Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamSPRAVDI - Stratcom Centre @stratcomcentre.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Russian Propaganda Narratives in The New York Times - Why? On July 12, The New York Times published a report from Russia’s Kursk region titled: “A Landscape of Death: What’s Left Where Ukraine Invaded Russia.” This article plays directly into Moscow’s hands. 1/5 812626
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamMira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 08/07/2025Who the fuck is john 1823725
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamUNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 07/07/2025What happens to a child taken from Ukraine? (1/12) 6241126
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 08/07/2025“Ships with Russian crews zigzagging over pipelines” If only someone had warned about this…. since forever 0338
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamGranger @grangere04117.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Project 22010-class oceanographic research vessel Almaz at Yantar Shipyard, Kaliningrad. She's the second ship of a ship class where Yantar is a member of. Her deployment would mirror her sister in that she would be supporting activities of the Main Directorate for Deep Sea Research (GUGI). 3389
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Well, the US was not really thinking of sending more anti air weapons to Ukraine, it was planning on stopping what little was on its way. The US is cutting Ukraine off during this vital moment. Once again, flattering Trump is not the right strategy. A free piece. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...open.substack.com"Daddy" Just Accelerated The Killing Of UkrainiansPhillips’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. 27620213
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Ukraine is not being prepared as it should in air defense, and instead of sucking up to Trump, the Europeans should be far more proactive. They even have cards to play, if they had self respect. How about saying Europe will only buy US weapons if the US sells Ukraine Patriots? 935366
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Hi All, Latest piece for The Europe Dispatch by @alanderminna.bsky.social just appeared. She looks at the tricky question of whether more European states are going to have to introduce conscription to contend with the Russian threat in the future. Its free to read. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...open.substack.comThe Conscription Comeback and the Social ContractIn this week’s Europe Dispatch, Minna Ålander looks at the question of obligatory military service and what the existing conscription systems – and their social acceptability – look like in the Nordic 311119
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Cluster munitions are designed to maximise damage of a single strike by releasing several submunitions over a larger area—in effect distributing explosive force to multiple impact zones, indiscriminately targeting beyond the range of one concentrated blast. Russia is launching them at kindergartens. 0112
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamNOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 15/06/2025President Zelensky warns that Russia is planning further attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, which may draw less global attention due to the focus on the Middle East. Intelligence on threats to nuclear facilities has been shared with the IAEA and U.S. counterparts. 12627152
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamEuromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that current communication between the US and Russia resembles a “warm conversation" Such a tone only reinforces the Russian ruler’s confidence, as Vladimir Putin does not want peace, he added euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/14/r...euromaidanpress.comRussia’s warm conversations with US are ploy to dodge sanctions, not end the war, says ZelenskyyAmerica must show strength, the Ukrainian leader urges, warning that any pause in pressure only encourages further Russian aggression. 49734
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamForeign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 09/06/2025Read Charles King’s 2020 essay on what the decline of the Soviet Union looked like from the inside—and why great powers can be blind to their own decay until collapse is imminent:foreignaffairs.comHow a Great Power Falls ApartTo know how great powers end, one could do worse than study the last one that actually did. 38423
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamCentre for Information Resilience @cen4infores.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Last night, on 5 June, Russia launched 407 Shahed and decoy drones into Ukrainian airspace. Around 17,500 Shahed drones and decoys were launched by Russia between January and June 2025. This accounts for a staggering 50% of the total drones launched since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. 174
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 03/05/20251/ THE SINKING OF MOSKVA, PART 3: After being struck by Ukrainian missiles on 13 April, the Russian missile cruiser Moskva was abandoned and left to drift burning overnight. This thread tells the story of the ship's final hours, and what happened next. ⬇️ 644395
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Chronicle in today’s Aftenposten, after NUPIs Lars Gresvik erroneously argued how “premature conclusions of underwater sabotage” in the Baltic Sea only breeds unnecessary fear—with decreased cable security as consequence. An unreasonable logic of course, undermining the Russian seabed warfare threat 1426
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamShaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Putin has just signed a decree allowing him to ethnically cleanse Eastern Ukraine further. Those he didn’t slaughter, will now be forcibly deported. The mass extermination of Ukrainians and their culture continues with apparently help from the Trump administration 🇺🇸 16410199
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamTormod Malvin Sæther @torsae.bsky.social · 22/03/2025🧵I had the privilege to sit down with 🇺🇦 Minister for Strategic Industries, Herman Smetanin and presidential advisor, Alexander Kamyshin, in Oslo. We discussed Ukraine's growing arms industry.🚀 1/12 29534
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamMinna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Another conceivable scenario is Russia agreeing to the ceasefire but not respecting it, as seems to be the Russian custom with agreements. Then an interesting question will be whether the truth about who violated the ceasefire first matters to the US 1030673
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Of course it was… Ukrainian cyber guys are clever enough to hack Musk’s infamous X server, but not cloak their IP. And so the disinformation campaign discrediting Ukraine as a means to justify future Starlink blackouts and generate further battlefield effects in the Kremlin’s favour intensifies. 28630
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamIan Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Great article and must-read thread from my @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social colleague @sandertordoir.bsky.social . As Trump’s US undermines European security & strengthens Putin’s Russia, Europe needs to realise its industrial strength & use it effectively. 65824
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 10/03/2025While the US is planning a complete stop in European exercise participation by next year, the "Axis" powers are strengthening ties and enhancing interoperability. Later this month, Iran's annual maritime security exercise is set to kick off in the Gulf of Oman with Chinese and Russian warships 1196
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 09/03/2025“Tonight, on The Real Housewives of DC…” Musk and Rubio take on the Polish MFA, yet only succeed in accidentally admitting that Poland and other neighbouring nations are—in all likelihood—indeed next on the Kremlin’s imperialist war roster if Ukraine falls. Can’t make this stuff up. 54816
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamAndreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social · 09/03/2025There is a real danger of the U.S. falling for Russia’s lie that it seeks peace, something Trump already said he believes, and getting rug-pulled by Russia’s pseudo-solutions. @popovaprof.bsky.social & @oxanashevel.bsky.social in The National Interestnationalinterest.orgBe Wary Of Russia’s Call For NegotiationsWhile peace is a net positive, there are legitimate fears of Russian manipulation in negotiations to create terms suitable for only Putin. 89622
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamUkrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 09/03/2025🤝 Ukraine's defence minister reveals Nordic-Baltic countries' plans to support Ukrainepravda.com.uaUkraine’s defence minister reveals Nordic-Baltic countries’ plans to support UkraineUkraine’s Defence Minister Rustem Umierov took part in a meeting of defence ministers from Baltic and Scandinavian countries in the Nordic Baltic Eight format during his visit to Denmark. 730046
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamMick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 09/03/2025He has just made it very likely that no military organisation will allow themselves to be placed in such a situation again. Why would Starlink ever be seen as an assured, trusted service? 60809183
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/03/2025US defense companies might never be trusted again on.ft.com/3DtQQZson.ft.comCan the US switch off Europe’s weapons?Long hooked on American defence exports, allies feel buyers’ remorse over hardware dependent on Washington support 34752611622
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamJacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 08/03/2025www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...washingtonpost.comTrump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassadorThe president was boasting of the “great intel” he receives when he discussed intelligence provided by a U.S. partner. 25014
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamMinna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 06/03/2025I’ve really had enough of these takes that it’s been unfair that Europe has outsourced its defence to the US. First of all, the US needed both the bases in Europe and European political and military backing for its global war on terror and the wars in the Middle East. It was never pure charity. 25777199
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamMinna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Trudeau didn’t directly address Europeans but he nevertheless had an important message for Europe. Engaging with the Trump administration‘s strawman arguments in good faith is no use. In that sense MAGA people seem to have read their Russian playbook very carefully. 1132472
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamUkrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 05/03/2025‼️ Macron declares "new era" and warns of Russia's threat to France and Europepravda.com.uaMacron declares “new era” and warns of Russia’s threat to France and EuropeFrench President Emmanuel Macron has stated that Russia has become a threat to the whole of Europe, including France, and he sees no reason to believe it would stop at Ukraine. 931852
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 05/03/2025These important nuances are critical to any forecast of possible ramifications of the US' extortionist withdrawal from allied intelligence sharing with Ukraine. Though the scope of intel cutoffs remains unknown, would caution as well against simultaneously inflating performance of Russian intel 🧵 46812
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamPhillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 04/03/2025One thing to keep in mind is that European states have always had the basic strength to do much more for Ukraine. They have the money, technology and people needed. They have lacked the strategic ability to think on their own and were too afraid to break with the USA. 1844972
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamIan Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 04/03/2025A very realistic worry, even before Trump took office. But now much more likely. 57828
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Trump on his misguided desire to illegally annex Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark, historically the US’ staunchest ally in Scandinavia: “One way or another, we’re gonna get it” Concerning, right? Not to Congressional Republicans, uniting instead in eerie laughter. This is chilling. 56920
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamChristopher Miller @christopherjm.ft.com · 04/03/2025A senior Ukrainian official said Ukraine would probably run out of US military supplies in “two or three months”. “After that, it will be very difficult for us. It will not be a total collapse, but we will be forced to withdraw from areas...” w/ @fabricedeprez.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/b439...ft.comMilitary briefing: Ukraine to run out of US weapons by summerWhite House decision to halt military aid means Kyiv’s armoury will be depleted in ‘two to three months’ 311731
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 03/03/2025In the discussion of how 'America First' might affect US-Norwegian defence cooperation along NATO's northern flank moving forward, a credible threat assessment is an absolute minimum. Instead, overly simplified evaluations of the nature and character of the Russian threat dominate discourse 🧵 825168
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 20/02/2025Vetoing UKR NATO membership, aiding a severely premature RUS victory by pushing devastating territorial concessions while eroding solidarity and Article V credibility midst sweeping DoD budget cuts and rumours of "denuclearisation" and pulling US forces from the Baltics... Kompramat is kompramating? 0133
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 16/02/2025En ukrainsk seier forblir vårt tryggeste skjold mot Kremls umettelige imperialisme. Tiden er overmoden for europeiske beslutningstakere å følge Zelenskyjs eksempel—å lede fra front. Ukrainas fremtid forblir vår egen, og den berges neppe med etterpåklokskap. Ranter i VG 👇 www.vg.no/nyheter/i/xm...vg.noMeninger: Mellom Ørnen og BjørnenUkrainas fremtid går på billigsalg mellom Trump og Putin. En ukrainsk krigsseier forblir vårt tryggeste skjold mot Kremls umettelige imperialisme. 1153
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Ukrainian successes at sea are impressive. Yet, as long as the Russian Navy continues to threaten maritime trade while projecting power ashore in support of the Kremlin's SODCIT campaign, the battle of the Black Sea is not won. www-foreignaffairs-com.fhs.idm.oclc.org/ukraine/ukra... 081
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamRUSI @rusi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The US’s refusal to offer Ukraine security guarantees means that there 'are now several unpalatable futures that Europe must plan against', writes Jack Watling in the latest RUSI Commentary. Learn more below.rusi.orgUS Clarity Underscores Ukraine’s PerilThe US’s refusal to offer Ukraine security guarantees and its pivot to the Indo-Pacific present Europe with stark choices. 66920
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamForeign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 13/02/2025Those calling for Ukraine to negotiate with Russia should know that Moscow’s control over captured Ukrainian territory isn’t just about land—it’s about systematic destruction of Ukrainian society through “human rights abuses, political repression, and war crimes,” argues Nataliya Gumenyuk.foreignaffairs.comPutin’s UkraineThe end of war and the price of Russian occupation. 44613
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 12/02/2025So "peace" involves rewarding the Kremlin’s imperialist invasion with illegal land grabs of sovereign Ukraine, which will remain a non-NATO member—the frail, volatile and redrawn borders of which will only be “secured” by non-NATO peacekeepers uncovered by Art 5? Thank you, next. 410821
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamNOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 07/02/2025🇱🇹🇱🇻🇪🇪 Tomorrow, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will permanently disconnect from Russia’s energy system, says EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. "Russia can no longer use energy as a tool of blackmail," she added. 512777490
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamJan Gunnar Furuly @jfuruly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025Russia's top secret GUGI is based in Olenya Guba, 100 km from Norway border. Can create havoc on oil & gas installations on the seabed. Their tools seem straight out of a James Bond movie. News story with input from @inahpkvam.bsky.social @covertshores.bsky.social www.aftenposten.no/norge/i/AvBL...aftenposten.noHer holder de til: Putins usynlige trussel mot NorgeVerktøyene er som tatt ut av en James Bond-film. 10 mil fra Norge ligger verdens mest fryktede styrke for havbunn-sabotasje. 16114
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 02/12/2024This. Instead of NATO signalling an unwavering commitment to a total Ukrainian victory through ensuring necessary denial and punishment while maintaining ambiguity of our own red lines, allied deterrence strategy is doing the opposite—rather emboldening an appeased Kremlin's cost-benefit calculus 1181
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamFabian Hoffmann, PhD @frhoffmann.bsky.social · 02/12/2024It's entirely unclear to me what the @theguardian.com editorial board was thinking when they published this. The INF, as an arms control treaty, became untenable once Russia materially breached it from 2016 onwards, having violated its spirit long before. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... 1/5theguardian.comThe Guardian view on a race for missile supremacy: competition fuels a dangerous escalation | EditorialEditorial: The INF treaty kept nuclear missiles off European soil and was a brake on a perilous arms buildup. Now it is gone 39117
Reposted by Ina Holst-Pedersen KvamBenjamin Tallis @bctallis.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Excellent piece from @phillipspobrien.bsky.social On the Biden administration’s failed Ukraine policy - tallies with my analysis (from Aug) of German policy Scholz’s approach “has been in effect, an expensive way to make Europe less safe” dgap.org/en/research/... 330778
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Noticing some simplifications of the Russian air campaign in Syria these days, particularly relating to the historical trends in scope and scale of missile strikes in support of the Assad regime. A thread 🧵 175
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 28/11/2024For reference, the 'increase' accounts for only 1,75 % of the unprecedented 2000 bn NOK surge in oil and gas revenue following the Russian reinvasion of Ukraine in 2022. Norwegian donations rank 12th by share of GDP, allocating only 0,6 %. In other words, the petroleum giant that could, but wouldn't 36521
Ina Holst-Pedersen Kvam @inahpkvam.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Russia launched its largest-ever drone assault overnight, in what has already become a record-breaking season of aerial attacks in scope and scale. As winter approaches, the SODCIT campaign targeting Ukraine's energy grid will only intensify. As will indiscriminate terror bombings of civilians 1177