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It´s about weakening #Europe and opening it up to corruption. Sanction them!

ITAR-free is the way to go for #Europe on defense.

Given recent developments around #Starlink, #Europe should now tighten its foreign inbound and outbound investment controls and work on alternatives for US tech and services. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

Decouple and establish a European nation-state. Only then can we muster the resources needed to compete economically and on defense with the superpowers of the world.

If true then the US is now a genuine Russia-style mafia state. Russia extorts with energy-, the US with tech-dependence. I trust the conclusions we draw from this will also turn into a semblance of policy.

More disinformation incoming

I get the sentiment, but the real debate to be had right now is about the formation of a European nation-state.

Eh nett, aber das #Bundesheer sollte sich jetzt mehr denn je auf die Kernaufgabe der militärischen Landesverteidigung fokussieren.

The U.S. has threatened European govts as follows: agree on the terms of Ukraine's surrender within three weeks or we withdraw from Europe. The source is Mika Aaltola, Member of the European Parliament, formerly Director of the Finnish Inst. of International Affairs. I know him, he's solid.

Das Land überweist exklusiv an ÖVP-geführte Gemeinden die Mitgliedsbeiträge, die diese wiederum an die #ÖVP abführen... Wie kann sowas legal sein?!?🤷‍♂️ www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Folks need to understand that elite capture / strategic corruption is real: in the 🇺🇸, in 🇪🇺 , wherever you look. For too long we assumed that our democratic institutions could withstand the onslaught of corporate and foreign government lobbying / influence / interference /1

This is the new world we live in. We have no allies and if we don´t take care of our own security and interests no-one else will. archive.ph/A8pkj

Das kommt davon, wenn man über Jahrzehnte auf Teufel komm raus Liegenschaften verschachert. Und dann klopft der Russe an die Tür und der Ami vertschüsst sich...🤷‍♂️ Unsere lachhafte Verteidigungspolitik beginnt sich zu rächen. #Bundesheer #BadPolicy militaeraktuell.at/das-jaegerba...

The transatlantic alliance is dead. Full stop. There is no going back. Europe needs to stand on its own two feet.

“UK-based lawyers have spoken out about being targeted by the Chinese state and its supporters in a campaign of intimidation including surveillance, hacking of bank accounts and rape threats.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Indeed. America and France are not so different. All too often it is "France First" or as count Radetzky once put it: politicians carry Europe on their tongue, but not in their heart.

I remember a German television report a couple years ago where #Weidel herself stated that she was approached by the Chinese and had talks with them even before she was elected as an MP. The #CCP interest in Weidel and the #AfD goes way back. What kind of support they might receive is anyone's guess

Several German warships sabotaged. Still baffled how little we care apparently about security. www.tagesschau.de/investigativ...

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Truly bizarre to see the US beholden to a foreign autocratic regime. #Russia's decades long influence and propaganda operations paid off. apnews.com/article/russ...

What's new? www.politico.eu/article/germ...

⚡️Explosion at Rheinmetall plant in Spain leaves 6 injured. The explosion occurred at 4:20 p.m. local time on Jan. 30, starting a large fire that spread to about 2,000 square meters. The cause of the incident is currently under investigation, Spanish authorities said.

This is #Belgrade right now. Citizens have responded to the students’ call for a 24-hour blockade and protest, shutting down one of the main highways in the city. Could this be the end of #AleksandarVučić? I hope so. I stand in solidarity with Serbian students and citizens fighting for democracy!

That makes it a lot worse if true.

Another damaged cable in the Baltic Sea www.reuters.com/world/europe...

#Greenlanders would be second class citizens if the US would really take over, akin to the status of Puerto Rico. No representation, but of course taxation, military draft, etc. Plenty of downsides, little to no upsides. Also very haughty of Cruz to call US citizenship "greatest gift".

For the Chinese Communist Party sovereignty is not limited to safeguarding territory. It is also about protecting the regime at home and abroad (“active defense”, 积极防御). This is why it struggles against democracies using the united front, economic coercion and propaganda.

Denmark should immediately and permanently expand its military footprint in #Greenland together with other EU member states.

Really daft suggestion by Ischinger to have Chinese peacekeepers in Ukraine. Trading one autocracy that is hostile towards Europe for another autocracy that is hostile towards Europe...🤷 Cream of the crop of German diplomacy. It´s so exhausting. youtu.be/LwBk8AphL2s?...

🇷🇺 armed forces engaging in war crimes and filming it all. Not for the faint-hearted