Meanwhile in the Rusamerican arm of British fascism: the banality* of evil still alive & kicking & disabled people now in line for the Bungs Party jackboot👇 (* Speaking of the banality, why has Oswald Farage taken to borrowing Trump's orange foundation? Oh wait...)

Good morning 🎯👏👇 “What is there for us to do at home if our wives are in the factory, our children at school, and nobody can visit us?” the letter-writer asked. “It is no holiday if you have to have it alone.”

"Russian caused inflation seems fine for the USA these days, however, Ukrainian caused inflation gets an official request for a Ukrainian retreat. Too often the Trump administration can be dismissed as bumbling incompetents. However, when it comes to helping Russia they can be brutally effective."

"There is an old model of disinformation: invent an event, write an emotional text, and try to make the audience believe. AI makes another model possible. There is no need to invent the whole world."

"And we just had a brutally efficient example of what the US can do with that leverage."

Meanwhile on Putin's Rusamerican ally 👇 "The USA has kept dribbling small amounts of military support for Ukraine because it gives the USA a great deal of leverage, the ability to both shape how Ukraine fights its war and even how European states prepare."

"In exchange, such allies get a great deal back. Russia has been a major support to Iran during its war with the USA (helping Iranian targeting of US forces) and Russia has, reportedly, provided a great deal of technological help to North Korea to improve its missile forces."

🎯👇 "Depressingly, of course, the response by Ukraine’s partners has been to downplay or even not engage at all with this question."

Re Burnham, this is the account I mixed you up with. Like I said, apologies.

Good point though a bit inaccurate on the numbers? 75% of Russians live in urban areas but even the Moscow metropolitan area only has 20 million? So other Russian cities still have a significant share of population?

Good morning to all European eclipse chasers - hope you enjoyed clear skies yesterday. Away from totality zone we got decent 90% show in UK & we even had time for dinner with eclipse buddies before Perseids. The best my phone camera could do with eclipse glasses slapped over lens 👇

Meanwhile in Rusamerica 👇

Better news on new leadership 👇 "Manpower matters more than fields at this time in the war, and the key thing is to let the Russians exhaust themselves through casualties while maintaining Ukrainian forces. And, btw, Russian casualties are reaching extraordinary levels, almost 43,000 [in July]."

"The reality is that hope kills, literally as this week has shown."

"In doing this, the US has engaged in another round of actively helping Putin kill Ukrainians. Another month has been wasted trying to persuade Trump to be something he is not and do something he will not. And Putin has received even more time to bombard the Ukrainians by air."

OBrien on the folly of gambling on Rusamerican help 🎯👇 "Maybe it was desperation, maybe it was strategic miscalculation, maybe it was just human optimism, but once again the Ukrainian government was basing its strategic future (or at least one of them) on the hope of getting support from the USA."

Meanwhile in Rusamerica: OBrien 🎯 👇 "There were two extraordinary outbursts from the US administration this week, one related to Trump’s War and the other directed at Europeans. However both were primal screams at the strategic weakness that the US has deliberately and by choice brought on itself."

Elsewhere in Russia's war 👇 "“NHS organisations, pharmacies, labs and their suppliers are dependent on products like those compromised by FortiBleed.This is the type of hack that’s the first step for launching catastrophic ransomware attacks that can threaten patient safety across the country.”

"After decades of complacency, Europeans have awakened to the reality that they live in a dangerous world... The Russian threat is thus no longer a concern confined to Europe’s periphery. It has moved to the heart of the continent."

Elsewhere in the Rusamerican suicide project 👇 "It is probably the most bizarre use of military force in US history. What we are seeing is strategically useless, wastes ammunition of which the US is already running short, and reinforces the idea that the USA is weakening and aimless."

Read today's OBrien 🎯👇 "If this master list is actually assembled, it will be not only the story of the midweek, it could be the intelligence story of the year/decade/21st Century. Watch it very closely. The Administration is on the cusp of blowing up US intelligence collection for a generation."

Good morning. Let's begin Sunday with OBrien's deep dive into the success of Ukraine's strikes on both Russia's ability to make the missiles used to murder 🇺🇦 civilians in their apartment block every night AND on Russia's ability to keep paying for its genocide war 🎯👇

"Just as the Taxpayers’ Alliance mainly seeks to help the super-rich avoid tax, so something like the Institute of Kitten Warming usually turns out to be an organisation dedicated to feeding baby cats into a furnace."

"Keir Giles, a Russia expert with the Chatham House think tank, said: “Moscow will be looking for ways to disrupt the current trend, through horizontal escalation [spreading the conflict to other countries] or doing something elsewhere. We should not expect Russia to passively lose.”

Brilliant; "I haven't used my own words since 2022" 🤣 👇

Meanwhile Guardian reporting Putin's increasingly desperate attempts to summon help from his Rusamerican 🐩 👇

Putin's 🐩 following its master down the superpower suicide highway 👇 "The US is paying the humiliating price of starting a war it did not need, did not plan, did not understand, did not adapt during, and which it never should have waged. Welcome to a world with little or no American leverage."

"He's no different" is a simplistic slogan that's easy to churn out on SM that actively inhibits the hard graft of making change. Also, on ER, untrue 👇

Meanwhile in Rusamerica 👇 An excellent article: read in full. Protect your votes, dear American sisters, while you still have them.

Meanwhile in Russia's genocide war: faced with their war coming spectacularly home to Moscow, Putin orders more drone strikes on pensioners. Reminder below of what that means 👇