Profile avatar
felixdrost.bsky.social
Twitter refugee @felix_drost, Armchair O7 Once an anthropologist & soldier. 🇪🇺🇳🇱
504 posts 133 followers 62 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

With Trump loyalists now running the military, the FBI and the CIA, Trump knows he has people in place who will obey his orders. Even if they are illegal.

Putin still lives in Dresden

The EU may soon have a sight of relief as AfD may not go beyond 20%, yet that would be AfD’s best result by far in a Bundestag election, with this party leading in the nation’s five eastern Länder - Tony Barber for @data.ft.com www.ft.com/content/e5c0...

The lack of coverage, the lack of outrage, on this profoundly disturbing incident, is perhaps an indictment of who we are. The French far right are more upset than Americans? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🇪🇺 response to Trump & Musk antics is stuck in outrage mode. Instead that energy should be channeled into positive initiatives to create strategic capabilities and a shared security layer. With willing partners, certainly not Hungary if that means more diversion and division.

We need facts as never before. 3 years after Putin invaded Ukraine, I spent 24 hours with combat medics on the Ukrainian frontline. Their courage, compassion, dedication & skill are astounding. Please read & please never stop standing up for Ukraine. 🇺🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

People keep bemoaning the lack of leaders in the liberal democratic world - and I echo them. But we overlook Zelenskyy, who is as admirable a symbol of courage, resolve, clarity and righteousness as you will find.

1. Combining a low-cost drone with a fibre-optic communication link produces a formidable weapon that is impervious to electronic defenses. Here is a look at how a small Chinese company called Skywalker developed an easy-to-use fibre-optic kit that has changed the war.

"Europe must rid itself of the dangerous illusion that it is weak—and stop acting like it", former Finnish prime minister Sanna Marin writes in @economist.com Let's be more like Finland and less like Germany. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Macron has just urged the French to join the military reserve. “We are entering a new era”. France will have to spend more on defence. “The threat that Russia represents imposes choices on us” (Live exchange on social media)

10 brigades were in reserve for a counterattack?

🧵🚨 BREAKING: Russians report Ukraine is preparing a massive counteroffensive into Bryansk region, Russia. Several Ukrainian brigades are staging around Troebortnoye border checkpoint, including the 158th, 32nd, and 162nd. Russians say Ukraine will involve at least 10 brigades.

Here we go!

Gangster capitalism. www.wsj.com/business/med...

Russia’s executions of Ukrainian prisoners point to systematic policy https://www.ft.com/content/d73113b4-f58a-442e-ae10-a74973ebc49f

@gideonrachman.bsky.social s interview with Mathias Döpfner is highly nuanced & insightful. The Netherlands has had almost 25 years of allowing extremists in debate (Pim Fortuyn) and that does indeed help expose the lack of ideas on the extremes. on.ft.com/4bb64z6 via @FT

14

"Il va falloir que l’Europe remplace les États-Unis en termes de puissance militaire. Si j’étais chef d’un État européen, je déclarerais que nous passions en économie de guerre immédiatement." @nicolastenzer.bsky.social dans #CàVous

Good men & women in EUCOM are—as they've done every month since Feb 2022—actively helping track & repel this aerial assault. Meanwhile their commander-in-chief at home is actively attacking Ukraine's president, while handing concession after concession to the state firing the missiles.

Whose little red book is this plan from?

Dont let the daily Trump outrage festival determine your actions or emotions. Realize we need to gear up to deter Russia and China regardless of his antics. That takes strength and pride in our values.

Europe needs big defence players to catch up with US, says Belgian minister https://www.ft.com/content/1b601d1c-1af1-4f50-aed2-a3e7d17c354a

European security depends on Russia understanding territorial integrity and paying for crimes. It's difficult to stomach anything but an intact Ukraine, reparations, justice and NATO membership. Europe has the power but not the will to achieve this. Lacking that, the cost Europe pays will increase

Triest nieuws. Heb veel aan Frits te danken. Er was genoeg waarover ik het met hem oneens was, maar hij was altijd liberaal van geest genoeg om in die meningsverschillen een aanzet tot nadenken te zien.

Russia risks handing Trump the full initiative and nobody, including apparently Trump, has any idea where this is going.

Free speech update