Mindaugas Kubilius

Strategist. Philosopher.

[Mindaugas Kubilius @MinRex]

STRATEGIC THINKING & ADVANTAGE
A frequently asked question is this: could 'strategic thinking' help to create 'a long-term competitive advantage', hence 'strategic advantage'?
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[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

The body of another child was found under the debris.

Russia killed two kids and 14 adults in Kyiv today. It injured 57 more.

I can't find words. I am aching and sorry for everyone whose lives were ruined by Russia.

RIP.

[Rep. Riley M. Moore @RepRileyMoore]

On this day in 1873, a Catholic priest arrived at a leper colony in Molokai, Hawaii.

He built their homes, dug their graves, and wrote: “I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.”

Eventually, he died serving the lepers he loved.

Today is the feast day of Saint Damien of Molokai. Pray for us!

[Catholic OrthoDixie @PapalOrthodixie]

This is a visualization of the destruction of the 1962 missal in one video so people can see just how Protestant the new mass is by comparison.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Russia is a terrorist state.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Oh my God.

The death toll of the Russian strike on Zaporizhzhia has already reached 12 people.

During the daylight, as people were minding their business... Russia killed them.

Our daily news, our daily reality. It's very hard on us Ukrainians.

[Dakas ‡ @Dakasr2]

A Lithuanian police officer lecturing FC Celtic fans 😊

[Mariana Betsa @Mariana_Betsa]

Every day Russia commits terrorist attacks on 🇺🇦 civilians. Today Russia murdered 6 people and injured two dozen more in another deliberate strike on civilian infrastructure in Merefa, Kharkiv region #StopRussia #StandWithUkraine

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

On May 4, Ihor from Merefa lost his wife in a missile strike on the city. He and Lyubov had been together for seven years. Overall 7 people were killed in the attack.

"My wife left for work, five or ten minutes later — an explosion. I started calling her, but she didn’t answer. I got in the car and drove. At first, I saw many wounded people. I looked around — she wasn’t there. I drove down toward the gas station, thinking maybe she had gone farther. All the while I kept calling. Then I turned back, parked, walked along the path, and that’s when I saw her," Ihor recounted.

The couple was raising two children, aged 6 and 16.

"She was truly, honestly, the best mother. She was so… I simply adored her. She was very beautiful. I don’t even know what to say. Such a wonderful person. We lived together for seven years." - Suspilne News report from Merefa

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic, and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon https://t.co/bKteFZ3iWE

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Péter Magyar’s Lesson for America: The Center Can Hold. My latest Next Move on Hungary's overwhelming winner over Kremlin lackey Orbán--and on the importance of seeing populism as not inevitable or eternal. Real conservatives can win without the ultra-nationalism. Link below.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

There is a video circulating on the internet that is difficult to watch. A woman sits on a pavement in Louisville, Kentucky. She is wearing a hospital gown. It is 36 degrees outside. Her belongings, everything she apparently owns, are in a plastic bag on the concrete beside her. Behind her, through the glass doors she has just been escorted through, the hospital hums along as normal. The security guards who brought her here have already gone back inside.

She couldn’t afford her bill.

This is not a scene from a developing nation or a history book. This is the United States of America.
The country in which it happens has spent decades telling the rest of the world that it has the highest GDP on earth. Which is a bit like a restaurant proudly displaying its bill on the wall. Enormous number. Terrible meal. The lobster was frozen, the wine came from a box.

Europe, by comparison, has spent the better part of a century building something rather different. The food, for a start, is extraordinary. Not in a showy way, but in the way that a simple lunch in Lyon or a glass of wine on a terrace in Lisbon reminds you that eating is one of the genuinely good things about being alive. The wine is the wine that the rest of the world has spent generations attempting to replicate, mostly without success.

Roughly 35 percent of Europeans live with a chronic illness. In America, that number is 76 percent. The difference is not genetic. It is architectural. It is the slow accumulation of decent food, walkable cities, actual holidays, and a healthcare system that does not require you to crowdfund your own appendix.

Europeans work fewer hours. They have more purchasing power on a smaller salary once you subtract the cost of health insurance, medical debt, and the private school their child needs because the local public one has a metal detector at the entrance. They live, on average, about ten years longer. Not ten years of decline and doctor visits, but ten years of being a person in the world.

In the first quarter of 2025, the number of Americans leaving the United States doubled compared to the previous quarter.  Europe was their top destination. Not for a sabbatical or a gap year. Permanently. These are not people who failed. These are people who did the maths.

There is a man somewhere in America right now who has worked fifty-hour weeks for forty years, taken one week off when his employer permitted it, and will, statistically, be dead before he sees seventy. And there is another man, not very far away on a map but an entire civilisation removed in practice, sitting on a terrace in the afternoon sun with a glass of something cold and no particular place to be. He has had six weeks off every summer since 1987. He knows his neighbours by name.

The first man’s country has the higher GDP.

The first man’s country tops the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) index. The second man tops the Quality of Life Index (QLI). The better health. The longer life. The afternoon.

MAGA America calls that losing.

Ask anyone.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Eric 𝕏 @WorldStrategist]

Singapore’s Foreign Minister on why he cannot accept negotiating with Iran for safe passage of ships. Definitely worth listening to:

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

JUST IN: Pope Leo XIV urges end to all wars during an impassioned homily at his Vatican prayer vigil for peace —

“Enough of the idolatry of self and money! Enough of the display of power! Enough of war! True strength is shown in serving life.”

“War divides; hope unites.
Arrogance tramples upon others; love lifts up. Idolatry blinds us; the living God enlightens.

My dearest friends, all it takes is a little faith, a mere “crumb” of faith, in order to face this dramatic hour in history together — as humanity and alongside humanity.

Prayer is not a refuge in which to hide from our responsibilities, nor an anesthetic to numb the pain provoked by so much injustice. Rather, it is the most selfless, universal and transformative response to death”

“Prayer teaches us how to act. In prayer, our limited human possibilities are joined to the
infinite possibilities of God.”

[Andrii Sybiha 🇺🇦 @andrii_sybiha]

Horrific Russian terrorist act in Nikopol, a deliberate strike on an ordinary bus. Already 4 killed and 16 injured civilians.

Such brutal war crimes require strong responses of the international community.

Russian criminals must face pressure, isolation, and accountability.

[Churchill MGᵀᴹ 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇸 @ChurchillFella]

Ukrainian mother lost her 18-month-old son during Russian bombing.
Never forget. Never forgive.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

A 12-year-old boy recounts the horrific moment a Russian missile strike killed both of his parents in their home.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Powerful video showing the Ukrainian athletes depicted on Vladyslav Heraskevych’s helmet who were killed by russia.

[Andreas Kynast @andikynast]

Es gibt keine Rechtfertigung. Keine.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Yes, I'm angry. We should all be angry. Ukrainians deserve no less for our collective inaction.

[Bloomberg @business]

Read a transcript of an Oct. 29 phone call between Yuri Ushakov, Putin’s most senior foreign-policy adviser, and Kirill Dmitriev, an economic adviser to the Russian president https://t.co/PMAtRMTT4l