Luke McGee

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Ukraine war latest: Russia's advance is slower than any army in 100 years, experts say Russia is demanding Ukraine cede territory it currently holds as a condition for ending the war. But new analysis shows Moscow's advances on the battlefield are slower than any army in a century. Foll...

All violence and death for such little gain. Putin really is a monster on par with some of the worst dictators. Asshole.

news.sky.com/story/ukrain...

Repression cannot go unanswered.

EU Foreign Ministers just took the decisive step of designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation.

Any regime that kills thousands of its own people is working toward its own demise.

Chechen leader Kadyrov says Russia should fight war in Ukraine to the end The leader of Russia's Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, said on Thursday that he was opposed to talks on ending the war in Ukraine and that Moscow should fight on.

Chechen leader Kadyrov says Russia should fight war in Ukraine to the end - www.reuters.com/world/europe...

I love your dog

Valletta

“Everything I’ve done” has such sinister vibes

Two federal agents involved in Alex Pretti shooting placed on administrative leave The development comes a day after DHS provided the first official timeline of the deadly encounter, stating that two federal officers had fired at Pretti.

How has this only just happened?

Two federal agents involved in Alex Pretti shooting placed on administrative leave

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Wondering what is going through the minds of people in the EU commission as they see Trump stamp his feet about having a deal on Iran.

"You had ... you had a deal ... I don't understand you"

Worth noting Trump's Iran escalation in context of this last night. State department leaning on UNSC.

Trump raises the temperature on Iran

Hive mind: does anyone on here know where I can find the video of Matt Goodwin predicting the Brexit referendum and getting it wrong? I think it was an LSE event.

Trump’s national defense strategy is unlike anything that’s come before it It touts an end to interventionism and regime change, despite adventurism in Venezuela and Greenland.

Really good breakdown of Trump's national defence strategy by @meghannmyers.bsky.social here

www.defenseone.com/policy/2026/...

Look past the exhausted cliche of "kowtow" and just paragraphs apart, we learn that 1) Granting the Chinese embassy is a security threat that the Conservative Party opposes but also 2) The Chinese embassy is "leverage" which the Conservative party thinks should be played in negotiations. Pick one!

Trump contradicts NRA as key allies under fire over Minnesota deaths A row had already begun between White House officials and conservative gun-rights groups, who back protesters’ legal right to carry arms

Trump contradicts NRA as key allies under fire over Minnesota deaths

www.thetimes.com/article/e602...

People don’t use starter packs on here anymore I seem to remember someone saying (apologies I am still getting used to this over Twitter )

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the more than 6 million Jews — and millions of others — who were murdered by the brutal Nazi regime.

May their memory be a reminder that we must fight antisemitism, hatred, & bigotry in all their forms.

Never Again.

Incredible grift

Welcome GOAT

Interesting thing just come out of state department on Iran nuclear proliferation.

www.state.gov/releases/off...

This will hopefully smoke out Putin’s bullshit

Ukraine war latest updates: Russian drones strike passenger train in Kharkiv Oblast, 2 injured (9) Live coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine with breaking news and frontline updates. Updated 8 times today. Russian drones struck a passenger train in Kharkiv oblast on Jan. 27, hitting a locomotiv...

Russian drones strike passenger train in Kharkiv Oblast, 4 killed, 2 injured

kyivindependent.com/ukraine-war-...

Electric car sales edge above petrol in EU for first time Sales of fully ​electric cars surpassed those of petrol-only vehicles in the European Union for the first time in December, data from ‌the auto industry group ACEA showed on Tuesday, even as hybrids h...

Electric car sales edge above petrol in EU for first time - www.reuters.com/business/aut...

oh the story? you're going to put the story first? it's going to be multimedia? wow, what a bold new vision!

imagining listening to this combination of bluster and tedium, from somebody who has never actually reported news and whose only talent is sucking up to power, and knowing that your colleagues or you were about to be laid off so she could bring another Substack chud on board.

he is a good case study in being sucked in by a movement who tell you you're wonderful. Will be interesting to see where he is in five years.

Barbaric

The final step from a credible academic to a living meme.

there were a lot of people who were a bit surprised when he got the job. As Dutch PM, he hardly spent a lot on defence.

France snaps back at NATO chief Rutte in feud over Europe’s defense muscle Paris fumes after NATO secretary-general tells the European Parliament that the continent could not defend itself without America.

"The French government responded curtly to Mark Rutte after the NATO secretary-general said Europe could not defend itself without the U.S."

www.politico.eu/article/fran...