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🔥🇺🇦🇷🇺 "Greatest Intel operation in history." — Ukrainian drones reached Siberia. — 34% of strategic aircraft were hit. — Russian losses estimated at app. $7 bln. — The drone operators who destroyed the bombers, some of which are irreplaceable, operated from Russia 🧵 1/14

SecDef Hegseth nominates "Air Force Lt. Gen. Alexus G. Grynkewich for appointment to the grade of general while serving as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. NATO has also agreed to appoint Lt. Gen. Grynkewich as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe." defense.gov/News/Releases/…

"Anti-personnel mines are widely reviled, especially in the humanitarian community, but there are certain places in which they could be used to prevent war in the first place. The eastern edge of Europe is one of those places." warontherocks.com/2025/06/embrac…

Just when Russian troops may be entering Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announces that the United States will reduce funding allocated for military assistance to Ukraine in its upcoming defense budget. kyivindependent.com/us-to-cut-mili…

Maybe I am not paying as much attention as I should, but I am surprised that it has taken me *this long* since her confirmation as DNI to hear her share something really off-putting.

Re: AUKUS, a sticking point is that Canberra hasn't made an explicit commitment to use nuclear-powered attack subs in a war with China. I don't know why one is needed. One can keep China guessing. Australia has reason to be wary of emboldening the US. ft.com/content/4a9355…

I mean there's a reason Easyjet only flies A320s.

Very pleased to contribute to the Council on Geostrategy ongoing discussion of Britain's new Strategic Defence Review. I examine it from Ottawa's perspective. Despite the lack of attention it gets in Canada, the SDR matters for it because the two allies face the same considerations.

Florian Wirtz is a Red.

I can't help but think of how MAGA was angry at Biden giving Ukraine weapons in 2022 because of "escalation", "World War III", and "nuclear war" when now we have the MAGA President bombing nuclear sites in Iran just five months into his term. Such dishonesty all around.