for confused Europeans working through the shifting sands of the #geopolitics of the modern world:

2016: #USA is the #military "protector of the free world"

2026: #Ukraine is "protector of the free world" ( #USA has devolved into that incoherent bigot uncle you do your best to ignore at family gatherings)

adjust your budgets and attitudes accordingly

" #Trump says #US will grant Ukraine's request for license to build #Patriot interceptors"

cbsnews.com/news/trump-ukraine…

#UkraineWar #EU #Europe

Trump says U.S. will grant Ukraine's request for license to build Patriot interceptors

"A little birdie told me this, about the fact that we'll give them the right to make Patriots," President Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

^{Kathryn Watson (CBS News)}

There's hundreds of these videos now, but for your #schadenfreude enjoyment I chose the one with the soundtrack "Take a Long Line" by the Australian hard rock group the Angels (1978)

#Russia is running out of gas

Who could have predicted this in 2022?

Someone in #Ukraine in the last few years did

And then delivered

Fabulous

💪 😤 🇺🇦

👏 👏 👏

#SlavaUkraini

Fuck you Russia. Leave Ukraine. Now

"Russia’s Gas Lines Are So Long They Can Be Seen From Space"

united24media.com/war-in-ukrai…

#UkraineWar

#Military secrets are fiercely guarded for obvious reasons. But also obviously in a #war your enemy gets a lot of exposure to the operating parameters, capabilities, and weaknesses of your #technology. And gets plenty of physical samples

So #Ukraine just open sourced all of #Russia's military secrets 😆

Well not strictly, it's only for allies

And a knock-on effect is it devalues Russian arms sales because potential buyers know it's all exposed

It's called #TrophyLab

#UkraineWar