On this special sneak peak of the Russia Contingency, Mike sat down with Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, to discuss the findings from their recent research trip to Ukraine. The conversation covered Russian defensive lines, the role that mines have played in stymying Ukraine's counteroffensive,...
South Africa’s deputy president says Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to attend an economic summit in South Africa next month but the country is trying to persuade him to stay away to avoid the legal and diplomatic fallout over his international arrest warrant
I like using RSS. I experimented with trying to get threads accounts into my RSS reader using the Mastodon method but just added .rss to the user's page. Unfortunately doesn't work....
Consumers are winning from the streaming revolution but across most of Hollywood, the businesses churning out TV and movies are losing. From a report: Services such as Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+ and Max have become the default entertainment options for homes across America rather than cable, savin...
"India, a critical security partner of the United States, now buys huge amounts of Russian oil, purchasing one of every two barrels shipped at sea."...
Frances Elizabeth Hayward was the first woman to unofficially complete the Comrades Marathon in 1923, during a time when the race was only open to white men....
France says it has uncovered a major disinformation campaign waged by Russia, involving the posting of false news items hostile to Ukraine made to look like they had been published by prominent French news organizations.
Millions of people are contributing billions of views to chopped up movies and films, parcelled up and delivered to TikTok users’ homepages in random order. It's turning the platform into an ad hoc streaming service — and leading to the meme-ification of narrative.
The ministry said Russian individuals and companies were tied to the creation in late May of a fake version of the ministry website to publish a false announcement of a “security tax” to support the Ukraine war.
"Battle plans for an attack on another country or Defense Department documents about our capabilities are in no universe Donald J. Trump's personal documents," he said.
Ukraine is using its new arsenal of Western tanks and armored vehicles in what is expected to be one of the largest military operations in Europe since World War II.
Opinion | No One Should Want to See a Dictator Get Old (www.nytimes.com)
Xi and Putin are entering a dangerous time in the life cycle of dictators.
The Coup in Niger Is About Power. Russia Will Exploit It. (www.theatlantic.com)
The most exciting explanations for Niger’s upheaval are globe-sweeping and probably wrong....
War on the Rocks podcast: Ukraine Struggles to Scale Offensive Combat Operations (warontherocks.libsyn.com)
On this special sneak peak of the Russia Contingency, Mike sat down with Rob Lee, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, to discuss the findings from their recent research trip to Ukraine. The conversation covered Russian defensive lines, the role that mines have played in stymying Ukraine's counteroffensive,...
Podcast/Trip Report: What I Learned in Kyiv and Conversation with Mike Kofman and Rob Lee about Counteroffensive and Wagner (podcast.silverado.org)
Geopolitics Decanted by Silveradoby podcast@silverado.org (Patrick Gray, Michael Kofman, Rob Lee, Dmitri Alperovitch), Friday, July 14, 2023 6:11 AM
Putin wants to attend an August summit. Host country South Africa doesn't want to have to arrest him (www.washingtonpost.com)
South Africa’s deputy president says Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to attend an economic summit in South Africa next month but the country is trying to persuade him to stay away to avoid the legal and diplomatic fallout over his international arrest warrant
Russia’s Army Is in Disarray But Will Keep Fighting (cepa.org)
By Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan...
Telegram has become a window into war (www.theverge.com)
Information is easy to find — but trust is harder.
Anyone know how to get RSS for threads to work?
I like using RSS. I experimented with trying to get threads accounts into my RSS reader using the Mastodon method but just added .rss to the user's page. Unfortunately doesn't work....
TV's Golden Era Proved Costly To Streamers - Slashdot (entertainment.slashdot.org)
Consumers are winning from the streaming revolution but across most of Hollywood, the businesses churning out TV and movies are losing. From a report: Services such as Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+ and Max have become the default entertainment options for homes across America rather than cable, savin...
How India Profits From Its Neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine War (ioc.exchange)
"India, a critical security partner of the United States, now buys huge amounts of Russian oil, purchasing one of every two barrels shipped at sea."...
The Reddit Protest Is a Battle for the Soul of the Human Internet (mastodon.social)
The Reddit Protest Is a Battle for the Soul of the Human Internet...
Apollo’s Christian Selig explains his fight with Reddit — and why users revolted (www.theverge.com)
Apollo has become the center of a platform-wide fight between Reddit and its users.
Today I learned about Frances Hayward, the first woman to unofficially complete the Comrades Marathon [55 miles] in 1923 (brakpanherald.co.za)
Frances Elizabeth Hayward was the first woman to unofficially complete the Comrades Marathon in 1923, during a time when the race was only open to white men....
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 13, 2023 (www.iswresearch.org)
Kateryna Stepanenko, Riley Bailey, Nicole Wolkov, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 13, 2023, 8:35pm ET....
France Uncovers Major Disinformation Campaign By Russia (www.rferl.org)
France says it has uncovered a major disinformation campaign waged by Russia, involving the posting of false news items hostile to Ukraine made to look like they had been published by prominent French news organizations.
TikTok's becoming a TV platform. One pirated clip at a time | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
Millions of people are contributing billions of views to chopped up movies and films, parcelled up and delivered to TikTok users’ homepages in random order. It's turning the platform into an ad hoc streaming service — and leading to the meme-ification of narrative.
France Accuses Russia of Spoofing Foreign Ministry Website in ‘Typosquatting’ Campaign (www.wsj.com)
The ministry said Russian individuals and companies were tied to the creation in late May of a fake version of the ministry website to publish a false announcement of a “security tax” to support the Ukraine war.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 12, 2023 (www.iswresearch.org)
Kateryna Stepanenko, Karolina Hird, Grace Mappes, Nicole Wolkov, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 12, 2023, 5:20pm ET Click here to se...
Trump’s Indictment Is Worse Than You Think It Is (www.nationalreview.com)
Come and see why the former president is nailed dead to rights.
Bill Barr rips Trump over defense on secret documents (www.politico.com)
"Battle plans for an attack on another country or Defense Department documents about our capabilities are in no universe Donald J. Trump's personal documents," he said.
Radio New Zealand employee placed on leave amid investigation into pro-Russia editing of Ukraine reports (www.theguardian.com)
National broadcaster says thousands of articles will be reviewed after pro-Kremlin phrasing added to at least 16 Ukraine war reports
With Probes of Russian Lines, Ukraine’s Counteroffensive Takes Shape (www.nytimes.com)
Ukraine is using its new arsenal of Western tanks and armored vehicles in what is expected to be one of the largest military operations in Europe since World War II.
ISW: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 11, 2023 (www.iswresearch.org)
Grace Mappes, Nicole Wolkov, Kateryna Stepanenko, George Barros, and Mason Clark June 11, 2023, 6:40pm ET Click here to see ISW’s inte...
ISW: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 10, 2023
https://www.iswresearch.org/2023/06/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment_10.html