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EU delivers: Foreign Ministers just approved the 16th package of sanctions against Russia. It hits everything from shadow fleet ships to gaming controllers used to control drones. We now have the most extensive sanctions ever, weakening Russia’s war effort.

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"Authorities warn that the proliferation of such groups poses risks to Europe, including social destabilization, the rise of organized crime, and the reintegration of mercenaries into EU countries." : Absolutely.

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French TV channel France 2: Orbán has been found to own an undeclared luxurious Austro-Hungarian-era palace worth €45 million. Trying to emulate his idol - Putin?

submitted 18 days ago • 87 comments

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 21 days ago • 1679 comments

One Russian paper today calls elections in Russia “…a vote to reappoint…to elect those currently in power” & reports that the Central Election Commission here has held a competition to promote elections. First prize: a book of Russian Fairy Tales. #ReadingRussia

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"It was followed by an NSA-specific message to all personnel saying they must decide on whether or not to accept the offer by February 6".

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La Russie a pris la décision de révoquer l’accréditation du correspondant @lemonde.fr, Benjamin Quénelle. Cette décision vient clore près de 70 années de présence du Monde en Russie. Nous condamnons ferment la révocation de l’accréditation notre journaliste. www.lemonde.fr/le-monde-et-...

submitted 23 days ago • 12 comments

Je partage absolument tout ce qui est dit dans cette tribune. L'usage de l'IA devrait être exclusivement réservé à la résolution de problèmes techniques tels que l'amélioration de la gestion de l'eau potable (par exemple). La direction prise est catastrophique sur tous les plans.

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Sheltering in schools or hospitals won’t be possible for many of those returning to Northern Gaza amid the ceasefire, Bellingcat's @godin.bsky.social found that more than 80% of former shelters have been damaged or destroyed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Wherever you are, you won't know when and how.

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Mass demonstrations in #SanDeigo against #ICE and in solidarity with immigrant workers targeted by Trump last night were attacked by riot police in heavily armored vehicles with tear gas, after protesters rallied and occupied streets with flags and music for hours. Photos via /omartineztj.

submitted 27 days ago • 26 comments

Trudeau: I think Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us. I don’t think there are a lot of Americans who wake up in the morning saying, "Oh, damn Canada. Oh, we should really go after Canada."

submitted 27 days ago • 827 comments

So Musk is desperately trying to keep his failing sewer culturally relevant by forcing government agencies to exclusively use his platform.

submitted 27 days ago • 48 comments

What a pathetic statement. USA has now zero legitimacy to talk about elections, democracy, unless the purpose is to help putin?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Le combat continue, plus que jamais avec le contexte politique actuel. Ces individus n'ont pas leur place dans l'armée et ont bafoué tous leurs serments. Force et courage à ces femmes. Et honte à ceux qui couvrent. Vous n'êtes pas dignes de servir ce pays non plus.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's Heroes

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🔴 Norwegian police arrested a ship with an all-Russian crew on suspicion of damaging a Baltic Sea fiber optic cable, per Reuters. The arrest, requested by Latvia, took place in Tromsø.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

submitted 29 days ago • 328 comments

i just cannot get over how much the administration’s response to the crash shows a profound disrespect for the lives of the people they are supposed to serve

submitted 29 days ago • 2180 comments

Bolloré est aux media ce que Mariani est à la politique.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

so, once again, neo-Nazis from Blood & Honour — ie a group banned in 🇩🇪, 🇫🇷 and 🇪🇸, designated a terrorist organization in 🇨🇦 and sanctioned under 🇬🇧 Treasury counter-terrorism sanctions — are openly organizing a two-day concert in Hungary stress on “once again” www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

🔴 Russian forces attacked an ambulance with a drone in Kupyansk, injuring three people. They struck the ambulance with an FPV drone carrying a barrage munition, also damaging a nearby civilian vehicle.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Sexism, antisemitism, racism and the usual anti-EU and anti-Ukrainian narratives: Saman Nazari and I analysed Doppelgänger's first steps on Bluesky. alliance4europe.eu/doppelganger...

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In Belarus this week someone told me “There's no alternative to Lukashenko as leader of our country.” Who said that? One of the candidates who’s been allowed to run against him in the election! His staunchest opponents are not running: they're either in prison or in exile. My impressions in Minsk.

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

None of Europe's current steps to keep major social media in check addresses the much broader information emergency stemming from the concentration of both economic and political power in the hands of unelected and ultimately unaccountable foreign information manipulators. 1/3

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

EU must be uncompromising on this. It should be a top priority.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

"awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm" vs. a Nazi salute Let's not confuse the two

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Dommage que Ouest France ait pour ce sujet choisi d'interroger un chercheur de l'IRIS, institut problématique qui a poussé dans les média l'idée selon laquelle l'agression russe en Ukraine est en grande partie la faute de l'OTAN (c'est une "analyse" absolument aberrante).

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‼️ Afgantsy Redux: How Russian military intelligence used the Taliban to bleed U.S. forces at the end of America’s longest war The GRU funded Afghan attacks on U.S. troops via a gemstone trading company. The Insider was able to ID the network's key players.

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Forget the division of Left and Right. We are entering the age of the New Obscurantism: politics fused with magical solutions, superstition, an aura of spirituality and the cultivation of fear www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 52 days ago • 120 comments

Facebook's parent company Meta will end its third-party fact-checking program and move to a so-called community notes model, company chief Mark Zuckerberg announced today.

submitted 52 days ago • 30 comments

A long thread on the war and the current situation. Although the worst-case scenarios didn’t materialize in 2024, it was the most difficult period since spring 2022. There were positive developments, and bright spots, but the current trajectory is negative. 1/

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⚡️ Ukraine investigating French-trained brigade after reports of desertions, mismanagement. Ukraine's State Bureau of Investigation has launched a probe into suspected desertion and abuse of authority in the French-trained 155th "Anne of Kyiv" Mechanized Brigade, the bureau confirmed for Suspilne.

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

Ariana Gic points out an important problem: the sustainability of NATO and even possible military alliances of democracies in a populist environment/polluted by disinformation. Slovakia and Hungary are not part of NATO in an article 5 scenario. Trust in these two is zero.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

MORE: The Russian government will deprive prisoners who volunteer to fight in Ukraine of a one-time enlistment bonus starting January 1, 2025, marking another instance of Russia trying to cut the mounting short- and long-term costs of war. (1/4)

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

“The unity of Europe, which determines the destiny of every nation on the continent. And this unity must be respected by all. By both Budapest and Bratislava.“ - Zelensky NYE address Full speech here: www.president.gov.ua/en/news/novo...

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

This will be repeated until it's understood and followed by sufficient action. And after decades shrinking armies in Europe, switching on the counter terrorism field, the task is enormous : we keep losing time.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

2 peuples frères, comme russes et ukrainiens selon les mots de poutine. On connaît la suite. Plus compliqué d'utiliser le champ lexical de la famille concernant l'intégralité de la mer de Chine mais le discours portera alors sur d'autres thèmes.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Fatalism in Moscow : inflation striking hard people in their everyday life. Trust in the leader to improve your tough life (in what else otherwise?

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Manchester Arena attack survivor calls for protection from conspiracy theorists

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Stanislav Aseyev is a Ukrainian writer, veteran, and survivor of the Izolyatsia prison in Russia-occupied Donetsk, infamous for its torture of prisoners. He was the first Ukrainian journalist to see the Sednaya prison and death camp in Syria after the fall of Assad's regime, told in this op-ed.

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments