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Not Business as Usual: Why Trump’s War Department Rhetoric Matters Much of the language coming out of the gathering of US military leaders this week could be dismissed as political spectacle. But international partners of the US should take seriously the US Administr...

'Partners will need to be prepared for the use of US military power in a way that is deeply uncomfortable' writes @mtsavill.bsky.social in the latest RUSI Commentary.

"The pattern of arms transfer from Russia to other CRINK countries reversed after 2022 as Russia increasingly relied on arms from Iran and North Korea to sustain its military operations in Ukraine," @chinapower.csis.org writes.

Read more: www.csis.org/analysis/cri...

The Commander in Chief Is Not Okay Trump put on a disturbing show for America’s generals and admirals.

“the president’s nakedly partisan appeal to U.S. military officers was a violation of every standard of American civil-military relations, and exactly what George Washington feared could happen with an unscrupulous commander in chief.”

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Hegseth's speech at Quantico is the culmination of a decade of MAGA influencers invoking anti-elite populism to rile up troops and company grade officers against distrusted generals, so it would be interesting to hear from colleagues on how far this undermines military cohesion

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I’ll be heading to London for this short event on Friday morning. Tune in if you can.

You Can’t Designate ‘Antifa.’ Banks and Platforms Will Act Like You Did Anyway. The White House’s words will change behavior long before any court can.

While President Trump's recent executive order purporting to designate “Antifa” as a domestic terrorist organization likely will not survive legal challenges, Thomas E. Brzozowski writes that it could still have a far-reaching chilling effect. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/you-...

I think a ton of people are burying the lead with the Pete Hegseth speech.

"Oh he's fat shaming people!"

bitch he just said he wants to NO LONGER FOLLOW THE GENEVA CONVENTION WHEN IT COMES TO RULES OF ENGAGEMENT!

TRUMP SAID HE WANTS TO DESTROY "THE ENEMY WITHIN" THAT MEANS US!

Pete Hegseth-a man whom only his mother could love

Or, maybe not

You are an abuser..that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats”

“It’s time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out”

Forcing all those generals to witness how amateurish and foolish both Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are firsthand might increase the chances of illegal orders being ignored in the future.

A tiny Pete Hegseth preaches to America's military giants

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social for Raw Story

#PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Trump #USPolitics #Hegseth

Bank of Finland’s 4th International Monetary Policy Conference: Monetary Policy in the Shadow of Geopolitical Tensions and Trade Conflicts

@suomenpankki.fi

Also streaming:

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Putin's escalation is far worse than we thought - Europe's drone wall is not enough Europeans have little idea of the true scale of Russia’s 'hybrid attack' campaign against them – this must change if we are to respond adequately

Spoiler: "Putin's escalation" is not "far worse" than anybody thought, if they have been paying any attention at all.

But there's no doubt it *will* get "far worse" without effective and determined deterrence from Europe.

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Norway opens world’s northernmost permanent radiation monitoring The air filter monitoring station will serve as an important supplement to Norway’s nuclear emergency preparedness and will strengthen vigilance in the north.

Norway takes measures to monitor human-made isotopes in the high Arctic amid Russia's test-season for the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile at Novaya Zemlya.
#Svalbard #Radiation #NuclearSafety #CTBTO

Näin Suomi muuttuu DCA-yhteensopivaksi – ja tämä mies toteuttaa sen Kommodori Veli-Petteri Valkamo vetää Suomen ja Yhdysvaltojen puolustusyhteistyön käytännön toimeen­panoa. Hän tietää mihin pienen präntin detaljeihin Suomi on DCA-sopimuksessa sitoutunut – ja miten n...

Tässä linkki juttuun demokraatti.fi/965181-2

" #DCA-sopimuksen mahdollistama Yhdysvaltojen joukkojen läsnäolo ja kahdenvälinen puolustusyhteistyö antavat yhdessä Nato-jäsenyyden kanssa Suomelle pelkkää Nato-jäsenyyttä enemmän sotilaallista pidäkettä ja turvaa."

Janne Oran tiukan haastattelun yhteenveto.
Hyvin "Petsku" vastaa.

Gathering of loyal generals

1/ Russian sightseers' lack of self-preservation skills during yesterday's Ukrainian sea drone attack has prompted incredulity from Russian warbloggers. "Deer in T-shirts", says one; another says they think they're "immortals of the MacLeod clan". ⬇️
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Hegseth orders flag officer meeting

North Korean flag officers gathered ny Kim

Pete has a vision of loyal obedient armed forces.

Nicolas Sarkozy sentenced to five years in Libya campaign financing case Nicolas Sarkozy, president from 2007-12, was found guilty of criminal conspiracy but cleared of other charges.

An impressive performance by the French justice system. The world would be a better place if more countries had a genuine separation of powers, not as an abstract theory like in the United States, but as a practical and institutional reality.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Don Donald & his mafia

Moldova Elections: Russia's Secret Plan to Hack the Vote Documents seen by Bloomberg show that tactics include recruitment of Moldovan voters abroad, organizing protests and a disinformation campaign.

Big Bloomberg report on Russian election meddling in Moldova. Tactics include recruitment of Moldovan voters abroad, staging protest and disinfo campaigns, and (this seems like the worst one) “the use of compromising material to pressure public officials to disrupt the electoral process.”

So Trump designated Antifa as a "domestic terrorist organization" - a weird move for many reasons, including both that the US doesn't have a framework for designating domestic terrorist organizations, and that Antifa lacks the organizational structure to be called an organization at all.

Putin is playing a dangerous game with Nato All is far from quiet on the alliance’s eastern front

“In the corridors of the Estonian foreign ministry last week, I saw a large reproduction of the vote tally from last February’s UN debate on Ukraine, in which the US voted with the Russians. The message seemed clear. Don’t assume that Trump’s America is on our side.”

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, September 22, 2025 Putin announced that Russia will adhere to the New START for one year following its expiration in February 2026, per ISW.

3/ Putin is attempting to pressure the Trump administration to engage in arms control talks to facilitate US-Russian rapprochement and extract concessions from the United States about the war in Ukraine, as ISW forecasted Russia would in August 2025. isw.pub/UkrWar092225

West Point is violating the First Amendment with a crackdown on professors, lawsuit says A law professor at West Point has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Military Academy, saying it violates the First Amendment by banning professors' opinions in the classroom and restricting certain boo...

Because it is

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Signing should be a career ender.

Tekoälyn kehitys ei mullista vain arkea, vaan myös sodankäyntiä. Generatiiviset mallit vauhdittavat disinformaatiota ja psykologista sodankäyntiä, joiden taistelukenttä on ihmismieli. Peppi Heinikainen avaa tekoälyn vaikutuksia sodankäynnille uudessa analyysissään, linkki alla!

A reminder that Jimmy Kimmel did nothing wrong. He didn't even insult Kirk, but suggested that the right was denying responsibility for yet another shooter. And that they were using it to crush dissent. Oh and then he insulted Trump.

FFS, Jimmy is owed an apology, not the other way around

Contested #logistics

We know it should be handled, but it is a tall mountain.