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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I imagine Ukraine and the US have reached some sort of agreement whereby Ukraine spares one Russian tanker in the Black Sea for every one that the US captures elsewhere Since the US can no longer stop Russian tankers from going down, it wants to be in control, and Ukraine saves ammo

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I don't want to be too hyperbolic, but I can't help but feel like some sort of a "new world order" is forming under the rising sun of Ukraine

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I have a take ✌️ This was Venezuela the country getting rid of Maduro, and cutting the US into the deal with this theater of a capture Trump is not calling the shots indeed, the US is just going along with Venezuela's plan As for who inside Venezuela is running this, I don't know

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This could be a war crime, but given how there isn't a war and these are not combatants, think it's probably better described as a crime against humanity. The US is bombing fishermen because it's trying to start a war which they hope will bring them profit.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The past changes so quickly that you don't know what will happen yesterday (previous Tman deadline had been November 27th)

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Merz saying the quiet part out loud, except it stopped being quiet a long time ago: If Ukraine collapses, a Russo-NATO war is next. The security of all of Europe depends on Ukraine.

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Dimko Zhluktenko @dim0kq.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It’s an insult to peace as a concept to call this a “peace plan”.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Heat pumps done right! 😍 Decarbonization should be profitable to the customer 💸 Don't spend your life savings on a heat pump. Instead, use a heat pump to make savings on your energy bills 😌 My report and recommendation after 3 years 👇 (link in replies)

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

You can't assess a long war like this, because industrial capacity can still be developed during the war (see: Ukraine), although the US would be at a disadvantage in the short and medium term

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Whenever I say that Russia lost territory in 1991, almost 100% of people tell me that the SU was a union of nations, and therefore Russia did not lose territory in 1991 3 minutes later, the same people tell me that the Ukrainian nation did not exist before 1991

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Is there any evidence that the suppressed USD exchange rate is doing anything to help their trade deficit, or does it just show that foreign investors buying assets in the US are asking for a bigger discount than they were before? I haven't checked, but I suspect it's the latter

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

When all of the publicly available facts show that nobody has the means to end the war "quickly" (without substantial changes to the military realities), and politicians like Fico and 47 claim otherwise, with 0 arguments, it doesn't mean they know something we don't. It means they're lying.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Every single politician who promised a quick end to the war has gone on to prolong it. Every single one. We know that politicians lie. The facts show clearly that the war will not end "quickly". We all know it. When they tell us otherwise, they're lying. And they know it.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

On the one hand, this sucks for communities of color in the US On the other hand, this is exactly the kind of internal friction that we want to drive a slow and safe decline of the US, now that returning the US to western civilization is out of the question

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

If you want to use tariffs to consolidate the government budget, it means they have to not work at encouraging onshoring If you want to use tariff revenue to save farmers/whatevers, it means it doesn't go to pay the national debt 1/4

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Interesting that as recently as a year ago, whey protein prices were half of casein, but now they're equal Casein is the protein in cheese, while whey is the byproduct protein of cheese production, traditionally a waste product This suggests that protein powder demand has skyrocketed

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

A Russian aircraft over a NATO county already happened years ago and Russia was too scared to do anything. Blow them up 🚀

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

For every decision that Ukraine has ever taken, I have heard important people explain why it was bad, only for Ukraine to keep exceeding expectations and forge strategic advantages out of seemingly nothing 1/3

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The cool thing about tourism-based economies is that they always end badly, but while they last, they're also bad 😌

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Remember when US tech giants had a months-long PR campaign about how they would be forced to stop hosting user-generated content in the EU if Article 13 of the Copyright Directive passes? It passed 6 years ago. What else were the Americans lying to us about?

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

This is interesting to think about Kirk repeatedly expressed his belief that gun deaths are an acceptable cost for having an armed population The average adult male doesn't fear dying for what he believes in, and assuming Kirk was at least as much of a man as the average adult male, 1/3

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Rooftop Solar is the Climate Jackpot ☀️💸 Europe already has tens of billions of euros of tax money earmarked for the climate transition, and I believe that subsidizing rooftop solar is the best way to spend it, by a wide margin Video link in reply 👇

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

"gave the US only minutes' notice, too late for Trump to stop it" How do we know that the US didn't order it instead? They sure made it sound like the attack on Iran was ordered by them.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

My take on this is getting confirmed. The SAMP-T is an equivalent to the Patriot, at half the price.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

I'm getting pretty blackpilled on planes ngl Ukraine has had its airspace closed for 3 years with effectively zero downsides Closing EU airspace indefinitely would enhance national security and energy security, and set the correct incentives to finally solve rail travel properly

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

As a result of reducing the time I spend arguing with strangers online, I actually forgot that there are people who claim that Musk is a conman I had no doubt that SpaceX would figure out Starship eventually, also Tesla is the only real EV company and will win autonomy

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The US promised that Russia would not attack NATO as long as Trump is president This illustrates exactly why the US is not able to offer security guarantees: because Russia (and everyone else) will correctly assess that America will not honor its commitments

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Finally someone is talking about this. I've been concerned about Chinese inverters for years I found only one (!) installer offering European-made (Romanian) inverters running Taiwanese software. It should be good in principle, but I'm not convinced

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

If Ukraine can cut off oil supplies to Moscow with long range weapons, does that sorta kinda count as a siege?

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

💀 Belarus is the legitimate successor state to the USSR. This is literally what jokes about the USSR sound like

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This will be one of my most daring takes: The next European supercycle has begun. All of the investments that Europe has made since 2008, in sustainability and circular economies, are about to start yielding profits.

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Euan MacDonald @euanmacdonald.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

One reason Putin now wants a "peace process" (or rather a "get Ukraine to surrender" process) is because in strategic terms the balance is shifting - and not in his favor. He's taking tiny slivers of ground for huge losses, while new UA weapons threaten deeper strategic strikes.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Keeping Hungary's energy security so fragile even after having 3 years to diversify should be grounds for impeachment

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

And yet Americans voted Trump. Every Trump voter tells me "I didn't want deportation without due process, I didn't want the Epstein files covered up, I didn't want the BBB deficit blowup, I didn't want medicaid to be cut, I didn't want to accelerate climate change, I didn't want tariffs,

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

They told me it was Europe that had the bureaucracy

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

There are no security guarantees other than the AFU.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

The point of American foreign policy is to end The Long Peace so that they can use the ensuing state of war for personal profit. The Mineral Deal was the first iteration of this. They want Europe to give Russia business deals so that Russia can rearm quicker and attack NATO.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I don't think the outcome can favor Russia though? Either it favors Ukraine, such as an unconditional ceasefire, or it is null, as Ukraine is under no obligation to accept

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

If the Online Safety Act was in the EU, then GDPR would require the tech company to delete the pictures you sent immediately after they have made a decision based on them, correct?

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Holy shit. Yeah, I'm not imagining it. The talk of land swaps (which Ukraine rejects) has been entirely replaced with talks of ceasefire (which Ukraine has been asking for since April 2022) immediately after the 26-nation European joint statement. Russia listens to the EU now.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Wounded 2:1 in Ukraine's favor Killed 30:1 in Ukraine's favor I am inclined to believe it Additionally, I suspect that the severity of the wounds is a lot lower on Ukraine's side Nothing in the behavior of either beligerant is easily explained if the real numbers were much different from this.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This is more significant than it may look The fundamental message isn't even to Russia, it's to the US, and it says: you have become irrelevant, we will make our own decisions

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The only security guarantee is your own army. Look how easily the US was removed from NATO. The UK or France could be next. What's Article 5 worth then? In my country, we call this "dying with the law in your hands"

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Strategic autonomy will be achieved, but the process should have been started in early 2023, when it first became obvious that the US doesn't care about us

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Remember that they advertised they would do this all throughout the campaign, and this is exactly what Americans voted for

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Overstated take, however, Denmark should have never allowed Greenland to ban the extraction of its oil resources. Sell them, and use the money to fund defense

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The Russian genius of losing 1 million men and 90% of your defense stockpiles just to get the same thing that Ukraine was eager to agree to in April 2022

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Sooner or later, I will be proven right that military vehicles are not more complex or fundamentally more expensive than civilian cars on a per-kg basis, they simply lack the scale

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