Trump's statement that Ukraine can win back all it's territory is mostly a message to Putin that Russia should more seriously engage in peace negotiations. It does not mean new US support for Ukraine, but it does signal that Trump will not obstruct Europe's efforts. 1/4

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

A Pentagon spokesman said it was common sense that “information must be approved for public release by an appropriate authorizing official before it is released, even if it is unclassified.” Maybe in Russia or China, but not in America. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

"Having silenced most institutional dissent within his first nine months, what could Trump accomplish in the next fourteen?" My column. www.ft.com/content/a284...

The World's Most Mildly Infuriating Map Legend

An Eastern European colleague sent me this after the Zelenskyy bashing round in the White House on February 28, 2025. Methinks “Estonianizing” Europe’s Russia policy is much preferable to MAGAizing it.

1/ A Russian mother protesting for the release of her son three years after he was mobilised has highlighted the plight of the remaining 'mobiks'. Over 85% are said to have died by, and the remainder are being forced to sign contracts at gunpoint. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/igor...

Just These 3 Regions Make Up 50% of World GDP In 2024 [MAP] moverdb.com/3-regions-50-gdp/

Jennifer Aniston, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Robert DeNiro, Olivia Rodrigo headline new ACLU letter with 400+ signers against government threat to free speech, citing Kimmel. Also signed by comedians including Nimesh Patel, Mary Beth Barone, Sam Morril, Gianmarco Soresi, Anthony Jeselnik, Pete Holmes

A Western camp based on nationalism and unreliability in foreign policy won't be an alliance but a smorgasbord of corrupt short-termism and backstabbing from which only large foreign powers would benefit. No strategist would ever propose it. But a regime that fears political competition might.

Angesichts dessen was gerade in den USA passiert, fragen sich viele, warum die Bevölkerung, die Demokraten, aber auch die Unternehmen sich nicht auflehnen? Spoiler: es ist der gleiche Grund, der auch für das Ausbleiben der kommunistischen Revolution erklärt. (1

Russia’s child theft program spans 210 camps across 59 regions — from Crimea to the Pacific, studies show. Ukrainian kids are renamed, Russified, trained with grenades, and in some cases adopted out. One expert calls it a “demographic conquest.” euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/21/n...

1/ While today's incursion into Estonian airspace by three Russian MIG-31s is the most serious such incident in 30 years, it's not the first time that it's happened. It also highlights a strategic vulnerability for Estonia: it does not have a fully agreed border with Russia. ⬇️

‼️Following the brazen incursion of Russian military aircraft into EU and NATO airspace, European leaders must issue a statement that any further provocations will result in Russian aircraft being shot down.

A reminder that it took Turkey 17 seconds to shoot down a Russian Su-24 in 2015.

Drei MIGs 31 für 12 Minuten im estnischen Luftraum wohl in Richtung Tallin. Wie wird die russische Reaktion sein? a) es gab keine MIGs im estnischen Luftraum b) die Ukraine ist schuld c) ein Beweis dafür, dass die NATO den Krieg gegen Russland vorbereitet d) a,b und c

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“The data is clear,” said J.D. Vance. “People on the left are much likelier to defend and celebrate political violence.” Our charts show that the data paint a more complex picture

How can this be an unpopular opinion? It seems like common sense to anyone who has outgrown the childlike desire for a simple black and white reality.

“Die CDU-nahe Stiftung hat in einer Studie rechtspopulistische Parteien in Europa verglichen. Die AfD gehöre zu der Gruppe, bei der „Zähmung“ durch Kooperation erfahrungsgemäß nicht gelingen könne.” www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/syst...

This might be the dumbest fucking sentence I’ve ever seen

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

1/7 What Trump and Putin don’t want you to know: A new investigation shows Russia is kidnapping Ukrainian children, reeducating them in military camps, using them to build drones, and training them to fight Ukraine. Trump cut funding to hide it—enabling genocide

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

🧵: The chairwoman of the German ☮️ ‚peace initiative‘ „Friedensbrücke“ in the federal state of Brandenburg has reportedly supplied the 🇷🇺Russian 🕵🏻 FSB with information about 🇩🇪 military convoys and meeting locations of German military procurement officials with NATO counterparts in exchange for 💶. 1/

Brazilians were appalled by how close their country came to the brink of chaos on January 8th 2023. 1843 reveals how the insurrection attempt was the culmination of a weird and wild saga that had started long before

Australia at night See the rest of the world: brilliantmaps.com/light-pol...

The US Economy Split In Two GDP of each region: brilliantmaps.com/50-50-usd...

Es gab Schäden durch den RU Luftangriff auf Polen. Was es nicht geben wird: irgend etwas aus dem Westen, das auch nur vage in Richtung einer konsequenten Reaktion gehen könnte - wie die Ankündigung, ab sofort alles abzuschießen, was sich der Grenze auf <100km nähert 1/3

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This would suggest that this was a deliberate Russian intrusion into NATO airspace, while not intended as an intentional attack. Which of course doesn’t mean that it should be treated as harmless or trivial.

There is a global information war, and America is unilaterally disarming: The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to help autocratic governments manipulate and suppress information. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

You have my word Russia wont invade: Moldova Ok but not Georgia Ok but not Ukraine Ok just Crimea Ok just that & part of Donetsk Ok just that & all of Donetsk Ok just that & Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia Ok all of Ukraine But Zelensky has my word he'll be safe in Moscow...

Width of Africa vs Russia 6 more maps: brilliantmaps.com/mercator-...

Frankly this is complete bs. I dare say that no one in Finland thinks that Ukraine should be forced to follow our example. If Stubb tries to push for this it’s not going to be popular. I personally find the whole idea highly insulting. Both to Ukraine and to Finland.

“Ukraine is still often incorrectly portrayed as a country occupying a geopolitical buffer zone between East and West. This is familiar to Finns, whose own country was condemned to similar geopolitical limbo during the Cold War.” By @alanderminna.bsky.social: www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

I met president of Mongolia and made mistake of mentioning historical ownership of territories...

OTD in 1939 Nazi Germany staged the Gleiwitz incident. After accusing Poland of ethnic cleansing against his countrymen, Hitler staged a false flag to justify invasion & genocide. Imagine such bullshit being tolerated today....

So many good, courageous and strong Ukrainians are dead. And we are so painfully lame and fearful, weak by choice and arrogant and complacent.

Commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, Robert “Magyar” Brovdi, responded sharply to Hungary’s decision to ban him from entering the country, where his father was born: “Shove your sanctions and entry ban where the sun doesn’t shine, Mr. ‘dancer on graves’,” he said, referring to PM Orbán.

Russland verletzt Grenzen, überschreitet Grenzen, verschiebt Grenzen, kennt keine Grenzen. Russland will anderen seine Grenzen aufzwingen. Solange Russland selbst keine klaren Grenzen gesetzt werden, wird Russland weitermachen. Ohne Stärke kein Frieden.

I actually think the story here isn’t so much about Hegseth and co. as much as it is about military officials in and around the academies using it as cover/an excuse to push out civilian professors altogether

So let me get this straight. Trump fired close to 25% of the National Park Service's workforce, whose job it is to maintain DC's public landscape. And in their place we are using the National Guard, who have been yanked away from their own jobs and careers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Where Germans Voted For The Nazis in 1933 About the election: brilliantmaps.com/nazi-votes/

Thirty-three-year-old National Guard soldier Vladyslav survived after Russian forces slit his throat and threw him into a pit, believing he was dead, Suspilne reported on Aug. 25.

Drones, ISR, communications, battlefield awareness, electronic warfare, and mobile anti-tank systems: North Korea appears to have taken notes from the battlefields of Kursk. Its latest propaganda video offers clues, Frontelligence Insight finds in its newest analysis. 🧵Thread:

Time to call it quits and join Tempest. Oh, and why can't I help this nagging feeling that I saw this coming the moment FCAS was announced? MGCS next. Some things never change, not even in the face oft existential threats...

Rare to hear an EU official speak as candidly as Weyand here “From the Commission’s perspective this was a strategic trade-off, not an economic policy ideal solution" “There was a risk that the USA, in return, would question the security partnership. That is the realpolitik of the turning point"

Are they right? I don’t know, but there’s clear reason to be pessimistic about the willingness of Americans to oppose tyranny for its own sake.