Yes. But also:
1.Putin loses another ally and supplier and export market
2.Spot prices are great only if you have elastic production and export capacities. Less great if what you need is repairs, equipment...
3.We will see rapid uptake of air defense production capacity in EU and US
Second Hormuz strait just dropped.
Quel sera le premier parti de gauche en France qui succombera à cette bêtise?
J'ai ma petite idée...
Britain’s center-left government is taking direct inspiration from Denmark’s hardline treatment of migrants.
That’s leaving some Labour MPs feeling queasy.
...and i will also add a balcony set in addition to my existing 3.5KW rooftop installation.
🙋If anyone has seen possibilities to mount panels as slidable window shutters please let me know.
I was about to buy a Marstek Venus 3 that gives you 5.2kwh for 1100 EUR, now have to restart my investigations!
Keep us posted if you go ahead!
You're a Russian shadow fleet captain, it's 6am the day after an unexpected early sunrise in the Med, your ship is fully loaded, and you're about to head out
...l'interet est d'attendre le plus possible de bombes tombées. Mais continueront elles a tomber si personne ne se lève?
1. on ne comprends surement rien au soulèvements Iraniens, pas plus que les printemps arabes, où c'est le cout du pain qui à mis les masses dans la rue. cf les trajectoires démocratiques des pays concernés depuis.
2. Meme pour les plus (contre?)révolutionnaires iraniens...
image of a run finish were a trump finalist is beaten last second by IA
Poor Donald Trump!
He had this monopoly on gripping opinions, generating random BS, playing on vanity, bordering fascism - with constant speculation about how that can save/ruin/change nothing to the world/economy/democracy...
...and when it's his time, IA appears and beats him at every turn.
"The RUSI report found that if such a rate of interception could be replicated by a system protecting Moscow, then a modest British or French strike might not be able to achieve its intended effect." 😂😂😂
Well, I guess this ends "modest" nuclear strikes on capitals hosting 10% of a country's pop.
Nylon dome....
Our neighbour can shoot 100+ missiles / month over a sustained period.
Can EU + UK produce/procure 400+ interceptors / month?
(setting aside our capacity to strike back and destroy some production capacity).
Question of the day: how many new procedures should the EU and Commission put in place to enforce "simplification"?
I would like to hear from people with knowledge how comes this was not intercepted by air defense and what that tells us....
On the diplomatic aspect we can do much more than push for fair negotiations. We need to streamline a Russia containment strategy everywhere where we have presence, influence and interests. Conditionalities in all our aid and trade for example...
Yes. We should support UKR not just out of solidarity and values but also self interest and preservation. We cannot fight Russia with Belarus and UKR on their side.
For sure... changing rules before they are even applied really simplifies everyone's planning.
Also, I wonder who could have been stupid enough to adopt those less simple rules a few months ago?
It has been four years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
In solidarity with the Ukrainian people, we are raising the Ukrainian flag alongside the flag of the European Union in front of the EEAS headquarters. This is the first time a flag is raised here.
President @ecb.europa.eu ms. Lagarde gets additional 140.000 Euro for sitting in BIS
Those in powerful positions think they are entitled and can circumvent the rules
Important she pays back and goes
Bank has a credibility issue
@epsu.bsky.social
@politico.eu
www.ft.com/content/b70b...
Air Farce One
North Korea's ruling party has again chosen Kim Jong Un to be its general secretary. Otherwise...🤷
In the meantime, let's continue to doubt all experts who say "UKR cannot win, it better negotiate now than later..."
...and recognize that those (like @nicolastenzer.bsky.social ) who are clear that UKR CAN, MUST AND WILL win are in fact the only ones doing realpolitik.
...to secure their steals in Donbass.
- How often they ask their negotiation team (Trump/Witkoff) to keep UKR at the table.
Trump's admin pressuring of UKR is the biggest tell on Russia's current fear.
In 2026 peace can be negotiated and or imposed, by UKR.
- Industrial base - UKR non-linear progression on deep strikes + UKR increased territorial depth (production all over Europe that RU cannot attain without major escalation).
The Moscow regimes know all this and we should keep an eye on 2 indicators:
- How much they invest in defense lines...
In 2026, Russia could NEED peace negotiations, or risk loosing a lot, why?
- Territory - Increasing costs to stealing more + risk of UKR exploiting opportunities
- Manpower - they can cruise 30.000 losses/month - probably still a low factor in the Kremlin's calculus
- Industrial base - ...
I think Orban got his response
Je ne sais pas qui a fait ça…
Sand batteries are actually getting real traction in Finland right now - Polar Night Energy's been running one commercially since 2022. Stores heat at 500°C for months. Won't solve everything, but seasonal storage was supposed to be the impossible part, and someone's quietly cracking it.
