Mathias Eick

@VanberghenEU You know we are in March... grow onions and parsley in the European winter?? Food imports are necessary because consumers nowadays demand fruit and vegetables to be available fresh every day of the year... EU also had bird flue for months, so egg imports may help keep prices down

Importing eggs from Ukraine? That is difficult to justify. Completely. And it does not stop there. Yesterday, in a supermarket in Brussels, I checked basic vegetables: onions, parsley - imported from Morocco and Egypt. and patotos from Israel..even took photos. These basic vegetables. We are importing products that can be cultivated across Europe, within our own agricultural ecosystems. At a time when resilience, food security, and strategic autonomy are supposed to be priorities, this raises serious questions. Yes, Europe may have lost ground in certain industrial sectors. But agriculture ??? @vonderleyen @Bart_DeWever

@EnergyAbsurdity @VDHanson When Gas hits >$6 a gallon in US, see the MAGA howling,, when food prices go up by 30% because of fuel and fertilizer costs? What about 1000s of bodie bags? The war is already so unpopular in US and it's only been three weeks..

🚨 Victor Davis Hanson: THE SIGNALS ARE ALL POINTING THE SAME DIRECTION No U.S. analyst knows better how to cut through the fog of war than Stanford University Prof. @VDHanson. In the clip below, Hanson, who’s studied how wars end for 50 years, says the tide has turned in America’s favor against Iran. Forget the rancid propaganda flowing from all quarters related to the Iran conflict and how it is going - Hanson says look at how everyone else is behaving. Hanson’s Key Points: • Europeans: They never touch a conflict until they smell victory. Early on? Crickets. Now they’re quietly moving assets and offering support. Pure calculation — they’ve read the battlefield and decided which side wins. • Gulf petro-states: Saudis, Emiratis, Qataris survive by reading the room perfectly. They’re expelling Iranian attachés, silently intercepting Iranian missiles over their capitals, and the UAE just reaffirmed its $1.4 trillion investment commitment to the U.S. mid-war. These are not gestures — they’re bets. And they’re all-in on America. • Al Jazeera: The Qatari state network that usually bashes U.S. actions (and hosts Hamas offices) is now calling America’s bombing campaign “brilliant” and “underestimated.” When the outlet that hosts both the biggest U.S. air base and Hamas praises U.S. effectiveness, the message is unmistakable: they think we’re winning. • Military reality: A-10 Warthogs and Apache gunships are now flying strike missions inside Iranian airspace at will. These slow, low-flying platforms only appear when enemy air defenses are effectively gone. Confirms what’s really happening on the ground. Iran’s only play left is rope-a-dope: drag it out, hope U.S. public opinion flips, pray midterms pressure Trump to quit. VDH’s verdict: If Trump sees it through — and he will — the regime falls. Not in years. Pretty soon. Bottom line: Watch what people do, not what they say. Every player with skin in the game is betting on America. The signals don’t lie. #Iran #Europe #Warthogs #Trump @AlJazeera

@WolfReuter3 @Volker_Beck Die Russen sind eine Gefahr für Europa und können schon seit >50 Jahren Berlin, Paris oder London mit Raketen ins Ziel nehmen... also keine Panikmache...

Falls es jemand noch nicht gemerkt haben sollte, die islamische Republik Iran ist eine Gefahr auch für Europa und zwar nicht erst seit klar ist, dass sie die Raketen theoretisch auch hierher schießen könnten.

@ChristophCanne Deutschland exportiert täglich Strom in die Nachbarländer...

Es wird so langsam eng für Energiewende-Deutschland. Norwegen und Schweden haben wenig Motivation, Deutschland mit Strom auszuhelfen. Nun melden sich in Frankreich auch in trauter Einigkeit die extreme Linke (LFI) und die Rechte (RN) mit der Forderung, Deutschland nicht mehr weiter günstigen französischen Strom zu liefern. Wie auch immer dies weitergeht, Deutschland ist in keiner guten, sondern eher in einer hilflosen Position. msn.com/de-de/finanzen…

Oh dear...

@Nuklearia @Manlow20 @realTZV In Frankreich ist nichts I'm "Baubeginn"...die Standorte sind bekannt aber die Finanzierung ist noch gar nicht geklärt... share.google/EGbsngiBjQikpe…

@Manlow20 @realTZV Nicht, wenn man die Erdarbeiten hinzu zählt, die üblicherweise einen Baubeginn markieren.

Unser Fachreferent für die globale Nuklearindustrie, Dirk Egelkraut (@realTZV), hat eine ergänzende Liste zu den weltweiten Kernenergieprojekten gepostet. Diese Projekte sind in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung noch weniger präsent als beispielsweise die sechs im Bau befindlichen europäischen Druckwasserreaktoren in Frankreich oder die drei amerikanischen Großreaktoren in Polen:

@_HenryBolton Indeed...given the fact that Russia has had the capability to strike UK with missiles for over 50 years. and recently has not only been threatening London and other European capitals ...

In case your’e wondering, the UK-has: - no exo-atmospheric Anti-Ballistic Missile interceptor system - No layered missile defence architecture - No integrated national system protecting our cities or infrastructure. Our best system is the T45 Destroyer with the Astor/Viper. But it’s primarily a fleet protection asset. The fact is that we and Europe depend heavily on US detection, US interceptor missiles and platforms, and US command architecture. The harsh reality is that capabilities amongst European states, incl. the UK, are very limited and patchy indeed.

Robert Mueller died last night. He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving. He had integrity. And tonight the President of the United States said good! I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good. I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word. Good. This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather. That is what is happening. That is what has happened. The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming. America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner. And the church said nothing. Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary. Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him. Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart. JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn. These men are something more painful than monsters. They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again. Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing. Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less. That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him. And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it. When Trump is gone, they will still be here. Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous. That morning is coming. Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say. He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true. He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad. The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it. That is all it needed to be. A man died. His family is broken open with grief. That is all it needed to be. Instead the President said good. And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸 Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@JoanaCotar Russland kann es schon seit Jahrzehnten...und droht regelmãßig die Europäer... oder ist das was "Anderes"?

Jep. Der Iran könnte mit seinen Raketen auch Deutschland treffen, wenn er wollte. Und - oh Wunder - er hat die UN hinsichtlich seiner Raketenfähigkeiten belogen.

@piersmorgan Russia has had this capability for decades... and many senior Russian propagandists have repeatedly threatened Berlin, London and Paris... but no reaction...

So not only has Iran brazenly lied about its ballistic missile range capacity, but this means it can probably hit the UK with them - and we have zero, I repeat ZERO, defence against these missiles. Very worrying.

@winkelsdorf Dass dir Russen dies bereits seit Jahrzehnten können, scheint wohl niemanden zu interessieren...🤔

Das sind wir seit Jahren schon, es hat nur nie die Redaktionen in Deutschland interessiert Und Gefechtsköpfe mit Nervengas,die Berlin oder München treffen könnten, sind eben kein Thema gewesen 🤷‍♂️

@75Jamin Noch ein selbsternannter "X-perte"...nur auf X natürlich...

Lauterbach: "Grundlast ist durch erneuerbare Energie gedeckt." Solche Menschen sitzen im Bundestag und entscheiden über das Schicksal von 80 Millionen Menschen. Es ist der helle Wahnsinn!

@berlinerzeitung Drei Namen: 1. Hinkley Point C 2. Flamanville 3. Olkiluoto Block 3 Drei Beispiele dafür dass AKWs ein finanzielles und energiepolitisches Desaster sind... und in den Vereinigten Emiraten stehen jetzt nagelneue Meiler in einer Kriegszone, wie auch Zaporizhia AKW in der Ukraine

Während Europa umsteuert, klammert sich Berlin an einen teuren Sonderweg. Wer bezahlbare Energie will, muss den Atomausstieg politisch wieder aufrollen. Ein Gastbeitrag. berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesell…

@schroeder_k Google mal "Hinkley Point C", oder "Flamanville" oder "Olkiluoto Block 3"... enjoy

Das ist die Studie, die derzeit wieder rauf und runter zitiert wird, die mit den 49 ct/kWh. 95% aller Behauptungen, #Kernenergie sei so teuer, referieren auf dieses Machwerk von Fraunhofer Solar.

@IuliiaMendel Russia can't fix refineries targeted by Ukraine as they were built with Western technology... and spare parts are hard to come by...

Ukraine's drone strikes on Russian oil refineries will not lead to Russia's defeat in the war. The country's refining sector is heavily subsidized, and even after reforms, its support is equal about 1% of GDP from the federal budget — Russia does not generate significant revenue from refining itself. That said, these attacks do create tactical disruptions: facilities are often knocked offline for weeks, causing localized shortages and discomfort with gasoline supplies in some regions, which can occasionally affect fuel deliveries to Russian forces. However, they cannot fundamentally alter the course of the conflict. Many refineries have been hit multiple times yet are repeatedly repaired and brought back online. The most effective way to cripple Russia's war machine should have been through sanctions targeting crude oil exports—as Donald Trump implemented last year—or by sharply reducing purchases of other Russian energy products, like liquefied natural gas (LNG). Unfortunately, the EU has instead been increasing its LNG imports from Russia in recent periods, ahead of planned phase-outs (will this happen?). In this ongoing energy battle, it increasingly appears that Russia holds the stronger position... 😢

@VeroWendland Risse in den Hauptrohren der AKWs ist viel schlimmer als fehlendes Kühlwasser...hat 40 Milliarden gekostet um sie reparieren...

Hitliste falscher grüner Erzählungen: 1) der Atomausstieg der CDU 2011 2) die Meuchelung der 🇩🇪EE durch die CDU 3) der allsommerliche Totalausfall der globalen Kernenergie wegen „kein Kühlwasser“ (in Wirklichkeit war es ein Ausfall von 5 🇫🇷 AKW ohne Kühltürme im Sommer 2022).

@berlinerzeitung Sie meisten Autos die in Südafrika gebaut werden sind für den Export...

VW verliert auch in Südafrika an Boden: Billige Autos aus China und Indien setzen den Konzern unter Druck – die nächsten Wochen werden entscheidend für 4000 Jobs. berliner-zeitung.de/wirtschaft-ver…

Oh dear...

@schroeder_k Hinkley Point C, Flamanville, Olkiluoto 3...nur drei Beispiele sehr teurer Inestionen die sich nie rentieren werden...

@MickMechanics Nuclear is neither cheap nor that reliable...it needs massive capital layout, usually takes 10-15 years to build and needs refueling...and you are stuck with it for 50 years even if other electricity sources become cheaper...

One nuclear reactor. 1.9 million solar panels. Same capacity, but nuclear runs 24/7 regardless of weather. I'll take boring and reliable over expensive and intermittent any day.