BAE Systems Maritime has set out further detail on its joint UK–Norway Littoral Strike Craft (LSC) programme, describing it as a fast, low-signature vessel designed to support modern amphibious operations in contested coastal environments.
ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-norway-fi...
Again reiterating "a war is averted after stealth fighters and commandos get deployed to show the other guys aren't fucking around" is an entirely different outcome than "a war is averted because the system and/or reasonable diplomacy worked."
39 confirmed at this moment 😞
Chemical irritants were shot in the direction of protestors' faces within the same neighbourhood and on the same day as the shooting of Renee Good. Watch our analysis of one federal agent’s actions with @evidentmedia.org below: youtube.com/shorts/ETSQd...
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials: Dear Ambassador: President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state] “Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”
mad king moment
from the PBS Newshour correspondent
Boycott the World Cup - Growing sense of embarrassment at Fifa over Donald Trump peace prize
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
The new Czech Defense Minister has confirmed the continuation of the Czech artillery ammunition initiative for Ukraine
www.novinky.cz/clanek/domac...
Lovely
No confirmation yet on the claimed attack against a dark fleet tanker in the Mediterranean, although GUR/SBU would aim for them sooner or later.
If such a target (as the one rumored to be aboard) was also present, no doubt they'll try to go for it.
Life in Bamako, the capital of Mali, has been brought to a standstill after a jihadist organisation launched a series of attacks on inbound fuel convoys. Bellingcat has verified six attacks since September, which together have damaged more than 130 fuel tankers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
"Sure, Trump has come up with a completely unworkable set of proposals that will never be implemented by sidelining most of the key stakeholders, but where is Europe's competing idiotic initiative from one of von Der Leyen's golf buddies?"
Another Russian ship has been added to the grain smuggling fleet, captured on camera and on satellite imagery, evading sanctions to deliver grain from occupied Crimea to Houthi-controlled Yemen. Follow its covert journey here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...
Plenty of Colombian and Ecuadorians in BRILEG, BRIPAC, BRILAT...
If US Marines want to get drunk and show their admiration for military units that actually won a lot of wars then why don't they just get Tercio tatoos?
Last month I wrote a post where I said that Russian army is going to use a lot of IFVs and tanks to advance. Including Zaporizhia direction. And yesterday they used 26 pieces of armor there.
Today near Lyman 254 SMR also lost 2 BTR-82A and T-72B obr. 22 during their assault.
When Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapsed in Syria, many of the officials who enabled and enforced his brutal regime disappeared. Our reporting uncovers who they are, what they did and where they fled. nyti.ms/3J1W5Cs
Meanwhile it will take 6 months to push for a change of regulations allowing to engage with drones flying in restricted areas, instead of waiting for 4917 checks before anything is done.
Detect > ID > notify > destroy
www.politico.eu/article/top-...
These drone incidents are (1) the ones known to the public, and (2) still need to figure out how many are not being detected
Looks like the FIRMS satellite fire detection system is offline due to the US government shutdown.
Just one more reminder that anyone involved in OSINT or disaster response cannot rely on US space-based assets in any critical role, given the current state of the governing regime in the country.
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Of course we need more of everything (starting with detection systems, fighter pilots and AA crews), but these drones are already in the bases and making +2000 interceptors will take a week.
They were intended for an scenario no longer realistic, only USAF/USN could afford to trash them like in 🇾🇪.
P2P is also obviously also out of the scene.
Drone interceptors are ranging €200 to €5K, and these could fly hours and hours without exhausting the fighter jets.
Cheap and almost immediately available.
Grab those European drones intended for persistent ISR over Afghanistan and Iraq, hang a bunch of cheap drone interceptors (dozens of companies making them) and put them over sensitive areas.
This ⬇️ but with RQ-5/7/8, Falco, TB2, MQ-1/9…
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Putin meets alone with Trump.
A week later, US intelligence is gutted by Tulsi Gabbard.
FBI goes after John Bolton.
Had Putin ordered it through Amazon, could not have been more efficient.
Prigozhin knew he was ‘doomed’ after failed rebellion, says mother www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
FBI raids home of John Bolton, Trump’s ex-national security adviser www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
More datapoints for how the French might be right about relying too much on the US
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