If you didn’t notice, Russia presented in St Petersburg a “positive scenario” for Europe’s future:
- nuclear strike on Ukraine,
- war till 2036;
- occupation of Kyiv;
- disintegration of EU;
- Russia’s domination in Europe.
Think about it next time when saying 🇷🇺 means well.
⚡🇫🇷🇨🇾🇪🇺 EUROPE MILITARY SHIFT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
France and Cyprus are set to sign a Status of Forces Agreement on Monday, allowing French troops to be permanently stationed on the island, Cypriot officials told POLITICO.
The deal marks a major expansion of France’s military footprint in the eastern Mediterranean at a time of rising regional tensions.
Strategic waters. Strategic troops. Strategic timing.
In 2022 Rheinmetall produced 70,000 artillery shells per year. Today it produces 1.1 million. By 2027 it targets 1.5 million.
One European company now manufactures more 155mm ammunition than the entire US defense industry combined (which produced 600,000 shells in 2024).
NATO Secretary General Rutte: European artillery production has increased sixfold in two years. The Werk Niedersachsen plant that opened in August 2025 will reach 350,000 shells per year alone, the largest single ammunition facility in Europe.
Combined output from EU + UK + Ukraine in 2026 is projected at 2.8 to 3 million shells annually. That matches or exceeds Russia's wartime output.
EU defense spending climbed from €218B in 2021 to €381B in 2025. Germany alone went from €47B in 2021 to a planned €162B by 2029, 3.2% of GDP. 17 EU member states have activated the national escape clause for additional defense spending flexibility.
The continent that policy commentators wrote off as militarily flaccid is finishing the most rapid industrial mobilization the West has seen since the Cold War.
La Suède a fait le choix de la frégate de défense et d'intervention de Naval Group pour moderniser sa marine.
Je remercie la Suède et je mesure la confiance faite à la France.
Après le choix fait par la France de se doter du Global Eye de Saab pour renouveler sa flotte d'avions radar Awacs, c'est une décision stratégique majeure, qui traduit la confiance mutuelle entre nos deux pays.
Notre partenariat n’a en effet cessé de se renforcer ces dernières années jusqu’à la participation de la Suède à la dissuasion avancée.
Une Europe forte et souveraine au sein de l'OTAN : voilà notre conception de notre défense et de notre sécurité commune. Elle se bâtit chaque jour.
Russia since the invasion of Ukraine
-Defeat of Orban , its greatest ally in the EU
-Sweden and Finland join NATO
-Armenia loses in Nagorno-Karabakh and draws closer to the US
-Fall of Nicolas Maduro
-Fall of Bashar Al-Assad
-Death of Ayatollah Khamenei
-Consolidated distancing of Moldova and abandonment of the CIS
-Distancing of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan
@hkhanirl@IAPonomarenko@RoseFle54723126 The difference is that Iran has directly supplied and given production licenses for shahed drones to Russia. Iran is guilty of many Ukrainian deaths.
Trump is asking Europeans to send their warships to secure the strait of Hormuz.
A quick reminder of what he’s done to Europe in the last 18 months :
- He said the European Union was formed in order to screw the United States.
- He floated the idea of taking Greenland by force
- He launched a trade war against the EU
- He described Europe as declining
- He told the Norwegian Prime Minister that he no longer felt obliged to think about peace because he hadn’t received the Nobel Peace Prize.
- He imposed sanctions on Thierry Breton and European anti-disinformation actors
- He sanctioned a French judge from the International Criminal Court
- He forced Europe into a deeply unfavorable trade deal
- He cut military aid to Ukraine
- He praised Vladimir Putin
- He humiliated Volodymyr Zelensky live at the White House
- He excluded Europeans from peace negotiations
- He spends 24/7 insulting our leaders and our countries.
- Elon Musk supported the German far right publicly on X
- J.D. Vance sidelined the German Chancellor to meet the AfD during an election campaign
- Marco Rubio called the German government a “tyranny”
And now he expects European warships in the Strait of Hormuz?
There is no alliance left.
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Today, the Kingdom of Sweden becomes the first member of the European Union to sign the Pax Silica Declaration.
What is unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz right now is a lesson. Iran is deliberately weaponizing a single point of failure in the global economy to hold the world hostage through a narrow corridor of water. This lesson is not only about oil. It is about dependency. It is about what happens when the physical infrastructure of global civilization — the chokepoints, the corridors, the cables, the ports — becomes the battlefield.
Sweden is not merely a diplomatic partner. Sweden is a 5G power. Ericsson — born in Stockholm, built over 150 years of relentless engineering — is one of the only companies on Earth capable of building trusted, sovereign-grade 5G infrastructure at scale.
We are building the logistics architecture, the mineral supply chains, the refining capacity, the manufacturing redundancy, and the investment vehicles so that no adversary — ever — can weaponize a chokepoint and threaten our economies.
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@JRobertoSilva_S@Defence_Index There are already russian nukes at the kola peninsula; nuclear weapons near Helsinki are provocation and certain destruction...
🚨🇫🇮🇫🇷 Finland is moving to legalize nuclear weapons on its soil
Finnish Defence Minister Antti Häkkänen says the government will amend laws to allow nuclear weapons in Finland for national defense.
France wants to deploy nukes on NATO’s eastern flank. If Finland’s law passes, it could host French nuclear weapons as a deterrent against Russia.
Russia caused the coup in Ukraine in 2014 by telling Yanukovych not to sign the EU association agreement in 2013.
Russia breached the Minks treaties on multiple occasions. Not letting international observers into Donbas.
Russia invaded Ukraine.
Russia must pay for it all.