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A blog (mostly) about defence policy and military affairs. Some humour, German politics and economic stuff is in between.

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Joined January 2022
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Julian Reichelt erklärt in einem Podcast, deutsche Journalisten bekämen „eine schriftliche Anweisung, dass du dich jetzt der Regierung anzuschließen hast“. Das System verlange „100 Prozent Gefolgsamkeit“. Hört, hört! Eine schriftliche Anweisung? Von wem denn? Als Bild-Chef hatte Reichelt genau einen Arbeitgeber, den Springer-Verlag. Hat ihm also sein eigener Verlag die Regierungstreue verordnet? Oder hat ihm die Bundesregierung geschrieben? Beides wäre ein Riesenskandal. Und Reichelt ist Journalist, er hat das Schreiben angeblich selbst bekommen. Warum zeigt er es nicht? Weil es das nicht gibt. Solange er es nicht vorlegt, ist das eine Lüge, und zwar eine mit Absicht. Denn wer Hunderttausenden erzählt, alle anderen Journalisten seien gekaufte Mitläufer, will nur eins: dass man am Ende nur noch ihm glaubt. Und dass niemand die freie Presse vermisst, wenn sie einer abräumt. Wie das aussieht, kann man an diesem Wochenende in Washington besichtigen. Laut Atlantic wurde im Weißen Haus und im Justizministerium darüber gesprochen, Journalisten notfalls festzunehmen, bis sie ihre Quellen verraten. Das Justizministerium bestreitet das. Und Trump will den Pressesprecherposten mit einem „gewalttätigen Kämpfer“ besetzen. Dort wird die freie Presse gerade zum Feind erklärt. Hier erklärt sie Reichelt schon mal für überflüssig. Das ist die Vorarbeit.
1/ @jreichelt erklärt sich bei Ben „Russland“ Ungeskriptet zum einzig unabhängigen Journalisten. Alle anderen dienten einem korrupten „System“. Ausgerechnet Reichelt! Wie „unabhängig“ er wirklich war, zeigt folgender Fall aus seiner Zeit als BILD-Chef.🧵
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Former US Ambassador Chas Freeman didn’t mince his words when describing the Israeli army: “The world’s most sadistic army, the most murderous army on earth.” In this conversation with my friend Thomas Karat, he discusses the reality of Israel after October 7 and the broader implications of its crimes. Well worth watching. Don’t miss this one.
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Uh are Iranians just white people??
🔴عکس و فیلمای وایرال شده از یه باشگاه ورزشی زنونه توی بالاشهر تهران. بوی پول و سلامت روان از پشت موبایل حس شد💸
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ça y est, on les a ! (les fameuses datas du hack de Rosstat) attention les amis, infos spéciales concernant les pertes Russe ! Accrochez vous, petit fil à suivre...
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Was literally explaining the, "society falls when old men don't plant trees they will never sit under" to my neighbor (boomer) He said he didn't get it and why would he plant trees if won't be around to see them
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They tried to do WHAT ☠️☠️☠️☠️
"Aircrews found the airspace and timing were often too tight for APKWS employment in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf, so they have ended up relying on AIM-9s. But defensive counterair for base defense has featured APKWS." airandspaceforces.com/articl…
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Big new leak of Russian combat deaths, based on death certificates: nearly half-a-million. Adds credence to other estimates. According to various studies, the ratio of deaths to serious woundings among Russian combatants in this war ranges from 1 : 1.7 to 1 : 2.2. Applied to this data, that implies between 1.2M and 1.4M men killed and seriously wounded. That's between 1.8% - 2.1% of all Russian men.
A group of hackers published classified data on Russian soldiers killed in the war, from Russia's statistics agency Rosstat. In late August, the total was 450,100 (around 100k per year). It is in line with other independent estimates. There is also a regional breakdown.
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Zero trafień na 1500 metrów. Ten wynik prób modułu z Tarnowa obiegł już media, również za granicą. A co wyszło w drugiej serii strzelań? Według relacji z poligonu A3B strącił małego drona z kilkuset metrów, zużywając mniej niż dziesięć pocisków. Później miała zawieść głowica PCO, a Agencja Uzbrojenia miała nie dopuścić ręcznego wprowadzenia nastaw, choć moduł ma taką funkcję. W drugiej serii A3B miał już spełnić wymagania wojska. Warto spojrzeć na kolejność. Z dokumentów opisanych przez WNP wynika, że wojsko zarekomendowało norweski moduł do K2PL, zanim A3B trafił na poligon. Chciałbym więc zobaczyć wyniki obu serii i usłyszeć od Agencji Uzbrojenia, czy Protector RS4 sprawdzono według tych samych zasad. Jeżeli Norwegowie okazali się lepsi w porównywalnych próbach, pokażmy, w których i o ile. Z jednego nieudanego strzelania zdążyliśmy już zrobić historię o klęsce polskiej zbrojeniówki. Te nagłówki czytają także ludzie, którym potem próbujemy sprzedać polski sprzęt. I to producent będzie musiał tłumaczyć zagranicznemu klientowi, co się wydarzyło na poligonie, choć wyniki obu serii powinna wyjaśnić @AgencjaUzbr . To wyglądda na jeden wielki skandal.
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BBC presenters have been ordered to do a defence of Israel. It happens whenever guests mention the genocide or extremism of its government. Imagine they did this on behalf of Russia. Unthinkable!
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AIPAC done got themselves a new name y’all.
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The real architect of the disastrous Iran War has gotten off completely scot free. He deserves to be punished alongside Hegseth - if only anyone knew his name: kenklippenstein.com/p/the-re…
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Rentenniveau nur 48%? Das ist eine Rechengröße. Nach Steuern und mit allen Einkünften haben Menschen ab 65 in Deutschland 83% vom Einkommen der Jüngeren (Median, Eurostat 2025). Der Weg von 48% zu 83% in drei Schritten 🧵
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It bears repeating that Operation Epic Fury was not about Iran’s nuclear program. That program was significantly set back in the June 2025 strikes. The remaining facilities are too deeply buried to be eliminated militarily. If you want evidence, just look at the target set of OEF—of the over 13k strikes, maybe 5 were against nuclear sites, most of which were already struck in 2025 (and it’s unclear whether it was Israel or the U.S. who hit them in 2026). Don’t be gaslit into believing that the recent war was necessary to deny Iran the bomb.
Trump tells reporters he had no choice but to launch the Iran war despite midterm loss "I think it's largely true ...But at the same time if I had to do it again, I'd have to do it again, because long term it's the only answer. You can't allow Iran have a nuclear weapon."
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When researchers analyzed how Pegasus spyware infected iPhones without the user tapping anything, they found something wild. The attackers sent an iMessage with a fake GIF that targeted Apple's image decompression engine. The decompression math was so flexible that the exploit chained arithmetic operations together to construct a literal, functioning software CPU using over 70,000 segment commands that defined logical bit operations (AND, OR, XOR, XNOR, etc.) entirely inside the image parser. This created a small computer architecture with registers, a full 64-bit adder, and a comparator, running raw code before the phone even buzzed with a notification
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In black, the regions that are poorer today than in 2014.
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On Monday Abed Abou Shhadeh wrote an article for Al Jazeera on the repression of Palestinians who are citizens of Israel. So what did Israel do? They raided his house in the middle of the night & dragged him away.
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Replying to @Kunal_Biswas707
The French pleated kevlar skirt guy doesn't seem so absurd now does it?
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£6 MILLION. 30 countries. 800 million adverts. Shocking new report linking an Israeli influence operation to extreme far right propoganda. This is the industrialisation of poisonous hatred, with real-world consequences globally. We must challenge this before more communities are forced to live in fear.
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Warmongers have been saying this for many decades: my war (that I didn't fight in) was actually a really good idea but it was just executed very poorly and they didn't use enough force: Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, Iran, etc. etc.
Ben Shapiro: Don’t blame me, war was a good idea, the “execution” was the problem. Also the MOU was bad. Idea was great though.
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The ballistic sit pad is one of the more ingenious inventions of this war. Back in 2014 both Ukrainian and Russian soldiers attached rubber bands to wear their sit pads... Well on their asses. That way it never gets lost. Then someone came up with the idea to throw some armour in there. It's always a good idea to protect those big juicy inner thigh veins from shrapnel. This skirt looks even better but I wonder how practical it is.
The "Fold" Gen 2 Kilt developed by the Ukrainian armor manufacturer Balistyka (Балістика), it is designed to replace three separate standalone pieces of gear: a groin guard, independent thigh armor panels, and a ballistic sitting mat. Battle skirts are so back.. 😉🇺🇦
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