# global security — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover global security. Page: Feed: --- ## [China Wouldn't Sell Ukraine This Strike Drone, So They Stole the Plans and Built 6,000](https://www.wesodonnell.com/p/china-wouldnt-sell-ukraine-this-strike) _2026-08-19 · Wes O'Donnell · Eyes Only with Wes O'Donnell_ We now know the drone Ukraine used to kill a Russian nuclear bomber ## [Thanks to Ukraine, Canada Wants the Weapon That Comes After HIMARS](https://www.wesodonnell.com/p/thanks-to-ukraine-canada-wants-the) _2026-08-18 · Wes O'Donnell · Eyes Only with Wes O'Donnell_ Ukraine proved that long-range firepower needs more than precision. It needs mass production, cheap strike drones, and the ability to adapt faster than the enemy ## [Weekly Preflight: 5 Things to Watch in Global Security | Week of August 17, 2026](https://www.wesodonnell.com/p/weekly-preflight-5-things-to-watch-031) _2026-08-17 · Wes O'Donnell · Eyes Only with Wes O'Donnell_ Trump broke a 50-year alliance tradition with South Korea hours before the exercises started, and four more... ## [VIDEO: The Hand-Sized Device Now Built Into Britain's Newest Missiles Heading to Ukraine](https://www.wesodonnell.com/p/video-the-hand-sized-device-now-built) _2026-08-16 · Wes O'Donnell · Eyes Only with Wes O'Donnell_ New Prime Minister Andy Burnham's first act of defense diplomacy ## [Britain Just Went Shopping for Military Radar in Australia](https://www.wesodonnell.com/p/britain-just-went-shopping-for-military) _2026-08-16 · Wes O'Donnell · Eyes Only with Wes O'Donnell_ Yet another contract that won't be going to American defense contractors ## [VIDEO: America Wants Ukraine's Drone Revolution - Can the Pentagon Move Fast Enough?](https://www.wesodonnell.com/p/video-america-wants-ukraines-drone) _2026-08-13 · Wes O'Donnell · Eyes Only with Wes O'Donnell_ Check out the video I made for the New York Post ## [Ukraine Has Sergeants. The Hard Part Is Building an NCO Corps](https://www.wesodonnell.com/p/ukraine-has-sergeants-the-hard-part) _2026-08-12 · Wes O'Donnell · Eyes Only with Wes O'Donnell_ A sergeant shouldn’t need the personality of a minor warlord to exercise authority the position already carries with it ## [VIDEO: Patriot vs. Freyja - Only One Conclusion Made Sense](https://www.wesodonnell.com/p/video-patriot-vs-freyja-only-one) _2026-08-12 · Wes O'Donnell · Eyes Only with Wes O'Donnell_ These ballistic missile defense systems are complimentary, not competitors ## [Ukraine is Having a Tough Summer – It Doesn’t Mean They’re Losing the War](https://www.wesodonnell.com/p/ukraine-is-having-a-tough-summer) _2026-08-11 · Wes O'Donnell · Eyes Only with Wes O'Donnell_ Ukraine is simply caught in a gap between dwindling American reliability and the arrival of European and Ukrainian industrial capacity ## [Weekly Preflight: 5 Things to Watch in Global Security | Week of August 10, 2026](https://www.wesodonnell.com/p/weekly-preflight-5-things-to-watch-b44) _2026-08-10 · Wes O'Donnell · Eyes Only with Wes O'Donnell_ Netanyahu publicly killed Trump's signature peace plan while Trump stayed silent. Taiwan throttled its own internet while rehearsing an amphibious defense, and more... ## [CLI-first decentralized GPU compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/pCNFmcQeQgGt) _2026-08-10 · **Sponsored**_ Pay workers or run your GPU for FFmpeg transcode and AI inference. ## [A Classic: Daniel Mendelsohn on the Odyssey](https://octavian.substack.com/p/a-classic-daniel-mendelsohn-on-the) _2026-07-18 · Richard Hurowitz · Octavian_ "There’s a reason the classics are classics. They pose in a way that is lively and narratively interesting and challenging the most basic questions about human experience." ## [Specter of 1917: Anne Applebaum on Putin and Soviet Russia](https://octavian.substack.com/p/specter-of-1917-anne-applebaum-on) _2025-12-23 · The Octavian Report · Octavian_ "You might say that Putin and his colleagues still see the world much as Lenin saw it. Lenin's worldview was also paranoid, territorial: the only people we trust are insiders." ## [The Outlook for Geopolitics and Global Security: An Interview with Vice President Dick Cheney](https://octavian.substack.com/p/the-outlook-for-geopolitics-and-global) _2025-12-23 · The Octavian Report · Octavian_ "There is a huge vacuum that has been created by the Obama administration. They have withdrawn from Iraq. Terrorists now occupy parts of Iraq that we had liberated and stabilized." ## [Scapegoats: Deborah Lipstdat on how Anti-Semites go Mainstream](https://octavian.substack.com/p/scapegoats-deborah-lipstdat-on-how) _2025-12-23 · The Octavian Report · Octavian_ "I’m worried now about the direction Israel is moving and the Netanyahu government. I’m a great lover of Israel. Israel is a miracle." ## [Mastermind: Gary Kasparov on the Global Leadership Vacuum](https://octavian.substack.com/p/mastermind-gary-kasparov-on-the-global) _2025-12-23 · The Octavian Report · Octavian_ "It was inconceivable 10 years ago that we would see major U.S. parties run primaries dominated by extremists." ## [Macro Thinker: Lawrence Summers on Trump and The Fed](https://octavian.substack.com/p/macro-thinker-lawrence-summers-on) _2025-12-23 · The Octavian Report · Octavian_ "The proper response to crisis is more greed, more spending, and more borrowing." ## [Dreams of Justice: F.W. de Klerk on Nelson Mandela and South Africa](https://octavian.substack.com/p/dreams-of-justice-fw-de-klerk-on) _2025-12-23 · The Octavian Report · Octavian_ "We are living in one of the most peaceful eras in human history — despite the continuation of bitter localized wars in places like Syria and Iraq." ## [The Storyteller: Mario Vargas Llosa on Art and Democracy](https://octavian.substack.com/p/the-storyteller-mario-vargas-llosa) _2025-12-23 · The Octavian Report · Octavian_ "Culture is important for creating the kind of citizens necessary for a democracy — those with critical experience who won’t be manipulated easily by the powers of this world." ## [Freedom Fighter: Natan Sharansky on Freedom, Repression, and Modern Politics](https://octavian.substack.com/p/freedom-fighter-natan-sharansky-on) _2025-12-23 · Octavian_ "Maybe the fate of historical experience is that every generation must have its own historical experience, and it's only people in academia who learn from books on history." ## [Recipe PDFs Ready Fast (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Sqz9E0S7rxzz) _2025-12-23 · **Sponsored**_ Turn online or personal recipes into clean, printable PDFs in seconds. ## [North Star: Stephen Harper on Trump, the U.S., and Populism](https://octavian.substack.com/p/north-star-stephen-harper-on-trump) _2025-12-23 · The Octavian Report · Octavian_ "We now have a situation where political dissent can be organized in new and rapid ways outside of established channels of information, outside of established institutions."