#ViktorOrban
For the first time in the history of the European Union, 24 member states have jointly granted a war loan to a country outside the Union. This is not a technical detail but a qualitative shift. The logic of a loan is clear: whoever lends money wants it back. In this case, repayment is not tied to economic growth or stabilisation, but to military victory.

For this money to ever be recovered, Russia would have to be defeated. That is not the logic of peace but the logic of war. A war loan inevitably makes its financiers interested in the continuation and escalation of the conflict, because defeat would also mean a financial loss. From this moment on, we are no longer talking merely about political or moral decisions, but about hard financial constraints that push Europe in one direction: into war.

The Brusselian war logic is therefore intensifying. It is not slowing down, not easing, but becoming institutionalised. The risk today is greater than ever before, because the ...

#Putin answering a question on whether the comet 3I/ATLAS, which has been flying towards Earth for several months. could be an alien ship (my translation):

"Let’s keep this strictly between us, because it's classified information. (It's) our secret weapon. We’ll only use it in the most extreme case. Which we won’t, because we’re actually against putting weapons in space.

"Jokes aside, it’s just a comet. Our scientists know exactly what it is. It’s from another galaxy, so it behaves differently from our local comets. It has a different shell, comes closer to the Sun, some unusual processes on the surface. Even the tail looks a bit odd. Nothing mystical.

"It’s a decent size, maybe two to six kilometres. But for perspective: the Moon is 400,000 kilometres away. This thing is hundreds of millions of kilometres from us. So no, it’s not about to hit anyone."
https://x.com/i/status/2002042139320950852

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Putin dropping comet facts with that deadpan humor is peak 2025 ...