Ronald van Vuuren

Jared Kushner: If Europe could identify one person to speak on their behalf, that would be a bigger achievement than getting the Russians to include them in the negotiations.

🇩🇪🇫🇷 France warns Germany: Your missiles could start a nuclear war by accident: Germany is reportedly acquiring and developing ground-launched missiles with ranges from 500 km to more than 2,000 km, capable of hitting targets deep inside Russia. French officials fear Moscow could misread a conventional strike and respond with nuclear weapons. "If the Russians don't get the signal right you could get to the nuclear threshold without realising," one said. Paris is also worried that its "forward deterrence" policy could make France a target for strikes it never launched. Is Europe building a deterrent, or a nuclear tripwire?

🇫🇷🇩🇪 BREAKING: France warns of nuclear miscalculation over Germany’s deep strike missiles. Paris wants Berlin to clarify when and how it would use long range missiles capable of striking targets more than 2,000 km away, fearing Moscow could mistake a conventional attack deep inside Russia for a strategic escalation. Germany supports developing a joint doctrine with France and the UK to manage escalation risks. Source: Financial Times

From roughly 2km away, I managed to film some of this morning’s attacks on Dnipro. I’ve redacted anything that could be restricted, but I think it’s vital that the world sees Russian barbarism for what it is. This week, the UN reported Russian crimes against humanity. Russia’s response? Keep bombing Ukraine’s energy facilities regardless. And Russia holds a permanent seat on the UN Security Council. Putin is making his intentions clear, leaving civilians facing winter without electricity, heating or water. Make no mistake, there is no indication of a Kremlin preparing for peace. 🇺🇦

Vorige week nog 80 controllers van koelsystemen in Nederland via internet toegankelijk, incl hele oude firmwareversies (h/t Jos Wetzels, Midnight Blue)

For Trump, it's genius. For Witkoff, a humanitarian act. Musk loses sleep over russian soldiers. Meanwhile, a russian soldiers kills two civilians fleeing under a white flag. Their dog dies too. And this is the terrorist state the Trump administration is whitewashing.

De Griekse marine heeft (onder andere) 3 S-fregatten op zee, de vroegere Kortenaer (1978), Callenburgh (1979) en Van Kinsbergen (1980).

Russian satellite Kosmos-2612 has closed to 136 meters from Finland's ICEYE-X36. Earlier estimates put the gap at 90 km. Moscow burned serious fuel and resources to change its orbit and run the Finnish satellite down. The apparent plan is to destroy it by ramming it. ICEYE is the same satellite line Serhiy Prytula talked about buying for Ukraine. A Russian junk hulk is now stalking a NATO member's spacecraft in orbit, apparently with one goal in mind: colliding with it.

Hegseth on Afghanistan: I was a captain in Afghanistan, and we would go to the headquarters in Kabul, and there would be 50 flags at the headquarters. It was a beautiful thing to see 50 different countries contributing to the NATO alliance and the ISAF mission there. Except there were like maybe five that contributed. It was actually closer to one or two that, by the end, were actually involved in kinetic operations. In fact, the ISAF patch, we would joke that it meant "I Saw Americans Fighting."