My summer project of reading the history of Finnish (military) intelligence approaches its end, so a few things I've learned:

First, Finnish signals intelligence ( #SIGINT) was _very_ good.

During WW2, it was regularly reading not only Soviet codes, but also the diplomatic codes of e.g. the US.

This is 8-year-old Oleh Antonov. russia killed him yesterday near the village of Odnorobivka in the Kharkiv region.

He was returning home with his mother, father, and 4-year-old brother when a russian kamikaze drone struck their car. Oleh died instantly.

OTD in 1992 Russia, Ukraine, Belarus & Kazakhstan signed Lisbon protocol to promise to give their nukes to Russia.

It also recognized *all 4 states* as legal successors to USSR. Thus, Kremlin concedes in law that Ukraine won WW2 just as much as we claim we did.

OPINION: ”En våt dröm hos den ungerska härskarklassen.” Ungern sägs upprätta ett spionnätverk i ukrainska Transkarpatien.

”En ungersk invasion av Ukraina är förstås en militär och politisk omöjlighet. Men den finns ändå som en våt dröm hos den ungerska härskarklassen och lever i Ungerns kultur, politik, underrättelseverksamhet – en böld i det EU som Ukraina är så beroende av.”

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Trump asked today, why didn’t Ukraine fight back in Crimea in 2014? As I wrote in my book, The War Came To Us, Ukraine’s decision to not fight against Russia’s invasion was largely influenced by behind-the-scenes pressure from the US. Here’s what then-interim President Oleksandr Turchynov told me:

New images could change cancer diagnostics, but ICE detained the Harvard scientist who analyzes them Without scientist Kseniia Petrova’s expertise, no one can fully unlock the data’s potential, putting crucial advancements in early cancer detection at risk.

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago:

—Pioneering cancer researcher;
—*Arrested* at airport in Boston;
—Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana;
—"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research.

Read it.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Tweet from JD Vance: "Today I met with the Holy Father Pope Francis. I am grateful for his invitation to meet, and I pray for his good health."

Could JD Vance please also pray for the good health of Vladimir Putin?

Traditionen med z i namnet uppstod när Folke Isaksson (1920–2011), känd folkparksföreståndare i Kristianstad, skulle skylta för Lasse Stefans. Då skyltningsbokstaven s tog slut satte Folke helt enkelt upp ett z istället för sista s'et och traditionen var startad.

OTD in 1938 the Austrian Anschluss vote took place. A dictator had sent his army over the border to make sure the illegal referendum got the right result.

Imagine that happening today.

But it's a much cruder and more stupid version than Bush 43's - one that, unlike the original version, entirely discounts soft power and alliances. Instead it tries to coerce and extort allies and trading partners.

At the same time, though, and despite Rubio's (correct) observation that unipolarity was an anomaly of the post-Cold War period, the Trump administration seems to be replaying George W. Bush's approach to world affairs, in which the US is the unconstrained global hegemon.

The great power model assumes a world organised via pragmatic bargaining grounded in realpolitik, and where the mutual capacity to inflict damage constrains expansionist impulses.

Term 2 Trump foreign policy - from tariffs to NATO to soft power to China and Russia - is an epic mess. One reason seems to be that the administration is operating with two conflicting, equally flawed, views of the world and the US's place in it. 🧵

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Just one small problem: the policies Trump advocated would only make things worse. They are pre-mercantilist. They are so bad they are not even wrong.

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

Everyone should read this, especially for the bits in the article that give us some insight into what these detention prisons used by ICE are like.

And no one, no one, should be traveling to the US if they can avoid it. No one.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Funderar över en grej. Fick höra idag att köttkvarn är överklass, inget en ensamstående mamma i hyresrätt kan ha. Först tyckte jag bara det var löjligt men sen började jag fundera om det är en generationsgrej. Jag är uppväxt med mamma i hyresrätt - med köttkvarn, långkok, surdeg, liten kolonilott…

Children killed by the fascist Russian missile strike yesterday in Kryvyi Rih. Ukraine’s military have confirmed the weapon used was an Iskander-M quasi-ballistic missile armed with a cluster-bomb warhead. The attack on a residential area of the city killed 19 and injured 68.

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers.

Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

Two years since NATO invaded Helsinki & forced 🇫🇮 into alliance.

Vuledar after voluntarily joining Russia.

You don’t negotiate with Russian terrorists who fire missiles with cluster ammunition warheads at playgrounds and killing 9 children, as happened in Krivyi Rih. You send those Russian terrorists straight to hell and break their remaining empire into pieces. Period.

The White House says tariffs on Russia (and presumably these others) are unnecessary because we don't trade with them on account of trade embargoes. 3 points:

1) Not true (see below)
2) Iran and Syria are heavily embargoed, but still got tariffs
3) Trump put tariffs on several uninhabited islands

List of countries not subjected to tariffs:

Russia
Belarus
North Korea
Cuba

They apparently took the time to impose tariffs on several uninhabited islands, so the omissions are extra noteworthy. If you spot others please flag!

I British Indian Ocean Territory bor det däremot människor…
Alla är amerikanska soldater på basen Diego Garcia.

Want to know how Trump gets in? Just look at the coverage of Le Pen The press takes a leading role destroying the rule of law

You can see why people have the impression that Marine Le Pen is being jailed simply because she’s the opposition - because the media headlines have focused on the political implications rather than detailing the crime she committed.

They did the same with Trump.

Quite the power move by #Denmark 👇👇

I så fall var det nog upphovsmannen själv.