Great deep dive on the potential nuclear crisis of the Autumn of 2022 open.spotify.com/episode/4gPnX6…

🇺🇦 A list of countries that have allocated funding for the procurement of American weapons for Ukraine. - 🇳🇱 500 million € - 🇨🇦 500 million USD - 🇩🇪 500 million USD - 🇸🇪 275 million USD - 🇳🇴 118,1 million USD - 🇧🇪 100 million € - 🇩🇰 580 million DKK - 🇵🇹 50 million € (+50

Den förfärliga ”samhällsdebatten” måste få namn och bild om vi ska komma vidare i diskussionen. Utan precision i problembeskrivningen blir ”debattklimatet” bara ännu ett vapen i händerna på de existerande skyttegravarnas mest förutsägbara artillerister. expressen.se/kronikorer/vik…

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New: Trump warmly greeted Putin in Alaska. But behind closed doors, the summit quickly went south. Putin flatly rejected Trump’s ceasefire offer and went on a rambling digression about history. Trump raised his voice several times and nearly stormed out: on.ft.com/4nekfHY

I reviewed seven books on Russia for Foreign Policy here foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/17/rus… -- including works by Anton Shekhovtsov Jill Dougherty Andrew Monaghan Sabine Fischer Nurlan Aliyev Oscar Jonsson and Gudrun Persson of FOI

Very happy for this recommendation by Edward Lucas in FP --> foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/17/rus…

Oscar Jonsson and Ilmari Kaihko’s Non-Military Warfare maps how Russia fights without bullets: through disinformation, diaspora networks. Their warning to democracies: don't “fight Putinism by Putinizing” yourselves. The real battleground is moral restraint, not brute force. 6/

The share of expenditures allocated to servicing the national debt over the first nine months amounted to almost 8%. This is 50% more than in 2024, when 5.4% was spent on servicing. 2/

Russia’s war economy looks strong — but it’s built on sand. It functions like a disposable-goods system: factories produce weapons to be destroyed, creating activity but no lasting value. Each year of war leaves Russia busier — and poorer, as I argue 👇 🔗 foreignaffairs.com/russia/cracks-…

I think this affects Russians more than a lot of STRATCOM. ”The Irkutsk region has already begun cutting spending, announcing a 4.9-billion-ruble in education and healthcare Teachers faced pay cuts in 12 regions” themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/20/rus…

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