Completely unsurprising stance considering he once proposed that France ally with Russia's pro-Assad intervention in Syria, of which the hallmark campaign was target bombing civilian hospitals.
Alex Ovechkin campaigns for Putin 🇷🇺🏒
The NHL's all-time leading goalscorer appeared in a campaign ad for Vladimir Putin's ruling United Russia party.
He featured alongside Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and Margarita Simonyan, head of the state-funded TV channel RT.
The “Corruption Scandal of the Year” award may just have found its winner.
Jørgen Wæver is a Greenlandic politician. He is pictured here with his wife, Vivian Motzfeldt, who served as Greenland’s chairman for foreign affairs until March this year. She represented Greenland in the negotiations with the USA when Trump threatened to invade Greenland.
The Americans appear to be quite happy with this family as Jørgen Wæver has now received a house in Greenland’s capital, Nuuk, paid for by a group of American investors. The investors transferred USD 823,000 directly to the seller to pay for the house which Jørgen Wæver now owns.
One of the investors is Ronald Lauder whom John Bolton has identified as the person who gave Trump the idea to buy Greenland back in 2018.
Jørgen Wæver has declined to comment why he has gotten the house and what he has done or given in return for the 823,000 USD.
We can expect more of this as the USA tries to buy or bribe its way into Greenland and I am not sure we can count on the Greenlandic politicians to resist it.
https://t.co/FEbUzY9oUM
Amazed by the brave German investigative reporter at RTL, Angelique Geray, who went undercover to expose Russia's covert recruitment network in Germany.
The results are shocking. Undercover agents recruited via Telegram for cash, surveillance and sabotage taskings, and threats made against the journalist. This is the scale of what we’re up against.
RTL investigation is not an isolated case — it follows a broader pattern of Russian sabotage operations all accross Europe.
Putin invests heavily in destabilising Germany and other European nations, especially ahead of elections. He sees himself at war with Europe and aims to win it by undermining European states from within.
Russia’s goal is to interfere in domestic affairs, manipulate public opinion, and exploit the most sensitive and divisive topics.
We once again urge European governments to take this threat seriously, uncover Russia’s malicious influence, and take urgent and strong action against any Russian presence in Europe: close remaining Russian diplomatic and cultural footholds, sanction enablers, ban all Russian propaganda, tighten counterintelligence cooperation, and adopt other countermeasures.
As one of the most experienced nations in countering Russian influence, Ukraine is ready to share its valuable experience upon our partners’ request.
@realDonaldTrump If Russia cancels its illegal invasion of Ukraine and withdraws to its own borders, Ukraine will immediately stop hitting Russian diesel refineries. Problem solved.
A Chinese official attempted some of that Wolf Warrior Diplomacy ™ shit. It did not go well.
This guy responding is our kindred spirit.
Philippines' Defence Minister Gilberto Teodoro was speaking up for smaller nations and international law at a forum in Korea when a staff member handed him a note from a Chinese official.
It was meant to be intimidating. But Teodoro just read it all out, eviscerated it line by line, and called the Chinese official out on their disrespect - both to international law and their Korean hosts.
China wanted to reiterate that it rejects a UN ruling on the South China Sea.
“Of course, because you lost,” says Teodoro.
“This is actual coercion, bullying and aggression. I will keep this paper as a memento of how desperate China is and how ineffective its position is in the face of a free audience. Thank you very much for the person who gave me this piece of paper.”
That’s exactly how you deal with this kind of modern day imperialist nonsense. Call it out. Don’t play by their game. Stubbornly stick to your values.
And now millions of people around the world have got to hear all this in what should have been a pretty dull regional forum heard by policy wonks.
"Thank you,” Teodoro adds, “and I hope you don't suffer in a gulag for it."
Zelensky thanked Trump’s envoys for coming to Ukraine. "You worked even better than Patriot systems," he said. "Come more often, and our people will get a chance to live a little."
Le Pen has been convicted of embezzlement and her party is buried in debt.
Expecting her to fix France is like putting an arsonist in charge of the fire department
If "hybrid" is now such a magic word – we should close the hybrid skies, put hybrid boots on the ground and ask Belgium to unfreeze some hybrid assets.
AfD politician Hans-Thomas Tillschneider had a Russian army mug sitting in his office. When BILD journalist Paul Ronzheimer asked about it, he tried to hide it, then got lawyers to block the footage. He once said Putin had the right to defend Russian interests.
https://t.co/LzTnGDH3dC