I hadn't noticed this but the victim is clearly trying to wave ICE through, and then they jumped her.

American tech companies are not truly concerned about censorship, as they happily operate in countries with strict regulations. You never hear the Trump administration complain about Saudi Arabia, Russia, or China. This is about bullying Europe, nothing more

Russians sunk several barges at the entrance of their naval port pier in Novorossiysk, so that no other Ukrainian drone can enter it. This also confines the remnants of the Russian Black Sea Fleet to this little basin. Russians literally barricaded themselves. Embarrassing..

If Europe doesn't manage to achieve consensus on taking Ru's frozen assets and giving them to Ukraine, then its strategic, moral, and self-preservation instincts are weaker than I thought. I'm a big believer in the European project, but failure here will be a bad sign for its future.

It's not at all far fetched to imagine the opening salvo of a war being thousands of drones launched from the cargo holds of civilian ships at anchor off the coast.

Europeans are waking up this morning to find the new US National Security Strategy (quietly) released. And what it has to say on Europe could not be clearer. On the „stark prospect of civilizations erasure“ for example. 👇

Every night Russian drones kill Ukrainians and they keep flying only because over 5,000 Western and Asian parts power them. x.com/United24medi...

Putin: ‘Russia is ready to keep fighting until the last Ukrainian dies.’ Western politicians & press: ‘Peace talks have stalled…’ Russia has zero interest in peace. Calling Kremlin demands for Ukrainian surrender ‘peace talks’ is just another way of spreading their propaganda.

Ignore any Trump admin and/or Ru apologist talk about progress. Ru demands remain maximalist, outrageous, and, most importantly, disconnected from the realities of the battlefield. Only an immediate ceasefire is progress. The discussion in Moscow today was useless noise. Ru continues its aggression.

"Too many European governments still behave as if losing Ukraine would be unfortunate but manageable. This is fantasy. The destruction of Ukraine would reshape Europe’s security architecture for decades, and not in Europe’s favour." Strong message by @drjademcglynn.bsky.social.

German-made machinery still quietly fuels Russia’s war production despite sanctions. 🧵 1/7 ⬇️

People have done a massive disservice to Ukraine and Europe by pretending Trump might do the right thing and help Ukraine. It raised hopes in a fantasy and kept people from facing reality. Trump is with Putin and all Europeans need to face that squarely.

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

If you can, avoid anything with Musk behind it. It will rot your brain. And that's a feature, not a bug.

Moscow has no claims on anything within the internationally recognised borders of Ukraine. Nothing at all. They must not be granted any influence at all in any shape or form. No concessions, only punishment.

Beautiful. Call them out, all of them. Whether truly Kremlin propagandists or just criminally negligent in their research, people like Sachs are aiding the murderous Kremlin regime.

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Any country that allows itself to be ruled by a chaos clown like this deserves only the utmost disdain. You have given up all honor, all dignity. I'd say I hope you'll prove me wrong, but seeing how you've at this point almost entirely replaced citizenship with consumerism, I have no hope.

It’s not Ukraine’s war against Russia — it’s Russia’s war against Ukraine. Hard to believe we still have to remind major outlets of that in 2025.

Russians themselves proudly published a video of a drone attack on a UN humanitarian convoy in the Kherson region — openly boasting about their “achievements” and celebrating another war crimes.

New post just out: The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed. In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

She stressed that Moldovan citizens voted for democracy, Europe and peace, but the victory is temporary. "If authoritarian regimes adapt faster than democracies, freedom will be lost," - the president said.

1/ A Russian soldier has spoken of hellish conditions on the front line in Ukraine, with no evacuations of the wounded, rotting bodies lying around, no food or water for anybody, no pay, constant Ukrainian drone and mortar attacks, and suicidal orders from corrupt commanders. ⬇️

The terror against Kherson does not cease for even a single day. Today, the Russian army dropped 15 aerial bombs on Kherson, shelled the city center with artillery and multiple rocket launchers. Russian forces killed a 74-year-old woman and injured eight others.

Huge. Just huge. This is Eurobonds for Ukraine and it’s exactly what is needed. German leadership in Europe appears back. Credit to Merz. on.ft.com/42GQDve

🤬 Russian drones have started dropping explosives directly onto the streets of Ukrainian cities. One such incident occurred the day before yesterday in Nizhyn.

Merz says again that no troops would deploy to Ukraine until a ceasefire, & even then only with reservations. @bundeskanzler thinks he’s reassuring his voters, but he’s actually reassuring the Kremlin: You have nothing to fear as long as you keep the war going. We won’t stop you.

They were in the hallway when a Shahed drone flew into the apartment in Kyiv: a camera captured the strike from inside the home. Despite the extensive destruction in the apartment, bottles of champagne survived.

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, denies it’s a duck, demands you prove it's a duck, accuses you of being a duck, says your dog is a duck, and that it won't shit on your grass anymore if you just give it your garden, it’s a Kremlin duck 🦆

The crime was committed by drone operators of the Russian group “Doomsday”, who do not even hide that they are attacking civilians.

The amazing thing is that while Europeans are slapping themselves on the back for their dealings with Trump, what he has done is take sanctions on Russia off the table and put giving Ukrainian territory to Russia very much on the table.

"An entire family - our neighbors from the sixth floor - was killed..." Oksana, a resident of an apartment building in #Kharkiv attacked by Russian drones, told that this morning, Russia killed her neighbors: a father, a mother, their two-year-old daughter, and their 16-year-old son.

🤬Kharkiv... The attack was targeted - five enemy "Shaheds" approached it from different sides and hit people who were sleeping peacefully at five in the morning.

Ukrainian commander says no NATO country could protect its cities from 300 Russian-Iranian drones a day.

The hopelessness of the situation is not that there is no way to deliver water - because of leaky pipes, destroyed water intakes, and pumping stations. The real disaster is that the water itself has physically run out.

🇺🇦❗️Ukraine’s parliament has backed a push by Kyiv’s presidential office for greater control over the country’s independent anti-corruption bodies, in a move that critics warn would hand Zelenskyy’s circle more influence over investigations, - FT

Huge self-inflicted sabotage of Ukraine's path towards EU integration! Whether civil society w EU backing manages to stop this attack on the anticorruption institutions will determine the future strength of EU conditionality and anticorruption efforts. If Zelensky signs the law, it'll signal that..

You can see the trail of fire the cluster munition tears across the ground - absolutely murderous weapon to use on a residential area. Chernivtsi is hundreds of kilometers from the front line. Barbarism.

The most appropriate and effective way to recover Ukraine is to deprive Russia of the ability to destroy us. Then there will be much less to recover.

The "strategic genius" in the Kremlin keeps digging his own grave, and that of his people. Let's help him speed it up in any way we can.

Europe must defend Europe. #SkyShieldNow

Well worth your time. It is essential to be precise in our terminology & methodology on this topic.

Russia is looking for ways to destabilize Europe. From the scale of "Immortal Regiment" events in Germany, it was clear how large Russian diaspora is in Germany. And obviously, there are Russian agents among them who carry out missions planned by Russian security services.

A reminder you shouldn't need that russia is every day targeting and killing Ukrainian civilians very deliberately. Ukrainians are right to call them orcs.

Don't ever engage in a conversation about whether this or that target of RU attacks was military or civilian - ALL targets in Ukraine are illegitimate, NO targets are "allowed". Every single action RU undertakes in Ukraine is illegal. Distinguishing normalises the attacks that miss civilians.

Russian Nazis are starting to figure it out…

We can state that the liberal world order has long disappeared — we simply chose not to notice that. Now, it is time to look at things realistically and adapt to the new reality. We do not yet know what the new world order will look like. It is emerging now, out of wars and conflicts⤵️

A "two week" deadline imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump to see if Russia is serious about peace in Ukraine has come and gone, with Moscow's escalation of attacks on civilians during this period failing to draw the slightest condemnation from the White House.

Understand the Republican Party is all about loyalty tests now. Every outrage is an opportunity to reinforce the dominance of the In group and filter out anyone suspected of disloyalty. They don't need to believe anything that's happening is right, they just need to prove loyalty again and again.