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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg
Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg
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Columnist. Chessplayer. MA & Management. benjaminhusstadnedberg.substack.com You are entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. #NAFO for #Ukraine🫡
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The Baltic states will not roll over easy, if the Butcher In Kremlin gets another stupid idea 👇 @ukrainematters.bsky.social #Russia #Ukraine
The long-term impact on the American arms industry, resulting from the current administration’s incredibly incompetent foreign policy, will prove very costly. #US #Trump #Ukraine #Europe #Russia
I support the induction. Ivanchuk is a legend 💪🫡
👏 Vasyl Ivanchuk, a legendary Ukrainian grandmaster, has been inducted into the World Chess Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony for the new members of the World Chess Hall of Fame took place in St Louis, US. Ivanchuk was one of five inductees. 📸: GettyImages
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⚡️️️️️️️New report tracks how Russia helps China build better drones. The investigation found that Russian designs for rocket-launched drones likely shaped weapons China unveiled in 2025 and that Russian wind tunnels kept testing aircraft models for China's top arms maker after the invasion of Ukraine.
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⚡️️️️️️️Russian sabotage network behind Romanian arson attack, officials say. The attack is "part of a larger campaign of sabotage operations attributed to the Russian Federation in Europe," according to the Romanian Intelligence Service.
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⚡️️️️️️️Russia's assault on Ukraine's energy grid is a war crime, UN says. Russia’s attacks on energy infrastructure, which weaponize winter to inflict suffering, amount to war crimes, a UN inquiry has found.
Let’s start with these: If Russia wants a ceasefire they must first accept Ukraine as a sovereign state and Zelenskyj as its legitimate leader. Ukraine will not negotiate before Russia agrees to a one-month ceasefire first.
Ukraine must hold maximalist demands and avoid Russia’s classic trap: making outrageous demands while refusing to compromise, forcing the other side to make concessions and give Russia more than it deserves. Russia doesn’t deserve to get anything
Exactly. Like when the American dictator had a tantrum and invaded Iran in February.
JD Vance: Remember in 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine and gas prices skyrocketed? They skyrocketed,by the way,far higher then than they are today. They skyrocketed in 1979.They skyrocketed in 2001.They skyrocketed in 2007 They skyrocket every time some tin pot dictator decides to throw a tantrum.
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“Trump, who has cut U.S. aid to Ukraine by 99 percent, is sending American money to the Kremlin — and therefore to a Russian war machine that the United Nations says is killing Ukrainian civilians at a ‘new horrifying level.”’ www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/w...
The humiliation is total👇 "If Stalin and his Cold War successors could see what Trump and Putin have created, and how the mighty United States has been humbled and humiliated, they might think that their evil hopes were not wrong, but only that they dreamed them too early."
Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order, turning America into a Russian ally, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/fC0XMlGu
" #Europe may never know whether Moscow’s next warning is a bluff, genuine preparation, or an attempt to influence a specific decision. It does not need to know. If a nuclear bluff were to prove as effective as the nuclear weapons themselves, #Russia ’s influence would be virtually unlimited."
Lesia Bidochko @Epik_Ukraine & Oleksandr Siedien @NaUKMA: Blant 31 europeiske giverland forutsier avstanden til Russland støtten til Ukraina bedre enn atomvåpenstatus eller demokratisk kvalitet. GEOPOLITIKA geopolitika.no/hvordan-naer...
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Russian propaganda sometimes get things right👇 "...political scientist Dmitry Kulikov asserted that Trump’s string of concessions to Putin amounted to an American defeat. “They’ve lost to the Russian Federation,” he proudly claimed."
One by one, Moscow’s wish list items are being fulfilled, bringing pure joy to the Kremlin’s favorite experts & state TV pundits. Head of RT Margarita Simonyan proclaimed there would never be another Ukrainian president. My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social www.thedailybeast.com/putins-ghoul...
@gernotdoellner.bsky.social must be fired immediately. This is utter madness at a time when the #US is facilitating #Russia ’s war against #Europe, and we must ensure European industrial sovereignty. The German government must intervene if Audi does not resolve this. #Germany
This is very important. Europe must stop complaining that it is not included at the negotiating table, and force itself into the position by strength. Priority number one is to define our war aims. That should be easy; Ukrainian victory ✌️
President Petr Pavel of Czechia gave an interview to Paul Ronzheimer for RONZHEIMER and WELT. What is President Pavel discussing? Europe’s overall weakness today is its lack of agency. Europe is not perceived as a united whole with a common position.
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That’s the red flags in job interviews for the Trump administration; If you mention “national interests” or “competence”, you’re out.
People still talk about the foreign policy of the Trump administration as if (a) it's designed to advance US national interests, rather than private ones and (b) there's a reasonable expectation of competence and coherence. Neither of these things is correct.
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30 years of nationalist pro-Russian coverage form a state controlled media, makes its mark. Change will take time. The risk of waiting is that without an immediate change, Serbia is stuck on the wrong side of history, supporting fascism. Serbia needs to break with Russia before Putin falls.
According to preliminary results of the October 25 parliamentary elections, the “Student List” won the majority of votes and secured enough seats to form Serbia’s new government independently.
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Though the Trump administration is full of bombast, the US has lost this war with Iran. You want to see why? The region is moving on without the USA. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...
Musk is evil.
"We should (have) some sympathy for the poor Russian conscripts too. Those kids have no choice but to fight and die in drone strikes." For anyone watching and understanding Ukraine's years-long struggle for survival, the words of SpaceX founder Elon Musk ring with deep moral bankruptcy.
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Use the frozen Russian assets!
🇭🇺🇨🇿🇸🇰🇺🇦 Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia do not want to take on financial obligations under a new loan to Ukraine, — Welt They demand to be exempted from participating in the financial provision of a new 🇪🇺EU loan. They insist on significant financing of their own countries from EU budget.
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Like I said, it's too soon to celebrate👇 bsky.app/profile/maks...
Team😇DEMOCRACY vs Team😈DICTATORSHIP: Election in #Serbia The pro-Russian Vučić has conceded defeat, and the "Student List" has won the election. For now, I still consider Serbia a SUPPORTER of #Russia —until we see what the new government chooses to do in regards to #Ukraine and #Europe. ⤵️
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In August, President Trump announced he had signed the “biggest oil deal in world history.” ProPublica reviewed the deal and found it gives a small group of people largely handpicked by the Trump administration long-term control of the enterprise.
If I proposed a convicted pedophile to run a kindergarten, all sane people would consider me a morally bankrupt crazy person. For everyone in the world observing the White House we see that the light is on, but there is nobody home. No valid brain activity is registered.
According to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal, President Trump's administration has proposed former Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán as a candidate for UN Secretary-General. The United States is reportedly counting on Russia and China to support the idea.
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⚠️Entry 28 in THE KRASNOV COUNT⚠️ Trump’s criminal syndicate—the most corrupt in American history—is now attempting to sell gas rights in Alaska to a Russian oil company. ⤵️ @nytimes.com @ericlipton.nytimes.com #Russia #Ukraine #Trump #US
⚠️Entry 27 in THE KRASNOV COUNT⚠️ #Trump is ending the charade, and openly supporting #Russia in public. Trump is scrapping the Graham-Blumenthal bill, lifting sanctions against Russia, entering into a diesel deal with Putin, and repeating all his previous lies about the Russia- #Ukraine war.
This is a flagrant violation of all sanctions and is illegal under American law. It exacerbates the war in Europe by ensuring American protection for the Putin regime, which understands that it can continue its genocide without facing punishment. @foreignpolicy.com @drjademcglynn.bsky.social
Russian intelligence, MAGA and Musk's X are poisoning the public discourse in Europe. They lie and amplify polarization in democracies, hoping to destroy them. Don't be fooled! @alliance4europe.bsky.social @aprokopiev.bsky.social
Remember; it is official American policy to influence European elections, to make Europe more 'MAGA'. @news.dw.com