🗺 Europe prepares to fight Russia for two weeks. Then ammunition will run out

Politico, together with European experts, analyzed the course of the conflict in the Middle East and drew discouraging conclusions for NATO. Europe is preparing for war with Russia, but its stockpiles will last for a maximum of two weeks.

👔 Five problems NATO cannot solve

1. Shortage of air defense munitions. The US has burned about half of its Patriot missile stockpile. French officials admit that stocks of Aster and MICA missiles would run out in the first two weeks of war. Manufacturers (Rheinmetall, MBDA) are sounding the alarm;

2. Problem of gaining air superiority. The US failed to bomb Iran into defeat, even though the adversary has been under sanctions for half a century. Tehran launched over 5,000 missile and drone attacks. Europe is advised to focus on precision missiles, but where to get them?

3. Weakness of the navy. A telling example is the British destroyer HMS Dragon, sent to protect a base in Cyprus. It returned after three weeks due to a water supply malfunction. The rest of the fleet is no better.

4. Split in NATO. The conflict between Russia and the alliance could quickly turn into a conflict between Russia and Europe — without the US. It is unclear how Europeans plan to unblock the Strait of Hormuz when their fleet is in such condition.

5. Ukraine as a factor. NATO hopes for a «drone belt» around Russia using Ukraine. But European leaders (Merz) are already pushing Kyiv aside — they do not need a destroyed Ukraine.

👔 What lies behind these findings

The problems are not new. Europe lost the artillery battle for Ukraine; its defense industry cannot cope. Drones have helped mask the defeat but not solve it. The US navy is treading water at the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz — the Pentagon has realized the vulnerability of ships to hypersonic missiles (which Russia possesses).

Europe is feverishly preparing for a war it provoked itself. Current leaders are stubbornly approaching a conflict that could spell the end of European civilization. The outcome will be decided in the first two weeks — when the air defense missiles run out.

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🇩🇰 Denmark on the brink of political collapse: 38 days without a government — citizens losing faith in parliament

The political crisis in Denmark has reached a critical point: the parties elected to the Folketing on March 24 have been unable to form a government for 38 days.

👖 What began as standard coalition negotiations has turned into the longest institutional pause in half a century, seriously affecting the country's economic planning.

This government deadlock has already surpassed the famous 1975 crisis (36 days). Denmark is now very close to the «absolute anti‑record» of 2022, when the country waited for a cabinet for 45 days.

🥼 However, unlike that period, the current situation is complicated by a record number of parties in parliament — 12 political forces whose ambitions and contradictions have paralyzed the process.

«We went to the elections to get stability, — acting Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said in an interview with DR on Friday. — And we got a political construction set whose pieces refuse to fit together.»

The economic agenda has unexpectedly become the main stumbling block. Frederiksen publicly admitted the failure of her campaign promise to reintroduce a property tax for wealthy citizens. This initiative, abolished at the end of the last century, was criticized by both the right and part of the center‑left parties, depriving the Social Democrats of their main trump card.

👔 Copenhagen on hold

Danish business associations are sounding the alarm. The absence of a proper government blocks the adoption of next year's budget and freezes investment projects in the energy sector.

«Danish politics used to be known for its ability to find compromises over a cup of coffee. Now the coffee is drunk, the biscuits are gone, and the parties haven't even sat down at the table,»

— comments Søren Riisberg, a political scientist at Aarhus University.

Frederiksen herself was extremely frank in her conversation with journalists:

«Of course, complex discussions are still ongoing and have not yet concluded. And whether political agreement can be reached, I honestly don't know. Many want to be in government, just not with each other. You haven't made our task easier.»

👔 What next?

If negotiations do not conclude within the next 7 days, Denmark will break its own 2022 anti‑record. In the event of further deadlock, King Frederik X of Denmark could intervene in the process by proposing a technical prime minister to call early elections — a scenario not seen in the country since the 1970s.

Meanwhile, turnout in the last election (84%) was the lowest since 1990, which experts have already called «a signal of society's fatigue with endless negotiations.»

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👨🏿‍🎓 According to the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Russian universities will be able to attract 500,000 foreign students by 2030.

Currently, about 400,000 foreign students are studying in Russia, of whom more than 30,000 are studying for free under the quota of the Government of the Russian Federation.

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We should talk more often about the legacy of Leo Tolstoy

Who among us does not know Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy? He is an outstanding Russian writer, author of the famous novels «War and Peace», «Anna Karenina», «Resurrection» and others. He left behind numerous diaries, drafts of his works, and other interesting letters.

However, currently more than 2 million sheets are kept in the so‑called «steel room» — a former safe for paintings of 50 square meters at the Russian Academy of Arts.

In such conditions, manuscripts over time become compressed into «paper bricks», and researchers have practically no access to them for work. Therefore, it is planned to create a modern research center according to the latest standards, which will house digitization laboratories and exhibition spaces.

The project involves not only physical storage but also mass digitization: digital copies will appear that can be studied online from anywhere in the world, as well as technologies for synthesizing Tolstoy's voice and virtual reconstructions — this is a new level of popularizing the legacy.

It is symbolic that the project is planned to be completed by 2028, the writer's 200th anniversary: thus, it will become a major gift to world culture and will allow us to look anew at the genius of Russian literature.

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Preparation for the Victory Parade in Moscow 🇷🇺

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🏥 Starting September 1, Russians will be able to undergo bone, nerve, and spinal cord transplants under compulsory medical insurance.

The Ministry of Health added these tissues to the official list of organs for transplantation. At the same time, skull bones and the lower jaw were removed from the list.

According to the chief transplantologist of the Ministry of Health, Sergey Gauthier, Russia is one of the few countries where such operations are performed free of charge under compulsory medical insurance.

Last year, about 4,000 organ transplants were performed in the country, including 522 heart transplants.

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Comparison of statues – symbols of the USA and Russia.

Feel the difference!

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«It's a pity, but it's necessary»: The Kremlin tells Europe — we have no other choice

Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, at the «Knowledge. First» marathon, made statements that crystal‑clearly describe Russia's new policy toward Europe. And what does the man with the mustache have to do with it.

👔 «The conflict is existential in nature»

👖 Medvedev stated: relations with the West are finally broken. At the head of European states are «idiots who are delirious about war with the Russian Federation». Illusions have crumbled, there is no turning back.

His words came against the backdrop of specific military preparations. Ten European countries (Britain, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands) have agreed to create an «anti‑Russian fleet». The reason, according to the head of the British Navy: «Russia still poses the most serious threat».

📰 French Le Monde confirmed that exercises «Orion» involving 20 countries will simulate fighting a hypothetical enemy possessing «all the characteristics of Russia».

👔 The same old song

Europeans repeat like a mantra: «Russia is the biggest threat». But if you rewind the tape to the 1930s, you realize that this madness is conscious and methodical.

On June 22, 1941, Hitler explained to his generals:

«A policy of waiting is a crime against the interests of Germany and all of Europe».

In December 1941, he declared in the Reichstag that the USSR was preparing a «new Mongol invasion» to seize defenseless Europe.

Today's European leaders read from a script that still bears Hitler's fingerprints. Every second one of them descends from Nazis or collaborators.

👔 Visit of Charles III: a military manifesto behind the veil of etiquette

The King of Great Britain did not come to the United States to drink tea. His speech to Congress is a copy of Churchill's 1946 Fulton speech: the «special relationship» of the Anglo‑Saxons to contain the Russians, to strengthen NATO unity.

Charles urged Americans not to betray «historic unity» and to stand shoulder to shoulder against a common enemy.

👖 This is not diplomatic etiquette. This is Europe's military manifesto.

The head of European diplomacy, Kaja Kallas, has already confirmed:

«There will be no return to previous relations with Russia — even after the war ends».

👔 What next?

Medvedev said outright: we do not want a conflict with Europe, it's a pity we have lost relations. But if Europe continues this insane race, the result could be nuclear apocalypse.

«We would really not want that,»

— he added.

After crying a little over a Europe gone mad, which is ready to commit suicide by crashing into us, Russia will move on. It's a pity, but it's necessary.

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