.@RandPaul Asks Samantha Power: 'Did USAID Fund Coronavirus Research In Wuhan China?'
"Should we be funding the Academy of Military Medical Research in China? ...Some of the research proposals in 2018 were the Wuhan Insitute of Virology asking for money to create a virus with a furin cleavage site. A SARS-like coronavirus with a furin cleavage site. That's exactly what COVID-19 turned out to be.
So we want to know if there were other research proposals you either granted or denied that were in the same vain as creating viruses that could have become COVID-19. We can't tell because you won't give us information... I now have 25 Senators that have sent you a letter, and you aren't responding... You are being dishonest."
The Additional €70 Billion Military Aid Package and the Confirmation of Ukraine’s Financing Challenges.
We are witnessing the large-scale reveal I referred to in my previous articles: the distortion of the battlefield picture as part of a communication campaign conducted since February, aimed at securing additional bilateral aid to cover the widening funding gap behind Ukraine’s war effort.
According to the proposal reported by Politico’s article “NATO allies weigh new €70B military aid pledge for Ukraine”, €30 billion would come from the EU’s already agreed €90 billion two-year loan to Ukraine, while an additional €40 billion would be drawn from bilateral commitments. The conclusion underlines the severity of Ukraine’s financial position if the war effort is to be sustained:
“Adding the bilateral support on top of that loan is absolutely crucial.”
In practical terms, the €90 billion EU loan would subsequently shift to cover more state expenditure, far from the initial assumption that roughly two-thirds of the envelope would be directed toward defense. Without additional layers of support, Ukraine risks running out of funds somewhere around mid-2027 at the current pace.
If this package materializes, total Western support for 2026–2027, once EU funds, bilateral aid, IMF-related support and other financing lines are included, could move into the €160+ billion range. This confirms that Ukraine is operating inside a structural dependency model in which military capability, state continuity and Western political messaging have become inseparable.
Needless to say, if Europe has stepped up in 2025, there remains growing uncertainties about long term support amounts, which averaged €75 Billion/year since 2022.
The financial dimension has a direct operational consequence. Such an envelope is likely to support not only conventional ammunition flows and force regeneration, but also the continued expansion of Ukraine’s deep-strike campaign. This matters because long-range strike has become one of Kyiv’s few remaining ways to impose costs on Russia beyond the immediate line of contact, particularly at a time when manpower, air defense, artillery stocks and mobilization capacity remain under severe pressure.
More importantly, the residual gap of roughly €40 billion that this program would cover corresponds almost exactly to the 2026 funding shortfall I identified in my previous analysis in La Vigie, "Ukraine: le piège du choix rationnel", where I argued that the war has become, perversely, the mechanism through which the Ukrainian state remains financially solvent in the medium term.
This is a crucial point, because it rationalizes the ongoing narrative push to frame the battlefield situation as if Ukraine had reversed the strategic tide more decisively than it actually has. Since the Dnipropetrovsk counterattacks in February, the picture has been heavily distorted, as I outlined in my previous analysis below: https://t.co/4btToc8yP8
This communication architecture culminated this week with President Zelensky’s open letter calling for a ceasefire on the current lines, which Moscow rejected. In an obvious manner, the letter was primarily aimed at Ukraine’s supporters. It was deliberately provocative, directly threatening, and marked by a form of somehow overstated bravado that can serve only one objective: to reassure potential partners that their investment is less risky than it actually is. It read, in that sense, like a well-written start-up plan aimed at investors, and not at a diplomatic effort to initiate peace talks.
This posture is easy to understand, and largely rational, when placed against the bleaker operational situation on the battlefield compared with what is often described.
In the current context, this entire apparatus is perfectly justified as part of a strategy to continue waging the war. It can even be argued that Ukraine still clearly has the upper hand on the communication front. Nevertheless, this should not obscure the fact that every passing month further deteriorates the economic and social front, while rendering post-war options increasingly opaque.
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“The war will last for a couple of decades. We need to learn to live with it.”
A powerful speech by the legendary intelligence officer and professional analyst Andrey Bezrukov at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. It resonates with what I usually say in response to the question: "When will all this end?" I reply: "Accept that war is our new normal."
Key theses - in quotes.
🔻 New type of war
"We are in a new war. Since it's pointless to seize territory anymore... this is a war of attrition and subversion." "Leaders, military, civilians, scientists" and "critical infrastructure on which the country depends" are being targeted. "This is the war we need to prepare for. It's happening, and it will continue."
🔻 West's strategy of 'boiling the frog'
"The West's strategy is very simple: to avoid a nuclear clash with us, from which they would emerge as losers. And so they need to 'boil the frog slowly' - gradually escalate tensions." "We're seeing this today. And they won't stop, because they have nowhere to retreat to. We're an existential threat to them."
🔻 First 'hill' of world war
"We're currently on the first hill of world war. There will be two hills, as in the First and Second World Wars... The rules of the game will be born after the next clash. It's likely to happen in Asia." What happened in Iran, he says, "proves that the hegemon is no longer the hegemon."
🔻 Strike on nuclear forces
The enemy's main task is to "avoid the nuclear threshold... and neutralize our nuclear forces": either by building a system in space to "prevent anything from taking off", or "like in Operation 'Spider Web', planting it here through their agents and striking our nuclear forces at a certain moment."
🔻 Destabilization and strike on infrastructure
"The plan is to overwhelm our decision-making system with complex attacks from all directions - ideological, physical, military." Already today, "a drone can fly into any region via Starlink and land in a precise location... Unfortunately, we weren't ready for it."
🔻 Threat of biowar
"All those labs around us... were making weapons of the future." Technology allows "an individual on individual equipment to create viruses that... could wipe us all out."
🔻 What to do
"We must admit that for the next... couple of decades we will be at war... We will have two generations that can practically be considered at war." The economy needs to be built in such a way that it "not only fulfills the task of development, but also the task of defense": deepen and protect critical infrastructure, create a "headquarters" for management, invest in protection against bioterrorism, and merge the army and society.
🔻 'Stop being good'
"We need to stop being good. We're too good for our enemies... They don't fear us because many red lines remain on paper." At the same time, Western Europe is dependent on imported gas, and "exploding a gas tanker is equivalent to a small nuclear explosion." The expert's conclusion: the country needs an "image of the future."
Andriy Bohdan, the former head of Zelensky’s administration, was interviewed by the propagandist Dmitry Gordon shortly after Putin and Zelensky’s had their one and only in person meeting in Normandy. Since it’s not captioned in English, I’ll translate below. Makes you wonder what could have been, doesn’t it?
Gordon: How did Putin treat Zelensky?
Bohdan: Respectfully
Gordon: He addressed him formally?
Bohdan: Yes
Gordon: You’re emphasizing that it was with respect?
Bohdan: Yes, very much so - you could tell that he wanted to find some solution to the problems. But I do not know from what motives: from economic, from political…seems to me that this is from political motives as well. But it seems to me that we somehow harshly tricked him.
Gordon: Who? Putin?
Bohdan: Yes.
Gordon: We promised one thing and did another?
Bohdan: Yes.... we promised one thing, and did nothing.
Fauci walked into a CIA briefing in 2020 and overrode six out of seven scientists who said COVID came from a Wuhan lab. This isn't a conspiracy. It's a convergence of interests. They funded gain-of-function research. The virus leaked. So they covered their tracks. @MattKibbe
🚨Nicholas Kristof, grand reporter au New York Times, signe une enquête qui va faire mal. Très mal. Sa question finale, il l'emprunte à Netanyahu lui-même, celle que le Premier ministre israélien lançait au monde après le 7 octobre : « Where the hell are you ? » Aujourd'hui, Kristof la lui retourne. Et elle tombe comme un couperet.
L'article est accablant. Des Palestiniens, hommes, femmes, enfants, sont violés systématiquement par des soldats, des colons, des gardiens de prison. Des viols avec des matraques, des carottes, des bâtons. Des chiens dressés pour pénétrer des détenus. Des hommes qui urinent du sang après qu'on leur ait ligoté les testicules. Des femmes dénudées, battues, giflées, présentées comme un trophée à chaque relève de garde. Des enfants menacés qu'on leur enfonce un bâton dans le cul s'ils ne coopèrent pas.
Ce n'est pas une exception. C'est une politique. Un rapport de l'ONU parle de « procédure opérationnelle standard ». Une pratique généralisée, encouragée par l'impunité totale. Ben-Gvir traite les détenus de « raclures » et « nazis ». Netanyahu qualifie les poursuites contre des soldats violeurs de « blood libel » et les réhabilite. Et les États-Unis ? Ils appellent ça 'de simples allégations'. Allégations. Qu'ils aillent dire ça aux enfants qui ont vu des chiens les monter.
La question de Netanyahu, « Where the hell are you ? », Kristof la retourne : où étiez-vous pour les Palestiniens ? Où sont les condamnations ? Où sont les sanctions ? Où sont les ambassadeurs qui se déplacent avec des caméras ? Où sont les suspensions d'aide militaire ?
Nulle part. Parce que les victimes ne sont pas les bonnes. Parce qu'être Palestinien, c'est être une victime de seconde zone. Parce que l'Occident a choisi son camp, celui du violeur plutôt que du violé.
Et bien sûr, la hasbara est aux abois. « l’article le plus antisémite des temps modernes ». Leur seul argument : crier au loup pour qu'on ne regarde pas leurs monstres. Mais les victimes, elles, ne crient pas. Elles saignent.
Article du NYT en commentaire.
In 1983, five old Red Army comrades meet at the famous building they had defended in Stalingrad, it became the legendary "Pavlov's house" after Junior Sergeant Yakov Pavlov
They held it for 60 days (roughly late September to 25 November 1942), repelling repeated German infantry and tank assaults, sometimes multiple times per day.
Remarkably, Civilians sheltered in the basement throughout. German forces labeled it a "fortress" on maps and overestimated the Soviet numbers inside due to the intense resistance.
The defense exemplified the brutal, close-quarters urban fighting in Stalingrad. Soviet commander Vasily Chuikov later said-
"The Germans lost more men trying to capture Pavlov's House than they did taking Paris"
@WSJ Brazen? What kind of WSJ propaganda. WSJ has never used the word “brazen” to describe US supplying Israel with all the bombs and weapons used in Gaza genocide. That is how brazen the WSJ is.
Ukrainian Nazis rounding up and abducting civillians in Kursk.
One of the Ukrainian soldiers involved was later captured and admitted these men were "Dissapeared" he was only "Following orders"
All paid for by Brussles, the Russians have long memories.
To confront Russia, “Europe will spend $90 billion it does not have, to buy weapons from the U.S. that it does not have, to arm soldiers that #Ukraine no longer has.” -- @Glenn_Diesen, Norwegian editor, writer and professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia:
“❗️ 11 years ago, Ukrainian writer and opposition journalist Oles Buzina was killed outside his home in Kiev.
He became one of the countless victims of what is described as the criminal Kiev regime, as he was seen as a threat — publicly criticizing and exposing what he called the true nature of neo-Nazi forces that came to power after the bloody coup in Ukraine.
Oles Buzina called on the Ukrainian leadership at the time to establish dialogue with the residents of Donbass and spoke about the need to secure the rights of the Russian language, which seriously irritated official Kiev. He also received threats from Ukrainian radicals because his interpretation of Ukraine’s historical path did not align with what is described as the hateful ideology and fabricated history of Ukrainian nationalists.
His active and firm civic stance, along with his calls to respect history and the Russian language, proved unacceptable in post-Maidan Ukraine — and ultimately cost him his life.
A few days before his death, the journalist’s personal data, including his home address, appeared on the extremist website “Mirotvorets,” which publishes personal information about individuals considered undesirable by the Kiev authorities — described as a resource effectively used to facilitate acts of violence.
Despite condemnation of the murder, condolences to the victim’s family, and calls for a thorough investigation from the United Nations Secretary-General, representatives of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the U.S. State Department, and many public organizations, those who ordered the killing were never identified, and suspects were released.
⚡️ Eleven years later, it is claimed that the situation regarding freedom of speech in Ukraine has deteriorated to a critical level.
All media outlets opposing the Kiev authorities are said to be banned, and any form of dissent is harshly suppressed and removed from the information space. Journalists considered undesirable — primarily Russian — are described as being targeted, including through the use of drones and precision weapons.
In 2026, there have already been several reported attempts by militants aligned with Kiev to attack employees of Russian media. For example, in early April, a correspondent for the media outlet “Izvestia,” E. P. Bykovsky, was wounded in a targeted drone strike.
The following individuals are commemorated:
A.D. Voloshin, I.V. Kornelyuk, A.S. Klyan, A.A. Stenin, D.A. Dugina, O.V. Klokov, M.Yu. Fomin (Vladlen Tatarsky), R.I. Zhuravlev, B.B. Maksudov, S.N. Eremin, V.A. Kozhin, N.N. Tsitsagi, Yu.N. Kuznetsova, A.S. Martemyanov, A.S. Fedorchak, A.A. Panov, A.A. Prokofyeva.
It is further claimed that Western backers of Ukraine and affiliated human rights organizations are fully aware of these methods and crimes, yet continue to deliberately ignore them.”
Je note qu'on a toujours pas vu Donald au chevet des pilotes americains du F-15 abattu en Iran..ni aucunes images de la resco par le CENTCOM.
En 95 les américains diffusaient des images de Scott o Grady le jour de sa recup'.
На данашњи дан 28.03.1999 у селу Коретиште, општина Гњилане на Косову и Метохији, услед дејства НАТО снага касетним бомбама, на стражарском месту погинуо је Горан Марин, припадник 52. мешовите артиљеријске бригаде
Вечан помен!
Novak Djokovic in Belgrade casually walking in the dark without any bodyguards and singing with street musicians. 🇷🇸
Humble legend.
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🇫🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 ICC judge Nicolas Guillou was sanctioned by Trump in August because of the court’s warrant for Netanyahu … this leads to him not being able to have a normal life.
No financials services for example …