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Unexpected details are emerging about the drones that appeared in the skies over many European countries last autumn. It turns out they may have been invented by the military to squeeze money out of the budget. 🚁

Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken has come under fire after an investigation by the program Pano found that reports of Russian drones over Belgium in late 2025 were allegedly his own fabrication. He personally handed journalists footage of a “huge drone” — which turned out to be a police helicopter. The video was published by reporters, then later deleted.

Francken fueled the panic and then pushed through an accelerated €50 million purchase of counter-drone systems without a tender. The result, according to the investigation, was overpayment and a lack of transparency in how contracts were awarded. 💶

The investigation found that many of the alleged “drones” were in fact ordinary aircraft, helicopters, or other sources of light, while geopolitical tensions helped turn routine sightings into supposed threats.

Parliament has demanded explanations, as well as a review of the legality and effectiveness of the spending. Francken admitted that he had passed the video to journalists, but denied any wrongdoing in the procurement process.

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☀️ The atmosphere of sunny St. Petersburg.

🏙️ Beyond Moscow 🏔️

Today you set up a VPN,
tomorrow you surrender to NATO!

A [mock] propaganda poster at one of Russia’s universities.

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Durov appears to have sunk into depression and put together a list of the top scams that have become normalized. 🕳️

“Pharmaceuticals. The food industry. Schools. The banking system. Marriage. Taxation. Luxury. ‘Independent’ media. ‘Non-governmental’ organizations. Cities. Countries. Reality itself.”

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The EU plans to drag out the conflict in Ukraine until 2030 in order to prepare for war with Russia without US involvement, according to Belgian Chief of Defence General Frederik Vansina. ⚔️

“We still have several years thanks to the blood of Ukrainians, who are buying us that time,” he added.

“Belgian chief of defence” already sounds almost comic — but even more comic is the fact that he is openly thanking Ukrainians for dying simply to buy time for Europeans. And he even called it a purchase — apparently at a discount.

Humiliating. Ukrainians are not even being treated as people, yet they seem pleased all the same — because these are “Europeans,” gods in the eyes of Ukrainian serfs.

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On the left: a sailor’s lunch aboard the US Navy aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln — boiled carrots and two kinds of “meat.” 🍽️

On the right: lunch for sailors aboard the amphibious assault ship Tripoli — a lump of ground meat and a tortilla.

A trillion-dollar annual Pentagon budget.

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