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ORION 26: High-intensity war drill.
France leads, USA sidelined 🇫🇷🇪🇺🛡️

• Largest French-led drill since the Cold War
• 12K+ troops
• 24 nations
• CDG carrier in the Arctic 🇬🇱
• 140 aircraft
• 1,200 drones
• 25 warships
• Cyber/space ops

Message to Russia & Trump 🇷🇺🇺🇸 👇

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ORION 26 simulates a multi-domain, high-intensity state-on-state war: air, sea, land, cyber, space — all integrated.

Scenario: coalition defends an attacked ally (read: Baltics) against Russian-style aggression. France commands. European resolve. No US dominance

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A new strategic reality: under Trump, US security guarantees are conditional, political, & unreliable.

Vance openly questions NATO’s core commitments. Europe no longer assumes automatic US leadership — so ORION 26 trains without it in the command phase.

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France is not hosting — France is commanding
Operational planning. Joint command structure. Nuclear-capable carrier strike group. Charles de Gaulle deployed in the Arctic amid Greenland tensions. ORION 26 is European strategic autonomy in action.

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ORION 26 by the numbers

• 12,500 troops
• 24 nations
• 25 warships (incl. Charles-de-Gaulle amid Greenland tensions)
• 140 aircraft
• 1,200 drones
• Full cyber & space domains

Scale speaks: Allies prepare for war. Russia watches. Trump sidelined

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Not “Europe alone” — 24 countries total: 14+ European allies + global partners.

🇫🇷 France (lead)
🇩🇪 Germany 🇮🇹 Italy 🇪🇸 Spain 🇬🇧 UK 🇧🇪 Belgium 🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇵🇱 Poland 🇬🇷 Greece 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇱🇹 Lithuania 🇧🇬 Bulgaria 🇭🇷 Croatia 🇪🇪 Estonia 🇱🇺 Luxembourg 🇷🇴 Romania 🇨🇭 Switzerland

🇨🇦 Canada 🇺🇸 USA 🇯🇵 Japan 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇦🇺 Australia 🇧🇷 Brazil 🇶🇦 Qatar 🇲🇦 Morocco 🇸🇬 Singapore

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Message sent.

To Moscow: Europe can fight — and is training to win.

To Washington: Europe can plan, command, and survive without you.

ORION 26 isn’t about replacing NATO — it’s about surviving a world where U.S. leadership is no longer guaranteed.

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