Teemu Polo

@MikaAaltola Superpower suicide on tosiaan huiman kuvaava termi, amerikkalaishistorioitsija sen lanseerasi viikko pari sitten. Askel askeleelta. Elämme kummallista aikaa.

Onnea matkaan USA. Saksassa olevat tukikohdat ovat USAn maailmanvallan kannalta keskeisiä. Globaali voiman projisointikyky laskee. Saksa maailman kolmanneksi suurin talous. Suurvalta statuksen itsemurha ei varmasti ole kenellekään USAn presidentillle kunniaksi historiankirjoissa.

“In the end, the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it.” — George Orwell, “1984”

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

@SarasvuoJari Tuskin. Eiköhän kaikki muut ympärillä osaa laskea tuon verran. Hyväksymällä ilmiselvän valheen te osoittavat sitoutumista henkilöön ja asiaan, heidät sidotaan osaksi valhetta? Videossa olevien henkilöiden on vaikea steppailla pois myöhemmin ja sanoa, että he olivat eri mieltä?

Eissssaatana. Maailmaa johtaa moroonit.

I don't know what is more tragic. The fact that Trump does not know basic elementary school math, or that people around him are validating the madness. Perhaps the intention is to make everyone complicit in the administration's actions.

Sen. @MichaelBennet: Would you agree last year was the worst year on record of flu deaths in modern history? RFK Jr: Yes Bennet: Do you agree that 89% of the children who died from flu were unvaccinated? RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number Bennet: That is the exact number

@isoahopauli @villepeltola Askel kerrallaan. Jos ensin saadaan tuotantoa vaikka kiinalaiskomponenteista, niin lopputuloksen omavaraisuutta voidaan sitten ajan kuluessa nostaa. On vain järkevämpää rakentaa liiketoimintaa askeleittain.

@villepeltola Ei pelkästään tuotanto, vaan myös pääkomponentit

Kotimainen laaja, hajautettu ja mahdollisimman omavarainen droonituotanto. Valmistelun soisi olevan jo pitkällä. hs.fi/paakirjoitukse…

Niinkuin oikeasti? 😂

@villepeltola Ehkä suulliset tentit tulevat takaisin. Jos opinnot suoritettuaan joutuu 3h suulliseen tenttiin professorien kanssa, niin siinä varmaan tulee osaaminen ilmi. Se että miten on hankkinut osaamisen - lukemalla, yliopiston kahvilassa keskustellen, vai AI:n avulla - on irrelevanttia.

Korkeakoulututkintojen arvo romahtaa, jos kaiken voi suorittaa verkossa omalla tahdilla tekoälyä hyödyntäen washingtonpost.com/education/2026…

@MikkoTourunen @villepeltola Vai käykö tässä vähän kuin monessa muussakin asiassa, että huonolle osaamiselle ei ole enää tarvetta?

@villepeltola Opettajien arvo tuossa lähinnä romahtaa. Ja syystäkin, enemmistö opettajista joiden kanssa joutunut asioimaan ovat umpisurkeita työssään.

Donald Trump finds out that Viktor Orban has lost the election:

@chiky_handlr Umm, as long as they don't come here. May be they can request a political refugee status from North Korea?

Trump supporters are threatening to leave the US if Trump is sent to prison. 🫨 Do you agree with them?

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us. Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. "NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

Taas sitä oppii uutta. Globaali logistiikka on paljon haavoittuvampaa kuin ehkä ajattelinkaan?

As Trump does all this knowing the facts from the intelligence community, what’s the obvious deduction to be made? theatlantic.com/national-secur…

Valtion velka lähestyy 100% bruttokansantuotteesta ja lähivuosina pelkät korkokulut ovat 6 mrd vuodessa. Ja joidenkin mielestä valtiovarainministeriön budjettipäällikkö ei saisi sanoa, että jotain tarvisi tehdä.

Vai niin, kevään mobilisaatio tulossa, kunhan pellot kuivaa? Nyt Ukraina tarvitsee tavaraa valmiiksi.

Pihla Saloselle ensimmäinen GS-mitali ja vielä upealla heitolla. 💪🏻🇫🇮 #judo

@tommysantos14 No, no way. The world will remember US system is unreliable. The next president can restart the madness.

When Trump leaves office: The Department of War will go back to being the Defense Department. The Trump Kennedy Center will go back to being the Kennedy Center. The Gulf of America will once again be the Gulf of Mexico. The unfinished East Wing (it won't be finished by the end of Trump's term) will be rebuilt by the next president, and it will not be a ballroom. Federal agencies packed with unqualified loyalists will fire those people and rehire the career experts Trump fired. The Department of Justice will go back to enforcing the law instead of protecting the president. Scientific agencies like NOAA, the EPA, and the CDC will go back to publishing research without political interference. The U.S. will re-align with its allies and not with its enemies. The presidential pardon power will stop being used as a rewards program for loyalists. Inspectors General will go back to investigating corruption instead of getting fired for it. The White House press room will go back to having briefings, with real journalists and not podcasters. U.S. foreign policy will stop revolving around flattering dictators. And the world will progress as though Donald Trump never existed.

120 uutta työpaikkaa muutamassa vuodessa. Ei paha! #kasvu