Strengthening Baltic Defense: A Unified Approach Against Aggression

Given the news of the day (Several Russian attack drones shot down after flying into Polish airspace) and the general expectation that Russia+Belarus will at some point attack the Baltic states, would it make sense for Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia to have a sub-NATO, cross-border, joint defense structure and posture?

Ooohh … Sick burn

Volodomyr Zelensky and JD Vance appear in Wikipedia’s top 5 English most read articles today, upstaging Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I’ve never seen Elon Musk in that list and I don’t *think* I’ve seen DJT in it. Still, a tragedy for Ukraine (&& now Trump’s ego). Overheard American Ukraine War blogger Jake Broe from […]

“20 Days in Mariupol” streaming free in the United States

“20 Days in Mariupol” streaming free in the United States The winner of the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary is streaming free on PBS and YouTube in the United States. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/20-days-in-mariupol/ :::::: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvAyykRvPBo Be warned there is a lot of extremely graphic and disturbing stuff here. Explosions, injured people, corpses, people in surgery, tears, […]

Recent News Events

They have about forty oil refineries. Haven’t been counting but I think they hit at least ten by now, and the one most recent accounted for a full 10% of production. Built with irreplaceable Western technology and software. In other news, a nation effectively without a navy has driven the russian navy out of the black sea and sevastopol with small sea drones, sinking many ships, and can freely export grain and prevented the weaponization of food inflation, crisis, and famine by russia all over the world.

Ukraine has pronounced 11/22 as Dignity and Freedom day it seems

https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1726858317803204732 a powerful speech for all the world from ukraine’s president. apparently this newly pronounced Dignity and Freedom Day is the anniversary of the 2004 and 2014 revolutions as well as the 60th anniversary of JFKs assassination. I don’t remember very much about the 2004 thing Featured photo source Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash