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LilitThyra asked if anyone could provide convincing evidence that Zelensky is interested in peace. In her opinion, both Zelensky and most EU heads of state are equally uninterested in peace. She claimed that the war serves to maintain power and allows for the movement of funds and earning money through investments in the arms industry. According to her depiction, if peace were to occur, the flow of money into Ukraine and to Zelensky would dry up, and elections would take place. Zelensky would lose these, lose everything, and have to disappear; thus, the entire operation would be exposed, she wrote. #Frieden #Ukraine #Politik (translated)

An independent commission of the Norwegian government recommends that the billion-dollar sovereign wealth fund Statens pensjonsfond should also be allowed to invest in shares of arms companies, including manufacturers of nuclear weapons, while the influence of the ethics council should be reduced. #Norwegen #Staatsfonds #Rüstungsindustrie (translated)

The article referred to the conflict of goals between the desire to quickly provide the Bundeswehr with modern weapons and the political pressure not to exclusively award contracts to foreign manufacturers, but instead to strengthen the German and European arms industry. The author wrote that therefore one could not afford to have "nice things." #Bundeswehr #Rüstungsindustrie #Waffenproduktion #DE #EU (translated)

Five activists from the group Ulm5, who broke into the German subsidiary of the Israeli arms company Elbit in protest, have been in strict pre-trial detention for a year and now have to answer for their actions in the high-security building of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court. #Ulm5 #Protest #Justiz (translated)

The Bundeswehr is allowed to procure networked drones to protect itself from espionage and sabotage, decided the Budget Committee of the Bundestag, which also approved the procurement of new fire units for the Patriot air defense system. #Bundeswehr #Drohnen #Rüstungsinvestitionen (translated)

"We will be able to investigate hypersonic missiles with the hypersonic channel and clarify, for example, where they become particularly hot," says Andrea Beck, an engineer at the Institute of Aerodynamics at the University of Stuttgart. #Rüstungsforschung #Sicherheit #Drohnenkrieg (translated)

The innovation campus "Security, Defense, and Resilience" at the University of Stuttgart consolidates research resources in Baden-Württemberg and responds to the changes in the German security landscape as a result of the war in Ukraine, with companies developing new technologies for defense to adapt to geopolitical challenges. #Rüstungsforschung #Sicherheit #Drohnenkrieg (translated)

The author described the report as a shocking testimony to a child's suffering. He claimed that Germany has long ceased to be a constitutional state and has been taken over by parties, the pharmaceutical and arms industries, as well as other corrupt structures. #Rechtsstaat #Korruption #Kinderrechte #DE (translated)

The author urged ARD and ZDF to clarify whether Russia was bankrupt, militarily defeated, and lacking enough recruits, or on the verge of attacking Germany, NATO, and all of Western Europe, as Merz, Pistorius, and the arms industry claimed. #Russland #NATO #Mediendeckung #RU #DE #NATO (translated)

The EU has added 1,646 individuals and companies to its list in a comprehensive sanctions package against Russia to increase pressure on the defense sector, especially manufacturers of rockets and drones, while the US diesel deal with Russia questions the effectiveness of these sanctions. #EU #Sanktionen #Russland (translated)