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Dr Jeppe Trautner

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Scholar. Officer. Cold War 1+2 veteran. 10 Years in 75 Countries. Fluent in the Language of Military Power. Defence Resource Management analyst.

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Dr Jeppe Trautner
4 months
I dag har Dansk Folkeparti @DanskDf1995 taget skridtet fra EU-skepsis til pro-Putin landsforræderi. DF har sammen med Victor Orban tilsluttet sig anti-Ukraine fraktionen i EU "Europas Patrioter". Dermed er DF blevet et anti-NATO parti, der må bekæmpes med alle midler!
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Et i 🇩🇰 ret ukendt faktum: En lille million jøder flygtede fra/blev udvist/etnisk udrenset fra de arabiske lande efter 1948. De lande mistede 99,7 % af deres jøder, størstedelen tog til Israel. Halvdelen af de jødiske israelere stammer herfra.
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Why would Russia blow up its own Baltic Sea pipelines implausibly blaming everybody else? Because similar 'unattributable' cutting of the Norway-Germany and Norway-Poland pipes would cost 10-15 million mostly German jobs. Putin's point: Stop supporting Ukraine or else...
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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Denmark now the only state in Northern Europe without a plan for increasing defence budget to 2%. No crisis felt here. #NATO thank you for protecting us for free, we are happy to receive your solidarity at no extra cost!
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@BadBalticTakes In 1992, Estonians exchanged occupiers' rubles for their own Kroon. Thus free Estonia ended up with a shitton of rubles still valuable in Russia - and flew the lot to Dudaev's free Chechnya to help his country against Russia.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
Danes can individually support Ukraine buying weapons and munitions through an audited fund @DKUkraineKomite . In all about 7 mio. EUR until now. Much more is needed, be a true humanitarian!🇺🇦
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
In a historical rejection of #NATO , a new Danish defence agreement delays defence budget increase to 2% until 2033 - 19 years after Denmark's 2014 commitment. A small and hardly usable "reserve fund" was added to impress Allies. Give us your solidarity for free!
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
2 years
Latvia just reinstated conscription👍 and have 53 x M109 155mm artillery guns. Estonia and Lithuania both have 18 modern guns and conscripts. Baltic 3 are small but serious. Denmark, spending Balts total but no conscript units and just 14 guns, do wake up, gear up, re-join #NATO !
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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I krig dør 15-25% af soldaterne pga. egen ild. Årsagstyper: 1 Koordinationsfejl 2 Targeting-fejl 3 Skyttefejl 4 Våbenfejl Ingen soldat vil dette, men det sker ofte. Mørke, træthed, frygt, uerfarenhed særligt farlig. World Central Kitchen-drabene ikke fejl 3-4, kan være fejl 1-2?
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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USA truer d. 26.4 Kinas diktator. Kun takket være det kinesiske regimes støtte med våben, ammunition mv. kan Rusland fortsætte krigen mod Ukraine. "If China does not address this problem, USA will", sagde Blinken til Xi. Vi er i en nærkrigssituation. Forstår Danmark det?
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
6 months
Herunder et iskoldt finsk militært syn på endnu en russisk trussel. Med 900.000 soldater og flere kanoner og kampvogne end resten af Nordeuropa tilsammen, er Finland sikker. Inspirerende!
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Tomi 🇺🇦🇫🇮
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Major General Harri Ohra-Aho on Russia's decision to move ballistic missiles closer to the Finnish border "Of course, it's none of my business, but operationally it seems absurd to bring missile systems with such a long range closer to our border, they make easy targets for us"
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@AndersVistisen Du og dit parti klistrer dig fast på Victor Orban, og tror I ikke løber hans of Putins ærinder? Hvis ikke I er aktive putinister, er I fuldstændigt politisk ubegavede. Reelt støtter I nu - som det eneste danske parti - Putin og hans krig og hjælper ham med at skade NATO.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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@EUNejTak @DanskDf1995 EU-skepsis og modvilje mod indvandring er legitime holdninger, der som minimum bidrager til nødvendige debatter. Et dansk parti der tilslutter sig Den Frie Verdens fjender er der intet positivt ved.
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9 months
Danish Chief of Defence gen. Lentfer has just publicly stated an opinion: He now perceives that Russia may possibly become a military threat! His daring conclusion may herald urgency for the broken Danish defence, which is to be rebuilt starting 2027 until mid-2030s. Now go!
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
@carsten1960 @OlfertFischer @ernstved Det er langt fra alene politikernes skyld, at Forsvaret er praktisk taget ødelagt. Politiserende embedsmænd, halvmilitære uniformerede "koncernchefer" og halvakademiske civile "militæranalytikere" uden en flig af militær indsigt bidrog og bidrager.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
5 months
Med selvopfundet jurisdiktion, delvis imod eget mandat og med innovativ tolkning af krigens love mener ICC's anklagemyndighed, at Hamas og Israel begge er skyldige i krigsforbrydelser. En smuk aktivistisk udvidelse af international ret eller politiseren der undergraver samme?
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
2 years
Denmark got a new coalition government. Its security policy: No Russian threat against Denmark; Let's keep defence spending low - 2% by 2030. Leading Danish experts agree: Ukraine has broken Russia's forces for years to come. Isolated and insolent, regretfully Denmark snubs NATO.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
🇩🇰Uklassificeret 10 siders brief om Ruslands militære styrker og muligheder i Danmarks nærområde netop udgivet af @FolkSikkerhed . Styrkebalancen mellem #Russia og #NATO estimeret. Hovedforfatter er @jptrautner
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
Putin teaches Europe that Russia is not to be pushed around: Gas pricing inflation, Belarus migrant suation, and preparing a Ukraine invasion! Do we care to square the equation and rise to the occasion?
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8 months
Denmark 2024: Danish PM Mette Frederiksen forced to leave the podium as her Women's Day speech drowns in Palestine chants. A leftist activist forgets he is just an 'anti-zionist', and proposes "going for the jews and their gathering places" instead of the PM👇
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
6 months
@DanskDf1995 @AndersVistisen Er det vanskeligt for DF at se forskel på EU, et frivilligt samarbejde mellem frie lande, som man kan forlade hvis vil (som UK), og Hitlers Nazi-massemorderiske imperium? Ufatteligt dum og usmagelig "reklame", vil I være historieløse menneskers parti?
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
11 months
Russia now raises 2024 defence spending to 13-17 % of GPD. Arms factories work 24/7. Can Russia sustain its war economy? Economic history says yes. Decades of NATO-Russia Cold War is likely. Unless unstable Russia attacks still unready #NATO . Arm up now!
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
6 months
In a new low in Danish Defence Politics, two parties - the nationalist @LiberalAlliance (as "conscripts may defend Danish territory only, not NATO Allies") the other Liberal @Danmarksdem (to protect females against state conscription) blocks a defence agreement. Weirdos!
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
11 months
Media wonders: Military age male prisoners from Gaza kept nearly naked. Why? Many Israeli civilians and soldiers killed or wounded in suicide attacks (as were also Danish soldiers in Afghanistan). Surrenders now must be kept at distance until stripped and thus visibly unarmed.
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@danielvasilios @DanskDf1995 Hvad er dit argument for at støtte Orban?
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@Mikkel78278992 @DanskDf1995 Godt argumenteret Ivan.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
@JakobEllemann Pga. krisens stigninger i våben-, ammunitions-, materiel- og udrustningspriser samt stigende energipriser er denne aftale reelt en nul-løsning for Forsvaret indtil omkring 2027-2030. Det klare signal til Danmarks Allierede er "rend og hop" og til Putin?
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
@niklas_granholm @MansRAD @MikaelHolmstr @NilssonPM @jteurope @annsofiedahl1 It looks like Danish politicians are so ill-advised that they actually believe they did something admirable. The MoD, civilians and top ranks, may be so used to overselling our miserable forces that they have come to believe their own spin. Astonishing.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
6 months
En del danskere er ikke klar over, hvilke typer mennesker der bor i Israel, og hvor de kommer fra. Ukendskabet kan bidrage til den i Danmark stigende dæmonisering af landet. Se herunder Davis Colliers mini-intro til israelernes baggrund.
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David Collier
4 years
There is so much ignorance about Israel and Israelis. They are so many lies told by anti-Israel haters. I like the personal touch so I thought I would take you on a bit of a tour to meet some: THREAD ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
@Marien__R @amnesty @amnesty , blinded by hate, again falsely accuses Israel of using phosphorus shells. At least the time you spend on lying about that country cannot be used for doing the same against Ukraine, as you usually do. What is wrong with you?
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
7 months
@FaneFlugt Jeg er soldat og militærhistoriker. Har læst grundigt på USS Liberty. Occams Razor: Skal jeg vælge mellem en kompliceret og mystisk forklaring (totalt uklar israelsk intention?) og en simpel (soldater fejler, meget ofte), så var Liberty nok en fejl.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
6 months
Tonight, excellent Danish defence agreement: Reintroduction of conscription, up to 7,500/year for 11 months for fully trained combat units. Low urgency though; slow start from 2026. Two clown bus parties, LA and DD, delayed female conscription to 2027.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
@BadBalticTakes Next time you visit the beautiful university of Tartu, pause in front of the memorial plaque to Dudaev at Barclay Hotel, once his Soviet Airforce Headquarters. Many ex-Soviet occupied minorities soldiers helped build and secure their own free country's armed forces.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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@LarsBStruwe @RasmusB378697 "Rasmus B 378697" er en russisk troll. De har tydeligvis et par dansktalende russere eller danske brøndforgiftere til at forplumre samtalen også herhjemme. Kendetegn: Idiotisk primitive meninger. Ny konto. Omkring 100 følgere og fulgte. Generisk billede. Samme overalt på nettet.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
2 years
Danish State Auditors to Ministry of Defence: "In 2018, you got cash to ready a Brigade for NATO by 2024. Now no brigade, just 'partly ready' in years. What happened to the money?" Teenage MoD: "We were not tasked to know what we did with the money". Denmark used to be better.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
2 years
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania's populations and GDP were halved by 50 years of Nazi and Soviet occupation. Putin wants them out of #NATO and reoccupied! The Balts are strong but need more NATO presence. Hear Estonians #StandWithUkraine + support the Balts
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
11 months
This evening 🇩🇰 TV News @DRNyheder held the microphone for a friendly Hamas leader telling us that Israel always lies. The journalists then spent a few minutes more explaining that nothing Israeli forces said could be verified. Neutral as always.
@DrEliDavid
Dr. Eli David
11 months
Left: Nazi executing a Jewish woman with her child in Ivanhorod, 1942. Right: Hamas executing a Jewish woman in Kibbutz Alumim, 2023. “Never Again” is now.
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1 year
@steenHiversen Reserven i Danmark er meget lille. Der var i 2019 lige knap 500 aktive reservister, der i gennemsnit var indkommanderet 9 dage. Af de 500 er 400 officerer, resten sergenter og konstabler. Vi kender stort ser hinanden. Tallet 3.000 er fri fantasi.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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@Bregendahl Hvordan er israelerne i gang med etnisk udrensning? Tyve procent af israelerne er arabere/muslimer. Arabisk et officielt sprog. Et muslimsk parti var i den forrige regeringskoalition dernede. Er det krigen mod Hamas du kalder "etnisk udrensning"? Det har du næppe belæg for.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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@FaneFlugt Ja alt kan tænkes. Også at Hamas, hvis eneste håb om sejr er at Israel taber informationskrigen, narrer IDF til at angribe nødhjælperne. Eller at briterne var spioner (for ?). Men alt ikke lige sandsynligt! Der er dog ægte konspirationer, men kun et fåtal. Langt oftere fejl.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
New Danish defence agreement begins investment in new capabilities in late 2020s. An "as little as possible as late as possible" plan. Danish consensus is that #NATO is very strong, Russia very weak and stable, and 🇩🇰 not endangered. Hockey-stick investment in bn DKK below.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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@DRNyheder Dansk Forræderparti? @AndersVistisen modarbejder som den eneste danske politiker i EU Ukraine.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
4 months
DF's @AndersVistisen nu fået sin belønning: En ledende post i Orbans nye anti-Vestlige parti "Patrioternes Europa". Vistisen er doven, ineffektiv og ikke vellidt, og belønnes kun fordi han kunne købes til at svigte Danmark (og agerer i EU uden for DF @DanskDf1995 kontrol).
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
5 months
Uanset om sagen er: - Kvindernes Kampdag - 1. Maj - Befrielsesdagen - Eurovision - Copenhagen Pride - Roskilde Festival - EU debat vil de danske Hamas-tilhængere kun give plads til ytringer, der fremmer den jødiske stats ødelæggelse. Patetisk grænsende til sygt.
@koebenhavns_uni
Københavns Uni
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Udenrigsminister Lars Løkke Rasmussen var i dag (28/5) på Københavns Universitet for at tale om "EU efter EP–valget". Desværre gjorde deltagende studerende det umuligt at afvikle arrangementet på grund af konstante tilråb. Flere tilhørere forlod, helt forståeligt, salen. Til jer
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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@Bobischoff Israel kan dræbe en terrorist(?) i en kørende bil på en landevej i Libanon med (måske) nul dræbte civile. Deraf kan man ikke slutte, at Israel kan vinde krigen mod Hamas-terrorister i Gaza uden civile dræbte. Der er forskel på krig og på terrorist-bekæmpelse. Desværre.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
11 months
@Daniel13137225 Hov, tal pænt til mig. Ja, der var både push og pull, Og det er hvad jeg skrev: "Flygtede, udvist, udrenset". De blev generelt behandlet dårligt, og en betydelig andel afpresset og udplyndret og nogle myrdet af de regimer de forlod. Og pull: Et land hvor jøder var frie og lige.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
@warstudies Obviously, this distinguished scholar needs no military insight since such is irrelevant and military science believed not to exist. Lt Michael Howard MC is as dead as his approach to war studies now gobbled up by speculative social sciences, the only permissible approach.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
11 months
900 Nordic academics declare Israel caused 7 Oct. and is criminal, apartheid, genocidal, and colonialist. They will work only with Israelis agreeing to that. The words of the 900 burn with anger, their views are shallow. Why do they hate the Jewish State?
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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@EBjerkrheim Sidestiller du Ukraines forsvarskamp mod Rusland med Hamas' angreb på Israel?
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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@Niklas_P0 @DanskDf1995 Enig et godt stykke af vejen, men at DF går fra EU-skepsis til Putin-håndlangere er hinsides dumt. Et sådant partier udansk,og skal bare ud af byråd, Folketing, regioner.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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@MichaelNstr Mord "for sjov" i krig er en mulighed, se Bucha. Men tre dyre missiler fra en drone imens et dusin officerer ser på og ved det gavner Hamas, og at chefer, politikere, befolkningen er imod? Usandsynligt. Hvad angår film-stumpen: Hvem rammes? Civil eller Hamas? Vær skeptisk.
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@DFUngdom @DanskDf1995 Jeg er overrasket og skuffet over, at DF som det eneste danske parti har skiftet side, og nu aktivt samarbejder med Danmarks og NATO's fjender. At I "ikke ser ens på alt med" jeres nye Putin-venner, er patetisk. Navneskifte til "Dansk Forræderparti" er passende. Skam få jer !
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
Denmark's new Defence Agreement delays meeting #NATO 2% spending another 7 years to 2030. Investments in Danish firms and jobs a priority. Denmark meets 2 of its 17 NATO Capability Priorities, and further delays full implementation until 2033. Shameless!
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
8 months
NordStream gas pipeline 2022 stories revival as: 1. Putin suggests opening of its fourth pipe (it was not targeted) 2. Russia wants UN investigation to deflect and to blame 🇺🇸. 3. Implausible "Ukraine did it from a sail boat" story wins in Germany. Look 👇 for the who and why:
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
2 years
Why would Russia blow up its own Baltic Sea pipelines implausibly blaming everybody else? Because similar 'unattributable' cutting of the Norway-Germany and Norway-Poland pipes would cost 10-15 million mostly German jobs. Putin's point: Stop supporting Ukraine or else...
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@HugodPeter Enig, og ikke kun Israel. ICC-sagen er endnu et slag mod den uperfekte FN-centrerede verdensorden vi havde fra 1945 til 2014. Vi sejler med stadig større hast ind i et uvejr og mørke i en ukendt skærgård, hvor diktaturstater kan bruge domstole mv. som våben imod de frie lande.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
10 months
Time for #EU and #NATO to actively support democracy in Hungary, read below how Orban have undermined his country.
@FredFellaIMO
Fred Fella
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Orban’s been around for decades. Some have called him an autocrat who destroyed Hungary’s democratic processes. So how did he come to power? Why do Hungarians support him? In this 🧵, let’s take a look. If people have other comments, I’m open to them as I’m not an expert on 🇭🇺.
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@Bobischoff OK, jeg bøjer mig for din indsigt. Jeg var ikke, ligesom dig, til stede i IDF drone-kontrolrummet under operationen.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
8 months
Denmark's foremost strategic historian and Baltic area military analyst Michael H. Clemmesen looks into nuclear deterrence of Russia. European NATO's conventional weakness lowers the nuclear threshold. Text in Danish. Enjoy your weekend!
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
8 months
1/2 After the Paris meeting on Ukraine support, as  @kielinstitute notes: French mil support to UKR: € 635 million German mil support to UKR: € 17.700 million French criticism of Germany is not fully merited. France should do more!
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
Fly mellem to NATO-lande tvunget ned af to-kopek lommediktator - en demonstrativ finger i øjet på Vestens igen synliggjorte magtesløshed. Vores modstandere tænker i og taler magtens sprog, vi gør ikke.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
Russia released an ultimatum-like draft agreement with the US and NATO demanding demilitarization of the Baltic states and no NATO enlargement.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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@KarlBilleskov @AndersVistisen Dit ønske er netop gået i opfyldelse, landsforræder.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
5 months
Undgå venligst ordet "antisemitisme". Det lyder høfligt klinisk, nærmest positivt, lidt som "antibakteriel". Og hvad er en "semit" i øvrigt? Uklart vrøvleord det er. Ord skaber mening. Det præcise og fuldt ud dækkende danske ord er "jødehad" hhv. "jødehader".
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
4 months
@Henriksen_M_ Hils din russiske føringsofficer fra mig, og bed ham om bedre tweets. Selv de karakterafvigere der kunne finde på at stemme på dig, synes den er dårlig.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
Den tyske vicekansler Habeck med en gennemtænkt og klart leveret analyse af politik og moral i video, herunder om Tyskland, Israel, tolerance og antisemitisme i fred og krig. Ti minutter af høj kaliber. Lækker han tager sig tiden til at tænke og tale svære sager igennem.
@dw_politics
DW Politics
1 year
THREAD 1/4 Germany’s Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck has gone viral with a video message to the nation on its historical responsibility to Israel. Here is the video in full 👇
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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Danish Head of Military Intel Agency in prison, and with a former defense minister prosecuted for treason (up to 12 years). They appeared to confirm Russia/Snowden claim of US comms cable tapping publicly to boost egos and for political gain. Top dogs, politicized case. 1/2
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
Donate arms and munitions now to help overcome war crimes and keep Ukraine free: Danes now fund Ukrainian arms with by now 3 m€ through a new 🇺🇦 committee run by artists, writers, business leaders, and centrist politicians. This is real humanitarian aid!
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
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@Anna_Askjaer @TomJensen1966 @AnnaAskj I din fordrejede forestillingsverden sidestiller du Israel med Nazityskland og krigen mod Hamas i Gaza med folkemord. Ikke alene er det saglig set forkert, det er også ondskabsfuldt fordi netop israelere og særligt jøder konstant udsættes for massemord bl.a. fra Hamas.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
2 years
Mocking Russian military 'incompetence' is now commonplace. In his "Would we do better?" analysis RAND's David E. Johnson denies professionally interested US/NATO soldiers any complacency. Note the value of conscription and "force preservation".
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
5 months
@oplatsen En moderne brigade stab er på højst 20-25 officerer/NCO. Det tager den 2-4 timer at fra modtagelse af ordrer til egen planlægning er udført og befaling givet. En postmoderne vestlig brigadestab har 75-150 stab, anvender 24 timer og gavner fjenden mere end egne styrker.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
4 years
@steenHiversen @forsvaretdk Fremragende indlæg i Olfi - tusind tak for at gå efter boldene: Trusler, opgaver, struktur, midler. Nu har vi hørt nok om personer. Men vil et politisk parti åbent opfordre til debat om disse emner og være klar til erkende, at den nuværende struktur er dysfunktionel?
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
@SorenPape Med de stigende priser på våben, ammunition, materiel og energi, vil den langsomme stigning blot fastholde 2021-niveauet indtil omkring 2027-30. De 3,5 mia. x 2 "reservefond" er svære at bruge i 2022 og 2023. Historisk aftale for anti-militær og anti-NATO aftale-partierne.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
@Forsvarsmin Forliget er "Så lidt som muligt så sent som muligt", for modsat Norge, Sverige, Finland, Baltikum, Polen og Tyskland har Danmark intet i klemme, tror vi. Solidaritet er noget NATO giver til os.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
Fremragende kort tale om Ruslands imperialistiske ønske om at dominere Ukraine fra ... Kenyas FN-ambassadør! Gid vi snart ser tilsvarende politisk og moralsk lederskab fra mange flere europæiske ledere.
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Thomas van Linge
3 years
If you're gonna listen to any speech about #Ukraine 🇺🇦, let it be this one. The Kenya ambassador to the UNSC perfectly explains how people across Africa understand Ukraine, and what the Kremlin's acts of aggression mean in our post-colonial world.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
9 months
@fak_dk @anderspuck Var der slet ingen på FAK, der for år siden forstod, publicerede og underviste, at Rusland var en alvorlig trussel og dansk Forsvar i en elendig tilstand? Skulle spørge fra en ven😄
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
6 months
In a must-read in Foreign Affairs, @Stanovaya analyses Russia's elite and popular will for war to victory. Also, spending merely 6-8% of GDP and with a trained reserve of 3 mio. Russia can fight on for a decade or more at current losses. Do prepare for a long and expanding war!
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Tatiana Stanovaya
6 months
Nobody in Moscow is looking for an exit strategy from the war or an opportunity to initiate dialogue with the West; nobody is concerned with persuading the West to ease sanctions; nobody is hungry for compromise with Ukraine, at least under its current leadership. There is no
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
Very important that Western media and notably #BBC remain committed to neutrality between liberal democracies and thieving & murderous dictatorships, and impartiality between oppressors and their victims.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
8 months
@Bobischoff Afvejningen a., b. og c. giver proportionen ml. civile og Hamas dræbte. Nok 20-35% dræbte er Hamas, som modsat Israel har politisk gevinst ved civile tab. Dette er krig, ikke counter terrorism. Ingen gode tekniske fixes findes. Er det rimeligt? Ens sympatier og etik bestemmer.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
11 months
3/3 Around 40 % of names indicate expat/immigrant background, above average. Perhaps indicates isolation from mainstream news and thus bias towards one-sided and extreme views? My take: Decent humans are pro-Israel AND pro-Palestine. If you hate one side you failed.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
@clausmat1 Den økonomiske underlegenhed betyder at Rusland har opbygget et militært system, der med kort varsel skal give en hurtig sejr og nuklear låsning af sejren i erkendelse af at en lang konventionel krig vil ende med russisk nederlag. Godt nytår! (måske).
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
@wrbust @mnorgaard Opgørelsen af Finland kontra DK er fra mig og mit netværk. Finlands forsvar bygger på fuldtidsansatte, der er hjerne og rygrad. Skelet og muskler er reservister + mobiliserbare værnepligtige trænet hårdt og øvet ofte. Ligesom i DK indtil ca. 1995/2004.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
11 months
@superhedning Nej, logisk glidning fra din side og du lægger mig ord i munden. Randers? Irrelevant her! Danmark har ikke mistet 99,7 % af sine jøder til udvandring/flugt sådan som de arabiske lande har. Vel nok fordi jødehad ikke er så udbredt her og vi har frihed og en god økonomi.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
7 months
@Bobischoff 1/7 Det var præcist arbejde med dronen. Trods mørke og kun uklart billede fra termisk kamera og måske også lysforstærkning ramte dronen de tre biler i løbet af vist en halv time. Det var afgjort ikke type 3 våbenfejl eller 4 skyttefejl.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
9 months
In rare interview, Danish Defence Chief says "all NATO Defence Chiefs have realised they have become leaders of an IT organisation rather than a pure materiel organisation." Leading one gun, five ships, and a battalion but many IT systems, he has a point.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
@neretnieks By not being a NATO member, merely a partly committed hang-around, Sweden (1) is seen as hostile but unprotected by Putin, (2) severely weakens NATO's defence of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians in effect encouraging Russian re-inclusion. Join right now, you are very welcome!
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
@mr_mogensen Selvfølgelig kan dette indkøb ikke ske i Danmark: Vi vil ikke have noget, som andre har!
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
8 months
@drdrdaria Rusland. Havde motivet: Advarsel om vilje til at skabe massiv energikrise der lukker tysk industri ved at sprænge de øvrige gasrør også. Rusland har kapaciteten og var på stedet. Sprængningen af tre af fire rør og Putins nylige forslag om at åbne det fjerde forstærker mistanken.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
Election day in Poland. Government for years skewed media, courts, laws, money, defence forces, and election process to assist its wins, with culture war against LGQTxx, immigration, abortion etc. for added effect. Not an even playing field. Will it work?
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
High Court just found fair trial to be above state security, thus that top secret docs could be made public. Prosecution and Intel Agency now give in, defendants walk away. Incompetence and complacency. Not the Denmark I knew. 2/2
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
In April 1973, Golda Meir wrote that “Israel is a democracy in which various views ... are freely advocated. We have our doves and hawks. Most Israelis are neither, but we do refuse the role of clay pigeon.” That seems still to be the case.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
@CovertShores Why did Russia blow up its own Baltic Sea pipelines implausibly blaming everybody else? Because similar 'unattributable' cutting of the Norway-Germany and Norway-Poland and other pipes would cost 10-15 million mostly German jobs. Putin's point: Stop supporting Ukraine or else...
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
7 months
@MikkelEPedersen Nej. Logisk glidning fra din side. Jeg skriver de forkerte hyppigt rammes i krig, og at enkle, logiske forklaringer oftest er bedre end konspirationsteorier eller dæmonisering. Dit valg.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
As Mark Galeotti notes, Putin and his men are free to chose war or deescalation as they want. Strategic incompetence brought us there. Whatever the outcome of this crisis, rebuild Western strategic and military competence now!
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
11 months
@Daniel13137225 Du er stadig uforskammet, vel din personlighed. Men tak for kilde "one million plan", der viser Israel opmuntrende til immigration fra de arabiske lande fra 1944. En pull-faktorer oven i det push disse diktaturstaters mishandling af især minoriteter var (og er). Og?
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
5 months
@voldum38 Vold. Vi er på vej mod en æra med den stærkes ret. FN-konstruktionen efter 1945 synker i grus, diktaturerne splitter os, misbruger institutionerne der skulle skabe mere fred og retfærdighed. For mange i Vesten hjælper diktaturerne ved at sætte hævn og had over lov, ret og dialog.
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
3 years
@clausmat1 #NATO 's europæiske hylder er stort set tomme. Alliancens europæiske del er samlet set svagere hvad angår indsatsparate og logistisk understøttede landstyrker end f.eks. Ukraine eller Finland. Og Rusland ved det. I det mindste havde vi mange gode år, hvor vi nød fredensdividenden!
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Dr Jeppe Trautner
1 year
Adult EU policy: Israel has the right to fight also as Hamas uses civilians as shields. Draft peace principles: 1 Hamas not to govern Gaza 2 Gaza part of one Palestine 3 Israel not long-term in Gaza 4 Palestineans stay in Gaza 5 No blockade of Gaza More:
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