Freddy Jönsson Hanberg

Independent advisor. Board professional.
Author. Lecturer.
Member of the Royal Academy of War Sciences.

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Russia says three-way talks with Ukraine, US could resume | https://t.co/DTafbcj7yE https://t.co/BiRXwcV9IQ

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The EU has scrapped Kaja Kallas’s new high-level defence group after resistance from member states. The episode exposes a deeper problem: Europe wants faster rearmament, but still contests who should actually lead defence planning.

https://t.co/Ut4EruZ6Yv

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China is preparing humanoid robots for future combat. The key point is the civil-military bridge: China already dominates global humanoid-robot deliveries, giving the PLA an industrial base that can be adapted rapidly for military use.

https://t.co/6SJIp4WyTC

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Russia could control around 36% of global mined uranium output by 2040 if planned projects materialise. As the West expands nuclear power, uranium may become the next strategic dependency to resemble Europe’s former reliance on Russian gas.

https://t.co/GzCEgNtp42

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Russia and North Korea have opened their first road bridge across the Tumen River. A new logistics corridor matters because military cooperation already includes troops and materiel; this makes future flows easier to scale.

https://t.co/I5iu3TVluT

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The ceasefire in Lebanon is eroding. New Israeli strikes in the south have killed at least nine people, raising the risk that the Lebanon front again becomes a major part of the wider Israel–Iran confrontation.

https://t.co/3gzvgJgVOG

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Traffic through Hormuz has fallen to its lowest level since May, with only about 10 commodity vessels a day passing the strait. This is no longer just military escalation; it is a direct shock to energy flows, freight and inflation.

https://t.co/RmHHe9t5ga

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The Hormuz shock is beginning to reverse the global monetary cycle. With Brent near $96 and inflation expectations rising, markets are pricing higher rates again in Europe, the US and Japan. Energy security is once more becoming monetary policy.

https://t.co/vVCf8wCYaE

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Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign is becoming economic warfare: strikes on refineries, ports, airports and logistics hubs are estimated to have cost Russia around 1% of GDP. The target is increasingly the system, not the individual facility.

https://t.co/7Elk98D2My

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European defence officials warn that NATO is failing to deter Russian hybrid warfare below the Article 5 threshold. The question is what collective costs the Alliance is prepared to impose for sabotage, cyberattacks and covert action.

https://t.co/8Vos74bG3X

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North Korea has commissioned a second 5,000-ton destroyer capable of carrying nuclear-armed missiles, just as the US, South Korea and Japan begin Freedom Edge. Northeast Asia is moving deeper into simultaneous deterrence and bloc formation.

https://t.co/wDR8wREAYU

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Witkoff and Kushner leave Kyiv without a breakthrough, just as they left Moscow without one. The shuttle diplomacy has so far clarified the central problem: neither territory nor credible security guarantees are close to resolution.

https://t.co/nRZCBv48TT

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Washington is lowering expectations of a nuclear deal with Tehran. Energy Secretary Chris Wright says the alternative may be destroying Iran’s nuclear capability. Diplomacy is giving way to a longer coercive military strategy.

https://t.co/Ya3WDXioqJ

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Iran’s planned “prohibited zone” near Hormuz means US and Iranian maritime restrictions are beginning to overlap. The risk is no longer only disruption of oil flows, but direct confrontation over commercial shipping.

https://t.co/4mRZPrAh42

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What China’s Lop Nur desert base expansion means for PLA stealth jets in race with US https://t.co/asqf68MTSL

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US envoys hold talks un Ukraine after meeting with Putin https://t.co/NaVOB0DkX9

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Oil Prices May Fall to $40 Post-Iran War, Bessent Predicts in Interview https://t.co/KRpscIbfUU

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8/8 Hormuz illustrates a broader rule for the geopolitics of value chains: control is not only about owning production. It is also about controlling the conditions under which goods can move—physically, commercially and politically.

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1/8 The most important story today may not be the diplomacy in Kyiv, but the four-month US operation to clear Iranian mines from the Strait of Hormuz. It reveals where military power and the global economy actually meet.

https://t.co/Xj2WVdzqsO

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7/8 This changes how we should think about economic coercion. Closing a chokepoint is only one option; raising uncertainty enough to increase insurance, slow shipping and force rerouting can produce strategic effects without a formal blockade.