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  1. "... “Today, Russia is a country with a wartime economy and a population programmed to view the West in explicitly adversarial terms.”

    “Russia will remain an enemy of the West until Putin leaves the Kremlin.”

    “Until that moment,” he adds, “Europe will have to deal with the reality of Russian aggression.”
    ..."

    #Europe #theWest #RussianAggression #Putin #Putinswar #RussiaUkraineWar #NATO #EuropeanSecurity #Ukraine
    forbes.com/sites/kevinholdenpl

  2. "... “Today, Russia is a country with a wartime economy and a population programmed to view the West in explicitly adversarial terms.”

    “Russia will remain an enemy of the West until Putin leaves the Kremlin.”

    “Until that moment,” he adds, “Europe will have to deal with the reality of Russian aggression.”
    ..."

    #Europe #theWest #RussianAggression #Putin #Putinswar #RussiaUkraineWar #NATO #EuropeanSecurity
    forbes.com/sites/kevinholdenpl

  3. "... For two decades, successive Western leaders have embraced policies of appeasement in a bid to avoid provoking Putin. It should now be abundantly clear that nothing is more likely to provoke Putin than Western weakness."

    #Putin #Russia #NATO #USA #Europe #theWest #RussianAggression #Appeasement
    atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukra

  4. "... For two decades, successive Western leaders have embraced policies of appeasement in a bid to avoid provoking Putin. It should now be abundantly clear that nothing is more likely to provoke Putin than Western weakness."

    #Putin #Russia #NATO #USA #Europe #theWest #RussianAggression #Appeasement
    atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukra

  5. Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War, Adam Tooze
    London Review of Books lecture, Podcast, 5 Aug 2026

    "China is racing ahead in electrification, while the US turns its back on green energy in favour of a new era of fossil fuel machismo. An alignment between the three major petrostates – the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia – no longer looks implausible. The outlines of a new Cold War are becoming visible, one which will be determined by a novel mixture of ideology, critical technologies, supply chains and control of energy flows. How will these geopolitical dynamics play out – and what will it mean for global warming?" >>
    podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/
    #Electrostates #Petrostates #NewColdWar #FossilFuelMachismo #FossilFuels #energy #transition #decarbonisation #climate #modernisation #TheWest #failure #EU #China #geopolitics #technology #AI #debt #bubble #war

  6. Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War, Adam Tooze
    London Review of Books lecture, Podcast, 5 Aug 2026

    "China is racing ahead in electrification, while the US turns its back on green energy in favour of a new era of fossil fuel machismo. An alignment between the three major petrostates – the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia – no longer looks implausible. The outlines of a new Cold War are becoming visible, one which will be determined by a novel mixture of ideology, critical technologies, supply chains and control of energy flows. How will these geopolitical dynamics play out – and what will it mean for global warming?" >>
    podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/
    #Electrostates #Petrostates #NewColdWar #FossilFuelMachismo #FossilFuels #energy #transition #decarbonisation #climate #modernisation #TheWest #failure #EU #China #geopolitics #technology #AI #debt #bubble #war

  7. Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War, Adam Tooze
    London Review of Books lecture, Podcast, 5 Aug 2026

    "China is racing ahead in electrification, while the US turns its back on green energy in favour of a new era of fossil fuel machismo. An alignment between the three major petrostates – the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia – no longer looks implausible. The outlines of a new Cold War are becoming visible, one which will be determined by a novel mixture of ideology, critical technologies, supply chains and control of energy flows. How will these geopolitical dynamics play out – and what will it mean for global warming?" >>
    podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/
    #Electrostates #Petrostates #NewColdWar #FossilFuelMachismo #FossilFuels #energy #transition #decarbonisation #climate #modernisation #TheWest #failure #EU #China #geopolitics #technology #AI #debt #bubble #war

  8. Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War, Adam Tooze
    London Review of Books lecture, Podcast, 5 Aug 2026

    "China is racing ahead in electrification, while the US turns its back on green energy in favour of a new era of fossil fuel machismo. An alignment between the three major petrostates – the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia – no longer looks implausible. The outlines of a new Cold War are becoming visible, one which will be determined by a novel mixture of ideology, critical technologies, supply chains and control of energy flows. How will these geopolitical dynamics play out – and what will it mean for global warming?" >>
    podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/
    #Electrostates #Petrostates #NewColdWar #FossilFuelMachismo #FossilFuels #energy #transition #decarbonisation #climate #modernisation #TheWest #failure #EU #China #geopolitics #technology #AI #debt #bubble #war

  9. Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War, Adam Tooze
    London Review of Books lecture, Podcast, 5 Aug 2026

    "China is racing ahead in electrification, while the US turns its back on green energy in favour of a new era of fossil fuel machismo. An alignment between the three major petrostates – the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia – no longer looks implausible. The outlines of a new Cold War are becoming visible, one which will be determined by a novel mixture of ideology, critical technologies, supply chains and control of energy flows. How will these geopolitical dynamics play out – and what will it mean for global warming?" >>
    podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/
    #Electrostates #Petrostates #NewColdWar #FossilFuelMachismo #FossilFuels #energy #transition #decarbonisation #climate #modernisation #TheWest #failure #EU #China #geopolitics #technology #AI #debt #bubble #war

  10. "In line with the Kremlin’s standard practice of providing no evidence for its claims, Russian outlets continue to allege that Ukraine is arming nearly every faction in every conflict zone around the world, all while insisting that Ukraine itself has supposedly long since run out of weapons."
    - EUvsDisinfo

    #Russia #Ukraine #theWest #theMiddleEast #Organisedcrime #Corruption #RussianInvasion #RussiaUkraineWar #EUvsDisinfo
    euvsdisinfo.eu/report/weapons-

  11. "In line with the Kremlin’s standard practice of providing no evidence for its claims, Russian outlets continue to allege that Ukraine is arming nearly every faction in every conflict zone around the world, all while insisting that Ukraine itself has supposedly long since run out of weapons."
    - EUvsDisinfo

    #Russia #Ukraine #theWest #theMiddleEast #Organisedcrime #Corruption #RussianInvasion #RussiaUkraineWar #EUvsDisinfo
    euvsdisinfo.eu/report/weapons-

  12. "In line with the Kremlin’s standard practice of providing no evidence for its claims, Russian outlets continue to allege that Ukraine is arming nearly every faction in every conflict zone around the world, all while insisting that Ukraine itself has supposedly long since run out of weapons."
    - EUvsDisinfo

    #Russia #Ukraine #theWest #theMiddleEast #Organisedcrime #Corruption #RussianInvasion #RussiaUkraineWar #EUvsDisinfo
    euvsdisinfo.eu/report/weapons-

  13. "In line with the Kremlin’s standard practice of providing no evidence for its claims, Russian outlets continue to allege that Ukraine is arming nearly every faction in every conflict zone around the world, all while insisting that Ukraine itself has supposedly long since run out of weapons."
    - EUvsDisinfo

    #Russia #Ukraine #theWest #theMiddleEast #Organisedcrime #Corruption #RussianInvasion #RussiaUkraineWar #EUvsDisinfo
    euvsdisinfo.eu/report/weapons-

  14. "In line with the Kremlin’s standard practice of providing no evidence for its claims, Russian outlets continue to allege that Ukraine is arming nearly every faction in every conflict zone around the world, all while insisting that Ukraine itself has supposedly long since run out of weapons."
    - EUvsDisinfo

    #Russia #Ukraine #theWest #theMiddleEast #Organisedcrime #Corruption #RussianInvasion #RussiaUkraineWar #EUvsDisinfo
    euvsdisinfo.eu/report/weapons-

  15. "The regime that just three months ago openly threatened to murder foreign diplomats in Kyiv and continues to reject all ceasefire proposals, today decided to lecture the West about its apparent ‘lack of constructive ideas’ and an ‘unacceptable style of dialogue’."
    - EUvsDisinfo

    #Russia #theWest #EUvsDisinfo #Europe euvsdisinfo.eu/report/europe-d

  16. "The regime that just three months ago openly threatened to murder foreign diplomats in Kyiv and continues to reject all ceasefire proposals, today decided to lecture the West about its apparent ‘lack of constructive ideas’ and an ‘unacceptable style of dialogue’."
    - EUvsDisinfo

    #Russia #theWest #EUvsDisinfo #Europe euvsdisinfo.eu/report/europe-d

  17. "Some of the most effective Kremlin propaganda strategies do not necessarily invent entirely new events.

    Instead, they take real developments – a border restriction, a military exercise, a diplomatic dispute – and reframe them as evidence that Russia is ‘under constant attack from the West’."
    - EUvsDisinfo

    #propaganda #narratives #Russia #Kremlin #EUvsDisinfo #theWest

  18. "According to Kremlin sources, the number of officially reported repatriates from Europe to Kaliningrad has almost doubled in three years.

    In official rhetoric, these arrivals are framed as proof that Russia remains ‘safer’ and people are ‘returning home from an increasingly hostile West’.

    Rather than simply reporting migration, the narrative turns it into proof of the Kremlin’s preferred worldview."
    - EUvsDisinfo

    #Russia #Europe #Kaliningrad #theWest #EUvsDisinfo
    euvsdisinfo.eu/why-the-informa

  19. "According to Kremlin sources, the number of officially reported repatriates from Europe to Kaliningrad has almost doubled in three years.

    In official rhetoric, these arrivals are framed as proof that Russia remains ‘safer’ and people are ‘returning home from an increasingly hostile West’.

    Rather than simply reporting migration, the narrative turns it into proof of the Kremlin’s preferred worldview."
    - EUvsDisinfo

    #Russia #Europe #Kaliningrad #theWest #EUvsDisinfo
    euvsdisinfo.eu/why-the-informa

  20. "Vladimir Putin has no intention of striking a peace deal with Ukraine and is more likely to escalate his war, according to Russian opposition activist Garry Kasparov.

    Such a move could involve an incursion into a country on NATO’s eastern flank, he said."
    - POLITICO Europe‬

    #VladimirPutin #Putin #GarryKasparov #NATO #theWest
    politico.eu/article/putins-nex

  21. "... Elvira Bary explains why many Russians fear and distrust the West — and how Putin’s regime turns those fears into a powerful tool of control. Russian anti-Western paranoia did not appear out of nowhere. It draws on real historical wounds, NATO expansion, nuclear insecurity, fear of national collapse, memories of the 1990s, colonial history, and the myth that the West has always hated Russia. ...”

    #Russia #RussianSociety #propaganda #PutinsRegime #NATO #theWest
    youtube.com/watch?v=FdIqQCaXI1A

  22. As Ukraine garners headlines for its drone warfare innovation, it is also producing a playbook for countering Russian propaganda.

    “This Ukrainian experience offers important lessons for the wider Western world,” writes Ryan Prior...

    #RUssia #propaganda #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EU
    atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukra

  23. As Ukraine garners headlines for its drone warfare innovation, it is also producing a playbook for countering Russian propaganda.

    “This Ukrainian experience offers important lessons for the wider Western world,” writes Ryan Prior...

    #RUssia #propaganda #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EU
    atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukra

  24. As Ukraine garners headlines for its drone warfare innovation, it is also producing a playbook for countering Russian propaganda.

    “This Ukrainian experience offers important lessons for the wider Western world,” writes Ryan Prior...

    #RUssia #propaganda #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EU
    atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukra

  25. As Ukraine garners headlines for its drone warfare innovation, it is also producing a playbook for countering Russian propaganda.

    “This Ukrainian experience offers important lessons for the wider Western world,” writes Ryan Prior...

    #RUssia #propaganda #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EU
    atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukra

  26. As Ukraine garners headlines for its drone warfare innovation, it is also producing a playbook for countering Russian propaganda.

    “This Ukrainian experience offers important lessons for the wider Western world,” writes Ryan Prior...

    #RUssia #propaganda #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EU
    atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukra

  27. Why Jet Engines Aren’t “Made In China” - by Aakash Japi

    aakash.substack.com/p/why-jet-

    > What China’s jet engine program tells us about the limits of industrial policy

    #China #TheWest #JetEngines

  28. Why Jet Engines Aren’t “Made In China” - by Aakash Japi

    aakash.substack.com/p/why-jet-

    > What China’s jet engine program tells us about the limits of industrial policy

  29. "Don't ask Ukraine to stop defending itself. Ask russia to stop invading."
    - Olena Halushka‬

    #Russia #Ukraine #Europe #theWest #USA #UK #RussianInvasion #RussiaUkraineWar #selfdefence

  30. "Don't ask Ukraine to stop defending itself. Ask russia to stop invading."
    - Olena Halushka‬

    #Russia #Ukraine #Europe #theWest #USA #UK #RussianInvasion #RussiaUkraineWar #selfdefence

  31. "Don't ask Ukraine to stop defending itself. Ask russia to stop invading."
    - Olena Halushka‬

    #Russia #Ukraine #Europe #theWest #USA #UK #RussianInvasion #RussiaUkraineWar #selfdefence

  32. "Don't ask Ukraine to stop defending itself. Ask russia to stop invading."
    - Olena Halushka‬

    #Russia #Ukraine #Europe #theWest #USA #UK #RussianInvasion #RussiaUkraineWar #selfdefence

  33. stead of piggy backing off other folks' posts (and pissing everybody off) i guess i should just try to articulate cold

    on hanson and all the attention she's getting, folks reevaluating, pegging her for potential prime minister etc

    think it fair to ask how much of trumpism's about trump? folks look at the mess and the pattern they see is the party and the base, the democrats in disarray, and figure it's about trump, his personal appeal (as distinct from his 'agenda') and figure on his having a kind of messianic charisma

    nothing new in this (re flyover country ect) but as with hanson i reckon it fair to lay it square at the feet of the failings of our norms and institutions in so far as what we've been promised (how we've been given to understand the substance of those norms and institutions) and what they've delivered in the round

    #meltingpot #westernCulture #theWest #ausPol #hanson

  34. stead of piggy backing off other folks' posts (and pissing everybody off) i guess i should just try to articulate cold

    on hanson and all the attention she's getting, folks reevaluating, pegging her for potential prime minister etc

    think it fair to ask how much of trumpism's about trump? folks look at the mess and the pattern they see is the party and the base, the democrats in disarray, and figure it's about trump, his personal appeal (as distinct from his 'agenda') and figure on his having a kind of messianic charisma

    nothing new in this (re flyover country ect) but as with hanson i reckon it fair to lay it square at the feet of the failings of our norms and institutions in so far as what we've been promised (how we've been given to understand the substance of those norms and institutions) and what they've delivered in the round

    #meltingpot #westernCulture #theWest #ausPol #hanson

  35. stead of piggy backing off other folks' posts (and pissing everybody off) i guess i should just try to articulate cold

    on hanson and all the attention she's getting, folks reevaluating, pegging her for potential prime minister etc

    think it fair to ask how much of trumpism's about trump? folks look at the mess and the pattern they see is the party and the base, the democrats in disarray, and figure it's about trump, his personal appeal (as distinct from his 'agenda') and figure on his having a kind of messianic charisma

    nothing new in this (re flyover country ect) but as with hanson i reckon it fair to lay it square at the feet of the failings of our norms and institutions in so far as what we've been promised (how we've been given to understand the substance of those norms and institutions) and what they've delivered in the round

    #meltingpot #westernCulture #theWest #ausPol #hanson

  36. stead of piggy backing off other folks' posts (and pissing everybody off) i guess i should just try to articulate cold

    on hanson and all the attention she's getting, folks reevaluating, pegging her for potential prime minister etc

    think it fair to ask how much of trumpism's about trump? folks look at the mess and the pattern they see is the party and the base, the democrats in disarray, and figure it's about trump, his personal appeal (as distinct from his 'agenda') and figure on his having a kind of messianic charisma

    nothing new in this (re flyover country ect) but as with hanson i reckon it fair to lay it square at the feet of the failings of our norms and institutions in so far as what we've been promised (how we've been given to understand the substance of those norms and institutions) and what they've delivered in the round

    #meltingpot #westernCulture #theWest #ausPol #hanson

  37. stead of piggy backing off other folks' posts (and pissing everybody off) i guess i should just try to articulate cold

    on hanson and all the attention she's getting, folks reevaluating, pegging her for potential prime minister etc

    think it fair to ask how much of trumpism's about trump? folks look at the mess and the pattern they see is the party and the base, the democrats in disarray, and figure it's about trump, his personal appeal (as distinct from his 'agenda') and figure on his having a kind of messianic charisma

    nothing new in this (re flyover country ect) but as with hanson i reckon it fair to lay it square at the feet of the failings of our norms and institutions in so far as what we've been promised (how we've been given to understand the substance of those norms and institutions) and what they've delivered in the round

    #meltingpot #westernCulture #theWest #ausPol #hanson

  38. "... Step by step, Belarus is removing the political, legal, industrial, and military barriers that once limited its involvement in Russia’s war. The command structures are now in place. Legislation has been rewritten and the defense industry is expanding. Preparation is not the same as intent, of course, but it makes participation easier should Putin decide that the time has come. ..."

    #Belarus #Russia #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EuropeanSecurity
    atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukra

  39. "... Step by step, Belarus is removing the political, legal, industrial, and military barriers that once limited its involvement in Russia’s war. The command structures are now in place. Legislation has been rewritten and the defense industry is expanding. Preparation is not the same as intent, of course, but it makes participation easier should Putin decide that the time has come. ..."

    #Belarus #Russia #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EuropeanSecurity
    atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukra

  40. "... Step by step, Belarus is removing the political, legal, industrial, and military barriers that once limited its involvement in Russia’s war. The command structures are now in place. Legislation has been rewritten and the defense industry is expanding. Preparation is not the same as intent, of course, but it makes participation easier should Putin decide that the time has come. ..."

    #Belarus #Russia #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EuropeanSecurity
    atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukra

  41. "... Step by step, Belarus is removing the political, legal, industrial, and military barriers that once limited its involvement in Russia’s war. The command structures are now in place. Legislation has been rewritten and the defense industry is expanding. Preparation is not the same as intent, of course, but it makes participation easier should Putin decide that the time has come. ..."

    #Belarus #Russia #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EuropeanSecurity
    atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukra

  42. "... Step by step, Belarus is removing the political, legal, industrial, and military barriers that once limited its involvement in Russia’s war. The command structures are now in place. Legislation has been rewritten and the defense industry is expanding. Preparation is not the same as intent, of course, but it makes participation easier should Putin decide that the time has come. ..."

    #Belarus #Russia #Ukraine #theWest #Europe #EuropeanSecurity
    atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukra

  43. Youth, Culture, and Islam in the West

    How successfully the youth manage to establish Islam in their daily lives will determine ultimately the degree of success or failure of our efforts to make our home in the West.

    alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/06/

  44. Youth, Culture, and Islam in the West

    How successfully the youth manage to establish Islam in their daily lives will determine ultimately the degree of success or failure of our efforts to make our home in the West.

    alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/06/

  45. Youth, Culture, and Islam in the West

    How successfully the youth manage to establish Islam in their daily lives will determine ultimately the degree of success or failure of our efforts to make our home in the West.

    alborz8.wordpress.com/2026/06/

  46. Ukraine is showing the West why cheap sensors could be key to defending the skies in future wars

    Ukraine is using cheap sensor networks to detect Russian drones. Western defense officials say the West needs to…
    #Ukraine #UA #Europe #Europa #EU #News #acousticsensors #Airdefense #businessinsider #defenseofficials #SirJohnStringer #theWest
    europesays.com/ukraine/8471/

  47. A top NATO commander says cheap drones are breaking the West’s old air-defense playbook

    NATO commander says the West can no longer “sit back” with its jets and missiles and confidently face…
    #NATO #OTAN #Europe #Europa #EU #News #airdefenses #airthreats #Cheapdrones #controloftheair #defense #modernairthreats #nato #natocommander #SirJohnStringer #theWest #Ukraine
    europesays.com/nato/2969/

  48. Anti-Christian Hate Crimes Explode Across Europe as Churches Come Under Attack

    Attacks on churches are becoming an increasingly visible feature of life in the Western world, exposing a growing…
    #Europe #EU #attacks #Christianity #Decisionmagazine #Faith #persecution #theWest #Worldnews
    europesays.com/europe/74326/

  49. "According to Kremlin state media, the West is trying to ‘stop Russia’s growth by imposing sanctions’.

    An alternative explanation is that sanctions were imposed after Russia launched the most destructive war in Europe in decades."
    - EUvsDisinfo‬

    #Russia #theWest #Sanctions #EUvsDisinfo

  50. "Content from ‘independent’ pro-Kremlin influencers describing Moscow as ‘unfairly targeted by the West’ omits a central fact: sanctions were a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
    - EUvsDisinfo‬

    #Russia #Russianinvasion #theWest #EUvsDisinfo

  51. "Content from ‘independent’ pro-Kremlin influencers describing Moscow as ‘unfairly targeted by the West’ omits a central fact: sanctions were a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
    - EUvsDisinfo‬

    #Russia #Russianinvasion #theWest #EUvsDisinfo

  52. "Content from ‘independent’ pro-Kremlin influencers describing Moscow as ‘unfairly targeted by the West’ omits a central fact: sanctions were a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine."
    - EUvsDisinfo‬

    #Russia #Russianinvasion #theWest #EUvsDisinfo