@priednis.bsky.social
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At this point the Epstein Files should probably be renamed the Trump Files
December 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
At this point the Epstein Files should probably be renamed the Trump Files
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Btw, why the western analytical community and the Pentagon, etc, are all trying to say Ukraine’s big problem is that they have not drafted all their people and sent them to the front, is because they are trying to shift responsibility away from their own terrible failures.
December 23, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Btw, why the western analytical community and the Pentagon, etc, are all trying to say Ukraine’s big problem is that they have not drafted all their people and sent them to the front, is because they are trying to shift responsibility away from their own terrible failures.
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The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
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Extraordinary contrast between Russia's meatgrinder and Ukrainian innovation. Necessity is a harsh teacher but her democratic students learn faster than the 🇷🇺 cannon-fodder stuck in their empire's vanity war 👇
December 23, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Extraordinary contrast between Russia's meatgrinder and Ukrainian innovation. Necessity is a harsh teacher but her democratic students learn faster than the 🇷🇺 cannon-fodder stuck in their empire's vanity war 👇
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As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves
There is no basis to withhold these images under the clear terms of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. None.
WOW: The DOJ has DELETED an image from its release of the Epstein files that shows photos of Trump in a drawer.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
Yesterday, we noted that this image — file 468 — likely slipped through the cracks while officials were attempting to hide materials pertaining to Trump.
Now, it’s gone.
December 21, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As a historian I've looked at hundreds of thousands of pages of government documents. And I just have to say that aside from being obviously illegal and clearly suggestive of some major crime, this “redaction” business is not a position in which serious people or serious governments find themselves
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This is going to be exciting...
December 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is going to be exciting...
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Listening to this right now. It's very good and a palliative for all the bullshit.
Hi All, Timothy Snyder and I held
a Substack Live a little while ago, and ranged widely on the Russo-Ukraine war. It ended up being divided into two parts. Here is part one where we talk about views of Russia, Ukraine and war in 2022. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
a Substack Live a little while ago, and ranged widely on the Russo-Ukraine war. It ended up being divided into two parts. Here is part one where we talk about views of Russia, Ukraine and war in 2022. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
On the Russo-Ukrainian War with Phillips OBrien
A recording from Phillips P. OBrien and Timothy Snyder's live video
open.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Listening to this right now. It's very good and a palliative for all the bullshit.
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„Militäranalysten im Jahr 2025: Das russische Militär hat sich angepasst, ist unaufhaltsam vorgerückt und wird Pokrowsk bald einnehmen.
Historiker im Jahr 2055: Der russische Feldzug von 2025 war einer der selbstzerstörerischsten in der modernen Militärgeschichte.“
1 Jahr in 4 Bildern 👇🤷♂️😏
Historiker im Jahr 2055: Der russische Feldzug von 2025 war einer der selbstzerstörerischsten in der modernen Militärgeschichte.“
1 Jahr in 4 Bildern 👇🤷♂️😏
December 20, 2025 at 3:18 PM
„Militäranalysten im Jahr 2025: Das russische Militär hat sich angepasst, ist unaufhaltsam vorgerückt und wird Pokrowsk bald einnehmen.
Historiker im Jahr 2055: Der russische Feldzug von 2025 war einer der selbstzerstörerischsten in der modernen Militärgeschichte.“
1 Jahr in 4 Bildern 👇🤷♂️😏
Historiker im Jahr 2055: Der russische Feldzug von 2025 war einer der selbstzerstörerischsten in der modernen Militärgeschichte.“
1 Jahr in 4 Bildern 👇🤷♂️😏
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And here is part 2 where we discuss where things stand now. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Phillips O’Brien Ukraine 2
A recording from Phillips P. OBrien and Timothy Snyder's live video
open.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
And here is part 2 where we discuss where things stand now. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Are you listening Europe?
Rubio on Russia-Ukraine: "It's not our war. It's a war on another continent."
December 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Are you listening Europe?
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Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.
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Great article by @johnsipher.bsky.social .
People like to call Trump erratic or mercurial. However when it comes to Putin and Russia…he is eerily consistent. tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
People like to call Trump erratic or mercurial. However when it comes to Putin and Russia…he is eerily consistent. tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
A tempting mark—why is Trump behaving in ways that benefit Moscow?
Moscow appears to have used these vulnerabilities to influence Donald Trump, and, unfortunately, has done so with considerable success
tomorrowsaffairs.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Great article by @johnsipher.bsky.social .
People like to call Trump erratic or mercurial. However when it comes to Putin and Russia…he is eerily consistent. tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
People like to call Trump erratic or mercurial. However when it comes to Putin and Russia…he is eerily consistent. tomorrowsaffairs.com/a-tempting-m...
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"Then in just the last week, the Ukrainians executed a military operation that pushed the Russians back about twice the distance as it had taken the Russians to advance in more than four months. It's interesting that this story has not yet appeared in the New York Times.'
December 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
"Then in just the last week, the Ukrainians executed a military operation that pushed the Russians back about twice the distance as it had taken the Russians to advance in more than four months. It's interesting that this story has not yet appeared in the New York Times.'
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Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
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December 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Just when I thought I couldn't admire the man more...
🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
🎯 🎯 🎯 💯 💯 💯 👍 👍 👍
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It's time to let go of the extremely pernicious and extremely delusional view that Ru is a security maximizer driven by worries about its own security. It's driven entirely by imperialist expansionism. They say it every day, their actions demonstrate it every day.
Anyone complaining about European rearmament as escalatory simply doesn’t understand Ru. Ru invades the unarmed and the neutral (Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine). It hasn’t dared invade a NATO member, no matter how small. If Ru does attack NATO, it will be because it perceives its members as unprepared.
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It's time to let go of the extremely pernicious and extremely delusional view that Ru is a security maximizer driven by worries about its own security. It's driven entirely by imperialist expansionism. They say it every day, their actions demonstrate it every day.
"In the first year of the war, new battlefield technologies held up for about seven months before being replaced. By 2023, the cycle had shrunk to five or six months, in 2024 just three to four, and by early 2025, it was around four to six weeks." united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
Ukraine’s Drone Revolution Is Forcing Europe to Rethink the Economics of War
As Ukraine’s drone warfare reshapes modern combat, Europe faces a new defense dilemma: How to counter cheap drones with costly air defenses?
united24media.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"In the first year of the war, new battlefield technologies held up for about seven months before being replaced. By 2023, the cycle had shrunk to five or six months, in 2024 just three to four, and by early 2025, it was around four to six weeks." united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
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December 13, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Putin behauptet: Russland kontrolliert Kupjansk. Selenskyj steht in Kupjansk und zeigt: Putin lügt. In einer entscheidenden Verhandlungsphase reist der ukrainische Präsident direkt an die Front. Die Botschaft an US-Präsident Trump: Russland ist längst nicht so stark, wie es tut.
December 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Putin behauptet: Russland kontrolliert Kupjansk. Selenskyj steht in Kupjansk und zeigt: Putin lügt. In einer entscheidenden Verhandlungsphase reist der ukrainische Präsident direkt an die Front. Die Botschaft an US-Präsident Trump: Russland ist längst nicht so stark, wie es tut.
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Putin: "We've taken Kupyansk"
Zelensky: "Here I am in Kupyansk"
Zelensky: "Here I am in Kupyansk"
Zelensky arrived in Kupyansk, which Putin claims is "under Russian control."
December 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Putin: "We've taken Kupyansk"
Zelensky: "Here I am in Kupyansk"
Zelensky: "Here I am in Kupyansk"
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The EU just decided to indefinitely immobilise Russian assets.
This ensures that up to €210 billion in Russian funds stay on EU soil, unless Russia fully pays reparations to Ukraine for the damage it has caused. (1/2)
This ensures that up to €210 billion in Russian funds stay on EU soil, unless Russia fully pays reparations to Ukraine for the damage it has caused. (1/2)
December 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The EU just decided to indefinitely immobilise Russian assets.
This ensures that up to €210 billion in Russian funds stay on EU soil, unless Russia fully pays reparations to Ukraine for the damage it has caused. (1/2)
This ensures that up to €210 billion in Russian funds stay on EU soil, unless Russia fully pays reparations to Ukraine for the damage it has caused. (1/2)
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In the course of a few days the U.S has published a security strategy that basically calls for the destruction of Europe, a U.S. representative has proposed a bill to withdraw the U.S. from NATO, and the Danish intelligence service has publically designated the U.S. as a threat to Denmark.
Media:
Media:
a man in a suit drinking from a cup with the words awkward silence below him
ALT: a man in a suit drinking from a cup with the words awkward silence below him
media.tenor.com
December 11, 2025 at 4:04 AM
In the course of a few days the U.S has published a security strategy that basically calls for the destruction of Europe, a U.S. representative has proposed a bill to withdraw the U.S. from NATO, and the Danish intelligence service has publically designated the U.S. as a threat to Denmark.
Media:
Media:
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A reminder: Pu isn't negotiating compromise right now. He's trying to use the cover of negotiations to advance in Donbas. That's all.
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A reminder: Pu isn't negotiating compromise right now. He's trying to use the cover of negotiations to advance in Donbas. That's all.
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“The Trump administration did a great favor to Ukraine and all of Europe this week. It stopped lying publicly about its position on both and made it all but impossible for European leaders to keep fantasizing about the USA riding to the rescue.”
- Phillips OBrien
@phillipspobrien.bsky.social
- Phillips OBrien
@phillipspobrien.bsky.social
Hi All, free weekend update is out. This was the best week for Ukraine/Europe since November 5, 2024. The new US Security Strategy confirms without a doubt that Trump is out to attack Europe (and cripple Ukraine). After months of a con, the truth is undeniable. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #162: The Best Week Since November 5, 2024
The Tomahawk Con: A Case Study: Pokrovsk And The Ranged War
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
“The Trump administration did a great favor to Ukraine and all of Europe this week. It stopped lying publicly about its position on both and made it all but impossible for European leaders to keep fantasizing about the USA riding to the rescue.”
- Phillips OBrien
@phillipspobrien.bsky.social
- Phillips OBrien
@phillipspobrien.bsky.social
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Hi All, free weekend update is out. This was the best week for Ukraine/Europe since November 5, 2024. The new US Security Strategy confirms without a doubt that Trump is out to attack Europe (and cripple Ukraine). After months of a con, the truth is undeniable. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #162: The Best Week Since November 5, 2024
The Tomahawk Con: A Case Study: Pokrovsk And The Ranged War
open.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Hi All, free weekend update is out. This was the best week for Ukraine/Europe since November 5, 2024. The new US Security Strategy confirms without a doubt that Trump is out to attack Europe (and cripple Ukraine). After months of a con, the truth is undeniable. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Europe needs to finally seize the initiative and stop wasting time trying to manage Trump. If Europeans themselves drive the agenda, together with Ukraine, they will not constantly be caught off guard and need to manage yet another crisis
The new US National Security Strategy, in its predictable and characteristic ugliness, is a good occasion for Europe to finally let go of the time-consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and start focusing on a proper and proactive own strategy instead.
Europe Needs A New Strategy Too
The new US National Security Strategy helps - or forces - European leaders to let go of the consuming transatlantic crisis management efforts and to focus on an own strategy instead.
open.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Europe needs to finally seize the initiative and stop wasting time trying to manage Trump. If Europeans themselves drive the agenda, together with Ukraine, they will not constantly be caught off guard and need to manage yet another crisis