Historian researching 18th century British Enlightenment, Rational Dissent, antislavery, politics & Britain's 'Seventy Years War' with France, 1744-1815.
"Because we didn't want to, quote "provoke Vladimir Putin," By showing weakness we provoked Vladimir Putin...I was deeply disappointed in the United States of America when they (Ukraine) begged us for defensive weapons." I miss John McCain. He screamed to #ArmUkraineNow
„I don’t believe the Russians would have stopped at the border. We are only safe today thanks to Ukraine.“
- Maia Sandu
President of Moldova
Ukraine needs support every day...
Don't stop supporting Ukraine 🫡🇺🇦❤️
ZELENSKYY: Russia attacks us with more than 650 drones and 35 to 100 missiles per day. We respond with 300 to 350 drones, it’s not a competitive number. But, when we will have 600-plus drones and missiles, Russians will feel this war the way we do, but they will feel it at home.
Ukraine isn't testing the SKYNEX air defense system anymore. It's using it - and the results are rewriting Europe's defense orders.
All four SKYNEX systems pledged by Germany have been delivered and are operational. Developed by Rheinmetall, each unit combines a 35mm automated anti-aircraft cannon with radar-guided targeting and a networked battle management system - designed specifically to intercept Shahed-type drones before they reach their targets.
Ukraine's Air Force called the results "impeccable." Rheinmetall is now planning to scale production to 400 systems per year by 2027 - a decision driven directly by what Ukraine proved in combat.
The drone war created the demand. Ukraine created the proof of concept.
Wait. For. It. NASA animation shows Global temperatures warm slowly at first, then rapidly. Warming is accelerating! Here’s the truth. It’s real. It’s us. And we have to come to terms with it, and deal with reality, rather than deceiving ourselves, and hoping it goes away. It won’t… without intervention. #climate #globalwarming #science #climatechange
Leaving this here, in case anyone is wondering why we have screwworm in the US for the first time since the 1960s.
The DOGE stupidity from Trump and Rollins will end up COSTING taxpayers money.
New from me and @ChristopherJM: Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy invited Roman Abramovich to Kyiv last month in a failed attempt to convince Vladimir Putin to hold direct peace talks. But Putin thinks Russia is winning and isn’t interested.
https://t.co/goZsWKOfWf
WATCH: “We made an enormous mistake allowing the ed tech industry to come in and give every kid a computer, a tablet, an iPad, a Chromebook… and the results are devastating and we need to stop.” @JonHaidt via @andersoncooper@AC360
Since the start of the invasion, Russian forces have gang raped, tortured and executed families, bodies thrown in heaps on top of one another, all documented.
https://t.co/kQXS2bo6cR
Trump lässt 900 Tiefseesensoren aus dem Atlantik und Pazifik herausziehen – ein 370-Millionen-Dollar-Netzwerk das seit 2016 läuft.
Es sollte 30 Jahre laufen. Es wird nach 10 Jahren gestoppt. Was diese Sensoren messen: Meerestemperaturen. Strömungen. Salzgehalt. CO₂-Aufnahme. El-Niño-Früherkennung. AMOC – den Atlantischen Umwälzstrom der Europas Wetter reguliert. Ozeanograph Ed Dever: „Es ist ein lähmender Informationsverlust."
Project 2025 hatte das Netzwerk explizit als Quelle von „Klimaalarmismus" bezeichnet und seine Abschaltung gefordert.
Der Kongress hatte die Finanzierung zweimal gerettet.
Die NSF zog es trotzdem durch. Die Folgen werden Jahrzehnte dauern. Daten die wir nie mehr bekommen werden. 1/2
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Kherson. There are no “limits” left. A deliberate russian strike on an ambulance at a medical facility in broad daylight.
And still, some will find ways to justify it.
Here's what happens to your nation's air defenses when the budget for Pansirs ends up in Swiss Bank accounts, luxury flats in Knightsbridge and the Paris apartments of mistresses with a fondness for Versace Crocodile skin toilet seat covers.
Commodity market guru Jeff Currie on the coming, inevitable oil price spike:
“Demand is up here; supply is down here. We’re filling that gap with inventory. When you eventually run out of inventory, demand has to come down to supply… You can’t print molecules.”
This is not World War II footage.
This is Toretsk, Ukraine — and it’s not as far away as you think.
A city that once had over 30,000 residents. Now almost completely erased.
There is no excuse for this. None.
In the Donetsk region, the Russians are quite simply burning everything alive.
Footage of burning phosphorus rain over Kostyantynivka.
White phosphorus ignites spontaneously and burns at temperatures exceeding 800°C. If it comes into contact with a human being, it causes deep chemical and thermal burns. Phosphorus is nearly impossible to extinguish with ordinary water; its combustion is accompanied by the release of dense, toxic smoke that instantly sears the respiratory tract. Moreover, the resulting widespread fires and the long-lasting chemical contamination of the soil make this weapon a devastating threat to all living beings in the vicinity of the impact site.
Russia is cancer.
Mr Witkoff has gone to Moscow eight times to negotiate peace… zero times to Ukraine. Most Americans know this is not right. Don’t pretend to be neutral when the facts are obvious. Can we get someone serious in the position to do this right?