Peter Bendixen 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 🇪🇺
@ockham64.bsky.social
Aux armes citizens Former vos bataillons
Meet Tigernos, one of Britain’s earliest named sailors! ⚓️ A Briton and Roman fleet veteran, his story is recorded on the bronze Lanchester Diploma issued by Antoninus Pius in AD 150. It grants him honourable discharge from the Classis Germanica and Roman citizenship. #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology
Hovedstyrken fra en dansk kampbataljon er i dag begyndt at rotere til Letland. Her skal bataljonen indgå i NATOs beredskab og bidrage til forsvaret af alliancens østlige flanke. #værdatkæmpefor #StrongerTogether www.forsvaret.dk/da/nyheder/2...
Dansk kampbataljon rejser nu til Letland
Hovedstyrken fra en dansk kampbataljon er i dag begyndt at rotere til Letland. Her skal bataljonen indgå i NATOs beredskab og bidrage til forsvaret af alliancens østlige flanke.
forsvaret.dk
"Finally, ministers pointed out that communication during moments of crisis could further be reinforced through timely coordination and should be more coherent, especially to counter malicious external actors engaged in foreign information manipulation and interference." Amen.
Tom Jenkins@tomoljenkins.bsky.social · yesterdayPositive 🇮🇪 @consilium.europa.eu Presidency on Ceuta. UK press and assorted RW scumbags here and in the US (👀 Vance) will be disappointed. Good point about countering "malicious external actors engaged in foreign information manipulation and interference" www.consilium.europa.eu/en/meetings/...
The Danish Army is finally again getting conscription-based units like the re-established 2nd Mechanised Infantry Company, 2nd Armoured Infantry Btn, Jutland Dragoon Regiment. Like pre-2004 it will have a core of contract officers & NCOs. It will be equipped with Patria 6x6 APCs.
With Russia at the door and the US backing away, Europe has to build its own ‘way of war’. But even in a Europe-focused Nato 3.0, Washington would still want to call the shots. We need an insurance policy. My piece @guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
With Russia at the door and the US backing away, Europe has to build its own ‘way of war’
Even in a Europe-focused Nato 3.0, Washington would still want to call the shots. We need an insurance policy, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci
theguardian.com
UEFA gegen FIFA ist vielleicht ein gutes Modell in Sachen "strategische Autonomie" Europas
Ceuta... how depressingly divided Europe is. Zero solidarity. Despite big-character posters draped on the side of EU buildings, zero unity. Does Brussels still believe a "solidarity fund" can convince capitals to band together to take on China in a trade war in the Autumn?
When an EU member is in trouble, esp if instigated from outside, as for Spain in Ceuta, solidarity should be the only EU response. Far-right reactions is yet more proof there’s no “moderate” far-right, only different ways far right forces seek to dismantle European integration
Europe isn’t ready or able to defend itself against Russia. And we can’t rely on Trump’s America. But Nato-Europe has an ally more reliable than Article 5: Ukraine. If Russia attacks, Ukraine will come to our aid. Immediately, despite no treaty. They are our greatest defense.
"How would Mette Frederiksen react if Spain were to show solidarity not with Denmark but with Donald Trump during the next diplomatic attack on Greenland? And has anyone in Finland considered that Spanish soldiers are also involved in securing the northern flank?" www.zeit.de/politik/2026...
Ceuta: Ein Fest für die Feinde Europas
Die Reaktionen auf den Ausnahmezustand in Ceuta? Teils faktenfreies Spanien-Bashing. Man muss festhalten: Friedrich Merz fiel hier beinahe positiv auf.
zeit.de
🇺🇦 FM warns of a 🇷🇺 campaign using #Ceuta pictures to sow destabilisation. Are 🇮🇹🇫🇮🇩🇰 governments talking of suspending Schengen—not mentioning that (a) 🇪🇸 quickly got the Ceuta situation under control & (b) there are border controls between Ceuta and EU mainland anyway—aware whose game they are playing?
The Ceuta 'crisis' is just political fuckery from Morocco in retaliation for Sánchez' visit to Algeria in July. It's all related to the conflict in Western Sahara. It has nothing to do with Spain's enforcement of the EU's external border. Amazing how thin EU solidarity is on this issue.
Reactions like this show EU's slide towards what Le Pen's RN approvingly calls a "double border" regime: external Schengen borders AND more common (in some cases de-facto permanent, infrastructural) controls on frontiers within the zone. A recipe for fragmentation. www.reuters.com/world/italy-...
Italy reimposes border controls on Spain after Ceuta migrant surge
Italy's government said the measure would not affect Spanish or other EU citizens traveling to Italy and would instead involve targeted checks on non-EU nationals arriving from Spain by air or sea.
reuters.com
1/7 In his latest video, Danish military analyst @anderspucknielsen.dk delivers a stark message about European defense: Europe does not need an army built to instantly defeat Russia, but one structured to survive the opening shock of a high-intensity, attritional war
The European response to the #Ceuta crisis will go down in history as an own goal that emboldened Europe’s adversaries. Instead of showing solidarity, Italy & co sought to punish it. Now, with the vast majority of arrivals already returned, the failure wasn’t border control but European solidarity.
If you cannot accept that what Trump has done over the last year and a half is starve Ukraine of air defense, and put off any new aid for as long as possible, so Putin can terrorize Ukraine from the air for as long as possible--you cannot accept reality.
Exactly. At least in Denmark I've seen too many commentators confidently state that it's got to be an accident because Russia wouldn't dare do such a thing on purpose. Of course they would! Putin is losing a war and that makes people very tolerant of running risks.
Yevgeniy Golovchenko@golovchenko.bsky.social · 6d agoRegardless of whether the missile strike on Poland is intentional hybrid warfare or an accident, the effect is likely the same. Russia gets to sow fear and “salami slice” NATO further by observing where our boundaries go below the threshold of a formal war
“Røven af 4. Division” er i dag et udtryk for noget dårligt, men oprindeligt betød det at de Prøjsisk-Østrigske styrker i 1864 kun så bagenden af Generalløjtnant Hegermann-Lindencrones 4. Division, der trak sig tilbage gennem Jylland mens den holdt kontakt med fjenden.
Der var igen i juni et positivt afkast på #dkøko #pensionsguld: 1. halvår 2026 når op på samlet 323,7 mia. kr. (6,6 pct.) Kun i 2019 har vi set et større nominelt afkast for et 1. halvår. Lover godt for de danske pensionsformuer og for den danske statskasse i form af PAL-skat #dkpol
If Trump wanted to help Ukraine, he could right now. He could send weapons such as Patriot interceptors, he could sanction Russian companies and those who do business with them--immediately. There is nothing stopping him except for the fact that he doesnt want to. Why is that?
Ein politisches System, das die größte strukturelle Gefahr für sein Überleben - die akzelerierte Klimakatastrophe - nicht zum zentralen Fokus für seine Entscheidungen machen kann (ohne andere zu ignorieren), wird vor die Wand fahren.