Torben Holm

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@OECD @OECDEduSkills 1. Must see: Dir. Andreas Schleicher, OECD’s Education & Skills again shared results of now Pisa 2025: Intern. trends in reading, science, math & more: Teacher’s role; equal opportunity; impact of social media. All compared bt. many countries. 2. Results predict countries future.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@eudebates @MarkJCarney 1. 🇺🇸 ‘Trade policy’ to 🇨🇦 is extorsion. 🇨🇦’s walking away a dignified response. 2. 🇪🇺 can negotiate agreements with 🇨🇦+ 🇦🇺🇳🇿akin to 🇪🇺s EFTA-members (perhaps even 🇹🇷, after Erdogan). 3. Trump, GOP+dumb MAGAs have destroyed 🇺🇸s bonds with allies. 4.Future?: Coalitions of willing.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@USAmbDenmark @DKambUSA 1. Amb. Howery, I do hope your conference & focus on 🇺🇸🇩🇰 defense industry cooperation may do its part to rebuild some level of mutual trust. 2. 🇩🇰 (6 mio.) has always respected 🇺🇸 (340 mio.). The respect for 🇩🇰 you express now needs to be communicated to sane parts of your GOP.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

1. 🇺🇸 Alliances ⤵️ were the cornerstone of 🇺🇸 status as the global power that stabilized the int. system. 2. Trump’s preference for 🇷🇺🇨🇳 & now 🇰🇵, betrayal of 🇺🇦 , 🇮🇷 war + looming 💵 crisis sets foundation for ad hoc coalitions of the willing - with/ without 🇺🇸 leadership. 🇨🇳⬆️.

[Dr. Alice Frost @PoliSciChick84]

I really am sick of the argument that our allies have been freeloading. Those arguments are fundamentally flawed and, frankly, not very intelligent.

1. Our allies provide forward bases, ports, airspace access, logistics hubs, intelligence, prepositioning, and other infrastructure that dramatically extend the global reach of the U.S. military. U.S. Transportation Command itself describes allies and partners as essential to America's ability to move forces and supplies around the world. Without that network, American power projection would be substantially more difficult and expensive.

2. Our allies came to our defense after 9/11. NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in its history, and allied troops fought alongside Americans in Afghanistan for nearly twenty years. Some allies paid a very substantial price. Denmark, for example, lost 44 soldiers, giving it a military fatality rate per capita roughly comparable to, and slightly higher by some measures than, that of the United States.

3. Our allies buy enormous quantities of American weapons, technology, and military equipment. Those purchases support the U.S. defense-industrial base, sustain production lines, and create economies of scale. Foreign Military Sales orders can be combined with Pentagon procurement specifically to reduce the unit cost of equipment purchased by the U.S. military.

4. Allied countries also contribute industrial capacity, components, munitions, technology, and joint production to increasingly integrated defense supply chains. Companies such as Rheinmetall and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are part of a much broader allied industrial ecosystem; MHI, for example, produces Patriot systems and has participated in U.S.-Japanese missile production and component programs.

5. Most importantly, our allies are force multipliers. A major war with China would become vastly more difficult without Japanese bases, Australian and other regional access, allied logistics, intelligence, naval and air forces, and industrial capacity. Even the Trump administration's 2026 National Defense Strategy says that allied and partner contributions in the Indo-Pacific will be “vital” to deterring and balancing China.

Alliances have costs. So does having the world's most capable global military network. Calling allies “freeloaders” while ignoring what the United States receives in return is poor strategic accounting and, ultimately, dumb.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@TomHoefling 1. Trump has corrupted 🇺🇸’s 🌏🌍standing to an extend, most 🇺🇸s do not fathom. 2. Not only 🇬🇱🇨🇦 but 🇺🇦! 🇺🇸 only gives (good) intelligence. 3. Most 🇺🇸s do not care, how much some 🇪🇺s give. ‘My’ 🇩🇰 $13 b. We are 6 m. (340 m. 🇺🇸s 2022-24: $120 b.). 4.Why no BIG private 🇺🇸 donations?

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@vtchakarova 🇸🇾’s agreement with 🇷🇺 to regain control of former naval bases is a bad mistake: 1. 🇷🇺 helped Assad kill 100.000s Syrians. Lives of own citizens should matter! 2. It distances 🇸🇾 from 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇪🇬. 3. 🇸🇾 in effect sides with 🇷🇺 against 🇺🇦. 4. Question: Did 🇪🇺or 🇺🇸 do enough to help 🇸🇾?

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@ForeignAffairs 🇺🇸 needs to reflect on more than war in 🇦🇫. 1. 🇺🇸 misread 🇻🇳 nationalism.
2.🇺🇸 based war against Hussein’s 🇮🇶 on lie of WMD (🇫🇷 f.m. Dom. de Villepin warned you). 3.🇺🇸 war in 🇦🇫underestimated🇦🇫 tribal, islamist identity. 4.’The arrogance of power’ ➡️ ‘The ugly American’ (Or 🇨🇳).

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@ForeignAffairs 1. 🇨🇳 is responsible for 🇰🇵’s machinations, since 🇰🇵 is totally dependent on 🇨🇳. 2. 🇨🇳 accepts its nucl. bombs, 🚀 over Sea of 🇯🇵, mil. support for 🇷🇺’s war on 🇺🇦 & hence 🇪🇺.
3. 🇨🇳 disregards 26 m. 🇰🇵s, living in abject poverty & repression. 4.🇰🇵 is the true face of 🇨🇳 ambition.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@PIIE @nicolas_veron 1. 🇪🇺 Banking reform is pivotal for 🇪🇺’s future. In 1980s 🇺🇸 reformed banking regulation, allowing them to operate freely across 🇺🇸 state borders. 2. Deep cap. markeds are key part in 🇺🇸 compagnies outdoing 🇪🇺. 3. The 🇨🇳 state provides finance. 4. In 🇪🇺, pol. prejudice slows 🇪🇺.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@CFR_org 1. The 🇺🇸 propped up Yen by selling Euros. Not 💵. Innocent? No: 2. In intern. finance, you use own currency. 3. 🇯🇵 has world’s largest holdings of 🇺🇸 treasury bonds. 🇯🇵would have sold some to buy Yen. 🇺🇸 sold Euros to protect 💵. Selling 💵➡️ pressure on 💵 since 🇺🇸 debt ⬆️⬆️⬆️.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@PIIE Use 🇩🇰’s overall econ. performance to inspire 🇺🇸 as well as 🇪🇺: 1. Nat. debt 7,6% GDP. 2. Capital balance 🇩🇰/world +10-20% GDP. 3. Surplus BOP 12% GDP (medicine ‘only’ 20% of this).
4. Flexicurity labour market. 5. Min. wage $23/hr. 6. 6-7 wks vacation. In sum, 🇩🇰 is stellar.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@front_ukrainian 1. It is about time 🇺🇸 restores intelligence sharing w. 🇺🇦. Since Trump II, 🇺🇸 lack of support for 🇺🇦 has been an utter disgrace. 2. 🇺🇸 insulted pr. Z🇩🇰🇨🇦, while never recognizing how much some allies do (🇩🇰>$13 b. vs. 🇺🇸 $120). 3. Int. sharing is free. 4. 🇺🇸 no critique of 🇷🇺🇨🇳.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@revishvilig 1. We, your allies in the cause of national souvereignty & pol. freedom, will help 🇺🇦 prepare for ❄️. 2. In 🇪🇺, realpolitik is to grow in collaboration. 3. 🇺🇦 +🇪🇺 show 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇺🇸: Respect Europe. 4. 🇺🇦 fails in not exposing 🇨🇳 as warmonger against 🇺🇦 & hence 🇪🇺. 5.Expose who help 🇺🇦.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

1. You are so right. Compagnies that sell chips & tools to 🇷🇺’s war on 🇺🇦 are traitors to western values. They help 🇷🇺 kill 🇺🇦s. They should be punished. 2. Some sell to stan-countries (🇰🇿🇺🇿..), knowing well.. 3. 🇮🇪🇬🇷 governments protect such businesses. 4. But culprit #1: 🇨🇳!!

[Sulkhan Metreveli @Sulkhan]

When investigators open the wreckage of a Russian missile or drone, they keep finding the same thing: components made in the democracies it was fired at.
Not exotic military hardware. Ordinary microelectronics — the chips that make a guidance system work, produced by Western and allied firms, routed through third countries, resold by intermediaries who ask no questions and face no consequences.
This is not a story about villains in boardrooms. It is a story about a control regime designed to look serious rather than be serious: export rules with no auditing of distributors, sanctions with penalties smaller than the profits, and enforcement agencies staffed for a peacetime workload.
The result is grotesque and entirely avoidable. Taxpayers in Europe and America fund air defence to intercept weapons partly assembled from their own supply chains.
You cannot claim to arm Ukraine while accidentally arming Moscow.
Fixing this requires no summit and no new weapons system. It requires auditing resellers, prosecuting evasion, and treating a shipment to a shell company in a third country as what it is.
Sanctions without enforcement are a press release with a legal department.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@FukuyamaFrancis 3. 🇩🇰 warrants attention because its stellar economy: Growth, full employment, + public expenditures + BOP & almost no public debt. 4. A 🔑 part of this succes is a hefty immigration of qualified people from 🇪🇺 & 🌎🌏. 5. 🇸🇪 now tries to ➡️🇩🇰, w. 30 y. delay. Risk: 🇸🇪Pol. hubris!

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@FukuyamaFrancis 1. Unchecked immigration was important in Trump’s election & will now propel AfD. 2. 🇩🇪 & the rest of 🇪🇺 should learn from 🇩🇰: A. Statistics 🇩🇰publicise facts on crime - Young MENAPT men are 4-6 x > criminal. 🇩🇰public debate is open. 🇩🇰 P. Party plathed key role. 🇩🇰 leads 🇪🇺. ⤵️

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@USAmbDenmark 1. Amb. Howery, you do tweet gracefully, expressing respect & appreciation for what you see in 👑of 🇩🇰. 2. I, SAIS grad., hope for you to ‘hear’ 🇩🇰 society on its terms (as I went to SAIS to understand 🇺🇸 ‘from within’). 3. 🇬🇱 became 🇩🇰 1380. 4. 🇺🇸 acts in 🇬🇱 will destroy 🇺🇸🤝🇪🇺.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@ulrichspeck 1. 🇨🇳 has since 2022 enabled 🇷🇺s war on 🇺🇦: Chips, machine tools for weapons & satellites for targeting.
2. 🇨🇳 is in effect at war with Europe.
3. 🇨🇳 opposes criticism & sanctions, cf. Rheinmetall. 4. 🇪🇺 choice: Stand up to 🇨🇳 blackmail or kow-tow to 🇨🇳.
5. 🇪🇺: Stand tall><🇨🇳.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@ForeignPolicy 1. Pr. Clinton signed 1996 Work Opport. Act in face of GOP policy of total opposition to any Dem. policy. 2. Congressman Newt Gingrich pursued this policy at the expense of pol. compromise, harming ordin. 🇺🇸s & 🇺🇸 democracy itself. 3. Gingrich laid ground for GOP betrayal of 🇺🇸.

[Torben Holm @holm_torben]

@KShevchenkoReal @NAZK_gov 1. Corruption is a cancer in all societies. Vide 🇷🇺 with its systemic corruption. 2. 🇺🇦 civilians society had better support @NAZK_Gov 100%: 🇺🇦 faces enormous rebuilding; 🇷🇺 will not be able to pay. 🇪🇺 not 💶 corruption. 🇪🇺 will NOT accept corrupt 🇺🇦 as member - cancer spreads.