Recent purchases of Israeli armaments, military technology and training contracts by Balkan nations

🇷🇸 Serbia

2024: ~ €47.9 million

2025 (first half): ~ €55.5 million

Elbit Systems Deal: ~ €335 million (artillery systems and drones)

🇭🇷 Croatia

Heron Drone Deal: ~ €100 million

🇷🇴 Romania

SHORAD-VSHORAD System Deal: ~ €1.9–2.0 billion

🇦🇱 Albania

Aviation School in Vlora: ~ €50–100 million

Spike ER Missiles Purchase: ~ €5.25 million

I find it incredibly interesting that so many Balkan "nationalist" groups are being purposefully coupled to the label "Pro-Israel"

Case in point; a headline from "Hungarian Conservative"

When Israeli cities burned and much of Europe hid behind legalese, it was Serbia loading pallets of 155 mm shells, the Czech Republic dispatching armour plates, and Hungary vetoing hostile resolutions and defending Israel on the world stage. They may not be Europe’s largest economies or loudest voices, but they acted decisively when it mattered most. 

I must have missed something in history where Israeli Jews were beneficial allies to the stability of the Balkans; as opposed to the current reality where ....

*checks notes*

Israelis are arming both Serbs and Albanians.

COINBASE'S BASE APP SAYS USERS MAY SEE ZERO BALANCES FOR SOME COINS AMID AWS OUTAGE ...

YOUR FUNDS ARE SAFU!

Between this and the PayPal debacle, stay safe out there.

🇧🇬🇷🇺 - Bulgarian government announced that they are fine with letting Putin's aircraft use their air space in order to fly to Budapest to meet Trump.

European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday that it was "not nice" that Russian President Vladimir Putin might travel to EU member Hungary for talks on ending the war in Ukraine.

🇫🇷🇦🇪 - Telegram's CEO Durov offers to buy the stolen Louvre artefacts and send those to the Louvre Abu Dhabi branch, claiming that it is much safer than France.

🇺🇸🇷🇺 - Rumors emerge that Rubio offered Lavrov to fly Trump's jet to Russia with Trump onboard, pick up Putin, and then both would fly to Budapest on Trump's jet.

🇺🇸 - Experts say that the 102 story tall building in New York, that began to experience cracks, is too thin to be able to withstand wind and rain.

Also, add that its architects going for weaker fancy white concrete contributed to the structure being compromised.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Russia managed to cross the Dnipro river and create a defendable outpost on the riverbank next to Kherson.

I fucking love Jackie Chan.

In honor of Jackie, top 30 movies of his to watch. You will not be disappointed and if you are, nothing I can do about it.

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls000040646/

A fire on Monday caused by an explosion at MOL’s Danube Refinery in Százhalombatta, 27 km from Budapest, has been contained. Firefighters continued working Tuesday morning to fully extinguish the blaze using foam and water cannons. No injuries or threats to nearby communities were reported, though the refinery may face a temporary slowdown. The cause of the explosion remains under investigation.

A separate incident occurred in Romania as well on the same day. An explosion occurred at the Petrotel Lukoil oil refinery in Romania. The incident happened during maintenance work carried out by refinery employees and contractors.

☦️🙏🏻 A Serbian Orthodox monastery in Cetinje, Montenegro holds one of Christianity’s holiest relics: the right hand of John the Baptist, the very hand that baptized Jesus Christ.

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