Egil Kvaleberg 🇺🇦

Engineer, entrepreneur and optimist. Not always in that order.

[Egil Kvaleberg 🇺🇦 @egilkv]

@perkg @klimaingenioer1 Apparatet vil kunne sjekke om fartssperren er fjernet, og er helt sikkert en relevant test for akkurat det. Men å estimere "toppfart" ut fra hvor fort hjulet kan snurre er jo bare tulliball.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

On this 82nd anniversary of D-Day, remember: The way we wonder why Germans didn’t stop Hitler is exactly how the rest of the world views Americans and Trump today.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: Trump is using a specific language from the 1930s: “enemies within,” “enemies of the people,” migrants and political opponents as “vermin,” migrants “poisoning the blood” of Americans.

That language comes from Hitler, Stalin and the Stasi. 1/

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

For the first time since 2024, the House passes bipartisan legislation to send billions of dollars in new security assistance to help our democratic ally Ukraine fight against Putin’s bloody illegal war and imperial aggression. Let’s stand strong for democracy and freedom against the oligarchs and authoritarians.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

I’ve been wondering why local news here in Limerick hasn’t been reporting the truth about the russian refinery and just noticed the biggest paper here took 5M € government funding from a minister who has defended the plant. Absolutely disgraceful. You cannot call yourself a journalist if you take government money. Explains a lot

[Egil Kvaleberg 🇺🇦 @egilkv]

@perkg The scale is way off, the Luce is twice the size of a 308. At least.

[Egil Kvaleberg 🇺🇦 @egilkv]

@LundTore Dette stemmer visstnok ikke.

[Egil Kvaleberg 🇺🇦 @egilkv]

@12Bly @LBirkelund @bjornberger er en bauta!

[Natalka @NatalkaKyiv]

😂 “Will it be possible to keep the system manageable under such conditions, which are unfamiliar to it, given that we have https://t.co/ATTSgndMm1?”

This is a fantastic clip in which blogger Aleksandr Bobylev and politician Ivan Mironov discuss how Russia is screwed either way.

[Martin Laine @Martinlaineolen]

Newly hacked files offer rare insight into Kremlin propaganda operations.

These include planting bloody pig heads in front of mosques in Paris; election interference campaigns and propaganda laundering through Israeli media.

Let’s dive into #FactoryofFakes🕵️‍♂️AGAIN!

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[Egil Kvaleberg 🇺🇦 @egilkv]

@kiheger Han har sluppet unna med alt til nå, så han bare turer på siden ingen stopper ham. Trumpene soper inn 1 MUSD i timen. Artikkel i NYT for de som vil ha alternative kilder: https://t.co/F57nQ4VCdV

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

This is how all foreigners should talk to US representatives, who are now standing up for lawlessness both at home and abroad.
Bye-bye, barbarism!

[Ben Hodges @general_ben]

First step to liberating Crimea is to isolate it by cutting this road and the Kerch Bridge. Next step is to make it untenable and unusable for Russian forces.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Hungarian PM Péter Magyar:

“Ukraine is the victim and has every right to defend its territorial sovereignty and integrity with every means available to it”

What a refreshing change from Viktor Orbán.

[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."

[Fredrik Græsvik @UriksFredrik]

Russlands FN-ambassadør hevder at Ukraina vil gjennomføre droneangrep fra Nato-land og peker mot de baltiske medlemmene. Bereder Russland nå grunnen for et angrep på Nato for å teste en allianse som er betydelig svekket av Donald Trumps uttalelser om at USA kanskje driter i art5?

[European Democrats @democrats_eu]

Those images below are recent scenes from Kharkiv, Ukraine. The woman speaking above is @Alice_Weidel , leader of Germany’s @AfD , arguing that Putin should simply be left to do as he pleases. Imagine Churchill saying Hitler had to be accommodated. Imagine De Gaulle accepting occupation. Imagine the Italian partisans deciding fascism was inevitable. Neville Chamberlain already tried appeasement once. This time is even worse, because nobody can say they do not know what Putin is.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Alternative for Germany must be treated as a Russian anti-democratic front organization.
Remember that Weidel's great American supporters are JD Vance and Elon Musk...

[Pete @splendid_pete]

The hypocrisy is absolutely volcanic.

For years, Orbán’s propaganda machine screamed about “foreign interference”, “sovereignty”, “rolling dollars”, and evil foreign money corrupting Hungarian politics. Meanwhile, the same regime was quietly using Hungarian taxpayer money to build its own foreign influence network through the state-funded Danube Institute, tied to the Batthyány Lajos Foundation.

According to Átlátszó, the Danube Institute became one of the regime’s main vehicles for cultivating foreign right-wing populists, MAGA-world conservatives, Brexit nostalgics, and sympathetic Western intellectuals. And this was not some harmless academic tea party. The contracts reportedly required media appearances, articles, conferences, networking, and the promotion of Orbán’s Hungary abroad.

In plain English: Hungarian public money was used to manufacture foreign validation for Orbánism.

The spending exploded. Átlátszó says Danube Institute research contracts rose from 76.76 million forints in 2022, to 179 million in 2023, to 284.6 million in 2024. Then in 2025, just before the election, DI-linked partners signed contracts worth more than 389 million forints.

So while Hungarian hospitals were rotting, schools were begging, and ordinary people were counting every forint, the regime was shovelling public money into foreign cheerleaders.

Lord David Frost reportedly received more than €43,000 in total, averaging over €3,600 per month. His tasks included appearing regularly, or at least twice a month, in British media.

David L. Dusenbury was identified as receiving €4,666 per month for three years, totalling €168,000. His duties reportedly included writing books, teaching, and representing the institute at events.

Timothy Burns reportedly received $12,500 for 36 days of work, plus a return transatlantic flight.

Melissa Ford Maldonado was connected to an $8,400 contract for a 10-page paper on Hungarian migration policy and lessons for Texas.

Philip Pilkington was linked to a €5,000-per-month contract involving British media networking and themes connected to Ireland, Northern Ireland, and alleged risks of liberal political shifts.

Carlos Roa reportedly signed contracts worth $160,000 over 16 months.

Rod Dreher was also part of this ecosystem, with Átlátszó previously reporting a Danube Institute contract worth $8,750 per month, or $105,000 a year.

Jonathan Price reportedly received €5,000 per month for 12 months, totalling €60,000, while objecting to disclosure on privacy grounds.

And then there was the article-production model: Átlátszó reported a $4,500-per-month contract requiring at least two articles per month for Western outlets such as American Conservative, National Review, Newsweek, The Federalist, The Spectator, and UnHerd. Átlátszó said the contract was most likely signed by Michael O’Shea.

So let’s say it clearly.

This was not “sovereignty protection”. This was Orbán’s taxpayer-funded foreign influence operation. A public-money laundromat for ideological networking. A state-financed fan club for foreign right-wing pundits, academics, Trump-world operators, Brexit nostalgics, culture-war influencers, and professional Hungary-praisers.

They accused everyone else of foreign interference while literally paying foreigners to interfere on their behalf.

They cried about NGOs while funding their own GONGOs.

They screamed about the “dollar left” while running a forint-funded international propaganda export business.

And the dirtiest part? Much of this was happening while Hungarian public services were collapsing. Hospitals without toilet paper. Schools without teachers. Families crushed by inflation. Villages abandoned. Public transport rotting.

But there was always money for some Western “conservative intellectual” to write a love letter to Orbán or explain why Hungary is the glorious model of the future.

NER using Hungarian taxpayers as an ATM for its international ego project.

[Ottar Gadeholt @OGadeholt]

Herregud. Trump kommer til å la Taiwan falle.

Hadde noen noengang trodd at USA kom til å falle så dypt, så fort?