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[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Major cheat code for life: The ability to sit across from someone and have a real conversation. Eye contact. Good questions. Listening without waiting to reply. In a world consumed by screens, it’s amazing how rare this is and how much trust it creates when you can do it well.

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

‼️ The EU is still geoeconomically on par with America and China. But the EU has never been a geopolitical actor and is now facing 15-20 years structural and systemic decline. Why and what to do?
1️⃣ demographics, aging population & huge share of GDP for social welfare
2️⃣ energy-deprived continent with not enough energy production & lack of cheap, accessible and affordable energy for citizens & EIEs
3️⃣ the worst warfare situation since WW2 with Russia aiming to subjugate Ukraine and destroy the security architecture in Europe
4️⃣ Cold War 2.0 between America and the DragonBear means bad news for Europe - weaponization of raw materials, migration, supply chains, energy transition and digitalization
5️⃣ The US withdrawal from Europe towards the Indo-Pacific will mean that Europe will have to spend more on security and defence, including on war economy to support Ukraine
6️⃣ Amid 4IR, America and China are frontrunners, and Europe will need to cooperate on digitalization, quantum, AI, telecommunication, etc to manage the transition and achieve technological leverage and level of innovation
7️⃣ “De-risking” towards China is destined to fail just like “Wandel durch Handel” towards Russia has significantly failed. China is turning into the dominant strategic rival and competitor when it comes to the future of the global order
8️⃣ In a context of Bifurcation of the Global System between America and China, Russia has taken the side of Beijing via the #DragonBear modus vivendi of systemic coordination in all relevant strategic domains - from energy and food commodities, to transport corridors and infrastructure, to China’s comprehensive support for Russia’s war, to regional and global organizations, to defence, mil-tech coop and space
9️⃣ Europa can’t afford equidistance between America and China as a strategic choice in the long run. Europe must be responsible for the European pillar/theatre of NATO; need to sign as many FTAs as possible via the European Commission, accelerate the trade and transport corridors North-South via 3SI and IMEC with the Middle East and India as well as Global Gateaway with Africa, speed up the enlargement and deepening of the EU to improve the common market and ensure its efficiency as the key GDP generator, invest more in people and startups in Europe instead of institutions ans regulations.
1️⃣0️⃣ 27 EU members don‘t need to be specialist in all topics. It‘s time for EU professional army on voluntary principle of participation, deplyoable only in the direct vicinity of Europe. It‘s also time for a functional split of roles, tasks and jobs among members and institutions. The 27 should not do the same things on the same topics anymore.
1️⃣1️⃣ In the short term, Europe will need war economy, new infrastructure to move the military equipment along the new Iron Curtain 2.0 in the Scandinavian and CEE. This is going to be the fastest growing
region in Europe in this decade.
1️⃣2️⃣ If the EU member slide into Fascism and Marxism as it happened 100 years ago, allow Russia to destroy the European security order, accommodate with Moscow‘s ambitions to erase Ukraine from the map, the EU and its members will turn into the geopolitical backyard of 21st century. #Velsig #geopolitics

[lorwen @lorwen322264]

@MOSSADil small steps taken to walk away from the abyss

[Isaac Stone Fish @isaacstonefish]

The Intel CEO was horribly conflicted on China.
Check out this chart from @thewirechina

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

🇪🇺 Average hourly Salary of Europeans 💶

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

The EU is an absolute behemoth when it comes to trade 🇪🇺

Bigger than China & America COMBINED!

[NXT EU @NXT4EU]

Never EVER should we let this company have access to European Data.

It's a CIA honeypot that has already infiltrated the UK.

We need to support our own Palantirs, not use the one from America. Be Euro-Patriotic 🇪🇺

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

Poland continues its massive rearmament something not seen before in the countries history.

[Slava 🇺🇦 @Heroiam_Slava]

It can reach speeds of up to 400 km/h: and it's not a sports car, but the world's fastest drone, made on a 3D printer.

The German engineer's invention has a flight range of up to 35 km and can stay in the air for about 20–21 minutes.

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

Another reason why the EU can‘t afford the so called strategic autonomy - the Euro would be exposed to cannibalization within the Eurodollar system for the sake of the self-preservation of the Dollar if there is a break between the two strategic partners.

[Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova]

Who would have thought (unless you studied political philosophy, history etc) that the collectivist ideologies of Fascism, Marxism and Nationalism would be on the rise once again? In 21st Century, they‘re closing the circle, while Liberalism is in decline.

[Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner]

Today I have learned that the Russian trolls and bots really, really hate it when you say that the Kremlin's youth policies are designed to militarize and sacrifice Russian children.

[Prune60 @Prune602]

‼️ Russia: “Hackers who hacked Aeroflot revealed that the company uses outdated Windows XP, and the CEO has not changed the password for three years”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

https://t.co/n831tGOwZg

[lorwen @lorwen322264]

@Osinttechnical you really think so? These guys are master pilots maneuvering a highly sophisticated fighter aircraft.

And it looked really good to me.

[lorwen @lorwen322264]

@guyverhofstadt The truth. But the EU still needs the US. Until the EU does not need the US. Then you can say whatever you want to the US.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Estonia raises alarm: russia is moving electronic warfare systems closer to NATO borders.

Estonian Interior Minister Igor Taro reported that the russian army has deployed additional radio signal jamming equipment near Kingisepp, just 20 km from Estonia.

This type of equipment has been used in Ukraine to disrupt drone navigation and has caused major interference with GPS signals used by civilian aircraft and ships.
United24

[Leonidas Weiss @LeonidasWeiss]

@DarkAdmiral5 @PutinsVanner I found the upload with the bag of potatoes on the table. I haven't watched the whole video though so I don't know if the wife makes any sort of statement regarding the spuds.

https://t.co/KyFhskWYit

[TheDarkAdmiral@NAFO⚓️🇩🇪🇺🇦 @DarkAdmiral5]

@PutinsVanner The Huffman family has recently received a sudden gift of potatos as seen on their YouTube Channel. The Drone footage is yet to be released.
https://t.co/QRW8YDfKUs

[Stanislav Aseyev @AseyevStanislav]

Facts:

1. In September, Belarus will host joint exercises with Russia "West-2025", as well as directly related exercises "Interaction-2025", "Search-2025" and "Echelon-2025". In May 2025, the Baltic Fleet already held major exercises, and now new exercises called "July Storm" have begun.

2. Almost all tanks have disappeared from the front in Ukraine, but their production and restoration have not ceased. This means that they are accumulating somewhere.

3. Modernization and strengthening of railways and bridges is underway, and new branches are being built in the direction of the borders with the Baltic countries.

4. Large field hospitals, fuel and lubricants and ammunition depots are being created in Belarus and the Kaliningrad region.

5. Civil defense exercises were held in Kaliningrad.

6. The Moscow and, more importantly, the Leningrad military districts were recreated.

7. The draft into the Russian army has ceased to be seasonal (spring-fall) and has become year-round.

8. A massive purge of semi-official Telegram channels has begun.

9. WhatsApp (and possibly Telegram) is being shut down with a transition to the domestic Max.

Now the interpretation:

1. Russia's attacks on Ukraine in 2014 and 2022 began under the cover of military exercises.

2. Putin is not so afraid of war, the military economy is already working at full capacity, as he is afraid of peace - when the entire pyramid that was built collapses, hundreds of thousands of soldiers with weapons will return from the front, and there will be nothing to justify the repressions with.

3. The Russian Security Council is confident that Estonians, Lithuanians and Latvians will not resist as much as Ukrainians. In addition, they lack the combat experience that only two countries in the world have today - Russia and Ukraine. Plus a huge "fifth column".

4. Since all decisions in NATO are taken collectively, there is always hope "to talk away" their adoption with the help of Putin's reliable friends - Hungary and Slovakia. And is Paris ready to die for Kaunas?

5. Cutting through a corridor to Kaliningrad, together with the "return to the native harbor" of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, as well as the final annexation of Belarus, plus four "new" regions in Ukraine can be sold to the electorate for a complete and final victory.

Dmitry Chernyshev

And my small remark: the invasion of the Baltic countries will not happen after, but in parallel with the war in Ukraine (possibly frozen for a while).

[lorwen @lorwen322264]

@ChikeOkeke17 @ChuckPfarrer @Marco_mmabjj getting payed, aren't you?! 😄