Even the TL agrees. (Screencap of two posts, the first with Witkoff's dick-sucking comment about Putin as a humanitarian, and the second about Russian attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.)
Jill Sargent Russell, PhD
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Military Historian working in contemporary conflicts and geopolitical risk, Logistics and Strategy. Ukraine Adventure: https://www.patreon.com/TheAdventurousHistorian?utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator At the Junction: https://jsargentr.substack.com/
Reluctant consumers, deflationary pressures, deteriorating demographics: China's economy increasingly resembles that of Japan during its long malaise from 1990. Once tipped to overtake the US, is China now facing its own "lost decades"? Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/V8A2slr
No wonder Ann Wagner ads have been popping up on tv non-stop. Also, if I may, can she please get a new hairstyle?
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Talent competition is “as strategically significant as the competition for technology.” In the latest RUSI Defence Systems article, Lt Cdr Rhodri Humphreys explains why the Royal Navy’s Hybrid Navy ambitions hinge on its people, and what needs to change.
The Human Capital Challenge for the Hybrid Navy Concept
The Hybrid Navy debate presents autonomous systems and AI as central components of the Royal Navy's future force. Yet technology does not deliver operational advantage people do.
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From the idealised world of the Encyclopedie to the in-press blunders of the First Folio
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The White House official accounts are posting Down Syndrome slurs to attack journalists. These people are disgusting and morally depraved.
Oh, a while. He argued earlier that Zelinsky wanted to do a deal w Russia in 2021 but the American 'deep state' (mostly CIA I think JJM said) pushed UKR security forces to make Z back down. He also fully characterized 2014 as a CIA / Nuland orchestrated coup
As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"
Something I haven’t seen reported on is the influence of evangelicals in the AB separatist movement. No number of pipelines or inter-provincial trade deals are going to bring these folks back in the federalist fold.
Oswiu☦️@oswiu.bsky.social · yesterdayIt's never been more over for Protestants
Ukraine's continued kinetic sanctions on Russian energy and Europe's more conventional approach to sanctions mean Russia will struggle to deliver any meaningful diesel to international markets jamestown.org/russian-dies...
It suits the Kremlin to have Washington believe that a deal with Putin is just around the corner. One more meeting, one more concession, one more phone call. And while the Americans wait for a peace deal, Russia keeps waging war. Russia gets concessions. Ukraine gets pressure⤵️
Steve Witkoff's in St Petersburg to meet President Putin: what are this morning’s Russian newspapers saying about the visit? Plus, an interesting editorial…with a warning for the Russian authorities. #ReadingRussia
What are the Russian papers saying ahead of Steve Witkoff's meeting with Vladimir Putin?
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.@mcfaulmike.bsky.social: "When you hear Trump's team brag about how much they have given to Ukraine, here are the actual numbers."
🎯 Border guards of the "Prime" unit of the 5th border detachment protect the Ukrainian sky every day, preventing enemy UAVs from reaching their targets. A fresh selection of hits is in the video. 📍Northern Slobozhansky direction
💥👀 Footage of Ukrainian air defense shooting down Russian Shahed in Ukrainian skies.
🇦🇺 Australian lawmaker Helen Haines has had both legs removed, her husband told journalists on Wednesday, after what police called a "targeted" attack. ➡️ u.afp.com/SCHh
Malofeev: I believe that Putin is not right that he's not using our nuclear weapon now. Piers Morgan: You want him to use nuclear weapons now? Malofeev: Yes. For this war to come to an end. To stop killing. Piers Morgan: So your main criticism of your president is he's not nuking everybody. Wow.
🚨🇷🇺🌊❌ 1/3 Something remarkable is happening again in the Mediterranean. On August 12, the apparent end of Russia's permanent naval presence in the region was already being highlighted. Now, a SECOND interruption appears to be underway in 2026.
◾️In Russia, in my opinion, government change occurs in only two cases: either a revolution happens, or someone falls out of a window. Something like that will happen within the next 2-3 years, because Russia cannot sustain this war indefinitely.
As expected, the youth protests got hijacked by third countries that dislike the EU, what it stands for and democracy When the legitimate exercise of freedom of expression get weaponised to weaken EUropean democracies
The Angry Goose has a follow-up question for Alice.
Savchenko Volodymyr@savchenkoua.bsky.social · 4h ago🇩🇪😵💫 German AfD Leader Alice Weidel: There is a history of NATO's encroachment toward the Russian border. Why did nobody listen to Russian concerns when missile systems were being placed near its borders, especially in Romania, capable of carrying nuclear devices?
It looks like he's waving at his own reflection 🤦♀️
Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20h agoIt’s like in the movie sixth sense