“GROTESQUE STUPIDITY… Hegseth accused by historians of desecrating the memory of the soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy after he sought to link immigration to D-day, saying Europe was facing a different ‘invasion’.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
🧵 L’enciclica di Papa Leone è una lucida condanna delle minacce dell’IA | @arlovan.bsky.social www.valigiablu.it/magnifica-hu...
#OpEd You couldn't ignore the thick black smoke that hung over proceedings — though people tried — rather like Russia's weakened economy, writes Tatyana Rybakova.
🔥Ukrainian Flamingo missiles strike military plant in large-scale attack on Russia.
Chonhar Bridge connecting occupied Kherson Oblast and Crimea destroyed.
Russian-occupied Mariupol port no longer operational after Ukrainian strikes, Azov says.
And this is only in the last few hours.
A verdict on present performance, however, is not a forecast of the war’s outcome. Russia’s position is poor, but it is not (yet) beyond rescue, and Putin’s planners will be working to reinforce and invest in the conditions that might yet save his war. 2/2
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🔴 Russian forces can no longer use the port of temporarily occupied Mariupol.
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