Good news. French have too many volunteers for their 10 months military service program!
Bad news. The size of the program, 1800 recruits, is less than half of Estonian yearly one. Considering the populations, French have ways to go
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#Axios reported an Iran deal as “imminent” five times in 19 days. Five times, no deal. Why does the same story keep coming from the same reporter? 🧵 1/3 .
On this day in 2014, a russian Buk shot down a passenger aircraft MH17 flying at 10 km from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur over Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
All 283 passengers and 15 crew were killed. Girkin confessed that is was russians. NL courts agreed
Imagine a 1970s propeller trainer taking on high-tech 21st-century drones. In Ukraine, the Yak-52 has been pulled from flight schools and repurposed as a "drone hunter." It’s a low-tech solution to a high-tech problem, and it’s working remarkably well. 🛩️🇺🇦 #Aviation #UkraineWar #Yak52 🧵 1/
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And they manage around 30 per year
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That's pretty funny. I see government sanctioned cavalry in russian future.
This seems relevant as ever, more so even.
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But those are only effective because you constantly have tens of thousands of soldiers on duty in war time situation. So no, Romanian 1,5 million to train and check systems and orders and new laws is not expensive. Its very very cheap 2/2
This is russia, that we just let back in to the Olympics. Dead Ukrainian children, daily, since 2014
Estonians from company Rannarootsi made an ad with guys with Ukrainian flaged shirts and 'unknown' refinerys burning on the backround grilling their new oninon* sausages.
Local vatniks are FURIOS.
*onion is an estonian slang for rusnya
Internet fake russian tough guy Big Serge (used as an "good source, possibly FSB" by no other than #Mearsheimer himself) is tad smaller than expected
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Idaho labor economist ran anonymous accounts promoting pro-russian, far-right views
Sam Wolkenhauer ran anonymous accounts that generated thousands of dollars in subscriptions while posting pro-russian commentary, slurs and Nazi imagery
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Open quoted postDespite showing clear hallmarks of a hybrid operation, very much like the crisis on the Belarusian border, the #EU lacks unity regarding Ceuta.
More broadly, the EU displays little strategic vision for protecting the peripheral territories of member states, from Greenland to Ceuta.
What is even happening? Comments under the post are split in volume but negative ones are clearly small trolls and and there are plenty of neutral/positive ones from John MAGA. She's still evil but she is moving MAGA needel against russian propaganda. So necessary evil?
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For years Romania refuses to shoot down russian drones. Yesterday they shot down their first one. This morning another. Why and what has changed? Laws made peace time engagement extremely complicated. Fears of depris and escalation made them even more so 🧵 1/4
Overview of the Masha and thd Bear cartoon situation. Has some good russian side nonsense exposed. Apparently its no longer about propaganda at all, but about "envy of russian cultural success".
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The U.S. is lobbying against SAFE because it mandates contractors from the EU/EFTA/Ukraine.
Washington says it wants #EU to arm itself and take its security into its own hands, but then it demands Europe rely on American hardware. You can't have it both ways
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Can't sit and wait. Putting pressure, in the right spots, will but strain on logistics and opens up more favorable strikes
Btw, this tag, marked as useful by over 11 000 russians, #Nafo psyops. We are hitting historical influence numbers there
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Col. Kiviselg, the head of Estonian military intelligence: "We still see no military preparations from russia to carry out an operation in the Baltics or this region in the near future."
I trust this source's take over the internet noise 1/2
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Shahed was first developed by West Germany’s Dornier during the 1980s as the DAR (Die Drohne Antiradar). That design was then adopted by the 🇮🇱 for to IAI Harpy anti-radar loitering munition, which was then reverse-engineered by 🇮🇷 as the Shahed136 and then by 🇷🇺 as Geran2/3/4 and then by 🇺🇲. So US nr1!
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El Niño is now likely to be stronger than anything we’ve seen in recorded history, and probably stronger than anything in the last 50 million years.
Global temperatures are very likely to reach new, unprecedented levels in the next 1-2 years with far reaching impacts. #climate
This is new. For the first time in recorded history, more Americans are moving to 🇪🇺🇨🇭🇬🇧 EU+EFTA+UK countries each year than Europeans from those places are moving to the 🇺🇸 US. The ratio was 4:1 in favour of the US in the early 2000s. It crossed parity around 2022. Via @benbawan
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In June of 2026 russia lost, dead and seriously wounded, 39,490 troops. In the same month they managed to capture 30.4 km2 of terrain. A cost of close to 1,300 casualties per km2. This time last year, June of 2025, the land/lives trade-off was 68 casualties per km2. The ratio has increased 19-fold.
Swedish aerospace startup Nordic Air Defence (NAD) has unveiled The Kreuger Drone Interceptor System, a low-cost mini-missile designed to counter swarms of UAVs. #ReArmEU 🧵 1/4
Two things are possible. The counter broke or we will witness the greatest raid on logistical shipping since WW2. russian losses at 34, per one night!
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Kremlin forces are laying the groundwork to repeat the 2022 "DPR" forced mobilization across occupied Crimea, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Luhansk.
Reports from the OTPOR resistance movement indicate occupation enlistment offices are actively planning forced conscription sweeps. 1/2
At Novoheorhiivka russians try to hit at Ukrainian advance. Geo locations puts strikes 8km deep. This isint some infiltration. Decent multiprong attack. Tick-tock ruskies
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Last year reports of attacks on a Swedish 🇸🇪 heating plant have been russia's linked actors. This is the first time, Swedish authorities have openly attributed such kind of activity to russia #Cybersecuritywww.atlanticcouncil.org/dispatches/d...
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A unified European energy market is vital to move clean power across borders, matching supply with demand. Doing so demands a staggering €1.2 trillion grid investment by 2040, but it is the only way to secure energy sovereignty and lower overall costs. #energy 2/2
russia doesn’t need to annex Belarus. In fact, keeping Belarus as a de jure independent country is a massive geopolitical cheat code for Moscow. It gives the Kremlin all the benefits of an annexation with absolutely none of the domestic financial costs 🧵 1/5
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Moscow acts as both the arsonist and the firefighter. They actively steer migrants toward European borders, while their paid political proxies use the resulting influx to terrify voters and compromise democratic systems. 2/
russia and Belarus have launched a widespread TikTok campaign encouraging migrants to enter Europe through their borders.
This "migration bomb" strategy has been used before, including during the 2015 and 2021 migration crises.
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Offcourse. russians are towing some of the damaged and leaking tankers into the port of Kerch. The backstory is that Putin demanded something be done about the fuel shortage in Crimea. In response, the Kremlin's brain trust assembled a convoy of around 20 tankers from depots along the Don River. 1/2
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The US State Department has announced a controversial new grant scheme offering up to $3 million to European charities, think tanks, and individuals. The official goal? To fund groups addressing "national sovereignty, migration, censorship, and lawfare. Actual? MAGA anti-EU, pro-ru BS 🧵1/
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The 5P85SM2-01 is the mass-production backbone of the S-400. Built on the iconic MZKT-543M 8x8 chassis, it features a classic Soviet split-cabin design. It is optimized to field the standard 48N6DM long-range interceptors and quad-packed 9M96 short/medium-range missiles. 2/
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P.S and while Ukraine is amazing and its layers of super advanced tech, I didn't even go to EW part. Still russia gets through. Roughly 10% with long range drones, 20% with missiles and 45% with ballistics. Airdefense is extremely complicated
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Idaho labor economist ran anonymous accounts promoting pro-russian, far-right views
Sam Wolkenhauer ran anonymous accounts that generated thousands of dollars in subscriptions while posting pro-russian commentary, slurs and Nazi imagery
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Idaho labor economist ran far-...
Via @mfaestonia.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy The Soviet Union was an occupier, not a liberator. This history must be stated clearly. 🧵 1/
OTD 86 years ago today, the U.S. issued the Welles Declaration—refusing to recognize the illegal Soviet occupation of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
Srating that sovereignty cannot be extinguished by illegal military occupation 🧵 1/4