Tim Bowden
timbowden.bsky.social
Tim Bowden
@timbowden.bsky.social
Australia
I'm wondering how #NAFO responds to those who pretend to be on Ukraine's side but always find a reason why Ukraine or the EU are doing it wrong or can't do it at all?
Europe does not have the volume of fire necessary to cause meaningful damage. No drone swarms and a negligible amount of cruise missiles.
July 18, 2026 at 7:07 AM
I've just discovered #Postgres #pg_durable. Now this is interesting.
July 14, 2026 at 2:07 PM
This @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social. We care. Many of us follow daily what is happening. I regularly share your posts elsewhere so people know what is happening.
There is a lot of global outrage

In Australia we follow the news of Ukraine everyday
Talk about it everyday
It’s an outrage and we want Putin gone
We know Russia are terrorists
We know what they do
We know Ukraine is brave, tired and traumatised
It might seem like we don’t care but we do
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July 11, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Gold!
The real Azov Triangle. Or Madyar's Triangle.
July 11, 2026 at 5:54 AM
The Russians got caught with their panstirs down again? (ack to @cwinters.bsky.social for that one)
Drone attack on a gas processing plant in Russia's Orenburg region.

The plant is one of the largest enterprises in the Russian gas industry.

The facility is part of Gazprom and plays an important role in natural gas processing and the production of gas chemical products.
June 24, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Reposted by Tim Bowden
Why haven't I seen "they were caught with their pantsirs down" as a regular saying yet?
NAFO Sunday thoughts.
June 21, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Better late than never.
🇦🇺🇺🇦 Australia to allocate $100 million for arms purchases for Ukraine via PURL over 12 months, says government
June 19, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Russians repeatedly show the world who they are by what they do. There is no honour in double taps on rescue workers. This is not a one off. It is something the Russians have been constantly doing during this war they refuse to call a war. We should believe them when they show us who they are.
A rescuer’s job is built around a simple idea: when everyone else is fleeing, you stay.

Five rescuers were killed in a russian double-tap strike in Kharkiv. At least five more were injured.

They arrived after the first strike. Russia waited for them and struck again.

#Ukraine #Ukrainianview
June 15, 2026 at 6:39 AM
Burn in hell, Fico.
🇸🇰🧐 Fico wants to see a "connoisseur of the Russian soul" at Europe's talks with Putin

Fico said that European politicians may publicly criticize contacts with Moscow, but in unofficial conversations they themselves are interested in the Kremlin's position and the possibility of negotiations.
May 16, 2026 at 7:47 AM
I reckon the orcs are getting so strident in their demands for Ukrainian surrender to try and convince themselves it is possible. Because they sure as hell aren't convincing anyone else, least of all the Ukrainians.
🤡 Shoigu: Peace is only possible if Ukraine returns to neutral and non-nuclear principles.
May 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Traditional Russian values on display. Russia is a death cult.
Russian woman: "This is my son. He's missing in action."

Russian reporter: "So you have a kind of double holiday today. Well, I congratulate you on the holiday, on Victory Day. Have a good day."

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May 9, 2026 at 4:22 PM
As William Gibson once said (in a very different context) “The future is already here - it's just not evenly distributed”. Ukraine owns this future. Europe (and NATO) now need Ukraine more than ever.
⚡️❗️Compact anti-drone air defense systems designed to counter small strike drones and FPVs are now entering Ukrainian frontline units and seeing real combat use

Turret autonomously detects, tracks, and calculates the trajectory of enemy UAVs, with the operator only needing to confirm the engagement.
May 9, 2026 at 9:25 AM
For anyone watching Russia's political tea leaves, here's a big one. My armchair view is we're seeing the beginning of the end of Putin's regime. First slowly, then quickly. I guess we're about to see how quickly it flips.
1/ As Victory Day approaches in Russia, warbloggers are increasingly despondent and predict the fall of the regime in the face of drone attacks and social and economic problems. They perceive a rapid worsening of the situation and a sense that 'things can't go on like this.' ⬇️
May 8, 2026 at 1:42 PM
How anyone can argue against this sentiment beats the hell out of me, especially when Russia sees sport as just another field of political contest. There are too many international sporting bodies that have become morally corrupt.
🇳🇱 MEP Reinier van Lanschot: Until every Ukrainian is free to trade a gun for a paintbrush, to swap bunkers for sports fields, participation of Russians in cultural or sporting events is an insult to the memory of the dead and a mark of shame for any institution that hosts them!
May 6, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Try looking in the mirror Rubio, you pathetic cuck.
🇺🇸🇮🇷 Marco Rubio on Iran:

They are making threats about controlling the Strait of Hormuz in perpetuity, creating a tolling system and the like. That's not going to be allowed to happen.

These people are lunatics. They are insane. They are religious zealots...
March 30, 2026 at 12:44 PM
I'm tipping this won't age well.
🇭🇺❗️Hungary will not compromise with Ukraine over the Druzhba blockade and will defeat Kyiv by force, — Orban.
March 5, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Oh look, European politicians think a strongly worded letter will defeat the US military. How cute.

Time for them to get real and start treating the US as the openly hostile nation it is.
❗️The leaders of leading European states have issued a joint statement in which they reaffirmed the inviolability of Denmark's sovereignty and the status of Greenland as its autonomous territory.
January 6, 2026 at 11:28 PM
How cute. Under the new world order of "might is right", the US will be able to take Greenland unless Europe is willing to display the might to defend it. That's how the world is going to work now that the US has openly brushed aside the old "rules based international order".
🇩🇰🇺🇸 Danish PM Frederiksen:

"It is completely pointless to talk about the US seizing Greenland. USA has no right to annex any of the three countries that make up the Danish Realm.

Greenland and its people have made it clear they are not for sale and called on Washington to stop threatening people."
January 4, 2026 at 11:55 PM
What are the people of Greenland (or Denmark or anywhere else) going to do when the US walks in and claims it as their own? Apart from impotent protests?
January 4, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Morally bankrupt. This gutter scum is willing to throw the Ukrainian people under the Russian genocidal imperialist bus while his country profits from it.
Can there be a better demonstration of the EU's performative irrelevance? They spent weeks negotiating with each other the issuance of 90bn euro debt which the EU cannot afford that will do nothing to win the War and much to obstruct Peace. www.ft.com/content/e569...
EU agrees €90bn loan to Ukraine after frozen Russian asset plan fails
Money to be borrowed against bloc’s budget after leaders fail to agree on proposal using Moscow’s funds
www.ft.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:31 AM
"No shit Sherlock". Why don't more people understand this? It's pretty simple. The consequences of a Russian victory in Ukraine are many times worse than the cost of giving Ukraine the support required to win.
❗️Czech President Petr Pavel has warned the West against making any concessions to Russia in the war against Ukraine.

In an interview with The Sunday Times, he warned that a Putin victory would mean a defeat for democratic states. Pavel compared the current situation to 1938,
December 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
When they tell us who they are, we should listen.
Putin and Modi wrapped up their two-hour meeting with Modi praising Putin's "skillful leadership" over 25 years of Russia-India relations during document signing ceremony.
December 5, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Burn in hell Rubio!
Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that if Ukraine takes the right steps, its GDP could surpass Russia’s within 10 years.

"They are literally fighting over a 30-50 km strip in Donetsk, roughly 20% of the region still under Ukrainian control and now a central issue in negotiations."
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Zelenskyy's power of coercion over the Ukrainian people to force them to fight for him must truly be the stuff of legends. Or maybe the Ukrainian people have a deep desire for freedom and self determination. Have the tankies been lying to us? Just maybe?
Dmytro was born near Yevpatoria in Ukrainian Crimea. He lived for 10 years under Russian occupation and passed information about Russian troops to the Ukrainian special services.
December 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Textbook definition of genocide. Just in case any of us care enough to actually do anything to help Ukraine.
“Russian President Vladimir Putin has underlined his true intentions by issuing a presidential decree calling for an escalation in efforts to eradicate all traces of Ukrainian identity from the approximately 20% of Ukraine currently under Kremlin control.”

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...
While Trump talks peace, Putin is escalating efforts to erase Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree this week calling for an escalation in efforts to erase all traces of Ukrainian identity from the approximately 20 percent of Ukraine currently und...
www.atlanticcouncil.org
December 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM