So basically the US is just Russia, but with leaders that are not only evil but also dumb.

I can't help but fear that the US (i.e. Trump and his sycophantic cabinet, Hegseth in primis) are cooking up something really reckless on the international scene.

Great. Nothing could be more confrontational than this. Champagne bottles popping in Moscow.

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration. It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough. www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

Sahel 🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪 MAP: The situation in the Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Benin as of September 2025. This map is a joint production by @warmapper.org and myself

Orban just got even worse: www.politico.eu/article/so-w...

Thank you, dear Moldovans!

”Kommer 🇷🇺 angripa Nato” ”Nej, eftersom 🇷🇺 vet att man kommer förlora” säger ÖB i Agenda. Trots allt vi sett på senare år och veckor, och trots det Claesson just sagt om hybridkrig så sitter beslutsfattare fast i de gamla språkliga figurerna. Ryssland angriper oss redan. Det bör vara budskapet.

Earlier this year I picked up a newspaper that was lying around a bombed out building in Izium (Ukraine). It was the Rabochaya Gazeta, affiliated with the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU). Dated 15 January 2014, the day before the dictator laws were introduced to try to silence the Euromaidan. 1/

I'm about to leave the Albanian capital, an incredible palimpsest of historical layers and town (non)planning ideas.

And... there is no one that will tell him? Someone, please?

My god, the guy is so stupid.

Fully agree with Petr Pavel. Russia's provocations musts stop, and the best way to ensure this is to make them pay a price. Trespassers should be shot. If they are Russian warplanes, at least. www.unian.ua/world/petr-p....

Publish AND perish.

More and more of a pariah state.

How can we know that Trump supports Putin? 1. He says so, praising Putin for being a genius invading Ukraine. 2. He has not imposed any sanctions on Russia since January. 3. He is not enforcing the previous sanctions on Russia. 4. He votes with Putin & a dozen rogue states in UN.

My bet is that they picked up a random map and didn't notice. No excuse, but at least it would mean that there is no bad intent. I hope.

So the US will be observing how RU and BY practice attacking NATO countries?

Great, so why didn't we strike back after the drone invasion of Poland?

Musk har storköpt aktier i Tesla. Betyder det att han tänker (tillfälligt?) skippa fascismen så att kursen kan vända uppåt?

Orwell would think: "Doublethink!"

I would welcome a more assertive response, though. This is not the language Russia understands.

Ni som är bildade: kan man verkligen säga "norskar" som DI gör här? Har aldrig sett det förut. Och det känns väldigt fel.

“Thank you for agreeing to do several hours unpaid labour reviewing a paper for our journal. As a bonus please fill in these horrible web forms before we let you even see the paper.”

Vissa krigshändelser får inte den uppmärksamhet de förtjänar. 🇺🇦 har på senare tid träffat viktiga mål i Leningrads län, t o m på andra sidan viken. Det är väldigt stor sak och något av ett mysterium (kan vi väl säga) hur de lyckats nå dit, förbi områden som borde vara fullproppade med luftförsvar.

So Brexit didn't solve their problems after all?

OK, so he's just making excuses to wriggle himself out of everything. Because he's incompetent, cowardly and as dumb as a rock.

I thought Kirk was supposed to be his friend, but apparently not. He's got more important things to worry about, like the progress in building the ball room.

Trump immensely weak, as usual: kyivindependent.com/russian-dron...

It’s now been a day and a half since Russia launched a premeditated military attack on Poland, ostensibly an ally of the USA. And so far this is the only reaction of the US president. And some people still think the US will defend Europe from Russia…

Those SIM cards most have gotten into those drones by mistake, and the drone flew into Poland by mistake, which is a country that appeared by mistake anyway (to cite Mayakovskiy: "Poland - what kind of geographical news is that?").

Preliminary map of the attack. russian Drones from both Ukraine and Belarus. Some reaching 250km deep. While first call was upto 19, not 19, its now at 23. All current ones counted are intel or decoy variants. Without warheads making accident even less likley. Deliberate operation

I think a measured military response is what is needed at this point. Russia will blame Ukraine for sure. I think Poland could send off a few missiles to Kaliningrad and blame Ukraine too (with their permission, which will be happily granted).

Statsministern (enligt DN): "Polen har all rätt att försvara sitt luftrum." Är det något som han ens behövt fundera över? Vad är det för pinsamt urvattnat språk? Ett angrepp är ett angrepp. Ryssland är angriparen. Ryssland har angripit Polen för att testa NATO:s svar. Statsministern får underkänt.

This is a pretty fair analysis of what happened last night: phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/nato-state...

Koalas can get chlamydia, and it ain't nice: www.bbc.com/news/article...

@dagensnyheter.bsky.social Varför slutar er artikel om tortyr av barn med "Ryssland förnekar att man utför attacker riktade mot civila i Ukraina och har under hela kriget avvisat anklagelser om att civila har behandlats illa."? Ni MÅSTE klargöra att det Ryssland påstår är bevisligen falskt.

So the Shaheds are now flying into NATO territory intentionally. I hope this leads to some kind of reaction, e.g.,a punitive attack on something in e.g. Königsberg (a.k.a. Kaliningrad).

Because Italy likes being a free rider and avoids commitment to any moral or practical cause. It's just cowardice. The alternative is to assume Russian influence within government. Which is not a far-fetched thought.

The left wins in Norway, but at 24% of the votes populist right-wing Fremskrittspartiet is second, not far behind the social democratic party (Arbeiderpartiet). Polls didn't predict this rise, which can apparently be traced to the popularity of this party among young male voters.

It's time to hit the Kremlin. UA Cabinet of Ministers hit. www.unian.net/war/massirov...

Vance is extremely dangerous. A horrible person that we should not underestimate

Not an entirely new narrative, but they seem to be pushing it a lot more these days.

Clearly the US president is mentally ill.

Absolutely terrible news from the Kharkiv-Slovyansk road.https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2025/09/5/7529559/

This is terrible news! How do you get to Kramatorsk from Kharkiv now?

A rare moment of clarity?

The peace president needs a War Department to spread his love.

Hold you horses, everyone: Russia isn't the new North Korea after all. Daily Mail says look closer, much closer. Read this insightful article about the state of the current political debate in the UK (and many other European countries). Hyperbole is corrosive. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...