Olof Ehrenkrona

Tweets personal. Retweets not necessarily my views.

[Olof Ehrenkrona @Olofeh]

Devastating figures. https://t.co/dGrxb7AVS4

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Zelenskyy doesn't need European mediation at the negotiating table, he needs European support on the battlefield.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Fox News' military expert just admitted that Donald Trump is responsible for giving Iran their most powerful negotiating chip: the Strait of Hormuz. Never prior to Trump's war did Iran leverage this. What an admission.

[Benjamin Dousa @BenjaminDousa]

Mycket glädjande besked ikväll. Volvo cars får tillstånd att fortsätta sälja bilar i USA. Det räddar jobb i Torslanda och är mycket viktigt för hela Sveriges ekonomi. Både regeringen och Volvo har arbetat hårt för att uppnå det här resultatet.

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Today’s Russian papers publish Moscow’s threat to launch a new wave of “systematic strikes” on Kyiv. But one paper reports on a “split [inside Russia] between those in favour of continuing the special military operation and those who believe it’s time to end it…” #ReadingRussia

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Ursula von der Leyen on the U.S. calling for the easing of sanctions on Belarusian fertilizers: "As long as the reasons which led to the imposition of the sanctions have not changed, I see no basis for lifting these sanctions."

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Russia announces that it will systematically bomb Kyiv, including diplomatic missions.
Trump & the US do not even protest.
Trump is the greatest coward the US has ever had as president.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

🇮🇹 Italy Just Told Boeing to Get in the Bin

Let’s be clear about what’s happened here. Italy, a country that has been loyally refuelling its air force from American-built tankers for fifteen years, has just written a €1.39 billion cheque to Airbus. Six A330 MRTTs, signed on 16 April, quietly published to the EU procurement portal on 19 May, and absolutely devastating in its implications.

This is not a procurement decision. Procurement decisions are boring. Men in grey suits argue about maintenance contracts and through-life costs and nobody outside a defence ministry cares. This is a statement, delivered in the universal language of very large sums of money.

And the statement is: we’re done.

You have to appreciate the audacity of it. Italy is a NATO member. Italy hosts American troops. Italy has spent a decade and a half operating Boeing’s KC-767, which is, by most accounts, a perfectly serviceable aircraft. There was no catastrophic failure here, no scandal, no tanker that caught fire over the Adriatic. The Italians simply looked at the current state of American reliability, looked at an Airbus catalogue, and made a decision that any sensible person watching Washington in 2026 would probably also make.

The A330 MRTT is, for what it’s worth, an exceptional machine. It is larger, more capable, and rather more elegant than what it replaces. But nobody is writing about it because of its impressive fuel offload capacity. They’re writing about it because Italy just became the latest European country to quietly redirect a billion-plus euros away from American industry, and toward the continent it actually lives on.

Boeing, meanwhile, continues to have what can only be described as a very bad decade.

If you like what you read, follow Gandalv on X: @Microinteracti1

[Olof Ehrenkrona @Olofeh]

The father of all insider trading. https://t.co/TsNQvCiSHP

[Acyn @Acyn]

Maddow: So in January, Trump buys hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Nvidia. Then a week later, his commerce department approves the sale of Nvidia chips to China. 

Also in January, Trump buys between 50,000 and $100,000 worth of stock in AMD. One week after he buys it, his commerce department approves AMD doing business in China as well. 

The following month, in February, Trump buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell. Nine days after he buys millions of dollars worth of stock in Dell, Trump veers off script in a speech in Georgia to tell the crowd literally, quote, go out and buy a Dell computer. 

Then in March, Judd Legum at Popular Information reports that Trump repeatedly buys up Thermo Fisher stock, and then he goes and visits Thermo Fisher on a presidential visit and praises the company.

That same day, Trump bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock in Apple. And then that same day he bought the stock, he did another event where he singled out Apple and Apple CEO Tim cook for praise. Apple a great company.

Then after that, Trump buys Micron stock. The very next day, he calls into the Fox News channel and tells them Micron is one of the hottest companies.

CNBC reporting Trump makes seven separate purchases of Palantir stock. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Palantir stock. Then he gets on truth social and praises Palantir.

[Olof Ehrenkrona @Olofeh]

Ser inte jättebra ut. https://t.co/TTlPSLTHTw

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

The United States does not have corruption in its system today, corruption is the point of the system.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

STUBB: It's no-brainer. For goodness' sake, if our biggest long-term security threat is Russia, and our main aim is to deter Russian aggression. How do you do it? By maximizing your security. How? By having your own strong national defense. But look who can help you: Ukrainians.

[Steve Rosenberg @BBCSteveR]

Today one Russian newspaper reports “increased anxiety” in Russian society. Another paper: Russian-Belarusian nuclear drills “send a signal to Ukraine…EU & Nato’s eastern flank”. Plus, stinging criticism of Donald Trump over his social media posts. #ReadingRussia

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

The Financial Times reports that during his talks with Xi Jinping Donald Trump floated the idea that the US, China and Russia should co-operate against the International Criminal Court.

[WORLD NEWS @_MAGA_NEWS_]

WATCH: In a jaw-dropping statement, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has declared that "supporting Ukraine is not only a moral duty but also a strategic necessity, because at stake is not only the dignity, freedom, and independence of Kyiv but also the security of Europe."

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

La Suède a fait le choix de la frégate de défense et d'intervention de Naval Group pour moderniser sa marine.

Je remercie la Suède et je mesure la confiance faite à la France.

Après le choix fait par la France de se doter du Global Eye de Saab pour renouveler sa flotte d'avions radar Awacs, c'est une décision stratégique majeure, qui traduit la confiance mutuelle entre nos deux pays.

Notre partenariat n’a en effet cessé de se renforcer ces dernières années jusqu’à la participation de la Suède à la dissuasion avancée.

Une Europe forte et souveraine au sein de l'OTAN : voilà notre conception de notre défense et de notre sécurité commune. Elle se bâtit chaque jour.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“It’s been very well received”

Trump claims Americans love the “settlement” he reached with his own administration, in which he’ll get nearly $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to hand out to his allies and friends.

He has absolutely no shame. The corruption and stealing are now completely out in the open.

This is what a Banana Republic looks like.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Jag tilldelades nyss Nordstjärneorden. Detta är inte bara en ära för mig, utan för hela Indiens 1,4 miljarder människor.
Det är också en hyllning till alla våra vänner i Sverige som har stärkt relationerna mellan Indien och Sverige och lagt en stark grund. Må vänskapen mellan våra nationer fortsätta att växa.

@SwedishPM

[Olof Ehrenkrona @Olofeh]

Kommenterar mötet i Beijing. https://t.co/ffK5EqM3OR

[SvD Ledare @SvDledare]

Xi fick Trump – @Olofeh om att den amerikanske presidenten kom till Peking som en förlorare och blev en enkel munsbit för den kinesiske värden. https://t.co/0B8hAjMhjf via @SvDledare