New Ukraine‘s Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov announced that Ukrainian forces aim to kill 50,000 Russian soldiers a months. Last month, Russia lost 35,000 troops, while negligibly moving forward.

The overall Russian casualties since February 2022 have been around 1.2 million troops.

One of the most telling graphs re US politics.

I would guess wikipedia admin to be above simplifications like that. The problems I pointed out relate to worldview and deliberate propagation of russian state propaganda. That is not compatible with sustainable dwmocratic-world ngo. It's values-worldview issue.

Putin’s henchman delighted by Trump’s actions.

I've been saying Trump recession since almost a year - because that's how long it's impact has been felt globally.
Like actually felt.
But clearly - not enough in USA so there are going to be more tariffs. For american consumers to pay.
And europeans will be looking elsewhere to sell.

Underappreciated fact:

The paths and positions of the cable damages around New Years 2026 were to most of Estonia's internet backbone routes.

Had it fully succeeded/happened by accident (lol) Estonia would have been left with a crippled connectivity.

That'swhat I was saying - mitigating is happening less and less, also due to Trump purges.
That makes politics and it's outcomes increasingly volatile as the usual buffering mechanisms either do not work the same or are vanishing entirely. It will have long-term consequences not visible at first.

In democratic countries, heads of state come and go and in case of blunderers, officials concerned over long-term impact often spend the time mitigating the damage.
We are talking about slightly different things. But it converges at the point there is less and less mitigating in US right now.

Fact-checking is important.

Thanks for head's up!

To have that change in US is concerning for rest of the world - but no less to USA. Trump broom may have had impact on this as well. Expecting to see military RFK-s in addition to Hegseth.

Because as a rule, you'd expect branch integrity to be stronger than politicians on a rampage. Many in military are highly intelligent people and military can't really afford to be delusional - an example being US military charting climate change impacts long time irrespective of daily politics.

USA søgte i fortrolighed viden om militære installationer i Grønland Hidtil ukendte dokumenter fra dansk forsvar viser, at Forsvarsministeriet og den øverste danske militære ledelse var bekymret over, at USA – uformelt og uden at involvere København – forsøgte at få da...

The US secretly sought knowledge about military installations in Greenland

Previously unknown documents from the 🇩🇰 defense show that the US was trying to get 🇩🇰 colleagues in Greenland to hand over information about military installations, ports and air bases

www.berlingske.dk/internationa...

Did they include Wikipedia poisoning and internal support?

Great thread on Russian strategic FIMI disinformation systems
FIMI stands for Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference.

What EU investigators found when they mapped Russian disinformation systems?

A recent EU DisinfoLab report did not analyze individual Russian disinformation posts.

It mapped the systems that keep producing them.

Just your daily reminder we’re far beyond it being ‘just Ukraine‘ and it never was ‘just Ukraine’ that Russia is after

The sooner you realise you are morphing into West Russia at an accelerated pace, the better.
You can't afford to wait years for a hypothetical outcome.

Absolutely nobody who has ever followed actions of russian orthodox church is surprised. Nobody.
Russian church is publicly pro-war, actively helping russian military and has been caught multiple times abroad doing influence and intel operations for russian state.
Like pre-soviet and soviet times.

Be careful: they may give you a case of GRU.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/21/russia-using-nuns-as-spies-to-spread-propaganda/

https://en.detector.media/post/orthodoxy-liberator-russia-kusturica-how-russian-propaganda-operates-in-the-balkans

https://www.fpri.org/article/2025/10/how-the-russian-orthodox-church-became-a-weapon-of-political-warfare/

https://www.fpri.org/article/2025/10/how-the-russian-orthodox-church-became-a-weapon-of-political-warfare/

Absolutely nobody who has ever followed actions of russian orthodox church is surprised. Nobody.
Russian church is publicly pro-war, actively helping russian military and has been caught multiple times abroad doing influence and intel operations for russian state.
Like pre-soviet and soviet times.

The narrative of exceptional Ukrainian resilience is one of the most harmful tropes I’ve seen during this war.

​Yes, we refuse to give up. Yes, we have picnics in -15°C. Yes, we keep living, drinking coffee, and even laughing occasionally, but all of this stems from a lack of choice.

I love the positive side of W, but it really is unable and sometimes unwilling to address its problems. And english W is still above other language versions that are often very biased, eg russian and chinese etc.
Main concern here is manipulation getting Wikipedia's official support.

The shooter calls her a "fucking bitch" right after shooting her three times. He shot because he was pissed off, not because he reasonably believed he was in danger. Also, he is filming while handling his weapon at the same time?!? Was he even looking at where he was shooting?

AOC: “I understand that VP Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, & I do not — That is a fundamental difference between VP Vance & I — I do not believe the American people should be assassinated in the street”

As if it isn't amercan kids dying.
Oh, right, americans are fine with their kids dying.

The issue with US is there is still no proper undestanding of urgency of the situation. You do not have 2,5 years to play pocketball and commiserate. If you can't manage "massive undertaking" do what you can or join those who are doing something instead of waiting.
Movie heroes aren't coming.

Russian peace is spelled death.

General strike is quite easy compared to what was done back in the day.
But the most important point in all of them is actually doing something.

Civilians don't shoot back - of course cowards target them.
Russia is a terrorist state and the land of bullies. Bullies are cowards as a rule when confronted.