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From FT comments

Inside the plan to kill Ali Khamenei Israel spent years hacking Tehran’s traffic cameras and monitoring bodyguards ahead of the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader

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Thank you, very informative.

Du bist gegen die massenhafte irreguläre Migration vor allem aus Syrien, stehst aber fest an der Seite beider Regime, die dafür verantwortlich waren. Willkommen bei der AfD.

China controls a majority of the world’s critical minerals “The Trump administration, scarred by this experience, has decided to emulate what it sees as the recipe for China’s supremacy: heavy-handed intervention in commodity markets.”

America’s new era of state-sponsored mining Desperate to break China’s grip on critical minerals, the Trump administration is splashing cash around the world

“Every big geopolitical pivot America has made lately—in Ukraine, Venezuela, Greenland-has been partly justified by the mineral riches those countries harbour. One mining boss says he runs into the president's staff "almost anywhere, almost monthly"” 🎁🔗

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Hungary blocks €90bn EU loan to Ukraine days before war anniversary Viktor Orbán has intensified his anti-Ukraine rhetoric ahead of elections where he risks being toppled

“Without the loan, Ukraine risks running into financial collapse in the second quarter. …An IMF programme worth €8bn currently under negotiations is also conditional on Kyiv receiving the EU loan and could be endangered by the Hungarian veto”

Jā, es par šo arī nobrīnijos. The Economist regulāri publicē prominentu ekspertu utml. atbildes uz viņu publikācijām, šeit noteikti kādam vajadzētu reaģēt.

MSC Innovation Night 2026 | Strategic Algorithms: Winning the AI Arms Race YouTube video by Munich Security Conference

Binge-watching MSC 2026. Strong forum on software-defined defence tech and AI, with Dr Eric Schmidt among the speakers

Republican states are censoring universities New laws restrict what professors can teach

“In January administrators at Texas A&M told Martin Peterson that he could either strike Plato’s “Symposium” from the syllabus of his introductory philosophy course or be reassigned. Reading Plato, they argued, exposed students to one of Texas’s banned topics: gender and race ideology.”

Europe risks a rare-earths crunch between China and America The old continent must play to its strengths as a large market with stable rules

“Europe has sleepwalked into all kinds of dependencies over the years, from American digital services to Russian energy. Its reliance on Chinese rare earths, crucial in everything from electric cars and wind turbines to fighter jets, is perhaps the hardest to shake off”
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To protect itself, Europe needs the systems that make warfare work That means spending big, but wisely, on satellites, intelligence networks and the like, write Nico Lange and Fabrice Pothier

🔗🎁 by Nico Lange, founder of IRIS and a former German defence chief of staff and Fabrice Pothier, the chief executive of Rasmussen Global and a former NATO head of policy and planning

AI vai tomēr MI? Bet nu saprast var abus, protams 🤔😉

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Please. This is absurd. Europe can certainly deter Russia and defend itself if its focused and determined. Perpetuating a sense of European helplessness may help Rutte bureaucratically but its 1. wrong 2. prevents action. 3. willfully blind: the US ain't coming to defend Europe.

Europe remains dangerously reliant on American arms Defence spending is rising, but strategic autonomy is years away

I am wondering whether Space and Cyber are included: cost estimates for European forces to replace US forces according to the Economist 🎁🔗
Europe remains dangerously reliant on American arms

them. Again what’s left is largely scrap.
Russia has eaten through nearly 22,000 tanks from the start of the war - both from losses and cannibalisation for parts. New production is barely two dozen a year. The entire Soviet legacy is gone.
And it’s not much better when it comes to other types.

The trouble with maps: Greenland’s allure for Trump is based on an illusion Who dares tell the US president the Arctic island he covets is not as big as it seems?

"A map of the world using Mercator’s projection shows Greenland as an enormous landmass, roughly equivalent in size to Africa. In reality, 14 Greenlands could fit inside the continent — at 2.2mn sq km, the Danish island is smaller than Algeria, let alone Africa" 🎁🔗

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"”It all reflects a move by the Western allies to move away from using U.S. equipment since the U.S. has become a very unreliable ally, and the Nightfall project is something that the U.K. also wants for its own forces in the future," he added.”