richdickins.bsky.social
@richdickins.bsky.social
Many peoples under one flag 🇪🇺
Pigs at the trough 🐷
America 🇺🇸 is not 🚫 a reliable ally 🤝
1/ The Wall Street Journal reports that the main focus of the US-Russia peace talks is to get commercial advantage for American companies, and personal benefits for individuals linked to the Trump Administration. European officials are said to be shocked by the plans. ⬇️
November 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
If you read one thing today, make it this, Western capitals need to clear house of their current ineffective leadership
Europe refuses to use frozen Russian assets. It refuses to commit to sustained mass-scale financing for Ukrainian defence production. It refuses to engage with viable plans like even a partial SkyShield. It refuses to confront the political costs of real support.
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
For too long we've had a rose-tinted view of Ukraine. Clearing house is desperately needed or we will lose this war
NEW: One of Ukraine's most famous soldiers, Bohdan Krotevych, tells me why Commander in Chief Syrskyi must be replaced for Ukraine to win the war, why Azov still has a waiting list to join, and why the suggestion drones can replace infantry is "so stupid".
offbeatresearch.com/2025/11/i-kn...
"I Know We Can Win": Ukraine's Most Famous Soldier on the State of War - OffBeat Research
Jimmy Rushton sits down with Bohdan Krotevych, the decorated former commander of the Ukrainian National Guard’s elite Azov Brigade, for a wide-ranging interview on the current state of Ukraine’s leade...
offbeatresearch.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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Russian special services are currently launching a fake video about alleged plans by Ukraine to attack oil refineries in Europe with drones: in Hungary, Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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🇪🇺🇺🇦 Military support to Ukraine from European countries decreased by 57% compared to Jan-June 2025, even taking into account their contributions to the NATO PURL initiative, - Kiel Institute

Average monthly volume of military aid during this period was 43% below the level of the first half of 2025.
October 14, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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I don't want to alarm you, but I’m deeply concerned that two opaque industries are creating giant bubbles on the verge of bursting. Let me explain... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/beware-the-oligarchs-ai-bubble
October 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The only thing the far right creates is new slurs. Proove me wrong
October 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
I TOLD YOU ALL IT WAS COUP PROOFING
Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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⚡️ Horrific Russian war crimes in Kherson, known as “human safari,” are now mapped—every drone strike on civilians documented by @tochnyi.

Since 2023, over 3,000 casualties have been recorded.
September 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Rare off-topic post of mine: I would like to draw your attention to the excellent work of my colleagues at @tochnyi.info. After months of intense work, we have finally published our interactive map that allows you to follow the ongoing “human safari” in Kherson in detail.
September 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Genuine question, I get random followers every day and am nobody special or interesting. How many of these are bots, it has to be a lot
September 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Disgusting
🔴 Russia is running a vast and coordinated system to deport, indoctrinate, and even militarize Ukrainian children on an unprecedented scale, according to a new investigation by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab.

🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...
September 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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In September 2021, @chrussiaeurasia.bsky.social published 'What Deters Russia', which looked at what succeeds and what fails when trying to dissuade Russia from doing something appalling (like invading its neighbours for instance.)

www.chathamhouse.org/2021/09/what...

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What deters Russia
Enduring principles for responding to Moscow
www.chathamhouse.org
September 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
The West declaring that it won the cold war turned out to be temporary in the eyes of the defeated
September 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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An interesting background read here on the process by which Donald Trump ended up facing Putin with next to no competent Russia advisers in support.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/15/d...
Donald Trump, Alone in the Room with His KGB Handler, Getting His Ass Served on a Picnic Platter - emptywheel
In 2018 in Helsinki, when Vladimir Putin utterly humiliated Trump publicly, Trump still had competent Russian advisors to advise him. Today, after years of chasing a manufactured grievance against the...
www.emptywheel.net
August 15, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Trump being politically edged by Putin is not what I had on my bingo card for 2025. There will be no sanctions, only endless delay and over promising.
August 6, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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As President Volodymyr Zelensky was restoring the independence of anti-corruption agencies days after he himself took that independence away, one crucial amendment was not overturned.
Zelensky restores anti-corruption agencies’ independence — but leaves one key change intact
As President Volodymyr Zelensky was restoring the independence of anti-corruption agencies days after he himself took that independence away, one crucial amendment was not overturned. On July 22, Zel...
kyivindependent.com
August 4, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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🇺🇦🙏 The abduction of Ukrainian children by Russia is one of the largest war crimes since World War II, — The Guardian.

35,000 Ukrainian children are listed as missing or are believed to be held by Russian forces. Some have been sent to military camps, others placed in orphanages or adopted.
June 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
TRIGGER WARNING! ⚠️
The results of Russian brutality
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This is the result of a Russian missile hit that damaged a civilian train today, carrying regular people, including the elderly, women, and kids. Sadly, people get used to seeing stuff like this, and it won't be all over the news. Don’t let it fade. Keep showing Russia's crimes
June 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Autopsies of Ukrainians returned from Russian captivity reveal skull fractures, starvation, disease, and signs of torture. Some bodies were mutilated or unrecognizable.

AP reported on one such case 👇

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June 19, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Just remember, Israel thought it was vital to throw Ukraine under the bus and push up fuel prices directly impacting everyone's cost of living. All while European governments support them
June 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Many in Tehran will urge a redoubled effort to develop nuclear weapons, after Israel’s attacks once again exposed the weakness of Iran’s conventional deterrence.
Israel’s strikes might accelerate Iran’s race towards nuclear weapons
Many in Tehran will urge a redoubled effort to develop nuclear weapons, after Israel’s attacks once again exposed the weakness of Iran’s conventional deterrence.
www.chathamhouse.org
June 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Weakness and appeasement always invites more war, because it tells everyone that military solutions are a (better) option. Russia's aggression in Ukraine is the greatest threat to the world than most realize. It goes far beyond to what happens there.
June 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Steve Witkoff’s masterclass in diplomacy in Russia and the Middle East
June 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM