Edward S. Solomon

Russia is engaging in a scorched earth campaign against Ukraine, with no intention of negotiating an end to the war. The EU still prioritizes trade with Moscow. The US has abandoned Ukraine, the EU & NATO. My Substack article from December is still relevant: edsolomon.substack.com/p/the-eu-us-...

My latest → In the past days, Ukraine's military demonstrated through successful Storm Shadow strikes against Russia's arms industry that a delivery of Taurus KEPD-350 cruise missiles would still be necessary. 🔗 deaidua.org/news/2026/10...

Mein neuester Artikel → In den vergangenen Tagen hat das ukrainische Militär durch erfolgreiche Angriffe auf die russische Rüstungsindustrie demonstriert, dass die Lieferung des Marschflugkörpers Taurus KEPD-350 weiterhin notwendig ist. 🔗 deaidua.org/news/de/2026...

Who would have guessed that Russia would abuse a humanitarian truce? How many people are going to disappear in Russian filtration camps?

Norway is contributing 500 million NOK in energy support to Ukraine ahead of winter. The support is provided under the Nansen Programme and will help restore damaged infrastructure and ensure reliable operation of Ukraine’s energy system. www.regjeringen.no/en/whats-new...

Norway and Ukraine are strengthening their cooperation in the energy sector. Today, a cooperation agreement on energy was signed during Norwegian Minister of Energy Terje Aasland’s visit to Ukraine. www.regjeringen.no/en/whats-new...

Proceedings resumed in the Nord Stream sabotage trial in Hamburg, where prosecutors opposed a defence request to suspend the case. They argued that Ukrainian military secrecy requirements would not prevent Serhii Kuznetsov from receiving a fair trial. www.kyivpost.com/post/88287

As a follow-up of the Oslo meeting on 20 October and in consultation with Ukraine, 🇫🇮President Alexander Stubb and 🇳🇴Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre today held a phone call with President Putin. Finland and Norway are firm supporters of 🇺🇦Ukraine. Press release👇 www.regjeringen.no/en/whats-new...

Energiminister Terje Aasland besøkjer i dag Ukrainas hovudstad Kyiv. Aasland skal blant anna ha politiske samtalar med Ukrainas energiminister og møte aktørar som jobbar med sivil beredskap. Noregs vassdrags- og energidirektorat (NVE) deltek også på besøket. www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/e...

In today's Russian papers, surprise at the the defeat of Moscow ally Aleksander Vučić in Serbia. One paper: “Russia can expect nothing good from this.” Another: “The results benefit the EU.” But several point out: “The Serbs are dependant on Russian gas.” #ReadingRussia

We know how heavily the long period of Mongol domination weighed on the political, intellectual, and moral development of Muscovy. Since then, Russia has established itself as a “poor power,” with anti-Western sentiment serving as a cover for its poverty. desk-russie.info/2026/10/21/r...

⚡️ Ukraine’s AI-powered Sky Sentinel turret is now actively intercepting Russia's fastest drones. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

Despicable Doesn’t Begin to Cover It David French: "Given enough time, every institution takes on the character of its leader. Trump is a cruel man, he leads a cruel movement, and only the total defeat of both can free the nation from their malign control." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/25/o...

Russia hopes to weaken Nato with Ukraine peace talks Joe Barnes, The Telegraph: "Putin will probably demand that Nato’s footprint in Europe be reduced to its 1997 level, before former Eastern bloc countries began joining the alliance." [Gift Article] www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/10685b2...

🔴 Patriot missiles expended in the Middle East could have sustained Ukraine's air defenses for several years. united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

The #Tech Billionaires Dimension of Power and influence And the resulting dangers. Good recommended read, thanks @dianefrancis.substack.com @kyivpost.com www.kyivpost.com/opinion/87991

Scott Kirby says wealth inequality is a ‘danger to society’ and calls for inheritance tax in recent interview

How is Donald Trump’s criticism of President Zelensky interpreted in Moscow? “As a mandate to continue military pressure,” writes one Russian paper. I ask Muscovites to name one word that’s important to them & read what Russian schoolkids are taught about “defence of the Motherland.” #ReadingRussia

Es herrscht Krieg in Europa, daher nehme ich Drohungen ernst. Wir dürfen uns aber nicht von Angst leiten lassen. Kriegsdrohungen sind Teil der russischen Propaganda und sollen uns verunsichern und die Ukraine-Hilfe schwächen. Den Gefallen sollten wir Russland nicht tun. www.ksta.de/politik/roet...

As a member of the Bundestag since 1994, Dr. Röttgen totally ignores Germany's complicity with Russia. It made itself dependent on Russian energy, and was the architect of the “German-Russian Armaments Commission” created in 2011. From my Dec 2025 Substack: edsolomon.substack.com/i/181755363/...

To this day, Germany profits by failing to stop transshipments of cars through third-countries to Russia. They continue to keep the floodgates of Russian tourism to the EU open. There have been 21 rounds of intentionally worthless sanctions. From Aug 2025: edsolomon.substack.com/i/170332236/...

Incredibly, Dr. Röttgen claims that "the Bundeswehr will fight and defend the people of this country and our allies." In fact, Chancellor Merz has told NATO and the world that Germany only intends to increase troop strength to an anemic 260,000 over the next 10 years! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Fiction 😵‍💫 “It’s a 3 day special operation” 😵‍💫 “This war will be settled in one day” Vs reality 😞 1705 days of full scale war 😞 1-2 mill dead & wounded 😞 Countless russian war crimes 😞 100s of bns of damage 😞 Immeasurable trauma 😞 Russia could end the war today, but doesn’t #StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

Ukrainian drones struck Siberia’s Omsky Kauchuk plant over 2,500 km away, hitting a site producing missile rocket propellant. The record deep strike hit a logistics hub in Omsk alongside concurrent drone attacks on a Belgorod commercial complex. www.kyivpost.com/post/88099

Der @audiofficial.bsky.social Chef Gernot Döllner tritt im US-Wahlkampf der #Midterms2026 für Donald #Trump auf. Ich weiß nicht, wann ein Firmenchef zuletzt so brutal seiner eigenen Marke geschadet hat. Wer soll diesem Mann und dieser Firma noch ein Auto abkaufen? #Audi @volkswagen.bsky.social

In 2003, non-NATO Ukraine deployed over 1,600 troops to the US-led coalition in Iraq, suffering 18 killed and 32 wounded in action. The deployment marked Ukraine's early role in global security missions.

⚡️ Latvian MEP Rihards Kols criticized the inaction of nearly three million Russians living in Europe. He pointed out there is zero evidence of systematic mass protests.

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

In less than two weeks, Washington sanctioned the court prosecuting Putin, waived its own sanctions on Russia, and called Putin a humanitarian. “None of the above is the word or deed of an ally,” argues Hans Petter Midttun. euromaidanpress.com/2026/10/24/u...

The craziest part of all of this is that the repugnants knew this and still propped him up then and support him today.

Western Embassies Must Stay in Bomb-Blasted Kyiv | "Russia is determined to force Ukraine’s allies out of their diplomatic missions this winter. This has to be resisted." Margaryta Khvostova and Amelia Hadfield https://cepa.org/article/western-embassies-must-stay-in-bomb-blasted-kyiv/

Spheres of Influence Won’t Help the US | "Sacrificing small nations to please the world’s biggest countries is a dead end. The US in particular has much more to lose than to gain." CEPA https://cepa.org/article/spheres-of-influence-wont-help-the-us/

More than ever :

Stuart Dowell analyzes Putin’s interview and wonders whether the Russian president might have said more than he intended. Particularly troubling is yet another sign that Russia, the U.S., and China want to decide the future of Ukraine and Europe on their own.

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Fur farming is horrendous anyway - I really don't understand how that still exists today. But it turns out it might also be creating the next pandemic! Wonderful. This US outbreak comes after something similar was reported on a Spanish mink farm a few months ago, by the way,

Denmark has transferred 50,000 20 mm rounds for F-16 fighter jets to help Ukraine counter jet-powered russian drones. This timely support strengthens Ukraine’s ability to defend its skies. Thank you, Denmark, for standing with Ukraine and helping save Ukrainian lives from russian terrorism 💙💛

Ukrainian interceptors still cannot use the internet at high speed to shoot down Russian attack drones or conduct mid-strike operations as of today morning, Ukrainian officials and a drone operator said.

One Russian paper today concludes that the war in Ukraine has reached “a fork in the road: either real peace talks on the entire range of issues, or the next level of escalation.” What the Russian press is saying about the prospects for peace. #ReadingRussia

Seventy years ago, protests in Budapest set off one of the most significant challenges to Soviet control in Eastern Europe.

Rahm Emanuel has been a valet to the oligarchs his entire life. I have no reason to believe that he would ever address wealth inequality or the needs of working class and middle class Americans. He has NO credibility. From Miles Kampf-Lassin in 2019: inthesetimes.com/article/rahm....

Europe can’t claim energy independence while still paying for Russian gas. Germany’s state-owned #SEFE is contracted to take 2.9m tonnes of Russian LNG a year from #Yamal until 2040, while Russia attacks Ukrainian civilians daily 👇

#Germany must lead: end SEFE’s Yamal ties by every legal route, keep feed-in tariffs for small rooftop solar beyond 2027, and speed up solar and heat pump rollout. Every panel is gas that Russia can’t sell.

Palantir seeks to reassure Europeans that its military AI system used by NATO has no "kill ‌switch", after disruptions to Ukraine's Starlink services heightened concerns about reliance on US tech firms. Interview with Louis Mosley:

Absolutely appalling, totally unacceptable, shameful news out of Poland. Warsaw is HALTING a large MILITARY AID PACKAGE to Ukraine. Coercion of Ukraine to bend to its will, Trump regime-style. www.facebook.com/share/p/19Ug...

Formanden for det amerikanske olieselskab Greenland Energy, der planlægger at bore efter olie i Østgrønland næste vinter, er netop blevet udpeget til en toppost i en amerikansk rum- og forsvarsvirksomhed. Udnævnelsen lægger nyt pres på Grønland, vurderer en ekspert: https://danwatch.dk/?p=54846

My latest on what European investigators are uncovering about Russia’s attacks across Europe. Meanwhile, the traitor in chief continues to reward war criminal Putin and give Russia a green light to escalate.