Voisiko Stubb olla tuo uusi Churchill? Tai edes tuon uuden Churchillin apulainen. Suomen poliittisen johdon pitää ottaa tärkeimmäksi asiakseen edistää Euroopan yhdentymistä ja aloittaa se yhteisestä puolustuksesta. Lopettakaa se USA:n haikaileminen.

Joo, Stubb on jo noussut tärkeään rooliin EU:n puolustus- ja transatlanttisissa kysymyksissä. Maanantain A-studiossa 9.2. ministeri Häkkänen selosti Euroopan ja USA:n muuttuvia rooleja hyvin, varsinkin miten Naton vastuita uusitaan hallitusti ja ilman turvallisuustyhjiöitä. areena.yle.fi/1-76655461

Puolustusministeri Häkkäsen tiedotustilaisuus 12.2.2026 – aika selväpuheinen ja hyvä katsaus ajankohtaisiin asioihin. #Nato #EU #Puolustuspolitiikka areena.yle.fi/1-77319275

In 1913, Muddy Waters was born in Mississippi. Electrifying Delta blues in Chicago, he helped shape modern blues and laid crucial groundwork for rock ’n’ roll—directly influencing bands like the Rolling Stones. #MusicHistory

#OTD 11 February 2000, the launch of German ESA astronaut Gerhard Thiele on Space Shuttle #Endeavour STS-99 on the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-... #Space #History #SpaceHistory

On December 28, 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumière held the first paid public film screening in Paris at the Salon Indien du Grand Café. Moving pictures stunned audiences and ignited the birth of commercial cinema worldwide. #CinemaHistory

This is an excellent report. Good clear writing and analysis, exceptional visualizations. Lot's of observations, this struck: across BRICS climate change has remained top of mind as a risk, in G7 it has decreased during past half-decade. Yet, impacts all of us securityconference.org/en/publicati...

www.politico.eu/article/nato... Commented for this new @politico.com article on the limits of Sino-Russian strategic trust in the Arctic, as NATO now focuses on #Greenland . @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social

This calculator reminded me of William Gibson's novel "Pattern Recognition" (2003) which was a pretty good book. I'm no IT or maths nerd but Gibson used the mechanical Curta calculator as an interesting story device. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta

Olikohan M.A. Nummisella jotain osuutta Berliinin muurin murtumiseen ja Neuvostoliiton hajoamiseen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._A._N... "In 1989... released the.. The Tractatus Suite, consisting of extracts from the.. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus set to music... recorded between Feb and June 1989."

Vihreä siirtymä on valtava globaali teollinen murros, jossa pelimerkit jaetaan nyt ja lähitulevaisuudessa uudelleen. Panostamalla osaamiseen ja oikeudenmukaisuuteen Suomessa, saamme jalostusastetta korkeammaksi ja varmistamme poliittisen tuen muutokselle. yle.fi/a/74-20209857

Feb. 12, 1926: The longest coal strike in U.S. history ends with a negotiated agreement. Anthracite miners of Pennsylvania celebrate the deal that will let them return to work after a 165-day walkout that reduced many of them to poverty and starved cities of heating fuel. 1/2

The long-planned project will create about 350 jobs and offers Europe’s only production chain of its kind, reducing reliance on Chinese imports.

Yle: Finland opens the EU's first lithium mine Keliber has begun lithium mining in Kaustinen, Finland, as Europe's first battery-grade lithium processing operation starts up in Kokkola. The project will create ca. 350 jobs and Europe’s only production chain of its kind. yle.fi/a/74-2020982...

Kaustisten litium-kaivoksen louhinta alkoi 11.2.2026. Yle: "Louhitusta malmista jalostetaan Kokkolassa Euroopan ensimmäistä akkulaatuista litiumkemikaalia." "Pitkään valmisteltu hanke luo noin 350 työpaikkaa, ja sen tuotantoketju on Euroopassa ainutlaatuinen." yle.fi/a/74-20209101

Tästä oli tuore kirjoitus, Briteissä ollaan ottamassa esimerkkiä. En ole perehtynyt tarkemmin, mutta Ruotsin 'civilian reserve' koostuu eri ammattialojen edustajista joille annetaan sodan ajan tehtäviin soveltuva lisäkoulutus. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol... Via: @thonil.bsky.social

You can read more on the Swedish Total defence and Civil defence service on the website of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), soon to be renamed the Swedish Defence and Resilience Agency (Myndigheten för civilt försvar). www.msb.se/en/advice-fo...

NATO says its Rapid Adoption Action Plan can bring new tech into service within 24 months, and told the UK Defence Journal the target is realistic, with some off-the-shelf systems acquired in as little as six to nine months. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/nato-says-24...

The Entry/Exit System records the entries and exits of non-EU nationals travelling for short stays to 29 European countries, helping safeguard #SchengenEU

🇪🇺🤝🇦🇱 Securing Europe’s borders through unity! Commissioner @magnusbrunner.bsky.social visited Durres, Albania, to see the vital partnership between Frontex officers and local police in action.

Le marché aux fruits de Chanas dans les années 70 avec les abricots en abondance !

Ilmastonmuutoksen kiihtyessä kesä- ja talviolympialaiset voisi yhdistää "good old times" hengessä ylikaupallisia intressejä eskapoivaksi retrohybridi-nostalgia spektaakkeliksi. Näin saataisiin myös museoajoneuvoharrastajat mukaan hommaan. Ornitologit, geologit ja entomologitkin voisivat innostua.

An article about the Swedish civil defence duty scheme in English:

My previous thread about the scheme bsky.app/profile/thon...

Who else loves Calvin’s loaded questions? #CalvinandHobbes

Enjoying the feeling of depth and peacefulness in this painting of the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, by US impressionist Daniel Garber ~ Tohickon (1920), Smithsonian American Art Museum

#OTD in 1944. Private First Class Emma Utter (Women's Army Corps) from Sogola, Michigan painting the nose of a B-24 Liberator. #WW2 #HISTORY

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

This afternoon in 1977, Jimmy Carter became the first president to fly aboard the Boeing E-4A version of the National Emergency Airborne Command Post (NEACP)—now an E-4B called the National Airborne Operations Center (NAOC)—on his first flight home to Georgia three weeks after taking office.

President Carter was not the first president to fly aboard the NEACP (pronounced “kneecap”). President Richard Nixon was, on May 11, 1969 (although the aircraft serving as NEACP at that time was different):

#NATO launches 'Arctic Sentry' mission to strenghten the Alliance's posture in the #Arctic region. The announcement follows the January meeting on #Greenland and the Arctic between #US President Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in Davos.

TP Stubb ei puhu totta ydinaseista. DCA-sopimuksemme ei kiellä niiden sijoittamista USA:n suomalaisiin tukikohtiin. Emme saa edes tietää, onko niitä vai ei. Tämä tiedettiin, kun sopimus hyväksyttiin. USA päättää, onko Suomi ydinasevaltio vai ei. yle.fi/a/74-20208733

Good meeting with Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur. We have no time to wait for strengthening our defence readiness. We discussed how 🇪🇺 instruments such as #SAFE can contribute to boosting our capabilities. And how defence industry needs to accelerate its ramp-up.

Takavuosina vielä revittiin huumoria aiheesta. Alivaltiosihteerin klassikko – "Suomesta ydinasevaltio" (18.5.2016): areena.yle.fi/1-3446132

#Amorphis #Elegy #HeavyMetal

Ukrainalainen metallibändi. Tässä on muutoin hyvä luuppi mutta saisi droonien pärinä jo riittää. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drudkh "In 2024, former drummer Mykola Sostin, who... was in Drudkh from 2004 to 2006, was killed in battle while fighting for Ukraine during the Russo-Ukrainian War."

"Wait, those Euroweenies you said don't build stuff....actually build stuff??"

Presumably Grok will tell American techbros that this is an early 1980s Kraftwerk video

NATO has agreed a shake-up of its command, with the UK set to take over Joint Force Command Norfolk, Italy to lead JFC Naples, and Germany and Poland to rotate command of JFC Brunssum, while the US retains MARCOM, AIRCOM and LANDCOM. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/european-all...

Good news! #WeAreNATO www.nato.int/en/news-and-... via @stratcomcoe.bsky.social

Bourg-Madame 1965 le poste frontiere avec Peugeot 404 Pub ESSO & Casino

Atlantic Chokepoint, Cognitive Front: Russian Influence Operations and the GIUK Gap The Arctic Institute www.thearcticinstitute.org/atlantic-cho... @arcticinstitute.bsky.social

Arctic tourist resort Teriberka, Kola Peninsula, is becoming a hub for 'shadow tankers'

Now that members of Congress are able to see what was redacted they are learning how Todd Blanche failed to comply with the law in countless instances, and it’s now about to get real because what DOJ was hiding is the most incriminating stuff.

Congressional review of the unredacted Epstein files contradicts Trump’s statements. Who’s shocked?

#ImpeachTrumpNow #Project2025 #SaveDemocracy

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #ImpeachTrumpNow