RobinK

Off to Lviv I go. Ten days of volunteering in Ukraine. A 🧵. Previously: bsky.app/profile/temp...

"From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. All citizens will be required to change their underwear every half hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now 16 years old.”

"I was only following orders", Texas edition.

Mal testen, ob das tut mit den 🎁 link (no paywall) der WELT... geschenk.welt.de/Zu4n19

Der „klassische“ und recht barbarische Beschuss mit ballistischen Raketen. Die erste Welle kurz vor 22 Uhr, die zweite dann etwa um 3:30. Wie gesagt, ziemlich typisch für die Lage in Kyjiw zuletzt. Die Aufteilung dieser Angriffe auf vereinzelte Wellen dient auch der psychologischen Kriegsführung.

When you've lost the Torygraph...

»After its victory party Student List will have to decide who to put in charge - and who its friends are« 🎁 link (no paywall)

✈️ Russian airport shutdowns from October 23–25 according to CyberBoroshno's analysis: 🚫 44 closures ⚠️ 4 restrictions 30 airports affected Peak: 15 airports closed simultaneously on October 24 at 11:03 AM. And according to Forbes, russian airlines' losses could exceed $2.5 BILLION! this year alone 💸

»Journalism no longer sufficed for a former television presenter from Moscow. He joined a Ukrainian brigade in 2024« 🎁 link (no paywall)

Ukraine is taking back territory, and Trump is trying to bail out Putin — the one assignment he has always taken seriously. (Note: this essay by Phillips O'Brien is from last week. See his page for this week's update as well) phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

My reporting on the student movement in Serbia last summer. They kept at it, amazingly, for two years. And they won. snyder.substack.com/p/youth-prot...

Good riddance to bad rubbish. 🎁 link (no paywall)

Yo, #NAFO, give this fella's post a boost. #RussiaIsATerroristState #РусниПизда

Hört auf die Juristen: »Deutschland sei auf dem Weg zur „Dummheitsduldungsgesellschaft“, warnt Rechtswissenschaftlerin Gülbay-Peischard: Ignoranz, Verantwortungslosigkeit und Selbstüberschätzung breiteten sich aus. Wie gegensteuern?«

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

A small campaign you can join and make a difference — helping to save lives at the front. And the patches are nice. www.help99.co/patches/corn...

In this stroller, there is now nothing but a bloody pulp. This is all that remains of the baby after today’s Russian shelling of a park in the Kharkiv region. #MadeByPutin #FinancedByTrump

Siberia called. Apparently 3,000 km is no longer a safe distance from Ukraine! 🤩🔥 Fantastic work by our Defense Forces! An Ozon warehouse and a chemical plant are on fire in Omsk 😌 #GloryToUkraine #GloryToHeroes

Zarina Zabrisky: Behind me, you can see Oleshky: the town no one wanted to hear about nine months ago. Now, the world knows but the ordeal is not over. The next week ceasefire will be used for a “press tour” to whitewash Russia's war crimes. Don't fall for Russian propaganda.

🇷🇸🗳️Go angry Serbian students, go.

»Elon Musk has accused Ukraine of using his Starlink technology for offensive and fatal drone strikes, after the country's connection was restored following more than a week's disruption.« 🎁 link (no paywall)

Nothing says "fighting Nazism" like launching an expansionist war to unite "one people" on the basis of "genetics."

My weekly update on Ukraine and the Pacific, as well as my Big Five recommended war and national security readings, is now available. This week: Starlink slowdowns, Vivaldi lessons, Trump's embrace of Putin and Taiwan's joint C2 issues. mickryan.substack.com/p/communicat...

»Elections this weekend come with the prospect of an alternative administration more wedded to liberal and democratic values« 🎁 link (no paywall)

»Trump has spent nearly two years trying to convince Putin that peace will be more rewarding than war. To get a cease-fire, he must now convince him that war will be more costly than peace.« 🎁 link (no paywall)

»CIA Director John Ratcliffe leads an agency that's at war with Russia, even as Trump makes nice with Putin.« 🎁 link (no paywall)

Trump: "We'll take care of Cuba on our way back from Iran ... those beautiful ships, they'll pass Cuba. We'll have one of them stop about 50 yards off the coast. They'll raise up their hands, and then we're gonna send Marco Rubio in."

»A fellow inmate of Stephen Hubbard, who was released this week, said the American was singled out for beatings and sexual assault after being seized in Ukraine« 🎁 link (no paywall)

NEW: The Kremlin's seeming interest in negotiations aims not to end the war in Ukraine but rather to secure economic concessions from the United States such that Russia can continue funding its war. 🧵(1/8) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar102226

»Ondřej Surý was a relatively anonymous volunteer working on PHP security. Then the internet exploded.« 🎁 link (no paywall)

»Russian influence operations appear to be stepping up efforts to meddle in the midterms, according to intelligence officials. Most are targeting Democrats.« 🎁 link (no paywall)

»As drones fill the skies over the war zone, the fighting in Ukraine has moved into a network of gas pipelines deep belowground.« 🎁 link (no paywall)

»Kyiv says the US policy of improving relations with Moscow is failing as Russian ballistic missiles hit targets overnight« 🎁 link (no paywall)

“This kind of thing harms Ukraine” A regional council in western Ukraine is calling for a year of remembrance for the former Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which is associated with serious crimes in Poland. www.faz.net/aktuell/poli...

This entire admin in one story: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Since 2024, the EU has signed Security and Defence Partnerships with 12 states. What do they really deliver? Our new @swp-berlin.org study (in German) edited by @chriswirth.bsky.social and me looks at eight of them, plus Turkey and Ukraine:

President Zelenskyy: If Ukraine gives up Sloviansk, Kramatorsk Druzhkivka, that will open up Dnipropetrovsk region to Russian troops. "It's very dangerous, and this is the heavily reinforced defense of our nation right here."

»Izyum, just 20 miles from Russia's frontline, is under relentless bombardment as the Kremlin insists it will carve out 'buffer zones' in the Kharkiv region« 🎁 link (no paywall)

From this article: www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

There you have it: "Musk and Trump discussed the Starlink decision in a call soon after the slowdown became public." Gift link ⤵️ www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

Extremely sound mickryan.substack.com/p/what-has-u...

this is the German party that the GOP's #1 donor in the '24 and '26 elections is constantly promoting on his personal account on the hate speech website he owns