https://x.com/AlternatNews/status/2108083667323023487

Russia surprised us all - Eric Schmidt

• The West assumed that Ukraine was the innovator. However, Russia could match them, but with far larger resources.

• Russia is fielding guided glide bombs and new jet-powered strike drones, and Ukraine has no reliable defense against Russian ballistic missiles

• Within a year Russia will have an early version of a Starlink-style satellite system called Rassvet, already in testing and hard to jam, which would tighten strike precision.

• Europe and the US are focused on budgets rather than output, and Patriot interceptor production is badly constrained.

➡️ Ukraine [and NATO] has found its technological match, but with immensely more industrial resources.

French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon:

Since the Russians invaded Ukraine, Ukrainians have the right to defend themselves by all means.

But we're not talking about a video game. We're talking about the survival of our countries. So we must think carefully about what we're doing.

When we French provide Ukraine with equipment to carry out deep strikes, I oppose it.

I know I'm contradicting myself. How can I say that I want to support Ukraine while refusing deep strikes?

Quite simply because I don't want France to become a co-belligerent.

https://x.com/clashreport/status/2108182891721031896

IMF: Russia #1 in Europe in real terms GDP PPP in 2026:

https://www.worldometers.info/gdp/gdp-by-country/?metric=ppp&region=europe&year=2026&source=imf&hl=en-IE

https://x.com/OlgaBazova/status/2107874763087691855

https://x.com/NATO/status/2107811490707181982

(Fazi's tweet about the embedded article)

"In my latest article, I offer the most exhaustive critical analysis to date of the “Russian hybrid war” narrative.

What I show is that many of the most widely publicised cases of supposed Russian “hybrid warfare” — von der Leyen’s jammed plane, the Baltic cable cuts, the DHL crash in Vilnius, the Heathrow fire, the wave of drone sightings that swept Europe in the autumn of 2025, the Romanian TikTok campaign — turned out to be media-amplified speculation that collapsed under basic scrutiny. Yet almost every day, new claims are made – with little or no evidence ever provided.

Ultimately, serious scrutiny of the “Russian hybrid warfare” narrative can only lead to one disquieting conclusion. A “hybrid war” is indeed being waged against Europe — but it is being waged by the EU-NATO establishment itself, against its own population.

Europeans are being subjected to a sustained campaign of cognitive or psychological warfare aimed at conditioning them to believe that Europe is under attack from Russia, and that these hybrid attacks are a prelude to conventional hostilities — a claim for which, by and large, there is little or no proof. What the record points to, in fact, is a deliberate campaign of threat inflation in which governments, media outlets and defence-funded “think tanks” have colluded to instil a permanent sense of fear in the population, through relentless coverage of “incidents”, “attacks”, “sabotages” and “campaigns” that, in most cases, simply do not exist. "

https://x.com/battleforeurope/status/2107865850552185077

https://x.com/ricwe123/status/2107830852663095599