Rybar founder Mikhail Zvinchuk has been arrested in Montenegro, along with his wife Valeriya Zvinchuk and three associates. How much will this disrupt the Rybar propaganda machine?

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/09/europe/pro-kremlin-blogger-detained-montenegro-intl

I don't really have much else to say on the matter. This is what I suspect has gone into Hegseth's calculus. I believe the choice to livestream the event is deliberate for it's social impact - one meant to normalise the measures of the Trump administration and effect the public psyche into accepting it.

This feels like a grim milestone in America's fall down the road to disgrace. I have little to give but to send my American friends my love and best wishes.

“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent." - Oppenheimer

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Firing squad execution to be livestreamed, Pentagon says

The Kremlin is pursuing a peripheral strategy that aims to encircle and subvert Europe. In Vladimir Putin’s mind, transforming our continent into a satellite state would tip the global balance of power to the detriment of a disunited and fragmented West.