Moskau versucht, den Friedensprozess durch Korruption zu zerstören: Ein Mega‑Wirtschaftspaket soll die USA vom geopolitischen Gegner zum Geschäftspartner machen. Wer vermeintlich Milliarden oder "Billionen" verdienen kann, stellt keine Sicherheitsgarantien mehr. 1/

Trump, Tech, AfD & Co bestreiten, dass wir eine Souveränität über das eigene Forum besitzen - sie wollen, dass dies durch Setzungen von Trump und Tech aus den USA frembestimmt wird und zerstören so die Meinungsfreiheit. >> heute in der FAS (€)

OTD in 2022 I gave Emmanuel Macron my personal assurances that I would not invade Ukraine. So you can trust any promise we make now.

Norway’s foreign intelligence service sees a growing risk of a more assertive Russia and China as the US pulls back from international cooperation and institutions www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Just the other day, our friends in 🇸🇪Sweden raised €400,000 in the first five minutes alone of a charity telethon to help Ukraine survive the catastrophic Russian missile strikes on heating and energy infrastructure in the middle of a cold winter. Honestly, a few years ago I would not have...

The American President www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Masha Drokova, a former teen leader of 🇷🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin’s youth organization, Nashi, who moved to San Francisco around 2017 and launched a venture fund backing tech start-ups, is mentioned more than 1,000 times in the released emails and Skype chats between 2017 and 2019.” 1/

Russia's regional budget deficits increased significantly in 2025, reaching 1.5 trillion RUB. The reason: Increased war financing from the regions and lower profit tax revenue. Regional spending rose by 10%, while regional revenues increased by only 5%.

Der Umstand, dass russisches Staatspropaganda-TV, in dem schlimmste Kriegstreiberei zu sehen ist, zweimal in einer österreichischen Schule war, Jahre nach Beginn der Vollinvasion der Ukraine, macht mich fassungslos. Da ist unglaublich viel falsch gelaufen im System.🧵

Russische Ökonomie im Februar 2026: „Die Exportumsätze der Russischen Föderation schrumpfen, der Haushalt wird gekürzt, die Steuern wachsen, die Verbrauchernachfrage sinkt und die Zinssenkungen der Zentralbank sind nur noch symbolisch."

SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1444 1. Flamingo rocket hits Kapustin Yar launch facilities 2. Trump supports Orban in 🇭🇺 April elex 3. Trump pushes new nuclear treaty after New START expiry 4. No progress after Abu Dhabi trilateral apart from POW exchange 5. Late morning missile+drone strikes vs🇺🇦. No numbers yet

More than ever, we need investigative reporting on China—work that takes time and resources to produce—not commentaries from YouTubers speculating about imminent economic collapse or elite political infighting in China.

5 people told Politico “the planned 🇺🇸🇩🇪 meeting collapsed after State Department officials told the German Embassy in Washington that it was prepared to receive only Christian Democratic and AfD lawmakers, excluding the SPD and the Greens.“ Norbert Röttgen (CDU) rejected that idea. Good on him!

It’s just a bad look no matter which way you cut it, it’s not like Corbyn could have known about any of that stuff, so why delete it? It’s a much bigger moral stain that these guys supported Chomsky after Bosnia & Cambodia. Everyone knew about that stuff & loved him for it! bsky.app/profile/padr...

Jeremy Corbyn’s “Peace and Justice Project” have just memoryholed Noam Chomsky out of existence and purged mentions of him from their website.

1/ A Russian warblogger explains what the Russian army in Ukraine saw when they were disconnected en masse from Starlink yesterday. ⬇️

#KRITIS Sektor #Energie Größerer Stromausfall in Stuttgart "In Stuttgart hat es am Donnerstagvormittag einen kurzzeitigen Stromausfall gegeben. Davon betroffen waren unter anderem das Mobilfunknetz und das Internet. Auch Ampeln fielen aus..." www.tagesschau.de/inland/regio...

"Why do people keep calling for a 'European X' or a 'European Instagram' when instead, by sharing infrastructure as we're doing with @eurosky.social, we could have 20 or 30 social networks?" — @seabass.bsky.social

Nach verschiedenen Berichten in den letzten Wochen bestätigt jetzt der GSUA wiederholte Angriffe mit erheblicher Trefferwirkung auf das RU Raketentest- und startgelände Kapustin Jar bei Astrachan. Dabei sollen auch Flamingo-MFK zum Einsatz gekommen sein - unbestätigt, aber plausibel

Germany makes arrests after Russians paid EU citizens to sabotage German warships. Approximately 20 kg of sand was poured into the engine of one ship, punctured water pipes, removed fuel tank caps, and disabled safety devices, according to the Hamburg prosecutor's office.

‼️ Russia: “Sovcombank is launching a program to lend to companies secured by Bitcoin (BTC).” 🇷🇺: What could possibly go wrong? www.kommersant.ru/doc/8400593

Talks are back on for Friday after multiple Arab states urgently requested the US give it a chance. Iran insisting it will only discuss nuclear issue but not proxy militias or ballistic missile program so unclear if there’s a zone of possible agreement. Israeli security cabinet to meet tmrw.

‘You escape, or you die’: African men say Russia duped them into fighting in Ukraine edition.cnn.com/2026/02/04/a...

Of great interest

A newly released video from the Friday, 9 January protests in Ardabil shows an armoured vehicle belonging to the Islamic Republic’s suppression forces deliberately running over defenceless civilians. According to reports, at least one person was killed and three others were injured in the incident.

🕯️ Wir nehmen Abschied von Rita Süssmuth, einer überzeugten Demokratin, Brückenbauerin und Unterstützerin der deutsch-taiwanischen Beziehungen ... Weiterlesen: deutsch-taiwanische-gesellschaft.de/meldungen/wi...

Neue Info-Offensive? Bei Instagram veröffentlicht der #BND eine Analyse zu russischen Militärausgaben. Bislang wurde Social Media eher zur Personalgewinnung eingesetzt. | #Spionage #Russland #Militär

Microsoft Windows, German edition:

The Bank of Russia appears to have put its website behind a digital iron curtain. Luckily, I have a way to get around it. Another sign pointing to a banking crisis.

Mit dem Abkommen zwischen SDF und der syrischen Übergangsregierung konnte weiteres Blutvergießen an den Kurden vorerst verhindert werden. Doch die Lage bleibt dramatisch. #Kobane ist weiterhin belagert, hunderttausenden Menschen fehlen Wasser, Strom, Medikamente und Lebensmittel.

Russia loses as many soldiers in a month as it did in 10 years in Afghanistan. Yet still, silence. A deeply broken society.

1/ Trump may of course respond to this by freaking out and issuing all sorts of tariff threats. However as with giving up Greenland I really don't think the EU can afford the precedent of a criminal investigation at the member state level being unwound through threats to tax US citizen purchases.

Ukraine are warmongers prepared to defend themselves to the last Russian.

Today we are celebrating a very special occasion: Germany 🇩🇪 and Niue 🇳🇺 are formally establishing diplomatic relations. For a foreign minister, this is anything but routine. It is a great honour for me. @aussenminister.diplo.de 1/4

French prosecutors are looking “into alleged “complicity” in detaining and spreading pornographic images of minors, sexually explicit deepfakes, denial of crimes against humanity and manipulation of an automated data processing system as part of an organized group, and other offenses”

Bloomberg reports that Russian raw materials such as copper, platinum, palladium, iridium and rhodium will all be banned for import to the EU under the 20th sanctions package. This will further accelerate the crisis in the mining industry. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Russia’s banking system appears to be barreling towards collapse. More than 10% of loans have gone bad. The state has been using the National Wealth Fund to stealthily recapitalize the banks. Over 19% of small/medium enterprise loans are now bad. Russia cannot bomb its way out of collapse.

Neun im Jahr 2022 entführte Ukrainer aus Cherson wurden in einem grotesken russ. Schauprozess vom berüchtigten Militärgericht im südlichen Rostow zu insgesamt 155 Jahren verurteilt. Die einzigen „Beweise” wurden durch Folter und Isolationshaft erlangt. khpg.org/1608815478

German soft power going global: “Lüften“,“Stoßlüften“ and „Querlüften“ (never heard of that one) explained in NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/r...

Russia is forcing Ukrainian children under 14 to obtain Russian passports. In Africa, children under 14 have been forced by Russian paramilitaries to work in goldmines in very inhumane conditions united24media.com/latest-news/...

Had @anderspucknielsen.dk down to the bunker for part 1 of the series on the 4th anniversary of the 3 day war. "Russia is losing the ability to act on the world stage" Like & subscribe. youtu.be/5QEQztd4O9c

Xi Jinping’s military purge continues. Top general Zhang Youxia has been placed under investigation. Zhang was the highest ranking official remaining on China’s Central Military Commission. Stalinism. www.npr.org/2026/01/24/g...

Meanwhile, on the saner side of the Atlantic

In my view, repression at home and thuggery abroad - most recently Greenland - are two sides of the same coin. Both reflect the worldview of people who think violence, power, threat and coercion are all that's required to push your agenda through & secure your interests.

Reminder: The Epstein files aren’t delayed. A law is being broken. We’re still missing 99%.

I just watched the shooting video. It's a horrific beating and execution in the middle of the street. If local and state officials don't move to arrest everyone involved for murder, they need to resign. Making arrests will de-escalate the situation. Do nothing and this is going to explode.

#FBI Agent Who Tried to Investigate #ICE Officer Johnathan Ross Resigns The resignation of the agent, Tracee Mergen, was only the latest shock wave to have emerged from the DOJ’s handling of the shooting of #ReneeGood. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/u...