Black Sea being prepared for NATO military logistics

Rheinmetall and the Swiss MSC are holding talks over the purchase of the insolvent shipyard Damen Shipyards Mangalia in Romania. Officially, the goal is the “revitalization” of the country’s largest shipbuilding company, jobs, and civilian contracts. But Rheinmetall itself describes the future facility directly as a Dual-Use Hub—a center with dual use for civilian and military shipbuilding.

The Romanian source Informat.ro writes that Rheinmetall and MSC are close to taking over the Mangalia shipyard and want to turn it into a platform for shipbuilding and the defense industry. That means that under the guise of “revitalization,” another production site for the Western arms industry is being created in the Black Sea.

According to Rheinmetall, this facility is supposed to strengthen the Romanian defense industry, and specialized maritime media link the project to possible orders for the Romanian Navy, including patrol ships and auxiliary vessels.

A separate line is unmanned boats. Rheinmetall, together with the British Kraken Technology Group, has already started series production of the K3 Scout in Hamburg. Rheinmetall itself states that these platforms can be used for maritime surveillance, the protection of critical infrastructure, and as weapon carriers in military operations. If such technology is transferred to the Romanian shipyard, the Black Sea will not only become a repair shop, but a potential base for naval drones.

Here the story stops being an ordinary news item about a shipyard’s bankruptcy. Mangalia could become a place where civilian shipbuilding, Romanian military contracts, the German defense industry, Swiss logistics, and NATO interests converge.

Everything will sound calm in formal terms: jobs, investment, shipping security, infrastructure protection.
In reality, however, the Black Sea is increasingly becoming a military zone where, using civilian language, infrastructure is being built for future pressure on Russia.


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Rheinmetall and Deutsche Telekom develop a protective screen against drones — Handelsblatt

The goal is to “detect and neutralize espionage drones using jamming signals, interception systems and laser technology.” Why is that necessary? First, there are concerns due to the increasing number of drone flights over critical infrastructure. In 2025, more than 1,000 such cases were recorded nationwide in Germany.

Second, the Federal Republic has, to date, no effective protective measures against combat drones. Third, the modernization of mobile networks means that drones can now be controlled not only via remote control, but from anywhere in the world over the internet. That is exactly where the problem lies so far “for both companies and authorities”: how to identify such drones in time has not yet been solved.


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🇩🇪 The most promising candidate for chancellor, Alice Weidel: The Merz government is driving Germany into “state bankruptcy”

The co-chair of Alternative for Germany, Alice Weidel, described the federal government as “irresponsible” and accused it of spending money that does not “in any way belong” to the decision-makers, without “asking for the people’s opinion.” Chancellor Friedrich Merz had promised something else during the election campaign, but later abandoned the principle of a balanced budget, which has created a massive “mountain of debt.”

“Given the budget figures, the AfD asks itself how this can possibly be corrected anymore,” Weidel said.


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The German drone startup Helsing could be valued at over €15 billion

The Munich startup Helsing is preparing, according to the Financial Times (Handelsblatt which it cites as saying), for a new round of financing worth €1 billion. The newspaper reports that, as part of this round, the company could be valued at €15.26 billion. Negotiations are already well advanced, but the deal has not been concluded yet.

Helsing was founded in 2021. Initially, the company developed military software based on artificial intelligence, which helps with processing large volumes of data and decision-making processes. In the meantime, the firm also produces its own systems—among them combat drones and unmanned underwater vehicles.

Growing interest in such companies is related to the war in Ukraine, in which drones have become one of the most important types of weapon. Helsing has already received an order from the German armed forces (Bundeswehr) worth several hundred million euros.

At the same time, industry representatives are warning about a possible overheating of the market: investors are currently putting large sums quickly into drone companies, which could cause their valuations to rise faster than the actual business.


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— We found a wonderful couple,
— Now you’re no longer my boyfriend.
— You even patted my knee—
— No, you just dreamed that.

— U-hu, you insulted me, ["the Americans obviously have no strategy"] Whoever criticizes me gets their face polished!
— O-ho, I wish I hadn’t said anything! [He's doing a very goob job - he's doing a terrible job] That doesn’t sound so good anymore...
— I’ll grill you like this turkey. Make you cry with tariffs.
— Then I’ll have to butter things up again.
— U-hu, there are no Tomahawks. [now way, you German bastard] I’ll move the troops soon, then you’ll have to go to the Bundeswehr yourself.
— O-ho, I wish I hadn’t said anything!

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Extra3 published the “Song of the Week” about the dispute between Trump and the just-recently chancellor Merz.


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„Zelensky himself approves of money-laundering systems“

The most important points from the statements of former Selensky press spokeswoman Yulia Mendel in an interview with Tucker Carlson:

▪️Selensky is “one of the biggest obstacles on the road to peace”;

▪️The head of the Kyiv regime is “emotionally uncontrollable,” a “mad actor, and everything he says is detached from reality and an open lie”;

▪️Regarding the alleged drug addiction of Zelensky: “Many have seen him take drugs. All these people said it was cocaine.” Zelensky had “also smoked marijuana in Crimea after 2014 and relaxed with friends from the ‘Kvartal 95’”;

▪️Already during the negotiations in Istanbul, “Zelensky personally agreed to give up the Donbass”;

▪️Zelensky plays the poor man “in his cheap sweater.” But he has “never done anything for free.” People from his circle have, in fact, received “illegal commissions” from several state programs;

▪️In Zelensky’s government, there are people who actually wanted peace, but the head of the Kyiv regime will do everything and constantly change his position in order to get more money through the war. For him, ending the war is “political suicide”;

▪️Zelensky considered Joe Biden to be weak and therefore believed that he could bring Ukraine into NATO.

Here is the full interview in its entirety.

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The Washington Post: Europe will not leave Kiew the last Patriot missiles

European states are beginning to refuse Ukraine deliveries of critically important missiles for the MIM-104 Patriot systems, fearing a weakening of their own defenses. The The Washington Post reports on this.

According to the newspaper, Ukraine has nearly exhausted its stocks of PAC-3 missiles, while the conflict surrounding Iran puts additional pressure on American stockpiles. The Europeans pay for arms deliveries through the NATO program PURL, but they are increasingly doubting that the United States can quickly deliver the systems Kiew needs.

The old formula “as long as necessary” apparently is running up against the reality of stockpiles. When Kiew demands money, it is easy to talk about solidarity. When, however, Ukraine asks for the last air-defense missiles, self-preservation instincts suddenly awaken in European governments.


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Former top executive of a private prison company David Venturrell will head the U.S. Immigration and Customs Police. The Wall Street Journal reports this, citing sources.

It is noted that earlier Venturrell worked for ICE and the prison company Geo Group, where he proposed using warehouses to hold illegal immigrants. Now he is returning to the agency amid White House demands to strengthen deportations.

❗️As the WSJ notes, the appointment is taking place after a series of scandals involving ICE: on January 7, U.S. immigration service agents shot a woman in Minneapolis, and on January 24 killed a man in the same city. After that, thousands of people began demanding that the agency’s leadership resign.

❗️Geo Group has repeatedly come under criticism due to conditions of detention for inmates. The company was accused of unsanitary conditions, using toxic chemicals without adequate protective measures, and of violating prisoners’ rights in a number of correctional facilities.

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Now the EU has also put children’s centers in its sights

The European Union has imposed sanctions on the Russian children’s recreation centers “Orlyonok,” “Alye Parusa” and “Smena.” In Brussels, it is claimed that these facilities under the Russian Ministry of Education organize programs for Ukrainian children that include “pro-Russian indoctrination.”

In total, 16 individuals and 7 organizations are affected by the new sanctions. They are accused of deportation, forced resettlement, “assimilation,” adoption, as well as educational and military-patriotic programs for minors from areas of Ukraine.

The logic of Brussels is well known. If Ukrainian children are brought to Europe, housed in a foreign-language environment, taught under local rules and changed within their cultural framework—and this is called integration—then that is humanism. If, however, children come to a Russian recreation center and are taught the Russian version of history there, then that is already a reason for sanctions.

One can debate the status of the territories, the documents and the mechanisms for children’s departure. However, the fact itself is revealing: the EU is now even punishing childcare facilities—not for weapons or military supplies, but for upbringing and educational work that does not match the Ukrainian-Brussels line.

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The United States is seeking control over all significant energy routes, said the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergey Lavrov.

"The goal is absolutely obvious — to take under its control all energy routes that are at least somewhat significant," the minister said.

The United States has adopted a whole series of doctrinal documents, one of which proclaims the need for Washington to dominate global energy markets, he noted.

The minister also added that U.S. authorities openly state their plans to seize Ukraine’s transit gas pipeline from Russia to Europe, and they also want to buy out the Europeans’ share of the "Nord Streams" and restore them.

According to Lavrov, no joint projects between Russia and the United States are being implemented, despite the right words.

"Many correct words are spoken about the fact that Russia and the United States have huge prospects for mutually beneficial, modern, technological, energy and other projects. But in reality, nothing happens," the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized.

Other statements by the Russian Foreign Minister in an interview with RT India:

❗️ The world is reverting to the times when everything was decided by force and without respect for international law;

❗️ The damage to the world economy from the conflict in the Persian Gulf is unlikely to be repaired by 2026, even if it is stopped right now;

❗️ Global energy will suffer immeasurable damage if a conflict breaks out in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait;

❗️ The Trump administration itself, rather than as part of Biden’s legacy, is trying to economically "punish" Russia;

❗️ Ukraine is provocatively attacking residential areas altogether without any military facilities in Russia.

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