Dan @daneepe

Sen Bernie Sanders drops a massive bombshell. He confirms a tiny 5% wealth tax on just 1000 billionaires would instantly provide a $12,000 payment to ordinary families. He reveals the elite hoard. Wealth tax will be absolutely mandatory with upcoming AI era.

You're all being played.

We’re calling it: The war in Ukraine has entered a new phase. @KatStepanenko and I have authored a new special report studying how Ukraine is actively challenging the positional character of the war that has dominated the battlefield since 2023. Data on Russia’s battlefield performance indicates that the character of the war is shifting in favor of Ukrainian forces – at least for now. Russian forces rates of advances are stagnating while Ukrainian forces are employing novel tactics and operational concepts in efforts to break out of positional warfare. Neither Russia nor Ukraine can conduct operational maneuvers yet, however. The bottom line is that the war in Ukraine is competitive and far from stalemated. Ukrainian forces are out-innovating Russian forces in both military technologies and in applying these new technologies in effective operational concepts that can help Ukrainian forces break out of positional warfare. Ukraine is employing mechanized equipment in tactical maneuvers in ways that were impossible 12 months ago. Russia’s ability to conduct infiltration missions will likely continue to degrade as Ukraine’s intermediate-range strike campaign pushes Russia’s logistics and forward operating bases further away from the frontlines, reducing resourcing to sustain infantry tasked with infiltration missions. Ukraine may be able to scale these effects if they resourced properly by international partners. Ukraine’s advantage in intermediate range strikes is notably not permanent, and Russia will very likely eventually develop countermeasures to mitigate Ukraine’s advantages. Ukraine’s international partners thus have a rare and temporary opportunity to help Ukraine exploit favorable battlefield dynamics while Ukraine has the upper hand. Key Points of the report: • Russia’s rate of advance is plummeting during the Russian Spring-Summer 2026 offensive. • Russia is losing more soldiers to make fewer gains, with monthly Russian casualty rates reportedly outpacing monthly recruitment since December 2025. • Ukraine is starting to regain more ground than it is losing for the first time since 2023. • Ukraine’ recent counterattacks feature unique characteristics and deviate from key trends that defined the positional character of the war since 2023. • Ukraine is conducting a pattern of more frequent mechanized counterattacks at the tactical level for the first time since 2023. • The Ukrainian command’s operational planning is maturing. • Ukraine’s early 2026 counterattacks in the south were successful likely due to better planning and preparation of the battlefield. • Ukraine has been conducting a coherent campaign to suppress and destroy Russian air defenses since late 2025, in order to shape the battlefield as part of more sophisticated campaign planning. • Ukraine significantly intensified its intermediate-range strike campaign against dynamic targets in Spring 2026 in order to degrade Russian logistics at operational depths ahead of planned Ukrainian maneuver. • Ukrainian forces started actively disrupting Russian railway logistics in occupied Ukraine and Russian western regions in Spring 2026. • Ukrainian intermediate-range strikes are already achieving notable operational effects, including degrading Russia's ability to use the key Russian highway connecting Russia to occupied Crimea and GLOCs around Donetsk City. • Ukrainian forces decisively seized the initiative in intermediate-range strikes by fielding new technologies such as the US-made Hornet strike UAV, among other systems. • Ukrainian forces are achieving temporary tactical drone overmatch in some frontline sectors, which is slowing Russian offensive operations by degrading the effectiveness of Russian shaping operations. • Ukrainian forces likely achieved tactical drone overmatch in certain frontline sectors after degrading Russia’s drone capabilities in late 2025 to early 2026 - primarily by suppressing drone launch positions and increasingly intercepting Russian tactical UAVs. • Ukraine’s degradation of Russian forces at operational depth combined with tactical-level drone overmatch likely is creating vulnerabilities in the Russian lines. • Ukraine’s intermediate-range strike campaign is likely far from its zenith, assuming continued support from Ukraine’s partners, and will likely intensify over 2026 as Ukraine fields new weapons capable of striking Russian’s operational rear. Link to full report: understandingwar.org/research/russi…

New research: we have studied the wealth of the 200 Californian billionaires and what they effectively pay in tax. From Mark Zuckerberg (Meta) to Sergei Brin and Larry Page (Alphabet), the results are edifying. 🧵 nytimes.com/interactive/20…

League stats for the best strikers in the world this season: Erling Haaland • 34 games • 26 goals (3 penalties) • 8 assists Kylian Mbappé • 28 games • 24 goals (8 penalties) • 4 assists Harry Kane • 30 games • 33 goals (10 penalties) • 5 assists Haaland really doesn’t get enough credit for how complete his game has become. The numbers speak for themselves.

Our intelligence reports that Russia is preparing new massive attacks. We are speaking frankly to our partners—both about air-defense missiles and the systems we need so much. Supplies are insufficient. We are trying to speed things up, and it's crucial that our partners hear us.

This also serves as a reminder that the free world has had 1,418 days to put an end to Russia’s murderous invasion by giving Ukraine every weapon it needs to do so. Instead, they are still talking tough, shuffling papers, and letting those weapons collect dust.

Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM

5 months ago

Russia’s war in Ukraine which the Kremlin believed would last days or weeks has now dragged on for as long as the Soviet Union fought Nazi Germany in World War II, from June 22, 1941, with Operation Barbarossa, until the final surrender of Germany on May 9, 1945: 1,418 days.

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Money now or blood later. (And much more money.)

Joni Askola @joni_askola

5 months ago

Most Europeans are too naive to realize that Ukrainian soldiers like these are the only thing standing between us and Russian troops. If we want to avoid fighting Russia inside the EU, we need to support Ukraine more and ensure that Russia is defeated

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Send all available weapons to Ukraine, especially long range ones to hit Russian launch sites and energy infrastructure to deter Putin and save Ukrainian lives. Stop protecting a terror state's cash over innocent lives and European security. The war is here. Fight or lose. 🇺🇦

Bingo. Ukraine is no threat to Russia and never has been, so demanding it disarm and abandon its strongest defenses has only one point, making it easier for Russia to win the next stage of the war.

Business Ukraine mag @Biz_Ukraine_Mag

6 months ago

Putin says Ukraine must reduce the size of its army, hand over its main fortifications, and stop receiving Western military aid. Why would he insist on a disarmed and defenseless Ukraine unless he intended to continue his invasion?

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Bare send Acensio av banen. Ærlig det absolutt verste jeg vet med fotball. Gi Rudiger gult med det samme også. At det her liksom skal være ‘a part of the game’ kommer jeg aldri til å akseptere.

Putin is going to exploit the window of chaos and uncertainty created by Donald Trump. To its fullest. He has three years. One year to build, two years to do it. It might be Estonia or Svalbard or somewhere else. But the aim is to break NATO for good by showing that treaties and guarantees count for nothing against promises of money. Now we know the schedule, we know the plot. Europe had better get its act together

Visioner @visionergeo

6 months ago

‼️‼️🇷🇺🇩🇪🇪🇪 BREAKING - A well-known German military analyst is predicting a possible Russian attack on Estonia by 2028 — Carlo Masala outlines how Russian aggression could escalate into a collapse of NATO. 📌 As global tensions continue to rise, Russia is steadily increasing the

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As leaders once understood, and was explained clearly by Harry Truman, you fight small wars to avoid fighting big ones. If you think supporting Ukraine winning is expensive, it’s nothing compared to the cost of Ukraine losing.

Akash Maniam @ManiamAkash

6 months ago

This is the key point. It's not charity to support Ukraine. It's cheaper in terms of lives and resources to defeat russia now than in a wider war later. We cannot view russia's defeat as optional. We actually don't have a choice.

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None of us should put pressure on Zelenskyy when it comes to territorial concessions. We should all put pressure on Russia to stop its aggression. Appeasement never was a road to a just and lasting peace.

Handlingsregelen er utgått på dato og bør endres til å inkludere et tak for hvor mye av statsbudsjettet som kan dekkes inn av oljefondet. Nå finansieres hele 27 % av statsbudsjettet med oljepenger! 💸💸💸

Just because I said we’d never attack Georgia or Ukraine, just because our drones, spies, and saboteurs are all over Europe, just because Russia is increasing conscription, propaganda, and weapons production, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t trust me this time!

Status-6 (War & Military News) @Archer83Able

8 months ago

🇷🇺 Russian President Putin on the war with NATO: "I’m telling you honestly, sometimes I look at what they say and I think, they can’t believe it. They can't possibly believe what they're saying, that Russia is planning to attack NATO. Well, it's impossible to believe, but

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It's only deniable if you're in denial. It's war, and Europe had better start fighting back.

The Economist @TheEconomist

8 months ago

Vladimir Putin is waging a cheap, deniable and calibrated effort to unsettle Europe that is carefully short of outright war. NATO must resist econ.st/3WgWLXt

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🇪🇺 Four EU countries paid Russia more for gas than they spent on aid to Kyiv. Can you guess which ones? France, Belgium, Spain, and the Netherlands together paid Russia €34.3 billion for LNG from 2022 to June 2025 — more than their combined aid to Ukraine over the same period (€21.2 billion). This is stated in a Greenpeace study titled “The LNG Trap: Europe’s Fossil Gas Dependence on Russia and the United States.” According to the organization, the main supplier to the EU remains Yamal LNG, which earned around $40 billion from 2022 to 2024.

Let me tell you one thing, “as a Russian”. If Poland shot down the first ever drone that remotely SEEMED to go their way, this wouldn’t have happened If Russia was completely isolated after the Crimea annexation, the war in the rest of Ukraine wouldn’t have happened If Georgia was properly helped when Russia invaded in 2008, the Crimea annexation wouldn’t have happened This is how it works, and the progression will continue until you stop it or until it is too late to stop

Euan MacDonald @Euan_MacDonald

9 months ago

Map showing reported Russian drone incursions into Poland. Does not look random (14 drones): It looks like a deliberate attempt by fascist Russia to test NATO air defenses over a part of Polish territory used as a transit point for Western aid to democratic Ukraine.

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All true, and? Europe will do what it always does when attacked by Russia, make excuses for Putin and send more tough words. Trump will say he’s not happy and do nothing, again. Every time Putin takes a step and isn’t punished, it’s a green light.

Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin

9 months ago

Repeated violations of NATO airspace by Russian drones are fair warning that Vladimir Putin is testing our resolve to protect Poland and the Baltic nations. After the carnage Putin continues to visit on Ukraine, these incursions cannot be ignored.

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