Thousands of mercenaries are known to be fighting for Russia, but little else is publicly known. Our team at Frontelligence Insight holds exclusive lists with thousands of records, including their names, units, and home countries. In the coming days, we will release this data, broken down by country

Happy to announce that my book chapter made it through in the coming ISPK’s volume on South American maritime security :) www.nomos-shop.de/de/p/maritim...

Finally, I finished my M.A. at the IFSH in Hamburg. Quite a ride.

An dieser Stelle sei auch auf das PRIF Spotlight meines Kollegen Thorsten Gromes zum Thema „Konfliktmythen“ verwiesen.

Austerlitz 1805, Krimkrieg 1856, Japan 1905, Erster Weltkrieg 1917, Afghanistan 1989, Tschetschenien 1996... Was weiß @ralfstegner.bsky.social über die Geschichte des russischen Imperialismus?

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

If you want to end the war, force Russia into a position of such economic & military weakness that ending the war is their least painful option.

Just gotta ask once again What air defence doing

Describe your account in one Simpsons image.

Putin sagt: Waffenruhe ja, aber – und nennt sehr viele Bedingungen bis hin zur Lösung der "Ursache des Konflikts". Also eigentlich: nein. "Ursache des Konflikts" ist für Putin eine eigenständige Ukraine, wie er in seinem Essay "Zur historischen Einheit von Russen und Ukrainern" schon 2021 schrieb.

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Such great camouflage in the forest. Male Andean Cock-of-the-Rock at Jardin, Colombia. #birds #nature

On this day in 2022, the brave defenders of Snake Island made their immortal response to the Moskva: "Snake Island, I, Russian warship, repeat the offer: put down your arms and surrender, or you will be bombed. Have you understood me? Do you copy?" "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

Are you telling me that the genius party which broke the gov. coalition and set in motion a new election is the only one who did not make it into the new elected parliament? 😂

Austria coalition talks with the far-right in the lead collapsed. Autocratic turns are not inevitable, at least not in multi-party systems.

CIA analysts seeing the United States check every box on the social and political instability test:

Der Abschlussbericht der Enquete-Kommission "Lehren aus Afghanistan für das Vernetzte Engagement Deutschlands" zitierte das @hdhiik.bsky.social - neben der Uni Uppsala - in seinem Vorwort als Quelle über die Anzahl von innerstaatlichen Konflikte weltweit! ☺️

We are now on Bluesky! Follow us for insights and information about our research and conflicts around the world and our yearly publication, the Conflict Barometer!

Time for a new school of International Relations theory: Offensive Irrealism.

Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025.

My first skeet on #Bluesky! Take a look at our pre-version of the Conflict Barometer #CoBa 2023: A summary of conflict developments for the last year. The quantitative dataset is also available and ready for use for the "Fach-Füchse". The qualitative conflict assessments will be out soon!