The Duke of Erat 🇺🇦

[Rob Lee @RALee85]

We recorded the most recent episode two weeks ago after I returned from a trip meeting units in the Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, and Kharkiv regions.
https://t.co/Wfw5GcOOkS

[The Duke of Erat 🇺🇦 @DukeOfErat]

@ThomasVLinge What’s the song?

[Gönül Tol @gonultol]

In a new New York Times @nytimes piece, I argue that the war in Syria forged an unlikely partnership between Turkey and Russia a decade ago. That partnership is now unraveling, and Turkey is helping Ukraine expand its presence in a part of the Middle East where Vladimir Putin once enjoyed considerable influence. https://t.co/PXMOECPG3M

[Franz-Stefan Gady @HoansSolo]

Excellent piece 👇

‘A European Way of War Without the United States’

https://t.co/tWYqg4vBCU

[The Duke of Erat 🇺🇦 @DukeOfErat]

@zakavkaza @MoscowTimes I’m not sure if you really made a case for Russia not being able to take economic warfare. They’ve certainly weathered sanctions better than expected at the onset of the full scale war.

[Frederik Van Lokeren @KaptainLOMA]

My article regarding yesterdays strike against the RFS Boiky.
Ukraine has the capabilities to put pressure against the Baltic Fleet and make its position in the Gulf of Finland difficult. The attack follows similar patterns observed with the Black Sea Fleet and Caspian Flotilla.

[Hassan I. Hassan @hxhassan]

The highest offices in the new Syrian state are being parceled out among the rural towns that fought hardest in the revolution, replacing the Assads’ Qardaha with a constellation of competing centers of gravity.

By Kamal Shahin for @newlinesmag. https://t.co/GS3XEqTy0I

[The Duke of Erat 🇺🇦 @DukeOfErat]

@PutinIsAVirus Horseshoe theory of sanity - if you get crazy enough you just might become sane.

[The Duke of Erat 🇺🇦 @DukeOfErat]

@CDNPolicyHawk How about our current snowbird pilots now that that fleet is about to be grounded? Could they not transition into fighter pilots?

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

Months after Ukraine’s morale hit a nadir and its allies despaired, the country’s turnaround has challenged the long-held conventional wisdom that Russia’s bigger army can outlast Kyiv’s — boosting Ukrainians’ self-assurance to a level not seen in years. https://t.co/xdo7qOy7BD

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Source: https://t.co/0ybxXq5gPo

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

COLUMN: Ruinously high electricity bills became the defining image of Europe's energy crisis in 2022.

So what's different this time?

Thanks to nuclear, hydropower, solar, and better grids, European lectricity markets are calmer in 2026.

@Opinion
https://t.co/Ve1F7kIrNc

[Mark Hertling @MarkHertling]

The Last Time We Reduced Troops in Europe, a War Broke Out. My latest in the @BulwarkOnline, 2 May 2026. https://t.co/dMv6alGaL3

[Samuel Bendett @sambendett]

An insightful analysis by @Andriypzag on how Ukraine is driving doctrinal change in modern warfare. https://t.co/4LMHR2g8oy

[Jared Malsin @jmalsin]

Hundreds of ghost-fleet vessels are playing a game of cat-and-mouse as the U.S. tries to lock down Iran’s oil trade and pressure it to accept President Trump’s terms for peace // by me and @shelbyholliday https://t.co/9kinQNSe9F

[The Duke of Erat 🇺🇦 @DukeOfErat]

@exit266

[TIME @TIME]

"The Black Sea Grain Initiative offers a lesson for Hormuz," writes the president and C.E.O. of the International Crisis Group
https://t.co/xE7TB3SDCo

[Dave Brown @dave_brown24]

🚨The Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East to give President Trump more military options even as he weighs peace talks with Tehran.

The force, which would likely include infantry and armored vehicles, would be added to the roughly 5,000 Marines and the thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division who have already been ordered to the region
https://t.co/LhU4k2sEcj
@CostasParis @laraseligman

[Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll]

Ukraine’s drone commander Robert “Madyar” Brovdi doesn’t usually give interviews. I managed to persuade him. As architect and chief implementer of Ukraine’s infantry attrition strategy, few people have been as consequential in this war. https://t.co/GJaJgFPjL5

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

I think the fact that military action and major announcements now seem to be coordinated around market open and close times is going to be one of the more fascinating and telling tidbits about this era/administration

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

KHARG ISLAND — a thread:

Trump has talked about taking Iran's Kharg Island for 40 years. The problem? Capturing it won't shut down Iran’s entire oil export system. And thus it won't lead to Hormuz re-opening fast enough.

🧵1/10 @Opinion

FREE-TO-READ:
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