Exclusive: Ukraine lost 80,000 troops and around 400,000 have been wounded, according to confidential estimates from earlier this year. In total, a million fighters are now dead or injured on both sides following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩ wsj.com/world/one-mill…

🧵Amid Georgia's political polarization, a potential third force could be forming. Can Khazaradze and Gakharia set aside their differences to offer a real alternative? Here's the latest on the evolving situation 👇 #GeVOTE24

1/ My article in🇩🇪on🇬🇪's authoritarian turn, its misframing by a certain international left & the dangers for democratic mobilization posed by Georgian Dream's attempt to switch to the orbit of the "multipolarity" of rogue governments jungle.world/artikel/2024/3… The main takeaways:

📰💬’For all their differences, #Tolstoy and #Russell became drivers of a revolution in war writing as they tried to understand and convey what happened in the trenches of Sevastopol.' Irish Times Books reviews #CrimeanQuagmire ('a fine new book') 👇irishtimes.com/culture/books/…

I image this is getting a lot of plays in the Levant right now youtube.com/watch?v=lzs-4D…

Russian state media reports that the IMF has cancelled its planned consultations in Russia. This is very good and it was crazy the visit was proposed, there is no way the hen should be going to visit the fox house. t.me/tass_agency/27…

Incredibly disappointing

"Artillery shells sold by Indian arms makers have been diverted by European customers to Ukraine and New Delhi has not intervened to stop the trade despite protests from Moscow, according to eleven Indian and European government and defence industry officials... Among the

1/ Alarming development: Russian servicemen briefly detained EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia monitors during their patrol near the Abkhazia-Georgia separation line. "Incidents like this undermine efforts to build confidence and prevent tensions," EUMM stated. eumm.eu/en/press_and_p…

I really hope someone is doing a deep dive into VFS Global, the world's largest visa processing firm. Its up for sale by private equity sponsors for second time in two years, again for many billions. I for one dont think it wise to outsource such work... bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

business rivals using private armies to settle corporate disputes, the 90s are back baby

This makes me want to take up arms for the Luddite cause

Gotta say no real smoking gun in here for those who know Kazakhstan and its business environment / Russian permeation, question is whether it will gain attention

In which the leader of the opposition In Belize is asked whether he participated in freak offs

Woah