Franz
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💥The West urged resistance to Moscow, then stood aside and did nothing when Russian tanks rolled in. This narrative of Western betrayal dates back to Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution. Back then the USSR was powerful — not a failing state like today’s Russia.
Will history still repeat itself?
Will history still repeat itself?
December 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
💥The West urged resistance to Moscow, then stood aside and did nothing when Russian tanks rolled in. This narrative of Western betrayal dates back to Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet revolution. Back then the USSR was powerful — not a failing state like today’s Russia.
Will history still repeat itself?
Will history still repeat itself?
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The FP-5 Flamingo Has Arrived: What Ukraine's 3,000-Kilometer Cruise Missile Means for the War and the Future of Europe
Specifications, range, payload, lethality, survivability, and strategic implications.
By @frhoffmann.bsky.social
missilematters.substack.com/p/the-flamin...
Specifications, range, payload, lethality, survivability, and strategic implications.
By @frhoffmann.bsky.social
missilematters.substack.com/p/the-flamin...
The FP-5 Flamingo Has Arrived: What Ukraine's 3,000-Kilometer Cruise Missile Means for the War and the Future of Europe
Specifications, range, payload, lethality, survivability, and strategic implications.
missilematters.substack.com
August 23, 2025 at 6:15 AM
The FP-5 Flamingo Has Arrived: What Ukraine's 3,000-Kilometer Cruise Missile Means for the War and the Future of Europe
Specifications, range, payload, lethality, survivability, and strategic implications.
By @frhoffmann.bsky.social
missilematters.substack.com/p/the-flamin...
Specifications, range, payload, lethality, survivability, and strategic implications.
By @frhoffmann.bsky.social
missilematters.substack.com/p/the-flamin...
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These: Wenn es immer weniger große Anzeigenkunden gibt, bekommen diejenigen, die es noch gibt, immer mehr Einfluss auf redaktionelle Inhalte. Gilt für private wie öffentliche Inseratenkunden.
July 30, 2025 at 1:20 PM
These: Wenn es immer weniger große Anzeigenkunden gibt, bekommen diejenigen, die es noch gibt, immer mehr Einfluss auf redaktionelle Inhalte. Gilt für private wie öffentliche Inseratenkunden.
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Moscow is celebrating because they finally got a multi-polar world order, but I don't think they envisioned this including a European continent armed to the teeth.
The war, the geopolitical uncertainty and the new arms race started by Putin have left Europe with no choice. Europe must be ready for this race, and Russia will lose it like the Soviet Union 40 years ago. From today, Europe will arm itself more wisely and faster than Russia.
March 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Moscow is celebrating because they finally got a multi-polar world order, but I don't think they envisioned this including a European continent armed to the teeth.
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I have spent a lot of time explaining what a “European Army” might be. See 👇.
The proposal of the article linkes to in the first post goes more in the direction of a 28th army. That option has become *much more* likely now because of the changed situation.
www.boell.de/en/2024/01/2...
The proposal of the article linkes to in the first post goes more in the direction of a 28th army. That option has become *much more* likely now because of the changed situation.
www.boell.de/en/2024/01/2...
The never-ending debate of the European Army and why it is unhelpful | Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Ever since its first proposal in the 1950s, the European army has been a ghost in the system of European Defence debates. But it is an unhelpful and distracting concept for the challenges that the EU ...
www.boell.de
March 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
I have spent a lot of time explaining what a “European Army” might be. See 👇.
The proposal of the article linkes to in the first post goes more in the direction of a 28th army. That option has become *much more* likely now because of the changed situation.
www.boell.de/en/2024/01/2...
The proposal of the article linkes to in the first post goes more in the direction of a 28th army. That option has become *much more* likely now because of the changed situation.
www.boell.de/en/2024/01/2...
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New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.
March 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New York Times, Jan. 26, 1935.
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This is an excellent chart, most notably because it shows that the collapse of mainstream parties in Europe & the rise of the far right started with the GFC/Lost Decade/needless austerity from 2008-18. Yes, the refugee crisis, Covid, & inflation mattered, but it was all well under way by then.
After the AfD's surge on Sunday, far right parties are the most voted-for of any grouping in Europe, for the first time in history: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
March 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is an excellent chart, most notably because it shows that the collapse of mainstream parties in Europe & the rise of the far right started with the GFC/Lost Decade/needless austerity from 2008-18. Yes, the refugee crisis, Covid, & inflation mattered, but it was all well under way by then.
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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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Not news but still always worth reminding ppl.
From on.ft.com/4hHdJat How European defence companies can rise to the challenge
From on.ft.com/4hHdJat How European defence companies can rise to the challenge
February 19, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Not news but still always worth reminding ppl.
From on.ft.com/4hHdJat How European defence companies can rise to the challenge
From on.ft.com/4hHdJat How European defence companies can rise to the challenge
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“You [Ukraine] should have never started it” were his precise words. Started the illegal invasion of their own lands?
February 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“You [Ukraine] should have never started it” were his precise words. Started the illegal invasion of their own lands?
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Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good.
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
February 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good.
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17
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Hier ist eindeutig die Politik gefragt - auf europäischer Ebene!
Was wir hier sehen, ist eine neue Generation. Der Recruitingprozess hat sich nur an die Moderne (Internet) angepasst. Algorithmen befeuern das Ganze.
Die Tagespresse hat dazu einen Selbstversuch auf TikTok gemacht.
Die Tagespresse hat dazu einen Selbstversuch auf TikTok gemacht.
Selbstversuch: So radikalisiert TikTok österreichische Teenager
Wir haben den Selbstversuch gewagt, uns auf TikTok als österreichische Teenager ausgegeben und uns radikalisieren lassen.
dietagespresse.com
February 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Hier ist eindeutig die Politik gefragt - auf europäischer Ebene!
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Carl Schmitt has returned. This is an outright rejection of the very basics of the separation of powers we know since the days of Montesqieu and thus the legal and constitutional system of every democracy that deserves this categorization. By the vice president of the United States.
February 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Carl Schmitt has returned. This is an outright rejection of the very basics of the separation of powers we know since the days of Montesqieu and thus the legal and constitutional system of every democracy that deserves this categorization. By the vice president of the United States.