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I think the broader public doesn't understand that the military can't simply use lethal force whenever it wants. authorization is meant to flow down from the top and has to meet certain legal standards

maybe this would have all been easier if russia had just poured t-72s through the fulda gap and we got it out of the way in the '80s

Russians use drones to hunt civilians in Kherson

Russians are deliberately targeting civilians in Kherson, dropping grenades from drones and filming the attacks as “training.”

Russians publish these videos themselves: this time they tried to kill a man out walking with his dog.

Low social trust radicals bouncing between extremes?

The core problem is this, he doesn’t practice principled anti-imperialism. He practices inversionism: if the U.S. supports something, he reflexively takes the opposite side, no matter how brutal that side is, no matter the evidence.

I guess China hawks never specified which China they were hawkish on.

The situation with Russians killing a toddler with a drone is especially despicable when you realize this wasn’t a stray artillery shell that landed 50 meters off, or a Shahed drone that hit a tall building, but an FPV drone, guided in real time by an operator watching it live

Well the good news is that with all that behind us, it really frees up this week for nothing bad to happen.

Regardless of which leopard eats the other leopard’s face I just hope both teams have fun out there.

🧵 Russian state-aligned disinfo bot network codenamed Matryoshka has expanded to TikTok yesterday, complementing its regular X/Twitter presence.

On the same day the network has likely stopped its activity on BlueSky.

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The attack on Russian airbases at Olenya, and Belaya, Dyagilevo and Ivanovo, and reportedly also the nuclear submarine base at Severomorsk, was done by small multirotor drones launched from trucks(!!!!) #OSINT

KJU reaches out to Putin, offers 100 An-2 in exchange for transfer of Russian Pacific Fleet to Pyongyang.

The sharp-eyed reader will notice that well-documented Russian gunrunning freighter LADY MARIIA enters NATO territorial waters repeatedly without signs of fear.

I count 7 times along European coasts as she returns from delivering weapons to Congo. Not counting in English Channel or Öresund.

The thing with replacing the rule of law with a mafia state is that it's not good for business even if it can be good for particular businesses at particular times; whether Silicon Valley elites will be able to see through their crushes on Donald Trump and figure this out, who knows

If I’m a foreign government right now—the one lesson that I’ve learned at this point is that there is no durable agreement to be made with this administration.

Any assurance, policy, or deal will be arbitrarily annulled by a random 3 am post. No point in expending energy negotiating with this.

I often think about what Marx would have thought about DoorDash.

Is the delivery guy part of the proletariat? Is the humble waiter being pushed out of the petit-bourgeois from the changing mode of production? How much of Engels’ money would Marx have wasted on burritos?

The German government is already messing this thing up, there’s no other way to put it.

The deadline has passed. Germany and Europe must now outline concrete consequences.

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Future generations will marvel at the fact that Biden could have helped the Ukrainians destroy the Russian army in the field in 2022 and chose not to do it in exchange for… uh… well, I’m sure it must have been good.