Michael Gentile

Basically, she partially blames Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine on Poland and the Baltics.

Меркель звинуватила Польщу і країни Балтії у вторгненні Путіна в Україну Меркель також заявила, що початку війни в Україні сприяла пандемія COVID-19.

If this isn't taken out of context, it shows that Merkel still doesn't understand much about Russia: www.unian.ua/world/viyna-....

So now Fox favours the Democrats?

Reportedly, this is an encounter of a Russian soldier with a pig in a tunnel in Kharkiv region.

Massive Russian missile and drone attack on #Ukraine last night. Russia used different types of cruise missiles, Kinzhal missiles and drones on Ukrainian energy infrastructure and civilian objects. Western regions of Ukraine were under the most intense attack.

◾️Lviv and Lviv region: massive attack.

Clap. Clap. Clap. Well done, Czechia. You chose shame and failure.

Absolut rekommenderad läsning.

Please, please, please, people of Czechia. Do the right thing. Don't let yourself be fooled, and don't stop supporting Ukraine. You can be next.

⚡️ Russia keeps targeting farms in Ukraine.

A Russian drone strike on a Kharkiv region killed 13,000 pigs and destroyed 8 of 10 barns after deliberate hits on livestock shelters.

Peace in our time!!

So basically the US is just Russia, but with leaders that are not only evil but also dumb.

I can't help but fear that the US (i.e. Trump and his sycophantic cabinet, Hegseth in primis) are cooking up something really reckless on the international scene.

Christ...

And this is from...? Fox?

I agree, but this isn't about managing Ukrainians in Poland. It's symbol politics vs. Ukraine, a way of turning up the temperature in regard to a memory conflict that needs to be shelved until an entirely independent commission can deal with it. Nawrocki should not be the one opining on this matter.

Evvai!

Great. Nothing could be more confrontational than this. Champagne bottles popping in Moscow.

We Are in the Worst-Case Scenario The November 2024 version of you would be shocked at what the September 2025 version accepts as reality.

My thesis is that no matter how doomer you were in Nov. 2024, we're probably past your worst-case scenario for the first 9 months of this administration.

It's very strange for me to realize I wasn't pessimistic enough.

www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-in-...

Sahel 🇲🇱🇧🇫🇳🇪 MAP: The situation in the Sahel states of Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Benin as of September 2025.

This map is a joint production by @warmapper.org and myself

‘So what?’ Orbán says spy drone incursion into Ukraine was no big deal. Hungarian PM says “Ukraine is not an independent country” while advising Kyiv to pay more attention to its eastern border.

Orban just got even worse: www.politico.eu/article/so-w...

Bjöd de åtminstone på kaffe och kanelbulle?

Thank you, dear Moldovans!

”Kommer 🇷🇺 angripa Nato”
”Nej, eftersom 🇷🇺 vet att man kommer förlora” säger ÖB i Agenda.
Trots allt vi sett på senare år och veckor, och trots det Claesson just sagt om hybridkrig så sitter beslutsfattare fast i de gamla språkliga figurerna.
Ryssland angriper oss redan. Det bör vara budskapet.

But it doesn't have to be this way. Cowardice can be defeated. But people serving as good examples are needed if other people's cowardice is to be overcome. 5/

And now I read this from the US. I hope the American people pull themselves together to stop the madness they brought onto themselves. I'm afraid the next presidential election - if it ever happens - will be of the symbolic kind. The Trump regime will choose violence rather than stepping down. 4/

The dark irony is that whoever read that paper is probably dead. An aerial bomb hit the building. The shelter didn't resist and 53 people died at once. Violence came to Izium 8 years later. 3/

One of the articles on the cover page is entitled "Violence is urgently needed". The CPU had long been marginalized in Ukrainian politics, but its instincts remained the same as during Soviet times. 2/

Earlier this year I picked up a newspaper that was lying around a bombed out building in Izium (Ukraine). It was the Rabochaya Gazeta, affiliated with the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU). Dated 15 January 2014, the day before the dictator laws were introduced to try to silence the Euromaidan. 1/

CAT stands for Cities After Transition, a scholarly network I founded a long time ago together with my friend and colleague Thomas Borén. This was the 11th CAT-ference. The 12th will be held in Yerevan two years from now.

Tirana was the site of the 2025 "CAT-ference" - an important forum for scholarly dialogue on cities in Central and Eastern Europe.