⚡️🔥🇨🇳 Xi Jinping urged troops to prepare for war, — Insider
Chinese President Xi Jinping called for troops to strengthen their preparedness for war, state media reported on Saturday, just days after Beijing staged large-scale military drills around Taiwan.
Xi made his statement while visiting a brigade of the People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force on Thursday.

⚡️🔥🇨🇳 Си Цзиньпин призвал войска готовиться к войне, — Insider
Председатель КНР Си Цзиньпин призвал войска усилить готовность к войне, сообщили сегодня государственные китайские СМИ.
Это заявление было сделано Си Цзиньпином во время посещения бригады ракетных войск НОАК, всего через несколько дней после того, как Пекин провел полномасштабные военные учения вокруг Тайваня.

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Of course, the deceased top manager of YUKOS, Mikhail Rogachev, as is customary in Russia, left a suicide note, and of course, it ended up in the possession of the VChK-OGPU channel.
VChK-OGPU also reported details of Rogachev's death.

❗️Rogachev's relatives say that there were no prerequisites for suicide. Mikhail had breakfast with his relatives, was in a normal mood, and then his body was suddenly found under the windows of the house

On Saturday morning, October 19, Rogachev was in a good mood: his wife's sister was visiting them and they had breakfast and were going to see the guest off. Mikhail quietly went to the bathroom. When the taxi arrived, his wife saw an ambulance through the window. The woman called out to her husband, but he was neither in the living room nor in the bedroom, and suicide notes were scattered on the bathroom floor, some of which were typed, some of which were handwritten with different ballpoint pens...

In the note, Rogachev writes he "wanted to work as a photographer"... and also that he "realized the hopelessness of his business too late" 🤔

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⚫️🇷🇺 Тело Рогачева обнаружил сотрудник СВР по имени Александр, персональный водитель Сергея Винокурова — бывшего первого заместителя директора СВР, — который около 9 утра очень во время "гулял с собакой шефа".
Тело 64-летнего топ-менеджера было обнаружено во дворе его 14-этажного дома №17 в Протопоповском переулке, в котором он жил с женой на 10 этаже — погибший жил в ЖК по соседству с Домом Управделами президента.

⚫️🇷🇺 Rogachev's body was discovered by an SVR employee named Alexander, the personal driver of Sergei Vinokurov, the former first deputy director of the SVR, who very timely was "walking the boss's dog" at about 9 a.m.
The body of the 64-year-old top manager was found in the courtyard of his 14-story building No. 17 on Protopopovsky Lane, where he lived with his wife on the 10th floor — the deceased lived in a residential complex next to the multi-storey residential buildingof the Presidential Property Management Department.
▫️In 1982, Rogachev graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys with a degree in metallurgical engineering, defended his PhD thesis, and studied at the London Business School. From 1998 to 1999, Rogachev was the CEO of the engineering center of NK YUKOS, then became vice president for corporate management of YUKOS-EP for a year, after which he headed the customer service for corporate management systems of YUKOS-Moscow and the Research and Development Center of NK YUKOS. His name is associated with the IT reform in the company.
▫️From 2011 to 2015, Rogachev headed the Russian Foundation for Technological Development.

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🇰🇵🇷🇺🇰🇷🇺🇦 Зачем Ким Чен Ын отправил своих солдат на российско-украинскую войну
Главная новость последних дней — отправка северокорейских солдат на помощь путинским войскам в Украине. Это очень важный поворот событий, который будет влиять не только на эту войну, но и на будущее огромного региона.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKilIqIesBU

🇰🇵🇷🇺🇰🇷🇺🇦 Why Kim Jong-un sent his soldiers to the Russian-Ukrainian war
The main news of the last few days is the sending of North Korean soldiers to help Putin's troops in Ukraine. This is a very important turn of events that will affect not only this war, but also the future of a huge region.
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❗️🇪🇺🇺🇸 Силы НАТО в Европе не готовы к возможной войне с Россией без поддержки США
После десятилетий борьбы с террористами в отдаленных регионах земного шара европейские страны-члены НАТО обдумывают сценарий, который серьезно не рассматривался со времен распада Советского Союза, — возможность полномасштабной войны на их собственной территории.

Для многих европейцев наибольший риск сейчас исходит от Дональда Трампа .
«Наши союзники использовали нас больше, чем наши враги», — заявил бывший президент США в интервью главному редактору Bloomberg Джону Миклетвейту в Экономическом клубе Чикаго 15 октября

Трамп пообещал, что в случае его переизбрания США придет на помощь только тем союзникам, которые выполнят целевые показатели военных расходов НАТО, — позиция, которая ставит под сомнение обязательство альянса по коллективной обороне в соответствии со статьей 5 .

Провокационные комментарии Трампа отражают ход мыслей, который выходит за рамки политического раскола в Вашингтоне и может возобладать, кто бы ни победил на президентских выборах в ноябре: европейские правительства должны создать собственные мощные армии вместо того, чтобы сохранять скудные оборонные бюджеты, будучи уверенными в том, что их пакт о взаимной обороне их защитит

▫️Большая часть европейского военного сообщества не имеет опыта планирования или командования крупномасштабными операциями объединенных сил с участием нескольких стран. Европейский военный альянс состоит из отдельных национальных армий, которые опираются на США в вопросах руководства и координации.

После окончания Холодной войны страны НАТО сократили кол-во войск и военной техники, причем, Европа сократила гораздо больше, чем США.

Без всей мощи вооруженных сил США европейским членам НАТО будет трудно противостоять столь могущественному захватчику, как Россия, не говоря уже о том, чтобы сдержать его, — делает вывод Bloomberg

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💰Military Spending

🇪🇺📉Even if the European members collectively reached the US level of around 3.5% of GDP, their spending would still trail that of their superpower ally because Europe’s economy has been on a path of decline relative to the US since the global financial crisis of the late 2000s.

🪖Troops

🇫🇷🇬🇧🇩🇪 France’s active armed forces shrank by 56% between 1990 and 2024, to 203,850. The UK is still cutting: A 2023 Defence Command Paper states that the British army will be reduced to 73,000 soldiers by 2025 — the lowest level since the Napoleonic wars of 1803–1815.
Germany could possibly deploy one brigade — numbering a few thousand soldiers — to the Baltics and that “would be considered an accomplishment,” said Max Bergmann, director for Europe, Russia and Eurasia at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

France could mobilize 20,000 soldiers in 30 days, according to the joint chief of command of its land army, General Pierre Schill. The UK could at a best effort muster one division of between 20,000 and 30,000 soldiers, though this would probably take more than a month, said Matthew Savill of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a London-based defense and security think tank.

“Ukraine’s losses against Russia of 31,000 troops would be the fighting strength of the British army gone,” he said.

🇺🇸 American special forces alone number around 70,000, and the US has some 80,000 military service personnel stationed just in Europe.

⛴ Naval Power

🇺🇸 Some US submarines carry more Tomahawks than the entire UK Royal Navy has in its stocks, according to RUSI calculations.

🇫🇷🇬🇧 France has one remaining full-scale aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, typically carrying around 30 Rafale fighter jets. The UK has two such vessels, which together have the capacity to host 48 F-35 combat jets in addition to helicopters. But it’s expected to have only 37 of the fighter planes by the end of 2024. (The F-35’s predecessor, the Harrier, was retired more than a decade ago.) A single US Nimitz-class carrier, of which there are 10, has an air wing of up to 69 aircraft.

Ships have some of the longest construction lead times of any military hardware. In early 2024, the British government said it was decommissioning two of its 11 Royal Navy frigates; the Telegraph newspaper reported it was due to a lack of manpower.

✈️ Air Power

The bulk of NATO’s long-range cruise and ballistic missiles, which in combat would be propelled over hundreds of miles from mobile batteries and warships, are provided by the US. And Europe doesn’t have Patriot-style anti-missile systems in numbers that would constitute an effective defense against incoming projectiles.

“In a ground fight with Russia, NATO success would be heavily reliant on achieving air superiority,” said Savill at RUSI.

🇺🇸 Currently, only the US could carry out effective suppression and destruction of modern Russian air defenses.

The US military has a shot at defeating so-called integrated air defense systems because it has large numbers of highly-trained pilots flying stealthy combat jets such as F-35s, which work in tandem with imaging satellites and long-range reconnaissance aircraft to pinpoint multiple targets quickly and accurately. The US also has large, readily available stocks of long-range “standoff” munitions that can be fired from outside the danger zone to destroy those targets.

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📈 The Outlook

🇩🇪🇵🇱🇳🇱🇬🇧Positive developments include German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s announcement of a €100 billion fund to modernize the country’s defenses; a significant expansion of Poland’s armed forces to make it the third-largest in NATO, with a heavy focus on ground troops; a Dutch plan to restore tank forces that the country got rid of in 2011; and the arrival of new Apache helicopters and Archer howitzer guns for the British army.

🇸🇪🇫🇮🇳🇴🇩🇰A subgroup of members — Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark — also have moved in that direction by creating a Nordic air-defense alliance to combine command and control; share facilities, information and situational awareness; and improve interoperability. The group plans to have almost 250 modern combat aircraft by the end of the decade, of which at least half will probably be F-35s.

It’s also taken considerable credit for a rapid increase in European production of artillery shells — expected to reach 2 million by the end of 2025 from 1 million in early 2024.

Some security officials say European military spending may need to rise to as much as 4% of national budgets — levels not seen since the end of the Soviet era.

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