@sapitonmix Helsinki is great but my son’s favourite is Kuusamo 😂
SFO and PHL are tied for dead last and the only reason they like MUC is for the Bayern fan shop. Same with Heathrow for the Ramsey restaurant but overall both are decent. The customs guys in Helsinki were the best though.
@BohuslavskaKate Ok when Jamie dimon says it… even he knows russian federation is fucked. Investing anywhere on the side opposing Ukraine now is a losing position.
My kids went to the lake yesterday, there’s sand everywhere so I asked my 15 year old to vacuum the entrance. Boy goes to the garage, gets the leaf blower and cleans up in 25 seconds. Cool I guess 🫠
Stan Lee will return.
ElevenLabs has struck an expansive deal with Stan Lee Universe to add the late Marvel Comics writer’s voice and likeness to its Iconic Marketplace, a collection of celebrity personality voices and likenesses that companies can license for commercial use.
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A very insightful article in the Washington Post — “Ukraine has made itself indispensable to the West.” What is particularly important is that it was written by Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine’s former Minister of Defense, and Dalibor Roháč, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.
The article’s main argument is that Ukraine has gone from being a “beggar” to an indispensable asset for Western security.
“Four years into the full-scale war, the world’s most capable militaries are coming to Ukraine to buy weapons. Ukraine and the Pentagon are moving to finalize a deal that would send Ukrainian-made drones to the United States for testing on American soil.”
“Until recently, Kyiv was seen as the supplicant in Western capitals. Today, Ukraine is more sovereign, more capable and more independent than at any point since it declared statehood in 1991. It has made itself both unconquerable by Moscow and indispensable to Washington, Berlin and others.”
“It has made itself both unconquerable by Moscow and indispensable to Washington.” This is exactly how our negotiating position should sound in all international forums.
Ukraine has buried the principle upon which military science has been built for centuries. This is a fact based on figures:
“Russia’s military budget has grown several times since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, reaching 10 percent of gross domestic product in 2025, or half of Russia’s public expenditure. And it will likely expand further as Russia’s public finances receive a boost from high oil prices. The size of its active-duty personnel has also increased, from around 1 million to 1.5 million.”
“Since the beginning of this year, Russia has been losing around 35,000 troops per month, outpacing its declining capacity for recruitment.”
In other words, Russia is pouring half its national budget into the war, expanding its army to 1.5 million — and is still losing territory. This is the very death of the old military doctrine.
“Ukraine’s regular armed forces numbered around 260,000 in 2022, at the start of the full-scale invasion. Today, approximately 1 million Ukrainians are at arms. But the 750,000-plus civilians who put on the uniform aren’t conscripts in a Russian sense. They are engineers, coders and entrepreneurs running drone workshops out of garages and writing targeting software between artillery shifts.”
This is a fundamental difference from Russia. They have a mobilized resource — cannon fodder bought with money and debt forgiveness. We have a nation that has turned its own creativity into a weapon. And that is precisely why we are winning the technological race.
The authors cite the very same mathematics of war that I constantly talk about:
“A $500 first-person-view drone can destroy a multimillion-dollar Russian tank. A $1,000 3D-printed interceptor can knock down a $35,000 Shahed. Whoever can manufacture cheaper, faster and at scale wins. Currently, Ukraine is winning that race.”
The text also notes the failure of American weapons in modern warfare — the “expensive Patriots versus cheap drones” model failed in its very first real-world test. But the Ukrainian model works.
“Ukraine is no longer merely a recipient of Western aid but a co-creator of Western defense capability. So the West needs to ask itself whether it’s better off with a sovereign, technologically advanced Ukraine, or with a defeated and occupied one. Investing in Ukraine is an investment in European security. It turns out that Ukraine is not the West’s problem. It is, in fact, a solution.”
This article was written for an American audience by a former Ukrainian defense minister in collaboration with an American analyst. This is the correct model for conveying our narrative. Not complaints, not pleas, but cold calculation: Ukraine is beneficial to the West. Ukraine is a solution, not a problem.
The thesis of being a “co-creator of Western defense capabilities” must become the foundation of our entire foreign policy. We are not asking for help. We are offering a partnership in which the West gains access to the world’s only army with real experience in modern warfare and to the fastest defense R&D on the planet.
Ukraine has become indispensable. Now our task is to cement this status forever.
@NTenzer The most important thing is that Ukraine is unshackled. Now that they are free to develop weapons and hit whatever target they deem necessary, they have been dominating russia. Slava Ukraini. Those of us smart enough to support them will thrive. Anyone opposing will not 🫠
The fucked up part of Zelenskyy hate is like so the fuck what if he did do coke? He’s out there fighting for 🇺🇦, visiting frontlines, not sleeping, having his heart broken every time he meets fallen soldiers family or wounded children. He’s not but I wouldn’t judge him if he did
🔴🔴🔴 Zelensky speaks about Russian human safari in Kherson and calls for help with the humanitarian crisis in occupied areas of the Kherson region, including Oleshky and surrounding villages.
Evacuation is needed.
The international organizations’ support is critical.