Former ambassador of Belgium (ret.) to Ukraine (2011-2014) and Colombia (2017-2021). Memories of Soviet tanks are part of my Czech roots (remember 21.8.1968 ?) Here mainly to denounce Putin's war on 🇺🇦. @DefendDemocracy team member 🇪🇺
Jana Zikmundova
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Twee dagen trok ik op met Oekraïense drone-eenheid SIGNUM aan het front in Donetsk. In de killzone is de oorlog een macabere videogame met echte levens, waar FPV-drones continu jagen op alles wat beweegt. Lees het verslag vandaag op @vrtnws.be
www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
Soviet Victory over Nazi Germany was achieved by massive Allied support - Europe can and should do a great deal more to help Ukraine.
Thank you, @tilmane.bsky.social.
tilmaneichstdt.substack.com/p/soviet-vic...
"Dit is het einde." Dat dacht journalist Arnaud De Decker toen hij onlangs 2 dagen doorbracht bij de Oekraïense drone-eenheid Signum, aan het front bij Slovjansk. Een Russische FPV-drone, waarbij een ...www.vrt.be
How does Europeans support for Ukraine compare with previous WW2 and Afghanistan engagement? (FIRST DRAFT ASSESSMENT , May 8th 2026)
"The 42 names included in the proposed sanctions list also include Arkady Dvorkovich, a former deputy prime minister who is now the head of the International Chess Federation, known as FIDE."
Like in #URSS times, chess serves as vehicle of 🇷🇺 propaganda, and #FIDE agrees...♟️
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"Owing to their already dominant positions, US Big Tech firms have a panopticon-like view of most emerging technologies, business models, and industry developments, allowing them to stay ahead of shifts in adjacent or potentially disruptive markets."
It happens because we let them.
#StopBigTech
#OTD 👀 #Lidice 🖤
"Brilliant and terrifying and true" – Hugh Grant
See the first public outing of Trojan Horses, a new play by @peterjukes.bsky.social about Brexit and the Great Information War.
Featuring Dugin, Putin, Bannon, Trump, Farage – and Jeffrey Epstein.
Tickets: www.thecockpit.org.uk/show/trojan_...
"Een hoge NAVO-officier die in het onderzoek wordt geciteerd, stelt dat Europa nog steeds te weinig personeel, luchtmacht, drones, logistiek en zelfs ruimtecapaciteiten heeft om een grootschalig conflict zonder flinke externe steun aan te kunnen."
Al meer dan 4️⃣ jaar duidelijk ⁉️
vrtnws.be/p.OvQLl7P5e
Jana Zikmundova
Jana Zikmundova
Jana Zikmundova
Petty European nationalism reducing once again EU countries to geopolitical dwarves while wasting billions of taxpayer money through duplication of efforts....
@vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu @ec.europa.eu @consilium.europa.eu @antoniolscosta.bsky.social @kajakallas.bsky.social
Jana Zikmundova
Jana Zikmundova
Byline Times
Zo'n muziekje erbij hoeft voor mij niet. De stemmen zijn al veelzeggend genoeg. Hoeveel vertrouwen zouden die mensen nog hebben in de Grote Strateeg P.?
Rusland breidt in sneltempo zijn militaire basissen en infrastructuur uit aan de grens met Finland, Noorwegen, de Baltische Staten en Polen. Dat blijkt uit een grootschalige analyse van luchtbeelden d...
In Chuhuyiv of the Kharkiv oblast, 22yo Olha Terianyk was killed in a russian strike. She was expecting a child.
Olha worked as a psychologist at the rehabilitation center for ppl with disabilities.
russia's attack has stolen everything from this beautiful family. This is horrifying.
Read. This. Excellent piece by the brilliant @helenamalikova.bsky.social. Below the surface, invisible to the naked eye, American tech has acquired even more power in Europe than you thought. Europe really, urgently needs to wake up.
Olena Halushka
A very productive night:
On the night of June 10,the Defense Forces of Ukraine struck:
▪️The "VNIIR-Progress" plant in Cheboksary,Chuvash Republic,Russia
The strike was carried out using Ukrainian FP-5 "Flamingo"missiles by the warriors of the Rocket Forces&Artillery of the Ukrainian Ground Forces⤵️
Big Tech firms are amassing market power through investment strategies that bypass current rules for oversight and intervention.
We interrogate this shadow market power in @projectsyndicate.bsky.social with co-authors @briannarock.bsky.social &Anna Marchese.
prosyn.org/27KPJov?h=AE...
The European Union is calling for financial sanctions on the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian head of the world chess federation, a historian who is a close adviser to President Vladimir Putin, and other top officials.
Der Großteil der tschechischen Bevölkerung war von der Entscheidung der tschechoslowakischen Exil-Regierung in London betroffen, Heydrich loszuwerden. Des Attentats tschechoslowakischer Fallschirmjäger am 27.05.42, bei dem Heydrich tödlich verletzt wurde, folgten Vergeltungsmaßnahmen. 👇
For nearly a decade, the Future Combat Air System — driven by France, Germany and Spain — was supposed to embody a new vision of European military power.
This week, it collapsed.
What happens next? There are three main options.
Helena Malikova, Brianna Rock and Anna Marchese explain how Silicon Valley giants are heading off potential competition without drawing antitrust scrutiny.
