🇩🇰🇺🇦🇬🇪Tordenskjold🔔

Mess indeed 😄. But the current constellation is spanning from hard right and ending at not so democratic: Brothers of Italy.

Fascism is in their historical roots.

What makes Meloni acceptable to me despite of that is here clear pro-Ukraine stand and what looks like a pro-🇪🇺 stance (not sure).

It’s nuances but I prefer to think they tried.

But far too long we were too engaged in the 🇺🇸 largely fruitless effort: War on terror.

And our military and intelligence services was hunting bearded fanatics - that despite terror could not be an existential threat to us all in 🇪🇺.

Unlike fx 🇷🇺.

I agree. We are not investing in protecting our public against foreign disinformation.

I fear there is arrogance behind: Our voters won’t be moved by it.

Now proven very wrong. 🇺🇸 the first country to be seriously amputated by malign foreign influence operations.

It’s a problem to “block”?

‼️According to calculations made by OSINT researchers, the amount of Russian tanks in decent condition remaining in storage is ZERO.

◾️1656 are in "poor" condition (about 60% of them probably cannot be restored).
◾️1231 Russian tanks are in "worse" condition, according to the researchers.

12/ "1️⃣ Distrust of the "employer" (army/state) and contract terms

People describe en masse the experience/expectation of "enslavement": the lack of fixed terms, the risk of forced extensions "until the end of the Special Military Operation," problems with rotations and leave;...

1/ Recruitment to fight in Ukraine is drying up to the rate of "a teaspoon a day," despite very generous salaries and bonuses, according to a Russian government official. Thousands of Russian Telegram users have responded to explain why they don't want to join the army. ⬇️

A 64-year-old doctor from Donetsk breaks his silence after seven years of torture in Russian captivity.

🧵 1/8 ⬇️

Thanks goodness for @donaldtusk.bsky.social

A Prime Minister of integrity in a sea of mediocrity, or worse, leaders only protecting their own interests.

Poland's PM has said they shouldn't extradite to Germany the Ukrainian suspect in the NordStream2 case. I hope the courts agree.

Russia is intensifying its propaganda and psychological operations against the West, as it moves into what analysts describe as “Phase 0” of preparations for a potential conflict with NATO, according to a leading U.S. security think tank.

Fresh photos of Ukraine's evolving long-range arsenal

🔹 Neptune-MD or "Long Neptune" – a cruise missile believed to carry a 250 kg warhead up to 1,000 km
🔹 Peklo jet-powered drone – a long-range loitering munition
🔹 Magura V7 unmanned boat – now outfitted with anti-air missiles

📷via Supernova+

1/ Three years of gruelling warfare and constant fear of attack, day and night, has left Russian soldiers exhausted and desperate for it to end, even as fresh soldiers are shovelled into the meat grinder. One soldier describes the grim scene among the hills of western Donetsk. ⬇️

Russian drones expose NATO’s air defence gaps as expert warns Britain’s security is on the line | LBC Nato's eastern defences are “not ready” for modern drone warfare, according to a warning from one of Europe’s leading defence firms — and experts say the gaps could have serious implications for Brita...

Russian drones expose NATO’s air defence gaps as expert warns Britain’s security is on the line

Alpine Eagle, a Munich and London-based counter-drone company, says the alliance’s proposed Eastern Shield system is “not equipped” to stop low-cost, fast-moving drones

www.lbc.co.uk/article/russ...

Today is Putin's birthday, may it be his last 🤞
#DustInTheWind 💀💨🔊

Something is burning at the Ural Turbine Plant in Yekaterinburg, whose products are used both in civil energy (CHP, HPP, factory installations) and in the defense industry complex, where power turbines can be used to power the production of military equipment or in the energy

Yes the bill for rearmament can not just be a bonanza for Europes industries and their shareholders.

The cost must be spread fairly because it’s going to be expensive.

Also the governments should in my opinion be much more frank about the urgent threat from 🇷🇺

I agree with all of that. And yes Russian (and others authoritarian countries) are even working to undermine us in fancy places like Bruxelles.

It’s not just sabotage but hirring lawyers and setting up front organizations that lobby discreetly or help FSB if needed.

Not really.

Despite being loud and sometimes using terrorism the extreme left has never been able to take over entire countries like Hungary or Italy.

What we have is an extreme right that LIKE the extreme left don’t respect the laws and institutions.

Must be stopped by the middle: democrats.

I am as a alarmed as you. The ones owning the big platforms are either openly siding with fascism, like Musk.

Or at best just trying to get a long with any kind of authoritarian ruler - if they are allowed to grow without restrictions.

🇪🇺 should long ago have seen SoMe as a battle of interest.

TikTok is dangerous - a 🇨🇳 way to harvest data.

But we let it go loose for so long that our youth is addicted. They deliver tons of private data and useful statistics about their mental state.

That can be used both to pressure individuals and find ways to weaken our societies politically.

I have the same impression 👍.

It’s much more than bots. 🇷🇺 have been buying influential people, commited murder in 🇬🇧 and nutured extremism left/right.

And since we for a long time considered 🇷🇺 a nice supplier of oil and gas - not realizing it was an adversary - we didn’t see it coming 🛌.

30.

The inventor of the modern torpedo was British engineer Robert Whitehead.

His design was stolen and copied by a German called, and you cannot make this up, Schwarzkopff (‘black head’)

Ok, for each retweet I’ll provide one insight, fact, or opinion on unconventional naval warfare, like submarines, explosive boats, special forces or crazy ideas

0/n 🧵

Who could have thought a few years back that the US would attack the international criminal court. Not surprising though. If Kamala was elected this would not have happened. Just saying.

Why Swiss Tech Still Ends Up in Russian Weapons Despite Neutrality and Sanctions? Microchips made in Switzerland turning up in Russian drones show that neutrality today is as much about supply chains as diplomacy.

⚡️ Swiss-made microchips keep showing up in Russian missiles and drones despite sanctions and neutrality claims.
united24media.com/opinion/why-...

THIS is the way.

Trump‘s thugs came to occupy and intimidate his political foes.

We are not impressed.

A new Ukrainian missile was demonstrated. It appears to be a modified Neptune missile. mod.gov.ua/news/mi-zakl...

If there's Putin,there's Russia -speaker of Russian parliament Volodin.He added that Russia rose from its knees during Putin's reign

When Putin finally stops being Russia's tsar,he’ll leave behind millions of corpses&destroyed economy
Like King Midas in reverse,Putin is bad for anything he touches