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"The war will cost 155 billion euros next year. And we need at least an additional 70 billion euros from you – for defense, for weapons, and for our resilience." Zelensky stated that he is convinced that European countries have enough interceptor missiles to share and thus ‘get through this winter.’ #Zelensky #Oekraïne #EUleiding (translated)

Sander Sassen wrote that Rob Jetten's call for all possible support for Ukraine amounted, in his view, to prolonging a war of attrition. He argued that the front line barely moved, that the Russian economy had adapted, and that Western munitions stocks and political support were finite. According to Sassen, diplomatic solutions were wrongly dismissed as a sign of weakness. Sassen referred to Ukrainian estimates of more than 1.5 million Russian dead and wounded and to Western analyses, including those from CSIS, which he claimed spoke of hundreds of thousands of casualties and over one hundred thousand deaths in Ukraine. He argued that the war constituted a demographic disaster for both countries and that further pressure from sanctions and weapons would result in more casualties. Negotiations, according to Sassen, were not capitulation but the way to end the war. He claimed that a full Ukrainian recapture of the borders of 1991 was militarily unrealistic without direct NATO intervention, risking a war with Russia. He advocated for territorial compromises, likely along the current front line, security guarantees for the remaining Ukraine, and an end to mobilization. He noted that Ukrainian men were forcibly taken off the streets in this process. Sassen acknowledged that such compromises would feel unjust and could reward aggression, but argued that they were better than continuing the current bloodshed. He accused Jetten and like-minded individuals of blocking serious diplomacy and urged the Prime Minister to immediately pursue a diplomatic solution. #Oorlog #Diplomatie #Vrede (translated)

The author wrote that soldiers participated for the first time in a multi-day police operation on trains. According to the author, 118 trains were searched and drug dogs checked 36,000 people. Many drugs, money, and weapons were also reportedly confiscated. The author then began to report that quite a few people without valid residence status and dealers were..., but the sentence was cut off there. (translated)

My call to the American government and American companies: do what is necessary to support the Ukrainians. They not only need sufficient weapons but also information. The Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten called the U.S. 'an unpredictable ally' and asked Donald Trump to adjust his course. #Trump #Oekraïne #Poetin (translated)

The article describes the growth of arms trade in Brussels, which is closely linked to criminal networks involved in drug trafficking, and highlights the increased accessibility of firearms for young people and the variety of weapons on the black market. #Bruxelles #Criminalité (translated)

It is no coincidence that Russia is trying to sow confusion in European countries at a time when their military gains in Ukraine are minimal and incredibly costly. What concerns McCallum even more is that extremist groups are using AI to create biological weapons or develop new types of biological weapons. #nationaleveiligheid #Rusland #kunstmatigeintelligentie (translated)

The director-general of the British intelligence service MI5, Ken McCallum, has warned that artificial intelligence could be a game changer for biological weapons, which poses one of the most concerning scenarios, and announced that a new center for assessing AI threats has been established. #IA #Renseignements #Menaces (translated)

"Unfortunately, Roberto M. tried to escape after a violent incident in Overasselt, disguised as a festival-goer at a bus shelter, while a reconstruction of the night reveals that a group of heavily armed criminals was involved in the death of security guard Berry Leenders." #Overasselt #criminaliteit #wapens (translated)