They just don’t think about it much, and to the degree they do they think they know more about it than they actually do

❗️🇩🇰Denmark has selected the European SAMP/T NG system to protect its airspace.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

NEW: Swedish intelligence assessments are consistent with ISW’s longstanding assessments about the significant challenges the Russian economy is facing and the Kremlin’s efforts to conceal these issues to falsely present Russia as able to sustain its war indefinitely. 🧵(1/3) isw.pub/UkrWar042026

🇰🇿🇩🇪 Russia is set to stop oil exports from ‌Kazakhstan to Germany via the Druzhba pipeline starting from May 1, - Reuters

Kazakhstan's oil exports to Germany via Druzhba totalled 2.146 million metric tons, or 43,000 barrels per day, in 2025, an increase of 44% from 2024, and 730,000 tons in 2026.

El 28 de abril el Congreso vota una medida urgente y necesaria: la prórroga extraordinaria de los alquileres.
Cada voto en contra será un voto a favor de expulsar a miles de familias de sus casas.

SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1518

1. Pro-🇷🇺 Bulgaria 🇧🇬 ex president Radev wins parliamentary elex, may form govt
2. 🇷🇴 Social Democrats remove key support of Bolojan govt
3. Tusk 🇵🇱-Macron 🇫🇷 discuss nuclear exercises
4. EU Formins in 🇱🇺 to discuss € 90bn loan to 🇺🇦
5. ~80 Shaheds, 22 leakers. 1/2 Iskander-M down

Japan Scraps Most Curbs on Exporting Weapons in Historic Shift Japan removed most of its restrictions on weapons exports, allowing the nation to sell arms overseas for the first time since World War II in a move aimed at strengthening its defense industrial base.

well well well www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Good morning JB !🌞🌺
Happy #TunaTuesday !🐟🐶

WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/

SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1517

1. Macron to meet Tusk in Gdansk with nuclear deterrence in the agenda
2. ~100 Shahed/ 28 leakers

Yeah

SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1516

1. Drone factory hit in Taganrog
2. Fico of Slovakia 🇸🇰 barred from using Latvian, Lithuanian airspace to join 9 May victory celebration in Moscow
3. ~150 Shahed, 32 leakers

US renews Russian oil sanctions waiver for 1 month, days after signaling it would not do so The effective extension of the waiver comes just two days after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters that the Trump administration "will not be renewing the general license on Russian ...

⚡️US renews Russian oil sanctions waiver for 1 month, days after signaling it would not do so.

The U.S. Treasury Department issued a temporary license on April 17 renewing a sanctions waiver that allows countries to purchase Russian oil stranded at sea.

😆

SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1514

1. Buyers' remorse? US confirms delays of arms deliveries to Europe

2. Time for EU to follow suit? UK transfers £752 million of frozen 🇷🇺 assets to 🇺🇦

3. ~120 Shahed, 20 leakers

Would be interesting to compare with Western Europe and Canada

SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1513

1. Huge 🇷🇺 bombing effort:

659 operational level drones but only21 leakers
44 missiles, 31 downed: 4/5 Iskander
-K, 8/19 Iskander-M, 19/20 Kh-101
22 killed
2. Zelensky states "critical Patriot shortage"

3. Rosneft refinery hit in Tuapse

I’m not part of this, but Thai

Oh dear

I really like them all, and especially the first one

A Hidden Plague: Russia’s Sex Trafficking of Ukrainians Western nations can do more to stop Russian criminal gangs forcing Ukrainians into sexual slavery and free them.

Amid widespread suffering and more than 180,000 documented war crimes committed by Russia during its war on Ukraine 🇺🇦, the heightened risk of sex trafficking of Ukrainians has been largely absent from policy discussions.

#sextrafficing #warcrimes

cepa.org/article/a-hi...

The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought An analysis by WIRED and Indicator found nearly 90 schools and 600 students around the world impacted by AI-generated deepfake nude images—and the problem shows no signs of going away.

NEW: Teenage boys are pulling classmates' photos off Insta and running them through cheap nudify apps and the fallout has now hit nearly 90 schools across 28 countries with 600+ known victims since 2023, per a WIRED/Indicator analysis.

UNICEF estimates 1.2M children were targeted last year alone.

Rightly so

forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit - perhaps even these things will be good to remember one day #quotebot

I hadn’t seen this before. A photograph from a Bratislava that no longer exists.

The Orthodox synagogue in Zámocká Street, demolished in 1961.

Once you know it was there, the absence stays with you. I wrote about that here:

robjcameron.substack.com/p/to-the-cas...

📷 facebook.com/BratislavaRe...

Vance says that stopping funding for Ukraine is one of his proudest achievements in this administration.

​I’m watching this stunningly cruel speech from Ukraine, as Russia continues to kills us every day. Just today, they killed 8-year-old boy in Cherkasy and five people in Dnipro.

SITREP 🇺🇦 DAY 1512

1. Trump war wwindfall: IMF raises 2026 🇷🇺 growth estimate from 0.8 to 1.1 %
2. New 🇩🇪 🇺🇦 defence deal and Norway 🇳🇴 🇺🇦 defence declaration
3. 250 Shahed attack but only 13 leakers. 3 Iskander M, no intercepts.

Charmers

Israeli settlers stole 160 sheep after storming a Palestinian farm in the town of Jifna, north of Ramallah.