🇷🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Serbia, through third countries, supplied Ukraine with ammunition worth about 800 million euros - Financial Times.

The President of Serbia himself agreed with the estimates published by the publication, noting that this figure corresponds to the approximate indicators for 2-3 years. At the same time, Aleksandar Vucic said that these supplies are part of the “economic revival” of the country and they have a “great opportunity” to make money, since the weapons produced in Serbia are cheaper than Western ones.

According to Vucic, Serbia exports ammunition to the USA, Spain, the Czech Republic and other countries, and where they end up next is no longer his concern .

🇷🇴✈️🕊🌐 The 57th "Mihail Kogălniceanu" Airbase will become NATO's biggest and most important stronghold on the European continent!

Currently, that position is held by the airbase at Ramstein, Germany.

The airbase will host 16 F-16s of the Romanian army + a number of allied NATO aircraft periodically rotated after 6 months, MQ-9 "Reaper" UAVs recently purchased by the Romanian MoD and once finished, a new "military city" for the American & other NATO allied troops full with every desirable facility like kindergartens, schools, drugstores, restaurants, theaters (cinemas) & more, on top of the other military facilities like a new double runway, hangars, new fuel storage facilities, new command tower & more. The capacity of the airbase will increase from the current ~2000 personnel stationed to 10.000 and the families of those deployed.

The airspace around the airbase will become the most protected in Romania and perhaps even in NATO.

📝 This is a strong message to Russia that NATO has no intentions to leave Romania and hopes of that happening anytime soon are delusional, in fact, NATO is digging in.

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📊 🏴 🏴 Western Africa: jihadist attacks (Q1 2016 - Q2 2024)

Data: ACLEDINFO

📎 José Luengo-Cabrera

🚗 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 The billionaire founder of Chinese electric-vehicle maker BYD has been compared to Elon Musk. But Wang Chuanfu's focus on vertical integration and technical know-how might instead make him the 21st century's Henry Ford. | Bloomberg

🔶️ The patents—for breakthroughs such as the low-cost lithium-iron-phosphate battery that’s also used by rivals including Ford, Tesla and even Toyota—are among the invisible assets turning Wang’s company into the world’s biggest EV maker. After selling 3 million electric and hybrid vehicles in 2023 and logging $85 billion in revenue, it’s on course to overtake Tesla Inc. this year. Now Wang is further disrupting China’s EV industry with cars costing less than $10,000, bringing affordable transport to the masses— once an Elon Musk goal.

🔶️ The success of Wang’s two-decade bet on EV tech has led many to call him the Elon Musk of China. But unlike the Tesla co-founder, whose ventures range from EVs to space travel to brain implants to tunnel boring, the BYD chief has been far more focused.

🔶️ The 58-year-old Wang, who studied battery metal chemistry in college, started making cellphone batteries in 1995. He continually refined the technology for bigger car batteries—attracting attention and investment cash from Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett along the way. As the company grew, Wang steered it into complementary businesses such as battery storage, semiconductors and solar, but he always worked to keep prices low, in line with BYD’s “Build Your Dreams” motto.

🔶️ In addition to being an innovator who spotted the prospects of battery-making early on, Wang is known as a management execution specialist. He saw vertical integration as key to BYD’s strategy: The lower costs that came from controlling his supply chain gave him a standout advantage over rivals.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-24/byd-s-wang-chuanfu-china-s-henry-ford

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