Let’s start here.
It’s 2 AM local time in Ukraine/7 PM EDT and the alerts referenced below began to go up one to two hours ago:
Russian strategic bombers are in the air, likely heading to bomb Ukraine.
I cannot begin to describe the feeling of knowing that missiles will fall on your country in a few hours to murder someone. And yet, it happens to us again and again.
Keep us in your thoughts.
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
❗️Tu-160 takeoff from Olenya airfield
— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
❗️5 Tu-95MS and 1 Tu-160 in the air heading for launch lines.
— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
+ tu95s already moving to launch positions we are so getting bombed tonight chat
— Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 (@reshetz.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Although, of course, I can only imagine the stress polish f-16 pilots are under
— Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 (@reshetz.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
There are signs fascist Russia is preparing a big missile strike tonight: communications with Tu bombers on combat frequencies have been recorded, monitors say. Shahed attack drones are already crossing the country from the east. A large attack has been expected for some days.
— Euan MacDonald (@euanmacdonald.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It is now 2:40 AM local time in Ukraine/7:40 PM EDT and all of Ukraine is now under air raid alert for Russian drone and missile attacks.
Last night Jim Appleton asked:
Curious if you have thoughts on a comment here appending a substack speculating in part that the GOFOR hoedown could really be about a loyalty oath cum purge.
My sense, very far removed from this realm, is that such a purge would be a catastrophe for the purgers.
But that their dim wits do not exclude the possibility of them eager to execute.
I largely ignore Snyder because he publishes on substack and I try to avoid anything published there as it is designed to monetize white supremacists, antisemites, neo-NAZIs, and other bigots and racists. I’m NOT saying Snyder fits in any of those categories, he obviously isn’t, but because substack is set up the way it is and for the purpose it is set up for, I don’t read anything on there unless I have no choice.
That said, I don’t think he’s bringing them together for a loyalty oath followed by a purge. I think we’re going to get what has been leaked: he’s going to give them a lecture on what he thinks the warfighting ethos and lethality are. I would also not be surprised if Trump shows up with the press in tow and just turns it into an impromptu rally type of thing. Largely because we never bring all of these senior leaders together in one place. Because it isn’t a very secure thing to do. Is it possible we get loyalty oaths and purges? With this crowd anything is possible, but I doubt that’s the case.
President Zelenskyy did not give an address today. He did give a press briefing.
Zelenskyy:
If Russia threatens a blackout in Kyiv, let them prepare for a blackout in Moscow‼️
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Here’s the video with English closed captioning turned on.
Georgia:
Day 304 of uninterrupted, nationwide protests in Georgia. A large crowd gathers on the 32nd anniversary of the fall of Sokhumi. 🇬🇪
🎥 Mo Se
— Rusudan Djakeli (@rusudandjakeli.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
On its 304th day, Georgia’s continuous protest was dedicated to the 32nd anniversary of the fall of Sokhumi.
#GeorgiaProtests
— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
🚨 A resident near the occupation line reported that Russian soldiers kidnapped 4 children (ages 10–11) from the village of Tamarasheni, Kareli, Georgia.
The State Security Service told Publica: “The children are with us and safe.” No further details were given.
— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🚨 A resident near the occupation line reported that Russian soldiers kidnapped 4 children (ages 10–11) from the village of Tamarasheni, Kareli, Georgia.
The State Security Service told Publica: “The children are with us and safe.” No further details were given.
— Publika.ge (@publikage.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
🗣️“Offering your support to #Georgia is not only an act of solidarity – it is the pragmatic choice. Another repressive regime in the neighbourhood would endanger Europe’s own security. To abandon Georgia now would be to reward Russia’s aggression,” – unlawfully jailed journalist Mzia Amaglobeli to EU
— Batumelebi&Netgazeti (@netgazeti.org) September 27, 2025 at 5:00 AM
From The Guardian:
My cell is painted green, the same colour we once used in the newsroom. Two benches and a table are bolted to the floor. Nothing moves. The bed is narrow, but I haven’t fallen out yet. When I was free, but already expecting arrest, I used to joke that prison would give me the time I always lacked – finally, I could read. But here in Rustavi Women’s Colony No 5, I have almost lost my eyesight. So now I write in encroaching darkness, about the darkness that is falling across my country, Georgia.
The only window in my cell sits high up near the ceiling. On my 50th birthday, my friends and colleagues assembled on a hill opposite the prison to hold up posters and balloons. I climbed on to a chair but couldn’t quite see. I watched their greetings on the news later.
For the past eight months, this has been my life under Georgia’s repressive regime: one that seeks to silence journalists, erase dissent and break our spirit. On 12 January 2025, I was arrested on charges of “attacking a police officer” during a demonstration. I spent almost seven months in pretrial detention while the case was heard. On 6 August, the judge reclassified the charge, and I was ultimately convicted of the lesser offence of resisting an officer, receiving a two-year prison sentence. This gives me the dubious honour of being the first female journalist imprisoned in Georgia for politically motivated reasons since the country’s independence in 1991. I was offered a plea deal – an admission of guilt in exchange for a lighter sentence – but I refused. To reconcile with injustice is to be buried alive.
I had to find new ways to protest against the injustice this regime has subjected me to. I remember cutting off my braid shortly after I was imprisoned. They lent me scissors for two minutes, standing right at the door of the cell, watching how I used them. Back then, they offered me many things, but I took only 10 litres of water. I was on a hunger strike for the first 38 days. I am now writing this letter to send to the offices of Batumelebi, the outlet I co-founded, where my friends and colleagues continue the fight in my absence.
I have moments of weakness. Sometimes my eyes fill with tears. But I try not to stay in that state for long. The truth is, I have no other choice: this illegitimate government is trying to abolish journalism, the profession to which I have devoted 25 years of my life. My colleagues are in mortal danger simply for doing their job. For me to stay silent now would be to betray them, myself and about 60 other political prisoners in Georgia today. Outside these prison walls, people have taken to the streets for nine months straight. Holding EU flags aloft, they have been drenched by water cannon, suffocated by teargas and brutalised by riot police. Yet they refuse to surrender. Their determination is our hope.
We have faced stark existential choices before. In 1921, Georgia’s short-lived democratic republic was swallowed by Russia, with the help of Georgian Bolsheviks. Back then, the youth also fought valiantly in the streets, only to disappear for the next 70 years under the shadow of Soviet domination. Now history threatens to repeat itself, with Russia pulling us back into its orbit, aided by collaborators within our own government. The regime dances to the tune of the oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, who made his fortune in Russia and continues to advance its interests. The regime has abandoned our European path and adopted the tools of Russian rule: propaganda, repression, corruption and fear.
But Georgia is not Russia, and Georgians have consistently demonstrated resilience. Despite being invaded by Russia in 2008, and the ongoing arrests and kidnappings of our citizens in the Russian-occupied territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, we still choose Europe. The youth of Georgia are leading this fight against exhaustion, against despair and against the cold calculation of those who would sell our freedom.
What can be done? Support Georgia’s beleaguered civil society and our independent media. Do not punish ordinary citizens by revoking visa-free travel. Target those truly responsible: Georgian Dream party officials and their business networks. Speak out for the people in the streets, for the journalists behind bars, for a society that refuses to bend.
Offering your support to Georgia is not only an act of solidarity – it is the pragmatic choice. Another repressive regime in the neighbourhood would endanger Europe’s own security. To abandon Georgia now would be to reward Russia’s aggression.
Georgia’s national motto is “strength is in unity”. For me, being part of the EU means sharing in and contributing to that strength. We belong not in the Russian world of dictatorship and fear, but in the European family of free nations. From my cell, I can see more clearly than ever that Europe is not just about geography, it is about values: dignity, justice, equality and solidarity. And in Georgia, we are fighting for those values with everything we have – with our pens, our voices and our bodies on the streets.
Our struggle is part of Europe’s struggle, as Ukraine’s struggle is part of Europe’s struggle. And I ask you, our European friends: do not let go of our hand. Together, we can defeat the darkness and ensure that freedom prevails. Because freedom, truly, is more valuable than life.
The PRC:
China’s “mutual travel” visa-free deal with Russia looks one-sided.
Hardly any Chinese head to Russia — but Russian shoppers flood Hunchun, loading up 25kg of duty-free goods from malls & bazaars.— Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) September 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
The EU:
Denmark and the rest of Europe are waking up to potential attacks that could be directed against hundreds if not thousands of targets in each country on.ft.com/3VDScpZ
— Financial Times (@financialtimes.com) September 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
From The Financial Times:
Denmark’s recent drone incidents have laid bare European airspace vulnerabilities and raised questions about how airports and authorities should respond to such breaches.
Danish officials have faced criticism over their failure to identify or take down any of the unmanned aerial vehicles spotted at six separate locations near civilian and military airports this week.
Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen did not “rule out” that Moscow was behind Tuesday’s incident at Copenhagen airport, after Nato and the EU condemned Russia’s “reckless” behaviour when flying drones and aircraft into the airspace of countries bordering Russia or Ukraine.
Earlier this month, Nato aircraft shot down Russian drones that had entered Polish airspace, while Romania scrambled jets when one drone flew in from the Black Sea and Estonia raised Nato fighter jets when Russian aircraft breached its airspace.
But the incidents in Denmark, which is not a so-called eastern flank state, involved drones of undetermined origin, with the sightings occurring at night and Moscow fiercely denying involvement.
Echoing Danish police and military intelligence, Fredriksen said late on Thursday that she did not know who was behind the five drone sightings earlier that day at regional airports and defence installations. Ministers said it appeared to be a “professional actor”.
“It points to the challenge of protecting critical national infrastructure,” said Douglas Barrie, senior fellow for military aerospace at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. “There’s a cornucopia of riches that a malevolent actor might want to go after in terms of causing mischief. It’s very easy to do, and it’s very difficult to counter.”
While the perpetrator was still unknown, Russia was constantly testing Nato members’ reactions with operations “that blurred the lines between defence and law enforcement”, said Giuseppe Spatafora, an analyst at the EU Institute for Security Studies.
Denmark faced “drones that potentially were launched in our neighbourhood”, said defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen. One theory is they could have been launched from ships crossing the Baltic Sea.
The Danish government has made a series of high-profile military investments in the past few weeks including in mid- and long-range air defence as well as long-range missiles capable of striking Russia.
But Poulsen admitted that “we cannot today present a solution that removes the threat from drones”, even though he insisted Copenhagen would buy “whatever is needed”.
For that, Denmark is asking for help from Ukraine, including at a meeting on Friday where the EU is offering to co-ordinate the acquisition of Ukrainian technology to erect a “drone wall” on its eastern flank.
In its defence against Russian aggression, Ukraine has developed cheap anti-drone capabilities that no other European country can boast such as the use of acoustic sensors, mobile patrols that use heavy machine guns and anti-aircraft cannons and more recently cheap interceptor drones.
Even then, Poulsen admitted: “We have to have a certain honesty: even though we have the right tools, there can still be drones that we have problems detecting because there is a big jump in technology.”
More at the link.
Germany:
“Drone swarms” were detected in the skies over Germany yesterday, posing a real threat to the country, according to the Interior Ministry. The German authorities are now preparing a plan and a law that will allow the army to shoot down unidentified UAVs.
www.zeit.de/politik/deut…— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Hungary:
🇺🇦❗️🇭🇺
— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 10:16 AM
At this point it’s still not clear if Hungary accidentally launched a drone at Ukraine, if Hungary launched a drone at Ukraine at Russia’s behest, or if Hungary let a Russian element launch a drone at Ukraine from within Hungary.
Back to Ukraine.
Our research, based on tens of thousands of personal records, shows that desertion rates in the Russian army have doubled in 2025 compared with 2024. If the trend continues, we estimate at least 70,000 deserters this year – roughly 10% of the entire force deployed in Ukraine:
— Tatarigami (@tatarigami.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
2/ The typical Russian army deserter is a 37-year-old contract soldier. Deployed in the most active combat zones of Donetsk Oblast, his likelihood of desertion from the battlefield surged nearly tenfold in the first half of 2025.
— Tatarigami (@tatarigami.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
3/ These and other findings, drawn from tens of thousands of records from districts and units, sourced from I_WANT_TO_LIVE project, as well as other sources, are detailed in our study, offering insight into what is happening on the ground
Link:
frontelligence.substack.com/p/silent-exo…
— Tatarigami (@tatarigami.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
‼️🦅 Drone threat in Tambov, Voronezh, Bryansk, Ryazan, Tula, Moscow, Volgograd, Saratov, Penza, Samara, Orenburg, Ulyanovsk, Smolensk regions and in the occupied territories of Luhansk region and in Crimea.
— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
UAVs attack! 🦅🦅🦅 DroneBomber
— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
💥👀 Soldiers of”Ronin” BBS of the 65th Motorized Rifle Brigade discovered and hit Buk SAM launch-loading installation for transporting and a number of other targets that participate in the enemy’s logistical support.
— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
An airstrike on a Russian river crossing occurred while a Russian convoy was passing through. A detonating missile is visible at 0:08.
— 🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 (@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Ukrainian bomber drones of the 81st Airmobile Brigade “Apaches” are epically destroying smokestacks that the Russians use as cover or as towers for equipment.
t.me/c/1905165206…— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Dobropillia:
Hospital in Dobropillia burned to the ground.
#Ukraine #UkrainianView— Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Rodynske, Donetsk Oblast:
School engulfed in flames in Rodynske, Donetsk Oblast. Russia is razing frontline towns and villages to the ground.
— Iryna Voichuk (@irynavoichuk.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant:
For 10th time, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is in blackout now.
russia is a nuclear terrorist who keeps Europe’s largest nuclear power plant hostage and no one gives a sh*t to do anything. Complete impotence of international law.
Radiation has no borders
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s…— Olena Halushka (@halushka.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Zaporizhzhia:
Yesterday in Zaporizhzhia, Russia targeted a food supermarket.
War crimes that’s Russia’s signature.
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Kyiv:
Air alert in Kyiv: The first of the Shaheds have arrived.
— Euan MacDonald (@euanmacdonald.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Kostiantynivka:
🤬 The aftermath of Russian strikes on Kostiantynivka in Donetsk region.
— The Ukrainian Review (@theukrainianreview.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The Donbas:
✈️💣💥 Airstrike on the location of the invaders in Donbas, – Third Army Corps
— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Pokrovsk:
☠️ Another road of Russian death south of Pokrovsk, littered with Russian Armed Forces logistics equipment, – 155th Mechanized Brigade
— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Tuapse, Krasnodar Krai:
🤩 Tuapse, new angle of the strike on Rosneft oil loading pier.
— MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 (@maks23.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The Russians claim they allegedly captured an unmanned FPV carrier boat — the very same one that reportedly took part in the attack on Tuapse on September 24, which could also launch FPV drones from special platforms.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The Republic of Tatarstan, Russia:
In Kazan, russians are covering oil depots with protective netting to shield them from drone strikes- partisan movement “Atesh” reported.
Do you think it would help them 😏?
— Kate from Kharkiv (@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 7:34 AM
The Chuvash Republic, Russia:
In Chuvashia, a UAV attacked the Tingovatovo-2 oil pumping station. The Head of the Chuvash Republic stated that the strike targeted an oil pumping station near the village of Konar in the Tsivilsky District.
The station has currently been shut down.
— WarTranslated (Dmitri) (@wartranslated.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 8:01 AM
That’s enough for tonight.
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The soldiers of the “Khartia” brigade used a ground robotic system to evacuate Prapor the cat (Prapor means Flag in #Ukrainian). The cat had spent several months “on the zero line.”
The evacuation was successful: Prapor has already settled into a safe place.
— Anton Gerashchenko (@antongerashchenko.bsky.social) September 27, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Open thread!
Jay
Thank you, Adam.
Adam L Silverman
@Jay: You’re welcome.
Westyny
Thank you, as always Adam.
Jay
Martin
That smokestack video is fantastic. Round brick structures are strong from external pressure and weak from internal. The explosive causes a pressure wave up the interior of the stack blowing the whole thing open simultaneously.
I didn’t appreciate how bad the drone attack on the Chernobyl new safe confinement structure was earlier this year. Not only did it blow a hole in the roof, but it created a fire underneath which has seriously deteriorated the effectiveness of much of the structure. They’re going to have to roll it back and rebuild much of it.
David Collier-Brown
I’m sort of interested in non-missile countermeasures against drones. In WWII, the British found that gunfire could set V1s off, but .303 machine guns were too short-ranged. The V1s blew up but tended to take the Hurricanes/Spitfires with them. So they came up with a trick to flip them over, instead.
What’s the effectiveness of present-day in-plane radar and heavy machine-guns?
Carlo Graziani
Tatarigami is a gem. Those desertion statistics are eye-openers.
Adam L Silverman
@Westyny: You’re welcome.
Traveller
I would like to formally note what everyone here already knows….Mr Adam Silverman has the stamina (obviously!!), the intellectual qualifications, the ability to think on his feet and still make decisions on changing fact patterns without holding to crushing prior positions, and so I nominate Mr Silverman to be President and our Chief Executive in 2028.
We can do the election by acclimation.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
Traveller
Carlo Graziani
@Traveller: Adam, can I be White House Chef?
If selected, I will make a porchetta on the White House lawn once per month. Vegan guests can eat the side dishes.
Gin & Tonic
Yesterday President Dementia went on an unhinged rant against former DOJ official Lisa Monaco, who’s been hired as President of Global Affairs at Microsoft, demanding that they fire her. This seems to have been at the behest of Laura Loomer.
This is relevant here because MS’s Threat Analysis Center, the skills and knowledge of which I have written about here before, specifically with regard to russian information warfare, reports to Monaco.
Adam L Silverman
@Traveller:@Carlo Graziani: Why do you hate me? What did I ever do to you?
Gvg
What’s being done with the deserters? Where are they deserting too? How are they escaping? Why now? Who is taking them in and feeding them? That’s a lot of people to feed and take care of. What do they want to do with themselves? I presume the Ukrainians are encouraging this and have plans, but that seems like a high number. Also, any sign it is impacting Russia’s planning? Do they care? Does their general population seem to notice or care about the dead, captured and now deserters?
You probably can’t find out most of this. I’d like to know, but don’t worry if you don’t have answers. Don’t work harder than you already are.
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: It’s the threat center they want to shut down.
Adam L Silverman
@Gvg: The Ukrainians are taking some in. Others are trying to flee to places they can’t be found.
Jay
@Gvg:
What’s being done with the deserters?
If caught in the rear, they are interrogated and beaten by the Military Police, robbed, then sent back under escort or in chains, back to their units, where they are beaten , chained, starved, robbed then sent to the assault, or used to clear landmines, hung out chained to trees as drone bait, or “zeroed” out, (executed).
Where are they deserting too?
Mostly back to their home villages, where they take to the woods, some join criminal gangs in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities.
Some manage to cross borders into Georgia, Uzbekistan, etc, and later seek asylum in The Evil West.
How are they escaping?
They are mostly walking away from hospitals in the rear, or walking away when sent to the rear to gather supplies.
Why now?
It has been a problem for the ruZZian’s since day 1. It has accelerated because ruZZian KKomanders have gotten more brutal, corrupt, cruel, less tactical in missions, and the Ukrainians have gotten better at killing ruZZians over greater distances. Former “safe places and “safe tasks” like getting supplies or being in a rear bunker are not.
Who is taking them in and feeding them?
Friends, family, gangs or they forage. There are a few organized groups that provide some aid, mostly of a legal nature.
What do they want to do with themselves?
Not die or be crippled further than they already are.
I presume the Ukrainians are encouraging this and have plans, but that seems like a high number.
Ukraine would prefer that they surrender, provide intel and refill Ukraine’s “meat vault” for prisoner exchanges.
Also, any sign it is impacting Russia’s planning?
ruZZian oblasts continue to raise the promised bonus’s for contract soldiers, the ruZZian military is deploying “specialist” soldiers, (artillery, Rocket Forces, drone pilots, armoured forces, aviation, mechanics, etc) as Infantry and sending them on “meat assaults” with no training.
While the propagandists continue to say, and have through out the war, there will be no new mobilizations, but there always are, each one larger than the last and of greater age ranges and poorer health.
Do they care? Does their general population seem to notice or care about the dead, captured and now deserters?
the ruZZian/so-Be It Union/ruZzian Governments have never cared about their “meat”. Few in the ruZZian public care about their “meat”, unless it’s one of their own. The “Mother’s” Orgs went from having some political impact after the Afghan War and into the First Chechen War, they are now “Enemies of the State”.
ruZZian “meat” has a long history of desertion and some, getting away with it, living remotely and basic, sometimes until a natural death. There are lot’s of places and ways to hide in ruZZia and there always have been.
Carlo Graziani
@Adam L Silverman: If they really want the Threat Analysis Center shut down, they can rub a lamp. Also, they have cognition challenges beyond anything known to modern psychiatry.
For better or for (mostly) worse, MS is embedded in over 20% 0f US private enterprises, and has a large share of productivity applications sold to all branches of the Federal Government. Simply put, O365 is a Royal Road for any nation state cyber adversary to penetrate DOD, National Labs, Government contractors, etc. For MS to shut down its efforts to model the threats against its infrastructure by ceasing to analyze the daily attacks that it encounters would endanger both their most important customers and their business. They are not going to do that no matter what Trump says.
They might move Monaco to another position, so as to defuse the conflict. On the other hand, the H1B blockade is kind of pissing off a lot of Tech players, so MS may not be disposed to pay attention. It wouldn’t be very easy to migrate installed Federal MS instances to another provider, even if shit-for-brains ordered it done. It could take more years than are in his life expectancy to get it done. So MS could plausibly just ignore the whole thing, and wait for Trump’s next distraction to take the heat off
Also, my porchetta would by a comfort to you in your new responsibilities.
Jay
@Carlo Graziani:
The Trumpists have shut down every Government cyber security system from the Military, through Intel, to the US Forest Service and left the US completely open to criminal, domestic and foreign hacks and propaganda.
They have stripped the US of defenses, against all extremists both foreign and domestic.
Universities and Corporate have rolled over for their every whim.
Tech will roll over too.
Adam L Silverman
@Gvg: As @Jay: knows, there is lots of footage of the Russians beating either attempted deserters or those they think might or would desert. I saw one this evening of a Russian soldier who’d been hung upside down naked and was being beaten. I just don’t post that stuff, just as I don’t post the most graphic videos of the Ukrainians killing Russian troops.
AlaskaReader
Thanks Adam
Adam L Silverman
@AlaskaReader: You’re welcome.
Carlo Graziani
@Jay: I can say from personal knowledge that what you describe has not in fact occurred at the US DOE National Labs, or at US DOE Headquarters. I cannot say anything from personal knowledge about DOD or other departments or agencies, but I believe that nothing like what you describe has occurred there either.
Adam L Silverman
@Carlo Graziani: @Jay: Not just cybersecurity. They’ve shut down the Office of Net Assessment at DOD, National Intelligence University and the National Intelligence Council’s Strategic Futures Group at ODNI, the Global Engagement Center at State, the Foreign Malign Influence Center also State (I think), almost every other counter malign influence element, multiple/most counterintelligence programs and efforts, the legislation that enables and incentivizes the private sector to report cyber threats and intrusions to the Feds just lapsed because Rand Paul has held it up in the senate because he believes CISA is censoring Republican and conservative speech, they’ve also shut down all the task forces working on white collar crime and financial crimes, scams, and public corruption, etc, etc.
Jay
@Carlo Graziani:
WIRED has lot’s of articles on the gutting of US Cybersecurity, to protect the US from hacks and propaganda, along with lot’s of articles on DOGE being it’s own cybersecurity threat and vulnerability.
It probably hasn’t hit the DOE’s Cybersecurity yet, because the Trumpists, even your current Secretary, Chris Wright, still doesn’t know that the DOE is about Nukes, not LED Lightbulbs and Energy Star appliances.
YY_Sima Qian
Thanks is somehow even more pathetic than bringing hundreds of GOFOs together attend NDS roll out as an ego/power flex.
YY_Sima Qian
The PRC economy needs more internal consumption, incentivizing more foreigners to come and spend their money in the PRC helps w/ that. Chinese visiting Russia and spending their money there does not help, and it is common knowledge in the PRC that Russia is not an attractive destination right now.
Adam L Silverman
@YY_Sima Qian: Yes it is. Yesterday’s reporting indicated Hegseth is going to give three talks. This is the first. Then there’s two public ones. The last one is at the Reagan Presidential library. Can’t remember when the second one is supposed to be at. One of the last two is supposed to be on the defense industrial base.
Adam L Silverman
@YY_Sima Qian: All of that makes perfect sense.
Mea
Thank you, Adam, both for keeping us informed and for NOT sharing the horrible graphic videos.
wj
@Adam L Silverman:
The idea of Hegseth lecturing a bunch of flag officers about “warrior ethos” simply boggles the mind. Military self discipline will doubtless keep them from laughing out loud at him. But for most, it will be a serious effort.
Sister Inspired Revolver of Freedom
Thank you Adam.
pieceofpeace
Thanks, Adam.
Steve Paradis
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