@louisdugit.bsky.social
French diplomat | former political counselor in DC | former fellow @washinstitute.bsky.social | Parisian, Cairene, Beiruti, Rbati
Remember that the real threat to freedom of speech is liberals moving to BlueSky.
10.06.2025 17:24 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🇫🇷🇨🇦🇬🇧statement. Strongest to date to Gaza/WB www.elysee.fr/emmanuel-mac...
19.05.2025 18:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some clearly important diplomacy happening in Rome/Vatican City this morning
26.04.2025 12:51 — 👍 322 🔁 44 💬 22 📌 18A massive explosion at a port in southern Iran on Saturday killed at least four people and injured more than 500, according to state media.
26.04.2025 14:36 — 👍 82 🔁 31 💬 5 📌 1BREAKING NEWS: The White House has begun the process of looking for a new secretary of defense, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.
21.04.2025 17:25 — 👍 38005 🔁 7914 💬 3902 📌 3193Carlson’s line that Russia won’t invade Europe because it’s “dying economically” reflects a bizarre MAGA idea of Europe. Though Europe’s economy is 12 times bigger than Russia’s, much of MAGA imagines Europe as an apocalyptic wasteland with no industry and inhabited mostly by migrant criminals.
22.03.2025 07:19 — 👍 672 🔁 169 💬 57 📌 7NEW: Pentagon sends second aircraft carrier to Middle East as Trump warns Iran www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
21.03.2025 18:53 — 👍 3 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 2Good thing, I guess, that at this point the country that seems most likely to attack Canada is the United States. 🫠🙃
06.03.2025 18:28 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0The suspension of U.S. assistance for Ukraine is a very unfortunate and significant development, but it may not have immediate impact. Ukraine is far less dependent on the U.S. for day to day battlefield needs in 2025, than it was in earlier periods of the war. 1/
04.03.2025 14:05 — 👍 1385 🔁 314 💬 26 📌 31La classe politique française en mode "Don't look up" face aux États-Unis, à la Russie et à l'Ukraine. Entre déni et incompétence. Excellent papier dans @lemonde.fr par Solenn de Royer
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And on this day Le Monde, the bible of the French elite, has also quit X
20.01.2025 17:46 — 👍 342 🔁 97 💬 11 📌 5Missed this earlier - on Monday, there was another meeting of what is now calling itself the 'Group of Five', France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK.
The meeting was on the level of defence ministers, discussing defence industry, EU-NATO relations, support for Ukraine and deterrence ag Russia.
In light of today's first arrests by the HTS-led Syrian government against the Islamic State since the fall of the regime, I'm unloading my archives, and sharing every time HTS announced conducting CT ops against IS, including today's. Fully open access. www.jihadologyplus.com/p/a-history-...
11.01.2025 14:49 — 👍 50 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 1“They were monitoring all Nato naval ships and aircraft,” Lloyd’s List was told. “They had all details on them. They were just matching their frequencies. “Russians, Turkish, Indian radio officers were operating it.” www.lloydslist.com/LL1151955/Ru...
27.12.2024 17:16 — 👍 379 🔁 176 💬 11 📌 10« 🇫🇷 mission met with a representative appointed by the transitional authorities. It told him that in line with the ideals of the 2011 revolution which it supported, 🇫🇷 wished to see a peaceful political transition for Syrians, representative of all components of Syrian society » fdip.fr/bKys6XUC
17.12.2024 21:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0#Breaking France will send a delegation, made of four diplomats, to #Syria on Tuesday, per a statement made by France's Foreign Minister on radio today.
15.12.2024 13:30 — 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 1Ppl worried abt "instability" - was Assad a haven of stability?
-facilitated jihadists to Iraq
-forcibly displaced ~50% of Syrians to Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Europe
-fuelled the rise of ISIS
-enabled Iran to extend its axis
-enabled Russia to extend its malign influence
En ce jour historique pour la Syrie et le peuple syrien, la France salue la chute du régime de Bachar al-Assad le 8 décembre 2024, après plus de 13 ans d’une répression d’une grande violence contre son propre peuple. www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/dossiers-...
08.12.2024 11:09 — 👍 36 🔁 14 💬 5 📌 1« Kyiv was meant to fall in three days, not Aleppo » newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...
03.12.2024 21:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Seeing so many emotionally-charged Syrian city names popping up like that before being eclipsed by the next one is simply incredible
30.11.2024 18:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0...which they failed to capture back in 2013-14.
30.11.2024 07:14 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0NEW: Advice from Jawlani to fighters in Aleppo
-Priority is to protect property & lives of civilians + establish security
-Calm fears of people from all sects
-Aleppo is meeting place of civilization with cultural/religious diversity for all Syrians
-Anyone who defects from regime is safe (1/2)
Joint statement by Presidents Biden and Macron announcing a ceasefire in Lebanon
26.11.2024 21:10 — 👍 60 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 0The #Israeli security cabinet has approved the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon. The agreement is expected to take effect tomorrow morning at 10 am
26.11.2024 19:46 — 👍 20 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 2And good company 🙃
25.11.2024 16:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Passionnant aperçu des factions en présence de la future Maison Blanche de #Trump.
Constante: la façon du président- élu d'arbitrer les egos par le chaos et leur libre affrontement.
Nouveauté: le curseur s'est déplacé encore très à droite par rapport à 2017
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JUST IN: IAEA censures Iran over nuclear activity, 19 voted in favor of the resolution, 12 abstained, while China and Russia voted against the resolution. www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...
21.11.2024 21:17 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Il fait en finir avec ce terme confus de "guerre hybride", qui ajoute du flou là où nous avons besoin de clarté. Le sabotage d'une infrastructure de telecommunications est un acte hostile puisqu'il vise à perturber l'exercice du pouvoir territorial d'un État.
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