Iranians are asking if we have any spare air defence to stop US and Israel bombing them. I told them this will only prolong the war & that they should trade land for peace

"The Iranians and their Russian allies had four years of target practice on Ukrainian cities to improve their Shahed drones. And most of the world smiled politely and thought it is just the Ukrainians’ unfortunate problem." @yarotrof.bsky.social

Sunday morning. russia is attacking Kharkiv with Iranian Shahed drones. Same drones. Different reaction.

Stop sending me this. 😭

Donald might have to ask the guy he said had no cards for help shooting down Iranian drones that they can't currently stop. Be interesting to see what Zelensky demands in return.

When you consider the forces that the US deployed (not necessarily used) to attack Iran, with a quarter of those assets, they could have striked russian forces in Ukraine in 2014, 2022, and still now. It would have put an end to the war (and sent a strong message to Tehran). Highly frustrating.

Ukrainian military experience of the modern war and defense is priceless today. Ukraine knows all about Iranian drones and taking them down. Ukraine has interceptor drones, production technologies. Ukraine knows so much about modern-day air defense.

Russian oligarchs in Dubai

The next round of negotiations will be fun. Ukraine will be told by a country that started an illegal war to surrender to a country who started an illegal war.

Iran began launching new (possibly Fattah/Khorramshahr) hypersonic missiles with heavy warheads. #Iran

Palm Jumeirah in Dubai was attacked by Shahed kamikaze drones.

Hi All, Just a heads up that at 1800 UK time and 1200 CST I will be talking air power and the US bombing of Iran with Gen David Deptula (USAF retd), one of the most important airpower thinkers and practitioners of the last 50 years. It will be a Substack live.

Has anyone claimed these schoolgirls were “human shields” yet? Because they will—and it will be a lie.

🇮🇷 Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: "Trump should know that today we launched our old missile weapons, and soon we will demonstrate weapons that you have never seen before."

Nobody has more experience in countering Shahed drones than Ukrainian forces. The US, Israel and the Arab states in the Middle East should request their knowledge, instantly. The fact that Iranian Shahed drones can hit high-value targets of US forces rather easily is very telling.

Sam Altman picked a hell of a day to basically urge the world to trust the morality and legal restraint of the Department of Defense

So this is what focusing on the Western Hemisphere looks like.

One dead in Dubai from falling missile debris.

While the US & Israel are now carrying out military strikes on Iran, which is responding with military strikes of its own, I have one request for you readers & journalists. Don't forget #Ukraine. The past has taught us that Putin will take advantage of this & that attention can shift all too easily.

Iran have been attacked by a nuclear power whose military is vastly superior to theirs. They have no chance of winning & should surrender to avoid escalation that risks WW3 for us all. Apparently that's how this works.

There are two explanations for the Trump Admin’s Russia’s policy: 1. This admin is secretly aligned with Putin and lying about that to the world and the American people, or 2. they are incredibly naive fools who ignore overwhelming evidence that contradicts their worldview.

It's interesting that USA is using bases in Europe to prepare to bomb Iran. MAGA were told these existed to protect "European freeloaders", yet they are being used to project American power. How will the USA do this in future when Europe isn't "freeloading" & no longer needs US bases?

I'm waiting for "We have the best Russo-American alliance in history by far!". It'll be the truth, for a change.

Ex Trump envoy Keith Kellogg: “A UN vote on a lasting peace in Ukraine and we abstained. Go figure. The Russian Federation was against the proclamation. Is not 4 yrs of war enough? Is not missing children, shelling of cities and the killing of innocents enough? It is not a business deal-it is war.”

ICE whistleblower Ryan Schwank, a former ICE instructor and attorney, testifies that agents were trained to disregard constitutional rights.

This is how Ukrainian Crimea was occupied by Russia in 2014. Here is testimony from a direct participant - Igor Girkin (Strelkov), a Russian terrorist and war criminal - describing how Russian special forces ordered locals to vote for annexation at gunpoint.

We are the self declared successor state. Which is why Russia, not Ukrainians & Belarusians, beat the Nazis. So for that, we are USSR. But when it comes to soviet crimes, we are not the USSR. Think of it as the Soviet Schroedinger's Union.

PM Tusk: Some say that Ukraine should be grateful for everything. The truth is exactly the opposite. The rest of us should be grateful to Ukraine.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Putin views the Ukrainian capital Kyiv as the “mother of Russian cities” and openly boasts that “all Ukraine is ours.” Anyone who believes his imperial ambitions can be satisfied by sacrificing the rust belt towns eastern Ukraine is deluding themselves www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

Anyone shocked by Trump sending out a horribly racist tweet has not been paying attention to anything for, I dont know, the last 10 years....

While the fake negotiations around Iran‘s nuclear program go on, the slaughter of people in Iran is escalating to the extent that even the morgues are overheating and burning down. Even the regime admitted that is running out of space to store bodies.

In today’s Vatnik Soup, made together with chef invité @martinlaineolen.bsky.social , we discuss the extensive links between pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Russian officials and intelligence operatives, and how Western politicians reinforced these links. 1/23

This is the guy the UK accused of orchestrating the Skripal nerve agent attack.

This is not true. The size of Russia's nuclear arsenal is limited by how much of the production and delivery systems Ukraine destroys.

Democracy really does die in darkness.

Well, security guarantees matter of course. But history teaches one lesson: survival belongs to those who can defend themselves. Ukraine has no luxury of faith-based security.

Steve Bannon says they’re going to “have ICE surround the polls” in November. (They don’t have enough people to do that everywhere, but they could target select locations.)

You can see how cold it is in Ukraine just by watching this video of rescuers extinguishing the fire and seeing water freezing right in front of them. russia deliberately waited for another temperature drop to start bombing residential buildings and energy infrastructure again.

Everyone with simple knowledge of history knew that Russia is not going to adhere to any agreement, even less a verbal one. Russia only understands force, something which - even after almost 4 years of full scale war - many Western politicians can’t or don’t want to comprehend.

Incinerators?

Both today:

1/ An authoritarian government begins rounding up people it sees as targets, using a rapidly expanded paramilitary force known for brutal tactics. Because of a lack of detention spaces, it warehouses people in requisitioned facilities. The year is 1933, the place is Germany. ⬇️

Detainees in Iran are being forcibly injected with unknown substances inside detention facilities, according to eyewitness testimonies, informed sources and human rights monitors who warn of a growing pattern of deaths among current and former prisoners. iranintl.com/en/202601279171

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

TRUMP TODAY: There was an election in Texas? What? TRUMP YESTERDAY:

Reading the Epstein files leads to the conclusion: The closer you get to Putin and his supporters, the higher the density of pedophiles gets. It explains a lot.

We have been using a platform that is banned in Russia to say that free speech is banned in the EU on the platform we banned.