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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Gee, the number of times I have walked past that place.... Have you ever tried it?

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thank you to my KCL War Studies colleagues, both US foreign policy experts, Charlie Laderman and Barbara Zanchetta for a really interesting (at least for me) discussion about the new Trump presidency and global security. Recorded about 10 days ago. soundcloud.com/warstudies/t...

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Trump and the future of the Russia-Ukraine war

What would Trump’s return to the White House mean for Ukraine’s future and Europe’s security? How might his strategy for the war in Ukraine differ from the current administration’s? Can he deliver on

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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If Putin manipulates Western leaders & persuades them to push Ukraine into a bad deal with Russia, it’s highly likely that his next step will be to test Article 5. Would Trump (& some others) would go to war if ‘little green men’ took over (for example) part of one of the Baltic states?

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

If the objectives are the same, even though the approach against us is different, then we should take the threat as seriously as the Ukrainians. This is not a war as people might imagine the 20th-century scenario, but it is incredibly serious and will only get worse.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This delineation can distract us from assessing the holistic threat. To my mind, Moscow would quite happily implement the same aim against the UK and other countries as against Ukraine: the destruction of the state.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"Russians going feral" - it's time someone said it, though it's about a decade or more too late. One thing that increasingly concerns me is how various terms - "war", "hybrid war", "low-intensity war", "disinformation" - can lead us to focus on definitions and delineate types of hostile activity >

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Jakob Hauter @hauterjakob.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hallo Berlin! Morgen ist es soweit. Ich freue mich auf die Veranstaltung mit @niktwick.bsky.social @katriera.bsky.social @ukrindeu.bsky.social und @libmod.bsky.social. Anmelden kann man sich nach wie vor hier: bit.ly/27112024-1900 bsky.app/profile/haut...

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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 25/11/2024

A flower shop in a residential area of Kharkiv this morning while Russians poured ballistic missiles onto the city in an attack that claimed 25 victims.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My latest Substack, on World War III, mediaisation, and how our worldviews are manipulated by our mobile devices ('the mobile phoney war'). (I conclude that we cannot give up on the Ukrainians.) open.substack.com/pub/adamure/...

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World War, Episode III: The War For Reality

Or: ‘The Mobile Phoney War’

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

As the Holodomor is researched more and more, new facts become available that not only prove further that Holodomor was genocide, but also amend the common narrative about unfortunate Ukrainian victims of Stalin’s madness. In fact, Stalin did this because he feared Ukrainians and their movement

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Once again, though - it is for the Ukrainians and for them alone to decide how to defend themselves, not for us.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

However, one thing to note is that putin is possibly changing his focus to threatening grotesque retribution on Ukrainian civilians as a way of pressuring Kyiv/partner capitals/populations in Europe. His meeting with defence ministry officials tonight seems to support that.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I am a massive fan of @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social's thoughts and this thread is well worth reading, though I am still thinking through some points, especially on russia's cultural-political readiness to level extreme violence.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

russia's hideous attack on Dnipro shows the most cynical form of putin's attempts to manipulate us: if you "escalate", we'll take it out on innocent Ukrainians. It's inexcusable and awful. But in all this, it is up to the Ukrainians as to how they respond. And we must help them with all they need.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Video or I don't believe you.

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova takes a call during a news conference, audible over live mics, in which she is instructed not to mention Russia’s ICBM strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Source: t.me/uniannet/151...

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I was today years old when I learned that they hold speed grave-digging competitions in #russia

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Ben Noble @benhnoble.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

State Duma deputy Vasily Piskarev saying the quiet part out loud, claiming that "the line between foreign agent and traitor is becoming less and less clear". www.kommersant.ru/doc/7312496

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Депутат Пискарев: грань между иноагентом и предателем все менее различима

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

It's crucial to remember that this latest war by russia on Ukraine has been going on for over a decade. It's vital to remember the enslaved people of Donbas and Crimea, not to normalise their occupation, and slide to the temptation that they can be easily handed over to moscow.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

From #Ukraine's Centre of Civil Liberties. 3,926 days of murder, destruction, and terror.

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Uilleam Blacker @uilleamblacker.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

On the 1000th day, I re-read texts by Sofia Andrukhovych & Olena Stiazhkina that I translated for London Review of Books in the first days. I'm struck by their humanity. Reading the western intellectuals in the same issue, I'm reminded why I cancelled my subscription. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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LRB Contributors · Day 5, Day 9, Day 16: On Ukraine

Responses to the invasion of Ukraine by Sofia Andrukhovych, Neal Ascherson, Ilya Budraitskis, James Butler, Andrew...

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Maria Romanenko @rommari.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My Open Letter to World Leaders on the Occasion of 1000 Days Since #Russia’s Full-Scale Invasion of #Ukraine 3/3

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I've read most of them, but there are a couple there that I didn't know. Thank you!

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I want Megadeth to be added to this list.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I write about the performative and violent nature of #Russian information manipulation, our vulnerability, and how this has led to Ukraine deaths, in my latest Substack. open.substack.com/pub/adamure/...

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The Temporarily Enslaved People of Ukraine and the News

Performance and gullibility; or sensibilities and a lack of sense

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Don't forget that the #Kremlin outrage over the #ATACMS decision is manufactured. It's designed to undermine support for Ukraine, to increase fears among European & American populations, and to clear the way for Trump to present himself as peacemaker. Do not be fooled.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It almost certainly started some time ago. Partial intelligence and an inability (or unwillingness) to see the context has not helped people understand the wider threat.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This has almost certainly been happening for at least two years across various countries. It's only now that people are starting to put the pieces together.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It would also have implications for how states conduct information operations, and how we deal with that.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

> This would have implications for how we understand the complex impacts of social media on various communities, and how we understand the flows of messaging across platforms.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

> to be taking hold more widely. We might end up with a range of rival platforms with very similar functions, whose membership and content is determined purely by political (identity) choice. >

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

What's most interesting about the last week or so is the seeming evolution of the choice of social media platform as an expression of identity (rather than depending on its function). This has been apparent for a while with the supposed fringe platforms (ie Gab), but the trend appears >

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The other thing is that the Kremlin is underlining this as a significant escalation, potentially giving the incoming Trump administration room to portray a reversal as a move to secure "peace".

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Kateryna Yushchenko @kyushchenko.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Massive attack on UA energy grid. When world leaders inform russia they will cut aid to Ukraine and that there will be negotiations, putin feels impunity to bomb and capture more land, killing thousands in the process. Dumb negotiation strategy.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Indeed. Their likely position is to feign outrage and claim this is evidence of Biden's outgoing attempts to harm peaceful Russians, while at the same time insisting that the missiles won't have impact anyway (screenshot from Solov'ev's Telegram channel).

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

997 days? It should have been done a decade ago.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My latest Substack: on Europe's lack of coordination, the importance of understanding the impact of messaging, and on how unlocking Russia's performative aggression could have saved thousands of Ukrainian lives. open.substack.com/pub/adamure/...

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The Temporarily Enslaved People of Ukraine and the News

Performance and gullibility; or sensibilities and a lack of sense

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I shall reserve joy at this: a decade too late. Our failure to act sooner is testimony to our gullibility, vulnerability to putin's manipulation, to our inexcusable failure to stop Ukrainians from being murdered. But I hope this impacts positively on moods in Ukraine www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...

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Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russia With Long-Range U.S. Missiles

With two months left in office, the president for the first time authorized the Ukrainian military to use the system known as ATACMS to help defend its forces in the Kursk region of Russia.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

I am starting here, as other social media platforms are inadequate. I'll be posting on #Ukraine (especially the occupied & enslaved populations), #Russia, media and information/perception manipulation, and other things.

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Adam Ure @adamure.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This better be good. I joined this site especially for this.

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Jakob Hauter @hauterjakob.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

My book on the 2014 outbreak of war in Ukraine's Donbas is available for purchase. EUR: www.ibidem.eu/en/Topics/So... GPB: www.amazon.co.uk/Russias-Over... USD: cup.columbia.edu/book/russias... und auf Deutsch: www.ibidem.eu/en/Topics/So...

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