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Russia's invasion of Ukraine really is going disastrously bad for Russia. Their advance in the past three months is slower than in years, despite higher losses. Add to that the results of Ukraine's successful mid- and long-range campaigns. I don't see how they can continue this for much longer...

Bar chart of monthly Russian losses (KIA+WIA) of personnel in Ukraine.
May 2026: 33760
June 2026: 39290
July 2026: 42860

SOURCE: https://index.minfin.com.ua/en/russian-invading/casualties/Bar chart of Russian territorial gains in Ukraine. The past three months (May - July 2026) show the smallest Russian gains in over two years, despite their extremely high losses.

SOURCE: https://deepstatemap.live

Putin pal Bibi has been blocking air defense transfers to Ukraine since Dec 2021, preemptively banning the Baltics from sending Spike ATGMs then, and both he and Bennett refused Iron Dome since 2022, so the shocker would be if they DID allow it now.

Militarnyi@militarnyi.com · 4d ago

🇮🇱🇺🇦Israel blocked the transfer of U.S. Iron Dome air defense batteries to Ukraine, a move that drew criticism in the United States. militarnyi.com/en/news/isra...

If you cannot accept that what Trump has done over the last year and a half is starve Ukraine of air defense, and put off any new aid for as long as possible, so Putin can terrorize Ukraine from the air for as long as possible--you cannot accept reality.

Who is Schrödinger's putin? A man who can end the war tomorrow, yet also can't [my latest op-ed in a 🧵 thread] Few medieval figures loom larger in 🇷🇺’s origin story than Yuriy Dolgorukiy, the prince who founded an outpost on the Moskva River from which russian empire arose 1/28

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After years of attacking science & public health, Senate Republicans launched a coordinated disinformation campaign yesterday, disingenuously recasting themselves as guardians of scientific integrity. My latest piece looks at the real record behind the disinfo. open.substack.com/pub/weaponiz...

Inside the GOP Disinformation Campaign Targeting Fauci

How Senate Republicans used a coordinated narrative attack on Dr. Fauci to rewrite their own record of attacking science and public health.

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John Mearsheimer's political theories are bonkers. He's completely disregarding the sovereignty of nations and self-determination of peoples - the bedrock of modern international law. And since his political theories are so wrong, his predictions are also consistently wrong...

A new piece with @ilonasolohub.bsky.social The USSR perfected deploying "independent" voices to deliver Kremlin messages while appearing to challenge them. Melnichenko's Economist piece is the same playbook. The correct response to such "visions" is one word: nyet. #Ukraine

Why The Economist Scoop Was a Polite Version of the Same Moscow Threat

The storied British news journal merely flogged a standard Russian threat couched as a “wind of change.”

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What if hostile foreign governments were able to control social network algorithms in the United States, suppressing information vital to our survival as a democracy? That would be weird.

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Fedorov - A lesson in leadership! This is not what I usually write about, and not something I enjoy writing about. So, I will try to put a positive spin on it. What I will write will be the other side of the conversation, and I will use a different tack on how to explain it. 1/14

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"It's not just a security issue - it's also a moral issue. While Ukrainians are dying, Russians are spending their holidays in Europe. " - Estonian Interior Minister Igor Taro called on EU countries to tighten their visa policy toward Russian citizens⤵️

Fascism is here. If you’re not alarmed you’re not paying attention. “Left-wing political terrorism” will mean those who oppose the regime — while actual right-wing extremism is allowed to grow and thrive. We are very far off the cliff, folks.

This will surely cause a bit of noise in Ukraine. Our job, as foreign supporters of Ukraine, is to stay the fuck out of their internal politics and keep supporting their existential fight against a russia hellbent on genocide no matter what. Russia will seek to weaponize this. Don’t play along.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 3w ago

⚡️Zelensky dismisses Defense Minister Fedorov after military leadership meeting, source says. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko has been offered to become Ukraine's next defense minister, a lawmaker from the governing Servant of the People party told the Kyiv Independent on condition of anonymity.

AOC on Trump’s Thursday address: I don’t think we should be contributing to the platforming of lies about our elections. Many of these outlets often receive transcripts, and I think we have an ethical obligation not to air things that undermine our elections and are not rooted in fact.

🇬🇪Georgia's ruling party, Georgian Dream (GD), is staging a show trial to imprison the leaders of every major opposition party at once. It is called the "sabotage case". Sentences run up to 15 years. The outcome is predetermined. ‼️We must act before the verdicts land. 1/17

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