@curiousd.bsky.social
Ukraine Supporter. Interest in geopolitics.
@unroll.skywriter.blue
15.02.2026 18:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield.
Russiaβs maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response.
Extract of my speech at Munich Security Conference β
EU's Kaja Kallas: Coming from a country that is number two in the Press Freedom Index, hearing criticism regarding press freedom from a country that is fifty-eighth on this list (the U.S.) is interesting.
Ranking β¬οΈ
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NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
Utter nonsense from Reform who want to tear up the anti-money laundering rules which protect each and every one of us from the very criminals looking to use the UK economy to wash their criminal gains.
14.02.2026 23:11 β π 20 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0
βBillionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good and natural thingβ
Not to be Debbie Downer on Valentineβs Day, but this is a sobering and worthwhile read.
It delves into the mindset of the monsters we are dealing with.
www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...
Europe has become the abused spouse grateful just not to be beaten. Believing this jellyfish is a fool's errand.
open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Free piece just released. Marco Rubio called on tolerant, democratic, liberal Europe to destroy itself and embrace a Trump-like future. He received a standing ovation and we are told some people are reassured. If so, Europe will deserve everything coming its way. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
14.02.2026 11:25 β π 548 π 274 π¬ 61 π 57The Rubio speech is incoherent and hypocritical. He denounces Soviet communism, the threat and division it sowed in Europe, yet has absolutely nothing to say about Ru's current attempt to restore restore the Soviet empire by re-invading and re-subordinating swaths of Europe. What's worse,...
15.02.2026 02:27 β π 735 π 216 π¬ 26 π 151/ The Russian army is reportedly forcing its soldiers to abandon Telegram and move over to the government-authorised MAX app. A Russian warblogger explains why the transition will prove to be very difficult. β¬οΈ
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Baroness Goldie criticised the decision to award a contract to Palantir without open tender, alleging "a very unpleasant smell" and asking what was discussed at a meeting involving the Prime Minister, Palantir and Peter Mandelson.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/baroness-war...
βοΈThe United Kingdom and its European allies in the Combined Joint Expeditionary Force are considering confiscating ships belonging to Russia's shadow fleet, regardless of their flag.
militarnyi.com/en/news/unit...
π₯π₯ A Russian air defense system "Pantsyr-S1" fires & misses a kamikaze drone of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, after which this drone calmly hits its target.
14.02.2026 18:52 β π 153 π 25 π¬ 6 π 1
Trump said yesterday:
βRussia wants to make a deal, and Zelenskyβs going to have to get moving, otherwise heβs going to miss a great opportunity. He has to move.β
Really?
As Amb to Ukraine for 3 years, under missiles & drones, I saw that Putin has zero interest in peace.
Hello again on Saturday 14 February, but Valentine's Day is no different for Russia, still killing & injuring any Ukrainians they can.
Day 1452 of the full invasion, with Ukraine trying make use of Russia's communication problems to push the enemy back.
Let's start the dailyπ§΅
@unroll.skywriter.blue
14.02.2026 19:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The Epstein administration
14.02.2026 17:04 β π 37 π 17 π¬ 3 π 0β‘οΈ Zelenskyy: We cannot just withdraw. There are 200,000 Ukrainians living there. It is our land.
14.02.2026 17:07 β π 615 π 135 π¬ 10 π 4
UK to send carrier north in show of force against Russia
The UK will deploy a Carrier Strike Group to the North Atlantic and High North in 2026 under Operation Firecrest
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-to-send-c...
EU official warns Russian shadow fleet threatens Europe
A senior European Union official has warned that Russiaβs βshadow fleetβ poses a growing threat to maritime security and undersea infrastructure, as concerns mount over the vulnerability
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/eu-official-...
UK Defense Minister John Healey:
The world should remember this was a war Putin thought he would win in a week and he's now been fighting in Ukraine for longer than Russia was fighting Germany in the middle of the second world war. These are huge losses, he's under huge pressure.
@unroll.skywriter.blue
14.02.2026 19:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
1/ Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov recently said (very wrongly) that "It's difficult, if not impossible, to imagine ... frontline communications being provided via Telegram or any other messenger." Warblogger Nikita Tretyakov has a list of other 'unimaginables'. β¬οΈ
14.02.2026 17:22 β π 171 π 34 π¬ 5 π 5
Toxin used to poison Alexei Navalny was synthesized at the same institute that created the Novichok nerve agent
A 2013 scientific paper from employees of GosNIIOKhT said βa preparative method for obtaining the analgesic epibatidine has been developed.β
There will be people who are understandably desperate to hear this, but it's important to be clear-eyed about Rubio himself and what the Trump administration is doing. π§΅
14.02.2026 12:56 β π 319 π 129 π¬ 22 π 32I hadnβt realised until spotting it just now that @ruthdeyermond.bsky.socialβs dissecting knife was of course just what I had been waiting for, for pellucid explanation of the latest Munich Security Carnival goings-on.
14.02.2026 18:00 β π 42 π 7 π¬ 2 π 0Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.
14.02.2026 09:56 β π 3206 π 1121 π¬ 172 π 89
A line of snow-covered bodies in Ukraine
1/ In January 2026, Ukraine reported killing 34,000 Russian soldiers β on average 1,096 a day, or 7,846 per week. Thousands of Ukrainians have likely died in the same period. Last month in Ukraine was much bloodier than the average monthly death toll at Auschwitz. β¬οΈ
14.02.2026 10:17 β π 138 π 42 π¬ 3 π 6
1/ Russian unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) have become another casualty of the Starlink shutdown. A Russian warblogger highlights UGV operators' reliance on embedded Starlink terminals for their vehicles' navigation. β¬οΈ
13.02.2026 17:38 β π 210 π 34 π¬ 5 π 4Hey there Pam Bondi if you have nothing to hide why were you tracking what congressmen were searching on the Epstein files?
Why uhβ¦. Whyβ¦. Why so nervous?
