Leontine Gräfin von Schmettolowski, Baroness of Bromley

Moscow’s Offshore Menace How the shadow fleet enables Russia’s hybrid warfare in Europe.

"Since ships must use identification systems to transmit location in real time, Russia has made increasing use of ship-to-ship: vessels that have been tracked to a Russian port can switch cargo to waiting tankers offshore with their transponders switched off.'
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Vicarious Glory: Why Russians Endure and How the West Can Outlast Them A psychological roadmap for victory in Ukraine and beyond

"The refrigerator does not defeat the television because the television does not merely feed propaganda. It supplies an alternate reality that many Russians find more livable than the one in their real physical lives."

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A European Peace Plan for Ukraine US President Donald Trump seems prepared to bring Russia’s war against Ukraine to an end at almost any cost. The Europeans need to become more active players.

As US envoy Steve Witkoff heads for Moscow again, read Stefan Meister @meistefan1.bsky.social on why the Europeans need their own plan & become more active players ip-quarterly.com/en/european-...

Germany needs to create a Foreign Legion, in the French mould.

So… it’s kinda interesting to see the difference in pay between the new German and French military services.

In France they will get 800 Euro. In Germany, they will get 2600 Euro.

Yes, and for the latter the nation state is an obstacle in their quest to enslave us all

Hell yes. Soak these bitches

The more one reads about it, the less informed one feels. Horse-race style coverage of politics is the gutter.

The British media and the "budget" is a ridiculous yearly circle that no other country in the world can match.

Beyond Trump’s “Russian Plan”: There Will Be No Peace Agreement With Moscow This Is Not Actually Bad News

"Massacres, torture, deportations of children and summary executions would continue in the territories controlled by Moscow. No one can trust the security guarantees offered by Washington. Even those that Europe could provide would be potentially shaky."
tenzerstrategics.substack.com/p/beyond-tru...

Use it for target practice

#OTD, 30 Nov 1939, the hordes of the Kremlin invaded #Finland.

Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive? Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

No one does a better job of making us hate Maureen Dowd than Maureen Dowd herself.

Why the Irish Times is publishing this dumb, irrelevant c**t is beyond me.

Maureen Dowd can go fuck herself with a traffic cone

I wake up every morning and start to cry uncontrollably because I was not born in Russia 😭

I wake up every morning and cry because I was not born in Russia

Farage the filthy Putinist whore

They are the real globalists

one reason "great power competition" is a bad description of the emerging order is that an interlinked global kleptocracy does not care about national interests or rivalries

They can't call it "The Cult of Jezza Christ" though, can they

The face of a filthy Putinist whore 🤮

A woman of a certain age boarding a train alone makes her "intrepid"

These people want this 🪢

A very USian reaction indeed, to primly lecture us non-USians (incorrectly), on how to properly use the English language. You lot are a tiresome (and ignorant) bunch.

It is relevant for us non-USians, who have to lie on the bed which your presidents have shat on.

If we are serious about self-preservation here in Europe, we should come up with a plan for defeating Russia ASAP.

And that sadly gave him no insight into the lives and minds of us, non-USians.

These filthy USian Putinist whores should become persona non grata in the EU, once the dust settles.

Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.

"Afterward, one European official asked Witkoff to start speaking with allies over the secure fixed line Europe’s heads of state use to conduct sensitive diplomatic conversations. Witkoff demurred, as he traveled too much to use the cumbersome system."
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