Krister Maconi

Denmark chose Europe over America — signing the first-ever export contract for the SAMP/T NG air defense system, beating out the U.S. Patriot. Four systems, ~$1.7 billion, deliveries from 2028. Copenhagen couldn't wait for Patriot. defence-blog.com/denmark-choose…

A distant chokepoint just became South Korea's most urgent security problem. The U.S.-South Korean alliance was not built for that. ow.ly/Rt6330sVhOC

Det kallas faraonisk omskärelse. Några veckor efter att jag blev Sveriges Somaliaambassadör hade jag lärt mig om den mest omfattande formen av infilbulation. Några veckor, fast det tar decennier för svenska myndigheter att fatta. Ett offer som jag träffade genom jobbet, inklusive SIDA, hade genomgått sju operationer för att återställa sin kvinnliga apparat när hon tagit sig till Västerlandet till slut. Sju operationer på kliniker i London, som det var. Aldrig normal igen därnere. Avsikten är nämligen att destruera den kvinnliga könsdriften. En särskild kast i det somaliska samhället (de kastlösa), som i sig är utstött, genomför könsstympningen. I det fall jag nämnde gjordes det med upphettade stenar skrapande genom genitalierna på flickan i fråga ute på en plats på stäppen, utan mamna och syskon, utan bedövning och desinfektion. Nu i Sverige. Låt mig faktiskt spotta på de svenska kulturrelativisterna. Spott. Spott, så att det fräser.

For nearly four decades, NATO’s eyes in the sky have been American. The Boeing E-3 Sentry, a militarized 707 with a rotating radar dish on top, has been the alliance’s airborne early warning backbone since the 1980s. Washington built it. Washington sold it. Washington serviced it. That era ended this week. NATO’s Support and Procurement Agency has selected the Swedish Saab GlobalEye to replace all 14 of the alliance’s aging E-3 aircraft, in a deal worth around 5 billion euros. The contract goes to Sweden and Canada. Not a single American company involved. The decision follows the US cancelling its own E-7 Wedgetail procurement in June 2025, shifting instead toward satellite surveillance under the Golden Dome concept. When Washington pulled out, it assumed NATO would wait. NATO didn’t wait. The GlobalEye uses a fixed AESA radar rather than the E-3’s rotating dish, enabling faster target detection across air, sea, and land at ranges exceeding 550 kilometres, with endurance of over 13 hours per sortie. It is smaller, cheaper to operate, and requires fewer crew. Unit cost sits at roughly 550 million euros, against significantly higher estimates for the E-7. France had already ordered two. Poland and Germany were circling. Now NATO has formalised it for the whole alliance. Trump spent 14 months telling Europe to spend more on defence and rely less on America. Europe listened. He just didn’t expect them to mean it quite so literally. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Trump is once again groveling before Putin. Russia has been invited to the G20 summit in the US, – Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Pankin. Inviting a country with 217,000 documented war crimes to the G20 summit in the US is not diplomacy – it's a disgusting trivialization of mass murder. While Putin and his cronies are already wanted in The Hague on arrest warrants, Trump grovels before the war-criminal state and rolls out the red carpet for it. This is a disgrace, a slap in the face to every Ukrainian child, every raped woman, and every bombed city. Anyone who brings mass murderers to the table instead of bringing them to justice has lost all moral legitimacy and is spitting on the graves of the victims.

Exclusive: China’s Russia ties mean EU trade deal is off the table, Finland says Finnish foreign minister Elina Valtonen tells me in Helsinki that China's support for Russia is a "disqualifying factor" in its efforts to broach an FTA with the EU scmp.com/news/china/dip…

The United States has just nuked its own arms export business. Not with a missile. With a phone call. Pete Hegseth rang Estonia’s defense minister and told him the HIMARS and Javelin deliveries are on hold. Indefinitely. Months, not weeks. No timeline. No alternative. Just: sorry, we’re busy bombing Iran. And that’s it. Twenty years of patient alliance-building, vaporized in a Monday morning call. Here’s what European defense planners now know for certain: American weapons come with an asterisk. The asterisk reads “subject to cancellation whenever Washington decides its own adventure takes priority.” You can sign the contracts. You can train your soldiers. You can build your entire defensive posture around US systems. And then one day, the ammo stops. No warning. No plan B. Estonia is already shopping elsewhere. So is everyone else, with the kind of focus that only comes from genuine betrayal. The Americans think this is a pause. Europe knows it’s a divorce.

The President and his Administration have already failed twice in court trying to intimidate me, and he's still not letting up. Just more proof that he'll do anything it takes to silence those of us willing to call him out. I'm not backing down — ever.

Great news! The greatest crook in Moldova, the once almighty oligarch Vlad Plahotniuc, has been sentenced by the Chișinău Court to 19 years in prison for having stolen $1 billion in an enormous bank-fraud case in 2014. Well done, Moldova! bbc.com/news/articles/…

This is a massive story and it is only receiving surface coverage from the American media.

Enligt IL förs inledande förhandlingar i #Finland med amerikanska #Westinghouse om ett nytt kärnkraftverk om 1100MW. (Finsk text). iltalehti.fi/politiikka/a/1…

Today is Lenin's birthday.

Sverige hade en hel mur med vakttorn i form av kärnkraftsreaktorer mot höga elpriser från omvärlden. De hette Barsebäck, Oskarshamn och Ringhals och höll de höga elpriserna utanför Sverige. Den muren revs av samma Socialdemokrater som idag kräver skydd mot omvärldens energipriser

#Moldova has “locked” Russian commanders in Transnistria: six senior officers were declared persona non grata and barred from entering Moldovan-controlled territory. In effect, the command is now stuck in the region with no viable way out.

@ulf_nordstrm @BechGunnar @Skogkar KPML(r) var definitivt inte maoistiskt :)

@BechGunnar @Skogkar Demkert gammal vänsterpartist och Bjereld Maoist! Vilket ekipage som flitigt förstås utnyttjas av Public Service förstås för att få " rätt" analys och kommentar.

Kvartals avslöjande är bra men alla som är insatta har förstått för länge sedan att SOM institutet aldrig varit neutrala i sina undersökningar. En av de tongivande där är Marie Demker gift med Ulf Bjereld som varit ordf i Tro och Solidaritet. Vänstern har gått den långa vägen.(1)

Son of Iran’s former Ambassador to Venezuela flaunts his private jet travel while carrying Louis Vuitton bag as he heads to party in Ibiza. Meanwhile, millions of Iranians struggle to survive on $4 per day.

Pieno rispetto a te, Giorgia, e a tutta l’Italia. I propagandisti russi, miserabili, non riusciranno certo a deviare le persone la cui bussola è la difesa degli interessi nazionali del proprio Paese. Grazie a te e a tutti gli italiani per una posizione così chiara. 🇮🇹

@Starcraftmazter @FT Taurus!

@FT Maybe Germany shouldn't be supplying Ukraine to hit Russian refineries?

FT exclusive: Russia is planning to halt the flow of Kazakh oil to Germany, threatening a refinery that supplies 90% of the petrol, kerosene and heating fuel to the German capital, its airport and surrounding region ft.trib.al/u25w2bO

Eight European countries are calling for a Schengen entry ban for Russian servicemen. Should’ve been done long ago and permanently. Leaders also argued there is a risk of former Russian combatants involved in organised crime, extremist movements or hostile activities against EU countries in the context of Russia's hybrid actions.

Den amerikanska "blockaden" av #Hormuz-sundet :) 34 fartyg har uppskattningsvis passerat sundet, 19 på väg ut och 15 på väg in. Stort missnöje med logistiken bland delar av de amerikanska besättningarna. Epic Fury ett strategiskt debacle i sin helhet. youtube.com/watch?v=OvQ-DM…