Own goal of the year

1/ Ukraine's massive drone strike against Moscow – with a reported 555 drones and missiles fired, and 180 claimed to have been shot down over Moscow – has prompted anger, defiance, and resignation from Russian warbloggers. "Tehran is safer", one says. ⬇️

Guess we f*cked around and found out, an insightful Moscow resident says as he watches the Moscow oil refinery burning.

Huge fuel queues have already started in Moscow after this morning's devastating attacks on the city's oil refinery: "There are already massive queues at gas stations in Moscow. Networks have started raising fuel prices. Damn it, here are the results."

One brilliant photo from Moscow, and the Ukrainians are making memes in 3, 2, 1:

Moscow is burning 🔥🔥🔥

Russia is jamming Baltic Sea - 6th proof, 4th method. Pskov, Kaliningrad and Kingisepp stand out as highly likely spots for the jammers, found by analyzing NISAR satellite imagery. Method is copied from work by @SeanGorman and verified by identifying a known jammer, +/- 2.5km. 🧵

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1/ Yesterday, pictures emerged from occupied southern Ukraine showing large numbers of trucks and fuel tankers parked together as logistics across the region collapse in the face of Ukraine's drone campaign. Today, the inevitable sequel: bsky.app/profile/mili...

If your enemy fucks up. Encourage them to continue to do so!

1/ A fuel shortage is expanding across Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine due to Ukraine's drone strikes. The Russian warblogger 'Two Majors' reports that it is degrading Russian combat capabilities across the Donbas front lines, as well as in the south. ⬇️

Had to share - MSM seems to be ignoring it.

Okay, a PSA, especially to everyone in the business of defending #Europe and #democracy - and to journalists: I thought I knew that the tiniest slip-up may let the bad guys geolocate a picture or a video, but a presentation I saw blew my mind nevertheless. Be VERY careful if #OPSEC is a concern.

1/ Ukraine is systematically attacking gas stations in occupied southern Ukraine and Crimea to cause an increasingly severe fuel crisis, according to a prominent Russian warblogger. Rybar warns that it's affecting the Russian army's combat capabilities. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/noel...

I believe Sun Tzu wrote "if the most unflattering pic of your enemy that you can find still makes her look like an absolute smoke show, one must find a different battlefield"

❗️🇸🇪Sweden is transferring 16 JAS 39 Gripen C/D fighters to 🇺🇦Ukraine, with deliveries beginning in 2027, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has announced. The countries have also signed an agreement for the purchase of 20 modernized Gripen E fighters, with deliveries starting in 2030.

Civilian harm is not invisible simply because Russian propaganda refuses to acknowledge it.

All these threats about wiping out Kyiv that the Russians are sending to Trump reveal two important things. First is that the Russians are getting hurt badly by Ukrainian ranged strike. Second, they view Trump as their patsy.

🇨🇳 urging 🇷🇺 to stop doing what they have been doing for 4 years: Killing or deporting as many 🇺🇦n civilians as possible. Why now? Because 🇷🇺 is in trouble. 🇺🇦 can soon hit Moscow and other big cities from far away with ballistic missiles and drones. interestingengineering.com/military/ukr...

Looks like the Hornet Drone is already in use

Russian military blogger Rybar reported that Russian logistics in the occupied parts of the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions have been completely disrupted by Ukrainian drone strikes.

The Russian Industrial Scale Torture Network My latest piece for London Loves Business londonlovesbusiness.com/russias-deni...

Russia calls them “retaliatory strikes.” I call them what they are. From the Children’s Cancer Hospital in Kyiv to Kramatorsk station, this article breaks down how Russia has spent years bombing civilians while hiding behind propaganda and diplomatic silence. open.substack.com/pub/shaunpin...

#Epstein #Epstein #Epstein

There is no such thing as Russian ‘retaliatory strikes’, remember, they’re just regular strikes

Even the Z-propagandists are starting to crack live on air. “The Kyiv regime mockingly calculated that if we continue attacking Ukraine at the current pace, it would take us 33 years to take Donbas. And they laugh about it.”

I don't know what's more insane: the extremely high number of casualties, or that the number of personnel killed is higher than the number of wounded.

Trump isn’t the problem. He is the result of the problem: the racism, ignorance, and selfishness of many people in the United States.

JD Vance saying nobody has done more for Ukraine than Trump is absolute bollocks. Trump froze military aid before he was even in office, he pushed to cut support ever since, humanitarian aid pulled costing thousands of jobs and shutting projects down.

Vladimir Boglaev, director of a Russian manufacturing plant, admits the actual decline in the Russian economy: "In the first quarter, Russian specialized machinery manufacturing saw a 51% drop. What needs to happen in the country’s economy right now for the demand to recover?"

And karma is still returning to Moscow with a vengeance!

With Moscow airdefense breached and the city in flames lets remember the old classics

One of the Russian GPS spoofers around St Petersburg sports what looks like an aim function. There is a realistic possibility this has been used to drive Ukrainian attack drones into NATO territory. So far, I only have two anecdotes to show for it, data collection ongoing. 🧵

Of all the batsh*t arguments being put forward by Trump supporters, the one that he was good for Ukraine is easily the most disingenuous. This is what Trump did: Stopped all aid to Ukraine Starved Ukraine of air defense (which helped Putin kill Ukrainians)…

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The videos are getting good Y'all

This piece is worth every minute you spend with it: "Go to a bar in Finland and shout: 'Who can shoot an anti-tank weapon?' All the men will stand." @liamdenning.bsky.social and @louiepalu.bsky.social embed with the NATO-backed army preparing for war with Russia www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Honestly wish that all fortune cookies 🥠 delivered to the White House just contained the Delphic oracle’s responses. Just want to see Trump ruminate over: “Love of money and nothing else will ruin Sparta."

1/ As another Russian oil installation goes up in flames, Russian warbloggers are frustrated at the continued failure of their air defences. 'Fighterbomber' says that the scaling back of the Moscow May Day Parade shows their lack of reliability. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/tend...

“the longer Ukraine resists, the more damage it does not just to Russia’s army, but to the imperial idea at the center of the Russian state.” A new, important article by David Kirichenko. This context/framing is crucial to a realistic and accurate understanding of Ru’s war against Ukraine:

What could go wrong with a combination of AI and the Spanish Inquisition?

Accurate and Very Well Said….

US to add firing squad, electrocutions, gas asphyxiation to federal execution methods https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-to-add-firing-squad-electrocutions-gas-asphyxiation-to-federal-execution-methods/

Imagine being such an unlikable person that the Secret Service rescues your Vice President, the charmless JD Vance, before bothering to get you out of harm's way at the WHCA Dinner.

DAAAAMN 💥👀🔥

The web is full of proposals whom the odious JD Vance should visit next. My favorite is Putin, continue with Lukashenko & Kim Jong Un, the three leaders Trump highly respect.

The Dream Team failed. Total shock. We sent two of our most mediocre real estate developers and a fraud. Who could’ve guessed this outcome?

🧵🧵🧵 Since the Epstein scandal is big news again, I'm re-upping my thread with damning evidence about sex predator Trump and his rapist friend. The documented facts in this thread remove any reasonable doubt about who Trump is and what he did. 🧵🧵🧵