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  1. Ukraine continues attack on Russian radar systems in Crimea.
  2. Taiwan: please allow the Russians to take over all training of the Chinese military.
  3. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte: The whole day yesterday, we had the Kremlin saying, "No, we are not a paper tiger. We are a bear." Well, you know, if you are a bear, you don't have to announce yourself to be a bear because everybody will notice. This shows a lot of weakness on the Russian side. And clearly, the president [Trump] hit a nerve here.
  4. Guess whose husband died yesterday after being in a coma since January? Margarita Simonyan
  5. Don’t think they realize what a conflict with the West would do to their military. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-25/europeans-privately-tell-russia-they-re-ready-to-shoot-down-jets?srnd=homepage-europe At a meeting in Moscow, a Russian diplomat told the British, French and German envoys that the Russian air incursions into Estonia were a deliberate response to Ukrainian attacks on Crimea, officials familiar with the exchange tells Bloomberg.
  6. https://www.ft.com/content/0b351091-3f82-4f2f-bef2-a52a35f009f2 paywalled
  7. From a few days ago, but the 80s kid in me that collected a shitload of books of photos of fighters loves the shot
  8. I will console Carla Bruni.
  9. If gas shortages are hitting Moscow and it’s only September, things are looking up.
  10. This guy nailed it https://x.com/Breflactu/status/1971279950419538296 Russia doesn’t want World War III, it just wants everyone thinking it’s coming. This is diplomacy as karaokeβ€”loud, off-key, and meant to clear the room. Over 300 intercepts in 2025 and we’re still here, bills unpaid, coffee cold. If every intercepted Russian jet meant war, we’d be on World War 29 by now. But no, it’s the same tired bluff: bark like a pit bull, bite like a chihuahua. NATO’s not fooledβ€”they log the flight, scramble the jets, go back to paperwork. Russia’s deterrence is basically a toddler banging pots in the kitchen: loud but harmless. The real trick is psychologicalβ€”keep the West twitchy, keep the headlines screaming. It’s not strategy, it’s a magic act: distract from weakness with smoke and mirrors. Four times more violations since 2022, but zero studies linking that to actual war. Because war isn’t the pointβ€”the point is making you believe war is the point. It’s saber-rattling without the saber, just a cheap tambourine. The ambassador’s β€œultimatum” is a stand-up routine dressed as geopolitics. The joke’s on anyone who takes it literally. Watch the jets, not the mouthsβ€”they burn fuel, not credibility.
  11. Russian ambassador to France shit-talking It will be war." - Russian Ambassador to France Alexey Meshkov said on RTL radio that the downing of a Russian aircraft over a NATO country would mean the beginning of a military conflict. He also added that NATO aircraft allegedly "quite often" violate Russian airspace, but they are not being shot down. Yeah, NATO is threatening to attack Russia after invading Belarus, threatening to nuke Moscow and St. Petersburg, and following it up by flying aircraft all over Russian airspace, and constantly talking about it on government TV stations.
  12. If Ukraine starts really eating into their fuel supplies as it looks like they are doing, and then launches an offensive somewhere or cuts off large units, would be interesting to see how Russia could respond.
  13. Supposedly drones are back up. And France wants in on the action. A lot of people still make jokes about WWII France, not realizing that since then, France has had no problem getting in on plenty of wars.
  14. Look at this guy, discussing burying dead hookers with the person whose land would be used to bury them on. You never bury them on land tied to you, ever. And burying their own dead hookers.
  15. The problem is that they’d be potentially sending out a lot of rounds into residential areas. But
  16. @blacklab may know more about this side of things, but this is either tied to the stuff in Denmark, or the Neptune Strike exercise (the USS Ford and NATO ships mentioned are a part of it). No way to tell. https://sfn.nato.int/newsroom/news-archive/2025/nato-launches-third-iteration-of-neptune-strike-across-europe-4
  17. Sounds like Denmark figured out where the drones were coming from and returning to.
  18. @PTINS or those following Konstantin might find this interesting - it appears to be happening ( I wondered about photoshop but looks legit)
  19. I don’t know if Putin wants to risk the loss of face - Russia pushed things too far with the drones and now NATO is all but looking for an excuse to shoot one down. The talking heads on Russia state TV couldn’t explain why a Russian plane was shot down in NATO territory if it happened, and why a Russian pilot (or his body) is being held by NATO forces. I don’t even know they would dare mention it on state TV - if gas rationing is really kicking in, and budgets are drying up, the Russians are going to ask why Russian planes were in NATO airspace if it happens. But Lavrov says NATO has declared war.
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