jima
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jima
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Call me jima as in JIMA Is My Acronym. The European project is the most challenging one in the history of humanity. Engineer background, many interests. Go!
My eternal thanks to Italy 🇮🇹 for creating a wide choice of tasty, yet quick and easy foods for us all to enjoy. Best way to end the weekend.
More of this. I’m a RWer, but I’m all for a competent and pragmatic SocDem parliamentary wing.
Non è il piano A di Giorgia Meloni. Ma la tentazione del voto anticipato comincia a farsi largo ai piani altissimi dell’esecutivo. Dentro FdI rimbalza una metafora coniata da Giovanbattista Fazzolari. Suona così: "Rischiamo di finire come una salsiccia sulla brace". Significa rosolamento lento, da qui alle Politiche, dopo la scoppola referendaria. La premier ne ha discusso naturalmente con i due vicepremier. Prima a tu per tu, a ridosso di un cdm in cui ha strigliato i ministri, invitandoli a "ingranare le marce alte e portare risultati". Una chiacchierata vis a vis con Matteo Salvini, poi con Antonio Tajani. Con tanto di sfogo sui suoi compagni di partito che l’hanno messa nei pasticci: "Invece di aiutarmi, c’è chi mi mette i bastoni tra le ruote". L'articolo completo di Lorenzo De Cicco su Repubblica #rep
🚨Crisis time for NATO🚨 Donald Trump effectively says the US will no longer defend its NATO allies because they didn’t help him against Iran. “We would have always been there for them, but now based on their actions I guess we don’t have to be, do we?” “Why would we be there for them if they’re not there for us? They weren’t there for us”
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…
“They’re losing faith in humanity. Release the wholesome Japanese posts.”
“It’s Ukrainian housewives. They have 3-D printers in the kitchen, and they produce parts for drones. This is not innovation.” -Rheinmetall CEO Armin Papperger
I met with the President of the UAE, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan @MohamedBinZayed. The President thanked our team for its work here in the Emirates. For Ukraine, this is also a matter of principle: terror must not prevail anywhere in the world. Protection must be sufficient everywhere. That is why we are open to joint work that, in a strategic perspective, will certainly strengthen our peoples and the protection of life in our countries. We discussed the security situation in the Emirates, Iranian strikes, and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which directly affects the global oil market. For all normal states, it is important to ensure stability and protect lives amid today’s threats. Ukraine has relevant expertise in this area – our cities, unfortunately, have been under daily attack for four years of full-scale war. Ukrainians have developed an appropriate protection system that delivers a significant interception rate against enemy drones and missiles. This systematic approach and integration of experience is exactly what we are offering to our partners. I am grateful for the meeting and for the readiness to work together. We agreed to cooperate in the field of security and defense. Our teams will finalize the details.
🤨 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.
