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Known as “whisky on the rocks”. The navigational “error” happened after it went through an extremely complex sea channel by accident near a Swedish naval base. We’d been accusing the Swedes of “anti soviet paranoia” before this happened.

OTD in 1981 “whisky on the rocks”. Soviet submarine S-363 ran aground after “navigational error” in Sweden. My navy converts ships to submarines and submarines to ships. My trolls are not snowflakes about this.

The europeans continue to interfere in their own internal affairs.

Rubio: What's the problem? All Putin wants is the Donbass. It's just 11% of the country.... Prez: I demand full control over Ukraine and expect their unconditional surrender. Rubio: See, it's just the Donbass.

Nothing says "the media manufactured the Russia hoax" than going on a hunting trip with one Russian oligarch right after another Russian oligarch had paid for your wedding.

Dozens of vehicles lost or damaged in one raid is a heavy blow to transport capacity behind Russia’s occupation forces: trucks that could have carried supplies now sit in wreckage.

Ukrainian strike drones hit a logistics transport parking area in occupied Donetsk’s Leninskyi district overnight. More than 30 vehicles were reportedly destroyed and nearly 30 more damaged. Gutted trailers and burned-out trucks fill the yard, with twisted metal scattered across the ground.

Occupation cannot confiscate memory. Russia keeps rebuilding the same amnesia every generation, and Ukraine keeps the receipts. That continuity let the culture outlast every ban and every attempt to erase the name.

Cheap oil and gas is the cheapest weapon against moscovia. Every dollar off a barrel is a dollar out of its war budget. You dont need to like the market. Just let it work while Ukraine keeps hitting the refineries.

The latest iteration has a V-tail, low-aspect-ratio wings and a refined fuselage. Russia keeps redesigning the weapons it sends into Ukraine. Each change gives air defenders a different target to detect, track and destroy.

A Russian Geran-5 jet-powered drone has come down in Odesa region. It was either downed or forced down. The dark airframe lies in a harvested field near a rural settlement, its twin tail fins still upright. A new branch of Moscow’s Geran/Shahed family has emerged.

Russian forces may have been trying to exploit the period of Starlink/Starshield terminal restrictions to move infantry, provisions and fuel towards their positions. Instead, they put a convoy of supply vehicles in SIGNUM’s sights.

Drone operators from the SIGNUM battalion, part of Ukraine’s 59th Assault Brigade, struck a large Russian logistics column behind the lines in Donetsk region. It included military trucks and fuel tankers. That was a bold run on exposed roads.

The European Central Bank faces a pivotal week with storm clouds gathering on two fronts: French market turmoil and uncertainty over the Frankfurt institution's top jobs.

Marco Rubio told India Today in Mumbai that Russia’s war against Ukraine is essentially a dispute over Donbas. He described the territory at issue as roughly 11% of one part of the country: land Russia wants but cannot capture militarily, and Ukraine will not surrender.

SOUTH CAROLINA’S SENATE RACE Darlin Graham is running for her late brother Lindsey Graham’s seat. She had taken a broadly pro-Ukraine position, but has now backed Trump’s deal with Russia to bring 300,000 tonnes of diesel onto US and global markets.

Peter, Hector, Juan, Kim, Valtteri, Mats, Doug, Carlos, Jan, Greg, and Magnus each received thanks for donations, personal contributions to Ukraine's defense, and support of a unit. Norway earned thanks for its backing. Finland drew gratitude, and with it the free world was acknowledged.

Truman was answering after Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam, where the pattern was already set. The useful part for 2026 is the method: judge Moscow by what it signed and then broke, not by what it says at the table.

The commission says civilian facilities were deliberately targeted under a state policy to deprive people of electricity and other essential services, causing suffering. Its findings also identify the trafficking of foreign nationals to fight in Ukraine as a crime against humanity.

A UN Commission of Inquiry has found that Russia’s systematic attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Investigators examined the cumulative impact of strikes since autumn 2022.

Donald Trump Jr. went hunting in Mongolia with Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, the FT reports. He arrived in late August with a US Secret Service detail and Republican donor Kevin Small. Kremlev and oligarch Artur Martirosov flew in later from Kazakhstan.

A comms officer with the unit's frequencies and coordinates is the worst person for Moscow to lose. Stupnikov didnt just walk, he took the command map with him. When officers start deciding the war is a fraud, the rot is inside the officer corps, not the propaganda.

Russian drone footage caught Ukrainian infantry establishing positions in the Serebrianske forest east of Lyman.

The facility repairs Russian air-defence systems, radars and communications equipment. OSINT analysts have also identified it as a major storage site for air-defense assets. The visible damage is at a site Russia relies on to maintain and store those systems.

Satellite imagery dated October 25 offers a closer look at the 75th Arsenal in Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast, after the October 22 drone attack. A long-roofed building appears to have roof damage or a disrupted covering. This warehouse complex is extraordinary.

Engels and Ukrainka are the same two bases that launch most of the waves. The tell worth watching isnt the bombers, its whether theyre loading before or after the tankers stage. Western regions plus the grid means another winter coercion run.

Two missiles struck the runway at Baltimore airfield in Voronezh during the October 23 attack. The aircraft were likely moved out of danger before the impacts. WHAT THE IMAGERY ADDS Satellite images dated October 26 show two dark impact marks with streaks across the paved surface.

Thromb handing Ukraine weapons licenses is a real win: Kyiv builds faster, cheaper, and sets its own schedule. Thank Zelensky and the ZSU for making it happen. Trusting Thromb is a separate question, and the answer is still no.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb and Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store called Putin on 27 October. European leaders had not called him since Macron spoke with him in July 2025. The significance lies in who placed the call, whose interests they represented, and what they took into it.

Bloomberg putting numbers on it matters: hundreds recruited out of Burundi and Zimbabwe, an admission. Moscow strips its own poorest regions first, then rents manpower from states too weak to stop the recruiters.

Some of the latest Russian humanitarian initiatives in the Donetsk Oblast, by Vladimir ”The Humanitarian” Putin

Trump's only true ideologies are grifting and imperialism. He will always try to make money for himself and always side with imperialists. Everything else is negotiable and always ends in failure

Trump is by far the worst, most corrupt, and most traitorous president in US history

Elon Musk is a huge hypocrite

While Trump's failed foreign policy and tariffs made life far more expensive for Americans, he managed to double his own net worth over the last 2 years

Trump's willingness to enter a trilateral summit with Putin and Xi plays right into Moscow's core geopolitical fantasy: a Yalta 2.0 where great powers carve the globe into spheres of influence. Symbolically, it would be a huge victory for the Kremlin

It’s Putin and not Zelensky who should be asked to step down

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

No one comes close

These cruise missiles will help Ukraine a lot

Far-right influencer Nick Fuentes telling his followers to stay home or vote Democrat in the midterms

Russia’s war on Ukraine is not going well. Russia is basically fighting for nothing

Every time Trump, Musk, or Putin attack and try to delegitimize Zelensky, his approval rating in Ukraine goes up

New article (free): Why Russia is losing the unprovoked war it started in Ukraine joniaskola.substack.com/p/why-russia...

European security is far too critical to be tied to the shifting moods and interests of American oligarchs

Putin has been in power for 20 years longer than Zelensky

Groypers have turned on Trump

That’s a lot of wanker packed into one headline

The future of the Middle East depends on whether Washington and Tehran can reach an understanding with one another on the emerging post-war order in the Middle East. Read Mohsen Milani's analysis on the impact of the Iran war on the Persian Gulf for the latest issue of @theworldtoday.org.

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