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Jean-Baptiste Perrin

@alphast.bsky.social

Back in France after 23 years (NL, UK, EL), living and working in Nantes. Geopolitics graduate. Shipping specialist. Avid gamer, photograph and reader. Politics freak & History buff. Writes in French, Dutch, English and Greek.

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So Erdogan says he ‘can’t excuse’ attack on Russian tanker since he ‘can’t excuse attacks on Turkish Exclusive Economic Zone’

Well and I can’t excuse Russian tanker with our stolen sunflower oil even BEING IN Turkish Exclusive Exonomic zone without being arrested in the first place.

02.12.2025 15:24 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Screen shot of a Bluesky post with a screen shot of a Twitter post.

Bluesky post from Brian Tyler Cohen
‪@briantylercohen.bsky.social‬
The secretary of defense throwing a top military official under the bus to protect himself. A beacon of integrity.

Dec 1, 2025, 7:35 PM

Twitter post from Pete Hegseth [US Sect of Defense]
@PeteHegseth
Let's make one thing crystal clear:

Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has has my 100% support. I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made -- on the September 2 mission and all others since.

America is fortunate to have such men protecting us. When thie @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors -- we mean it.

3:57pm, 12/1/25

Screen shot of a Bluesky post with a screen shot of a Twitter post. Bluesky post from Brian Tyler Cohen ‪@briantylercohen.bsky.social‬ The secretary of defense throwing a top military official under the bus to protect himself. A beacon of integrity. Dec 1, 2025, 7:35 PM Twitter post from Pete Hegseth [US Sect of Defense] @PeteHegseth Let's make one thing crystal clear: Admiral Mitch Bradley is an American hero, a true professional, and has has my 100% support. I stand by him and the combat decisions he has made -- on the September 2 mission and all others since. America is fortunate to have such men protecting us. When thie @DeptofWar says we have the back of our warriors -- we mean it. 3:57pm, 12/1/25

How to throw someone under the bus while pretending to praise them.

Pete Hegseth lacks the courage needed to lead our military. Throwing your subordinates under the bus for following your orders is such a cowardly thing to do.

Of course, Hegseth was probably […]

[Original post on newsie.social]

02.12.2025 11:02 — 👍 1    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
Cameroun: l'opposant Anicet Ekane est mort en prison Par TV5MONDE NIDHYA PALIAKARA TV5 JWPlayer Field L'homme de 74 ans avait été arrêté le 24 octobre à Douala et placé en détention dans les cellules du secrétariat d'État à la Défense à Yaoundé. Entretien avec son avocat, Maître Emmanuel Simh.

Cameroun: l'opposant Anicet Ekane est mort en prison

02.12.2025 06:54 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
A split image showing two NPR headlines. The top headline from September 30, 2022 reads: “Putin illegally annexes territories in Ukraine, in spite of global opposition.” The second headline, dated November 30, 2025, reads: “During the war in Gaza, Israel drastically changed the map of the West Bank.” Both have phrases underlined in red to highlight the difference in wording.

A split image showing two NPR headlines. The top headline from September 30, 2022 reads: “Putin illegally annexes territories in Ukraine, in spite of global opposition.” The second headline, dated November 30, 2025, reads: “During the war in Gaza, Israel drastically changed the map of the West Bank.” Both have phrases underlined in red to highlight the difference in wording.

Funny how ‘annexation’ becomes ‘changing the map’ when it’s an ally. The West’s vocabulary shifts faster than its principles.

#Iran #Israel #Trump #War #Gaza #UN #USA #Hyprocrites #Europe #FreePalestine #SaveGaza #Genocide #Uk #EU #West #Palestine #USPol #Zionism

01.12.2025 06:34 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

"In last 24 hours:
13 people killed in Syria
2 Palestinians executed in Jenin
2 Palestinians killed near “yellow line” in Gaza
2 Palestinian children killed in southern Gaza drone strike.
7 Palestinians injured by settlers in West Bank, one by gunfire."

@mairavz.bsky.social on X

29.11.2025 22:46 — 👍 58    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 0

yes

29.11.2025 23:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Après la mort de deux enfants français à Gaza en 2023, le parquet demande une enquête pour crimes de guerre Janna et Abderrahim Abudaher sont morts à l’âge de 6 et 9 ans, dans un bombardement israélien, le 24 octobre 2023. Une plainte pour meurtre et génocide visant Israël avait été déposée par Jacqueline Rivault, la grand-mère maternelle des enfants. La LDH s’est constituée partie civile.

Après la mort de deux enfants français à Gaza en 2023, le parquet demande une enquête pour crimes de guerre

28.11.2025 15:09 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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How to beat the algorithms and keep Ukraine in your news feed We’ve put together a few quick tips on how you can fight back against the algorithm and keep Ukraine in the news you’re seeing.

We’ve put together a few quick tips on how you can fight back against the algorithm and keep Ukraine in the news you’re seeing.

28.11.2025 11:07 — 👍 203    🔁 59    💬 1    📌 5
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Timothy Snyder: The Making of Modern Ukraine - YouTube Ukraine must have existed as a society and polity on 23 February 2022, else Ukrainians would not have collectively resisted Russian invasion the next day. Wh...

I didn't know much of anything until I watched Tim Snyder's excellent lecture series in 2022, and that gave me a lot more context for current events.

28.11.2025 04:33 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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❗️🇱🇻Latvia is considering complete dismantling of the railway leading to 🇷🇺Russia — LSM

The government will analyze information about the possible demolition of the railway line on the country's eastern border by the end of the year, taking into account the opinion of the National Armed Forces.

27.11.2025 07:22 — 👍 492    🔁 91    💬 20    📌 8

They are aware that Russians quite literally wrote the capitulation document that some people in the White House and sadly many people in the media refer to as a peace plan.

26.11.2025 17:20 — 👍 1357    🔁 446    💬 40    📌 12
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🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.

Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

26.11.2025 08:54 — 👍 949    🔁 692    💬 58    📌 51
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Witkoff Discusses Ukraine Plans With Key Putin Aide: Transcript The following is a transcript of an Oct. 14 phone call lasting just over 5 minutes between Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special envoy for peace missions, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin’s most senio...

Absolutely insane transcript of Witkoff giving advice to Russia for talking to Trump about a peace plan. Remember : Putin cannot be trusted; he has broken every promise he has made about Ukraine.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Free read: archive.ph/Swu9f

26.11.2025 09:03 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump backs Witkoff after leak reveals he advised top Putin aide on Ukraine deal “That’s a standard thing,” shrugs U.S. president.

Donald Trump defended Steve Witkoff late last night after a report revealed the US president’s Russia envoy had secretly advised the Kremlin on how to sell a Ukraine deal.

26.11.2025 09:31 — 👍 41    🔁 17    💬 11    📌 3

The entire US administration is "kinda treasony".

26.11.2025 00:31 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I wonder what gave? :D

25.11.2025 14:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That Trump accepts a Kremlin capitulation demand for Ukraine as "his" plan clarifies that he is irrelevant in foreign policy.
Europe & Ukraine should ignore Trump (the US) in their dealing with Russia:
What Ukraine needs is more arms & money!

24.11.2025 23:05 — 👍 158    🔁 40    💬 8    📌 3

Kyiv is under missile attack.
It’s very loud.
Nothing new, really.
Just thought the world should know.

24.11.2025 23:30 — 👍 1821    🔁 529    💬 108    📌 27
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Of course the Kremlin preferred “Trump’s original proposal.” They wrote it.

24.11.2025 16:23 — 👍 2593    🔁 653    💬 80    📌 15
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So how's the AI going?

24.11.2025 14:37 — 👍 132    🔁 44    💬 3    📌 2

Farage can now be easily boxed in to a corner where his only ‘defence’ becomes: “Yes I spouted Kremlin propaganda & Putin worship but, unlike Nathan Gill, I didn’t need bribes to do it.”
It is, once again, a question of whether interviewers have the temerity to shut down his whining obfuscations.

22.11.2025 11:04 — 👍 5641    🔁 1727    💬 216    📌 58

It's worse than that: they are being given even territory they had never managed to conquer.

22.11.2025 00:38 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Putin-Witkoff Plan Worsens the War Five Reasons the US should not help Russia subjugate Ukraine

We have a US administration trying to bully Ukrainians into accepting Russia’s proposal that their sovereignty be undone. Aside from the naked injustice of this, there are five basic practical reasons why it would make the world far more dangerous.
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snyder.substack.com/p/the-putin-...

21.11.2025 21:11 — 👍 2422    🔁 909    💬 50    📌 37
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Trumpian newspeak

#trumplies #gopenablers

21.11.2025 09:52 — 👍 23    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1

And not even a hint of discussing how to decouple our tech and finance infrastracture from being 100% reliant on the US, so that they cannot punish European citizens on a whim this way...

21.11.2025 12:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Europe remains silent, complicit even, as Trump is going after the International Criminal Court. So what about the rule of law now? @michaelmcgratheu.bsky.social @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu?

21.11.2025 12:07 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

The people who say "why this obsession with Palestine? why don't you post about Sudan?" never post about Sudan themselves.
What they mean is "it's fine you don't care about Sudan. You should be similarly indifferent to Palestine"

(of course, many people do post about both and other crises)

20.11.2025 23:41 — 👍 543    🔁 112    💬 11    📌 12

Idioracy at its finest.

20.11.2025 21:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Am I the only one shocked by the subtitle incorrect phrasing “has proved right”?

20.11.2025 19:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Gifted Khashoggi Head Mounted In Oval Office

Gifted Khashoggi Head Mounted In Oval Office

Gifted Khashoggi Head Mounted In Oval Office

20.11.2025 19:39 — 👍 1642    🔁 216    💬 27    📌 11

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