The very same day Russia attacks the Baltics, Ukraine becomes part of of both NATO and EU. True or false?

"it will not get better, not by itself". These are not just pranks.

En die hebben we dan ook graag voor het optreden op land!

Over de gevolgen van sancties, bevriezen van tegoeden en UKR aanvallen op infrastructuur.

"gecorrigeerd voor koopkracht (arbeids- en productiekosten zijn in Rusland lager) is het Russische defensiebudget inmiddels hoger dan dat van alle Europese NAVO-landen bij elkaar."

V. (US) Corps and @1GENLCorps teaming up. Good visit of LTG Costanza (with his team) to HQ 1GNC in Muenster. In the presence of Mayor Lewe they both signed the so-called "golden book". Peace & Security is achieved together! www.presse-service.de/medienarchiv...

Guten Urlaub und Ruhestand, Herr Bischof! Es war immer eine Ehre und noch mehr ein Vergnügen. www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/...

Feuchter Traum von Russland: NATO-Truppen gebunden in einer Friedentruppe in Ukraine. Passt im Putin's nationaler Narrativ, wobei er selbst die Hände frei hält um die >500 K Truppen in Ukraine aus Irkutsk, Jakutsk... irgendwo anders ein zu setzen. Und dass wäre dann bestimmt nicht Russia's Far East.

Frontline nations know what it takes. They act. united24media.com/latest-news/...

Production is key. Not only in Latvia. Not only for Ukraine.

At this sort of symposiums it's also interesting who's not there.

De NAVO lijkt op dit moment de enig functionerende regionale, semi-mondiale veiligheidsorganisatie. Koester en steun dit bondgenootschap.

On this day in 1609, the Bank of Amsterdam is established. It was the first public bank to offer accounts not directly convertible to coin. As such, it has been described as the first true central bank. It introduced the first-ever international reserve currency, the bank guilder

After being bored to death for years over the importance of the Suwalki corridor by thinktanks... Did anyone track a sound analysis of how the admission of Sweden and Finland to NATO effects this importance? Something big changed .. and no-one noticed? Take the challenge: @clingendael.bsky.social?

"Verder zal het Nato Defense Planning Process (NDPP) met de trage cyclus van 4 jaar versneld moeten worden" Fout-fouter-foutst. Het NDPP is okay. Het gaat erom dat landen zich aan de targets houden, maar dat willen en kunnen ze (struisvogel-politiek) niet. www.clingendael.org/sites/defaul...

NATO ships patrol Baltic Sea as part of the Baltic Sentry program after damage of undersea cables. ▪️ Three NATO ships anchored in Tallinn. One of them is the Royal Netherlands Navy frigate Tromp, which leads the squadron.

Es geht hier nicht um 'einfaches' Erhöhen aber es geht hier um erhöhen um die Nato-Targets zu holen (vergessen Sie die algemeine Richtlinie von 2%, das war so was von 2014). Sollten eigentlich mehr/alle Nationen machen...

For those complaining the Baltic states do not invest enough! Richer nations in the EU - or the EU itself - should step up. Since manpower is always an issue, buy materiel for these states. They will (wo)man it for they really sense the threat.

En de hele familie ging daar wonen en we hoorden niets meer van ze: droomeiland

Canada first... But why fix if it ain't broke?

"This will be very much affected by the situation in Ukraine, whether the war in Ukraine will end or possibly remain in some state of a frozen conflict," he said.

"Het zijn speldenprikken over en weer." Eh nee. "Spelen Estland en Rusland kat en muis". Eerder andersom. Maar dat is zeuren: lees het artikel! Het is interessant.

Extremely interesting from a German and Netherlands perspective.

Fun fact. None of these accounts "exchanged". They only have 'sent' ... or answered their own tweets. Just saying.

So macht man dass...gleich 4T Folger! Wilkommen, frue mich.

Dat zijn meer dan 1 miljoen mensen en zo'n 400.000 indien een ander Navo-land wordt aangevallen. Niet verkeerd, denk ik dan.

In a 2012 poll by NATO on NATO, 80% of the younger viewed NATO as very positive. More than 50% percent of this group thought NATO was some sort of NGO. 😆(*numbers might be different...memory issues)

Number 4, that's the new and enduring one. Nations should take action upon it. Do take the time to read the article!

You may want to read what my dear colleague Janno says:

"Gerade säkulare Syrerinnen und Syrer, Frauen und Angehörige von Minderheiten fürchten, dass Sharaa letztlich doch ein Kalifat errichten wird, sobald er seine Herrschaft konsolidiert hat." Plus ein Niederländer.

Dann gilt das Gleiche andersrum. Wenn der neue Machthaber (oder andere!) nach Deutschland kommen wo es als Zeichen des Respekts und der Wertschätzung gilt Frauen WOHL(!) die Hand zu geben.

Verbod op ankers in de maak.

Влади́мир Пу́тин (Vladimir Putin) has the same initials as Варша́вский Пакт (Warsaw Pact). But that is coincidence.

Ich nehme ihn ernst und wörtlich. Nenne mich trübe, aber ein Pessimist wird nicht schnell enttäuscht.

Kirill: "We are hated (by the West) because we offer a different path, an alternative path of civilizational development."

"Quantity has a quality all its own". Nothing's changed. But if Putin is the new Stalin: Stalin resided his last years in a dacha, not in a bunker. #bunkergrandpa #bunkergrandfather

Definitively Budanov's happy face! Still in his 30s.

Oorlog in Oekraïne. Al bijna 11 jaar.

Back to the good old NATO input-output metrics? Example added (NL 2013)

Ich vermute die Deutsche Bahn wird sich durchkämpfen.

Brilliant and readable! That is an achievement worth your notice.

Wars are mostly won by the side that adopts the best/quickest.

For Russia's leadership, people/soldiers are just a commodity. Always have been, always will be.

Old joke. How to recognise an extravert Finn: during conversation he will look at the tips of YOUR shoes in stead of his own.

Feuchter Traum von Russland: NATO-Truppen gebunden in einer Friedentruppe in Ukraine. Passt im Putin's nationaler Narrativ, wobei er selbst die Hände frei hält um die >500 K Truppen in Ukraine aus Irkutsk, Jakutsk... irgendwo anders ein zu setzen. Und dass wäre dann bestimmt nicht Russia's Far East.

And for those who like to fly to the Baltics - actually did quite my share and will continue - Russia's 'suspected' GPS jamming of airplanes is widespread.

If you think you have read everything about future peace in Ukraine: then read this. It is good. I'd offer a 5th scenario: Ukraine will develop decisive weapons itself and will bring the war to Moscow. Not the current pinpricks in Russia. Escalate to de-escalate; something Russia understands.

Qatar Today suspended by Palestinian Authority? Did not see that coming....

What is actually widely misunderstood are the geographical limitations: it is Europe, the US and the Atlantic Ocean north of the tropic of cancer (so the Falklands could not invoke art. 5, nor can the Dutch Antilles). The pacific is also no NATO defence area.

China wird alt, bevor es reich wird. Und dass wird Folgen für die globalen Warenpreise und die Inflation haben.