, we should think one or two steps ahead about a coup attempt connected to the war. And then deter it. (1/17)

Constitutional lawyer here. I don't think it would violate the Constitution for the VP/Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, but the intended constitutional remedy for this behavior is impeachment & removal. The fact that that remedy is politically impossible is a scandal and a crisis.

We are ready. Let’s do this.

Oh noooooo

In desperation, Rheinmetall CEO Papperger belittles Ukraine's revolutionary drone interceptor tech that no other country has. Europe has been cynically hesitant to build up Ukraine's defense industry for fear of losing its own mil contracts. 💰 IFYKYK www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Astonishing. The goal of our war is now to undo the effect of the war we started. Gosh, if only we could rewind to, say, four weeks ago when the Strait of Hormuz was open and normal!

🇺🇸✈️ NPR: F-35 fighter jet pilot, whose aircraft was hit by Iranian fire, is in stable condition with shrapnel wounds. The jet made a “hard landing” and is unlikely to return to service anytime soon.

Former NATO ISAF Commander & CIA Director, General Petraeus: Ukraine, a non-NATO member, is fighting NATO's war alone. Ukraine is also protecting many countries in the Middle East from the Iranian regime with drones. Unless they send soldiers to Ukraine, Europeans are cowards.

Aid to Ukraine from 2022-2026 was a rounding error. We used more in the first two weeks of the Iran war than we provided in the 4 years of aid to Ukraine.

is everyone tired of winning yet?

They've been covering for him for longer than that - and I blame the legacy media at least as much as I do Trump's base for his rise to power...

it should be a realisation the war is really coming home- it’s a worsening situation- the war is not going well. Ukraine is never going to be defeated. The war for Russia is lost. They just don’t want to believe it.

Francis Fukuyama on Trump: "The world has become a very dangerous place because the most powerful country is under the control of a ten-year-old boy. That boy discovered a flamethrower in his parents’ backyard and is now enjoying the ability to burn things up with it."

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Belgische minister van Buitenlandse Zaken bekritiseert oproep eigen premier over normalisering relatie met Rusland: "Zolang Rusland vasthoudt aan maximalistische eisen, is spreken over normalisering een signaal van verzwakking dat de Europese eenheid ondermijnt."

This moment from Feb 2025 may go down as one of the most prescient exchanges in modern diplomatic history. Zelenskyy warned Trump that while the United States may feel protected by an ocean today, a time could come when America would need help in war. Trump scolded him instead.

MAGAstan sind Drohnen-Experten: Eine iranische Drohne fliegt ungestört über einem Stützpunkt von MAGAstan im Irak. Der Bildqualität nach zu urteilen, ist diese entweder über Glasfaserkabel verbunden oder es gibt dort überhaupt keine elektronischen Gegenmaßnahmen (ich tendiere zur zweiten Option).

An historic humiliation for the United States. Trump is so deranged he will not realise this.

1/ Muscovites are being locked into an ever-growing 'digital gulag', complain Russian warbloggers, as a still-mysterious mobile Internet shutdown in central Moscow enters its second week. The shutdown is reported to be causing huge commercial losses and inconvenience. ⬇️

As a thought experiment, imagine if the most powerful country on earth elected a fascist xenophobic pedophile who decided to build concentration camps out of old warehouses to jail immigrants and start a war to cover up his inclusion in the Epstein files. Think about what a terror that would be

So far, I wd say Putin is winning the Gulf War. Oil prices are up, & the US has relaxed pressure on India to stop buying fm RU, so budget revenues will increase, making the war easier to fund. And UA will now be an even lower priority for US air defence munitions, so an easier target for RU strikes.

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I’ve been notified about another death in ICE custody. This marks a stunning 40 deaths during the second Trump administration. This cannot continue. There must be real accountability for ICE and DHS.

🚀 I published my latest Missile Matters post earlier today, providing a first assassment of the missile war over the Gulf region. In short: The U.S.-Israeli counter-TEL strategy appears to be working. Access the post here: missilematters.substack.com/p/race-to-th... Short summary below. 1/5

When Trump says Operation Epstein Fury will take “4 to 5 weeks” & also “as long as necessary” & the military could go “far longer than that” & insists “it won’t be difficult” because “we have tremendous amounts of ammunition,” you know one thing: we do NOT have tremendous amounts of ammunition.

No Democrat should vote for a single penny of a military appropriation for the Iran War until they first get to vote on a Declaration of War.

Ein Thread Es herrscht immer mal wieder etwas Verwirrung, wenn man von Iris-T spricht und den Versionen (SLM, SLS) welche die UA erhalten hat. Ich versuche es für die Laien zu sortieren. Die Experten mögen mir die Vereinfachungen verzeihen. Wenn wir von Iris-T sprechen haben alle sowas im Kopf.

THE WAR THROUGH AMERICAN EYES The loss of 18 service people in Kuwait has been confirmed when a missile hit an operations centre. COGS Dan Caine reminded everyone it was a major combat operation and loses were to be expected. The military thinks it can sustain these operations for five weeks but

also folks may not be aware but your options for doing a land invasion of Iran are: - Iraq - Pakistan - Afghanistan and Turkmenistan...if you can get there - Azerbaijan, Armenia (technically) or Turkey...if you want to fight through the mountains right off the bat there is no Kuwait next door

2022: Ukraine asks to close the sky 2026: Ukraine is asked to close the sky

I can't wrap my head around this. What about destroying russia's missile and drone launch capabilities at the source? Hit the archer, not the arrows, as we've been screaming for years. Or is Iran suddenly a bigger threat to Europe than russia? Taurus. Now.

The USF destroyed Russia’s Imbir radar and S-300V near Mariiupil on the night of March 1 using FP-2 guided strike drones with 100kg warhead. Imbir is a rare mobile radar used within the S-300V. The S-300V 9A84 launcher is a high-value component with an engagement range of up to 250 km.

Sign of the Times: While Russia's war on Ukraine and the Iran war aren't directly connected, both are symptoms of the breakdown of the "rules-based order." The breakdown started when the West failed to challenge Putin's invasion of Crimea. It's the rule of the strong from now on, and lots more war.

What an incredibly cool FT article and WWI story! The FT contest that challenged readers to redraw Europe’s borders (🎁🔗) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Soutenir la défense de l’ouest et du centre de l’Ukraine avec des zones de protection aérienne ( « SkyShield ») qui permettraient à Kyïv de déplacer des troupes de l’arrière vers le front. @DeskRussie desk-russie.eu/2026/01/11/l...

It would probably be a good idea for Western governments to start contingency planning for a change in power in the US from Trump to Vice President JD Vance within the next six months or so. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1ji...

🧵 @jburnmurdoch.ft.com is spot on about the conditions in his FT piece. Liberal democracy held it together thanks to growth, good demographics, and the promise of a better future. Those days are gone, and that’s the "why" behind the erosion. However...

Van Hollen: "The Trump admin has essentially said to folks at ICE, 'Anything goes. You have a license to kill. And by the way, we won't investigate you. We'll take care of this for you.' When they're calling these Americans 'domestic terrorists,' what they're saying to ICE is we got your back."

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

“If you exercise your constitutionally protected right to bear arms, masked federal agents can murder you in cold blood, simply because an American citizen exercising their Second Amendment rights scares them.”

Kyiv is moving to a schedule of 4.5–5 outage rotations: power cuts may last more than 16 hours, according to Yasno’s CEO. Meanwhile, the weather is freezing. This is a humanitarian disaster caused by russia. Please do not look away!

Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans. This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota: “Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”

“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” Timothy W. Ryback wrote in January. Revisit one of The Atlantic’s most-read stories of 2025: theatln.tc/UvwCdoBh

Derweil der Fritz… 👇🤦‍♂️

Agree. But De Wever should return the favour and visit Berlin, demanding to send the Taurus.

Nobel Peace Prize laureat Matviichuk called on Germany to supply 🇺🇦with Taurus missiles: "42sec-that’s how long it takes a Russian missile to reach a school in Kharkiv.In 42sec,children don’t have time to reach shelter.The only way to prevent this is to stop the missiles at the airfield in Russia"

The new US National Security Strategy, in its predictable and characteristic ugliness, is a good occasion for Europe to finally let go of the time-consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and start focusing on a proper and proactive own strategy instead.

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This. The goals of Putin haven't changed. In the first days of the war in 2022, Russia tried to take over Kyiv and Odessa, so it would control Ukraine and create a landbridge towards Russian Transnistria. The next logical step would be taking over Moldova and the Baltics, restoring the former SU.