Sascha Simon
@saschasimon.bsky.social
Security & Defence Analyst | drones, emerging/disruptive tech & foresight | formerly 🇪🇺 EUISS & EDA, NATO Innovation Hub & 🇩🇪 MFA. *Here privately*
Latest in @theatlantic.com The Ukrainians are now longer pretending that Donald Trump's USA is their friend. Their honesty is important as they seem to understand how much Trump is helping Putin and how important it is that Europe stick together. Gift Link. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Ukraine Has Written Off the United States
Zelensky has stopped pretending that Trump might be an ally.
theatlantic.com
Ukrainian Magura V7 surface drone (USV) with maximum quadcopter hangars.
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
Feels like something cracked today in the transatlantic alliance. Europeans have been swallowing their pride, bitting their tongues, and bending the knee. That strategy may have bought them time but it has now clearly failed. It also had a major cost - it has made the WH think Europe will cave. 1/
"American dominance" is our new foreign policy. And it will create a counter-reaction, everywhere. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing
The president’s moves in Venezuela foretell a new global system.
theatlantic.com
Catching up on the national security podcasts' predictions for 2026 from like 5 days ago and they're all wrong already
a sign that says " what is even happening " next to a dumpster
ALT: a sign that says " what is even happening " next to a dumpster
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Some thoughts on what Trump has done in Venezuela and what it might mean for US national security. Caveat: not a Latin America scholar so this is focused on US policy. Clearly huge consequences for Venezuela that others can address. First, despite the buildup, I didn't think Trump would do it. 1/
To all my 🇬🇧 readers, I translated my recent article on the 🇷🇺-🇺🇦 war entering the fourth year into English and posted it on Substack. substack.com/@gustavgress...
Ukraine in the fourth year of the war
Negotiations will go nowhere, unless the pressure on Russia increases: politically, economically, and of course militarily. The US is unwilling to act, and Europeans are indecisive.
substack.com
“Most Europeans believe their country’s state pension system will soon become unaffordable – but they also think the current scheme is not generous enough, and do not support options for overhauling it such as raising the retirement age.” Make it make sense.
Most Europeans think state pensions will become unaffordable, polling shows
YouGov survey finds many say payments are too low and oppose reforms such as raising retirement age or cuts
theguardian.com
**BREAKING** Images of a Chinese merchant vessel with containerised missile launchers, radar/comms and close in defense are legitimate. Collaborated via other sources. Sobering. Merry Xmas
Die letzte Folge des Jahres 2025 ist online. Wir packen die Glaskugel aus und schauen, was die nächsten 5 Jahre bringen könnten. Plus Buchempfehlungen UND Sicherheitshinweise. sicherheitspod.de/2025/12/20/f...
Folge #102 Blick in die Zukunft: Die große Vorausschau zum Jahresende | Buchempfehlungen - Sicherheitspod
“Sicherheitshalber” ist der Podcast zur sicherheitspolitischen Lage in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt. In Folge 102, am Ende des Jahres 2025, schauen Thomas Wiegold, Ulrike Franke, Frank Sauer und ...
sicherheitspod.de
»Hätte man eine Zeitmaschine und sammelte jeweils einen Infanteristen aus den beiden Weltkriegen, dem Vietnam- und dem Irakkrieg 2003 ein, so wären die vier sich schnell einig, dass sie trotz der 90 Jahre Zeitdifferenz alle das gleiche Handwerk ausübten. Es ging – im Kern – um das Kämpfen auf Sicht«
Wie autonome Waffen das Schlachtfeld verändern | Der Pragmaticus
Autonome Waffen und künstliche Intelligenz verändern die Kriegsführung. Werden bald nur noch Maschinen über Leben und Tod entscheiden?
derpragmaticus.com
“The EU will set up a ‘drone alliance’ with Kyiv, backed by €6bn in financing to ‘transform Ukrainian ingenuity into battlefield advantage and into joint industrialisation’, von der Leyen said.” We made that argument almost a year ago, and I'm glad to see it gaining traction at the highest level.
Europe turns to Ukrainian tech for ‘drone wall’ against Russia
Billions available for governments to purchase battle-tested technology to fill Nato’s security gap, says Brussels
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Sascha Simon@saschasimon.bsky.social · 2y agoFeels a bit like graduation day all over again, making it across the finish line. I am excited to see "Minding the Drone Gap - Drone Warefare and the EU” by Jan Joel Andersson and your's truly (finally) published by the 🇪🇺 EU Institute for Security Studies! www.iss.europa.eu/content/mind...
Der Podcast zum Vortrag. Demnächst dann auch der Film zum Hörbuch. Alles Multiplattform, auf allen Socials, logo, klar, Hallo ihr Lieben. Like and Subscribe.
Nukleare Abschreckung und Sicherheit in Europa
Podcast-Folge · Politik International · S3 F11 · 43 Min.
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Frank Sauer@drfranksauer.bsky.social · last yr.Sommervorlesung 🥵 am Donnerstag, 3. Juli 2025, 17 Uhr in der Aula der Universität des Saarlandes. Es geht um Nukes. Sorgt wohl auch nicht gerade für Abkühlung.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that Ukraine is gaining expanded access to European intelligence and certain European ammunition stockpiles. He also mentioned an urgent meeting in a "close circle" regarding the troop contingent.
The original study is here: www.ndc.nato.int/download/dow...
Florence Gaub@florencegaub.bsky.social · last yr.In our latest study by @aagilli.bsky.social we look at how climate change makes submarine warfare harder. @shashj.bsky.social picked it up for @economist.com www.economist.com/science-and-...
Very flattered to see The Economist discuss the findings of the research that, together with my co-authors, we have carried out on the effects of climate change for submarine warfare. www.economist.com/science-and-...
Climate change may make it harder to spot submarines
The sound of their engines will not travel as far
economist.com
🧵Intercepting and neutralizing Russian recon and strike UAVs: 🛸The scope of ZSU FPV drone interceptions has rapidly grown. Artem's new article breaks down a detailed dataset of these interceptions, providing insights into trends and technological advances. #FPVDrones 1/7
“In the best-case scenario, it will ultimately take almost twenty years before Germany has airborne signals intelligence again after the end of the Breguets in the summer of 2010. It is an unprecedented failure.” ZEIT with a good long read on the Global Hawk/Triton/Pegasus… acquisition catastrophe
Bundeswehr: Ihre Bestellung wird ... vorbereitet
15 Jahre lang schafft die Bundeswehr es nicht, ein Flugzeug zu besorgen, das sie dringend braucht. Das Geheimprojekt Pegasus offenbart ein lebensgefährliches Versagen.
zeit.de
We should have no illusions: Just as it is now doing with Ukraine, the Trump administration will try to force the Europeans into line if they resist a deal on American (or rather Russian?) terms.
U.S. intelligence sharing with South Vietnamese forces continued until April 30, 1975—the day Saigon fell.
