Andreas
@andu1.bsky.social
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Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 AM
There is absolutely no bottom. They will kill and murder and steal and break the law and laugh at every rule and institution until they are stopped. They think they are all-powerful and all conventional rules of morality and legality do not apply to them.
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I have issues with this headline and subtitle. Progressive ≠ anti-war. Support for NATO ≠ pro-war.
Conflating these issues is unhelpful given the state of the world. I worry this kind of binary thinking will only get worse as the public discourse about security takes off.
Conflating these issues is unhelpful given the state of the world. I worry this kind of binary thinking will only get worse as the public discourse about security takes off.
Anti-war candidate Catherine Connolly’s victory is the country’s latest rebuke to the global right-wing populist wave.
Ireland’s Next President Will Assume the Progressive Mantle
Anti-war candidate Catherine Connolly’s victory is the country’s latest rebuke to the global right-wing populist wave.
foreignpolicy.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
I have issues with this headline and subtitle. Progressive ≠ anti-war. Support for NATO ≠ pro-war.
Conflating these issues is unhelpful given the state of the world. I worry this kind of binary thinking will only get worse as the public discourse about security takes off.
Conflating these issues is unhelpful given the state of the world. I worry this kind of binary thinking will only get worse as the public discourse about security takes off.
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these testimonies make it 100% clear nobody in ICE thinks of themselves as the bad guy
they're all army rangers in black hawk down surrounded by 1000 somalis with RPGs while joe strummer plays in their beats headphones
there is no reconciliation here
they're all army rangers in black hawk down surrounded by 1000 somalis with RPGs while joe strummer plays in their beats headphones
there is no reconciliation here
Loevy plays a video of a woman's arrest. Hewson says the woman was "assaultive" because she kicked a can of tear gas that had been deployed.
Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?"
Hewson: "Yes."
Loevy: "When you tear gas somebody … and they try to kick the tear gas canister away from them, that's assaulting?"
Hewson: "Yes."
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
these testimonies make it 100% clear nobody in ICE thinks of themselves as the bad guy
they're all army rangers in black hawk down surrounded by 1000 somalis with RPGs while joe strummer plays in their beats headphones
there is no reconciliation here
they're all army rangers in black hawk down surrounded by 1000 somalis with RPGs while joe strummer plays in their beats headphones
there is no reconciliation here
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Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
Norweger stellen fest, dass China 850 ihrer Elektrobusse fernsteuern und sogar stoppen kann
Etwa 850 in Norwegen eingesetzte Elektrobusse können aus China vollständig kontrolliert werden. Das hat ein geheimer Test der öffentlichen Verkehrsbetriebe ergeben.
www.focus.de
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
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"Clearly echoing Erwin Rommel’s Nazi force, the Africa Corps is the Kremlin’s new expeditionary formation in Africa. ...Like Wagner before it, it is still laden with neo-Nazi and white supremacist symbology."
on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa:
ecfr.eu/publication/...
on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa:
ecfr.eu/publication/...
The bear and the bot farm: Countering Russian hybrid warfare in Africa
Russia has many quiet enemies in Africa. Working together, like-minded Africans and Europeans can roll back its troublesome influence.
ecfr.eu
November 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"Clearly echoing Erwin Rommel’s Nazi force, the Africa Corps is the Kremlin’s new expeditionary formation in Africa. ...Like Wagner before it, it is still laden with neo-Nazi and white supremacist symbology."
on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa:
ecfr.eu/publication/...
on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa:
ecfr.eu/publication/...
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You know what has already happened in Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Germany and elsewhere: suspected Russian drones closing down airports, buzzing power plants, army bases, ports and other critical infrastructure.
Such drones can be armed. Therefore, EU events require full air defence.
Such drones can be armed. Therefore, EU events require full air defence.
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
You know what has already happened in Poland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Germany and elsewhere: suspected Russian drones closing down airports, buzzing power plants, army bases, ports and other critical infrastructure.
Such drones can be armed. Therefore, EU events require full air defence.
Such drones can be armed. Therefore, EU events require full air defence.
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In which President @ilvestoomas.bsky.social recalls the FIRST modern Russia's invasion of a NATO country: Estonia in 2007.
Bet many of you guys had no idea.
Bet many of you guys had no idea.
We discussed our MiG-31s deliberate accident of entering Estonia with an Estonian Prez. He bought his tea and sat next to his own window.
@ilvestoomas.bsky.social & Liubov in the bunker.
youtu.be/2KY42oBxIAY
@ilvestoomas.bsky.social & Liubov in the bunker.
youtu.be/2KY42oBxIAY
If Putin keeps testing, Article 4 can easily end up as Article 5
YouTube video by In the Bunker with Darth Putin KGB
youtu.be
September 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
In which President @ilvestoomas.bsky.social recalls the FIRST modern Russia's invasion of a NATO country: Estonia in 2007.
Bet many of you guys had no idea.
Bet many of you guys had no idea.
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Strategy Grand Old Man, Lawrence freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social weighs in on the latest Russian provocations. Do read:
samf.substack.com/p/russian-pr...
samf.substack.com/p/russian-pr...
Russian provocations
How should NATO and the EU react?
samf.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Strategy Grand Old Man, Lawrence freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social weighs in on the latest Russian provocations. Do read:
samf.substack.com/p/russian-pr...
samf.substack.com/p/russian-pr...
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I am shocked and disappointed that three Russian MIG-31 could fly over Estonia for 12 minutes. After my five-day visit to Estonia in May, I presumed that Estonia would shoot them down.
Why didn't it?
Did Nato restrain Estonia?
This requires an explanation.
Why didn't it?
Did Nato restrain Estonia?
This requires an explanation.
September 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I am shocked and disappointed that three Russian MIG-31 could fly over Estonia for 12 minutes. After my five-day visit to Estonia in May, I presumed that Estonia would shoot them down.
Why didn't it?
Did Nato restrain Estonia?
This requires an explanation.
Why didn't it?
Did Nato restrain Estonia?
This requires an explanation.
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Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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100,000 troops are participating in the Zapad 2025 exercise near NATO borders, war criminal Putin said.
He visited the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
He visited the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
September 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
100,000 troops are participating in the Zapad 2025 exercise near NATO borders, war criminal Putin said.
He visited the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
He visited the Mulino training ground in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
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Shadow tanker NEVAH has started drifting right in the main shipping channel between Gotland and Estonia.
She lost speed at about 1330UTC and has been drifting north to NNW with the wind. Weather is ok, but wind is about to increase, direction Estonian beaches.
She lost speed at about 1330UTC and has been drifting north to NNW with the wind. Weather is ok, but wind is about to increase, direction Estonian beaches.
September 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Shadow tanker NEVAH has started drifting right in the main shipping channel between Gotland and Estonia.
She lost speed at about 1330UTC and has been drifting north to NNW with the wind. Weather is ok, but wind is about to increase, direction Estonian beaches.
She lost speed at about 1330UTC and has been drifting north to NNW with the wind. Weather is ok, but wind is about to increase, direction Estonian beaches.
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Hi all,
I published a new Missile Matters post on Europe’s challenge in countering long-range drones.
Access the full post here:
missilematters.substack.com/p/europe-nee...
Short summary below.
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I published a new Missile Matters post on Europe’s challenge in countering long-range drones.
Access the full post here:
missilematters.substack.com/p/europe-nee...
Short summary below.
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Countering Russia’s Long-Range Drone Threat
Challenges and options for European long-range drone defense
missilematters.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Hi all,
I published a new Missile Matters post on Europe’s challenge in countering long-range drones.
Access the full post here:
missilematters.substack.com/p/europe-nee...
Short summary below.
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I published a new Missile Matters post on Europe’s challenge in countering long-range drones.
Access the full post here:
missilematters.substack.com/p/europe-nee...
Short summary below.
1/5
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Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
September 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
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Worth noticing that Ukraine defended itself far better than NATO and against a much more extensive Russian attack at the same time. If we want to be safe we have to help and learn from the Ukrainians.
The incursion of “Russian drones into Poland overnight were a test of NATO’s capabilities”—and NATO flunked, Phillips Payson O’Brien writes.
Russia Tested NATO in Poland. NATO Flunked.
A drone incursion shows the limits of an alliance without America at its head.
bit.ly
September 12, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Worth noticing that Ukraine defended itself far better than NATO and against a much more extensive Russian attack at the same time. If we want to be safe we have to help and learn from the Ukrainians.
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LADY D, Russian military transport ship arrived Baltic Sea Tue morning via Öresund. No escort. From United Arab Emirates and India. IMO 9349289
Ironically, she was closely followed by a RO-RO ferry from a NATO military port, possibly also loaded with armaments.
Post embargoed 72h.
Ironically, she was closely followed by a RO-RO ferry from a NATO military port, possibly also loaded with armaments.
Post embargoed 72h.
September 12, 2025 at 6:49 AM
LADY D, Russian military transport ship arrived Baltic Sea Tue morning via Öresund. No escort. From United Arab Emirates and India. IMO 9349289
Ironically, she was closely followed by a RO-RO ferry from a NATO military port, possibly also loaded with armaments.
Post embargoed 72h.
Ironically, she was closely followed by a RO-RO ferry from a NATO military port, possibly also loaded with armaments.
Post embargoed 72h.
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Primorsk, one of Russia's two main Baltic oil terminals has been hit by Ukrainian drones.
Both a ship and pumping facilities damaged, operations (partly?) on halt. No oil spill.
Several 100kt tankers a day leave this facility with oil, fetching dollars.
Both a ship and pumping facilities damaged, operations (partly?) on halt. No oil spill.
Several 100kt tankers a day leave this facility with oil, fetching dollars.
September 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Primorsk, one of Russia's two main Baltic oil terminals has been hit by Ukrainian drones.
Both a ship and pumping facilities damaged, operations (partly?) on halt. No oil spill.
Several 100kt tankers a day leave this facility with oil, fetching dollars.
Both a ship and pumping facilities damaged, operations (partly?) on halt. No oil spill.
Several 100kt tankers a day leave this facility with oil, fetching dollars.
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"Zapad 2025" supposedly started today, but no sign in the traffic to/from Kaliningrad.
No arrivals or departures at all yesterday and today only two visits.
Updates since last post in green.
No arrivals or departures at all yesterday and today only two visits.
Updates since last post in green.
September 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"Zapad 2025" supposedly started today, but no sign in the traffic to/from Kaliningrad.
No arrivals or departures at all yesterday and today only two visits.
Updates since last post in green.
No arrivals or departures at all yesterday and today only two visits.
Updates since last post in green.
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Pure speculation:
There was a moratorium on striking the Baltic Sea oil exports. It has been lifted.
There was a moratorium on striking the Baltic Sea oil exports. It has been lifted.
Primorsk, one of Russia's two main Baltic oil terminals has been hit by Ukrainian drones.
Both a ship and pumping facilities damaged, operations (partly?) on halt. No oil spill.
Several 100kt tankers a day leave this facility with oil, fetching dollars.
Both a ship and pumping facilities damaged, operations (partly?) on halt. No oil spill.
Several 100kt tankers a day leave this facility with oil, fetching dollars.
September 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Pure speculation:
There was a moratorium on striking the Baltic Sea oil exports. It has been lifted.
There was a moratorium on striking the Baltic Sea oil exports. It has been lifted.
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Russia murders pensioners
kyivindependent.com/russian-air-...
kyivindependent.com/russian-air-...
'Pure terrorism' — At least 25 killed in Russian air strike on Ukrainian village during pension payouts
The bombing took place around 11 a.m. while local residents lined up to receive pensions, according to officials. The casualties included local pensioners and employees of Ukrposhta, Ukraine's nationa...
kyivindependent.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Russia murders pensioners
kyivindependent.com/russian-air-...
kyivindependent.com/russian-air-...
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By escalating strikes in Ukraine and now Poland, Putin is sending a message: He is not interested in a ceasefire, or in peace. He plans to keep fighting.
From @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/w...
From @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/w...
Putin’s Message to Ukraine, Europe and Trump: I Won’t Back Down
www.nytimes.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:54 PM
By escalating strikes in Ukraine and now Poland, Putin is sending a message: He is not interested in a ceasefire, or in peace. He plans to keep fighting.
From @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/w...
From @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/w...