Allianz für Europäische Sicherheit
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@SecurityAllianz
Ohne Sicherheit ist Alles Nichts Wir sind Sicherheitsbewegte in Deutschland, die sich für eine starke deutsche und europäische Sicherheitspolitik einsetzen.
Many European politicians and journalists are essentially on Russia's payroll. Helping an enemy attack your own continent should result in a prison sentence. We are currently failing at enforcement, and our security is paying the price
Ich sollte an der Hertie School Berlin über Krieg, Frieden+Diplomatie im Nahen Osten diskutieren. Nun wurde ich ausgeladen, weil Studierendengruppen Störungen angekündigt hatten. Offenkundig ist meine Haltung zu Israel, jüdischem Leben und Antisemitismus nicht mehr tolerierbar.
🇯🇵 The Japanese government has approved easing arms export rules, - Reuters. As part of the new policy, Tokyo plans to supply used frigates to the Philippines to counter China in the South China Sea, as well as launch joint projects with Poland in electronic warfare and counter-drone systems. Ukraine is also expected to join this initiative. An industrial group is being created in Tokyo to combine the efforts of Japanese and Ukrainian UAV manufacturers.
Spain is allowing more than 70 Huawei products in their critical infrastructure. This sellout of sovereignty and national security must be stopped. I’m working in Brussels on a law (CSA2) to ban Huawei from such sectors across the EU, and it will be done theobjective.com/economia/telec…
🤨 Rheinmetall’s CEO mocked Ukrainian drone innovation, calling the developers "Ukrainian housewives." Armin Papperger dismissed it as “playing with Legos,” claiming there are no breakthroughs, in an interview with The Atlantic.
BREAKING: Zelensky just landed in the UAE and signed a defence cooperation agreement with President MBZ. The deal on the table changes everything about this war. Ukraine is offering Gulf states 1,000 drone interceptors per day. Each Sting interceptor costs $2,100. Each Patriot missile it replaces costs $3.9 million. In exchange, Ukraine wants the Patriot missiles the Gulf states are burning through, because Kyiv cannot get enough of them to stop Russian missiles. Read that again. The country America refused to arm fast enough is now arming America’s allies with a weapon that costs 1,857 times less than the one America cannot produce fast enough. The National reported on March 27 that Zelensky told reporters: “We’d like to quietly receive the Patriot missiles we have a deficit of, and give them a corresponding number of interceptors.” AFP confirmed the UAE agreement on March 28. Eleven countries have formally requested Ukraine’s drone defence expertise per Zelensky’s own count. Over 200 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan. Here is the arithmetic that should terrify every Pentagon procurement officer on earth. The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors in the first four days of the Iran war per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post. That is eighteen months of Lockheed Martin’s annual production consumed in 96 hours. Each of those 943 shots cost $3.9 million. Total expenditure: $3.68 billion in four days on defensive interceptions alone. Iran produces 10,000 Shahed drones per month per Reuters. Each drone costs $20,000 to $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times. Ukraine’s Sting interceptor inverts this arithmetic entirely. At $2,100, the cost ratio flips from 114-to-1 against America to roughly 10-to-1 against Iran. Ukraine can supply 1,000 per day. That is 30,000 per month against Iran’s 10,000 Shaheds per month. For the first time in this war, the defender’s production rate exceeds the attacker’s production rate at a fraction of the cost. And the country that built this weapon is the same country that Trump publicly rejected. “No, they are not helping. We do not need their help. We know more about drones than anyone else” per Fox News. He doubled down: “The last person we need help from is Zelensky.” Meanwhile the Pentagon notified Congress of plans to redirect $750 million in Ukraine-bound Patriot missiles to Gulf states per House of Saud reporting. America is simultaneously refusing Ukraine’s cheap solution and cannibalising Ukraine’s expensive one. Zelensky framed this explicitly. He told The National: “No matter how many Patriots, THAADs, or other air-defence systems are in the Middle East, that alone is not enough for fully effective air defence.” He told the UK Parliament: “When it comes to shooting down massive Shahed attacks, only Ukrainian experience can really help with this today.” The Pentagon is spending $3.9 million per interception, raiding Swiss fighter jet accounts to cover shortfalls, and diverting Ukraine’s own Patriot supply to the Gulf. Zelensky is offering the same result for $2,100 and producing 1,000 units per day. The market has a word for this kind of disruption. The $2,100 drone is the most important weapon in this war. And the country that built it is the one America said it did not need. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
Wir kommentieren von der Seitenlinie. Die Ukraine agiert. Nach dem Abkommen über sicherheitspoliitische Zusammenarbeit mit Saudi-Arabien jetzt auch mit den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten. Man könnte sagen: Im Gegensatz zu uns hat Zelensky auch etwas anzubieten. Aber der Unterschied liegt auch im politischen Willen, Gelegenheiten zu nutzen und eine aktive Rolle zu spielen. Die Ukraine kann sich unseren Attentismus nicht leisten.
