Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@eugah: You don't understand how NATO works. Mark Rutte doesn't make unilateral decisions for the Alliance.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@poetentiate @3_bm15: Finland isn't fighting a war with Russia.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@eugah: Every member gets a veto on new admissions. That's how it works. This isn't about Trump though. No US Administration, GOP or Dem, will support Ukraine's immediate accession to NATO. There is no political support for that in the United States.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

🚨@IISS_org Military Balance 2025: Russian defence spending exceeds European defence spending

Russia: $462 billion

Europe: $457 billion

The EU's economy is over 10 times larger than Russia's, but they spend less on defence. A lot of work still left to do.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@3_bm15: The US isn't going back on anything. The Biden Admin did not actually support Ukrainian membership in NATO either. They made vague statements about Ukraine's future, which were meaningless because they knew they wouldn't be in office at that point.

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@einarchitekt: Lolno

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@RaulWolfBruning: lolno

‌Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @ArchivesDefense: Ukraine receives new PATRIOT communications system from US Army | Written by @ColbyBadhwar

https://defensearchives.com/news/ukraine-receives-new-patriot-communications-system-from-us-army/

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

@Hendlfriedhof @IISS_org: Purchasing power is what actually matters.

Dan (Twitter)

2.🇷🇺83rd Air Assault Brigade POWs in Kursk.
From late December we start seeing a flow of POWs from the 83rd.
He signed up to fund the reconstruction of his house after a fire.
It seems he was captured on his 1st action.
h/t @vmanulik
Film released 30 DEC.
t.me/ButusovPlus/16244

Dan (Twitter)

3.🇷🇺83rd Air Assault Brigade POWs in Kursk.
Not identified as from the 83rd, but obviously captured at the same location as the POW in tweet 2 (see 2nd film⬇️) so leaving in this thread for now.
Name and details not given.
Films released together 27 DEC. t.me/rozvidka_noem/14606

The Lookout (Twitter)

RT @shashj: On the real meaning of the Hegseth comments: the first metric to watch is whether the Trump admin makes changes to US force posture. In particular, whether we see key enablers & also some naval forces being moved permanently out of Europe.

The Lookout (Twitter)

@MaMLSod: While the Ukrainians are right to push for NATO membership, as strong security guarantees are fundamental for a viable future for them, unfortunately, it has never been a likely outcome and the Russians know that.

On territory, it has been clear since the 2023 offensive failed, that short of Western intervention (with everything that brings along), taking back all or even substantial amounts of occupied territory has been unlikely.

This doesn't mean that I personally like either of the two points, they point towards a dark future, but this is where events have put us.

‌The Lookout (Twitter)

@MaMLSod: Amplifying a bit:

On security guarantees and especially occupied territory, there's a big difference between what's the morally right position, what's best for Ukraine and for Europe, and what's realistically achievable.

One doesn't have to like it.