Peter Pulawskï

🔴 Germany will deliver its first batch of long-range missiles to Ukraine by the end of July, according to Bundeswehr General Christian Freuding.

He confirmed Germany is ready to supply weapons capable of striking deep into Russian territory.

❗️🇫🇮Finnish President Alexander Stubb: 🇷🇺Putin is a strategic fool and a military failure. He wanted to destroy 🇺🇦Ukraine, but it will become a member of the EU and eventually NATO

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.

Kerr County did not use its most far-reaching alert system in deadly Texas floods Local officials used the system more than two days after the recorded height of the floods.

Exclusive: Kerr County, where nearly 100 people were killed and more than 160 remain missing, had the technology to turn every cellphone in the area into a blaring alarm, but officials did not do so before or during the river level rising to record heights.

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukraine will make clear that any peace deal that limits its ability to re-arm, forces it to legally recognise occupied territory as Russian, or interferes in domestic politics—is unacceptable. Ukraine may continue to demand security guarantees from US, - The Economist

PiS atakując Sikorskiego, który spokojnie wykłada politykom innego państwa polską rację stanu, traci właśnie resztki narodowej godności. Polityczni i moralni bankruci.

US partially stops support for F-16 fighters in Ukraine - Forbes Read more

The 🇺🇸US has partially halted support for the F-16 fighter jets in #Ukraine.

This could deprive the Air Force of crucial air defense capabilities, according to Forbes.

The 🇺🇸 US has suspended critical support for the radar sys on the F-16s currently in🇺🇦. #Trump
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To all the European leaders: KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON.

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

“We Finns know Russia. Russia shares a land border with 14 countries. Only one of them has constantly remained an independent democracy through the Second World War and the Cold War, and that's Finland”
Elina Valtonen
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Finland

Who’s Running the Defense Department? The key criteria for those in the top-tier positions appear to be loyalty, wealth, and ideological fervor, not competence.

Beyond Pete Hegseth lacking the experience to lead the Department of Defense, many of Trump’s nominees for deputies and undersecretaries are also unqualified. During crises, few will have the knowledge to offer steadier guidance:

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SCOTUS Declines To Review Mississippi’s Jim Crow-Era Felony Disenfranchisement Law Read more here.

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a case challenging Mississippi’s lifetime ban on voting for individuals with certain felony convictions, which the state enshrined in its 1890 constitution with the express purpose of denying Black men the right to vote.

Skyggeskib fik maskinstop tre gange over undersøiske kabler  – Danwatch Alle tre maskinstop var i nærheden af det undersøiske C-Lion 1-kabel, der tidligere er blevet saboteret af et fragtskib. Flere eksperter siger, at det med stor

The suspected breakdowns x3 by shadow tanker JAZZ last week were actually a cover for work or surveillance on sabotaged cable C-LION 1 or probing of NATO reactions.

At least if we trust two Danish military analysts that have diven deep in her track together with

🧑‍💻🇺🇦 Ukraine will start producing microchips: this will require from $1 billion, — Ministry of Digital Information

❗️The plans are to produce microchips with a size of 180, 130, 110 nanometers. They can fully cover the needs of the defense, agricultural and automotive sectors.

🫡🇺🇦 "Ukraine is not conducting negotiations with Russia behind the backs of our partners," — Zelensky

❗️Kyiv constantly emphasizes that any negotiations with the Russians are possible only when our country receives strong security guarantees from its Western allies.

Sales of heavy-duty trucks in Russia (weighing over 16 tons) fell by 18.8% in 2024
Sales of the Russian flagship KAMAZ fell by 33.3% in a year
KAMAZ's market share fell from 20.5% to 16.9%

‘Jesus is our lawyer’ Meet the American family that moved to Russia as ‘ideological immigrants,’ lost all their money, and still plans to stay — Meduza Each year, hundreds of people move from Western countries to Russia, braving the country’s notorious bureaucracy and harsh winters in pursuit of the “traditional values” they believe their home...

Each year, hundreds from Western countries gamble their lives and futures of their children by moving to Russia, lured by promises of “traditional values” only to face the grim Russian realities.

Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy Russia's neighbor has developed a plan for countering misinformation. Can it be exported to the rest of the world?

Finland is winning the war on fake news. What it’s learned may be crucial to Western democracy

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🚨BREAKING: Department of Justice releases volume 1 of Jack Smith report.

"The evidence shows that Mr. Trump used these lies as a weapon to defeat a federal government function foundational to the United States' democratic process."

Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.

❗️The most massive attack of the Armed Forces of 🇺🇦Ukraine on the territory of 🇷🇺Russia in 2025 took place at night.

Drones attacked Alexyn of the Tula region, Oryol, Rostov, Voronezh and Oryol regions of the Russian Federation.

Vår viktiga roll som Natos sköld i norr har klarnat – expert lyrisk över raka besked från försvaret Nato nämns nästan 500 gånger i Finlands nya försvarsredogörelse, mer än någonsin tidigare.

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The oil depot in Engels, which had been burning for almost a week, was again attacked by drones.

The Orgsintez plant in Kazan was also hit.

For seks uger siden var han chef for Søværnet: Nu sår han tvivl om milliarddyr arktisk aftale Henrik Ryberg forlod posten som chef for Søværnet 1. december. Han forventer flere nye skibe til Arktis end det, regeringen spiller ud med.

To større arktiske fregatter/patruljeskibe virker som minimum en eller to for lidt hvis der er skal sikres kontinuerlig indsættelse. Det hele bør være en del af den kommende Flådeplan og ikke igen en politisk studehandel.
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🇺🇦 Signed documents on sanctions today. Decree on the introduction of sanctions against the financial sector of Russia. 140 different entities, - Zelensky

"And the second document is a bill on criminal liability for attempts to circumvent sanctions."

1/ Russian senior commanders are bogged down with bureaucracy, according to a Russian war blogger, due to an insistence on 'hypercentralism' – the practice of making the administration of a unit the responsibility of one person, without delegating. ⬇️

10 EU Nations Say It’s Time to Sanction Russian Natural Gas, LNG A group of 10 European Union nations is pushing to toughen sanctions against Russia by introducing further restrictions on natural gas and bolstering the enforcement of a price cap on oil.

🇪🇺 Ten EU countries, including Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Poland, push for sanctions on all Russian gas—both pipeline and LNG. As the EU discusses its 16th sanctions package, proposals include bans on metal imports, expanded transit restrictions, and more.

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Bundeswehr: Bundesregierung will Abschuss von Drohnen erlauben In Deutschland häufen sich die Drohnensichtungen über Kasernen, Flughäfen und Kraftwerken. Die Polizei kann gegen die Drohnen oft wenig machen, anders als die Bundeswehr.

The German government is currently implementing a law change to be allowed to shot these drones down in future.

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Drone force and tanker fleet > air force and navy.

In story below, just as in the incident over the Denmark armour-shipment the other week, large groups of drones have been used.

10 here, around 20 in DK.

And it's just "hybrid", so its fine!

Polling data showing Greenland now 60% for joining EU. It was only 40% in 2021.

Greenland would now vote to join the EU.

I wonder what's caused such a big shift? 🤔

Economists Are in the Wilderness. Can They Find a Way Back to Influence? Economists have long helped to shape policy on issues like taxes and health care. But flawed forecasts and arcane language have cost them credibility.

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"Free trade is perhaps the closest thing to a universally held value among economists."

The problem is not that "free trade" is in fact a bad thing. It is that most economists don't seem to have a sense of what "free trade" actually looks like.

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