You’re afraid to close your eyes, for monsters don’t sleep at night.
That’s how it was when I was little.

Now I have my own children —
and their monsters are different now.
Not imaginary, but real — flying through the night,
rumbling like thunder without rain,
stealing peace and dreams.

Has Albert Speer Jr here actually seen Trump tower?

A regular reminder to everyone without an unhealthy obsession with #defence issues:

War with #Russia is not inevitable and IMHO not the most likely scenario.

But its probability has become disturbingly high. (My guess: 25% in a decade.)

Rearmament makes war less attractive to the Kremlins.

Weekend Update #155: No More, Please! The Kill Zone Expands; Ukraine Attacks Russian Electricity Transfer

Hi All, Just sent out my free weekend update. Big Story (which should be no surprise) Trump sandbagged Ukraine again, lied about possibly helping the Ukrainians then pivoted to work with Putin. Can we end this charade?

open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Ei kannata enää ihmetellä, miten se suomettuminen tapahtui. Nyt sitä mennään ihan pikakelauksella.

So much for "defending Christianity": Russian forces dropped a FAB-250 guided bomb on the Church of St. Job of Pochaiv in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk region. Two civilians were killed.. A toddler was evacuated after losing his mother to a strike last week; his father and grandfather are now wounded.

Yövyin viime yön kellarissa Lvivissä Venäjän ampuessa kaupunkiin ohjuksia ja drooneja.

Näimme palavia taloja, yhdestä oli ohjus mennyt katosta sisään.

Iskussa kuoli nelihenkinen perhe. Tämä on silkkaa terroria, toki koko sota on täysin moraaliton.

Ukraina tarvitsee lisää aseita itsepuolustukseen.

Tutkimisesta tekstitv-ruudullinen.

Last night, a russian drone targeted a residential home in the Sumy region, killing an entire family of four — both parents and their two minor sons, aged 4 and 6.

We will never forgive.
We will never forget.

Huolestuttavaa on se, kuinka useammat hallituspuolueiden edustajat sekä jotkut talouselämän vaikuttajat(mm. Björn Wahlroos) avoimesti ihailevat USAn vauhdilla etenevää fasistista muutosta. Siitä voinee päätellä, mitä he Suomelle tarjoaisivat. Voimme kuitenkin päättää millaisen Suomen haluamme.

In the area of responsibility of the Third Army Corps, near the settlement of Shandryholove, Russian occupiers shot a civilian family and abducted a minor girl. The enemy is using her to shield its groups and to advance further in the Lyman direction.
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📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child.

RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

The US ceased to be a reliable NATO ally on January 20, 2025. The last week has simply made that undeniable. The only question now is whether European leaders accept it.

The USA will not now defend Europe from Russia. That is reality. Everything else is hopes and dreams.

The US Alienation of India is Backfiring Badly Hello All,

Hi All, just sent out an update on the strategic disaster that is Trump’s policies towards India. Far from reducing Indian purchases of Russian oil, it has led to them growing, helping Putin. It’s only the US getting weakened. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Mielestäni miehitettyyn Alakurttiin voisi eksyä muutama drooni.

Yaroslav Bazylevych posted a very beautiful and touching tribute to his youngest daughter Emilia murdered by the russian missile last year along with her mom and two sisters. Today, the girl would've turned eight.

Never forgive, never forget.

Weekend Update #150: Range, Range, Range Also: Russia Attacks Poland; The USA Unilaterally Ends Some Sanctions

Great analysis from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social Europes on its own. Trump won’t help and is actively helping Putin.

In Russian social media, there’s ecstasy again — in Kyiv, drone strikes killed a woman and a two-month-old infant, and at night they set fire to empty government offices.

Oh, what happiness! What joy!

The greatness of Russia, risen from its knees!

They showed those khokhols!
That’s how we’ll win!

My trolls on our atrocities thru this war:
2022: It didn't happen.
2023: Missile fragments did it.
2024: Ukraine staged it.
2025: Ukraine deserves it.

The Gazprom Ust-Luga gas processing complex, part of the Baltic Gas Chemical Cluster, was hit in the attack, OSINT analysts from CyberBoroshno report. The facility’s cryogenic gas fractionation unit—key to the plant’s operations—sustained critical damage.

Tapper: So despite the fact that president Trump called this an extremely productive meeting.. there doesn't seem to have actually been anything achieved, at least according to what the two men just said

1/ Donetsk and Luhansk's catastrophic water shortage is being caused by the Russian invasion's destruction of a 70-year-old canal. Russian sources say it can't be restored until the end of the decade at the earliest, even if Russia captures the source in Ukrainian territory. ⬇️

Chasiv-Yar, once a town with 15.000 people living in it. Now, completely destroyed and full of ruins.

💔🇺🇦 Mykyta, Sofiya, and their 2‑year‑old son were killed in a russian strike on Kyiv on July 31. They were only 23.

🙏 They had fled Sloviansk, rented an apartment in the capital — but a missile directly hit their building. Sofiya was pregnant with their second child.

Russian drone attacks killed and injured civilians today: one child dead and another wounded in Sumy region, a tractor driver killed near Raiske in Donetsk, and a six-year-old girl injured in a car hit in Kharkiv region, regional prosecutors report.

Robert "Madiar" Brovdi: NATO members' security doctrines require urgent revision.

"I don't know which NATO member state is capable of defending even one of its cities while enduring 200-300 Shahed drones every single day, seven days a week, without pause⤵️

'He wants to take all of it' — Putin reportedly told Trump he'll intensify eastern Ukraine offensive over next 2 months Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump that Moscow intended to continue offensive operations until it secured the full administrative borders of occupied Ukrainian regions.

Worth noting that Putin told Trump a little while ago that Russia's plans were to keep up the offensive for the next two months--almost exactly the period Trump is making sure that they will not get sanctioned. kyivindependent.com/putin-report...

Honestly @nytimes.com what is this garbage?! A special tour by Akhmat, really?! How about doing a tour of Kherson's human safari? Kyiv's nightly terror? The destruction of frontline towns? GTFOH!

A toddler is the latest to be murdered by the terrorist regime's illegal assault on Ukraine.

The one-year-old boy was with his grandmother in the yard of their house in the Bilozerska area of Kherson when a drone hit them.

The 64 year old suffered concussion and explosive injuries.