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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 13h

Just what is the point of any of this?

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 18h

SWP auch nicht, FT auch nicht, es ist einfach alles ausgedacht 😶

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

Frank Sauer’s piece doesn’t exist either, and another SWP article neither. This seems written entirely by AI. We’re so cooked.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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Loïc Tregoures @tregs.bsky.social · 1d

Non seulement on ne peut plus se moquer de la Belgique, mais on ne peut même plus de moquer de Liz Truss! La France est humiliée

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Georgina Wright @georginaewright.bsky.social · 1d

What happens next? Three options for Macron:
1) names another PM (preferably, for longevity reasons, not from his camp)
2) calls snap elections
3) resigns.

1st or 2nd more likely than 3rd, though resignation rumours continue to swirl.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 2d

Well.

www.lemonde.fr/politique/li...

EN DIRECT, démission de Lecornu : le premier ministre a présenté sa démission à Emmanuel Macron, qui l’a acceptée

Le chef du gouvernement a démissionné lundi matin, au lendemain de l’annonce de ses ministres. La nouvelle équipe présentée dimanche soir était critiquée de toutes parts.

www.lemonde.fr

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 2d

“Ukraine has hit 16 out of Russia’s 38 refineries and that although repairs are possible, damage becomes lasting when refineries are subjected to repeated attacks. Some, he says, have been hit up to three times. “

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 2d

“it is the unrelenting focus on refineries which is doing most to change the narrative about the war, even appearing to help change Donald Trump’s mind about Ukraine’s prospects.”

Ukraine’s hellfire is intensifying the Kremlin’s fuel crisis
economist.com/europe/2025/...

Ukraine’s hellfire is intensifying the Kremlin’s fuel crisis

Almost half of Russia’s refineries have been hit by drones and missiles

economist.com

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 2d

Bruno Le Maire becomes defence minister in the new French government. For how long, no one knows.

www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Le gouvernement Lecornu, à peine nommé et déjà menacé d’implosion

La nouvelle équipe, qui compte douze membres du gouvernement Bayrou sur dix-huit et consacre le retour de deux figures du macronisme, Bruno Le Maire et Roland Lescure, divise le socle commun et accent...

www.lemonde.fr

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 2d

Movement in the Spanish defence industry

on.ft.com/3VQViqQ
Brothers in arms: Spanish defence merger raises conflict questions

Brothers in arms: Spanish defence merger raises conflict questions

EM&E’s co-founder seeks deal with aspiring national champion Indra — whose chair is his elder sibling

on.ft.com

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

Talk about low-tech!
Article on French military pigeons.

Mathieu Bourdin @arkavoltchek.bagarrosphere.fr · 3d

La très sélecte escadrille à plumes de l’armée française : « Ici, les pigeons prennent un bain chaque jour. S’ils sont sales ou malades, ils se laissent dépérir »

A Suresnes, près de Paris, la forteresse du mont Valérien abrite le dernier colombier militaire d’Europe. Même si, à l’heure de l’ultra-technologisation des armements, le pigeon voyageur ne se déplace...

www.lemonde.fr

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

“Fuck, am Ende hab ich recht!” 🙈

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

Doesn’t sound ideal.

"We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure," the memo says.

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says

The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems and vulnerabilities, and should be treated as a "very high risk," according to a recent internal Army memo.

www.reuters.com

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

Me again.

www.diepresse.com/20165368/wir...

„Wir sollen an Flughäfen ein mulmiges Gefühl bekommen“

Die renommierte deutsche Expertin für Sicherheitspolitik, Ulrike Franke, erklärt, warum ein „Drohnenwall“ so nicht machbar ist und was Russland mit Drohnenüberflügen bezwecken könnte.

www.diepresse.com

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

bsky.app/profile/rike...

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 4d

My latest WPR column

www.worldpoliticsreview.com/europe-russi...

Europe Can No Longer Ignore That It’s Under Russian Attack

Russia’s drone incursions have made European societies aware they are being targeted, which is the first step to responding appropriately.

www.worldpoliticsreview.com

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

Different case.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

"Given the current security posture of the platform and the hosted 3rd party applications the likelihood of an adversary gaining persistent undetectable access to the platform requires the system be treated as very high risk."

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says

The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems and vulnerabilities, and should be treated as a "very high risk," according to a recent internal Army memo.

www.reuters.com

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

Doesn’t sound ideal.

"We cannot control who sees what, we cannot see what users are doing, and we cannot verify that the software itself is secure," the memo says.

www.reuters.com/business/aer...

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has deep flaws, Army memo says

The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems and vulnerabilities, and should be treated as a "very high risk," according to a recent internal Army memo.

www.reuters.com

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

Ja, fair point, das weiss ich aktuell nicht, wie gut das in der Praxis tatsächlich funktioniert.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

I don’t get these people. They go through the trouble of looking me up, searching my contact details, writing me an email… only to tell me things I have repeated over and over for the last days.

(In this case, this 👇stat. Which of course he got wrong, but anyway)

bsky.app/profile/rike...

Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 5d

We’re up to 172 drone sightings on German airports this year. A lot, but also note numbers from previous years.

Graph by Deutsche Flugsicherung, showing172 drone sightings this year. All years since 2019 (with the exception of 2020) has had more than 100 sightings.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 3d

Well, they got one guy. Hobbyist drone pilot tried to fly his drone Friday morning at 6am near Frankfurt airport.

www.spiegel.de/panorama/flu...

Flughafen Frankfurt: Hobbydrohnenpilot droht Geldstrafe im fünfstelligen Bereich

Am Freitagmorgen um 6.00 Uhr wollte er seine neue Drohne testen – ausgerechnet am Frankfurter Flughafen. Jetzt hat die Polizei die Identität des 41-Jährigen ermittelt. Für den Mann wird es wohl teuer.

www.spiegel.de

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 4d

“These sites have highest level of anti-aircraft protection.” - would be nice if true.

“ Poland had no great difficulty in downing Russian drones” - of course they did, they used inappropriate systems and downed 3 out of 19.

“the West has the tech for that”
- we should and could but mostly don’t

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 4d

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 6d

Was invited to Heute Journal Podcast to discuss hybrid warfare and drones

www.zdfheute.de/video/heute-...

heute journal - der Podcast: Unbekannte Drohnen: Wie verwundbar ist Deutschland?

In Deutschland wurden unbekannte Drohnen gesichtet. Experten deuten das als Provokation Russlands. Sind wir vorbereitet, wenn Drohnenr auftauchen?

www.zdfheute.de

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