Exercise Air Defender 2023 held June 12-24 is a 🇩🇪-led, multinational exercise. 24 Air Forces will be exposed to training scenarios simulating a #NATO Article 5 scenario, i.e. collective defence of Alliance territory
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#StrongerTogether
„Die westlichen Kommentatoren, ich eingeschlossen, sind immer wieder überrascht, wie unfähig und auch wie taktisch dumm diese Armee vorgeht und ihre Ressourcen verschleudert.“
https://t.co/oKElwm7YCB
1. This thread is about a new investigation of @YaleSPH on how Russia kidnappes Ukrainian kids. The scale of this horror is beyond imagination. Key points 👇
Eine Mutter und ihre sechsjährige Tochter konnte in der Nacht lebend aus einem eingestürzten Haus im türkischen #Kahramanmaraş gerettet werden. Die Einsatzteams von @at_fire und @team_saraid arbeiteten fast 20 Stunden lang unermüdlich an der schwierigen Rettung. #earthquaketurkey
Merkel's Germany relied on
- the US for security
- Russia for energy
- France for running the EU
- Turkey for regulating migration
- China for growth
I am not sure the chancellor has understood that this system has collapsed. It's a thing of the past.
We need bold new policies.
Zeitenwende SPD-Edition: Ein Kanzler, der kritische Infrastruktur in chinesische Hände legen will. Ein Bundespräsident, der eine symbolisch ganz wichtige Reise nach Kiew absagt. Ein Kanzleramtschef, der von V2-Fanatismus schwadroniert.
Shireen Abu Akleh, a prominent journalist with Al Jazeera, was killed in Jenin on May 11
Bellingcat compared videos, public statements and commissioned audio analysis to determine events surrounding her death and to try uncover clues as to the perpetrator https://t.co/k6KuGen021
Ukraine just received a massive shipment of weapons from Spain.
The Ukrainians found Spanish sausages among the boxes with grenade launchers and a postcard saying: “I wish you victory! With love, Leticia”.
It took them a moment to understand that it was from the Queen of Spain.
Breaking news on Russian energy today
1) Habeck declares (on a visit to Poland) that 🇩🇪 could stop oil imports from 🇷🇺 "within a few days"
2) Gazprom cuts off Poland from gas deliveries
You'd guess those two events are related. And they are! Short🧵
https://t.co/QrckAPOtRV
Sanctions are necessary…, but they cannot stop the troops in the short term. For that we need to help the Ukrainians directly, what we are doing. Not to do so would be tantamount to telling them to surrender, accept slavery and submission - https://t.co/7p27uvuvwQ