ATTENTION IN THE WRONG PLACES…? A couple of months ago I wrote a piece on the Chinese military and their approach to war readiness, and Americas relative industrial weakness and inability to build warships fast enough or deploy forces sufficiently capable of stopping an invasion of Taiwan.

RUSSIA - A ROUNDUP OF NEWS AND NONE OF ITS GOOD FOR MOSCOW The government is raising VAT by 2% to 22% in January expecting to raise $14.3 billion to fund the war. This will impact all Russians in every walk of life, increase inflation, raise fuel prices even higher and yet materially change little.

🧵 Trump literally just signed an executive order directing AG Pam Bondi & drunk U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro to reinstate the death penalty in DC. This disgusting act is authoritarian overreach that tramples decades of local democracy & imposes a policy DC residents overwhelmingly rejected.

“Two geese mirrored on the city’s quiet edge — nature’s gentle echo in a world of steel.” Happy Friday folks 🤗 #bird #photography #wildlife #nature #geese #city #graffiti #art #goodmorning #friday #birdoftheday

Ukraine has struck another major Russian oil refinery in Bashkortostan and successfully struck the oil export terminal in Tuapse. Ukraine shot down another Su-34 and destroyed two An-26 transport planes on Crimea. Russia's losses are increasing as Ukraine's drone fleet expands their target list.

Living the best life... 😊 #dog #dogday #bluesky #animals

Russian figures are just so, so ridiculous they make themselves a laughing stock. The odious Chechen Lt Genera Apti Alaudinov has stated to Russian state TV that Ukraine's "irrecoverable losses amount to 1.7 million people"

Uh oh. Poland has urged its citizens to leave Belarus immediately and avoid traveling there. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urges Polish citizens remaining in the Republic of Belarus to leave its territory immediately, using available commercial and private means.”

A German Airways passenger jet en route to Aalborg, Denmark, was forced to return to Amsterdam due to new drone intrusions in the Danish airspace.

💥 Explosions in Kerch, Crimea, - Krymskyi Veter

It appears that Danish Patrol vessel P523 Najaden is VERY interested in the sketchy crude oil tanker "Astral". sketchy.boats/9274800

🇩🇰 Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen: 🔹️ “We are in a state of hybrid war, and this is only the beginning of these attacks.” 👇

Russia's Minister of Foreign Affairs Lavrov says NATO and the EU have declared war on Russia and are directly participating in it in Ukraine, as Russian build up continues on the Baltics.

Trump: “We are close to peace in Gaza, a first in 2,000 years.”

Arrivals in Bryansk russia

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Mountains, blowing snow, sun and shadows - converted to black and white. A beautiful memory from March 2019 in south-east #Iceland, taken from the porch of my favourite cabin :)

Just wow ..they know :)

❗️"Unknown" UAVs spotted in France: over the weekend they flew over the Murmelon-le-Grand military base, located 150 km from Paris, according to RFI sources.

Two more Russian officials committed “suicide” today. They’re dropping like flies, quite literally in the case of Alexander Fedotov, former chairman of the St. Petersburg Committee for Transport Infrastructure Development, who “jumped” from his window at the Sheremetyevo Airport Sheraton. 1/2

Confirmed 🇱🇻🇭🇺🇷🇺 At this moment, Hungarian Air Force GRIPEN fighter jets have been scrambled to intercept Russian SU-30, SU-35, and MIG-31 aircraft flying near Latvian airspace.

Ph. Erik Johansson - If you get lost, call. Phone booth and dog from Sweden.

Daijagura in Mt. Odaigahara in Nara Prefecture. Taken on 3rd Oct 1998 dararindarling.blogspot.com/2025/09/3rd-... Nikon F3 HP / New Nikkor 200mm F4 / Kodak Gold 100

TV entertainer and inexplicably Secretary of Defense/War/whatevs Pete Hegseth has called an urgent meeting of senior military leaders from around the world, the Pentagon has confirmed.

Now would be a great time to have a president who isn't owned by Putin & Russia.

The Romanian Supreme Council of National Defense has given mission commanders the authority to shoot down any military aircraft entering Romanian airspace. The downing of civilian aircraft entering illegally will continue to be decided by the Minister of Defense.

Europe must decide to shoot down Russian aircraft that blatantly enter NATO airspace and make it clear to Russia we intend to do so. This is why...

Russia's Medvedev: Russia can use such weapons that a bomb shelter will not help. And Americans should remember this. - oh no vodka farts

ALARM IN US MILITARY AS 800 TOP GENERALS AND ADMIRALS ORDERED TO VIRGINIA MEETING Hegseth has ordered the meeting at the Marine HQ for every senior member of the military cadre. No reason has been given and it’s seen as wise to extract all commanders simultaneously from every command. A cull of

❗️The 🇩🇪German Defense Minister has said that two 🇷🇺Russian Luch-Olymp-K signals surveillance satellites are actively "monitoring" two Intelsat communications satellites used by the German Armed Forces and NATO, claiming that these actions constitute a threat to NATO from Russia.

Russian propagandist Solovyov warns that Ukraine is preparing for a major offensive, claiming the West could supply all the equipment needed and that Ukraine has no shortage of manpower. He then pivots to suggest Russia should consider weapons the West believes it would never use. Red lines 🙃🙃

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Everyone believes the drones buzzing Denmark are Russian and everyone knows they’re coming from civilian ships offshore. This from TV2:

Russian Ambassador to France: “War will begin if NATO shoots down a Russian plane.” No, it won’t.

‼️🇷🇺😁 #RussiaIsCollapsing

On Sept 28, Moldova votes in parliamentary elections. Russia is already meddling in many ways including by trying to send “international observers” who are anything but neutral. But who are these people, why does this matter and what can we learn?

⚡️ Zelenskyy says if the U.S. supplies long-range weapons, Ukraine will use them, and he warned Kremlin leaders to end Russia’s war against Ukraine or “find the nearest bomb shelters.”

Meanwhile, flirting with Trump’s new #paracetamol causes #autism theory could give people pause for thought. In other words, #Reform could yet implode. The other parties could recover. Stranger things have happened in British politics Best #VoteGreen www.cityam.com/nigel-farage...

I wish more people understood that not all autism is visible, but all autism is disabling. If you don't see it, it's because we're actively hiding it. (Not for us, for others.) But hiding our autism means our needs are also invisible. And unmet needs = inner turmoil. 😣

Nigel Farage "No swans, just badgers, foxes, deers, hares, rabbits... whatever the hell you like, but no swans."

BBC News - Colombia's president calls US attacks on alleged drug boats 'act of tyranny' www.bbc.com/news/article...

Once again, Sky News calls Charlie Kirk a conservative activist. Charlie Kirk was a fascist agitator, a racist, homophobe, islamophobe and transphobe, and a servant of Russia who campaigned relentlessly to stop aid to Ukraine. When will our news media stop failing democracy?

🇺🇸🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Ukraine is deeply grateful for bipartisan support throughout all these years. We are thankful to the American people and to the President. This means a great deal to Ukrainians.

Trump shifting responsibility for ending Ukraine war from US to Europe — Tusk “Trump stated that Ukraine could, with the support of the EU, regain all of its territory. This optimism conceals a promise of reduced US involvement and a shift of responsibility for ending the war to Europe.”

❗️Two 🇷🇺Russian-linked vessels were once again in the immediate vicinity of 🇩🇰Danish airports when unidentified drones flew over them, Danish state broadcaster TV 2 reported. ▪️The first is the Benin-flagged tanker PURSHA, which has been sanctioned for transporting Russian oil.

Earlier today, Ukrainian authorities announced the downing of a Russian Su-34. Now, a Russian propaganda blogger with ties to the aviation community has confirmed it.