Outmanned by a nuclear power in the largest land war in Europe since 1945, Ukraine’s front line is increasingly held by machines.
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Outmanned by a nuclear power in the largest land war in Europe since 1945, Ukraine’s front line is increasingly held by machines.
Kremlin’s long campaign to recode Ukraine’s past reveals how identity has become yet another battlefield.
From imperial archives to Vladimir Putin’s 2025 decree, the fight is not only for territory - but for memory itself.
Read more on EUvsDisinfo:
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"Putin doesn’t want to make concessions because he still thinks he can win," David Ignatius writes. "But Ukraine’s new network of AI-driven air defenses will make that less likely." https://wapo.st/45Gu9fF
The main reason why the US economy overall is growing faster than the German economy is: US population growth. US population increased by more than 20% since 2000 - Germany's population hardly changed at all.
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All the mentions of peace talks and peace plans are deeply misleading – these are ceasefire talks, not paths to permanent resolution of the conflict. That’s because the status of the Ukrainian occupied territories will remain unresolved as long as Russia occupies them.
'The evidence proves that the West's current strategy – arming Ukraine, imposing sanctions, hardening critical infrastructure – is fracturing Russia's military, economic and political cohesion' write William Dixon and Maksym Beznosiuk.
All this talk of Europe divided... of course it is "divided." It is a federal democratic continental sized union. There will always be some division. But it is striking how united it actually it is on the big issues, especially Ukraine, and how much it gets done.
The EU is getting stronger.
Now with the same productivity as the US, “core EU” also has more leisure time, higher life expectancy, less inequality
No matter how you look at it, it is a clearly superior economic performance
For the first time since WWII, the US is not on our side in Europe. It has sided with the aggressor against Ukraine and European security, seeking to mediate with Russia. The US no longer sees itself as NATO’s leader and treats Europe as a strategic target.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/w...
More than three decades after USSR’s collapse, Moscow still refuses to accept that its former colonies are now internationally recognized sovereign nations. Russia’s war against Ukraine is the horrifying embodiment of this refusal. A nightmarish attempt to turn back the time.
"The case that Ukraine is the key to European security is iron-clad."
"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...
"Propagandists are like getaway drivers, delivering a bank robber or assassin to a crime scene, then driving them away."
In Moldova, authorities estimate the Kremlin will spend €100m — €31 per registered voter — to influence the outcome. In the Czech Republic, Kremlin-linked outlets are pumping out more content each day than the country’s major news outlets combined.
The plan, presented by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, relies entirely on the goodwill of two of the very people responsible for the current predicament — U.S. President Donald Trump, and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Don't buy the media narrative of Trump getting what he wanted with EU re: tariffs.
Trump is the one who caved, weeks ago. EU made it clear there'd be no deal without a shift on Ukraine, which Trump made.
They also made it clear this is only for Trump's term. Can end it any time.
OPINION: Vladimir Putin is spending millions of dollars, bombarding European voters with manipulative social media and disinformation campaigns on a mass scale.
It’s a new type of warfare on democracy that eliminates the need to roll tanks into capitals.
"The European continent is arguably the world’s most important bastion of democracy. If it falters, the idea of a liberal, rules-based global order risks faltering with it."
Check out the op-ed in @euobserver.com authored by IPHR's Director Brigitte Dufour euobserver.com/eu-political...
🇩🇪 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told Fox News that had Ukraine been accepted into NATO back in 2008, today’s war might have been avoided. He added that only strength brings peace. "If you are weak, you invite aggression, that is why we support Ukraine as long as necessary."
US sanctions are crushing Russia's shadow fleet. Activity in oil tankers sanctioned by the US falls -86% (red). These ships are getting shut down. Joint EU & UK sanctions also pack a punch, taking activity down -50% (orange). Putin is hurting. My substack:
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/effectiven...
"Ukrainian forces continue to hold the Russians off, and their resilience points to Kyiv’s growing autonomy from the United States," Nataliya Gumenyuk writes after embedding with three front-line brigades.
What's keeping Ukraine in the fight is technology:
"The real root cause – Kremlin imperialism"
Un punto de vista minoritario, pero creciente en la oposición rusa.
Mi artículo en @rtvenoticias.bsky.social
La mentalidad colonial rusa, un obstáculo para la paz y la democracia www.rtve.es/n/16580435/
Bridget Brink says she resigned as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine because she "could no longer in good faith carry out the Trump admin’s policy [...] of putting pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia."
www.freep.com/story/opinio...
The special tribunal will be able to impose sentences of life imprisonment when justified by the extreme severity of the crime of aggression.
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Debate about European troops in Ukraine needs to focus on how they would operate in conjunction with the Ukrainian army, just as the US does with the South Koreans.
The tendency to discuss such a presence as if it would have to fight the Russians alone is analytically bizarre.
Zelensky forces Trump to publicly call Putin’s bluff.
I remain pessimistic. But you never know.
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European-led Ukraine air protection plan could halt Russian missile attacks
The only thing that matters is the will of the majority. That will is now focussed on deterring Russian aggression. That starts in Ukraine. The appetite to over-engineer solutions to constantly get around Orban's vetoes is rapidly diminishing. He'd be wise to tread carefully ENDS
