Anders Östlund
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The West humiliated Russia in the 1990s. This war is the consequence.’ I’ve heard this in every language, from every podium. It is history rewritten backwards. Recall what actually happened to defeated Russia: no occupation. No reparations. No tribunal. It kept its nuclear arsenal and its UN veto. Its debts were forgiven and refinanced. It was handed IMF billions and a seat at the G8 — a club of democracies admitting a wounded autocracy out of hope. Now recall an actually humiliated nation: Germany, 1945. Occupied. Partitioned. Cities in ash, leaders hanged, guilt taught to its children by law. Germany became the most peaceful democracy in Europe. Russia became this. So spare me the humiliation theory. Russia was not humiliated after the Cold War. It was indulged — and it read every kindness as weakness, every gift as tribute. The grievance was never mistreatment. The grievance was lost dominion. Empires do not mourn their wounds. They mourn their slaves.
🔥 BREAKING: President Zelensky officially confirmed: Mykhailo Drapatyi will become the new Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, replacing Oleksandr Syrskyi. The decisions are expected to be formalized tomorrow.
Twelve years ago, 298 innocent people were killed when flight MH17 was shot down over eastern Ukraine. This tragedy reminds us why truth and accountability matter. Russia’s responsibility has been established. There must be justice for MH17 and for all crimes against 🇺🇦.
На жаль, людей не почули. Ані цивільних, ані військових, які гучно говорили про потребу реальних змін у армії. Залишили головкома, який плете інтриги та зробив зі штурмових полків особисту міні армію. Керівництво держави не говорить із суспільством, і це робить ситуацію ще гіршою. Зараз у них стратегія — перечекати. Вони думають, що ми попротестуємо і розійдемося. Вони помиляються, так само як і тоді, коли Сирський вирішив, що можна всім закрити рота і знищити останні надії на трансформацію війська. Зараз важливо показати нашу максимальну увагу та залученість!!! Відкладіть усі справи. Перенесіть все, що планували на вечір пʼятниці. Побачимося завтра, у пʼятницю, о 20:00 там же — на площі Франка. Виходьте і у своїх містах. До зустрічі!
Fedorov said he identified 11 major problems after his first month as minister of defense: "1. Ukraine's Armed Forces are fighting at the tactical level, although increasingly at the operational level too. Still, fundamentally, "we are still fighting tactically". 2. The corps system has not yet fully taken shape. "We have corps that are successful, that advance every month and do not lose territory. And we have corps where the commander is replaced every month. There are corps that have developed their own school of thought and philosophy, and there are corps where we do not even know how many brigades they have or what is happening inside them. Everything depends on organization, but there are corps that do not distribute all their resources internally," Fedorov said. 3. Brigades and corps have been fragmented. "There are brigades that cannot even determine how many battalions they have. A battalion is pulled out of one brigade and thrown into another. It is impossible to build a management system under conditions like these," the defense minister said. 4. No one is held accountable for anything. "Responsibility is always pushed down the chain. Someone else is always made to carry the blame, there is always talk of an investigation and of 'finding out who is guilty'," Fedorov said. 5. Supplies are not routed through the corps. Fedorov said the supply problem is "fundamental": "Over the past five months, we have bought more drones than in the whole of last year, but most units have not felt the impact, because everything is distributed manually: if you are loyal, you get something, if you are not, you don't... That is why we launched this system. It was four months of hell, because it took us four months to agree on a simple project for baseline drone provision to brigades." 6. Constant replacement of commanders. 7. Isolation and toxic treatment of those who deliver results. "If you succeed, you become a star, and then you hit a dead end. [General Mykhailo] Drapatyi received his third reprimand, goodbye. Sorry, Drapatyi, I think after this speech there will be a fourth reprimand for you. I wouldn't want that to happen, but we have no choice left but to talk about it," Fedorov said. 8. It is impossible to carry out any systemic project. "Because you constantly run into the same questions: 'But why?' and 'But how?'" the acting defense minister explained. 9. Human capital is being worn down without proper analysis. Fedorov said they had carried out "a great deal of work", including analyzing losses. "But decisions about who should be supported, who should not, who should be reinforced and who should not are not based on data. They are based on loyalty," he said. 10. The blocking of initiatives and the "bureaucratic crossfire". "In six months at the Defense Ministry, we have not been able to change the organizational structure because the General Staff refuses to approve it: the name is supposedly wrong, something else is not right, or there is allegedly no need to bring in new people," Fedorov explained. 11. Constant dishonesty. "This applies to me too: claims that I ordered the investigation into Skelia, that I launched a media campaign, that I did this or that," the acting defense minister said. [The Ukrainian State Bureau of Investigation is conducting a criminal probe into the Skelia unit – 425th Separate Assault Regiment – following reports of at least 26 noncombat deaths, physical abuse, and inadequate medical care for recruits. The unit's commander was suspended, and authorities are currently investigating allegations of systemic abuse – ed.] He added that he had proposed changes on all points. "What solutions were proposed at the time? Radical personnel decisions. That meant changing both the Commander-in-Chief and the Chief of the General Staff… It meant creating an environment where strong leaders could develop instead of being held back or constantly reprimanded. It meant working with IT specialists and smart people. It meant a different management approach. It meant appointing strong corps commanders. Drone-assault units are a fundamental change in the way we think about deploying infantry: technology must be at the forefront of combat. We should lose drones, not people, and only then should infantry move in," Fedorov said. He also proposed "levelling out" the front line and implementing a doctrine based on the principle of "not losing personnel where it can be avoided", while taking the terrain and the situation into account. "The allocation of all resources through corps – that means personnel, drones, artillery, training… Because there are situations where, ultimately, no one is responsible for a section of the front line," said the acting minister. He also said he had proposed establishing an Academy of Modern Warfare to train new leaders capable of commanding headquarters and units, creating a consortium of Ballistics and Anti-Ballistics units, closing the skies, achieving victory in the economic war and, more broadly, transforming the defence forces and rooting out corruption in procurement. pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2026/…
The catastrophe that no one is yet talking about continues to develop right on schedule, as Russian media reports a -66% drop in the nation's grain harvest for the first half of the year.
😁 Women gripped by fuel fever got into a fight while waiting in line at a gas station in Tomsk Russians are becoming more and more united with each passing day!
"Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, what the f*ck is going on?" A Russian woman asks. She's been standing in lines for three days to get fuel - without success. First, it was "Kyiv in three days," now it's "fill your fuel tank in three days".
