Benjamin Wolba
@benjaminwolba
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https://t.co/0bMbw6pp2w | Fostering Defense Innovation for European Sovereignty | Blogging at https://t.co/HDsH2BlfUR
Berlin, Germany
Joined September 2017
The European Defense Tech Hackathon is coming to Tallinn, Estonia 🇪🇪 Last September, we held our Defense Hack Day during the Estonian Defence Week, running our shortest ever hackathon in just six hours Now, we’re excited to be back—bigger, bolder, and ready to tackle the most
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Working on the media and party side 🥳
In the future there will only be three kinds of companies: 1. Media-public-relations-film-production-venture capital-firm-party-producer. 2. Vertically integrated space-based robot manufacturing heavy machinery company. 3. AI porn gambling slop IV ketamine therapy provider
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Anton Verkhovodov from D3 Venture Capital Firm reviewed more than 700 startups across Ukraine and the EU. One pattern stands out: The areas that matter most on the battlefield—autonomy and the electromagnetic spectrum—remain dramatically underserved by founders. If you missed
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Europe has a choice: Will we let external pressures divide us, or will we seize this moment to unite even stronger? The world is watching. Are we ready to show them what a truly united Europe can do?
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How it started: "The EU should be abolished ..." And how it is going ...
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Anyone want to start a new movement with me progressing European Independence? There's been a lot of noise over the past few days about US-Europe relations and one thing is very clear - we can't (and shouldn't) rely on the US anymore. Europe needs to stand on its own two
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This is my flag. It stands for unity, freedom, peace, democracy, equality, civilization, diversity, rule of law, science, beauty and strength. There is nothing more important to fight for.
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Berlin will be the defense and security capital of Europe. https://t.co/05uOFNALRq
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A group of prominent Belgian professors made a strong case in local media that using immobilized assets to aid Ukraine is legal. I hope @Bart_DeWever will hear them. https://t.co/ZF3Tzh9Nc3
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"Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations" If you haven’t read pages 25–27 of the new U.S. National Security Strategy, here's the gist: Europe is in "economic decline," facing a "stark prospect of civilizational erasure," and "should
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The Russians started the war, and there is no other way to put it. The whole world is a witness. They came with aggression to destroy us. We stopped them. Europe helped, America helped. Russia failed to occupy Ukraine first and foremost because of the strength of the Ukrainian
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You met him at our European Defense Tech Hackathon in London this September — now it’s our chance to support him and his unit 🦾 Oleksandr, an active Ukrainian soldier in the Air Defense Division of the 3rd Assault Brigade, spent the weekend at our hackathon mentoring hackers,
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Building something promising this weekend at the Warsaw hackathon — or already running a defense startup that’s ready for scale? 🚀 Check out the 17Tech Defence Accelerator, a 4-month program designed to help teams go from prototype to operational capability with: 👉
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The 2025 "war on drugs": the U.S. administration is continuing to kill alleged smugglers without trials — and celebrating it online with childish cartoons Completely unhinged and downright sickening to watch
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After 20 @Eurodefensetech Hackathons, a new wave of defense innovators is taking shape across the continent 💥 Dozens of EDTH alumni kept building after the hackathons, turning their weekend prototypes into actual products and ideas into defense tech startups Fourteen of them
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🇪🇺 Can Europe build frontier AI research labs? @bfl_ml just raised 300m USD on a 3.25 billion USD valuation, and all of this not from San Francisco, but from Freiburg. Why? Focus & Talent! They still have a strong presence in the US, but they keep their HQ here and see
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@KyivIndependent You can help protect Ukraine's skies — donate to @69thSB to support the Air Defence Division of the 3rd Assault Brigade https://t.co/iCigDxD8E0
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Funding an R&D Facility for the Interceptor Battery of the Air Defence Division, 3rd Assault Brigade.
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