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one correction -- Baltics warning since early 1990s, not 2008

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

brilliant by @markadamharold.bsky.social 🇪🇺OMG WHAT SHALL WE DO 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹how about this 🇪🇺LET'S THINK OF SOMETHING 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹yeah how about this 🇪🇺NOBODY KNOWS WHAT TO DO 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹We just told you 🇪🇺THIS IS SO UNEXPECTED 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹We predicted it in 2008 🇪🇺WE NEED TO MAKE A PLAN 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹Check your email 🇪🇺DID THEY TRY LOVE?

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

I outline our plan for our new defence bank www.thetimes.com/article/265b...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

While the Norwegians soberly play the diplomatic equivalent of Hnefatafl (a Viking version of chess), Russia is engaged in a geopolitical version of buza, a performative mix of folk dance and martial arts

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

If you've made plans for the weekend, it's best to cancel them. Why go outdoors and spend time with your so-called "loved ones" when you could watch the frequency of the Baltic power grid instead? 😎 Disconnecting from 🇷🇺 today. Connecting to 🇵🇱 tomorrow. baltic-grid.sympower.net?fbclid=IwZXh...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

great endorsement from @radek-sikorski.bsky.social of our Rearmament Bank idea -- DM for a copy of the concept note www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

ICYMI: "Earth Tremors - For close American allies, the world is turning upside down." - by @edwardlucas.bsky.social at @cepa.org cepa.org/article/eart...

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Tatiana Bayeva, who stood up for Czechoslovakia in 1968, dies at 77 english.radio.cz/tatiana-baye...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Earth Tremors | "For close American allies, the world is turning upside down." @edwardlucas.bsky.social cepa.org/article/eart...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent piece of @edwardlucas.bsky.social Trump could lay out the groundwork-> weaken EU and allies of US, destroying democracy of US, creating chaos and making a wedge between EU and US. In that way he can easily retract or refusing military help in the Baltics if Putin is going for a land grab.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

"Ukraine may not be formally a member of Nato, but it is a Nato proxy, and defeat there will mark the end of the alliance’s credibility." @edwardlucas.bsky.social

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

cepa.org/article/eart...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Spot on assessment by @edwardlucas.bsky.social .. all these exceptional anchor dragging excuses are, well, exceptionally ridiculous ..

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Important piece by @edwardlucas.bsky.social on (implausibly deniable) Russian sabotage of critical sub-sea infrastructure.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Lifelines: Knots and Cuts | "Infrastructure and transportation networks are under attack. Where’s the response?" @edwardlucas.bsky.social

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Book launch in Vilnius was a blast! A super crowd (incl fmr PM Simonyte & foreign affairs chair Pavilionis) who asked great questions. Super comments from @edwardlucas.bsky.social & Gabija Grigaite & great to have readers like @andriuskubilius.ec.europa.eu & @andrewmichta.bsky.social

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... my Times column today

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Finnish 🇫🇮 leadership is just invaluable here. Truly game changing. 👍 youtu.be/ZEZtgj71JlU?...

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Indeed @edwardlucas.bsky.social - we'll survive [] if we want to. "Highly progressive personal taxes, strong immigration controls, dirigiste economics & vigorously defended social norms were all features of life in Western countries during the #ColdWar." cepa.org/article/guil... via @cepa.org

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Guilty men: the G7 in 2016 | "Bemoan the failures that swell the protest vote, not the populists’ rise." @edwardlucas.bsky.social

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Roundtable: Europe's Turning Point ⭐️Gabija Grigaite-Daugirde, Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of🇱🇹 ⭐️ @edwardlucas.bsky.social - author & expert ⭐️Benjamin Tallis + Special Guests ⭐️Moderated by TeodorasZukas Vilnius, Grand Hotel Curio by Hilton Friday 17/01, 1800-1930 Sign up [email protected]

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

this week's @cepa column. The supposedly halcyon days of May 2016 were an illusion. The new era will be messy. But so was the cold war cepa.org/article/guil...

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

The London Financial Times on the imminent collapse of the Russian economy.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

"Shell companies are the getaway cars for kleptocrats, crooks, thieves, tax-evaders and villains, and the sooner we get rid of them, the better it will be for everyone (except for kleptocrats, crooks, thieves, tax-evaders and villains)" Oliver Bullough

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Hurrah! the must-read Oligarchy newsletter with @oliverbullough.bsky.social gh is back ! Sign up here mailchi.mp/codastory.co...

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

"In short: Britain’s government is gambling that allies care more about its defence than it does. An odd definition of leadership." @edwardlucas.bsky.social

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

While other NATO allies are investing in defense and security, Britain is falling behind. @edwardlucas.bsky.social highlights the British goal for the Eastern front to block any attacks from Russia, but the UK must stand firm against Europe’s aggressor.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Given the extraordinary amount of Russian naval activity around Baltic Sea today I thought I'd summarize what I saw: * Corvette and sub stalks Finnish tanker NW Anholt * Three navy tugs doing racetracks south Anholt * Corvette enters Kattegatt from south cont ....

submitted 49 days ago • 6 comments

Good morning!

submitted 51 days ago • 996 comments

I enjoyed this, observations on the situation and history of Transnistria by someone born there. slavamalamud.substack.com/p/motherland...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Akhmat special forces commander Apti Alaudinov recorded a video with Russian Neo-Nazi and Rusich Group leader Alexey Milchakov. "We have found a common language, we have discussed all the points, and the work ... will continue in the common interests we have agreed on," Milchakov stated.

submitted 50 days ago • 21 comments

1/2 Is this why the UK media ignores or downplays Russian missile attacks on Ukraine? It seems UK has enough air defence missiles "only for the first day of a war, after which stockpiles would be exhausted and defences overwhelmed..."

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

My weekly column cepa.org/article/the-...

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Crooks and cronies: the heavy price we paid for doing business in Russia. A book review in which I settle a few scores… www.thetimes.com/article/a85d...

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

excellent read. “It’s a huge risk, not yet fully grasped,” says Lord West of Spithead, a former naval chief. Ireland’s feeble defences make it a particularly weak spot. “If Ireland goes down, we will too,” says Tom Tugendhat, the former security minister

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

“The Russian leader has shaped his country, but outsiders still find him baffling,” @edwardlucas.bsky.social outlines Putin's rise to power.

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

Finlandization: More Please | "Russia’s sabotage operations have just hit their first real obstacle." @edwardlucas.bsky.social

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

my times column today x.com/edwardlucas/...

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

"Deterrence will be expensive. But fighting a war will be far more costly. The frontline states of Europe understand that, as do Cassandras elsewhere, such as Giles." @edwardlucas.bsky.social

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

"Russia, China, and the West are at odds over the Yi Peng 3." @edwardlucas.bsky.social

submitted 64 days ago • 3 comments

www.linkedin.com/posts/nacke_...

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Natalia Arno attacked in London last month

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Yikes

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Super comment piece in today’s @thetimes.com Law section by former Chief Crown Prosecutor Andrew Penhale on the impact that the crisis in the UK criminal justice system is having on economic crime cases.

submitted 69 days ago • 3 comments

Vortex: Stand-Off at Sea | "Russia, China, and the West are at odds over the Yi Peng 3." @edwardlucas.bsky.social

submitted 72 days ago • 4 comments