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@SmangaMad Go well, guys.

Today we are pushing Tete, Mozambique to Mzuzu, Malawi… 750km! Let’s go…

A câmera de segurança flagrando os dois pastores belga bebês brincando enquanto o dono não estava em casa.

France and Britain condemned IDF operations in southern Lebanon — then discovered that Lebanon actually supports them in order to dismantle Hezbollah.

“Grandpa, what did America do when Ukraine beat Russia?” He takes a while to answer. “The boys at school say America didn’t do anything. That isn’t true, is it, Grandpa?” And he doesn’t know how to say it. That there was a day, in a gold-trimmed room, when president Trump sat across from a leader who had not slept properly in three years, a man whose cities were being bombed while he spoke, and instead of standing beside him, he lectured him. About gratitude. On camera. With his deputy joining in, the two of them talking down to a wartime president as if he had come to beg for a favour rather than to keep his country alive. “It’s complicated,” is all he manages. But the boys at school are closer to the truth than he wants to admit. Ukraine won the way a man wins a fight after his cornerman walks out halfway through. It won despite that room, not because of it. It won because Europe helped, Canada helped, Australia helped, Japan helped, South Korea helped, and most of all because of the fighting spirit in Ukraine, and because the Ukrainians refused to die quietly, and because history has a long memory for the people who showed up and an even longer one for the people who didn’t. One day the textbooks will have a photo of that meeting. And the caption will not be kind. “No,” he says finally. “They didn’t do nothing. They did something worse.”

Every time I see a Ukrainian FP-5 Flamingo fly deep into ruSSian territory and blow the fuck out of something. I smile widely. And I say “FUCK YOU JAKE SULLIVAN”. It ain’t much. But it’s honest work.

A UK family where both parents work full-time, pay full council tax, and earn enough to be 'doing alright' on paper, can't afford to take their kids to the Tower of London on a Saturday in 2026. Two adult tickets and two child tickets at standard price comes to roughly £100. Add £40-£80 in train fares and £50-£70 for lunch — that's around £200 for a single Saturday at one tourist attraction in their own capital city. A family on full Universal Credit, living in subsidised housing, paying no council tax, can take the same four people to the same Tower for £1 a ticket — £4 total — under the 'inclusive access' schemes most major UK attractions now run. The working family pays the full £200 day out AND covers — through their taxes — the £196 discount the benefits family gets on the same trip. Whatever the original intention of those schemes, this is the structure most UK working families are now living inside. Pay the full bill, then watch the people next door enjoy the day out you can't take your own kids to.

I never met pete but I know people who did and I know the impression he left on them. I remember watching his videos before I came to Ukraine. A man with a heart, fearless and passionate. His journey was part of what inspired me to join. This speech when I watched it moved me deeply. I was going through training, and I already knew people who had passed. Every wrinkle of emotion, every word spoken was another harrowing admission of our failure. Our failure to protect our allies admist genocide. Our failure to stand up and be counted. We've traded decency for comfort, morals for gratification. When russia comes knocking on the door of Europe, in a world of Tates be a Pete. Fearless.

Wolfhound Fellá 🇮🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧 #TeamYuri @Justinhead1982

2 days ago

It's two years since combat medic, Peter Fouché, was killed by ruzzians on the frontlines in Ukraine. Please remember him 🕯️ Pete's "I'm ashamed to be a Westerner" speech, from Feb 2024, should be added to the annals of great war speeches for all the wrong reasons! I still hear

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NRK just dropped solid footage from the 6th battalion of Madar's Birds launching B-2 mid-range strike drones right on the eastern front. The detail that caught me is how the warhead gets bolted on separately underneath instead of riding inside the airframe. They pull the birds out of wooden frames, slap on eight kilos of explosive, fuel them up, yank the "Remove before flight" tag, and catapult them straight into the fight. No more waiting for red headlamps at dusk. This is 24/7 now, daylight runs included. Prince, the crew commander, put it plainly: we are hitting the main roads to choke off their drones, fuel, and ammo before they ever reach the contact line. "How exactly are they supposed to attack without petrol or shells? With sticks?" Madar asked with that dry Ukrainian sarcasm that cuts deeper than most propaganda. One goal only: wreck the conditions that let them grab more Ukrainian land. Not hoping they suddenly grow a conscience and say "oops, our bad." Just making sure they physically cannot get there. This is the part Western capitals still pretend is optional. Every B-2 that slips through the growing corridors we have already carved by smashing their radars and air defense creates direct pressure on Moscow's logistics deep behind the lines. The Unmanned Systems Forces say mid-range drone strikes are running 28 times higher than a year ago. Six months back these capabilities barely existed. Now they are scaling while Russian rear areas burn on a schedule. That is not charity. That is the cheapest European security policy available. Arming Ukraine at current rates keeps the imperial meat grinder fed on Russian bodies and Russian equipment instead of letting one victory embolden the Kremlin to test NATO's Article 5 directly. Every ruble Moscow wastes replacing destroyed fuel trucks, command posts, and Pantsirs on rooftops is a ruble it cannot spend preparing the next hybrid push against the Baltics or Poland. The math is merciless: Moscow loses more soldiers trying to capture villages that had fewer residents before the war than the monthly butcher's bill they are paying. Their soldier is still their cheapest disposable asset, but even that account is not bottomless. The isolationist crowd in Washington and parts of Europe keeps treating this as some distant favor we owe them gratitude for. Wrong direction. Ukraine is the only force on the continent currently destroying the opponent's ability to project power westward. We are doing the bleeding so Berlin, Paris, and Brussels do not have to. The favor runs the other way. Europe gets breathing room and time to rearm precisely because Ukrainian crews are bolting warheads onto wooden-frame drones in broad daylight and launching them around the clock. Moscow will not wake up one morning and decide imperialism was a bad career choice. Putin cannot stop even if he wanted to. The minute the meat wave pauses, a million armed men come home asking what the hell it was all for. The only off-ramp is military defeat on the battlefield, full territorial restoration for Ukraine, and eventual dismantling of the Russian imperial project into something that cannot repeat this cycle. Everything else is theater. The NRK piece shows exactly why investment in Ukrainian long-range strike capacity is the highest-leverage defense spending Europe can make right now. Not because we are brave. Because it works, because it scales, and because it keeps the next war from starting on your border instead of ours. The Birds are not waiting for permission. They are already rewriting the cost-benefit equation for the aggressor in real time. The West can either get serious about feeding that machine or explain later why it thought delay was strategy.

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@TrentTelenko Good thread, Trent - thanks. As usual, cuts through to the facts.

There is so much to object to here that I'm going to restate some basic design observations on the FP-5 to clarify how the Russian reflexive control data fed AI slop that is polluting public discussions of the FP-5. FP-5 🧵 1/

Jarl Finland @jalle51

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Having closely analyzed the latest flight footage of Ukraine’s new FP-5 "Flamingo" missile, we can finally draw an obvious—and for the Kremlin, utterly humiliating—conclusion. Disregard any panic about some "hypersonic sci-fi wonder-weapon." The Flamingo is functionally a

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In fact, it’s quite frightening to even try to imagine what would be happening to Ukraine right now if we had not taken the path of continuing the development of the drone revolution. If we had continued, as before, being forced to beg for months and years for the provision of every type of weapon and every missile, and remained hostage to endless professional “anti-escalation” advocates with their absurd and irrational restrictions on the use of weapons against Russia, as well as hostage to endless erratic demagogues and ultra-populists who would be ready to feed all of Europe to Putin just to get into power. I don’t think Ukraine would still be able to hold out against such an uneven enemy, who was also absurdly protected for years from strikes against its military machine and economy “to prevent World War III,” if it were not for the drone revolution. This is an immensely significant achievement of Ukraine and its allies.

Let me tell you something, William Ruto knows that NTSA has no capacity to inspect all cars in Kenya. Matatus alone have beaten them pants down. He is creating this crisis because there is a company already in place that will be given the contract to "help" NTSA, take 75% of the cash and give NTSA 25%. We should reject this.

Matthew VanDyke, founder of @OfficialSOLI, was arrested along with six Ukrainian citizens and jailed on March 13 on charges of smuggling drones and related equipment into India, entering restricted areas in the northeast, and making contact with armed groups based in Myanmar. His partner, journalist @Gia_Santos_, denies the charges against @Matt_VanDyke and denounces the appalling conditions he is enduring in prison. VanDyke has been on a hunger strike for 50 days. “Matthew has spent his life documenting human suffering and supporting people in all kinds of humanitarian crises; what he is experiencing in India is a humanitarian emergency that will only end with his return home”: My interview with Gia Santos in @vocedelpatriota. lavocedelpatriota.it/en/matthews-hu…

Matthew VanDyke, founder of @OfficialSOLI, was arrested along with six Ukrainian citizens and jailed on March 13 on charges of smuggling drones and related equipment into India, entering restricted areas in the northeast, and making contact with armed groups based in Myanmar. His partner, journalist @Gia_Santos_, denies the charges against @Matt_VanDyke and denounces the appalling conditions he is enduring in prison. VanDyke has been on a hunger strike for 54 days. “Matthew has spent his life documenting human suffering and supporting people in all kinds of humanitarian crises; what he is experiencing in India is a humanitarian emergency that will only end with his return home”: An interview with Gia Santos in @vocedelpatriota with @penas_alvaro lavocedelpatriota.it/en/matthews-hu… via @penas_alvaro #FreeVanDyke #MatthewVanDyke

@CherokeeOwl Crap AI slop. What happened to that Hurricane's prop?

@RaminNasibov Inception

WOW. Time flies so quickly. 23 years ago. First, I joined the Brigade of Gurkhas in the British Army. From there, being the first Gurkha ever to pass the selection for SBS, elite UKSF, in 200 years of Gurkhas serving the British military. On this Armed Forces Day, I reflect on a journey that has been nothing less than inspiring. My 16 years in the British military, and 10 years within the SBS/UKSF, taught me so much. It helped me build a very strong, fundamental base of who I am today. Remember: wherever you go, whatever you do, if your base is not strong, you will collapse. So, having that base established from the world’s number one special forces unit what more could I ask for? Since I joined the British military, the war kicked off. And pretty much my whole career in the British military was spent on war and conflict, until I left the forces in 2019. After serving 16 years, I decided to take a completely different path. Going even bigger, I took on this groundbreaking project that the world at that time had thought impossible. And of course, the journey continues. Today, I hold the most 8,000-metre summits i.e 56 of them: 28 without oxygen. Both the highest. And inspiring many along the way. I spent years in the darkest places of conflict. Today, I choose a different mission. To be a voice for peace. What the Gurkhas and the special forces have taught me is invaluable. The discipline. The mindset. That will of never giving up; Understanding the bigger picture and always being true to yourself. I saw firsthand the impact of a small elite group delivering maximum effect. Being able to learn everything from meticulous planning to strategic games. And most importantly, no excuses. Only delivery matters🤜🏽💥. I didn’t just learn that success is not a coincidence. I saw it. I lived it. I breathed it. The unrelenting pursuit of excellence. Strength through humility. Speed, aggression, and surprise. The quiet professional who lets actions speak. That code, success is never a coincidence, is built on integrity. Build everything around that. To all who serve, and have served, this day is for you. Happy Armed Forces Day 🇬🇧 #nimsdai #armedforcesday #uksf

It's two years since combat medic, Peter Fouché, was killed by ruzzians on the frontlines in Ukraine. Please remember him 🕯️ Pete's "I'm ashamed to be a Westerner" speech, from Feb 2024, should be added to the annals of great war speeches for all the wrong reasons! I still hear desperation in the voices of 🇺🇦 volunteers and fundraisers today so keep donating to verified orgs supporting the Ukrainian war effort!

Last night, Hezbollah supporters torched the “Lebanon First” billboards along Beirut Airport Road in protest of the Lebanese government’s framework agreement with Israel. Their loyalty has never been to Lebanon. For them, it has always been Iran first.