🇺🇦🙏 Ukraine's losses amount to 55 thousand dead. However, there are a large number of people whom Ukraine considers missing, — Zelensky

❗️Since the beginning of this war, the Russians "have not won a single victory."

❗️I hope that peace will be achieved in less than a year.

Russia would need at least two years to seize Donbas and would not last that long, President Zelensky said. He said such an attempt would cost Russia another 800,000 dead soldiers and advance only slowly. Zelensky added that freezing the front line is already a concession by Ukraine. #Ukraine

Germany makes arrests after Russians paid EU citizens to sabotage German warships.

Approximately 20 kg of sand was poured into the engine of one ship, punctured water pipes, removed fuel tank caps, and disabled safety devices, according to the Hamburg prosecutor's office.

$1 TRILLION TECH WIPEOUT AS AI FEARS SPREAD Tech stocks lost about $1 trillion as investors worry AI will disrupt traditional business models. What began in software stocks quickly spread across global markets, with investors now demanding real profits, not just growth promises

It will take decades. But in the end, Europe will be more resilient. Europe will never allow itself to be put into this situation again.

For sure!

#mega

🇪🇺🇨🇳 Reuters: EU wants to create a reserve of strategic raw materials to reduce dependence on China.

The initiative is led by Italy, France and Germany. It involves creating reserves of key raw materials and restricting exports of reusable scrap metal and rare earth waste.

I am sure planning is on-going and demand for a whole lot of stuff is going to go through the roof in anything from now to two years from now. And Rheinmetall is only one of many.

#mega

📉 Russia's budget revenues from oil and gas have halved in January 2026 compared with January 2025, reaching their lowest level since July 2020.
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Some reference. The GDP of USA is close to €30T and China and EU/Europe at roughly €20T each. Ish.

Ukraines GDP is €200B and probably shrinking.

True.

Estonia has detained the container ship Baltic Spirit in the Gulf of Finland. The vessel, sailing under the flag of the Bahamas, was en route to Saint Petersburg.

Journalism is partly in decline since education valuation is falling. It is true that higher education is not a guarantee of quality. But picking some random person of the street to do the same job has even worse odds.

News media outlets are not alone. The same dynamics exists in many roles. #wapo

“You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” Steve Bannon said on his War Room podcast. trib.al/0lWZSnj

Why Is Germany Moving 100 Leopard Tanks into the Baltics? Around 5,000 German troops, along with 105 Leopard 2A8 tanks, will soon be permanently stationed along Lithuania’s southeastern border with Russian-allied Belarus.

Securing the border.

Finland, Baltics, Poland and so on. The border is very long and the defence will be very deep. This will take a very long time.

#mega

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What this shows is that a couple of countries in Europe needs to decide. In the end, Europe and EU will survive without them and we will flourish anyway. But the good and nice people of those countries need to decide on what side of the wall they want to be.

#mega

Yes. We all know it. But sometimes I wish we all should wear t-shirts with the text ”We get the leaders we deserve”. Just to remind ourselves that we need to fight for it. Every day. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda.

Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.

Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

We have reasons to celebrate! The new Eurobarometer from last autumn has been published, and the results are encouraging: Europeans want a more united Europe. 🇪🇺

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Democrats gonna flip 100 House seats.

a man in a suit is holding a jacket and a cigarette . ALT: a man in a suit is holding a jacket and a cigarette .

I’m so confused. So, no guns now?

Yes. And if it is not hardware it might be software. If it is not civilian it could be military. Of course it is possible but it will take such a long time. With this just-in-time economy everybody is trusting fast deliveries. No one holds large quantities of spare parts any longer. 🤷🏼‍♂️

EU to begin phasing out Russian gas on 3 February, first contracts to be cancelled from 25 April The EU published the REPowerEU regulation in its Official Journal on 2 February, setting out the gradual cessation of Russian gas imports. The regulation takes effect on 3 February, with the first con...

🇪🇺 EU to begin phasing out Russian gas on 3 February, first contracts to be cancelled from 25 April

Yikes. Yes. Artists cancelled and spoke out about it. And he wants to shut it down for the rest of his presidency just because of the optics of it all. Wow.

This will all happen. But it will take longer than we think. An abrupt and large change of the current technological exchange dynamics would cripple large parts of the planet. So, USA can’t go through with it quickly because it will hurt them as well.

Crazy times. Historic times!

Update from Denmark

Money, money, money. It is just very clear. GOPs ok with this? 🤔

Serbians pushed out as China takes over a mining empire Beijing’s investment is transforming the landscape in Bor — and the lives of the people who call it home.

Since 2018, a mining complex in northeastern Serbia has been taken over by Chinese state-owned group Zijin Mining, which has invested €2.3 billion to increase production. The expansion goes far beyond industry.

Capgemini met en vente sa filiale travaillant pour la police de l’immigration américaine, l’ICE « Le processus de cession de cette entité, qui représente 0,4 % du chiffre d’affaires estimé du groupe en 2025 (moins de 2 % de son chiffre d’affaires aux Etats-Unis), sera initié immédiatement », a précisé le géant français de l’informatique, après un conseil d’administration extraordinaire convoqué ce week-end.

Capgemini met en vente sa filiale travaillant pour la police de l’immigration américaine, l’ICE

Germany, France, Italy, UK. All paramount to Europe’s success.

I see all smiles.

Mark Rutte is on collision course with European capitals over NATO The alliance secretary-general helped bring NATO back from the brink on Greenland. But some in Europe are now asking: At what cost?

"That focus is now putting the former Dutch prime minister on a collision course with the very European capitals he once worked alongside — and has left NATO bruised even after he successfully talked Trump down from his threats to annex Greenland."
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