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'France's math? Pledge Ukraine every single AASM Hammer precision bomb they will produce this year — all 1,200 units. When a nation bets its entire yearly arsenal on Ukrainian accuracy, it signals devastating effectiveness.'
- Euromaidan Press (Source, June 18, 2025)
'At the Lyman front, what’s unfolding looks more like a military collapse than the actions of the "
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Archive 'Israel’s attack on Iran has exposed critical weaknesses in Tehran’s broader military strategy. While Iran still has untapped shorter-range capabilities it could deploy in its immediate neighbourhood, its depleted medium-range missile arsenal and weakened regional allies leave it with limited options for retaliation against Israel.
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Iran’s deterrence strategy, however, not only relie
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Archive 'Some Ukrainian diplomats are privately furious at Trump’s snub, even saying they are not sure it is worth the Ukrainian president turning up to the Nato summit in The Hague next week. One official said: “It is an occupational hazard that Ukraine is a victim of events and Trump’s attention span. Putin knows that, which is why there may have been such a large attack last night. There had been
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Archive 'Israeli forces are methodically leveling Iranian bases in and around Tehran.
What makes that footage even more interesting is the guy in this footage. First consoling his wife and then in the end shouting „death to Khamenei“.'
- Tendar (Source, June 16, 2025)
'The military buildup by US forces is another development which is quite remarkable. The size of it excludes t
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Archive "Iran FM says attacks on Israel will end when its ‘aggression stops..’"
- The Times of Israel (Source, June 15, 2025)
'..In the early 1980s, both Israel and Iran attacked Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor, effectively eliminating his program before he could achieve a weapon..'
- John Spacapan (Source, April 11, 2020)
'Iran and Israel did have extensive trad
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Archive 'Steven Levitsky studies how healthy democracies can slip into authoritarianism. He says the Trump administration has already done grave damage: "We are no longer living in a democratic regime."'
- NPR, Harvard professor offers a grim assessment of American democracy under Trump, April 22, 2025
'(Bloomberg) -- Former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers blasted
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Archive 'Didn’t I tell you that Russia is fearing that a ceasefire would enable European troop deployments into Ukraine? And now look what Peskov is spouting off right now.
Russians are easy to read. Everything is only aimed to expand their empire. If it cannot be achieved directly, then the war needs to be frozen until the forces are replenished. They want Ukraine being disarmed, weak and vulne
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Archive 'Russia is waging small-scale assaults across the entire front, but the situation on the battlefield is nowhere near bad enough for Ukraine to be forced into an unfavorable peace deal, military analysts and soldiers told the Kyiv Independent.
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Meanwhile, the Ukrainian military — though outmanned and outgunned — has managed to stabilize the front. According to experts who spoke with t
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Archive 'The outcome of the negotiations between the US and Russia in Saudi Arabia is a betrayal to Ukraine. Basically the US has agreed to lift a lot of sanctions from Russia (which you won't see at the White House statement but will see in the Kremlin one).'
- Oleksandra Ustinova ('..betrayal to Ukraine,' March 25, 2025)
'The US is now trying to subvert Ukraine (an
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Archive '..Rustem Umerov emphasized the importance of initiatives that will ensure funding for the Ukrainian military and the procurement of defense products.
Particular attention was given to the need to accelerate the production of armored vehicles, shells, and other types of weapons and military equipment by European defense companies. According to the minister, the European Defence Industrial
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Archive 'The country has a system of obligatory universal conscription. Finns can mobilise up to 280,000 soldiers. The Finnish army’s artillery units are among the largest in Europe: Helsinki has more artillery than France and Germany combined.'
'For Finns today, the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation undoubtedly reminds them of the Soviet attack on their country in 1939, whi
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Archive '..there is broader lesson here, too, for Americans and their press: Information is power.
Corporate owners of some of the largest media sites have been caving to pressure from Trump to silence criticism. Disney, ABC and Meta have all settled lawsuits over defensible news decisions. Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, is reportedly prepared to settle Trump’s baseless lawsuit alle
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Archive '..if the CDU/CSU wins and can put together a coalition with the Greens as a major partner—it will be the best possible outcome for Europe and Ukraine. The CDU leader Frederich Merz, in the last few hours started speaking as if he understood that the USA is now out of the game for free and democratic states in Europe. In a statement that would have been inconceivable days ago, he said German
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Archive 'This is obvious to anyone watching the attrition exchange rates over the course of the war.
Ukraine is bleeding out the Russian war machine.
Donkey's mules and horses replacing Russian trucks is the "Lanchester square collapse" in progress of Russian motor transport.
"There will be no quick end to the war. Ukraine should not be written off. It is fighting us on
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Archive 'What more is your government prepared to do to increase its sanctions on Russia, including more strictly enforcing sanctions and better targeting third countries enabling Russia globally?'
'Feb 16 (Reuters) - The United States has sent European governments a set of questions about what they would need from the U.S. in order to provide Ukraine with security guarantees.
A U.S.
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Archive 'Guerrilla geopolitics
This is only the start of a process where the outcome is by no means guaranteed, and in which Ukraine will have much more of a say than Trump seems to believe. Nonetheless, it is clear that he wants to end the war (and perhaps pocket a Nobel peace prize into the bargain) and sees direct negotiations with Moscow over Kyiv’s head as the way to achieve that.
The Kre
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Archive 'Appeasement also always, always fails.'
- Kaja Kallasp
'Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, warned against a “quick fix” and a “dirty deal” to end the war, saying that Europe and Ukraine must be at the table for talks because no peace deal can be implemented without their involvement.
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Kallas said that “any deal behind our backs will not work.”
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Archive 'The West has chosen dishonour in bowing to President Putin – and will be rewarded with more war.'
- Ben Wallace Ukraine’s betrayal proves we have entered an era of grave danger
'Sir Ben, a former defence secretary, said that if Mr Trump was seen to capitulate to the Kremlin as world leaders gathered for the Munich Security Conference this weekend, it would be a repeat of
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Archive 'Ukraine will have no reason to trust the West again, having already been betrayed by us once before. We promised to guarantee the Budapest Memorandum in 1990, where Ukraine’s safety was supposed to be guaranteed in exchange for the surrender of their nuclear weapons. We abandoned that pledge in 2014, when Putin stole Crimea and Donetsk.
The Russian leader is not one for keeping his promi
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Archive ' knows the West knows he’s in trouble .. This war .. was always about economics. It would be a true triumph if Ukraine could outlast the mighty Russian oil saturated economic monster. Because that’s all it ever had, oil & gas. Who even knows of a genuine Russian manufactured consumer product anyone wants?
If Ukraine and the West keep up their economic pressure the time to collapse i
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Archive '..Ukraine must keep pushing these drone attacks, already they have spread to oil pipelines and pumping stations, gas piping stations and factories. Keep it up and it will have the impact they seek. Remain relentless. Win.'
- Ukraine's Oil War on Russia, February 4, 2025
Context '..carte blanche'
('There is 1 year left. We are 75% done.') - '..
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Archive 'Negotiations should go like this:
Putin asks
you say we’re not ready yet
wait 6-8 months
Putin will ask again
you agree to start
make it drag on 6-12 months
every day that passes putin gets weaker, and more eager to end things.
Eventually he will give you what you want.'
'There is absolutely no reason for Ukraine to negotiate with Russia, at all, for any reason, in th
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Archive 'Trump will want a quick deal, but he cannot be a loser on this. So, the more Ukraine keeps fighting, hold fast, surely and literally, ‘all hands on deck’, avoiding more (substantial) loss of territory and surely avoiding mistakes of military management and tactical choices, Ukraine must and will resist.'
'Ukraine must look at the resilience and cunning of either Finland or Isra
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Archive 'Certainly what is the case is that if Ukraine’s partners pulled out the stops and provided support to this campaign, the Russian ability to make money from oil would not just be damaged for days, it would be months or longer.
In other words, it would help Ukraine win the war.'
'In other words, the Trump administration has already started to actively weaken Ukraine.
And re
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Archive 'Velez-Green, who now serves as the senior adviser to the undersecretary of defense for policy, told Stars and Stripes last year that requirements in the Pacific mean European allies will need to shoulder a much larger share of the security burden on the Continent.'
'President Donald Trump’s team of defense advisers is taking shape, this week adding two high-level officials who
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Archive Unleash hell.
Context No Holding Back
No mercy to 'a fascist imperialist regime..' - 'It is normal for Russia to lose wars.'
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Archive 'The Blinken/Sullivan duo will be studied for achieving the impossible - that has the most disastrous foreign policy of the US in the last thirty years after the end of the Cold War.'
- Velina Tchakarova (Source, January 6, 2025)
'Now in Washington, there is no talk about the so-called end state of Russia .. The key issue is the willingness to take risks. Both for the Unit
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Archive '..Putin has failed, and only Western cowardice can save him.'
- Joni Askola (Source, December 25, 2024)
'..Most of the European states polled think they are not giving enough . For anyone concerned about the other poll trends, they need to be message amplifiers on why defeating Russia benefits THEIR country's economy & security.'
- Florida-Boy (Source, De
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Archive 'There can be no ceasefire without clear and comprehensible security guarantees for Ukraine.'
- Zelenskyy
'Defense expert warns against freezing Russo-Ukrainian war without weakening Moscow.
Mykola Bielieskov cautions that a rushed ceasefire without security guarantees would enable Russia's strategy to destabilize Ukraine systematically.'
- Euromaidan (Sourc
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Archive '"NEW!!! White House says Biden today virtually met with G7 Leaders and encouraged them to unlock the full value of immobilized russian sovereign assets, including by finding a legal pathway to seize the principal value of the assets to provide Ukraine resources it needs. (Alex Raufoglu, December 15, 2024)"
This is the most significant thing that the allies can do to save Ukrai
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