Ex-Zelensky Press Sec. Iuliia Mendel writes in @spectator that MORE THAN 90% of Ukrainian warehouses have been hit since Kyiv started its summer strike campaign.
Ukraine's summer campaign has done nothing more than destroy Ukraine.
WHAT A STUPID, COUNTERPRODUCTIVE CAMPAIGN.
The era when your F-35s and F-15s get hunted down and you have to report them damaged🤏 has already begun.
What was once pure nightmare fuel is now the daily reality. Live with it.
Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande, and Petro Poroshenko all admitted Minsk Accords 1 & 2 were to 'buy time' for Ukraine to arm and train from NATO in separate 2022 interviews.
That Russia believed the Minsk Accords were good faith is evidenced by data. Russia was the only regional state to CUT MILITARY SPENDING between 2015 and 2022.
I'm quite proud of the Data Viz below as I did it myself while learning to make effective data visualisations.
Al Arabiya: Iran is not interested in continuing the conflict with the United States and looks forward to returning to a diplomatic solution, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart
🚀Powiem krótko i bez woalki ‼️ Jest to nowoczesny, polski odrzutowy dron uderzeniowy dalekiego zasięgu, a nie bezzałogowiec rosyjski jak podają „pewne” media - np. TVP INFO👇👇👇
🇺🇸🇨🇳 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just suggested that fears regarding the potential dangers of AI are exaggerated in the West:
"Nobody in China is saying that there’s end of this and end of that, and cataclysmic this and doom or that.
We're making it up.
The part that is frustrating is, if it was true, then we ought to talk about it and go do something about it, right?
Even if it’s true, we ought to spend more time doing something about it than worrying a bunch of people who can’t do anything about it."
Writer: Mhedi
🚨🇱🇹 Lithuania CLOSED Vilnius Airport earlier today, in response to a possible drone... it turned out to be birds.
NATO even summoned jets to the location, before authorities realized the alleged "drones" had feathers.
The Baltic states are seeing ghosts... 😂
Source: Reuters / Writer: Michael
It seems most people don't understand how severe the energy situation is right now in the Middle East.
As of Friday, Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline has officially been shut down after recent attacks, putting -4 million barrels of daily oil exports at risk.
Meanwhile, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait is now at risk of being shut down, threatening up to -9 million barrels of daily oil supply.
All while the Strait of Hormuz is operating at ~20% of its pre-Iran War capacity, removing -15 million barrels of daily oil flows.
Combined, this represents nearly ~30 MILLION barrels per day of oil flows that are either offline or at risk.
Even after accounting for some overlap between these routes, the scale of the potential disruption is enormous relative to the ~100 million barrel per day global oil market.
This is one of the most severe energy supply situations in modern history.
🚨BREAKING NEWS
The drone that prompted Lithuania to close its airspace turned out to be a flock of birds, Reuters reports.
Based on radar readings, Lithuania declared a "yellow alert" and closed Vilnius Airport, while NATO scrambled at least one fighter jet in response to the suspected drone sighting.
"Initial radar readings can show similar traces for birds and drones," Lithuania's crisis management center stated.
The alert has since been lifted, and Vilnius Airport has resumed operations.
BIG: Boris Johnson, German Chancellor Merz's top security adviser, and security advisers from UK, France, and Italy were all on a chartered night train from Kyiv when a Russian drone hit the locomotive of a passenger train on the same route near the Polish border.
Their train was stopped and partially evacuated at 5am before an all-clear.
They were returning from the YES security conference in Kyiv.
Polish jets scrambled, sirens sounded on the Polish side.
If Americans are warriors, let them face our valiant military forces. Why wage war on civilian infrastructure, food supplies, and livelihoods? If they're human, why deny people access to water, food, and medicine? Our people can't be bullied into submission. Iran won't surrender.