Minna Ålander 🌻

Getting your people ready for the upcoming war is not just about the hardware you have.
It's the images and emotions that bring passion and determination.
And boy, did the French delivered...

Day 1 of a new era .

Especially after that particular speech, this video is quite something

The Trump administration will draw down on US weapons stocks in EUCOM and PACOM to fight its war of choice in the Middle East.

The real US national security strategy lies in the revealed preferences.

Video stolen from the other platform via @sophiepedder.bsky.social

The French singing La Marseillaise in a nuclear submarine base is deeply symbolic.

France built its own independent nuclear deterrent after WWII to never again have to suffer a similar humiliation. Now France is offering to ”advance” that deterrent to other European countries.

Just have your own multiple use empty bottle and fill it up… you can do it for free at literally every airport in Europe

Bruno tells us to say ”nuclear backstop”. Sounds good to me

How Ukraine Is Turning to Renewables to Keep Heat and Lights On Russia continues to bomb Ukraine’s fossil-fueled power plants, leaving much of the nation shivering during a brutal winter. But Ukraine’s new emphasis on developing decentralized power — from solar pa...

“A coal power station [is] a large single target that a single missile could take out,” says Jeff Oatham of DTEK, Ukraine’s largest energy company (...) “You would need around 40 missiles to do the equivalent amount of capacity damage at a wind farm.”

#EnergySecurity

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Macron Expands French Nuclear Arsenal and Vows Protection for Neighbors

For the NYT I called it a "nuclear backstop".
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...

Okay it’s called dissuasion avancée everyone !

It is once again time for this joke:

Tired: extended deterrence
Wired: dissuasion élargie

French nukes: It's hard to overstate how much of a sea change it is that countries such as the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Germany are open to talking with France about nuclear deterrence. We have been getting used to it — but it's a major, major shift.

Everyone asking, “what air defense doing”, but no one asking, “how air defense doing” :(

Baguette recipe for 1800 portions with 1 TNA thermonuclear warhead as optional ingredients

New baguette recipe just dropped

Everyone is eagerly awaiting the first drone to be taken out by a baguette

Love how this story just became about baguettes

1800 big baguettes

Speak softly and carry a big baguette 🥖😌

Kärnvapenkapabla boulangerier för alla !

Hvad sker der for at _vi_ ikke har en baguettebagende hangarskibsgruppe?!
Danmark er et forsvarskulinarisk Uland.

1800 baguettes every day now setting the standard

The ghosts of Gustavus Adolphus and Cardinal Richelieu: “there once existed an alliance between France and Sweden. We’re here to honor that allegiance.”

Nuclear powered and nuclear capable

Just imagine the softpower associated with the ability to dock a nuclear powered boulangerie at any port at will

I’m going to need an hour-long deep dive video on CdG’s on-board boulangerie

The hypothetical nuclear attack that escalated the Pentagon’s showdown with Anthropic Start-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill.

"Experts say the outcome of the clash could shape the trajectory of the burgeoning relationship between the AI industry and the U.S. military, potentially signaling to other leading firms that the cost of doing business with the Pentagon could be losing control of their innovations."

YouTube video by in time Ukraine Сюрстрьомінг, ригаємо чи не ригаємо? Surströmming, burping or not? #shorts

Surströmming, Ukrainian reaction: