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Felix Drost

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Armchair O7 Once an anthropologist & soldier. 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 🇺🇲 Pseudonym. Defense, Security & Technology. Stubborn Atlanticist.

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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 9h
The Kremlin must be consulting the Geneva convention to check off what war crimes it hasn't yet committed. By now, almost all.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 10h
Free weekend update is out. Russia has a strategy for this winter--massive war crimes to make Ukraine unlivable. We need to speak the truth on that. One reason they need to do this is that they are struggling in other parts of the war--see Vivaldi. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...
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Weekend Update #205: Russia’s Strategy In Two Words: “War Crimes”
Operation Vivaldi, Even More Robots; The Trump-Putin Quid Pro Quo
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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 9h
In this post I return again to Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi and what it can tell us about current tactics and technologies, and in particular the importance of information security and deception. (£/free trial). samf.substack.com/p/operation-...?
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Operation Vivaldi: the four seasons
Surprise, deception, and operation security - lessons from Ukrainian success
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Warspitefella 🇬🇧🇺🇦 @warspitefella.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This next 5 years are going to get very messy Russia & US are almost in lockstep Oil and Gas will get scacer & pricier deliberately. Ukraine war will continue to get worse. Still don't see Europe & UK quite grasping the need to step up & ⬆️ aid to a point where Ukraine can be safe and crush Russia
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Secrets & Spies Podcast: Global Affairs | Intelligence @secretsandspies.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
What will the world look like in 2035? Sam Lichtenstein returns to explore RANE’s forecast: a multipolar world, China-Taiwan tensions, a changing Europe, AI, climate, jihadism and growing cyber threats. Links in comments below 👇👇👇
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dobropilla - the biggest ongoing battle of the Ukrainian 🇺🇦 war The scale of the battle for Dobropilla has rarely been seen before. russian 🇷🇺 forces are sending hundreds of men on assault everyday, hundreds are being eliminated while the 1st Azov Corps still manages to contain the offensive.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 21h
Lithuanian journalist tries to talk to a "local patriot" demanding the deportation of "immigrants". Turns out he only speaks russian.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A woman has just died of plague in Russia, allegedly after breaking a test tube in a lab. This article doesn’t specify, but others have said that it is pneumonic plague, which can spread between humans via droplet transmission. 200 people with whom she had contact are now under medical observation.
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
50 US Marines are being “redirected” for a Baltic Sea deployment. They will work with Finland’s coastal brigade and add specialized surveillance resources/skills as part of operation Baltic Sentry. www.war.gov/News/News-St...
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
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auonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Swedish Air Force advertised its intent to strike deep into Russia in the event of a war. This was stated in an interview in Swedish Aftonbladet a few days ago. Now it has reached Russian language press. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/Ex...
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Segerplanen i luftkriget – slå till inne i Ryssland
Om Ryssland anfaller kan Putin inte längre räkna med att vi bara försöker parera hans slag. Flygvapnets nya plan för att avgöra luftkriget är att gå på offensiven – och slå ut mål långt inne i Rysslan...
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Yarmouk is a refugee camp full of Palestinians that we besieged, starved, and butchered in 2013. There was little international interest. For some reason. We need lessons from no one.
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a perfect example of the multitude of articles demanding ”better strategy” and ”more action” against Russia’s escalating hybrid war, yet fails to suggest anything new (or even any of the already explored slightly more creative options)
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Interestingly this mass surrender of russians includes officers, drone operators and artillery guys. Meaning Ukraine pushed through to russian rare areas. One time cauldron calls were actually correct.
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CNN @cnn.com · 29/09/2026
Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation. cnn.it/4huSk5M
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Donald Trump has surrounded himself with yes men like Pete Hegseth, and that’s why everything he does is a disaster.
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CDL Associates @cdlassociates.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kallas said that there are still major gaps in defense capabilities that need to be addressed, for example, in air defense, drones, and ammunition stocks. Efforts to address these gaps were described as insufficient so far to decisively strengthen Europe’s defense readiness by 2030 as planned.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
AOMZ's real significance lies in high-volume tactical munitions. ​Disrupting this single node directly bottlenecks russia's ability to manufacture the conventional missiles used daily against Ukrainian air space and critical infrastructure. dallas-analytics.com/aomz-strike/
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More Than Sights: How the Strike on AOMZ Cuts Into Russian Missile Production
Analysis of internal documents from the Azov Optical-Mechanical Plant (AOMZ) reveals critical supply chain dependencies for Kh-101, R-37M, and Oreshnik missile systems.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 28/09/2026
"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...
Social Media Has Not Brought Liberation

Social media has been a boon to autocratic regimes and their allied movements in democracies.
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“Eye of Anaklia," a 40-meter-tall, futuristic abandoned observation tower located on the Black Sea coast of Georgia. IG: @abandoned.berlin www.instagram.com/abandoned.be...
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
For the past 3d, russian drones have been bombing Kyiv nonstop. russia is particularly targeting education infrastructure. This horrifying photo shows people escaping a massive fire through a window in the National Academy of Science of Ukraine. russians also bombed 2 schools and 2 kindergartens.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We should be the ones making demands to Russia, not the other way around. Russia started this unprovoked, illegal war and is losing it. They owe the world everything. we owe them nothing
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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Trump apologists don't take Trump at his word
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I see Trump apologists getting apoplectic at this, which is pure childishness. The President of the USA openly and repeatedly threatened Canadian sovereignty and belittled Canadian independence. It would have been dereliction of duty if Carney did not consider this.
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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Houthis, like Hezbollah, have adopted the fascist greeting. The naive reading is that they're unaware of the greetings legacy. But the movement is explicitly anti semitic. www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/d...
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De sterkste legers ter wereld kregen de Houthi’s niet op de knieën. Waarin schuilt hun kracht?
De Saoedische kroonprins Mohammed Bin Salman zei in 2019 dat hij de Houthi’s ‘binnen een week’ kon verslaan. In de zeven jaar die daarop volgden, werden de Houthi’s ook bestookt met Amerikaanse en Isr...
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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But of course. People working at the NIH will be living at this insanity. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/u...
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U.S. Rejects U.N. Declaration on Preparing for Future Pandemics
Most member nations spoke in support of the declaration, but some rich countries had strong objections.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
1673 days ago.
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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We can stop this insane depraved hunt of civilians by giving Ukraine what it needs to kick the Russians out.
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Russia. They only hit military targets, apparently, and are denazifying and saving the Russian speakers. I call it murder, frankly.
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CDL Associates @cdlassociates.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Russia is not 'uncertain' as it has spies in the NATO headquarters and sigint which is quite effective.
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Kristian Kiehling @kristiankiehling.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"It was great to visit Anduril Tech to meet with Palmer Luckey and to witness signing of memoranda of cooperation with MOD of Latvia and Origin Robotics. Looking forward to complete acquisition of Baracuda longe range missiles and 🇱🇻 🇺🇸 defense industry cooperation" Edgars Rinkēvičs, President of 🇱🇻
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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Finally we understand
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Pinky and The Brain: Take Over The World
ALT: Pinky and The Brain: Take Over The World
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Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Houthis have just announced two major operations targeting what they described as a “sensitive site” in Saudi Capital Riyadh and an Aramco facility in Yanbu, using ballistic and cruise missiles alongside one-way attack drones x.com/EGYOSINT/sta...
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Judith Lammers @judithlammers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Op moment dat partijen CDA, VVD, PVV, JA21, CU, SGP en de Groep Markuszower een publiek debat over de defensienota uit de agenda hebben laten halen, moet dat álle alarmbellen doen rinkelen. Want welke landen zijn hier bij gebaat? www.nu.nl/politiek/641...
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Analyse in Defensienota stopt bij hoofdvraag: wat doen we zonder Amerikanen?
Een van de grootste geopolitieke veranderingen voor Nederland is dat de Verenigde Staten niet meer als onvoorwaardelijke bondgenoot kan worden gezien. Dat vergt scherpe keuzes, vooral op het gebied va...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 24/09/2026
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit theonion.com/xi-jinping-impressed-w…
Xi Jinping Impressed With How Much Trump’s English Has Improved Since Last Visit
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Phil Gurski @borealissaves.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
China’s Top Spy Chief Warns A.I. Is a Threat to Party Rule - and what does the CIA Director say re AI? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/w...
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China’s Top Spy Chief Warns A.I. Is a Threat to Party Rule
Even as Beijing urges the United States not to hype the dangers of A.I., its own spy chief is framing the technology as a threat to the Communist Party’s security.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The bromance is entirely one-sided; Xi didn’t greet Trump at the airport when Trump went to Beijing. Yet, as a token of his unrequited friendship, Trump gave China access to AI chips, paused a $14B arms sales to Taiwan, and offered excuses for China aiding Iran to target U.S. bases. wapo.st/4rwZif1
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Opinion | What Trump doesn’t seem to realize about Xi Jinping
His mysterious friendship with China’s president appears one-sided.
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Alex Plitsas @alexplitsas.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Zelensky Warns That Russia’s War in Ukraine Is Spreading
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Video: Zelensky Warns That Russia’s War in Ukraine Is Spreading
During a speech at the United Nations General Assembly, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine spoke of North Korea’s assistance to Russia in the war.
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Christopher Steele @christophersteele.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Trump’s invitation to Putin to attend the G20 in Florida in December is outrageous and totally undermines Western solidarity with Ukraine. This US govt is enabling autocracy, and arguably colluding with Putin’s despotic regime. Other Western leaders mustn’t be party to this. They should not attend.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This didnt happen by magic: This weapon was designed This weapon was tested This weapon was mass produced This weapon was transported This weapon was aimed This weapon was fired This was appeased This was excused This was permitted This was normalised
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Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Surely there is a variety of such setups, in various geographical areas, and possibly in combination with other 'tools' to be deployed in a phase-zero escalation (or worse), such as various cells from GRU's Dept. of Special Tasks (for blowing stuff up and making hits) who are already in Europe.
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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The "deal" always was that Saudi production is too important for global energy price stability and with it, global economic stability. It was implicit that the US works defend it. Trump doesn't understand and never learned the foundational argument behind this. The biff who skipped history class.
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1/ Russian military recruiters are using Facebook and Google adverts to recruit "African male actors" with a "strong screen presence" – who are then made to sign contracts to join the Russian army when they arrive in the country. ⬇️
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Felix Drost @felixdrost.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Germany's Burnham.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Midweek update out (partly free). This is the week US weakness was brutally exposed. The US was too weak to fight the Houthis and Iran, will show its weakness during the President Xi's visit to America, and signed a humiliating deal with Denmark. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/midweek-up...
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Midweek Update #29: The Week American Weakness Was Brutally Exposed
The US is too weak to fight the Houthis and Iran; The US has never been weaker vis a vis China; The New Greenland Deal Is Basically The Old Deal.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Denmark newsgroup has background music on waiting for Trump that had the lyrics "send in the clowns" The camera then finds Marco Rubio and zooms in with song going "clowns already here" P.S new agreement on Greenland is a massive Danish negotiation victory
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Oscar Jonsson @oajonsson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The major value comes from making the abstract very tangible: “We’re spending too little on Defense” is generic “We’re only having one thing, one frigate, that can down a ballistic missile” is a very concrete consequence of defence choices made.
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Bartelds @bartelds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Unbelievable
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CDL Associates @cdlassociates.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
That's how it's done, dear Germany. No problem. bsky.app/profile/volb...
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