@timfoxley.bsky.social
Independent political/military analyst: mainly Afghanistan. A Brit in Sweden. Keen punk rock guitarist, much less keen marathon runner.
Some people have seen you in your smock, Andy. Just saying…
07.02.2026 11:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world now. That's what we can't face. It's our world. Where sexual desire for children is protected, victims receive no justice & the President of what used to be called the free world is Jeff's friend. This is Jeff's World now.
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China is set to have more solar power capacity than coal for the first time this year, marking a “historic” milestone in the country’s energy transition.
@stuti.bsky.social
🚨Gorton and Denton by-election
PLEASE DON’T BE TAKEN IN BY THE DIVISIVE POLITICS OF REFORM
Always remember. Not defeating Russia is a choice that Europeans and Americans are making. Nothing more, nothing less.
04.02.2026 05:34 — 👍 1051 🔁 319 💬 23 📌 24
European defense spending has doubled in the past decade, and continues to grow. One German firm soon will produce more 155mm artillery shells a year than the US. Ukraine, with its battle-tested army & world-class drone force, can be a pillar of European defense for decades to come. wapo.st/3LXtW0R
02.02.2026 12:16 — 👍 120 🔁 28 💬 2 📌 1
Sobering reporting on the risk of Iranian civil war. 'According to multiple accounts, masked men armed with knives killed basijis, the regime’s volunteer vigilantes. “It’s already a civil war,” says a young woman in Mashhad. “We’re just not saying it.”' www.economist.com/middle-east-...
02.02.2026 09:14 — 👍 171 🔁 75 💬 7 📌 3
❗️🇸🇪Sweden is preparing one of the largest security assistance packages for 🇺🇦Ukraine — including air defense systems, Saab radars, electronic warfare equipment, and drones, in particular deep strike capabilities, — Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov.
01.02.2026 14:18 — 👍 239 🔁 48 💬 9 📌 3EVERY TIME YOU READ A BOOK, A TECH BILLIONAIRE CRIES
16.01.2026 09:19 — 👍 82 🔁 24 💬 2 📌 4
Trump’s policies ‘erodes the fabric of global cooperation’, ex-Swedish PM Bildt says
31.01.2026 18:29 — 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
“Greater strife between Afghanistan and Pakistan remains a distinct possibility,” warns Michael Kugelman. “Such a conflict could be bloody, displace thousands of people, destabilize the broader region, and spur global terrorism.”
29.01.2026 16:10 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🇫🇷 #France fills intel gap as 🇺🇸 #US aid to 🇺🇦 #Ukraine remains uncertain
The fallout from a potential US withdrawal is no longer viewed as catastrophic — unlike a year ago, when Washington temporarily halted both weapons deliveries & intelligence sharing
FT #Russia
english.nv.ua/nation/pered...
A lot of chatter about Swedish nuclear signalling. Looking at the PM's comments this week, seems very clear to me he was talking about expanding co-operation with UK/French nuclear forces rather than trying to hint at a Swedish nuclear programme. breakingdefense.com/2026/01/swed...
29.01.2026 10:36 — 👍 97 🔁 15 💬 8 📌 5particularly if the engagement is about deportations, not human rights. that's definitely the wrong way.
28.01.2026 18:49 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.
28.01.2026 03:12 — 👍 12658 🔁 5594 💬 282 📌 446
Americans are dissatisfied with Donald Trump’s record in carrying out two of his most important campaign promises: to lower inflation and to end the “flood of illegal immigration”
27.01.2026 13:00 — 👍 22 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 1
Just sent out this post. Trump has a basic "tell" which indicates things he does not care about (and those he does). When he expresses a concern about people's lives (such as Ukrainians) it’s a bluff. He could not care less. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
26.01.2026 13:32 — 👍 181 🔁 52 💬 5 📌 4The Cambridge Disinformation Summit will discuss, with global lawmakers, the effects on democracy of concentrated media ownership.
“No other period in history has seen such a rapid and overwhelming buy up of our means of communications by the billionaire class.”
mronline.org/2025/12/03/t...
Open Letter to Americans
24.01.2026 13:35 — 👍 64 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 6
"The Kremlin is attempting to freeze Ukrainians to death," writes our correspondent in Kyiv. "But people are pressing on with their duties at temperatures where frostbite is a real danger."
This is her account of life in a shivering city.
🔗 www.politico.eu/article/ukra...
Swedish public radio has received confirmation from the Swedish military that the 'exercise' in Greenland was indeed an operation intended to deter the USA.
Danish soldiers are issued with live ammunition and since last week a 'meaningful' number have been deployed.
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Trump doesn't read.
None of them read.
Every person on Bluesky should know:
* Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever
* Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies
* Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured
* Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic
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❗️Last year here in Davos, I ended my speech with the words: “Europe must know how to defend itself.” A year has passed, and nothing has changed. — Zelenskyy.
22.01.2026 14:16 — 👍 49 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
Artillery fire, gunship attack, demolitions in war-battered Gaza as PM Netanyahu accepts US 'peace board' position.
21.01.2026 10:00 — 👍 189 🔁 119 💬 9 📌 12
The Canadian Armed Forces have modelled a hypothetical U.S. military invasion of Canada and the country's potential response, which includes tactics similar to those employed against Russia and later U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, two senior government officials say.
Retired major-general David Fraser, who commanded Canadian troops in Afghanistan alongside the United States, said Canada could also use drones and tank-killing weapons like the Ukrainians used against the Russians to blunt their invasion in February, 2022.
"Notwithstanding the size of the American military, however, they do not have the force structure to occupy, let alone control every major urban centre in Canada." "Their only hope would be a Russian-like drive to Kyiv and hope that works and the rest of country capitulates once they seize the seat of power in Ottawa," he added. "Like Ukraine, it would inconceivable to me that we would give up if they seized our capital."
“Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion”, a 2026 headline
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Sean Flynn
19.01.2026 18:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Lib Dem source: “Just 45 more Tory defections until Ed becomes Leader of the Opposition.”
18.01.2026 20:53 — 👍 1777 🔁 283 💬 48 📌 19
Trumps brev: Fick inte fredspriset – tänker inte bara verka för fred
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/trumps-brev-fick-inte-nobelpriset-tanker-inte-langre-pa-fred
