Blaz Bratovic

Listen. Watch. And Learn. twitter.com/mackaymiller/s…

@RLHeinrichs France, king of shadow fleet boarding. x.com/i/status/20349…

Estonia, king of minesweeping

@JMichaelWaller @EmpireEnjoyer3 Yes, and tariffs, which were intended to follow, as well as letter to the Norwegian PM, are all part of TDS.

This deployment indicates either supremely poor intelligence analysis on the part of Denmark and other European countries, a TDS attack by European leaders, or, most likely, both.

Not only that: Schell is an expert in optical technologies, with a lot of cutting-edge industry knowledge. These technologies are essential for the production of semiconductors. Go figure.

@M_Terhalle @SlawomirDebski And how will Putin seize that moment?

@SlawomirDebski Indeed. There will no longer be a Nato if Europeans gear it against the US, however inadvertently. Lest we forget, Putin's and Xi's common goal is the psy disruption of the alliance. Once they sense a psy breakthrough, they will agree that Putin seizes that fateful moment.

My readers know I was not among Mark Rutte’s enthusiasts for the job. But the criticism now being thrown at him misses the point. The Secretary General of NATO is not a commentator, nor a political influencer. He is, quite simply, the system’s maintenance mechanism. His primary task is to keep NATO alive - coherent enough to function, flexible enough to survive the political cycles of its members, and relevant enough to deter its adversaries. That is what he was hired to do. In today’s conditions, this is an exceptionally difficult assignment. The Alliance is navigating diverging threat perceptions, electoral volatility, and a shifting transatlantic balance. In such an environment, rhetorical discipline and a degree of diplomatic accommodation are not signs of weakness; they are tools of institutional survival. The real constraint is not the Secretary General’s tone, but the political will of member states themselves. Blaming Rutte for not “taking sides” misunderstands the office. His role is not to satisfy audiences on social media or to correct the messaging of national leaders. It is to prevent fragmentation. And in that sense, he is doing precisely what the job requires- no more, no less.

@DavidSantoro1 And he even made a few good points on Europe!

Geez…

@MKLan13 @visegrad24 Trump likes acts of war but not wars. And Congress would like that even less.

@visegrad24 😂 Why bother. If the US really wanted to take it, it would be taken. Like it or not.

Denmark was ready to blow up Greenland runways if the USA invaded. The Danish military sent explosives and blood supplies to Greenland in January as part of contingency planning for a US attack, as tensions with Trump escalated. 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇺🇸

ASML's EUV scanners will be the last machines on Earth to lose helium. Party balloons will be the first to go. Helium is not manufactured. It is a byproduct of uranium and thorium decaying deep underground over billions of years. Vent it and it escapes to space. Permanently. A third of the global supply went offline when Qatar's Ras Laffan plant was hit on March 2. The rationing has already started. Here's what happens: Day 1. Party balloons. Distributors cut retail supply immediately. Day 7. Industrial welding and pressurization. National allocation kicks in. Switch to argon where possible. Day 14. Routine fab leak detection switches to hydrogen. Ultra-sensitive qualification still needs helium. Day 21. MRI machines. Older systems that vent helium cannot get refills. Elective scans delayed. Day 45. Global buffer depletes. Fabs enter conservation mode. Non-critical depositions switch to nitrogen. Day 60. Backside wafer cooling on older etch tools. Nitrogen conducts heat six times slower. Throughput drops. Day 90. High-power etch. Advanced memory and logic nodes cannot run without helium-grade cooling. Wafer production drops. Day 120. ASML's EUV lithography tools. $200 million scanners making the highest-value wafers on Earth. Leading-edge chip production stops. Day 240. $700 billion in data centers are being built this year. Higher GPU prices, delayed cluster expansions, slower scaling. Four months from birthday balloons to AI chip shortage.

@UniCredit10 @LindoDingiswayo @MKLan13 @visegrad24 No, we don't live in Nigeria.

@LindoDingiswayo @MKLan13 @visegrad24 Do you really know what it means to be struggling

On Tuesday, I testified before the House Homeland Security Committee on China's strides in robotics and AI. I warned that we lost solar, batteries, and EVs -- now we're at risk of losing robotics and AI. If that happens, it would irreversibly change the balance of power. Five points: 1️⃣ China aims to win the next industrial revolution. PRC leaders believe history is shaped by industrial revolutions. The first, steam power, made Britain dominant. The second and third, electrification and mass manufacturing, made America dominant. China is determined to win the fourth. 2️⃣ In robotics, China is already winning. In 2024, China installed 300,000 new industrial robots. America installed 30,000. China now has over 2 million robots in its factories — five times more than the US. A decade ago, it imported 75% of its robots. Today it makes 60% domestically. This year alone, China may spend $400 billion on industrial policy. The entire US CHIPS Act provided $50 billion across multiple years. If we fall behind here, U.S. reindustrialization becomes farfetched. 3️⃣ In AI, we're ahead — but selling off the advantage. China has more energy, more talent, and makes the edge devices. But America still leads because of chips, according to China's own AI companies. US chips are 4-5x better than China's today. We are debating whether to surrender that edge. 4️⃣ We are inviting risks of cyberespionage and catastrophic cyberattacks. PRC law requires its companies to cooperate with intelligence services and never disclose it. Today's robots carry LiDAR, microphones, and cameras — they are mobile surveillance platforms. But the bigger risk is cyberattack. We know China has compromised our power, gas, water, telecommunications, and transportation infrastructure in preparation for cyberattack. We cannot deploy robots in sensitive facilities from the very country targeting those facilities. 5️⃣ Here's what we must do. Extend ICTS rules to cover Chinese robots. Direct CISA to audit where they're deployed in critical infrastructure. Ban federal procurement of Chinese robotics and AI. Strengthen semiconductor export controls. Stop treating American AI companies with more regulatory scrutiny than Chinese ones. And build allied scale in robotics—a trading bloc with preferential terms for the members that can rival China's scale in in the sector. Thanks to @HomelandDemsIt and @HomelandGOP for the hearing on this topic, and grateful to join @MRobbinsAUVSI and colleagues from Scale and Boston Dynamics for a great discussion.

@BrunoTertrais He didn't really say what the tweet claims (and I "hate" JD Vance).

The moral depravation of this administration is beyond repair

@BradleyH7658 Well, US needs Europe for power projection and economies are deeply embedded. Just because some in DC currently think that strategic balancing with economy the size of Italy is a smart idea, doesn't change fundamental facts.

This attitude is the exact attitude that has given life to the glowing anti nato sentiment in american. "They wont do it cause they need us" the entire thing is so constantly just assumed thay many americans wonder why we you feel so guaranteed of our soldiers lives.

Good discussion here. Mark Rutte, Daddy and the rest of company.

@JourneyChess I know the guy personally, but we haven't seen each other in something like 20 years. GM Kuljasevic should be a good coach. He has also written books about chess improvement. perpetualchesspod.com/new-blog/2023/…

I can relate. I used to think I was "taking chess seriously," but I was really doing what you describe here. I am also considering working with a coach again, but the coaches I've worked with in the past were more interested in taking my money than guiding my chess improvement.

@Walt395 @kvistp In this particular case he has some sound points.

@kvistp He is not worth listening to.

Wtf happened to Tucker?

@RLHeinrichs EF is a work in progress.

Was there an imminent threat from Iran? Even more, there was an ongoing missile, drone, terror threat. Was there an imminent nuclear missile threat from Iran? No, Epic Fury made sure there will never be one.

People are talking past each other. 1. It is TRUE that we set back the Iranian enrichment and weaponization by probably 3 years in Midnight Hammer. 2. It is TRUE that the Iranians chose not to be chastened by this and began working on PickAxe M which would be harder to destroy than Fordow

@EmpireEnjoyer3 "for national security against Russian and Chinese submarines and ballistic missiles" Maybe add Europe to the equation then as well? As a sequel to the good old 1984 novel, Eurasia and Eastasia unite against Oceania.

Considering how the UK didn’t let us use Diego Garcia for Iran, and how Spain didn’t let us use their airfields for Iran, it’s safe to say that it is in America’s interests to acquire Greenland, for national security against Russian and Chinese submarines and ballistic missiles.

Good question. It has to be said, US seems to be the only country which at least has the option, few weeks in the conflict, to say "allies, send some help".

@NadavPollak I think it more relates to current US activity (A10!!) in Hormuz Strait.

“Appropriate efforts” doesn’t sound like significant military assets to provide safe passage #Iran

@Granville1977 @davidfrum Maybe it's at least a defensible one, when you have the biggest war since WW2 in your backyard.

@davidfrum The West deserves leaders who take the Atlantic alliance seriously, on both sides of the Atlantic. By the way, freedom of navigation, as well as security in the Middle East and Indian ocean, are mentioned in the latest NATO concept. "It's not my war" is not a very good answer.

Two months ago, the "ungrateful allies in Europe" readied themselves to sacrifice solders in a desperate last hope to shame the US not to invade Greenland. Iran deserves what it's getting from the US and Israel. The West deserves more honorable leadership in Washington.

@winnygirl03 @brithume To clarify, this is a comment from abroad and yes, US is represented by its government abroad. Just have Hegseth on repeat (will abort soon though) because, yes, he is one of the fools.

@winnygirl03 @brithume "We look like weak fools." Just fools, tbh. 😂

Not a lot yet, but better than nothing.