Xi's ace move during his upcoming US visit would be to tell Trump he'll end Russia's war if Trump stops the Iran war. A lot more pain, economic & societal, would be avoided.

The Beethoven Group@beethovengroup.bsky.social · last wk.

Congress has cleared the most consequential U.S. Russia-sanctions legislation of Trump’s second term, potentially forcing China and India to choose between Russian energy and access to U.S. markets.

AI doomsayas could it be any more robotically ruinous than what Putin's horde has unleashed on Ukrainian life

Here we are still frozen in amber somberly memorializing our last failure to grasp that the threat had totally changed & not at all in emergency mode as Russian terror drives a whirlwind acceleration of drone weapon tech.

Acc to new Financial Times reporting, Witkoff & Kushner's retirement dreams are about to come true

Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 3w ago

Witkoff: "President Putin, thank you so much for having us. We were sitting outside just now, me, Jared, Kirill, Yuri, and we were talking about, when we retire, we'll have all these incredible stories and memories, and yours will be right at the top of it all."

If Yeltsin hadn't picked Putin he'd be retired & managing a homeowners association now 🤣 Mark Feygin to Aleksandr Kushnar on Newsader YouTube That's his real level of competence in intrusive neighborhood nastiness

The things Fedorov said he will do next sound all right to me 💰 Venture capital fund for Western investments & joint projects for 🇺🇦 miltech 📚 Think tank to advise 🇺🇦 govt on "atypical policy" 👽 AI startups for drone weapons to pull drone operation teams off the front line

The Ukrainian Review@theukrainianreview.bsky.social · last mo.

🇺🇦 Fedorov is being pushed into the wrong things, — Zelensky. “Usually I don’t meet with people 4 times to offer them a job, because I think it’s unconstructive. In this case, I did it, given our good and long-standing relationship. Mykhailo refused all 4 offers. Well, that’s his choice.”

Now *this* is leadership. unn.ua/en/news/it-w...

"It was worth it": one of the co-organizers of the protests in support of Fedorov announced their end

УНН Slider ✎ Dmytro Koziatynskyi, the organizer of the rallies in support of Fedorov, announced their end and called the change of the Commander-in-Chief of the Ar…

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Who's devouring whom? Trying to show he's more than his Donbas meatgrinder, Putin wears a Navy uniform in the Russian Far East, safely beyond Ukrainian drone range, but Russia is becoming Novorossiya, with punishment pits & expropriation: Alexander Baunov on @ceip-politika.bsky.social

Fire Point CEO/CTO Iryna Terekh speech at Denmark's DALO 2026 (its slogan: Meet the Future of the Defence Industry) "Ukraine used to sell Europe grain & software. What we are selling you now is time. Let Ukraine into the rooms where standards are written. We are not the ones here who need to learn."

Kamalalogy@kamalalogist.bsky.social · last mo.

"This is what happens when a woman [taps the sign FURNITURE DESIGNER @toujoursaimer.bsky.social] takes over a defense company" in wartime Wall Street Journal profile of 🇺🇦 Fire Point CEO/CTO Iryna Terekh

"This is what happens when a woman [taps the sign FURNITURE DESIGNER @toujoursaimer.bsky.social] takes over a defense company" in wartime Wall Street Journal profile of 🇺🇦 Fire Point CEO/CTO Iryna Terekh

"Russia’s elite increasingly fear the FSB is out of control as Putin tasks the agency with maintaining his grip on power amid growing unease over the war in Ukraine:" Bloomberg. It's IN his control, former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov tells Vadim Radionov, he dials department heads daily on his ☎️

You said it, not me

Takes one to know one: Patel's FBI collaborates behind the scenes with the Kremlin network of violent war criminals to target violent criminal networks www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Ukraine is helping the Kremlin ruin Russia's economy & history is repeating itself: the military budget wasn't cut until the Soviet state collapsed. Everyone understood it was madness which could be stopped at any time but still the madness was not stopped. @ksonin.bsky.social with Yevgenia Albats.

Terrifying numbers of soldiers & civilians have been stalked & killed in Ukraine by a welter of FPV drones with ways to foil EW & keep operator connection so it can't be a purely technical reason why they're not the weapon of choice for going after war criminal leaders in Ruzzia?

If the Moscow top posh restaurant gathering was indeed top brass Aerospace Commander General Aleksandr Chaiko's party, then Russian opposition analyst Yuri Fedorov says this is the highest ranking assassination target to date, in the top 10-15 of the war criminal power vertical.

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President Zelenskyy please don't further delay a sensible decision to reinstate Mykhailo Fedorov as Minister of Defense which your people are loudly and your allies are quietly asking for. It's dangerous for crowds to be on the streets so they wouldn't do it if it weren't crucial.

EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thousands join Kyiv march demanding Fedorov’s return and defence reforms  eualive.net/thousands-jo... Sustained nationwide protests enter their third week as demonstrators press Zelenskyy for dialogue and a year to continue military modernisation

It was obvious Fedorov was working on critical stuff but firing him in the middle of negotiations with Elon Musk is Zelenskyy's worst decision ever (which he could immediately undo, btw) www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Zelensky Asked Trump for a Favor From Elon Musk

Ukraine wants to start using Musk’s Starlink to target ballistic-missile launchers inside Russia.

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Obama's Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner famously said "Plan beats no plan, bad options are better than no options" during the financial crisis. Kremlin level of cope seems commensurate with this. www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/why-...

1/2 Why did Trump's meeting with Zelenskyy come off so smoothly?Because midtermy Republican senators enforced no press antics: "Don't you dare do what you usually do, pull your pants over your head & run around like a scalded cat screaming I Love Putin" 😂 Aleksandr Kushnar youtu.be/wfhBH3xQg24?...

Coincidentally, so has the drone company his sons are invested in www.forbes.com/sites/davidh...

Powerus Brings Ukraine's Swarming Tech To Pentagon’s FPV Competition

Battle-proven swarming software from Ukraine will give a major boost to U.S. FPV drone makers Powerus — but it amplifies human pilots rather than replacing them.

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The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2mo ago

Trump has come to admire Ukraine’s drone industry, especially its ability to defend against the same drones the U.S. faces in the Iran war, according to people who've spoken to him. The president likes winners—and Zelensky is increasingly looking like one.

It's International Tiger Day, celebrating the only creatures Vladimir Putin ever tried to help out apart from his siloviki

Analysts doubt President Zelenskyy will return Fedorov to Minister of Defense because he will appear "weak." In wartime a rapid retreat can be the correct tactical and strategic move. Let him cook!

Vatnik tears

The full story of Ukraine's new Commander-in-Chief Drapatyi's flying BMP - he was on his way out of Mariupol May 9 2014, mission accomplished

Ukraїner in English@ukrainer-en.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Three years ago, he told us that story himself. In our documentary about the 72nd Brigade, Drapatyi recalls the battles for Mariupol — including the brigade's famous "flying BMP" footage: armoured vehicles breaking through into the occupied city.

Moscow, welcome to Ukraine suka

It's so over | We're so back

🇺🇦 FPV drone hunting Ruzzians with its own cardboard protest "Bring back Fedorov!!!" really gets the point across

“You finally have such good cards, but you decided to play the fool.” Zelenskyy opens a second front in the war - on the home front 😓