Military analyst, naval officer, based in Denmark, mostly #Russia and the war in #Ukraine. YouTube: https://youtube.com/@anderspuck Newsletter: https://www.logicofwar.com Author of The Logic of War: https://a.co/d/01Ep6RtI
Did Putin call?
Eugene McParland 🇺🇦'We have not agreed to that' — #Trump walks back promise of Patriot licenses for #Ukraine 🖊️ by Abbey Fenbert 💬 "We have not agreed to that. We're talking about it, but it's a hard thing to give away that kind of technology" -Trump kyivindependent.com/we-have-not-...
But Wildberries is also an extremely vulnerable business whose bankruptcy could spiral into a banking crisis in Russia. Let's not pretend Ukraine hasn't thought about that aspect.
Vatnik SoupRussia is now lying that the UN claimed the Wildberries strikes were a "war crime." Maybe they should stop selling military equipment if they didn't want the stores to get hit. They're legitimate targets.
Not sure this is a comfort. They might just invade the wrong country.
Jessica BerlinSilver lining: if the Trump Administration can’t find you on a map, they can’t invade
Exactly. At least in Denmark I've seen too many commentators confidently state that it's got to be an accident because Russia wouldn't dare do such a thing on purpose. Of course they would! Putin is losing a war and that makes people very tolerant of running risks.
Yevgeniy GolovchenkoRegardless of whether the missile strike on Poland is intentional hybrid warfare or an accident, the effect is likely the same. Russia gets to sow fear and “salami slice” NATO further by observing where our boundaries go below the threshold of a formal war
While I understand the moral argument here, I think it raises the wrong question. The real issue is not whether Laura Loomer is suddenly good, but whether she can be useful for Ukraine. And the answer to that question is yes.
Phillips OBrienLatest free piece is out. Praising a racist, conspiracist, anti-democratic, Trump-worshipper because she takes one position you like is a dangerous move and is to be regretted. The struggle is basically the same in the US and Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
These issues are important, but I somehow have a feeling that this is going to be an example of how there can be a big difference between what a government would like to focus on and what will actually end up consuming its time.
Fiona HarveyEd Miliband makes first major foreign policy intervention, signalling clearly that climate and development will be at heart of UK international relations. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
I joined @siliconcurtain.bsky.social for a talk about the state of the war in Ukraine.
Silicon Curtain podcastDefeat and Death STALK Putin - Which Makes Him Even More Dangerous!? youtu.be/1GPeRn3nh_o
This is true. Putin will rather run Russia into the ground than stop the war. So that is the trajectory we are on.
Kate from KharkivVOLKER: We'll never have a peace agreement with Putin. That would require Putin to accept that Ukraine is a sovereign, independent state, that Zelenskyy is legitimate leader, that there's an international border between Russia and Ukraine. Putin will never agree to those things.