Pomerantsev: Ukraine has all of society approaches to cognitive defense. It is way ahead.
When talking with partners, you have to be careful not to give anyone a sense that you're intervening in domestic politics. If you're dealing in truth, you have a duty to release it. 1/
Pomerantsev: Russia is aggressive inside Europe with assassinations, sabotage and cyber attacks. Some countries get intimidated, while others feel emboldened to act. The more aggressive Russia becomes, the more people see it as fair game to strike back. 2/
Pomerantsev: Americans accused anyone working on disinformation and media literacy of being part of a censorship industrial complex. European organizations monitoring disinformation have been sanctioned by the US. The Americans own tech companies that suppress voices. 3X
Kasparov: Trump always plays for Trump: his money, his glory, his family. But in the Ukraine war, he is playing on Putin’s side.
He never says a bad word about Putin, always explains Putin’s actions, and every concrete step helps Putin’s war effort. 1/
Kasparov: This is a world war. China stands behind Putin and wants it to continue because it drains the West, splits America and Europe, and weakens Russia.
Iran and the terrorist networks it funds are also part of the same global picture. 2/
Kasparov: NATO is dead as an organization.
It was created to stop Soviet-Russian aggression against free Europe, and when that aggression came, NATO did not even try to stop it. A new European security system is now being built. 3/
One US sanction was enough to break normal life for a ICC judge in Europe.
Nicolas Guillou lost access to credit cards, bank transfers, hotel bookings, UPS deliveries, Paris bike rentals and parts of his health insurance because they all depended on American companies, FT. 1/
The US sanctioned Guillou in August 2025 after the ICC issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant over alleged war crimes in Gaza. 2/
Within days, banks blocked transfers.
and Expedia canceled hotel reservations. UPS returned packages. Paris’ Vélib’ bike system refused rentals because it required a credit card guarantee. 3/Booking.com
Netanyahu: There was a lot of cooperation between Russia and Iran in the beginning of the Ukraine war because Iran was supplying drones. There's not been much now.
Sometimes they support each other on some things and don’t support each other on other things. 1/
Netanyahu: Democracies have the staying power. Do they have the resolve to stop these fanatics? Iran developed a missile to reach Diego Garcia, 2,400 miles. To reach the U.S., a little over 6,000 miles. If we don’t continue the pressure, one day you’ll face such a regime with nuclear weapons. 2/
Netanyahu: Trump and I agreed there was uncertainty and risk involved [in Iran]. There is danger in taking action, but greater danger in not taking action. There was no certainty and no guarantee. It was a truthful presentation of the possibilities and the risks. 3/
Ukraine struck 40% of Russian oil exports while Gulf states — burned by China and Russia backing Iran — are now signing defense deals with Kyiv instead, writes Con Coughlin in The Telegraph. 1/
Zelenskyy estimates total gains at 117.6 square miles — about 10% of the territory Kyiv lost to Moscow in 2025. Russia recorded almost no territorial gains for the first time in two and a half years. 2/
Russia’s spring-summer offensive has little prospect of seizing Ukraine’s “fortress belt” in Donbas. Russian casualties are averaging around 35,000 per month. 3/