Laurent Somers🇮🇸 🙏🇺🇦🙏 NAFO/OFAN Supporter.

Expansion is inevitable . I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦

[Laurent Somers🇮🇸 🙏🇺🇦🙏 NAFO/OFAN Supporter. @Galdur]

A beautiful day in Königsberg

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

The Russian air defense in Saint Petersburg, Russia, has been completely overwhelmed. Ukrainian drones are just pouring into Russia‘s second most defended city.

[Lacey @LaceyPresley]

TERAFAB IS GOING TO BE INSANE.

We’re targeting 100–200 billion custom AI + memory chips per year at full ramp that’s 1 terawatt (1,000 GW) of annual AI compute capacity. Roughly 50x current global AI chip output.

This isn’t incremental. This is the kind of scale that actually moves the needle on civilization.

Breakdown:
- 80% (~160 billion chips / 800 GW) → radiation-hardened D3 chips for orbital data centers. Space-based compute at massive scale, powered by solar, low latency for Earth, immune to most terrestrial risks.

- 20% (~40 billion chips / 200 GW) → terrestrial AI5 & AI6 edge inference processors for Tesla vehicle fleets and Optimus robots.

Facility plan: start at 100k wafer-starts/month, scale to 1 million wafers/month. Everything design, EUV lithography, fab, memory, packaging, test under one roof. That recursive self-improvement loop is the real unlock.

Small-batch AI5 chips in 2026. High-volume Terafab output targeted for mid-2028/2029.

This is how we make AI abundant, affordable, and truly useful for making life multi-planetary and maximizing human potential.

The future is going to be ridiculously bright.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen says China’s close ties to Russia rule out any EU–China trade deal.

According to her, Beijing can’t back a war in Europe and expect business as usual.

This is the way.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Ukraine will now irrevocably destroy the remnants of the Russian space program.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Putin's "Easter truce" was broken by Russia within an hour. Missile barrages on Kherson.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

The Russians know that if we withdraw from Donbas, it will divide our nation. Many people would be against it. If Ukraine’s unity is broken, Putin will come up with a new “blitzkrieg” to occupy Ukraine very quickly. Even if he doesn’t, he will use a subsequent pause to recruit more people, train them, ramp up the defense-industrial base, and get sanctions lifted. So a ceasefire in the format “stay where we stay” is not only our wish, it is in the interest of our partners too.

From an interview on The Rest Is Politics podcast (3/5).

[MAKS 26 🇺🇦👀 @Maks_NAFO_FELLA]

👀🇭🇺 The architect of the “hybrid war” in Donbas, Putin’s former right-hand man Vladislav Surkov is currently in Hungary as a freelance advisor to Orban “on building sovereign democracy.” — TASS

A few weeks ago, a legend was created about Surkov that he was allegedly fleeing the regime abroad, so that his presence next to Orban would be acceptable to voters.

The fact that Surkov was sent to reinforce Orban may mean that Hungary is planning to launch a Belarusian scenario: if Orban loses the elections, Surkov will help him carry out a coup d’état with Moscow’s support.

[Oleksandr Yakovenko @alex_chenkov]

Dear Mr. Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall,

When you referred to Ukrainian drone manufacturers as “Ukrainian housewives with 3D printers” you revealed just how deeply the European defense establishment still fails to understand the nature of modern warfare.

This is not about emotion. It is about battlefield reality. Here are the facts your industry refuses to acknowledge:

In 2025 alone, Ukrainian drones carried out 819,737 confirmed strikes. They caused 90 percent of all Russian combat losses, more than all other weapons systems combined.

TAF alone produces up to 100к FPV drones monthly. In any given 90-day period, my company’s products alone achieve more confirmed strikes than your entire fleet of equipment has across its full combat history in every conflict. And most importantly, I built this company and achieved these results in two years, not fifty. Think about that.

Our drones generate more kinetic effect in three months than your flagship platforms have in half a century.

Why? Because the battlefield has changed, and your business model has not.
•Russian electronic warfare has made GPS-guided Western munitions such as Excalibur and GMLRS nearly ineffective.
•Expensive and complex systems designed for wars with air superiority and traditional peer-to-peer combat have become easy prey for drones costing $500, attacking them from above.
•The cost-to-effect ratio has been turned upside down: one 120 mm Rheinmetall shell or one anti-tank missile costs more than a dozen of our drones, and yet our drones still win.

This is not a “Lego game.” It is industrial Darwinism in real time. We iterate every week. We print parts in basements and ship 100к strike systems per month, while your engineers still require three to five years and hundreds of millions of euros in certification costs for even a minor upgrade.

The war in Ukraine is not a temporary anomaly. It is the first true drone-industrial war. And it has already proven that outdated European platforms, no matter how expensive or “serious” they may seem, are becoming less and less relevant unless they integrate the very technologies you mock.

So when you say, “this is not innovation,” I hear something else: “We do not want to admit that the future is being written in Ukrainian workshops, not in Düsseldorf boardrooms.”

#MadeByHousewives is trending for a reason. Because these “housewives” destroy more enemy equipment every month than entire European armies do in full campaigns. And they do it while your industry continues to sell 20th-century solutions at 21st prices.

The invitation remains open, Mr. Papperger. Stop laughing at the kitchen table. Come and learn how tomorrow’s war is actually being fought. Because the next time someone asks, “Who needs tanks in the age of drones?”, the answer may be simpler than you think: Whoever still believes in 1979 will lose to whoever is building in 2026.

With respect, but with facts,
Oleksandr Yakovenko “Ukrainian housewives”
Founder TAF

[Laurent Somers🇮🇸 🙏🇺🇦🙏 NAFO/OFAN Supporter. @Galdur]

Orðræða og fabúleringar Diljá Mist í Sprengisandi eldast einstaklega illa

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Czech Republic's brief 45 year dance with democracy is rapidly coming to a close, with the new Russia friendly Babis government introducing the famed "foreign agent" law that was so instrumental in allowing Putin to shut down the last bits of freedom in Russia.

Czechs should've known better, but now it's too late.

[Anna_From_Ukraine_Official @AnnaFromUA_YT]

📉💥 Pro-Kremlin propagandists now openly criticize #Putin—unheard of in his regime. Solovyov cites high interest rates and closed businesses. They can’t hide collapse. Blocking #Telegram won’t stop it. The ship sinks, and they know it. Share this—witness Russia’s collapse together! #RussiaEconomy #StandWithUkraine #MakeRussiaSmallAgain

[Laurent Somers🇮🇸 🙏🇺🇦🙏 NAFO/OFAN Supporter. @Galdur]

Spái óbreyttum stýrivöxtum. Seðlabankinn vill stöðugleika og það þarf meira en þetta verðbólguskot til að hann fari á taugum yfir því.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Trump helps Putin so that Ukrainians don't survive this harsh winter.

The US is withholding energy aid to Kyiv through Trump, leaving Ukrainians to freeze this winter, - Reuters

The money, originally intended to finance purchases of liquefied natural gas and to repair energy infrastructure damaged by Russian attacks, has been frozen.

The US had already planned to provide certain amounts through the US Agency for International Development (USAID) during the Biden administration. However, when Trump came to power, the agency was dissolved, and the funds earmarked for Ukraine remained in limbo.

The total amount is approximately $250 million. This situation has led to disappointment in recent weeks, against the backdrop of intense Russian attacks on Ukrainian power plants, which have left millions of Ukrainians without light or heat in the cold.

A Ukrainian official interviewed by journalists explained that Kyiv was aware of the aid delay but was hesitant to raise the issue for fear of triggering a diplomatic incident. This comes after US President Donald Trump's cold response to Ukraine's aid requests.

The White House Office of Management and Budget, which Reuters contacted for comment, instead accused Ukraine and the Biden administration of misusing American aid.

[Institute for the Study of War @TheStudyofWar]

MORE: Ukrainian forces have largely liberated most of Kupyansk and the surrounding area. ISW continues to assess that the Russian military command is committing to its false claims about the seizure of Kupyansk, despite ample visual evidence and Ukrainian and Russian reporting to the contrary.

The Russian military command has displayed a clear pattern of publicly presenting false information about the battlefield as part of a wider cognitive warfare effort that aims to influence US decision-making about ongoing peace negotiations.

These Kremlin claims aim to spread the false narrative that a Russian victory in Ukraine is inevitable and to convince Ukraine and the West that Ukraine should accept Russia’s demands now out of fear of future Russian offensives or breakthroughs.

Kupyansk has become a particular point of neuralgia for the Russian military command, likely due to the fear that the battlefield realities in the area will undermine the narratives about Russia’s military prowess that Putin and senior Russian military commanders have been trying to spread.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

This is very obviously the start of a delegitimisation campaign against Denmark. There will be more coming.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

You have a president who can't spell, doesn't have any grasp of basic grammar, and doesn't read. Well, my good old Ma used to say you get what you deserve.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

All this crap generated about Greenland and Venezuela is just to distract from the Epstein Files, which have still not been released. In defiance of the law, might I add.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

Today, the first confirmed case of a BM-35 UAV being controlled via Starlink was recorded.

Previously, Starlink had only been observed on Molniya UAVs. When Shahed drones start using Starlink, it will only be a matter of time, possibly even days, not months.

This is a serious problem for us. UAVs with this type of control are not susceptible to electronic warfare and can strike targets with high precision under the control of operators based in Russia, said Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov, head of the Center for Radio Technologies.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

Most of Kyiv is without electricity, there's not enough even for critical infrastructure after the Russian attacks.

Many are without heating, as well.

A lot of stores have to close because generators cannot cope in the cold.

Most trolleybuses and trams stopped due to lack of electricity.

It is -11 degrees Celsius in Kyiv. Low temperatures will persist for at least another week, probably more.

Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure are pure terror of civilians, especially the most vulnerable people. Russia must answer for its war crimes.

[Chief Rabbi Of Ukraine Moshe Azman @RabbiUkraine]

There is a full blackout in Kyiv, Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, and other cities in Ukraine. The civilian population of Ukraine, including children, the elderly, and pregnant women, are now not only without electricity, but also without heating and even running water in their apartments and homes! The people of Ukraine are resilient and strong, from small children to the elderly, BUT Ukraine needs as much help as possible from its allies! European partners, the United States, all people of good will in the world! Only then will evil be defeated.

In the meantime, everyone who lives in Ukraine now is dispelling the darkness around them with the little light that each of them has!