Je serai au bar Le 61 à Paris de 15h à 18h dans le cadre d’une journée de discussions sur les 4 ans de l’offensive à grande échelle avec plein de gens super, d’Ukraine et de Russie. Mon livre y sera en vente ainsi que des bières. N’hésitez pas à passer!
How Trump alone got the US - and the world - into a crisis in the Middle East. From the WSJ.
How about russian shadow fleet?
Ukraine ou Iran ? Les Ukrainiens constate avec dépit que les armes de défense aérienne, qui leur sont comptés malgré la menace russe, sont utilisées sans compter au Moyen Orient. La volonté d’un homme, Trump. Ma chronique géopolitique du 7/10 @franceinter www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Sámi activist Valentina Sovkina, originally from the town of Lovozero in Russia’s Murmansk region, was forced to leave the country after a wave of searches targeting indigenous rights activists.
Why aren't Iranians rising up to challenge their regime, as they did in January? Many answers here in this insightful report by the FT's Teheran correspondent Najmeh Bozorgmehr as.ft.com/r/6e31d260-f...
"The Commission has continued to document cases of sexual violence committed by Russian armed forces. In one case, a girl as young as 13 years was the victim of rape. In another, a woman had a child as a result of rape."
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Worms FTW
Selon le Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), la Russie a gagné 6 milliards € "inespérés" depuis le lancement de "l'excursion" trumpienne.
Soit 510 millions € par jour.
Soit 17.000 Shaheds par jour (prix unitaire à 35.000 $)
A qui qu'on dit "thank you"?
Geste de bonne volonté dans les manoeuvres électorales d'Orban à l'encontre de l'Ukraine: Budapest a rendu les fourgons bancaires arrêtés la semaine dernière. Généreux. Mais la Hongrie se garde quand même les 40 millions de dollars, 35 millions d'euros et 9 kilos d'or.
1/ News that the Iranian regime is proving more resilient than expected highlights its unusual governing structure as a 'polydictatorship'. In many ways, it was designed from the ground up to resist regime change. ⬇️
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A clear majority (eyeball: 80-90%?) of tankers present in and around Hormuz strait are sanctioned ones.
Probably not news to insiders, like @TankerTrackers who got me the sanctions-list, but it was to me.
And kids.
Russia enters Viktor Orban's election campaign, providing consultants who will flood social media with messages designed, ironically, to frame Orbán, a Russia puppet, as "the only candidate who can keep Hungary sovereign"
From @financialtimes.com
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The U.N. Inquiry on Ukraine says Russia’s forced deportation and transfer of children from occupied territories constitutes a crime against humanity and a war crime. www.currenttime.tv/a/komissiya-...
Non content d'avoir volé (car c'est bien de ça qu'il s'agit) environ 100 millions d'euros (cash + or) à l'Ukraine et d'avoir molesté sept employés de banque, Orban fait voter à son Parlement une résolution contre la procédure d'adhésion de l'Ukraine à l'UE.
Remarquable 1/
Russia is deploying GRU and Wagner fighters on shadow fleet tankers to control crews and protect vessels from seizure, Helsingin Sanomat reported. Armed personnel were found on 17 vessels in the Gulf of Finland, also maintaining contact with the Russian navy. #Russia
By Nick Newman.
Selon le média @axios.com, l'administration Trump a refusé il y a 7 mois un plan présenté par l'Ukraine pour aider les USA à contrer la menace de drones iraniens dans le Golfe persique, basé sur le retour d'expérience ukrainien en matière d'interception de drones Shahed (1)
You can listen to this heartwarming story about Edo Fimmen and his family via this link: www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...
Depuis quand les portables sont admis en cellule ?
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.
Syria’s Kurds are warning their Iranian counterparts not to align with the US, saying Washington will eventually betray them and citing their own experience in the last few months as proof.
The UK used less coal in 2025 than in 1600 when Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, according to CarbonBrief. Meanwhile Trump is taking the US in the opposite direction.
UK emissions fell by 2.4% in 2025.
Instead of WW3, why don't we call it the Global Special Military Operations?
In "Le Monde", political scientist Marie Mendras calls for urgently strengthening European support for Kyiv, notably through the acceleration of arms deliveries, the establishment of an air shield and the multiplication of civilian and military missions.
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
Who marks wars like it's f-in Imdb??
But hey, Vlad and his consiglieri say we’re gonna make $16 trillion with them in Russia