I’ve really had enough of these takes that it’s been unfair that Europe has outsourced its defence to the US.

First of all, the US needed both the bases in Europe and European political and military backing for its global war on terror and the wars in the Middle East. It was never pure charity.

This picture illustrates what has happened in the past 3 years.

In the Winter War when Finland was attacked by the Soviet Union in 1939, Sweden said ”Finland’s cause is ours”. And now, all of these European countries have made Ukraine’s cause theirs. No one will take Ukraine away from us !!

Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good.
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

Peak Nordics. Skön bild från gårdagens middag hemma hos Mette Frederiksen.

President Trump will learn pretty soon that Putin cannot be convinced with money, at least not any more. He is the richest person in Russia already, though he will never say no to more billions, but that wasn't the point of him starting the full scale war in Ukraine. (Thread)

They will step by step normalise rasist behaviour. Push the limit of what you can’t really do but you get away with it. Soon it will be worse I’m afraid.

Förslag: För att öka interaktionen här på svenska Bluesky, återposta 2-3 stycken av de svenskar ni följers postningar dagligen, så det blir lite spridning och drar igång diskussioner.

Kommentera även 2-3 stycken av dem om det så bara är "bra skrivet".

Weeks-149
Victories-0
Casualties - 780,000
Ruble-113💩🧻
Interest rate - ⬆️🆙
Economy - 🚽
War crimes - ♾
Kursk - Partly Russian
🇺🇦 air force - flying
🇦🇿 airliner - not flying
🇸🇾-Lost
Oil refineries - 💥🔥
NATO - much larger
Red lines - Crossed
Happy - New Year

I remain a master strategist

SitRep - 13/12/24 - Another huge Russian missile/drone attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure

An overview of the daily events in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russia once again scrambled a big amount of missiles, and attacked energy infrastructure

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Hi all, just sent out my weekend update, free as always. Starts by looking at the battlefield and discusses the Ukraine is about to collapse narrative, which has recently taken off. It’s based on a one sided reaching of the evidence, and is pernicious. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Very good summary of world affairs.