R.pert 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮 forrin despondent

Old enough to remember sanity prevailing

European 🇪🇺

A huge fuck-you to Brexshit, Trumpism, Erdoğan and other populist BS, but esp. to Putler/ruZZia! 🖕🤬🖕

[R.pert 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮 forrin despondent @R007pert]

New pinned tweet:
TIME TO REFORM THE UK'S DEMOCRACY

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Strange isn't how Elon Musk told everyone to mark this post, then he deleted it.

Must have been a mistake.

Let me repost it for him.

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

Schwedens Spezialpolizei hat den Chef des Aluminium-Schmelzwerks Kubal in Sundsvall verhaftet – wegen Sanktionsverletzungen. Kubal gehört Rusal – Putins Lieblingskonzern. Dasselbe Rusal das in Irland die Alumina-Fabrik Aughinish in Co. Limerick besitzt. Schwedische Steuerbehörden in einem vertraulichen Bericht: Oligarch Oleg Deripaska – unter EU-Sanktionen wegen Unterstützung von Russlands Kriegsmaschinerie – kontrolliert Rusal noch immer. Irlands Taoiseach Martin: Sanktionen gegen Aughinish wären „selbstzerstörerisch." OCCRP hat nachgewiesen dass irisches Aluminium über Rusal in russische Raketen fließt. Schweden verhaftet. Irland schaut weg.
Micheál Martin ist grundsätzlich pro-ukrainisch und pro-EU. Aber hier steckt er in einer klassischen Zwickmühle:
475 direkte Jobs in Aughinish. Mehrere hundert indirekte. Foynes und Askeaton – kleine Städte die komplett von der Fabrik abhängen. Wenn Aughinish schließt – sterben diese Gemeinden.
Das ist keine böse Absicht. Das ist das klassische Problem wenn Russland seine Abhängigkeiten tief in europäische Volkswirtschaften eingebaut hat.

Es schmerzt wenn man sie herausreißt.
Aber Schweden zeigt: Man kann handeln. Kubal hat auch Jobs. Trotzdem haben sie verhaftet. Europäische Verantwortung. https://t.co/eQPzzXy1Bf 🇸🇪🇮🇪🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦

[R.pert 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮 forrin despondent @R007pert]

@JaakkolaKaarina @Merivartiosto Ei niin. Mutta jos vain antaisi pudota...?

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

Ukraine’s mid-range drone campaign is ripping apart Russian supply lines, and Moscow faces an impossible trilemma trying to stop it:

There are simply no cheap, efficient, and low-manpower solutions to protect Russian logistics.

Ukraine will face the same issue in the future.

Ukraine has held a decisive advantage for several months with its mid-range strike drones. Utilizing AI-enhanced and Starlink-integrated technology, these low-cost systems, including the Hornet drone, fly over 100 kilometers behind the front lines to accurately destroy Russian logistics under heavy jamming.

This strategic window of opportunity will not last forever. Russia will eventually improve its own mid-range capabilities, which are already far from non-existent, and turn this tactic back on Ukraine. The Ukrainian military must exploit this current edge and inflict maximum damage on Russian logistics networks before that shift arrives.

Even when Russia upgrades its tech, blocking Ukraine's drone campaign will remain an absolute nightmare. Because these drones are nearly immune to electronic jamming, Moscow is forced to physically stop them. They are so cheap to produce in high numbers that using traditional air defense interceptor missiles makes no economic sense.

Russia will likely turn to alternative countermeasures, such as deploying protective nets over roads, centralizing logistics into heavily defended convoys rather than vulnerable single trucks, and using anti-drone interceptor drones.

However, Russia faces a structural trap: they cannot field a solution that is simultaneously cheap, efficient, and doesn’t require too much manpower. They can only choose one or two out of three. Cheap interceptor drones require a lot of manpower along key roads. Lower-manpower systems with more range are far too expensive to deploy by the hundreds.

This dynamic provides a vital lesson for Ukraine. The Ukrainian military must immediately start preparing for the day Russia scales up its own mid-range drone campaigns (which is already starting to happen). Developing somewhat sustainable solutions right now is the only way to protect Ukrainian logistics when Russia’s tech allows it to copy this strategy

[Michael Spicer @MrMichaelSpicer]

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

[R.pert 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮 forrin despondent @R007pert]

@JaakkolaKaarina @Merivartiosto Jaa siis miksei olisi voitu antaa sen tippua? 🤔

[R.pert 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮 forrin despondent @R007pert]

@auonsson Of course it was bought with proceeds of crime. Nobody in ruZZia gets wealthy legally, or if they do, they at least don't stay that way without dirtying themselves somehow.

[R.pert 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮 forrin despondent @R007pert]

@TheGriftReport TBF, sometimes *also* has five letters. In fact, it has five AND four letters.

[Tomi 🇺🇦🇫🇮🇪🇺 @TallbarFIN]

NATO's Forward Land Forces (FLF) are on standby in Finland starting today.

Historic day for Finland.

Never alone again. 🇫🇮

[R.pert 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮 forrin despondent @R007pert]

@lionel_trolling That's so funny, considering what utter shit Americans eat. And not just shit, but ultra-processed shit pumped full of hormones and additives and toxins.

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

The picture on the left is from 2012 when the filter was broken.

The picture on the right is AI generated.

That's the issue in this Presidency, everything is based on lies, even the most trivial of things.

[R.pert 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮 forrin despondent @R007pert]

@jojalonen Eiköhän teksasilaiset karjankasvattajat pääsääntöisesti ole (tai ainakin olleet) Dumpin kannattajia. Eli sitä saa, mitä tilaa.

[R.pert 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮 forrin despondent @R007pert]

@beardedguy50 I remember paying already a couple of years ago £18 for small cod & chips + small fish cake, and that was at a totally unremarkable chippy in rural Wales.

As much as I like it, I don't eat it very often, so I expect next time I do it'll be well over £20.

[R.pert 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮 forrin despondent @R007pert]

@Nightisnotday45 Minä taas kuulin pataljoonan hevosmiehiltä, että kymmenen tuhatta T-14 Armataa on jo lähtenyt liikkeelle kohti rintamaa. Ja heti perään tulee liukuhihnoilta uusi uljas T-29 Armata, yli kaksi vuotta etuajassa! Kyllä nyt on tämä operatsiyooni jo taputeltu.

[R.pert 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮 forrin despondent @R007pert]

@tomcolicchio Being a human being.

[Andy Fitchet @AndyFitchet]

The constant banging on about DEI is an infuriating American import into the UK.

In the UK we call it EDI. And EDI training is essentially summed up like this:
‘Don’t be a knob to other people, and realise some people face barriers you don’t.’

It’s not some woke conspiracy.

[R.pert 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮 forrin despondent @R007pert]

@RanneVille Ai kiellettiinkö mentooliröökit kokonaan? Ilmeisesti ehdin lopettaa sitä ennen, kun en tiennytkään moista.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Unfortunately, the Russian side once again chooses war – everyone heard the response today. Weak response. He simply does not want to end the war.

I think many around the world were disappointed by that response. He does not want to change anything, and he does not want to admit that this war appeals only to him – and to those who are making money off him. They were all smiling very broadly today.

That means Russia must have less money, and there must be more pressure on Russia.

I thank everyone who is helping us. I thank everyone who stands with Ukraine and wants a real peace.

[R.pert 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇱🇪🇪🇸🇪🇫🇮 forrin despondent @R007pert]

@simongerman600 Not our fault, blame Sweden.