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Donald Hill has a long read on the situation. He (and Tom Cooper) have both been very critical of Syrsky for a very long time. open.substack.com/pub/donaldhi...

The #EuropeanDefenceAgency published defence spending data for 2025. The key takeaway? #MemberStates spend more each year, but still too little on #collaborative procurement, too little in #Europe and too little on R&D. Here are some numbers (1/5)

Inside of you there is a small Russian liberal who demands recognition for doing the bare minimum, demands being sheltered from the consequences of our government's actions, and thinks everyone else is just as bad as us You need to strangle that voice in your head if you want to keep your dignity.

"To be fair, some of this is self-inflicted. Way too many Ukrainians on here are talking the same nationalist shit us Russians are spouting, and frankly Zelensky isn't helping anything, either."

The WSJ is reporting that China is already talking to and working with the Kremlin insiders that they expect to take over Russia once Putin is dead. China does not expect Putin to hold on to power much longer.

the two outfits for men

"sovereignty comes with responsibility" is such hitler energy its unbelievable

this is fundamentally the bipartisan consensus that America must be first but also can't be excluded from the club

Kind of annoying that the commentary team think all the French players suddenly lost form rather than Spain coming up with a system that neutralised them.

We dug DFB Pokals together

SpaceX (with twitter being a subsidiary) is actively engaged in a low intensity insurrection within the US and in several treaty allies. They are promising openly to escalate. There are capital crimes being committed in broad daylight. We should stop acting as if this is not the case

As I said a long time ago, we saw peak tariff last year. From now on there will be fiddling around trying to protect particular bits of the economy and somewhat half-assed/half-arsed attempts to do coercion. The big tariff war has de-escalated, and Trump was not the winner.

In that kind of atmosphere, where the well has unfortunately been poisoned, I do think there are plenty of ways where a certain contempt for the concerns of American allies and a resentment of any continued efforts to hedge against the US could durably take hold across the political spectrum.

extremely funny split here0

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

Reuters has confirmed that Ukraine successfully knocked Russia's largest oil refinery in Omsk offline!

🇫🇷 "You have a built-in danger in the system." @financialtimes.com's @vjmalletft.bsky.social tells #F24Debate #France's two-round electoral system could leave centre voters choosing between two extremes in 2027, potentially opening the door to a far-right victory ➡️ https://go.france24.com/bwhX

how is russia going to compete if they are already out of gas?

<Infantino sits back in chair; a self-satisfied smile slowly spreads across his face>

<Infantino pushes button underneath seat in stand> <Pushed button again> <Starts stabbing unresponsive button in an increasingly frantic fashion>

You're 9 minutes into your Chotiner interview. He's smiling. By God, it's going well. Great, even. Then he says "but". You wake up coughing through thick smoke partially buried by rubble. Your ears are ringing. The interview is already published. You have 390 missed calls from your boss.

russian liberals

The single, overaching aim of European (security) policy should be that the ramblings of Trump no longer matter. Only by fully taking responsibility for its own security can European take away this power and shrug off the recycling of threats.

real Rip Bozo day tbh

Overturn this! 😎

losing in disgrace was a choice, corruption is bad, good job everyone, merci Belgium

The US is playing like their dad called in a favor

Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."

huh. From GS. go, Europe!

dawg

To Americans who have suddenly become soccer experts and are applying their legal interpretative talents to FIFA regulations:

The ref in the next USMNT game has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Ok, I'll bite, what is America?

Myth of Narcissus 2: Recursive Boogaloo

pausa de hidratación

It's like causing an ice shortage in Antarctica, incredible work by Ukraine

The Pope is in Lampedusa today, where so many arrive, having crossed the Mediterranean sea: "The dead people in this sea are victims both of decisions made and decisions not made".

England is a Scandinavian country cursed with delusions of grandeur

Mel Brooks's Army unit captured Field Marshal von Runstedt's HQ. Mel wandered the castle, went to VR's rooms, found a full uniform there. He put it on - leather coat, everything - then went to the pub. 'Cognac, bitte.' He was 19. Of course everyone panicked. 'Von Runstedt ist hier!'

Everyone believes that Israeli, the Russian, the Iranian that is ashamed of his country is virtuous but for an American it’s cringe.

Watching russians fight for fuel at gas stations

A European capital is on fire because Russia spent the night firing missiles at civilians in their beds. Kyiv is full of smoke. People are buried under rubble. This is terrorism.