Henry C. Reese

Dipl-Ing. Arch. & Urbaniste • Co-founder & SG d'ÉNERGIE Franco-Allemande & blog ÉCOLOGIE R. • ex-Conseiller national UDI • since 1997 owner PRORE•org Consulting

[Henry C. Reese @PRORE]

Why is #Europe not sitting at the table - when we currently finance ALL the defence cost of #Ukraine ?
Cc: @EU_Commission, @eu_eeas, @kajakallas, @Europarl_EN, @HouseofCommons, @NorwayMFA, @Grok

[NEXUS @nexus_osint]

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸🇨🇭 - UKRAINE / RUSSIE / ETATS-UNIS / SUISSE

🔹Un nouveau cycle de négociations en format trilatéral a commencé à Genève - Ukraine/États-Unis/Russie

[Mikaa Blugeon-Mered @Mikaa_BM]

Pour contexte : les faillites d'exploitations agricoles 🇺🇸 étaient déjà supérieures en 2025 par rapport à toute l'ère Biden.

Mais là, avec la guerre et la fermeture de Hormuz, les faillites ont explosé :

+82% dès Mars 2026 par rapport à Mars 2025
+130% en Avril 2026.

😢🤯

[Mikaa Blugeon-Mered @Mikaa_BM]

Welker: "L'essence et le diesel montent."

Trump: "Tout va baisser une fois la guerre finie."

W: "70 % des agriculteurs disent ne plus pouvoir acheter d'engrais."

DJT: "Le agriculteurs vont très bien (…) ils me soutiennent tous."

La force du déni. 🤷😩

[Alex Xplore @AlexXplore]

🇫🇷 La centrale nucléaire de Saint-Alban/Saint-Maurice en Isère va subir un grand carénage hors-norme de 2 milliards d’euros en 2027-2028 pour sa 4e visite décennale.

👨‍🔧 Ce chantier colossal mobilisera plus de 3 000 personnes pendant 203 à 250 jours d’arrêt par réacteur, avec notamment le remplacement des quatre générateurs de vapeur du réacteur 2.

💰 L’objectif est de prolonger la durée de vie des deux réacteurs de 1 300 MW au-delà de leurs 40 ans, tout en renforçant la sûreté aux standards les plus élevés.

⚡️ La centrale, qui produit environ 18 TWh par an, représente un enjeu majeur pour l’emploi local (plus de 2 000 emplois induits) et l’économie régionale Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

🫡 Ces travaux s’inscrivent dans la stratégie nationale française de maintien et de modernisation du parc nucléaire pour assurer une électricité décarbonée et fiable.

https://t.co/2WbofvfTAa

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

A World Cup host country usually sees a surge in international tourism. In America, 80% of host city hotels are below their booking projections. In Kansas City, nine out of ten are below a normal summer.

Mexico's international arrivals grew 6.1% last year. Canada is projected to lead all three host nations in tourism growth. The dollar is cheaper than last year for Europeans. They are still not coming to the US.

We looked at why 👇
https://t.co/61jVabHDi2

[Love🇺🇦Ukraine Charles Rume 🇱🇺 @CharlesRume]

🇺🇲Le sénateur Jim Himes du Connecticut :
"Je viens de rentrer d'Ukraine. Les gens que j'y ai rencontrés sont les plus courageux que j'aie jamais vus. Ils luttent chaque jour contre la tyrannie russe. Nous sommes à un tournant : le Congrès peut débattre pendant des mois, ou bien nous pouvons soutenir ceux qui se battent pour la liberté, comme nous l'avons toujours fait. Je sais de quel côté je me situe. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦"

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Scientists across the country are expressing alarm as the Trump administration dismantles another tool for understanding how the planet is changing.

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina, and Greenland.

Researchers say these are critical ocean observation tools.

William Brangham (@WmBrangham) explains.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

HODGES: Trump administration’s approach to war in Ukraine was doomed from beginning because they never really understood, or cared to understand, why war started or who aggressor was.

All their efforts were focused on forcing Ukraine to make concessions. That’s why Rubio dropped it several days ago and said, “Hey, if somebody else wants to pick it up and do negotiations, have at it.”

What a total, humiliating abandonment of leadership responsibility. We hear only empty, meaningless statements from U.S. Secretary of State. And we’re going to regret it.

United States is going to regret, and we should regret, that when Ukraine wins without us playing active role, the irrelevance of United States and European countries that also failed to put their shoulder to the wheel will become painfully obvious as Ukraine assumes increasingly powerful role in Europe.

[Alex Xplore @AlexXplore]

🇫🇷 L’agrivoltaïsme consiste à installer des panneaux photovoltaïques au-dessus des vignes en France pour produire de l’électricité tout en protégeant les raisins des aléas climatiques.

🛡️ Ces panneaux orientables permettent de réduire les risques de gel (jusqu’à 90 % de protection), de grêle et d’échaudage lié à la canicule, comme l’expérimente David Moreau en Charente-Maritime.

💰 Le projet, financé par des investisseurs, génère un loyer pour le vigneron (600 €/ha/an) et produit assez d’électricité pour alimenter 800 à 1 000 foyers.

📜 La réglementation française limite fortement cette pratique en AOC et IGP, autorisant seulement des expérimentations pour préserver le paysage et la qualité des vins.

🌍 Cette solution double usage se développe principalement dans le sud et l’ouest de la France face au changement climatique, tout en restant controversée dans la filière viticole traditionnelle.

https://t.co/A4LUZA8rVs

[Yasmina @yasminalombaert]

According to a stunning new report from Politico, the Pentagon is expected to cancel a long-planned deal to supply Germany with powerful Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Trump spent years loudly bullying European allies, treating NATO like a protection racket.
He famously dragged them over the coals, practically forcing the EU to ramp up their defense spending to an aggressive target.

And remember how he bragged about it? He couldn't stop gloating that if Europe was going to spend billions on weapons, they’d better buy them straight from American factories, boosting US defense contractors.

Well, fast forward to now, and that big-talking "America First" strategy has officially collapsed into an embarrassing mess.

Germany actually stepped up, tried to play by the rules, and wanted to buy over a billion dollars worth of these American-made weapons to protect themselves. But now, the Trump administration is abruptly pulling the plug.

Why the sudden retreat? Two reasons that expose the absolute chaos of the current administration's foreign policy:

1. They are terrified of putin: Despite all of Trump’s "tough guy" rhetoric, US officials are reportedly canceling the deal because they are terrified of how Moscow will react. They’re worried Russia will see the missile deployment as an escalation and retaliate. So much for standing up to adversaries.

2. The U.S ran out of ammo:
In a massive logistical failure, the US military has severely depleted its own weapons stockpiles. After burning through thousands of Tomahawks and Patriot missiles during the opening weeks of the war with Iran, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had to admit to Congress that it’s going to take "months and years" just to replace what we spent. We literally don't have enough missiles left to sell.

This isn't just a canceled business deal. It’s a total betrayal of a close ally. By pulling back the Tomahawks, alongside canceling the deployment of 5,000 US troops to Germany and scaling back fighter jets and drones across Europe, the administration is leaving Berlin completely exposed without the deep-strike defenses they desperately need to deter Russian aggression.

Trump forced American allies to open their wallets, bragged about the American jobs it would create, and promised US protection. Now, when Germany actually needs the weapons they were pressured to buy, the administration is backing down out of fear and poor planning.

It turns out "America First" just means leaving their friends stranded when things get tough.

https://t.co/mfXLXQZLZJ

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Kasparov: Merkel was the best agent of Russian interests, not as a spy, but politically.

She made Germany and Europe dependent on Russian gas, built Nord Stream 2 after Crimea, and paralyzed efforts to build a strong coalition against Putin.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

He’s turned the White House into a laundromat, just as Trump Tower was.
https://t.co/3fZFrqe3Fx

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Three African countries have begun construction of a gas pipeline to Europe that bypasses Russia – Business Insider.

Algeria, Niger, and Nigeria are carrying out the Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline project, which, once completed, will be capable of supplying the EU with up to 30 billion cubic meters of gas annually.

Construction work has already started in Algeria. The total length of the gas pipeline will exceed 4,000 km.

The project is considered one of the key routes for replacing Russian gas on the European market.

[Alex Xplore @AlexXplore]

🇨🇭 Les prix du cacao et du café ont fortement baissé en 2026, passant de records historiques à des niveaux beaucoup plus bas grâce à de meilleures récoltes.

📉 Nestlé se réjouit de cette baisse des coûts des matières premières, qui lui permet d’améliorer significativement ses marges en 2026.

🚫 Le géant suisse ne baissera pas les prix en rayon, préférant réinvestir les économies dans ses usines et sa publicité.

🇨🇮 La Côte d’Ivoire a vendu massivement son cacao autour de 4.000 dollars, contre 12.000 au pic de la crise en avril 2024

🇧🇷🇻🇳 Et le Brésil et le Vietnam ont bénéficié de récoltes abondantes de café après des précipitations favorables.

🤔 Bonne nouvelle pour les actionnaires de Nestlé, mais déception pour les consommateurs qui ne verront pas baisser le prix du chocolat et du café.

https://t.co/tK76xRtM4I

[Thomas Jäger @jaegerthomas2]

Wenn man spekuliert hätte, was Putin als nächste Aufgabe für Trump einfallen könnte... vielleicht die Schwächung der Nachrichtendienste in den USA... nein, das ginge wirklich zu weit... das wäre zu auffällig, das müssen wir geschickter angehen... 👇

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

Das kann man nur krass unverantwortlich nennen.

Die US-Regierung will nicht, dass die Menschen wissen, was die fossilen Emissionen in unseren Meeren anrichten.

Als wären die Klimafolgen weg, wenn man sich die Augen zuhält.

https://t.co/KCS4lFocp4

[Francesco Sassi @Frank_Stones]

African gas geopolitics just hit a critical turning point. Algeria, Niger, and Nigeria have officially broken ground on the 4,128km Trans-Saharan Gas Pipeline (TSGP) to pump 30Bcm of gas to Europe.
But the project is a massive geopolitical gamble.
🧵 🇩🇿🇳🇪🇳🇬👇

[Matthew Gross @HurricaneAddict]

I really don't think enough people fully comprehend the worlds that are about to collide here.

You already have people in geopolitical circles warning about the threat of famine based on surging prices / availability of fertilizer components, and you also have long-term weather modeling all converging on a worst case scenario for a building El Nino event, which will peak near the end of the year. These are two slow moving but entirely predictable disasters that when coupled together will each make the other orders of magnitude worse. (This will take months to fully unfold, but at this point, the die is cast.)

There's no event in our history books that combines the current global population with the impending fertilizer shortage and the strength of the El Nino that's coming. We are about to witness an unprecedented event that will push crops around the globe to their limit.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“This is an insane way to run a country. And it’s why Europe and Asia are decoupling from America as fast as possible. I cannot think of another global power that downshifted so quickly from world leader to regional bully without losing a war.

Oh, wait.”

https://t.co/yE6WBRN9fo

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

France is sleepwalking into a disaster in the 2027 presidential election.

If the political center stretching from the center-left to the center-right fails to unite before the election, the country could face a devastating second-round choice between Jordan Bardella and Jean-Luc Mélenchon.

Recent polling confirms that a catastrophic Bardella versus Mélenchon runoff is a real possibility. Such an outcome would be an absolute disaster for France and Europe. Both figures are fundamentally pro-Russian cowards who consistently side with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine, sacrificing Western security for dangerous political theater.

Their respective domestic platforms are equally terrifying. Both the far-right and the far-left are running on insane, completely unrealistic ideologies that would isolate France, hurt its economy, and cripple the European Union.

This impending disaster can still be avoided if the entire political center, stretching from the center-left to the center-right (at least most of it), rallies behind a single unified candidate. While they can freely compete right now to see who commands the most support, they must consolidate a few months before the first ballot.

Currently, Édouard Philippe stands out as the most viable option to block the extremes, though that dynamic could shift over the coming months. Ultimately, French voters must face an uncomfortable truth before stepping into the voting booth: a vote for either Bardella or Mélenchon is nothing less than a vote for Putin