Russian economy is tanking. Here is new evidence 1. Food inflation alone in Russia has surged 70% this year. Potato prices up 73% and butter 30%. True inflation since the invasion in 2022 is 71.4%, dwarfing the official number of 28% 1/

Weil @Bundeskanzler Scholz 🇩🇪 immer wieder als „stärksten Unterstützer der Ukraine in Europa“ lobt: Ja, in absoluten Zahlen ist das so, gemessen am BIP liegt 🇩🇪 allerdings nur auf Rang 15 (0,381%), auch das gehört zur Wahrheit. Vorn liegt 🇩🇰 (1,86%). Quelle: Kiel Institute (IfW Kiel)

#EIL Haushälter von FDP, Grünen & CDU dementieren Olaf Scholz' Behauptung, er werde in der #Ukraine „weitere Rüstungsgüter mit einem Wert von 650 Mio Euro ankündigen“. Es gebe weder neues Geld noch neue Waffen, so Ingo Gädechens, Sebastian Schäfer und Karsten Klein, MdB aD 🇺🇦. bild.de/politik/inland…

One of the biggest lessons from Syria is that, just a month ago, almost no one could have predicted the Assad regime would fall today. The "realities on the ground" crowd would have denied such a possibility. A reminder of why people in Ukraine fight rather than surrender.

In PPP terms russia spends now more on war than 🇩🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧🇮🇹🇵🇱🇪🇸🇵🇹🇳🇱🇧🇪🇱🇺🇮🇪🇩🇰🇸🇪🇫🇮🇳🇴🇮🇸🇨🇭🇦🇹🇪🇪🇱🇹🇱🇻🇨🇿🇸🇰🇭🇺🇷🇴🇧🇬🇸🇮🇭🇷🇧🇦🇲🇪🇲🇰🇷🇸🇽🇰🇦🇱🇬🇷🇹🇷🇲🇹🇨🇾🇲🇩🇺🇦 spend on defence COMBINED. russia will not stop at Ukraine. 2 years after fighting in Ukraine ends putin will attack Europe... and Trump will allow it

A must listen 👇 "Let's be clear, if not Brussels, it's Moscow. It's your decision. Putin will pull Europe apart if we don't trust each other. Europe needs a single voice, not a dozen different ones" The most pro EU speech ever from someone who knows what's at stake👇

I think Europe can come up with ~3 brigades (x3) for rotation without canceling all existing regional defense plan requirements. This might require a total of 45-50k. But the force needs to have battalions near the front, not milling about in Western Ukraine doing training. 4/

Now that Trump and Putin are on the same page when it comes to Ukraine, will Europe hold another hand-wringing summit? Reminder: it is within Europe’s power to confiscate $300 billion in Russian assets and alter the dynamic of the conflict.

Berliner Runde ist die erste Talkshow, die Sahra Wagenknecht je ausgeschlagen hat. #Bundestagwahl2025

Must read: Deutschland hat noch nach Kriegsbeginn 2014 mehr als 100 Milliarden Euro - mehr als das Sondervermögen - für russisches Gas bezahlt. Im Bund und in MV waren zahlreiche Ministerien damit beschäftigt, deutsche Abhängigkeit von Russland zu vergrößern. Konsequenzen? Keine.

So etwas müsste doch eigentlich den Tatbestand des Landesverrats erfüllen? 🤔

Today, all allies of the United States saw what treatment they will get in DC if they are attacked by Russia while Trump or Vance are in office.

The suggestion Ukrainians don't want 'peace' is obscene. Every Ukrainian - and everyone living here - has friends or family fighting at the front. And everyone has lost someone. Ukrainians deeply want the war to end; they want their freedom even more. Surrender is not peace.

While Trump is saving Putin, the latter is facing problems on the front lines—AFU are counterattacking in several locations across Donbas, including Pokrovsk, Chasiv Yar, and Toretsk. The Russians report serious issues with manpower, depleted by Gerasimov’s endless meat assaults.

Re-reading the Danish intelligence report from February 2025, which, I think, is the least conservative assessment of Russian reconstitution timelines & capability among all the published views from European intelligence services in the past year. fe-ddis.dk/globalassets/f…

Sumy.

Drinks flowing in Moscow, judging by Kremlin mouthpiece Simonyan’s post. But I’m told Russian negotiators def talked about taking another 2, not 4 regions: they threatened to annex Kharkiv and Sumy if Ukraine doesn’t withdraw fm 4 provinces Russia claims — but doesn’t fully