@TXInstruments Ukraine's GUR Defense Intelligence has a public database of foreign components found in Russian military tech. You can search by manufacturer.
This is a list of 816 Texas Instruments components recovered from Russian weapons, with photos.
https://t.co/aXn2kdEN26
⚡US senators push Trump to rescind Putin's invitation to G20 summit
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators are urging President Donald Trump to withdraw an invitation extended to Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the upcoming G20 summit in Miami.
https://t.co/Tlzhd8BjMJ
John Mearsheimer is one of the famous russian propagandists who apparently knows nothing about russia.
The man didn’t even know that American credit cards don’t work in russia and yet he knows that “russia will hold all of Donbas by year's end.”
How can an educated person be so ignorant?
First, being educated and being smart are two very different things. Mearsheimer is educated, but he certainly is not smart.
Second, a smart person would learn from their own mistakes. Mearsheimer doesn't. He has been making versions of this prediction for four years. In February 2024, he told Global Times - a Chinese state outlet, which tells you something about the audience he prefers - that the actual fighting would not last beyond 2025, that russia would take more territory, and that there would be a ceasefire. It is now September 2026, and he still hasn't learned his lesson.
Third, Mearsheimer knows nothing about Ukraine or the Ukrainian people. I doubt he has ever even visited Ukraine in his life. This matters because wars are won by people, not by terrain. Terrain does not hold Slovyansk for four years. When your model has no variable for a people's will, you don't make occasional mistakes - you make the same mistake every time.
Finally, people like Mearsheimer should be held accountable for their predictions. Mark the date. Check it again in December to see whether his claim still holds: "russia will control all of Donbas by year's end.”
Mearsheimer is just another brainwashed vatnik masquerading as an expert.
An eye-catching headline designed to enflame low-information culture warriors who will not open the database and see that this is a totally fake number (all self-reported, all unverified, most not sports or even medal events). 🙄
CRYSTAL BALL: 10 rating changes today, across multiple race categories. All moves are in Democrats' direction as the environment remains poor for Republicans, especially in the Midwest.
@kkondik with details on the changes:
https://t.co/8NaMMX4jir
EU envoys agreed to drop two oligarchs (Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman) from its Russian sanctions list and to roll over the remaining 3,000 individuals and entities for three years - Reuters.
What a shame, even considering that its done in exchange for a 3-year renewal.
He’s right about one thing, though: this war does need to end. Ukraine is currently ending it — one refinery at a time. Russia could end it tomorrow by going home. The refineries would stop burning and the “25,000” would stop dying. That’s the whole deal.
We can't stop Russia's information war with fact checking. It relies on the speed and structure of social media platforms. That's why it's up to social media companies to stop it - or governments to force them to 👇
https://t.co/qFT5QeyPoD
I'm struck by how the MAGA echo chamber has suddenly embraced international law, declaring with certainty that the new agreement on Greenland obligates signatories to abide by it "forever."
I wonder what signatories of NAFTA, JCPOA, USMCA, the Paris Climate Agreement, etc. would say about the US credibly committing to treaties for years, let alone forever?
Large-scale drone attack underway in Moscow. Multiple impacts recorded across several sites in the Oblast. The scale of damage is not yet determined. The attack has continued for approximately four hours.