Ukraine is planning for another three years of war: @radek-sikorski.bsky.social on The Rest is Politics youtu.be/Fy3-L3pCadM?...

we're so cooked

If Trump breaks the Sino-Russian axis, he will defeat Putin once and for all Opinion by Con Coughlin in @telegraphnews.bsky.social

Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it

They came to his party but not his funeral

"America is in a winner-takes-all game show in which Trump is both the host and the main contestant. There will be one winner." @edwardluce.bsky.social 🎁 www.ft.com/content/1377...

fauxKing Trump carpet bombed Zelenskyy with bullshit Putin propaganda www.ft.com/content/7960...

Trump: "the economy of the paper tiger fighting a special military operation not a war is doing great"

1/2 Reading the tea leaves, @scottlucas.bsky.social on @thetimes.com radio thinks Ukraine delegation might have had a pretty good week in DC

Master manipulator Putin shat the bed in Alaska with history rant: Financial Times archive.ph/2025.10.17-1...

Trump's approach to judicial redress for the unpresidented 2016 criminal Kremlin election interference op is to try to make his apparatchiks pretend he was the victim not the abettor & beneficiary

If knowing nothing about Ukraine, Russia & politics are the qualifications for negotiating with nuclear war criminal Putin, too bad James Cagney is no longer with us, straight outta Central Casting all American Great Guy in the era of bloodthirsty dictators

I was just looking for a map of 🇺🇦 strikes on 🇷🇺 oil infrastructure! Here's clip of @hartreefock.bsky.social on yday's @tochnyi.info show. Some of his preliminary findings: 🇺🇦 strikes executed to impact both general economy & also military logistics, supported by a campaign against 🇷🇺 air defense

"This network of the Polish Military Organization..." @timothysnyder.bsky.social Blood Lands

"Things that were routine are no longer routine at all." "Stalin could see, as he later put it, that he & Hitler had a common desire to get rid of the old equilibrium." @timothysnyder.bsky.social Blood Lands

Westies let's use all our diplomatic & economic tools & work together now to convince Xi to do to Putin what Trump did to Netanyahu.

With all the talk of Trump's turnaround on Ukraine support & understanding that Putin is unserious, good time to repost @thetimes.com Manveen Rana months ago saying that pre-election natsec wing of team Trump was pledging full military support to Ukraine if/when Putin rejected their peace deal.

-If I'm not mistaken, you did once study law? -Yes, & I heard something about state self-defense there. A Social Democrat shot 2 paramilitary SA officers. -That allows the state the justification of self-defense against any other citizens? Against me & you? -Not against me, but perhaps against you.

Here's a sweet little remix of the Peanuts theme, happy childhood memories of hearing this music & running to the TV, "It's on!" youtube.com/watch?v=kDLZ...

Out with the old white males & in with the dead white males

Not platforming Loomer but she's a good example of the thought box Americans are still stuck in, drones to stop guns. We are lucky it hasn't flipped yet because we are nowhere near Ukraine tech & societal mindset.

I'm sure that Putin would not use foot soldiers, which he's fast running out of, but instead the many nuclear ICBMs still aimed at us despite the fall of the Soviet Union. Also that Boston isn't high on the strike list.

Hmm maybe he does know of what he speaks for once

Europe is prolonging Putin's war through its reluctance to act strategically & suffer any pain at all.

Teetering Russian economy is so dependent on China. Europe needs to brave up & join US economic/diplomatic campaign for Xi to exercise his power over Putin to halt his war. China supplies almost half of RU imports including 80% of RU defense industrial base & buys 1/3 of RU exports mostly oil.

If this wasn't so stupid it'd be scary

It is a screamingly obvious that getting rid of Putin is the best security guarantee for Ukraine, Europe & Russians. Future historians will be aghast at the cost of so much blood, treasure & time on a war to salvage one man's hubris.

👀 Limits to China's friendship with Russsia. "Best Russia expert you never heard of" @delfoo.bsky.social - bilateral trade volume fell 18% yoy in August. Xi is attuned to developing joint Western economic threats & exponentially more cautious than Putin, whom China won't take economic bullets for.

how long can they squat on the denial stage of their grief

Indeed we did. US economic leaders made a joint statement independent from the agreed #G7 Finance Ministers communique. Calls it an emergency meeting, & "if they are truly committed to ending the war in Ukraine, G7 partners should join US in imposing tariffs on countries purchasing oil from Russia."

This is straight up the most encouraging move from Trump on peacemaking strategy so far. Xi is exponentially more risk sensitive than Putin, & clear signals of rapid convergence on forms of increased joint Western economic pressure may cause China to finally call in their chips on their vassal.

After Trump said on 9/11 that 🇷🇺drone incursion into 🇵🇱 could have been a mistake, Bill O'Reilly sat with him at Yankees game, & told Hannity they discussed "Bad Vlad,"Trump said "enough is enough," US & NATO response will be "fairly soon" "deliberate & surgical" bec "Putin would use nuclear weapons"

lmao how they're all like hold on let's not rush to judgement he was a groyper

This aged well

Kash Patel has the look of a guy who got the job *because* of his lack of qualifications

The year is 2025: Owning guns is not illegal Charlie Kirk is dead But at least Ukraine still exists & Utah Republicans never passed a red flag law!

Them on X: clowns with Ukraine flags in their bios are ignoring the brutal & senseless murder of a Ukrainian asylum seeker Me on Bluesky figuring out why they're concerned for once

Unfortunately his base only cares when the politics are domestic & the killer is black

The lives of millions of Ukrainians? You mean Trump's base might empathize now that a horde of Russian murderers is wilding through Iryna's country every day & night, & that's why she was still a refugee here despite Trump's deportation plans?

Hear hear! Seconded by @michaelkofman.bsky.social

Always has been, always should be

I mean it

Dom Nicholls flagged this on today's Ukraine The Latest pod so I listened to Chief of General Staff Czech Armed Forces reveal NATO has member unilateral but not (?🤫) clear alliance options for RU use of tactical nukes in 🇺🇦 (it should but CoNsEnSuS) & endorse the 💪 🇹🇷 model of escalation management ✈️💥

Former career diplomat Boris Bondarev knows #1 goal is keep Putin's grip on power to preserve the luxurious corrupt lifestyles of his clique. That FSB is in charge of hostage prisoner swaps is ☢️🚨 about Witkoff's selection *by the Kremlin* as Trump's envoy in their existential Ukraine war resolution.

Apart from aircraft, which airbase assets most valuable for UA to hit asks @atpgeo.bsky.social Aircraft don't need controllers to operate but they do need 1 Runways (but only big bombs do lasting damage) 2 Fuel (but can bring fuel trucks) 3 Maintenance hangar (but maintenance poor already) 4 Pilots.

In Ukraine of all places why a high profile political assassination would not be via a much more untraceable drone weapon just goes to show that old adage again

Trump revoking @kamalaharris.com Secret Security protection is so small-minded & petty I wonder if he even grasps what a dangerous signal he's sending. He's a nasty piece of work.

JD Vance says that Trump & Witkoff have skillfully narrowed the list of peace obstacles to "security guarantees & territorial concessions." Clue phone: That was only ever the list Despite what Kremlin propaganda says about denazification of Ukraine & other red herrings

Because Putin, Ukraine needs NATO & NATO needs Ukraine, but it's not happening, because Putin

Putin is escalating his reckless & brutal air attacks after Keith Kellogg concluded his visit to Kyiv to try to intimidate Ukraines's allies from further planning & commitment to security guarantees.