It’s not only Friday’s powerful opening speech from Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський. The Ukrainian delegation is doing an excellent job at this year’s Munich Security Conference, pushing on all fronts in all sessions: weapon deliveries, sanctions and accession to the European Union. #MSC2023

Times have indeed changed: Google did not renew its Project Maven contract in 2018 over employee concerns. Now it’s part of the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability of the U.S. Air Force. c4isrnet.com/industry/2023/…

On „The Hill & Valley“ Palmer Luckey explains the Anduril Industries approach towards building a company - from first principles, solving known government top priorities. Key insight into getting traction with sales to government and part of the reason, why many companies struggle

.Cafe 128 at Emporium's Financial Times story is generating a lot of buzz about the future of the EU economy. Some have noted back in 2013 that the UK was still part of the EU but graph notes 'EU current composition throughout'. It is difficult to argue against these trend lines and lack of technology

After sitting with our legal team to parse through the fine print of Apple's DMA announcement (that took a while), which is, at best vague and misleading, I wanted to share my thoughts.  While Apple has behaved badly for years, what they did yesterday represents a new low, even

During the Cold War, it was taken as a given on both sides of the Atlantic that American and European interests in defending Europe from the USSR were not perfectly aligned. This was the starting point for how to defend Europe, not assumed away. “Is Bonn worth Boston?” 1/

Pistorius emphasizes at #MSC2024 that 2% of GDP is a floor, not the ceiling.

Important nuance from @JDVance1 at the #MSC2024: Even if congress passes its next support package for 🇺🇦 this will not fundamentally change the reality on the battlefield. 🇺🇸 and 🇪🇺 just don’t produce enough munitions.

“Europe needs to wake up to the reality of scarcity. […] Germany needs to stop de-industrializing.“ Clear - and I would add, understandable - frustration shown by @JDVance1 #MSC2024 with Europe and particularly Germany’s lack of action and attitude.

My key takeaway from #MSC2024: Europeans still believe that a US focus on both - the Indo-Pacific AND Europe - is achievable. But that’s an illusion. The US just cannot. It doesn’t have the capacity. The #Zeitenwende will have to go much deeper than the Sondervermögen.

Alex Luck Deutsche Marine At least we can help with the topic air force. These are not the exact flight routes, but at least you can see which five exercises we are taking part in during the Indo-Pacific deployment. And you see, we are going as a European face together with 🇪🇸 and 🇫🇷.

Europe operates 19 different main battle tanks, the US a single one. At the #MSC2024 Ukrainian reps shared that 155mm shells from Europe don’t work across all respective European weapon systems. Harmonization of military equipment is key for a credible European deterrence.

🚨How British companies are bolstering Vladimir Putin’s war machine🚨 A depressing thread. But an important one. With some pretty shocking charts. Let’s begin with the “official” picture. It suggests UK trade with Russia has collapsed since Feb 2022. Down by 74%…

🇦🇲 is a telling example of an interesting tit-for-tat between #France and #Russia. While 🇷🇺 is exploiting resentment against 🇫🇷 in its former colonial empire, notably in Africa (🇨🇫🇲🇱🇳🇪🇧🇫), 🇫🇷 is closing ranks with former USSR republics or satellites wary of 🇷🇺(🇲🇩🇰🇿🇺🇿🇲🇳). 🧵1/13

The most remarkable graphs I've seen in a long time. “at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English" John Burn-Murdoch

Sehr spannende Perspektive.

Industrial production in Germany just dropped to the lowest level since the pandemic. via Daniel Kral

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Introducing CA-1 Europa, our upcoming autonomous combat aircraft built around the Centaur AI pilot. We are building CA-1 to protect our continent, our freedom, and our values. Link in thread below.

Over the past few months Helsing’s next-generation loitering munition HX-2, has been tested by soldiers across four different countries in military-led field tests. The strike drone is autonomous with a human on the loop, and compatible with different warheads.