Ukraine's Foreign Minister shows conclusive evidence that China is actively supplying assisting the Russian military, with parts manufactured only 2 weeks ago.

(1/2) Nuclear deterrence: 30 years after the Chequers Declaration, a major strategic announcement will take place today as London and Paris will state they are opening the possibility to "coordinate" their nuclear deterrents and that they now protect Europe against "extreme

(2/2) This will not affect in any way the core elements of their respective national nuclear doctrines. But I believe it's the optimal step they could take in the current context. For background see this piece I published yesterday (translated from the French):

my brain when i'm trying to write

Fiona Hill's assessment seems rather good.

One of the little sweet moments in the aftermath of the Cold War was realizing that the vast majority of citizens, soldiers, officers, and politicians in both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had always been terrified of nuclear war and were willing to take great measures to avoid it.

Het is geen cadeau voor VS, maar NL aankoop v/ luchtverdediging voor OEK. Gezien voortdurende RUS raketaanvallen geen slecht idee om OEK burgers te beschermen. Europese alternatieven zouden beter zijn; daarom meer investeren in Europese defensie-industrie?

“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.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Reading is a reality simulator

The long-range strike issue is one area where the Merz government handled matters well. I am not a fan of the decision not to supply Taurus in the end, as the political signal would have been important. From a military perspective, however, Germany’s largescale financing of

Yeah I listened to the security guarantees exploding over my house until 4am last night

200 missiles a month would be a soul crushing number for Russia…..

I've decided to translate for you a post from the Russian Telegram channel "Nezygar" about the current state of Russian refineries and fuel market: "Tensions in Russia's fuel market are rising: in Primorye, there are kilometer-long queues at gas stations, and wholesale prices

You may like Mario Draghi or not, but his speech yesterday in Rimidi is quite sensible: Europe has been thinking that its internal market was a source of geopolitical influence until it was not. Europe was imposed Russia's invasion of Ukraine, China's hacks and information

De vredesonderhandelingen zijn mislukt en dat ligt aan de 'radicale Sudeten.' 29 september 1938.

"The war in Ukraine has become a contest between two hourglasses: one measuring how long Ukraine’s thinly stretched army can keep up the fight, and the other how long Russia’s economy can sustain the invasion without hurting the stability of Vladimir Putin’s regime."

This is huge. Not entirely unexpected but very important.

This to me is the most revealing sentence in this article. Outside observers often assume that senior military commanders in the rear and political decision-makers possess a clear understanding of the battlefield situation and the relative status of their forces. As I noted in

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching