Michael Rastrup Smith

Gripen E flying display - with the new planform. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei3C... #RIAT25 #Gripen #GripenE

Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely. www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...

Chinese think tank analyst Victor Gao, in an interview with Channel 4 News, said that China is fully prepared to fight to the very end "because the world is big enough that the United States is not the totality of the market in the world."

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First off, Pete Hegseth is a disgrace and should be fired. Second, instead of being an asshole and trash-talking the journalist, he should be thanking him for not posting anything top-secret that’s still to come.

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz: "The circumstances are determined above all by Putin's war of aggression against Europe. It is a war against Europe and not just a war against the territorial integrity of Ukraine⤵️

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

@moderation.bsky.app I am a professional journalist and DO NOT DO SPAM. Somebody try to block me. Best Michael Rastrup Smith Journalist Denmark

Opinion: Aside from the markets, which still have trouble processing that Trump means what he says, Democrats stand exposed as complacent. Do they need a new playbook? www.ft.com/content/b1ef...

Five current and former senior European officials briefed on the call said Trump’s phone conversation with Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen about his intent to take over Greenland had gone “very badly,” the Financial Times reports. “It was horrendous,” said one of the people.

Burden shifting is coming to NATO. Europeans are still not prepared. Good article by @emmamashford.bsky.social & Jennifer Kavanagh foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/23/t...

“To deal with China, the transatlantic partners first need to deal with each other.” Daniel S. Hamilton #ChinaChallenge

Image projected onto Tesla's factory in Berlin

The year ahead will be at least as uncertain, violent and chaotic as 2024. Five key trends to watch in 2025, explained in my latest article for the @lowyinstitute.bsky.social www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...

The American president turns up the hard talk on Russia, and suddenly Putin is kind as a sheep. Shocker. Who would have thought after all this talk about nuclear Armageddon?

The West has to take Ukraine's demand for security guarantees more seriously if we want the war to end. That is my topic in this video, where I also explain the victory plan which has been widely misunderstood in the West. #Ukraine #NuclearWeapons

Colliding Spiral Galaxies from Webb and Hubble.🔭 Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI

The second batch of F-16 aircraft from Denmark is already in Ukraine, — Zelensky The first batch of planes provided by the Danes are already shooting down russian missiles and rescuing our people and our infrastructure. Now our air shield is additionally reinforced.

The new train between China and Laos. US doesn’t have the power or influence to initiate things like this in the future. #Trump or not US is an unreliable fading star.

We’ve now reached the historical moment when Denmark is unquestionably tougher and more realistic in international affairs than any leader of the Republican Party.

Today is the 1000th day of a war that was begun by a Russian leader who believed it would be over in three days. One of the greatest military miscalculations in recent history.

Another day, another million new people have joined Bluesky! 18M users? 🙂‍↔️ 18M friends 🙂‍↕️