Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

RT @deaidua: This morning, the Bundestag’s Budget Committee approved an additional €3 billion for Germany’s military #Ukraine assistance for 2026, bringing the total to €11.5 billion. According to media reports, the additional funding is to be spent on artillery, drones and armoured vehicles.

As every year, however, part of the total funding will also be spent on other means, like replacing equipment for the German Bundeswehr which was given to Ukraine from Bundeswehr stocks at an earlier time.

In addition to an already high sum (certainly a high three-digit million sum at least), a small portion of the €3 billion will therefore also be invested in the re-purchase of two MIM-104 Patriot fire units, which Germany recently delivered to Ukraine.

The final approval of the entire 2026 federal budget is planned for the end of November. Afterwards, the Bundesrat must also give its approval, but I consider both steps to be a mere formality, which...

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Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

🇺🇸🇸🇪🇫🇮 Biden having cold feet about Sweden & Finland joining NATO is not at all a surprising revelation. https://twitter.com/JonasOlsson_/status/1989267956572778674#m

Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (Twitter)

A Russian storms the front line with a bottle of vodka in one hand and a Kalashnikov in the other. https://twitter.com/414magyarbirds/status/1989035990523224374#m

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@Ania_In_UA: At least 8 civilians were killed, over 40 civilians were injured. The attack was on energy infrastructure to leave civilians without heat and electricity during winter

If anyone killed 8 people and injured 40 in another country it would be deemed a terrorist attack on civilians

Colby Badhwar 🇨🇦🇬🇧 (Twitter)

'U.S. Officials Raise Concerns About Saudi Arabia’s Bid for F-35 Jets" - NYT

The Defense Intelligence Agency is just one of many within the US Government that are against this deal.

Concerns about Israel's Qualitative Military Edge could be allayed with a normalization deal, and perhaps a future 6th Gen sale to the IAF, but the bigger issue is Saudi-CCP security cooperation. https://twitter.com/ColbyBadhwar/status/1985819094164152366#m