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The Baltic States are in NATO. They are not Ukraine An attack on one of them means war on Russia. Real missiles raining on Russian cities, infrastructure, ports, airports, rail. It wouldn’t be just a drone war. Russia would look like any of the cities it has destroyed in Ukraine. but writ large. That’s the difference between being in NATO and not. It’s why Ukraine wants to be in NATO. Now enough of the scare-mongering and faux concern. Worry instead that posts like this make the Baltic States worry more about ourselves and less about you.

Trump on Iran: Pete Hegseth was the first one to speak up. He said, “Let’s do it.”

The leader of NATO calling for Europe to join a war of aggression. He just gave every piece of russian propaganda legitimacy.

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

Kävelylenkillä tuli hyvä ajatus kuinka voi tiivistää, mistä geopoliittisten kriisien pohjat löytyvät: Osakemarkkina pohjaa yleensä silloin, kun käynnissä olevan kriisin eskalaatio saavuttaa huippunsa. Ajallisesti se on ollut keskimäärin kolme viikkoa kriisin alkamisesta.

BREAKING: Trump: I HAVE INSTRUCTED THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR TO POSTPONE ANY AND ALL MILITARY STRIKES AGAINST IRANIAN POWER PLANTS AND ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A FIVE DAY PERIOD, SUBJECT TO THE SUCCESS OF THE ONGOING MEETINGS AND DISCUSSIONS.