🧐~Mtg w/analysts, Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies (SCEEUS)

🧐~Text, Kasparov & retired Adm McRaven: Are We Still the Good Guys? ~"if we stop being seen as the good guys, then I think the world will lose a little faith in us ~A quote: "America is great because it is good. But if America ever stops being good, it will stop being great."

🧐~ICYMI: The director's call was touching, heartwarming, emotional, kind... (hear his voice, see his face as he shared the news): a memorable privilege, that moments shared by both such people, with heart-courage-integrity-humility, can be seen here:

🇺🇦 Zelensky: First of all, I want to thank all our people who are actually restoring electricity supply around the clock after all these Russian strikes. A lot has been done in Kyiv, in the Kyiv region, in the eastern regions. Due to Russian shelling, restoration in the Kharkiv

📉 Goldman Sachs forecasts a 10% decline in Russian oil production in 2026, from 9.3 to 8.4 million barrels per day, - The Telegraph The oil refinery crisis means there's nowhere to store the accumulated oil. Furthermore, oil companies are suffering from a high key interest

⚠️ ISW: Russia is already preparing for war with NATO — and may strike sooner than intelligence agencies expect The U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War reports that Moscow has entered what it calls “Phase Zero” — the stage of preparation for a potential confrontation with

Germany trained Russian troops and nearly placed officers inside each other's military commands just before Russia's 2014 Crimea annexation, Spiegel reports. Rheinmetall’s tech was central to Russia’s modern war games complex in Mulino. euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/12/spi…

"The government have actively avoided looking for evidence Russia interfered." The Intelligence & Security Committee's Stewart Hosie said the government didn't investigate alleged Russian interference in the Brexit vote, and no one wanted to touch this "with a ten-foot pole".

ISW says Russia doesn’t need to wait for full rearmament to go after NATO. It’s already testing tactics to strike without air superiority or tanks. Drone ops and sabotage in Europe are signs “Phase Zero” has started. euromaidanpress.com/2025/10/12/no-…

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist." cbsnews.com/chicago/news/p…

Today marks a historic milestone for Europe. All 29 Schengen countries have successfully launched the Entry/Exit System — the digital backbone of EU border management system. With the EES, we will know who enters and leaves the European Union, when and where. This achievement

‼️Russia could attack Europe at any moment The head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service (BND), Martin Jäger, has warned that Russia could shift from hybrid operations to direct military confrontation with Europe at any moment. According to him, Moscow already views the

"putin can be forced to make peace, just like any other terrorist. russia must lose." — Zelenskyy.

🧐~Zelensky: Russia Fired 3,100 Drones, 92 Missiles, and 1,360 Glide Bombs in Past Week▶kyivpost.com/post/61932

🧐~Maliuk rpt re 🇷🇺 agent networks & collaborators in the frontline & border regions, as well as in the south ~Confirmed: certain individuals hold Russian citizenship ~ Decisions regarding them have been prepared. ~Zelenskyy: I have signed the decree.

The British and German defence ministers have acknowledged that Ukraine is a "contributor" to European security and should have a place within NATO. "Ukraine is increasingly recognized and understood to play a part in the training of other NATO nations' forces. In recent moves

🇺🇸🧐🗨️~"If we can treat everybody with decency & respect and compromise, and make democracy work, it shines a light for the entire world." ~"... the question has always been, can we pull off this experiment..."

A powerful explosion at the Avangard plant in Bashkortostan, russia: The shock wave hit the entire city, and dozens of factory workers may have died, — russian media. This plant produces parts for missile systems for the russian army. 🔥🔥🔥

“Russia has imperialism in its DNA; its entire existence revolves around conquering territories and enslaving other nations. Both Finns and Poles are fully aware of this,” — Finnish President Stubb

Ukraine is slowly cutting off every route of electricity to Moscow with targeted strikes, as discovered by super-sleuth Evgen Istrebin 🇺🇦 Moscovites are about to feel their war. 1. Zhigulevskaya HPP 2. Saratov HPP 3. Volgograd HPP 4. Moscow