Russia's years long operations aimed at destroying the alliance between Ukraine and Poland is only part of Kremlin's plan. US intelligence says Russia will attack Poland. With history as a guide, the attack will likely be set up to somehow blame Ukraine.

🏭 What is a Defense Industrial Base? Why It Matters for NATO By Michael Newton – @cepa.org cepa.org/article/what...

NATO leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump are set to affirm ​an "ironclad commitment" to collective defence under the alliance's Article 5 pact at ‌a summit in Ankara next week, according to a text approved by NATO ambassadors on Friday and seen by Reuters. With @liliebayer.bsky.social

"If you can, please do something to support the people in Ukraine who are fighting for freedom and have no intention of giving up." #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

Happy Pride, London! To mark #PrideInLondon 2026, we're flying the rainbow flag to show our support for LGBTIQ rights. #diplomatsforequality

Albania's flamingos meet the Trump family bulldozers as.ft.com/r/2a4d4360-9...

Europe's clean #energy transition depends on where its critical raw materials come from. As the EU seeks to diversify beyond China, Ukraine has an opportunity to build a mineral sector grounded in transparency, strong institutions and good governance, not just extraction.

Our preview of NATO’s Ankara summit: Europeans aim to set aside strife with U.S. President Donald Trump over Iran and Greenland ​and show they are stepping up to defend the continent as Washington cuts back on its commitments to the alliance.

Poland is refusing to send the MiGs it promised to Ukraine. Warsaw has decided that instead of honouring its word, it will deprive Ukrainians of the desperately needed fighter jets to help save Ukrainians from extermination. Poland continues on its course of helping Russia. Evil.

In fact, Poland will destroy its remaining MiG fighter jets instead of transferring them to Ukraine. This is a low of lows.

Man made climate change is not a hoax. It’s real and happening fast. While Arctic temperatures generally are rising two to four times faster than the global average, the Barents Sea region is warming up to seven times faster… #Arctic #ClimateChange

“Mr. Trump’s profits are a haul once unimaginable for any leader of a liberal democracy, particularly a sitting American president. No modern Western leader has ever publicly disclosed such big windfalls while in office.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/w...

Nowhere to live: Europe’s housing crisis has become the continent’s biggest political problem A shortage of affordable places to live has led to rising rents, falling birth rates, and political polarization.

russia is continuing its policy of death ag/ Ukraine, targeting solely civilians. While Kyiv, in accordance with international law, strikes only military and energy infrastructure, Moscow has only one goal: to exterminate. When will we, as Europeans, take action? www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

To achieve an enduring and just peace in Ukraine, and to secure international peace, the West must pursue a concerted and forceful policy of bringing about a decisive victory over Russia, by achieving the following main objectives: 1/5

A failure to thwart Russia’s aggressive ambitions with such comprehensive policy will not only exacerbate the ongoing tragedy to the Ukrainian nation, but it will result in disastrous consequences for the West. 2/5

As Putin slowly realizes he is loosing his reckless adventure of meaningless aggression, Russian attacks on civilian targets seem to become even more nasty. All the more reason to firmly sustain support for 🇺🇦Ukraine and increase economic pressure on Russia. kyivindependent.com/explosions-r...

This prosecution only serves to accentuate Germany's complicity with Russia. Why don't you tell us about the “German-Russian Armaments Commission”, established in 2011? @aussenminister.diplo.de @diplo.de From my December Substack article: Click Here--> edsolomon.substack.com/i/181755363/...

Mr. Stoltenberg again insists that NATO membership for Ukraine is "not on the agenda, because some of the big NATO allies are not supporting that." As NATO chief, he sat on his hands as members were selling arms to Russia. My Substack article from June 2023: edsolomon.substack.com/p/european-u...

Canadians have steadfastly supported Ukraine in every way possible. 🧵 1/7 ⬇️

Russia has unexpectedly shut several rail border crossings with its western neighbors. Moscow has suspended traffic through seven railway checkpoints on its borders with Finland, Estonia and Latvia, offering no explanation for the "temporary" closures.

"I don’t know whether the United States of America will ever reach its tricentennial, but if it does, it will be because the narrow tribe that Trump and Vance represent has been defeated and removed, and because the country is once again governed by people who believe in an American union."

Gas plants for US data centers to be major source of climate change-linked emissions, report says reut.rs/4xZUWzO

⚡ Leaked files reveal secret Chinese military centers have been training Russian forces for chemical warfare scenarios. united24media.com/world/leaked...

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt

Volkswagen’s plan to cut up to 100,000 jobs and close four factories in Germany is exactly the kind of industrial crisis Brussels says it wants to avert. But EU countries and lawmakers are still arguing over how to respond.

Do you think this is what Russia had in mind when it planned its “three-day Special Military Operation” and the capture of Kyiv? Flamingo’s in action striking the Titan-Barrikady defense plant in Volgograd, and look at that backdrop. Just beautiful 🇺🇦

Sweden pledged 16 Gripen jets to Ukraine a month ago. The timeline still holds — Zelenskyy says the first batch arrives in early 2027, with pilots already training in Sweden Ukraine's air force will fly F-16s, Rafales, and Gripens within the same fleet. euromaidanpress.com/2026/06/30/z...

At least 3 MILLION people have lost health insurance thanks to Trump & Republicans' refusal to extend ACA tax credits & that's before factoring in their $1 TRILLION Medicaid cut. We need a system that is not vulnerable to this kind of ongoing sabotage. We need Medicare for All.

"Russian warship, go..." These words live on four years later.

Every day, Ukraine faces devastating attacks. Yet in 2026, the UK undermines its decisive #sanctions on Russia by granting exemptions that benefit Russian LNG projects such as Sakhalin-2, where UK services cover half of its #LNG fleet. 👇

Read the essay collection in full here: buff.ly/NXBwOTN

Dass Immobilienheuschrecken von 10000€ Zwangsgeld mtl. nicht abgeschreckt sind, ist klar. Besonders spekulativer Leerstand muss mit viel höherem finanziellem Risiko bedroht werden. 50000€ pro Wohnung tgl. nach angemess. Frist! Warum ist nicht längst gesetzgeberisch gehandelt worden? @tagesspiegel.de

Tomorrow, Ireland takes over as EU Council Presidency for six months, when the EU is renegotiating tech and tax rules. In The Guardian this morning I argue it must recuse itself from these discussions because it is so captured by big tech. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As reporting increasingly suggests that the U.S. federal aid cuts spearheaded by Elon Musk last year have led to preventable deaths abroad, the Tesla CEO issued his critics a challenge to “cite a single name of someone who died,” but grew notably silent after being given countless examples.

Hours-long gas lines, crying, cursing, playing the victim, and fistfights over fuel. Ukraine is making Russia feel the consequences of its genocidal war. My latest...

NB : Nobody speaks out against Putin and/or the 🇷🇺 #war on 🇺🇦 Fundamentally flawed 🫟

Great article of @shaunwalker7.bsky.social (w/ insights from discuss. at the #LennartMeriConference 😏).”The key Q is whether the very public tensions around collective def. have eroded the perception in the Kremlin that an incursion into NATO would provoke an overwhelming military response”

More scenes from Russia's Krasnodar Krai today, as one of southern Russia's largest refineries continues to burn after last night's Ukrainian strikes.

Russia’s energy company Novatek urgently needs more tankers for Arctic LNG 2 — a flagship project hit by US and EU sanctions and critical to Russia’s plans to expand Arctic gas exports. Novatek is now reportedly in talks to acquire LNG tankers from Japan’s MOL and South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean.

#Poetry #Painting #Summer Sleep to recover what you have lost lost sleep, lost sleep. Sleep in the afternoon while the sun is highup in the sky. SY Wong 🎨 Kathe Mal

This is Precisely what the current American president is doing to Our Country…..

i'm old enough to remember fucking ENRON with their fucking "rolling blackouts" where they'd fuck over people on the grid to squeeze every last penny out of them

It's not easy being meme-d. #Oh-Gee-I-See-Algae 👀

No actual evidence that this was a defenestration—Putin's assassination signature—but being talked about as a successor to Putin is a death sentence in today's Russia. Ask Ivanov.

“Flamingo diplomacy” is actually the only kind that works.

Longyearbyen has become another mass tourism destination. More cruise ships, bigger crowds, and increasing pressure on a fragile Arctic environment. Is this really what the Arctic needs?

“Unmitigated, unprecedented, continuing disaster” — Lord Kinnock’s verdict on #Brexit at the recent #MarchForRejoin. @bradfordtanda.bsky.social letter says a new PM & #UKLabour leader should heed it: a #RejoinEU referendum offers a bigger electoral boost than any ‘honeymoon’ changeover. #UKPolitics

Eine Russlandpolitik wie die AfD sie vertritt, kann man nur vertreten, wenn man sich als der Handlanger Putins in Deutschland versteht. Das ist die Rolle der AfD in Deutschland & so verhält sie sich: Putin konform und an seinen Interessen orientiert.