Main Justice episode with @tessbridgeman.bsky.social talking about war powers and related stuff was good as well but I like this one better (feel like she's got the space to explain things more)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Sz...
Good interview with Karim Sadjadpour
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr6O...
The upside is this is kicking off in Spring. The impact on consumer bills may be steep on a p/kWh basis, but relatively manageable on an absolute basis as summer kicks in.
So we have until September/October to achieve something... anything.
I could not agree more with the conclusion to this excellent piece from a serving Labour MP who actually understands public opinion. The party has got stuck veering back (and now perhaps forth) on the social dimension but that is not what will win back voters. They need to focus on economy full stop
At ~$14-15k MEROPS is a bit more expensive than the $2.5-6k for the Ukrainian interceptors but Merops comes with a better integration package
www.businessinsider.com/merops-middl...
Raw(er) video of Swedish police operators boarding de facto Russian grain theft ship CAFFA.
The question is, can you close this massive Overton window in the future
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Unit cost of PrSM Increment 1 is $2.09 million (TY$), while the median school lunch cost in SY14-15 was $3.81. Two PrSMs launched works out to about 1.1 million school lunches.
War is a ferociously expensive way to settle disputes.
βΌοΈThe Ukrainian Magura series naval drone has received a new, previously unknown modification as a carrier for interceptor drones.
militarnyi.com/en/news/magu...
No good news for Europe in the Trump admin 2026 trade agenda: Europe should open more whilst US protects
ustr.gov/sites/defaul...
Canada's oil export expansion will be interesting to watch
π‘One of the targets of a Defence Intelligence of Ukraine strike was the latest Russian 98L6 Yenisey radar station from the S-500 Prometheus air defence missile system.
militarnyi.com/en/news/diu-...
π’Swedish special forces and coast guard conducted a large-scale operation called βSvart kaffeβ to seize the vessel Caffa in the Baltic Sea.
militarnyi.com/en/news/swed...
Much less so. In Iran, from what people who know the country say, 80% of people hate the regime.
In US is ~55% who are unhappy and ?30% who hate the regime with the passion needed for a revolution
Very good interview with Ali Ansari
www.wsj.com/opinion/is-i...
Lithuania's threat assessment now published, English version
www.vsd.lt/en/reports/n...
Ships sunk by submarines since World War Two, thread
1.
4th Dec 1971, Pakistani submarine PNS Hangor sunk India frigate INS Khukri with a torpedo
Both stages of Rocket Factory Augsburgβs RFA ONE rocket for its first flight have arrived at SaxaVord. According to the company, the launch is expected in the summer, meaning anytime between June and the end of August. Image credit: RFA
washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/06/army-82nd-airborne-iran/
