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[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Russia's giant size is no longer strategic depth, but an enormous weakness.
Long transportation is needed & can be attacked anywhere.
Russia can only defend a few spots.
Ukraine has invalidated Russia's whole strategy since the Napoleonic wars.
https://t.co/Ubo64lREzF

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

🚨 BREAKING: Lack of interceptors left Ukraine unable to stop ballistic missiles during massive attack, Zelenskyy says.

"While Patriot missiles remain in allies' warehouses, it only encourages Russia to keep 'defeating' residential buildings," added Zelenskyy.

[Olivia Kortas @OliviaKortas]

Last night, the Ukrainian air defense did not intercept a single of the 29 ballistic missiles due to a lack of interceptor missiles for Patriot systems, Yuriy Ignat, head of the communications department of the Ukrainian Air Force, just said on Ukrainian TV.

[Hromadske Int. @Hromadske]

Russia has been allowed to participate in an international soccer tournament for the first time since 2022, AFFA and the dpa news agency reported.

FIFA has decided to allow representatives from all of its member associations to participate in the newly created U-15 World Cup.

The announcement makes no specific mention of Russia. However, as DPA notes, the reference to the participation of “all FIFA members” also applies to Russia and Belarus.

This will be the first international tournament under FIFA’s auspices in which the Russian national team will participate. It had been suspended from all competitions since the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022.

The tournament will take place from October 22 to 31 and will be hosted by Azerbaijan.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Every day, Russia commits terrorist atrocities against Ukrainian civilians that would cause outrage and catastrophe anywhere else. Unprovoked military attacks on innocents while the free world watches and talks.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

The natural EU response to Russia’s threat to bomb their embassies in Kyiv systematically would be to expel all Russian diplomats in Europe and end diplomatic relations with Russia, declaring it a terror state.

[TakingHayekSeriously @FriedrichHayek]

„Ich frage euch: Wollt ihr den totalen Krieg? Wollt ihr ihn, wenn nötig, totaler und radikaler, als wir ihn uns heute überhaupt erst vorstellen können?“

[Eduardo Porter @portereduardo]

The proposition that economic growth will inevitably run against insurmountable ecological limits, demanding that we push hard on the economy’s brakes, has a dismal track record. https://t.co/MTRxo3ecnb

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Trump won’t be angry about the Iranian FM shaking Putin's hand, only jealous.

[Chris Sampson @sampsonlive]

Donald Trump is a Russian asset at the very least, maybe more

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

JD Vance: Stopping funding for Ukraine is one of the things I’m proudest we’ve done in this administration.

[toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomas]

Amazing. Proud of all the death, rape and torture inflicted on Ukrainians.

This quote needs to be remembered for as long as he is in politics.

[Pete @splendid_pete]

Next phase.

[toomas hendrik ilves @IlvesToomas]

https://t.co/tupIKl6Ch5

Absolutely the most stunning piece I have read in ages.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

What the CEO of Rheinmetall said was insulting — yes, shortsighted — yes, but what is more worrying — his words can actually be deadly.
In my country, Rheinmetall is a major contractor — tanks, Skyrangers, an ammunition factory, etc.
But what is more interesting is that questions about our preparedness for a potential drone war were always drowned in a flood of arguments very similar to Mr. Papperger’s. The military establishment, lobbyists, experts — the whole lot — were telling our people that this drone thing is just a fad which will soon go away. And we should be focusing on legacy war fighting, and therefore legacy equipment.
It lead to the acknowledgment that we have almost no ability to detect and to fight the Russian drones.
So maybe relying solely on the military advice from a company selling one kind of equipment wasn’t such a brilliant idea. I just hope that by now we know where we went wrong, and we will find sufficient humility to ask for assistance elsewhere.
And I sincerely hope that the Ukrainian housewives will share their deadly knowledge with us.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Just 10 Tomahawks given to Ukraine out of these 850 would have been enough to destroy Russia's shahed factory in Yelabuga, and now Russia is sending them to Iran to murder Americans.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

6:49am: sudden spike in oil futures trading. no news. no announcement. nothing public.
7:05am: trump announces a pause on iran strikes. markets move.
someone knew. 16 minutes early. $580 million in contracts. the corruption is staggering.

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces takes credit for deep strike drone attack on Russia's Baltic Sea oil port of Primorsk. Videos show the port, which is a key facility for Russian exports of crude, in flames and thick black smoke rising.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Russian terrorist attacks in the heart of Europe.

But hey, Russia isn't our enemy.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Lifting sanctions on Lukashenko‘s Kremlin puppet regime is effectively lifting sanctions on Russia. And of course, this is exactly the point. In my year of tweeting "Only Trump can save Russia," this is what I meant.