David Steadson

Europe should have gone on full war footing in 2022. The best time since has been every day since. Including today.

It appears the world's last best hope is that there remain "a few good men" (and women) in the US Military who refuse to obey Trump's orders.

Sadly, this means our best hope is a new US Civil War.

It's just as clear that the @houserepublicans.bsky.social are not going to stop him, and @housedemocrats.bsky.social seem unable to accept their system is broken and "checks and balances" won't save them.

It is clear that Donald Trump is either insane or directly working with Putin and is determined to launch a war against Europe and his NATO allies.

Russian economy is in big trouble.

Les forces terrestres ukrainiennes ont atteint le centre de Koupiansk, dans la région de Kharkiv, et ont libéré le bâtiment municipal des envahisseurs russes, prenant ainsi le contrôle du centre-ville.
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Russia always lies. They also fought alongside Nazi Germany in 1939.

a young boy in a tuxedo with the words `` what an incredible coincidence '' written below him . ALT: a young boy in a tuxedo with the words `` what an incredible coincidence '' written below him .

In a strange historical twist, one of the islands in the Caribbean that Denmark gave up in return for the US acknowledging Danish control of Greenland was Little Saint James.

Otherwise known as Epstein Island.

Opinion | Willpower Doesn’t Work. This Does.

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Opinion | Willpower Doesn’t Work. This Does.

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The flu continues to wreak havoc across the northern hemisphere. In Canada, we've had at least two dozen deaths so far, including among small children, over a handful of days. Here are some things you need to know:

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“Ukrainian Nazis” in Austria, Constructed by Russia Russia established a disinformation network in Europe to discredit Ukrainian refugees and Ukraine as a state. This network operated most actively in Austria.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Russia established a disinformation network in Europe to discredit Ukrainian refugees and Ukraine as a state.

🇦🇹 An Austrian national coordinated the operation and had cooperated with Russian special services for many years.

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By @caolanrob.bsky.social

Has Trump done another cognitive test? 🤷

FFS

Unbelievable. DN has a mysig 3 page interview with Martin Kulldorff and just lets him run with antivaxx propaganda with "both sides" feel, even a quote from Stabell Benn. What a day to do it on, given they just got rid of newborn Hep B vaccination.

A white nationalist from Africa, to be more specific ... 😏

Hundreds of English-language websites link to pro-Kremlin propaganda Thinktank says internet flooded with disinformation by Russia-aligned Pravda network, which many websites treat as credible

You are being manipulated.

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#Moscow is a no-fly zone 🚫✈️
Russian air defenses keep failing, Ukrainian drones fly straight to the capital to demilitarize legitimate targets 💥🦩Moscow and St. Petersburg are active war zones 🎯🔥 #Putin’s elite now hear air raid sirens, explosions, canceled flights, and broken GPS systems every day.

Britain sliding 'into economic crisis' over £85bn sickness bill, ex-John Lewis boss warns The number of people who are out of work for health reasons has grown by 800,000 since 2019.

We warned in 2021 that Boris Johnson's 'living with Covid' policy would be an economic catastrophe for the UK, causing a tsunami of sickness for millions of people. And here we are. Let's try living *without* Covid, through good public health.
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Either you know what it means or you don't know what it means. Both outcomes are informative.

It is becoming fairly clear you most probably are a 70:30 account. 😏

Russia's economy is struggling. With Europe's support,Ukraine is doing fine. Anecdotally,on my last visit to Kyiv in April, there were significantly more shops open than when I first went in 2023. Military all looked way better equipped too.

if you outnumber your opponent 3:1, can't make much headway, and lose troops at a ratio of (much) worse than 3:1 - eventually you lose.

As you point out yourself, Ukraine hasn't yet felt it necessary to mobilise younger people.
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Since February 2022, Russia has successfully captured less than 1% of Ukraine. At a cost of over a million dead and wounded.

Russia collapses before Ukraine does.

Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant

The 8th largest Nuclear Power Plant in the world is running on emergency cooling power for 11 days now and is less than two weeks from a potentially catastrophic meltdown.

In a normal world that might be a headline or two. But hey, lets talk about beards in the military instead.