»This is the heart of the thesis with which this assessment began: that Putin is losing not in one or two dimensions, but in every dimension by which strategic progress can honestly be measured. On the evidence assembled here, the thesis holds.« @warinthefuture.bsky.social
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These people were not deplorable but degenerate.
»JD Vance led the push inside the White House to release the Jeffrey Epstein files and floated the idea that Ghislaine Maxwell could be interviewed by Tucker Carlson as part of a White House PR “gambit”, according to a report.«
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»The attacks on Russian logistics are part of a synchronized, multilayered campaign that covers the close-in “kill zone,” the midrange resupply zone in Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine, and the territory far inside Russia where Ukraine has hit sites producing crucial weapon technology.« #NAFO
An Assessment of Russia's Strategic Position in 2026, (Part 1)
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The suggestion is said to have been made in a Situation Room meeting last summer on the handling of the Epstein files
»The path forward is difficult, but clear: Old Europe can and must assume responsibility for the continent's future, just as Ukraine has done. It must stop signaling fear – and give Kyiv what it needs to drive out the invaders.«
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Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning?
Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.
This is a fun vocabulary test.
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For 🇩🇪-speaking readers:
In a new essay for @laenderanalysen.bsky.social I argue that to understand russia's war on 🇺🇦, we need to separate three things:
❓what is new
❓what is old
❓what is immutable
Only one of them explains why the war started in the first place
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Every so often a new story pops up and everyone remembers that Elon is a white supremacist mass murderer who foments violence on his Nazi website. Then everyone forgets again.
After failing to influence the Armenian election in their favour, the Russian disinformation campaign has switched focused on the World Cup, making a series of videos claiming warnings of terrorism and fraud from various sources. Countries most focused on appear to be Canada and Ukraine.
