Ole Jakob Warlo

Statsviter fra @UiTNorgesarktis

[DTEK Group @DTEK_Group]

Two DTEK engineers were wounded in last night's russian missile strike on Kyiv – hit while moving to shelter.

Despite active alerts, crews restored power to 110,000 of the 140,000 affected residents. Work continues on the remaining customers.

[Alex Vanopslagh @AlexVanopslagh]

Nu ser det ud til, at Lars Løkke - en tidligere Venstre-statsminister - vælger at blive fødselshjælper for en rød regering på Pelle Dragsteds nåde, selvom danskerne har sammensat et mere blåt Folketing.

Det er selvsagt trist, men det mest forstemmende er ikke så meget, at det er et politisk nederlag for de borgerlige partier og trist for Danmark.

Det er det selvsagt, men politiske nederlag er en del af livet på Christiansborg, og dem lever man med. Her er vi uenige, og sådan er det.

Nej, det mest forstemmende er, at det så brutalt udstiller, at politik for nogle ikke er et spørgsmål om at realisere deres politiske visioner for Danmark.

Muligheden for Løkke lå klar i form af en ambitiøs reformplan, der ville have gjort danskerne 60 milliarder kroner rigere, understøttet den vækst, der skal sikre fremtidens velfærd, og i ekstremt høj grad flugtede med det, Moderaterne gik til valg på.

Jeg kan selvsagt ikke se ind i hovedet på Løkke, men det er svært at udlægge forløbet som andet end et udtryk for rent personlige ambitioner om ministerbiler kombineret med en glæde ved at beholde hånden på vægtskålen en stund endnu - for enhver pris.

Og den pris kommer formodentlig til at blive ekstremt høj. Og i sidste ende betalt af alle danskere.

Jeg hævder ikke, at LA er et perfekt parti. Vi - og jeg selv - har begået åbenlyse fejl. Men vi kan ikke desto mindre sige, at vi før, under og efter valget har kæmpet for liberale mærkesager og for at samle det borgerlige Danmark om en ambitiøs og dybt nødvendig reformpolitik.

Derfor er det så deprimerende at bevidne, hvordan politik i virkeligheden for nogle aldrig for alvor handlede om Danmark.

Den handlede om ministerbiler.

Og først og fremmest handlede den om dem selv.

[Ole Jakob Warlo @ojwarlo]

Begynner å bli lei av denne byen (b)

[Ole Jakob Warlo @ojwarlo]

Alle gode ting er tre (b)

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[Øystein Sjølie @Anduril100]

Et slikt storting ville ganske raskt avviklet norsk oljeutvinning. Det ville gjort Norge fattigere, Europa mer utsatt og Russland rikere og mektigere.

Takke meg til folkedypet fremfor en så «høy grad av forståelse».

Men det er i alle fall en god indikasjon på at noen i pressen ser det som viktigere å oppdra enn å opplyse.

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

BUDAPEST-BOUND.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

To sum up the day. The Strait of Hormuz is still not open unless vessels go through the Iranian tollbooth, the U.S. naval blockade of Iran continues, and the dramatic decline in oil prices is caused not by the changing reality on the ground but by market expectations — possibly over-optimistic — that the U.S. and Iran will strike a nuclear deal in the foreseeable future.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

From a friend in Budapest

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

While interfering in Hungary's election, Vance baselessly accuses other people of interfering in Hungary's election

[Alex Vanopslagh @AlexVanopslagh]

Stem for en frisk start.
Stem på Liberal Alliance.

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

Worth noting that Lukashenko has allowed Russian troops to invade Ukraine from Belarus, has allowed Putin to transform Belarus into an extension of Russia's military base, and to launch missile strikes from Belarusian territory. He has granted Russia permission deploy nuclear-capable missiles, including the Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile, to Belarus.

[Johan Norberg @johanknorberg]

Today is the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations, one of the most important books ever. If you don’t have the stamina to read it all, we made a film about him a few years ago. My favourite part is when his metaphor of “the man of system” comes alive.

[Roar Hagen @roarhagen]

Retningsvalg på Sentrum Stasjon. VG

[Szabolcs Panyi @panyiszabolcs]

💥SCOOP: Putin tasked Sergei Kiriyenko to run a Moldova-style election meddling operation in Hungary for Orbán, sending three GRU-linked political technologists with diplomatic or service passports to operate from the Russian Embassy in Budapest. More in my latest newsletter.🧵👇

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Norwegian NASAMS systems helped us a lot. I will not share the exact number of NASAMS we have, but it is more than ten and we are still getting them. We have also received missiles for NASAMS made by Norway. However, even domestic Norwegian stocks weren’t enough. And then Norway worked with other countries at the political level to provide us with some additional missiles. This was very important.

In parallel, we were working on joint production and IRIS-T systems. And then it was like a rising wave: when one country stepped up, other real allies, like Norway, followed. That was very good. This winter, Norway also helped us with gas which we needed after Russian attacks on our energy sector, including gas infrastructure.

And the people of Norway support these decisions. All parties in Parliament support them as well. Thank you. All countries have their own internal politics, but the unity in the Norwegian Parliament on Ukraine is crucial and we appreciate it.

All of these things, as well as the work on drones that we started and the fact that Norway is second-largest contributor to PURL, are deeply valued in Ukraine.

From an interview with NRK News (1/2)

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

Ukrainian air defenses including Patriots, from the sound of it, are actively working against Russian ballistic missiles and drones now attacking Kyiv. Several explosions.

[Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM]

The Trump administration has formally warned Ukraine not to strike targets within Russia that could hit US economic interests, according to Kyiv’s ambassador to Washington @StefanishynaO.

Meanwhile, the Trump admin has barely said anything about Russia’s many more strikes on US businesses in Ukraine.
w/ @ak_mack

https://t.co/aGeP2dZSEe

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Year five of the full-scale Russian war against the people of Ukraine has begun. Ukraine was supposed to be just the easy first step before Russia reasserts a sphere of influence in Europe, the so-called “new security architecture” Putin demanded in 2021. The fact that Europe remains free and at peace is because Ukrainians keep shedding their blood and refuse to surrender.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Four years have passed since Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. Russia was supposed to win in three days. Instead, Ukraine reinvented modern warfare, built a drone industry, and can destroy a thousand Russian soldiers in a day. Ukraine can win.

[Financial Times @FT]

In a wide-ranging interview with the FT, the Ukrainian president has warned that without firm western security guarantees Moscow will use a ceasefire to rebuild its forces for another assault https://t.co/3DGYOvVH33