Gotland is being armed. Polish Navy landing ship ORP Toruń (825) travelled from military port of Gdynia to Visby, Gotland SE today. Stayed Visby port only 2 hours. Ship is moving anti-ship missile systems to Gotland. 4th similar trip last 10 days. Operation Gotland Sentry.

🇺🇦❗️NATO is planning to deploy an air defense system over western Ukraine to intercept Russian missiles and UAVs, with the potential for further deployment to Kyiv, — The Telegraph. The proposal was put forward by a group of high-ranking officials. They will discuss the issue tomorrow in Copenhagen.

Government shutdown soon while hundreds of active duty top brass has to be shuttled back to their desk around the world. Amazing incompetence.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social writes "I’m not sure that a dressing-down from Pete Hegseth is going to be all that effective in either exciting them or scaring them." What we do know is that it's effective in annoying them. And that also undermines readiness. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Excellent US perspectives today! #Russia #Trump #Republicans #USmilitary

In the global AI boom, Russia is conspicuously absent on.ft.com/4gOEtpZ | opinion

In Shandryholove, a Ukrainian family was executed. Their daughter was abducted, used as a human shield. I didn’t film it. I won’t show it. But I tell the story, link the reports, and ask why the world is still quiet. ⚠️ Warning: This video discusses graphic war crimes Link Below:👇

Oekraïne brengt zomeroffensief Rusland tot staan – en leert Europa hoe het zich tegen de Russische dreiging moet wapenen www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/o...

The way to get quote "the fighters excited" again is to start by returning the portrait of Milley to its rightful place. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Putin is escalating Russia’s hybrid war against Europe. Is Europe ready? www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

🚨 BREAKING: The pro-EU Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) is firmly in the lead of Moldova’s election, with around half of votes counted so far and PAS-sympathetic constituencies still to tally. Full story: www.politico.eu/article/poll...

@phillipspobrien.bsky.social is one of the most creative security minds of our age with a set of critical premises that are solid enough to make accurate prognoses. In Europe we need this sort of forward looking capability leading in security policy. Brexit continues to deliver for the Kremlin.

Just sent out a piece that reveals another drastic weakness in how the analytical community and the US government understands war. For years now, we have been force fed the narrative that Ukraine must draft its young male population and send them to the front. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Based on leaked documents, Russia has agreed to equip and train the PLA to air-drop armoured vehicles and special reconnaissance capabilities, write Oleksandr V Danylyuk and Dr Jack Watling in the latest RUSI Commentary.

@ishaantharoor.bsky.social thanks for this update. Some here call Stubb Rutte 2.0 (in the Trump whisperer category) but Stubb has a more compelling presence and articulates European interests and values with greater clarity and ownership. He' s one to watch. www.washingtonpost.com//world/2025/...

📺Shortly before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky departed the UN General Assembly for Kyiv, he joined me on The Axios Show where he offered a warning to Putin, new details on his meeting with Trump & a pledge about his political future. Watch here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=2kwZ...

The Norwegian owners of OSLO CARRIER 3, the Russian crewed ship suspected of launching the drone attack on Copenhagen, are deeply tied to a Russian paramilitary organisation RSB and by extension, security service FSB. danwatch.dk/droneangreb-...

The terror against Kherson does not cease for even a single day. Today, the Russian army dropped 15 aerial bombs on Kherson, shelled the city center with artillery and multiple rocket launchers. Russian forces killed a 74-year-old woman and injured eight others.

Posturing. But not as deterrence. They all know he's a lightweight, so he's going to stand in front of them to prove it by wasting their time. Or what, ask them to betray their oath? on.ft.com/42Tawzh

Live at 5!! (12pm EDT) Excited to speak to the brilliant tech journalist @kashhill.bsky.social & the subject of her epic article on AI-induced delusion, Allan Brooks. We are in completely complete charted territory of psychological manipulation. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

Today's must read is the FT investigation from @helenwarrell.bsky.social into the covert Russian Military unit probing UK infrastructure vulnerabilities, the equally clandestine Nato response, and the threats to Ireland as Europe's neutral soft underbelly.

Everyone is looking for drones now, with blinking lights and buzzing sounds. What you should really be concerned about now is what you are missing when staring at the sky

If you think your day’s rough, spare a thought for this Russian “soldier”: old, grey, stuck in a mosquito-ridden swamp invading another country with his walking stick…..and about to catch an FPV in the kisser. At least he got a free portrait first.

But also lots of these, they may be needed sooner than we think. But not now

Det här blir bra! Ukraina har utvecklat massor av nya vapen som bevisligen fungerar och som är klart billigare än alternativen från väst. Køp, køp, køp! Men jag hoppas verkligen att alla fattar vad som skulle hända ifall Ukrainas vapenindustri skulle hamna under rysk kontroll...

I would pay almost anything for a serious news source that guaranteed to exclude Trumps inane rants…

Very interesting. Trump seems to finally be getting intelligence that Russia is not doing well and Ukraine has actually started to gain an upper hand in some areas. The narrative of Ukraine failure, which was always overblown, might be ending in Washington.

“What isn’t being said clearly enough is that Europe is doing what it is doing under duress. When America extorts European obeisance, America is no longer Europe’s friend.” Another great column from @martinsandbu.ft.com. www.ft.com/content/11b9...

"Many in Western academia bought into the anti-colonial narrative Moscow was trying to sell because they took official proclamations at face value and wanted to believe in the story of communist anti-imperialism."

Very good piece! www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Michio Kaku on H1B being the secret weapon of the US.

The formation of corps level organization and integrated tactics across the Sumy front by Ukraine are highly effective. Hopefully this will end the waste imposed by Soviet era doctrines still current in much of the defense establishment. euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/21/f...

Many are justifiably critical of the UN. But like with the EU it's far better to have it anyway.

1/ An apparent Russian espionage scandal is unfolding in the Dominican Republic after the arrest of a 25-year-old man who has been linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin's disinformation network. He has been linked to a recently-exposed Russian network in Argentina. ⬇️

The EU should see public anger at Trump as an opportunity on.ft.com/46tvkOT | opinion

Trump stays mostly quiet after Russian military’s Europe incursions - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Part Three. This alone is probably pissing the Israelis off.

Is it just me or does he look a slight bit like Sir Humphrey Appleby

Are you all using the European AI app Mistral AI (“Le Chat”)? It’s as good as anything produced in the US, and it’s got the clear benefit of not being produced in the US…

The story of how 2.2% of military expenditure causes 75% of battlefield casualties.

Will be interesting to see how the Erdogan Trump meeting will go this coming Thursday. Israel should be worried to so completely depend on MAGA

Op de Ginkelse Heide herdenken we de moed van paratroepen die in 1944 onder vijandelijk vuur sprongen. Hun erfenis en offers vormen het fundament voor onze vrijheid. Deze heldendaden herinneren ons dat het beschermen van vrede en vrijheid nu op nieuwe schouders rust. 🇳🇱🇬🇧🇵🇱🇺🇸🇨🇦

Warsaw’s economic miracle over the past 30 years is being undermined by Russian attacks and growing internal discord, says Simon Kuper on.ft.com/48qVMLz

There now is a department of war, and soon a ministry of truth. When will independent media fully succumb? www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

The US ceased to be a reliable NATO ally on January 20, 2025. The last week has simply made that undeniable. The only question now is whether European leaders accept it. The USA will not now defend Europe from Russia. That is reality. Everything else is hopes and dreams.

1/ A critical commentary from a Russian soldier about Ukrainian dominance in drone warfare has reportedly (and unsurprisingly) resulted in retaliation against him. Russian warbloggers have nonetheless defiantly pointed out more Russian deficiencies. ⬇️

Poland never wants to be invaded by Russia again, so it has built the biggest army of any EU country. But as Putin knows, it has a different vulnerability: its split and distrustful society. That's where he's striking. Me @financialtimes.com after my recent visit to Poland on.ft.com/3IrSfC8

***New Analysis*** China’s New Giant Underwater Drone Increases Naval Mine Threat Around Taiwan The AJX002's covert, almost deniable nature, increases the likelihood that China will use naval mines. www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...