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Teamwork in the Arctic 🇩🇰🇫🇷🇬🇱 With strong support from their French Allies, the Danish Air Force has begun flying fuel to the Kingdom’s northernmost permanently staffed outpost - Station Nord in northeast Greenland

🇫🇷 French Battalion-5: For sure! is at 79% (€43,923 / €55,355) With @arnocast & @AurelienDuchene we’re almost there — 🛻 NAFO Trucks & FPV drones for Ukrainian units 🇺🇦 🔗 Donate here: help99.co/patches/french… One more push and we’re done! Every donation matters! 💪

Thanks for those awesome patches 🫶🐶 It’s incredible what @69thSB is doing I love you all and that you save our hero’s ❤️

Four days ago, I wrote that after every Trump-Putin phone call, something deranged follows within weeks. I said mark the date. I said the clock is ticking. I was wrong. It took seventy-two hours. Allow me to recap what the leader of the free world has done to his closest allies since that cosy ninety-minute phone call with a man who poisons people in their driveways. Germany: 5,000 troops withdrawn. More promised. The Army’s Long Range Fires Battalion, scheduled to deploy to Europe, quietly cancelled. Germany, which actually met its NATO spending targets, which opened its bases and airspace to American operations, which did everything Trump asked, got punished anyway. Because its chancellor had the audacity to point out that Iran was humiliating Washington at the negotiating table. He was right. That was the problem. Italy: threatened with troop withdrawal because, in Trump’s words, Italy “has not been of any help.” Italy, a founding NATO member. Italy, which hosts tens of thousands of American troops and several critical US military installations. Useless, apparently. Spain: “horrible. Absolutely horrible.” Spain’s crime was refusing to let the United States use Spanish bases and airspace to bomb Iran. A sovereign decision by a sovereign ally. Described by the President of the United States as horrible. The European Union: 25% tariffs on cars and trucks, announced in the same week as the troop withdrawals. Germany builds cars. This was not a coincidence. And through all of this, Vladimir Putin got a ceasefire proposal endorsed, a nuclear diplomacy role handed to him on a plate, and not a single harsh word. Four days ago I predicted one unhinged announcement, one ally humiliated, and one idea so catastrophically stupid that the national security apparatus would spend a weekend trying to undo it. We got four allies humiliated, two economic attacks, and a full military retreat from the continent America spent eighty years promising to defend. I would say I am surprised. But I wrote it down in advance. Which makes this less a prediction and more a schedule. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

Bonjour à tous . 63 680 français souhaitent couvrir le ciel ukrainien . La pétition fait du sur place depuis hier matin . Boostons la , continuons ! Relevé du 4 Mai à 12 h 15 . Slava Ukraïni ! 🇺🇦🇺🇦

Atbalstot Latviju vakar, šodien un rīt, novēlam skaistus un mierpilnus Latvijas Neatkarības atjaunošanas svētkus! 🇱🇻

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Merci à tous ceux qui ont contribués et relayés la collecte de @AideMedicaleUkr

🔥 Anna from Ukraine’s 8th campaign is moving — now at 61% (€25,161 / €41,000) @AnnaFromUA_YT We’re raising for 2× NAFO Truck 3.0 for SOF (3rd squadron) & the 442nd Unmanned Systems Battalion 📌 Donate here: help99.co/patches/anna-f… Every donation & share matters! 🫡

🇺🇦 It’s clear that Ukraine, despite the sabotage from Trump and some European leaders, has overcome the 2024–2025 crisis, managed to halt the Russian advance, and is now winning the war of attrition. 🇷🇺 Russia, on the other hand, is stuck in an operational deadlock with no clear strategy for what to do next. Right now it looks like Putin has five options: 1⃣ Attack the Baltics. In theory, Putin could scrape together whatever combat-effective equipment is left, seize the Suwalki Gap, and then immediately start fast-track negotiations to trade the Baltics for Ukraine. Extremely risky and completely out of character for Putin. 2⃣ Use nuclear weapons on Ukrainian territory. Extremely risky - it would turn everyone against Russia, even those who are currently staying neutral. Plus, Russia could easily get hit in return (and Ukraine would be helped to acquire nuclear weapons extremely quickly). 3⃣ Mobilization. Putin could try to rapidly build up forces and push where Ukrainian positions aren’t strongly fortified. In Russia this would be received very negatively, and defeatist moods would spike noticeably. 4⃣ Agree to a ceasefire on current terms. In reality, Putin could actually get a fantastic deal right now (assuming Ukraine doesn’t change its mind - and the chances of that are growing every day). But Putin is unlikely to accept it; for him personally, it would be a clear defeat. 5⃣ Do nothing. Putin’s favorite solution whenever he faces a tough decision. Just wait for a miracle (like a U.S. - Iran war, for example). Maybe everything will blow over, or maybe a catastrophe will hit and he’ll be forced to go back to options 1–4. ⁉️AI says people can't read long texts anymore, so if you've read this far, please like and follow.

Maybe try liking every Fellas post in a NAFO thread if you got a minute.

The best view of the NAFO convoy! 🔥

please repost widely and if you can donate, thankyou

I'm seeing only 6 shares from other people on the post below. Is there any way we could do more to create some progress for this fundraiser? A soldier is waiting for much needed set of new armor. 🎯 Goal: $875. Collected: still $230. ➡️ PP: zakharchenko69@gmail.com

Let's be clear about what the withdrawal of 5,000 US troops from Germany actually means because the headline and the reality are two different things. Germany hosts over 40,000 US personnel. A large share of what's there is what you'd loosely call office personnel logistics, command, administration, intelligence, maintenance. Not a frontline deployment. A hub. The place from which the US stages, supplies and coordinates across Europe, Africa and the Middle East. So the first question is not the number it's what specifically is leaving. 5,000 support staff is a very different story from 5,000 people running active coordination, intelligence or logistics. The composition matters more than the headline figure. But here's the part that gets lost. The US doesn't use European bases for Europe. It uses them to project power globally. The bombers that struck Iran during this war weren't flying from Israel a large part of the operation was staged and supported from inside Europe. When a US aircraft carrier broke down during operations, it stopped in Crete. And without Europe, the aircraft carriers lose much of their meaning. A carrier needs ports to resupply, repair and rotate crews. It needs airspace to operate through. It needs land-based logistics chains to sustain it. Without European ports and bases, the US can no longer project into the Mediterranean, the Middle East or Africa with the same speed or reach. Good luck projecting power into a region when you have nowhere to stop, nowhere to fix a broken ship, nowhere to refuel your bombers. At that point you're essentially defending your own coastline, not shaping events thousands of miles away. The operations most affected would be exactly what we've seen in this war sustained air campaigns requiring tanker support from European bases, naval operations in the Mediterranean and Red Sea relying on European port access, intelligence coordination and so on. 5,000 troops won't change the situation on the ground. That's not the point. The point is what comes after what the future of the US-Europe relationship looks like and where it's heading. That's the real question nobody has a clean answer to. But everything has a cost. The US loses projection capability and the partners that make that projection possible. Europe loses a security umbrella it has relied on for 80 years and faces the bill of replacing it which is enormous, urgent and something most European governments are not yet fully honest with their publics about. And again we have to see where this is heading. With all the statements, the blocked airspace, the refused bases, the public criticism from Merz, Kristersson and others, one thing is clear, the relationship between the US and Europe is colder today than it was three years ago. Whatever happens next, that's the baseline we're working from now.

113780 € collectés. 102% !Merci ! Il reste 9h pour contribuer au transport des 3 containers médicaux. 3500€ nécessaires, il manque encore 1720€. helloasso.com/associations/c… @AmourskyCyrille @AnnaFil_Ukraine @AurelienDuchene @VolodimirZelen1 @AllaPoedie

112980 € collectés. Merci ! Il reste 16h pour contribuer au transport des 3 containers médicaux. 3500€ nécessaires, il manque encore 2500€. helloasso.com/associations/c…

France, marginalised in world affairs April, 🇫🇷 conducts airlift + reassurance missions with 🇩🇰 in extreme conditions in Greenland 🇫🇷 Rafales intercept Russian fighter jets in NATO Baltic air policing Rafales deployed from 🇫🇷 base in UAE defend Gulf allies from Iranian drones

We’re raising with 🇩🇰 Dansk Battalion for 1x NAFO Truck 3.0 for Nebesna Mara (43rd Brigade) 🇺🇦 A pickup was destroyed. Same crew — we get them moving again 🔗 Join this campaign: help99.co/patches/dansk-… Without a truck: – rotations slow – logistics break – evacuations get harder Let’s boost this campaign and get them back on the road! 🫡

Update as I am working: Thanks to everyone coming together between BMC and PayPal we have raised enough for one drone and are only $2469 away from funding a second thermal drone that I can pick up tomorrow!!! BMC Wishlist: buymeacoffee.com/defactohumanit… PayPal: paypal.com/donate?campaig… I will post a better update when I return home this evening. Thank you all so so much for helping us. These are truly desperate times. #StandWithUkraine