In nur 5 Jahren hat China den Automobilmarkt übernommen und ist uns parallel beim E-Auto davon gerast. Dass Kanzler Merz allen ernstes davon spricht, dass wir 2035 noch "hocheffiziente Verbrenner" verkaufen, macht es noch verrückter.

The Kremlin butcher, 25 years into his reign, turned up at a command post and called his own invasion, launched to keep himself and his corrupt oligarchs in power, and costing hundreds of thousands of Russian lives, a “tragedy of the Ukrainian people”.

'Over 59,000 war crimes by Russian army recorded in Donetsk Oblast' www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/4...

While passenger planes fly across the skies over Europe, in Ukraine the skies are filled with Russian missiles and drones. One continent, but two different realities. 📹: posterbureau / Instagram

Call it unproven if you like—but sustained drone activity over Europe’s military infrastructure follows professional patterns, not recreational ones. kyivindependent.com/what-russia-...

1/ An apparent attack on a 'shadow fleet' tanker off the coast of Senegal means that Ukraine may now be able to attack Russian interests worldwide, says Russian war correspondent Alexander Kots. He calls it a new and threatening phase in the war. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/wart...

It's a meaningless dance. Russia will not agree to any compromise and has clearly communicate this. All this diplomacy happens because Trump can't grasp the reality of the Kremlin mindset.

An exhaustive and utterly damning assesment. "In sum, there is simply no plausible argument that the reported killing of two survivors clinging to the burning wreckage of their stricken vessel could be anything other than an extrajudicial killing." www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...

Abandoning Ukraine would cost Europe $1.4–$1.8 trillion. Kyiv's victory is estimated $606–$972 billion, roughly half the price, according to Norwegian study Kremlin win would shift Russian pressure toward the Baltics, demanding massive NATO buildup euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/01/s...

Good choice! #Europe should go down the same path! #Socialmedia is driving addiction and frying our brains like Opium. Time to act

RT weren’t just bystanders, they were complicit in my torture. They fed my captors the narrative, scripted the lies, and filmed the propaganda that dehumanised me long before any sham courtroom.

Just sent out my free weekend update. Though the reporting this week made it crystal clear that the Trump administration is with Putin, that was not a bad thing for Ukraine. Accepting the truth is the first step to recovery-and the truth cannot now be denied. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Europe needs a plan for decoupling from America on.ft.com/4pD4ewL | opinion

I have just published my weekly update on modern war and strategic competition. This week, a focus on Putin's presser, peace talks, the fall of Yermak in #Ukraine, China's military / diplomatic aggression in the Pacific, as well as my Big 5 recommended reads. mickryan.substack.com/p/peace-nego...

Ukrainian forces downed multiple Russian jet-powered Shaheds for the first time using Ukrainian-made Sting interceptor drones overnight.

The Generation That Shaped Our Understanding of the 20th Century Is Gone The scholars, historians, and political advisers who shaped the West’s understanding of Nazi Germany, the USSR, and the Islamist Middle East, make way now for—what? - Walter Laqueur, 2018 www.tabletmag.com/sections/new...

Chinese parts supplier takes stake in leading Russian drone maker on.ft.com/440b1s5

🔥 The explosion of two tankers of the Russian "shadow fleet" is a special operation of SBU Sea Baby naval drones hit two sanctioned tankers KAIRO and VIRAT, belonging to the Russian "shadow fleet", in the Black Sea.

Russia and China would like nothing better than for Trump to get stuck in some foreign misadventure.

Putin's "whole economy, his whole society, his whole politics, his whole preservation of self revolves around having this war go on.” So says Fiona Hill, perhaps the most insightful Russia analyst of these times. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

What has happened and continues to evolve in Georgia is greatly underestimated, especially in Europe, where it seems there is no understanding that Putin is testing an algorithm there that he intends to apply throughout Europe.

⚡️Russian victory would cost Europe twice as much as supporting Ukraine, study finds. A Russian military victory in Ukraine would cost Europe twice as much as a Ukrainian victory, according to a new study by Corisk and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs published on Nov. 25.

A Real Life Example of Russian Information Operations

🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight! If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

It’s not a bias. It’s a transaction. Tens of millions of Ukrainian lives and the remnants of American respectability in exchange for an increase in the private fortunes of a few people.

Hungary’s free-riding on EU integration while serving foreign interests, be it Russian or American, has become incompatible with the principle of loyal cooperation and trust required by EU membership #EUCO

A second oil tanker has gone up in flames in the Black Sea. Both ships have been identified as the M/T Kairos and M/T Virat. The destination of both oilers is the Russian port of Novorossiysk.

“Behind every crime lie layered, often hidden motives — economic grievances, personal vendettas and the opportunism made possible by gaps in security.” Kamal Shahin examines the sectarian killings in Syria’s Homs, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social

Europe took decades to unite after the WWII - a democratic achievement still in progress.   There is only one way to avoid Ukraine’s defeat and a split Europe: Russia must be stopped in Ukraine, peace must be fair, and Europe must finally speak with one voice.   A United States of Europe!

Another problem Ukraine is encountering in Donetsk, is Russia using FPV drones equipped with thermite, or "flame throwers" to burn anti-drone nets.

“If Trump uses the considerable economic, military and diplomatic power of the United States to coerce Ukraine into risking its independence, a cease-fire wouldn’t be a diplomatic achievement — it would be a national shame…a strategic disaster.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/o...

Emirates successfully lobbies Europe to remove condemnation of its involvement in Sudanese genocide. Emirates reportedly funds the RSF. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

Engineering is hard

Opinion: There is nothing that China wants to import, nothing it does not believe it can make better and cheaper, nothing for which it wants to rely on foreigners a single day longer than it has to. on.ft.com/4irbwkS

🍊👑♥️🇷🇺 Via @michaeldweiss.bsky.social Polish cartoon “The peace talks were attended by Ushakov and Witkoff.” “And from the American side?”

Iran transferred hundreds of millions of dollars to Hezbollah over the past year through various businesses in Dubai and UAE, which allows bypassing sanctions on Iran. -WSJ

'Russia wants to drive a wedge between Poland and Ukraine, deepen the already extreme political polarisation in Poland, and empower domestic forces hostile to the European Union' writes Sławomir Sierakowski.

Russian troops hit a civilian car in Kherson with a drone, killing a 34-year-old woman and her 6-year-old child. This is russia’s “human safari” — the deliberate hunting of civilians.

One of the clearest, logical thinkers and strategic communicators on why Russia must not win - and why Ukraine needs more support, not more pressure to sign a deal that favours Russia.

To reassure Ukraine that Europe’s security commitments are real, European leaders must “draw on the resources of NATO” to support Ukrainian forces, argues @ivodaalder.bsky.social.

"Ireland lacks the intelligence systems to receive classified information." So even if there is a threat we can't tell them, allowing the Irish to continue to live in blissful ignorance. www.ft.com/content/4748...

As many as 16 bomber planes flew from Belaya air base in Siberia to the Olenya air base south of Murmansk on Monday.

“Behind every crime lie layered, often hidden motives — economic grievances, personal vendettas and the opportunism made possible by gaps in security.” Homs, the capital of Syria’s revolution, has become rife with sectarian killings, writes Kamal Shahin.

There are even plans to distribute housing to low-income Russians in need, who currently live in poor regions of Russia, for free. This is how territories are seized forever, because you won't be able to evict them later. And no one even considers this problem.

With a vast majority of Britons wishing a return to the EU, there is no party to vote for that wants a referendum on the agenda.

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

As long as Russian President Vladimir Putin believes he is in the driver's seat, he will demand Ukraine’s capitulation, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham warned Ukraine's surrender would fuel global aggression and eventually “haunt us all," he said euromaidanpress.com/2025/11/25/u...