xhudik
@xhudik.bsky.social
father of three; IT specialist; I do like European values, do not like European bureaucracy and subsidies
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🇧🇪 Belgian PM Bart De Wever:
We need our own technological platforms to build the prosperity of tomorrow.
If not, Trump can do with us whatever he wants. He can play with us. He can make us slaves — because we actually are slaves then.
1/4
We need our own technological platforms to build the prosperity of tomorrow.
If not, Trump can do with us whatever he wants. He can play with us. He can make us slaves — because we actually are slaves then.
1/4
January 20, 2026 at 2:17 PM
🇧🇪 Belgian PM Bart De Wever:
We need our own technological platforms to build the prosperity of tomorrow.
If not, Trump can do with us whatever he wants. He can play with us. He can make us slaves — because we actually are slaves then.
1/4
We need our own technological platforms to build the prosperity of tomorrow.
If not, Trump can do with us whatever he wants. He can play with us. He can make us slaves — because we actually are slaves then.
1/4
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In a recent interview, Moldovan President Maia Sandu did just that, saying she would vote for the country’s reunification with Romania if such a referendum were to take place.
Facing Russia and global shifts, Moldova’s Sandu opens door to reunification with Romania
It is not often a president says they would support the dissolution of the state they are leading.
In a recent interview, Moldovan President Maia Sandu did just that, saying she would vote for the co...
kyivindependent.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:07 AM
In a recent interview, Moldovan President Maia Sandu did just that, saying she would vote for the country’s reunification with Romania if such a referendum were to take place.
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The damage which possibly derailed the train in Spain and caused the death of 39 people looks suspiciously similar to the damage caused in Poland near Ukraine two months ago.
Left pic Spain, right pic Poland.
Left pic Spain, right pic Poland.
January 20, 2026 at 6:02 AM
The damage which possibly derailed the train in Spain and caused the death of 39 people looks suspiciously similar to the damage caused in Poland near Ukraine two months ago.
Left pic Spain, right pic Poland.
Left pic Spain, right pic Poland.
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“Ukraine’s membership in the EU and NATO must be guaranteed. This is the clearest demonstration of russian failure.”
- Petr Pavel
President of the Czech Republic 🇨🇿
- Petr Pavel
President of the Czech Republic 🇨🇿
January 14, 2026 at 12:56 AM
“Ukraine’s membership in the EU and NATO must be guaranteed. This is the clearest demonstration of russian failure.”
- Petr Pavel
President of the Czech Republic 🇨🇿
- Petr Pavel
President of the Czech Republic 🇨🇿
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🇩🇪 Merz: It was a serious strategic mistake to exit nuclear energy. We are now undertaking the most expensive energy transition in the entire world. I know of no other country that makes things so difficult and expensive as Germany.
January 15, 2026 at 8:55 AM
🇩🇪 Merz: It was a serious strategic mistake to exit nuclear energy. We are now undertaking the most expensive energy transition in the entire world. I know of no other country that makes things so difficult and expensive as Germany.
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Poll: 62% of Americans would oppose U.S. military action in #Greenland
Trump has threatened to use force in the Danish-controlled territory — and in Iran, Colombia, Mexico and Cuba. Americans do not want him to follow through.
#Trump #Denmark
www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
Trump has threatened to use force in the Danish-controlled territory — and in Iran, Colombia, Mexico and Cuba. Americans do not want him to follow through.
#Trump #Denmark
www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
Poll: 62% of Americans would oppose U.S. military action in Greenland
Trump has threatened to use force in the Danish-controlled territory — and in Iran, Colombia, Mexico and Cuba. Americans do not want him to follow through.
www.yahoo.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Poll: 62% of Americans would oppose U.S. military action in #Greenland
Trump has threatened to use force in the Danish-controlled territory — and in Iran, Colombia, Mexico and Cuba. Americans do not want him to follow through.
#Trump #Denmark
www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
Trump has threatened to use force in the Danish-controlled territory — and in Iran, Colombia, Mexico and Cuba. Americans do not want him to follow through.
#Trump #Denmark
www.yahoo.com/news/world/a...
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Just in: The Danish Armed Forces have reinforced their military presence in Greenland starting today, in coordination with allies. The Government of Greenland says the move aims to bolster Arctic alliances and enhance European and transatlantic security.
January 14, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Just in: The Danish Armed Forces have reinforced their military presence in Greenland starting today, in coordination with allies. The Government of Greenland says the move aims to bolster Arctic alliances and enhance European and transatlantic security.
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🛳️ Tankers hauling Russia's crude are piling up at sea with nowhere to go, as Moscow struggles to revive the Indian market that saved its oil trade when European buyers turned away after the Ukraine invasion, - Bloomberg
January 13, 2026 at 5:11 PM
🛳️ Tankers hauling Russia's crude are piling up at sea with nowhere to go, as Moscow struggles to revive the Indian market that saved its oil trade when European buyers turned away after the Ukraine invasion, - Bloomberg
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that Iran’s clerical leadership is in ruins, arguing the Tehran regime can no longer survive without violence.
Iran’s regime is finished, says Merz
“I assume that we are now witnessing the final days and weeks of this regime,” German chancellor says as Iranian protests sweep the country.
www.politico.eu
January 13, 2026 at 8:43 AM
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said that Iran’s clerical leadership is in ruins, arguing the Tehran regime can no longer survive without violence.
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Interesting that he twice choses France as the representative of Europe.
Anyway, the video expresses well the absurdity of it all.
Anyway, the video expresses well the absurdity of it all.
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
January 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Interesting that he twice choses France as the representative of Europe.
Anyway, the video expresses well the absurdity of it all.
Anyway, the video expresses well the absurdity of it all.
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Microsoft warns that China is winning AI race outside the west
Microsoft warns that China is winning AI race outside the west
DeepSeek’s technology is being rapidly adopted across Africa and beyond, tech group’s research shows
giftarticle.ft.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Microsoft warns that China is winning AI race outside the west
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Today is day 1418 of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. So today Russia has been attacking Ukraine’s for precisely as long as the Soviet Union was defending itself against Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. My comment:
timothygartonash.substack.com/p/ukraine-14...
timothygartonash.substack.com/p/ukraine-14...
Ukraine: 1418 days and counting
+ as we hope against hope for Iran, lessons from the history of protest
timothygartonash.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Today is day 1418 of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. So today Russia has been attacking Ukraine’s for precisely as long as the Soviet Union was defending itself against Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. My comment:
timothygartonash.substack.com/p/ukraine-14...
timothygartonash.substack.com/p/ukraine-14...
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🇺🇦 Military engineers have discovered that 🇷🇺 forces are now wiring Starlink satellite terminals on their drones with explosive traps, raising concerns over the safety of capturing such equipment & the increasing use of Western technology by 🇷🇺 troops
#Ukraine #Russia
united24media.com/latest-news/...
#Ukraine #Russia
united24media.com/latest-news/...
January 12, 2026 at 8:29 AM
🇺🇦 Military engineers have discovered that 🇷🇺 forces are now wiring Starlink satellite terminals on their drones with explosive traps, raising concerns over the safety of capturing such equipment & the increasing use of Western technology by 🇷🇺 troops
#Ukraine #Russia
united24media.com/latest-news/...
#Ukraine #Russia
united24media.com/latest-news/...
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Monday morning re-up of an episode that I hope will provoke some thought and discussion: about devising a suite of measures that really can assure Ukraine's security, and be applied and sustained, unlike some of the 'reassurance force' fantasies...
In Moscow's Shadows 231: Real Guarantees for Ukraine
It's easy to snipe at unrealistic pledges of troops and 'Art. 50-like' guarantees.
Here I stick my neck out and outline a suite of meaningful security guarantees that won't (shouldn't) torpedo peace talks
www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...
It's easy to snipe at unrealistic pledges of troops and 'Art. 50-like' guarantees.
Here I stick my neck out and outline a suite of meaningful security guarantees that won't (shouldn't) torpedo peace talks
www.buzzsprout.com/1026985/epis...
In Moscow's Shadows 231: Real Guarantees for Ukraine - In Moscow's Shadows
The talk of a military force provided by the 'Coalition of the Willing' to help secure Ukraine after a peace is a non-starter, not least as it would preclude any peace deal. But it's easy to snipe fro...
www.buzzsprout.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Monday morning re-up of an episode that I hope will provoke some thought and discussion: about devising a suite of measures that really can assure Ukraine's security, and be applied and sustained, unlike some of the 'reassurance force' fantasies...
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[Q]: If you could kidnap one world leader, who would it be?
🇬🇧 #UK Defense Secretary John Healey:
I'd take Putin into custody. Hold him account for these war crimes. Hold him account for what I saw in Bucha, & for the abduction of some of the ukrainians kids that I met in Irpin
#Ukraine #Russia
🇬🇧 #UK Defense Secretary John Healey:
I'd take Putin into custody. Hold him account for these war crimes. Hold him account for what I saw in Bucha, & for the abduction of some of the ukrainians kids that I met in Irpin
#Ukraine #Russia
January 11, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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Bill Gates warns the world is going ‘backwards’ and gives 5-year deadline before we enter a new Dark Age
#Trump #Dictator
#US #MAGA
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
#Trump #Dictator
#US #MAGA
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Bill Gates warns the world is going ‘backwards’ and gives 5-year deadline before we enter a new Dark Age
"I believe that, within the next decade, we will not only get the world back on track but enter a new era of unprecedented progress," Gates wrote in his annual letter.
www.yahoo.com
January 10, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Bill Gates warns the world is going ‘backwards’ and gives 5-year deadline before we enter a new Dark Age
#Trump #Dictator
#US #MAGA
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
#Trump #Dictator
#US #MAGA
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
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"The Oreshnik is the sign of a Fearful, Worried Putin, Not a Leader Confident of Victory." My regular update on war and great power competition. This week: the Oreshnik attack, peace talks progress, ground war in #Ukraine, China's reaction to Venezuela & more.
mickryan.substack.com/p/the-oreshn...
mickryan.substack.com/p/the-oreshn...
The Oreshnik is the sign of a Fearful, Worried Putin, Not a Leader Confident of Victory: The Big Five 11 January 2026.
My first 2026 update on war and great power competition. This week: the Oreshnik attack, peace talks progress, the ground war in Ukraine, China's reaction to Venezuela & my Big Five recommended reads.
mickryan.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:07 AM
"The Oreshnik is the sign of a Fearful, Worried Putin, Not a Leader Confident of Victory." My regular update on war and great power competition. This week: the Oreshnik attack, peace talks progress, ground war in #Ukraine, China's reaction to Venezuela & more.
mickryan.substack.com/p/the-oreshn...
mickryan.substack.com/p/the-oreshn...
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🇷🇺 Ukrainian hackers have uncovered a Russian weapons smuggling group, operating in conjunction with Russia's "shadow tanker" fleet putting arms into the hands of terrorists worldwide.
informnapalm.org/en/we-can-sm...
informnapalm.org/en/we-can-sm...
"We can smuggle even nukes": Russian officers from the 291st Regiment and Vostok-Akhmat establish weapons smuggling channel through Crimea
The Ukrainian hacktivist group 256 Cyber Assault Division, in cooperation with InformNapalm volunteer intelligence community conducted another CYBINT operation obtaining important intelligence for the...
informnapalm.org
January 10, 2026 at 3:31 PM
🇷🇺 Ukrainian hackers have uncovered a Russian weapons smuggling group, operating in conjunction with Russia's "shadow tanker" fleet putting arms into the hands of terrorists worldwide.
informnapalm.org/en/we-can-sm...
informnapalm.org/en/we-can-sm...
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(Reuters) - The U.S. is in the process of seizing the Olina tanker IMO 9282479 in the Caribbean near Trinidad in the fifth such interdiction of ships in recent weeks
January 9, 2026 at 1:03 PM
(Reuters) - The U.S. is in the process of seizing the Olina tanker IMO 9282479 in the Caribbean near Trinidad in the fifth such interdiction of ships in recent weeks
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Štvou vás ty současné mrazy? Za to může Macinka! To on zrušil globální oteplování.
January 9, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Štvou vás ty současné mrazy? Za to může Macinka! To on zrušil globální oteplování.
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Ukrainian Security Service has demonstrated the pieces of Oreshnik that Russia used to attack Lviv region.
The parts found so far:
▪️ stabilization and guidance unit (the missile's "brains", essentially);
▪️ spare parts from the engine installation;
▪️ fragments of the orientation mechanism;
The parts found so far:
▪️ stabilization and guidance unit (the missile's "brains", essentially);
▪️ spare parts from the engine installation;
▪️ fragments of the orientation mechanism;
January 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Ukrainian Security Service has demonstrated the pieces of Oreshnik that Russia used to attack Lviv region.
The parts found so far:
▪️ stabilization and guidance unit (the missile's "brains", essentially);
▪️ spare parts from the engine installation;
▪️ fragments of the orientation mechanism;
The parts found so far:
▪️ stabilization and guidance unit (the missile's "brains", essentially);
▪️ spare parts from the engine installation;
▪️ fragments of the orientation mechanism;
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January 9, 2026 at 7:43 AM
The 08/01/26 Ukraine SitRep is live: threadreaderapp.com/thread/20095...
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another word for this is "state capture"
1/Quick thoughts on Venezuela oil and what it means for world politics. Rather than a simple story of corporate oligarchy, more about Trump putting himself at the center of spoils that can be used to consolidate power i.e neo-royalism.
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/t...
www.cnbc.com/2026/01/06/t...
Trump says Venezuela to give up to 50 million barrels of oil to U.S.
Trump's announcement came days after U.S. forces attacked Venezuela and captured its leader, Nicolas Maduro, to be prosecuted on drug-trafficking charges.
www.cnbc.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:23 PM
another word for this is "state capture"