RobinK
@templeofhate.com
Neocon apostate, lifelong Conservative, unapologetic liberal democrat. Volunteer for Ukraine. Posts in 🇬🇧 or 🇩🇪. #PolSci, #GeoPolitics, #Ukraine
Denys Shtilerman is the founder of FirePoint, a Ukrainian defense company. 🎁 link (no paywall)
Opinion | My company’s drones hit Russia — and showed what the Pentagon doesn’t know
Modern war rewards speed and redundancy, not perfect weapons from a single supplier.
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FWIW I agree with Ollie Dean: we should want extremists to be deradicalised. We should want former criminals to be rehabilitated and live productive lives. None of that means either group (or someone who is both) should be a candidate for election. conservativehome.com/2026/08/05/i...
I believe in second chances - but not for former neo-Nazis | Conservative Home
Again, I reiterate that I am all for second chances. But there comes a point in which one cannot extend the generosity of yet another attempt. Bonehill-Paine - I believe -, despite what he has done si...
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All you Trump backers who lie about supporting Ukraine…this is what you actually support. These Ukrainians are being killed partly through the policy choices of the Trump administration. The USA could have saved many of these lives but chose not to. www.cnn.com/2026/08/05/e...
Russian attack kills 17 in Kyiv region, Zelensky says | CNN
Russian strikes on Ukraine’s capital and nearby areas have killed 17 people and wounded dozens of others overnight, officials said, as both sides step up attacks on facilities that underpin daily life...
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»Russian drone attacks have hit hundreds of gas stations in apparent retaliation for Ukraine’s attacks on oil refineries.« 🎁 link (no paywall)
A New Lethal Front in Ukraine: Its Beloved Gas Stations (Gift Article)
Russian drone attacks have hit hundreds of gas stations in apparent retaliation for Ukraine’s attacks on oil refineries.
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»An unidentified flying object and a suspicious item were found at Leipzig Airport overnight. Flight operations were immediately suspended and diverted. Police described it as a "security-related incident."« Every vote for AfD or BSW is a vote for Russian war in Europe.
Leipzig: Flughafen sperrt Landebahn – Ermittler finden angeblich Drohne mit Zünder neben Antonow-Maschine - WELT
Am Flughafen Leipzig wird in der Nacht ein unbekanntes Flugobjekt und ein verdächtiger Gegenstand gefunden. Der Flugbetrieb wird umgehend eingestellt, Flüge werden umgeleitet. Die Polizei spricht von ...
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Every single Russian is guilty. 🎁 link (no paywall) #RussiaIsATerroristState #РусниПизда
At least 15 killed and dozens wounded in Russian strikes on Kyiv
Fires raged across the city and smoke filled the sky after attacks on residential buildings. Ukraine was apparently unable to shoot down any of the missiles
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Ukraine and the world have seen horrifying footage from Kherson today - a Russian drone hunting down a civilian. This person is Mr. Yurii, he sells vegetables. At about 6.30 a.m., Mr. Yurii was putting out the produce by the market, as he does every day⤵️
My new article examines why the Ukrainian government chose to formalise its long-range strike architecture, assesses how the new command can add to Ukraine’s strategic and political endeavours, and what Western militaries should learn from Ukraine’s example. mickryan.substack.com/p/ukraines-l...
Ukraine's Long-Range Strike Command: Institutionalising Deep Strike
After years of technical and tactical innovation, as well collaboration between Ukrainian organisations and foreign agencies, Ukraine takes the next step in its long-range strike endeavours.
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A St. Petersburg cat monitors the situation with the burning Wildberries logistics hub in Shushary.
Read the entire thread. Also, reconsider what you think of Gorbachev, especially if you're German.
Amara Graps@amaragraps.bsky.social · 2d agoThe 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹Baltics spent fifty years inside the Beast, and another generation mitigating its continuing violence. We have the receipts. Our Baltic experiences are strategic intelligence for Europe. 😎 /end
OTD in 1940, USSR formally annexed Lithuania. Soviets troops had been "invited in" (in accordance with absolutely nothing to do with our treaty with Nazis) & then held "elections" where 99%+ voted to join USSR. None of this should sound familiar to you.
Kremlin-funded outlets continue to claim that Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilians are ‘retaliation.’ They are not. The framing distorts the basic reality of the war: Russia launched an unprovoked invasion, while Ukraine is defending its territory and independence.
"My ex made me try to kill her cos she left me for a man who is taller, richer and treats her better" As applied to geopolitics.
Free weeked update is out. The big story this week was once again people had hope in Trump and once again that hope was delusional and served Putin's interest. The toll for this misplaced hope is being written in blood. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
Weekend Update #196: The Week When Hope Killed, Literally
Drapatyi and Fedorov update; Ports/Shipping Update
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Wie sich das Leben in Kyjiw unter Dauerbeschuss der Ballistik so anfühlt. Den Text habe ich zwar noch vor dem Angriff heute Nacht geschrieben, was aber wenig ändert. Der Juli war hier der tödlichste Monat bisher. Der August fängt nun leider ähnlich an. www.n-tv.de/politik/Rake...
Kiew übersteht den tödlichsten Monat des russischen Angriffs
In viereinhalb Jahren Krieg macht Kiew alles durch, was eine europäische Hauptstadt unter Dauerbeschuss aushalten kann. Der Juli 2026 jedoch sticht als besonders brutal heraus: Auf den schwersten Krie...
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Si vis pacem and all that. The European Central Bank recently made proposals for new euro banknotes. Now, the Luxembourg Defence Agency has presented a selection of designs: tanks, rifles, and military satellites. The criticism is massive. 🎁 link (no paywall)
Luxemburg schlägt Euroscheine mit Panzer und Gewehr vor
Die Europäische Zentralbank hat kürzlich Vorschläge für neue Euro-Geldscheine gemacht. Nun stellt die luxemburgische Verteidigungsbehörde eine Motivauswahl vor: Panzer, Gewehr, Militärsatellit. Die Kr...
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»The Ukrainian former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov, an advocate for drone and robot warfare, says the country’s tech-heavy strategy will persist.« 🎁 link (no paywall)
Political Turmoil Will Not Derail Killer Robot Program, Ousted Minister Says (Gift Article)
The Ukrainian former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov, an advocate for drone and robot warfare, says the country’s tech-heavy strategy will persist.
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»Sailors recount their struggle for survival after their ship was targeted by Russian drones, while on the beach sunbathers risk shrapnel wounds« 🎁 link (no paywall)
They sailed into a war zone. Not all came out alive
Sailors recount their struggle for survival after their ship was targeted by Russian drones, while on the beach sunbathers risk shrapnel wounds
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»Last week Donald Trump released a short video claiming that “mob violence goes against everything I believe in.” That was an extraordinary claim because it runs counter to what he has been saying for the last four years. [...]. You have to hear him and see him doing it.« youtu.be/0qcRKS8wANs
Trump’s History of Inciting Violence
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
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One of the key lessons from the downfall of the Weimar Republic was the introduction of a 5% threshold for federal and state elections in Germany. The AfD, the common pet project of the russian and US regimes as well as nazi Tech bros, consequently wants to abolish it. Over my dead body, Alice...
AfD-Chefin Weidel fordert ersatzlose Streichung der Fünf-Prozent-Hürde - WELT
Die AfD drängt auf eine Reform des Wahlrechts: Parteichefin Alice Weidel spricht sich für die Abschaffung der Fünf-Prozent-Hürde bei Bundestags- und Landtagswahlen aus. Die Union ist dagegen.
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Today's German word of the day is: Funktionshäftling (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapo). TEMU Goebbels should know better: »Stephen Miller's maternal ancestors were Ashkenazi Jewish refugees who fled violent antisemitic pogroms in the Russian Empire during the early 20th century.«
This is totalitarian rhetoric
YouTube video by The Bulwark
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💥 Russia launched a massive missile attack on Lviv, damaging more than 20 residential buildings. At least 26 people, including children, were injured after a direct strike hit an apartment building 📹: Andrii Sadovyi / Facebook
»Mainstream chatbots are spewing Russian fake news after their systems were “poisoned” by a propaganda campaign, researchers have shown.« 🎁 link (no paywall)
How Russian propaganda is ‘poisoning’ AI chatbots to spout lies
ChatGPT and its rivals have been manipulated by a Kremlin unit that purports to be a human rights group as it opens a new front in the misinformation war
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“The Pentagon has an obligation to explain itself to the American people, to our allies, even to our adversaries... and they’re just, in my mind, completely failing.” Rear Adm. John Kirby tells @markhertling.bsky.social the lack of transparency surrounding the war with Iran is a travesty.
Alito: doesn’t look like anything to me bsky.app/profile/atru...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7d agoTrump: "They're coming from Africa, they're coming from South America, they're coming from different parts of Asia, and they're invading Europe. They're invading Europe! It's an invasion. And the UK is a prime suspect."
Man this is awful. This was a sincere question. I was happy with the discussion that came out of it. But I wake up this morning to nonstop abuse, because one of Bluesky’s cult-like figures has (pretty unfairly) attacked me as not understanding people need food. This isn’t good or sustainable!
Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · last wk.Politics aside, do people believe city-run grocery stores with deeply discounted prices are a good POLICY idea? What are they intended to accomplish, in your view? What problem do they solve? Would you implement them if not running for election? I'm sincerely curious in people's answers here.
"What is Fascism?" The third lecture in my new online course, "Hitler and Stalin today" A guest lecture by @marcishore.bsky.social Hosted by the Munk School @utoronto.ca snyder.substack.com/p/what-is-fa...
What is Fascism?
The third lecture in my new course, "Hitler and Stalin today."
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Hello, dear friends 💙💛 I love wearing my Ukrainian vyshyvanka to work. Recently, I was on a video call with my colleagues from India and they were wearing their beautiful traditional saris 🥻 in the office too 🥰 It felt so special! Do you ever wear any part of your country's traditional clothing?
