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Mikko Laaksonen

@mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social
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Writer, researcher, jaded Euro-sophisticate

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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Solid analysis of Ukrainian 3rd corps counteroffensive north of Lyman. Of particular note is the systematic and very slow progress of this operation, which took about three months to free about 150-250 square kilometres of the now former Russian salient. www.kyivpost.com/post/84222
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Kyiv Post Breaks Down Reports of a Big AFU Success in the Northeast
It’s a real, tangible victory and a good deal more than a local success. It doesn’t mean the Russian army is about to quit but the consequences probably are a small step in that direction.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Krasnov "Trump" commits serious crimes, in this case election bribery, in plain sight. Buying votes is a crime in all democratic countries.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Krasnov "Trump" announcing he will restrict military exercises with South Korea to help North Korea and, thus, his boss Russia.
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The Defence Blog @defence-blog.com · 14/07/2026
Ukraine's Navy sank the FSB patrol ship Izumrud near Novorossiysk using the Sargan-3000 USV. The ship took part in the 2018 Kerch Strait seizure. defence-blog.com/ukraine-sink...
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Ukraine sinks Russian patrol ship near Novorossiysk
Ukraine's navy sank a Russian border guard ship near Novorossiysk using an unmanned strike boat. The Ukrainian Navy said its sailors sank the Rubin-class patrol ship Izumrud (354), a Russian Federal S...
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 14/07/2026
⚡️9 countries want to cut EU funding for IOC, other sports bodies readmitting Russia. The call was backed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and Sweden.
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9 countries want to cut EU funding for IOC, other sports bodies readmitting Russia
The call was backed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, and Sweden.
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Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Switzerland, final results: No to Switzerland of 10 Million (Initiative) Support: 45.21% Oppose: 54.79% Turnout: 58.86% NB: This vote also requires double-majority (People & Cantons (Regions)) to pass. ➤ europeelects.eu/switzerland #CHvote #Abst26 #Votazioni #Votaziuns
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Not surprising. Much earlier it has been reported Putin receives heavily edited folders of current events for his decision-making. He is also reported never to use internet. At the same time it is obvious he gives exact orders which towns and villages are to be seized. A recipe for disaster.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Keep pushing, Kash Streisand, keep your alcoholism in the headlines.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Finland increases personnel to protect territorial integrity by ordering reservists to refresher training. Likely to activate more ships or air defence capabilities and to rotate personnel. The reason are the Ukrainian drones directed to Finland by Russian EW. puolustusvoimat.fi/en/-/providi...
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Providing security for Finland and Finnish people – Reservists to refresher exercises
The Finnish Defence Forces will shortly hold refresher exercises for consenting reservists. The objective is to prepare to assist in the Finnish Defence Forces’ tasks relating to surveillance and secu...
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Finland öker förmågan att skydda territoriell integritet genom att inkalla reservister som har gett sin samtycke vid repetitionsövningar. Man kan då t.ex. aktivera fler fartyg eller enheter av luftförsvar eller byta personnel. puolustusvoimat.fi/sv/-/for-fin...
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För Finlands och finländarnas säkerhet – Reservister till repetitionsövningar
Försvarsmakten genomför inom en snar framtid repetitionsövningar för de reservister som har gett sitt samtycke. Målet är att göra förberedelser för att stödja Försvarsmaktens förmåga att övervaka och ...
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Hope all of these soon reach 100%.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Self-proclaimed Secretary of War is actually an Ork! Wish the Mad Doks do their thang on him! imgflip.com/gif/aohkl6
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Swedish coast guard has boarded and arrested Flora 1, a sanctioned tanker of the Russian shadow fleet. The arrest is due to an oil spill, but the tanker also is likely operating under false flag. www.kustbevakningen.se/nyheter/fart...
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Fartyg under sanktioner bordat – misstänks för utsläpp av olja i Östersjön - Kustbevakningen
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Two drones have crashed in Southeast Finland near Kouvola. Likely linked to Ukrainian attacks at Koivisto, Viipuri or Laukaansuu. Drones were intercepted by F-18:s but it is not known whether they were downed or fell on their own. yle.fi/a/74-20217941
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Drones crash in southeastern Finland, ministry confirms
"Drones have strayed into Finnish territory. We take this very seriously," Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen (NCP) said.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
How the influencers landed in the Hormuz Strait in 1987.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Spårvägsprojekten i Åbo har problem från politiker, som tar emot pengar från oligarker som motsätter sig till spårvägen Här SDP-fullmäktige vill ta del i fullmäktigemöten, trots att han har fått ca 4000 euro finansiering från oligarker. Korruption med andra ord. yle.fi/a/7-10095760
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Åtminstone tre fullmäktigeledamöter från borgmästarpartiet SDP tänker rösta mot spårvägen i Åbo
Borgmästarpartiet SDP överväger att fatta ett gruppbeslut om spårvägen. Omröstningen i fullmäktige ser ut att bli väldigt jämn.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Turussa vakava korruptiotapaus. Valtuutettu, jonka vaalikampanjan raitiotietä vastustavat "liikemiehet" maksoivat suurelta osin, aikoo osallistua päätöksentekoon. Kokoomuksessa on kaksi vastaavaa tapausta, joissa summat vielä suurempia. yle.fi/a/74-20217282
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Turun raitiotien kohtalo saattaa ratketa demarien äänillä – ryhmäpäätöksestä lipeäisi ainakin kolme ratikan vastustajaa
Pormestaripuolue SDP:ssä harkitaan raitiotiepäätöksen tekemistä ryhmänä. Valtuuston äänestyksestä on tulossa todella tiukka.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Krasnov channeling his boss or, alternatively, hallucinating. Please could someone take him to hospice care?
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Oh wow, did they send a gilded Trojan horse or something?
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Hallucinations are a rather typical symptom of dementia. It is bizarre how news media just reports Trumps symptoms as if they are just a part of the spectacle. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Trump said he spoke to a former president about bombing Iran. Four denials suggest otherwise.
Trump said twice Monday that he spoke to one of his predecessors about the Iran war and that the former president said he wished he had taken the action Trump did.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Trump causes a war with his only major ally, Netanyahu, and then demands countries he has been antagonizing clear the mess on his behalf. You know, axis of shit, you have to face the "axis of evil" on your own.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Axis of evil counters axis of shit.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Ukraine hit again the Kherson ferries, Slavyanin and Avangard. One key tactic seems also to be to force Russia to constant repairs : a ship being repaired consumes even more resources than replacing one sunk.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Ukrainian military intelligence struck two vessels used by Russian military overnight, the railway ferry “Slavyanin” and “Avangard.” Both vessels were key elements of the Kerch ferry crossing used by Russia for military logistics, including transporting weapons, equipment, and ammunition.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Steps in Trump war rhetoric: 1. We don’t have to play by the rules in war 2. We won the war 3. If you go by the rules I just made up we won 4. No fair
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Trump advertises how he manipulates and censors the US media and breaches the First amendment.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Iran is able to retaliate, partly due to its experience from Russia-Ukraine war.
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Iranian forces struck the oiler “Skylight” off the coast of Oman.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Remember US and Israel killing Khamenei means that US could, if it wanted, eliminate Putin regime. But it will not want it, neither under Putin´s underling Krasnov or during any Democratic administration. Unlike islamofascistic Iran, Russia is under a personalist dictatorship.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Russian shadow fleet ships must be intercepted and impounded until no uninsured ships with fake nationalities sail in the North Sea and Baltic Sea. Of course, this means Russia can´t export oil anymore, but who would want it that anyway?
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
It has been a bit amazing that so many pundits think that the Islamic dictatorship in Iran is a personalist system like MAGA US. Expect those coming in below to genuinely try to avenge their martyrs and also keep up the repression of Iranians.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Looks like while Israel is - as usual - intercepting a majority of Iranian missiles, US allies in the Gulf region are actually being hit by the Iranian strikes, including those with Shahed-type drones. Remember Iran has accumulated knowledge on airstrikes from Russian attacks on Ukraine.
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Stephen Graves @stephengraves.co.uk · 28/02/2026
"Finally, we have created the Torment Nexus" www.newscientist.com/article/2517...
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Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Who would have guessed. “The best way to proceed is to ignore it,” Chomsky wrote (...) “That’s particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder.”
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Purran - Orpon hallitus on siirtämässä suomalaisten vaalitiedot, verotiedot ja KELA:n tiedot yhdysvaltalaisten yhtiöiden pilvipalveluihin. Tällöin ne ovat Trumpin hallinnon vakoiltavissa. Allekirjoita kansalaisaloite tietojen pitämiseksi turvassa nyt!
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Suomalaisten henkilötietojen, oli kyse KELA:sta tai vaalitiedoista, siirtäminen ulkomaisille palvelimille on tietoturvarikos.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Krasnov "Trump" breaking NATO article 2. "They will seek to eliminate conflict in their international economic policies and will encourage economic collaboration between any or all of them."
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
The ceasefire Putin "promised" his underling Krasnov "Trump".
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Krasnov "Trump" is channeling his idol Putin, now encouraging separatism in Canada. www.ft.com/content/11dc...
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Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada
Separatists from oil-rich province try to capitalise on friction between White House and Mark Carney
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Toivottavasti järki voittaa Turussa ja saamme raitiotien, vaikkakin kymmenen vuotta Tamperetta myöhässä.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
@pilapiirtajavainio.bsky.social was only six days early predicting IKEA nukes
IKEA produces KABÅÅM nukes
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Nice. This is probably the result of the working group on UNCLOS: ”Vessels shall sail under the flag of only one State and vessels that sail under the flags of two or more states, using them according to convenience, may be treated as a ship without nationality, as according to UNCLOS Article 92.”
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Finland is also not participating in Krasnov "Trump´" Board of Peace or Bored of Peace daycare initiative for elderly autocrats and war criminals. yle.fi/a/74-20206792
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Suomi jäi hiljaa sivuun Trumpin rauhanneuvostosta
Tasavallan presidentin kanslia vahvistaa Ylelle, että Suomella on sama kanta kuin Ruotsilla ja Norjalla, jotka eivät osallistu.
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Mikko Laaksonen @mikkolaaksonen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Reminder : Jeffrey Epstein directed Russian dictatorship to manipulate Trump. It is simply incredible that this is not being reported widely.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Epstein emails show that Jeffrey Epstein helped Russia blackmail Trump. Trump is compromised by Russia and should not be involved in any negotiations involving Russia. The emails:
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
My life on BlueSky these days
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A Russian court ruled in absentia against the Ukrainian commander responsible for sinking the Russian flagship „Moskva“, admitting for the first time that ship was struck by a missile. The Russian authorities say that the „Moskva“ was conducting a „humanitarian mission“ when it was sunk. Hilarious.
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Oras Tynkkynen @orastynkkynen.vihreat.fi · 23/01/2026
Viimeinen kokoomuksen sivistysliberaali sammuttaa valot.
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Kansanedustajat | Kokoomuksen Saara-Sofia Sirén jättää eduskunnan, Anne-Mari Virolainen kieltäytyy paikasta
Sirén siirtyy Työeläkevakuuttajat Telan toimitusjohtajaksi.
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