All of this is so tiring. Since starting his second term, Trump hasn't sent any new aid to Ukraine. He could have helped save hundreds of Ukrainian civilians by sending weapons and air defense systems.

A forced parade v a voluntary one.

Fuel shortages reached Moscow already. Lol.

Trump's emergency plea to the DC Circuit to stop removal of his name from the Kennedy Center included this odd reference to a bylaw that had never been mentioned before in the litigation. It's looking increasingly like it was passed last week—and maybe on Thursday, the day before the petition.

"My grandfather fought the Nazis" The grandfather:

Another CBS report from May 2022 on the Russian imperialist biolab bullshit propaganda, and its American moron believers and superspreaders.

OTD in 1941, 8 days before the invasion, Soviet "news" agency @tassagency_en dismissed Churchill's warning of an imminent nazi attack on the USSR as "clumsy imperialist propaganda". Imagine them doing that today again, also 8 days before an invasion.

I wonder - did the GenZ intern Tulsi tasked with creating this fake map (we know she can barely work a phone) intentionally sabotage it by using incorrect city placement and creating a fake city? And stupid old Tulsi - who can’t find Ukraine on a map - fell for it.

The big questions to ask this morning about the Russia shadow fleet tanker interdiction in the English Channel are: what was the legal basis and has Cameroon finally acted on its rogue registry which is the second-largest provider of flag services to shadow fleet tankers after Russia? Two Cameroon-flagged Russia tankers diverted from their intended course via the English Channel this morning after the very high-profile interception and boarding by British armed forces of Smyrtos (IMO 9389100) overnight. There are dramatic images Royal Marines sliding down ropes from helicopters on to the ship. Cameroon-flagged Smyrtos (according to its AIS and Equasis database), was built in 2009, and had loaded at the Russian Baltic port of Ust Luga. Absent from the feverish media coverage is the legal basis. Smyrtos was sanctioned by the UK in October 2025 and the EU in July 2025 and *appears* to be legitimately flagged. If so, the tanker has the right of innocent passage under international law. However, earlier this month the Cameroon government announced it was cleaning up its ship registry, Dozens of tankers had reflagged to Cameroon over the past six months because they were using fraudulent ship registries and effectively stateless. This was the legal basis for interdiction efforts seen across the Baltic, Atlantic and Mediterranean over the past 18 months and this vulnerability meant tankers had to find a "legitimate" flag. This is the 12th Russia shadow fleet tanker intercepted and boarded by European or UK authorities so far in 2026 we have tracked at @WindwardAI The last tanker Tagor (IMO 9282481) was boarded by French authorities with UK support on May 31. That tanker was falsely flagged with the fraudulent ship registry of Madagascar. The targeting of the Cameroon-flagged vessel comes months after the UK government pledged in February to deal with UK sanctioned shadow fleet tankers regularly sailing through its waters. The military operation saw Smyrtos boarded via helicopter and then redirected to the coastal waters off southern England. The vessel "met the requirements" for boarding a government spokesman said on the BBC this morning without further explanation. He flagged further tankers would be targeted. So far that hasn’t deterred 3 sanctioned shadow fleet tankers tracked through the Channel today. But they are not flagged with Cameroon. Those that are have diverted. So lots of headlines, little information. If this ship has been deflagged from Cameroon (but the IMO’s database has yet to keep up), that’s confusing. If the UK has found another legal basis to board and detain beyond article 110 of UNLCOS (stateless), then that’s interesting. My money is that Cameroon’s government has worked out that its registry has been hijacked by some rogue officials and that there is no legal basis for the registration of the 130-plus shadow fleet tankers. They might not have communicated that to official databases, but obviously told the UK government. Watching with interest.

Re legality: x.com/Michellewb_/status/206…

About 8 hours after shadow tanker SMYRTOS was seized by UK three other shadow tankers made abrupt turns within an hour of each other, avoiding going through the English Channel. Home base called I assume. All ships in screenshots are sanctioned.

SBU's Alpha unit hit the "Temp" state reserve oil depot in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl region, over 700 km from Ukraine, on Zelensky's orders. The depot holds Russia's strategic fuel reserves and supplies its northeastern regions. A massive fire broke out, with at least three blazes across a 60-tank farm.

In just a few hours, Fidesz has become so embarrassed that it is now claiming that the migrant reception centre in Vitnyéd was only planned in 2024 as some kind of political tactic. My only question is this: why did they hide this plan? Why did they deny it? Why did they lie directly to the Hungarian people? Who will take responsibility for this "tactic"? Will there be yet another Fidesz explanation by tomorrow? Or will they simply continue their rhetoric about the migration pact instead of taking responsibility?

Eva Vlaardingerbroek John Mappin Irina Mappin

russia was, is, and will always be a decrepit shithole

A family with six children has been evacuated from the Beryslav district of Kherson region. The situation in the region remains difficult. Constant Russian shelling and drone attacks make civilian evacuations dangerous, as Russians deliberately target evacuation and civilian vehicles. 📹: andry_boxer / Instagram

One of the most fascinating conversations I've had in a long time. Before the full-scale invasion, Dimko was travelling the world as a digital nomad. Today, he's a Ukrainian soldier, drone warfare expert, author and founder of one of Ukraine's most successful military charities. We discuss how drones have transformed modern warfare, why Crimea remains central to the conflict, how Ukraine is targeting Russian logistics, and why the battlefield of 2026 looks nothing like the battlefield of 2022. His observation that "you don't need planes to have another 9/11" should make every military planner in the world pause and think. A superb interview and well worth a watch. 🇺🇦🎙️ youtu.be/fRGk95S7Mpo?si=z-Cp…

22.03.2014: Igor Girkin writes that Russia is, of course, behind the “separatist” movement that is yet to emerge in eastern Ukraine, which he will help to lead. Russia’s aim is to start a civil war in Ukraine. Everything that happens in 2014 is being orchestrated by Russia.

Re-up.

Russian logistics vehicles targeted by Ukrainian Hornet drones. Part of the Logistics Lockdown campaign. Strikes carried out by the Black Sky unit.