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Frans Faase retweeted
We have always had important, strong strategic relations with the United States of America. Our bilateral relationship began developing particularly actively during the full-scale war. I am grateful for all the support.
But we have always built our relationship on honesty, fairness, and, most importantly, transparency. Because when you lie while your people are at war, it is very painful. That is why I have always wanted to hide nothing and never lie to the President of the United States. In any case, we have more in common than America does with Russia. Most people in Ukraine and the United States of America understand this. We would like to continue having the same open, honest, and pragmatic relations with America that we have today.
The position is very simple. We support a mutual energy ceasefire. If we are talking about the idea that we should not strike back at Russian energy facilities after they strike our gas, electricity, oil – everything. The Russians are striking. America cannot stop them. Let's believe that America really wants to, but cannot. Then, as a partner, I am willing to meet President Trump halfway: if they strike us and we cannot strike back – that is neither honest nor fair – but if this is what you need, if you cannot rein Putin in, then give us interceptor missiles so I can protect our energy infrastructure. You couldn't stop Putin – but you helped Ukraine.
From an interview with Corriere della Sera. (2/3)
Frans Faase retweeted
Vance: "I think Ukrainians should stop bombing Russian energy... I don't think that Ukraine should be in NATO."
NO ONE WAS TOUCHING THEIR PRECIOUS ENERGY UNTIL THEY INVADED US!
And maybe, just maybe, Russia should stop murdering Ukrainian civilians on a daily basis, JD? Maybe they shouldn't be murdering babies in their strollers in the park like they did today?
Maybe they should stop an almost 5-year-long bombing campaign against Ukrainian infrastructure designed to plunge us into a humanitarian disaster and force us to surrender? How about that?
Or, hear me out, maybe they should fuck off back across the border, and then no one will bomb them again?
Frans Faase retweeted
With Trump's removal of Starlink, Russians are now hunting cars full of people in Kyiv, using jet drones for which Ukraine's interceptors no longer function to stop.
Three people murdered an hour ago in southern Kyiv, with six others injured, three of which are children.
Frans Faase retweeted
[Q]: Is Ukraine an ally of the United States?
[US Vice President JD Vance]:
They're certainly a partner in some ways, but I think we have some divergent interests from time to time.
For example, do I think they should be bombing Russian diesel facilities that raise the cost of energy for Americans? No.
[Q]: Is partner different than ally?
[VP Vance]:
We don't have a formal alliance as far as I know with Ukraine.
They're not in NATO. I don't think that they should be in NATO. I think that they're a country, a very admirable country, a beautiful country with a lot of amazing people.
Frans Faase retweeted
Caroline van der Plas wordt stevig aangepakt door Femke Halsema. @lientje1967 demoniseert Halsema bewust. En niet voor het eerst. Caroline heeft de pik in op Halsema. Kijk maar hóe fel zij tegen de minister uithaalt. Geen mens weet waarom. Boerentrienengedrag!
Frans Faase retweeted
Russian satellite Kosmos-2612 has closed to 136 meters from Finland's ICEYE-X36. Earlier estimates put the gap at 90 km.
Moscow burned serious fuel and resources to change its orbit and run the Finnish satellite down. The apparent plan is to destroy it by ramming it.
ICEYE is the same satellite line Serhiy Prytula talked about buying for Ukraine. A Russian junk hulk is now stalking a NATO member's spacecraft in orbit, apparently with one goal in mind: colliding with it.
Frans Faase retweeted
Every night, Israeli soldiers fire bullets at the tents of displaced Palestinians for entertainment, and Palestinian civilians are killed day after day while sleeping inside their tents.
Tonight, an innocent little girl Misk Al-Dalo was killed, becoming yet another victim of Israeli brutality in Gaza.
Please share this video in every language so the world can see what is happening and this senseless killing of Palestinian lives can finally stop.
Frans Faase retweeted
Palestinian children scream and cry as Israeli settlers brutally beat their father before their eyes, leaving them terrified and helpless.
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JD Vance joins Trump's 24/7 Putin praise tour, heaping compliments onto the Russian dictator that's murdered around 20 Ukrainian children in the past week alone.
What a fucking piece of shit this whole admin is..
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“I’m not sure Zelenskyy knows what he’s talking about,” Rubio says when asked about the reason for Ukraine’s Starlink and Starshield systems being throttled. He says Ukraine wants access to Starshield but doesn’t yet. In fact, Ukraine has had access to and contracts for Starshield since 2024. So it seems the Ukrainian president is not the one who doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
It’s been a week and Ukraine still has no answers from the Trump admin nor SpaceX about why the Starlink and Starshield systems have been restricted and who ordered the speed limits. The White House and SpaceX each claim it’s the other who’s responsible. Rubio says nobody in the US is responsible.
Frans Faase retweeted
In May, five Russian satellites surrounded a commercial imaging satellite.
And this week, one of them — Cosmos 2612 — is maneuvering to get even closer. It will make its closest pass over the next 24 hours.
(h/t @AdamCohen8 for the visualization)
This is wild... Russia seems to be threatening a *commercial* satellite that provides imaging services to Ukraine:
▸ starting about two weeks ago, Russia started maneuvering five (!) of their classified satellites to the same orbital inclination as the ICEYE satellite
▸ these burns were big, on the order of 100 m/s, clearly using chemical propulsion given the speed of the burns — very expensive and deliberate maneuvers
▸ as of last Friday, all five Russian satellites are now co-planar, at ~97.8° inclination, with three of ICEYE's satellites, and aligned in other orbital elements (e.g. RAAN) that make it clear they're specifically targeting this set
▸ I am a little skeptical that Russia is specifically targeting -X36 — there are two other satellites at the same inclination/RAAN (-X37 and -X38) — but the Russian sats are now all within striking distance of -X36, which is why people are concerned about it specifically; the closest cross-track distance is an estimated 500 meters (!!), all while the satellites are orbit 550 kilometers above Earth
▸ Russia has unleashed a cyberattack on a commercial satellite before (Viasat), and it is official Russian policy that commercially-owned infrastructure that aids in military efforts "may be legitimate target[s] for a retaliatory strike.”
▸ there's speculation that this could be a precursor to an RPO mission (meaning: physically grabbing the satellite or some other kind of non-kinetic attack like blinding/jamming)
Worth tracking closely. And unfortunately more evidence that space is militarizing, fast.
Frans Faase retweeted
Ik tekende zojuist petitie die de EU oproept om 't Internationaal Strafhof te verdedigen tegen Trumps aanvallen. De EU heeft 'n krachtig middel om het internationaal recht te beschermen – massale publieke druk dwingt ze tot actie. Doe mee, teken nu:
action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-1…
#ICC
Frans Faase retweeted
Ik doe mee. Het wordt tijd dat we Femke Halsema een hart onder de riem steken. Niet normaal wat deze vrouw over zich heen krijgt aan haat.
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An important study that deserves to be shared as widely as possible within the English-speaking world.
Last night, our friends at the *Militarnyi* portal published an English-language article containing a technical analysis of the onboard computer from a Russian jet-powered drone—the "Geran-4."
Of the 105 components identified, 80 come from American companies; Texas Instruments alone (including components from National Semiconductor, which was acquired by TI in 2011) accounts for 58.1% of the total.
In short: this points to a systemic reliance on Western electronics in this Russian attack drone.
For this reason, we have created a separate English-language "quote tweet" with commentary, in which we have tagged @TXInstruments directly.
We would appreciate it if you could share this post. 😉
Please tag journalists, American politicians, experts, and organizations involved in sanctions and export controls in the comments.
Our experience in disseminating such investigations shows that it is crucial to bring these findings to light beyond the Ukrainian "information bubble." They need to be seen by the manufacturers themselves, as well as by journalists, analysts, sanctions experts, American policymakers, and export control specialists.
Regardless of the current policy of the White House, the United States is much more than just a single administration or a single president. They include Congress, the media, industry experts, manufacturers, and government institutions—all of whom can raise the question of how American electronics end up in Russian attack drones on such a large scale. Therefore, such revelations must continue.
@informnapalm xitter.cf/InformNapalm/status/21…
Russia calls this “domestic production.”
Yet in the Geran-4 flight controller examined by Ukrainian specialists, no Russian-made electronics were found at all. Of 105 identified components, 80 came from 🇺🇸 U.S. companies — with @TXInstruments, including components from National Semiconductor acquired by TI in 2011, accounting for 58.1%.
#Russia #US #ExportControls
Frans Faase retweeted
In Bulgaria, near Sofia, two masked individuals set fire to 11 of the 17 SpaceX antennas providing Starlink connectivity.
According to Bulgarian MP Ivaylo Mirchev, these stations provided backbone connectivity to satellites, including for Ukraine.
Mirchev called on the security services and the Interior Ministry to explain what had happened:
"It was no coincidence that these particular antennas were set on fire. They provide the backbone communications link to these satellites. The same thing happened to similar antennas in Poland at the end of September."
Bulgarian PM Rumen Radev refused to disclose details of the suspected arson, citing the ongoing investigation, BNR News reports.
The Interior Ministry said that security at similar facilities had already been stepped up.
Frans Faase retweeted
Knoester kritisch op Coenradie vandaaginside.nl/politiek/ne…
en de flagrante feitenvrije flauwekul
die zij zonder tegenspraak kan spuien
bij deze onnozele onderbuik-orgie.
"Wij moeten als politici de rechtspraak gaan sturen" 🤨🙄🤦♂️ #nieuwsvandedag #vandaaginside
Frans Faase retweeted
Where is NATO?
Another monstrous crime by the Putin regime. The tanker "Wine Trader" was attacked by two drones
IN ROMANIAN TERRITORIAL WATERS.
The video shows damage to the ship's superstructure.
Frans Faase retweeted
Last night, Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck an airfield in the Voronezh region. Four Su-34 aircraft were destroyed and two more Su-34s were hit. The Russians used them to terrorize our people. These very warplanes were ready to launch new attacks on Ukraine and were loaded with aerial bombs.
Our Long Neptune missile was used to strike the target. I thank the warriors of the Ukrainian Navy for their precision!
Our long-range sanctions also reached a site in the Oryol region used to store and launch attack drones. A target was also hit in the Black Sea.
These are our justified responses to all of Russia’s terror against Ukraine. Russia is dragging out the war, so our long-range operations will continue.
