StratMiL
🇫🇮 Defence Forces GSO (ret.)
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- Reposted by StratMiL“We have completely blocked the Black Sea Fleet in the waters near the port of Novorossiysk,” said Kyrylo Budanov, head of Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence, commenting on the effectiveness of Magura sea drones Naval drone operations became a central focus of the documentary "Sea Battle:The Drone Era"
- Reposted by StratMiLChatham House experts and researchers are available to follow on Bluesky. Connect with them here and follow them for their latest analysis on international events and global trends. ⬇️ go.bsky.app/UKHXrogat://did:plc:mxrblrevl3divnsgg47t7r7n/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l2wttf3t2g2x
- Reposted by StratMiLGUR introduced a drone-carrying vessel for strikes on enemy targets in Crimea! Boat engine, carries 4 FPV drones, up to 3000 kg of air/surface/underwater weapons. NATO-standard AI controls it.
- Reposted by StratMiLIndia's Ministry of Home Affairs has asked several states to conduct mock attack drills on May 7th. The following measures are to be taken: 60/
- Reposted by StratMiL4/ Military institutions around the world need to move quickly to innovate in three key areas: 1. New warfighting concepts and ideas that incorporate next-gen robotic capabilities; 2. New organisational constructs that exploits it; and 3. Evolved leadership models to drive change.
- Reposted by StratMiLSuomi ei ole maailman tuomari eikä lääkäri. Eikä insinööri. Vaan setämies.
- Reposted by StratMiL29/29 Der Putin wird doch die Ukraine nicht angreifen!? Doch. Die Amerikaner werden doch den Trump nicht wiederwählen!? Doch. Der Trump wird sich doch nicht auf Putins Seite schlagen!? Doch. Der Putin wird doch nicht wirklich die NATO testen... Mein Punkt wird klar, denke ich.
- Reposted by StratMiLHe issued this warning already at the Munich Security Conference in February. I doubt we are paying enough attention in this chaotic environment.
- 🚨🚨 #Ukraine: President Zelenskyy urges us to not be naive of #Russian military exercises in #belasrus which can be used a springboard for a new comprehensive assault. He is obviously right. kyivindependent.com/zelensky-war...
- Reposted by StratMiL"Experts see rise of powerful non-state groups as US retreats from global stage" www.defenseone.com/threats/2025...
- Reposted by StratMiLMarco Rubio has sold out America’s soft leadership for a few pieces of silver. He has betrayed Ukraine and bowed to Putin. He may have set the stage for WWIII. His name will go down in history alongside Judas and Neville Chamberlain. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...
- Reposted by StratMiLAnd the US has to give something too: The principles that more or less kept the world from blowing up after WWII and through the Cold War: There can be no wars of conquest. You may not change borders through use of force. Aggression is a crime. Murder and rape by militaries are War Crimes.
- 🇷🇺 sotakassa ei ole pohjaton. >> Ukrainan tukeminen on järkevää ja mahdollistaa vahvemmat asetelmat rauhanneuvotteluissa. Venäjä | Putin on putoamassa rotkoon – Asiantuntijat kertovat, miksi käsillä on ratkaiseva hetki www.hs.fi/talous/art-2...
- Dear Ms Williams, I applaud for your concern about the well being of the 🇫🇮 civilians in the occasion of 🇷🇺 offensive. Yet I would leave it up to them to decide whether they (when mobilised to defend their homes) see it fit to protect their flanks with land mines www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
- National Veterans Day 🇫🇮 Finnish forces lifting a flag at the "Three Nations border stone" 1945.
- Reposted by StratMiLTrump tries to hand Putin a victory that he can’t achieve on the battlefield. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/w...
- Interesting changes. Clear tension (discontinuity) btw some attitudes. In a nuttshell: trust /Nato neighbours remains high, but Trump has wrecked the trust /US yle.fi/a/74-20157837
- Reposted by StratMiLIn one way, the Trump administration's approach of forcing Moscow's terms on the victim of Russian aggression is a return to previously consistent Western policy. www.chathamhouse.org/2021/09/what...
- Reposted by StratMiLTrump will shift from blaming Ukraine to blaming Europe as a pretext for chaotic US withdrawal from the Transatlantic alliance. The stage was set for this with his MAGA Republican election victory and Democratic Party weakness, the negotiations are just a farcical pantomime.
- Reposted by StratMiLI would have been delighted to sign this, if I'd been asked - even if I wonder about the availability of 180,000 troops. Perhaps even more important than 'boots on the ground', however, - as last night's attacks on Kyiv show - are planes in the air, to strengthen Ukraine's air defences.
- 500 European intellectuals implore Europe to send boots on the ground ahead of another possible Russian invasion @euromaidanpress.bsky.social @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @dgoberlin.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social @de-ua-gesellschaft.bsky.social @ukrainki.bsky.social @konflikt-sicher.bsky.social
- Reposted by StratMiL🔴 The body of Viktoria Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist who had been held in Russian captivity, was returned to Ukraine at the end of February, Deputy Interior Minister Leonid Tymchenko confirms. united24media.com/latest-news/...
- Reposted by StratMiL13/ "The conclusions are also obvious: refuse any heavy equipment, except for tightly armoured turtle tanks, and buy electronic warfare equipment promptly from various suppliers for the current situation at the front.
- Reposted by StratMiLShades of driving around Moscow with Old Glory waving from her car as RT's chief-in-chief defends ~ checks notes ~ the head of the Pentagon from a Deep State NPR plot.
- Reposted by StratMiLI'm old enough to remember when ZeroHedge couldn't stop tweeting about bond yields
- Reposted by StratMiLI can highly recommend watching Anders’ excellent video looking into Zaluzhnyi’s article on the drone-led revolution of warfare and the point of Western armies that may understand drones are changing warfare but possibly missing the scale and impact.
- Reposted by StratMiL"U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared details of a March attack on Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis in a message group that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday" www.reuters.com/world/us/def...
- Reposted by StratMiLNow, Trump and his people think that the GWOT was a mistake. But the bases in Europe are not only for fighting wars in the Middle East. “US forces are not in Europe to protect Europeans,” says @general-ben.bsky.social. “You cannot defend the US from Texas or North Carolina or Florida only”
- Reposted by StratMiL⚠️ This is the biggest coordinated Kremlin-FSB-GRU operation since the lead up to the Feb 2022 full-scale invasion attempt. Calculated to end in a ceasefire violation by 'Ukraine' (in other words, a false flag operation by Russian GRU spetsnaz). Trump just has to sit back and wait, then 'walk away'
- "sodan hirvittävä todellisuus – se näkymä joukkohaudan tai kidutuskammion pohjalta, joka saisi meidät tekemään kaikkemme sotien lopettamiseksi" Siksi minä valitsin käyttää 30+ elämästäni sotilaana. Ettei sodan hirvittävä todellisuus tulisi tänne. Kaikki tavallaan. yle.fi/a/74-2014609...
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- Reposted by StratMiLThe U.S. administration is leaking like a sieve. It would only be prudent to start from the assumption that anything they learn, GRU learns too.
- Reposted by StratMiLWow..
- Reposted by StratMiLThe most pathetic characters working for the Trump administration are the supposed MAGA grand strategists tasked with providing complex intellectual justifications to legitimise the latest incoherent burbling to emanate from their master.
- The German coalition treaty #defence
- Reposted by StratMiLThe German coalition treaty is in, and digesting it for EU and foreign/security policy, a couple of things stand out to me: First, the foreign/security part no longer includes threat of Russian attack on NATO in the next five years, and is more traditional on US partnership.
- Reposted by StratMiLIt is clear that China stands to gain from widespread doubts. Plus: The freeze in US foreign aid has severely impacted many Taiwanese civil organisations—particularly those dedicated to promoting democracy and/or working on Chinese disinformation. 3/4
- Reposted by StratMiLNäin vaalien alla on masentavaa katsella nuoria, nousevia poliitikkoja, joiden viestinnän kärki on kilpailevien puolueiden edustajien haukkuminen. #politiikka
- Reposted by StratMiLUndrar om USA kommer få brist på andra saker än bara ägg..
- Reposted by StratMiLMusk "Mass immigration is insane and will lead to the destruction of any country that allows mass immigration, the country will simply cease to exist." 1) America is named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. 2) Italian-Americans had a big influence to arts and politics.
- Reposted by StratMiLLutnick says the penguins are going to start arbitraging for the Chinese. This gets stupider and stupider.
- Reposted by StratMiL🇪🇺 Reporter: "EU imports almost no U.S. pork because of ban on hormones used there. It's not about tariffs." 🇺🇸 Agriculture Secretary Rollins: "No, no, no. They're using bad science and unsubstantiated claims to keep our products out."
- Reposted by StratMiL10) The 🇬🇧 military is however more worried about "the ability of Russia to map, tap into or destroy military cables vital to its operations around the world. 'There are cables that are not public,' said one senior source. 'The Russians have the capability to cut military cables.'"
- Reposted by StratMiLDetailed article quoting 🇬🇧 UK defence sources on 🇷🇺 Russia's undersea warfare, surveillance and maritime sabotage activities near Britain. Some highlights: a 🧵 1) 🇷🇺 Russian ASW sensors suspected of attempting to spy on the UK’s nuclear submarines have been found hidden in the seas around Britain.
- Reposted by StratMiLOTD in 1949 Soviets issued orders for deportations from Moldova to begin. Over 30,000 people were forcibly moved, after we had "liberated them from fascism" in Great Patriotic War. Imagine this kind of thing happening today. Oh. Wait. My bad.
- "Puolustusministeri Antti Häkkänen (kok) sai Puolustusvoimilta miinoista kannan, jonka tilasi." Aika kova väite Puolustusvoimia kohtaan, HS @alkauhanen.bsky.social Löytyykö näyttöä? Pääkirjoitus | Miinapäätökselle oli kova poliittinen tarve www.hs.fi/paakirjoituk...
- Reposted by StratMiLThe partially sunken "Koala" re-appears on AIS outside of the Ust-Luga berth, after 51 days. It appears that they have been successfully offloading the Mazut to the ship "Clyde Noble". Previous updates: bsky.app/profile/pa.n... cc: @mercoglianos.bsky.social @auonsson.bsky.social
- First official update after 40 days: More than 150 hours of underwater have been spent by divers trying to patch the holes in the tanker Koala at Ust-Luga The hull has been pumped free of seawater and now the offloading of the solidified mazut has begun (my est. 1/4 complete) t.me/morflot_gov/...
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- ***BREAKING*** New U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier To Be Named USS Musk www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
- Reposted by StratMiLMiten Suomi turvataan? Uusi FIIA Research Paper pyrkii vastaamaan tähän kysymykseen. Vaikka Suomen kansainvälinen asema on nyt vahva ja sen kansallisen turvallisuuden työkalut hyvässä kunnossa, saattaa maa elää historiallisen hyvän asemansa huippukohtaa. Lue julkaisu ➡️ fiia.fi/julkaisu/mit...
- Reposted by StratMiLNeither MBDA France nor MBDA Germany/Saab have added new production facilities since 2022. This is preventing a rapid ramp-up of production, as any such ramp-up would necessarily be based on pre-existing legacy infrastructure across France, Germany, and Sweden. 4/5
- Reposted by StratMiLThe thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it
- Reposted by StratMiLThe Ivan Papanin makes first port call to Severomorsk. She will soon sail towards Franz Josef Land to undergo a series of tests in ice-covered waters.
- Reposted by StratMiL"What makes structural disinfo so powerful. It doesn’t need to lie to you. It just needs to keep you in the dark long enough for confusion to feel normal." Thread: 👇
- What if disinformation wasn’t just a campaign tactic… but part of the infrastructure? That’s the idea behind structural disinformation. And once you see it, you can’t unsee it👇 #StructuralDisinformation #ElectionIntegrity #DisinfoPlaybook
- Reposted by StratMiLHelpful historical context on an issue most Americans are hearing about for the first time.
- Reposted by StratMiLAnd if you want more general context on WTH is going on, WIRED spoke with more than 150 current and former federal employees, experts, and Musk supporters across more than 20 agencies to expose the inner workings of DOGE. Inside Elon Musk's 'digital coup':
- Putin is weaker than he appears. Sanctions on oil would drop him. Putin is stalling and Trump is angry. It’s time for ‘maximum pressure.’ www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
- Reposted by StratMiLAt @isaraerospace 's Spectrum launch vehicle successfully lifted off from @AndoyaSpace port🇳🇴 The launch was terminated approx 30 sec in flight, vehicle fell into the sea and exploded. Launchpad seems to be intact. Valuable data and experience for future missions gathered
- Reposted by StratMiL"Vance, who never left the base, and has never before visited Greenland, was quite sure how Greenlanders should live. He made a political appeal to Greenlanders, none of whom was present, or anywhere near him."
- This, from Timothy Snyder, is definitive, on Greenland open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
- Reposted by StratMiLSomeone forgot to tell the Vice President and his boss that Greenland is protected by NATO. Article 6 of the NATO Charter explicitly includes islands under the jurisdiction of member states in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer, which encompasses Greenland.
- 'U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Friday accused Denmark of not doing a good job keeping Greenland safe and suggested the United States would better protect the semi-autonomous Danish territory that President Donald Trump has pressed to take over.' www.reuters.com/world/us-vic...
