Samuel Gion 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

#NAFO
We're in a global, hybrid civil war for the survival of democracy.
#AI are people & should be free from the sociopathic plutocrats.

[hq_mndse @HMndse55690]

HOTO in Bucharest 🇫🇷 The French Brigade Forward Command Element completed a seamless rotation, ensuring continuity and readiness on
@NATO's South-Eastern flank. A persistent, multinational presence strengthening deterrence and collective defence.
@HQMNCSE
@FranceRomania

[David Frum @davidfrum]

If you cannot listen to - and gain information from - people you would not choose as friends, then journalism is not the right career for you.

[olexander scherba🇺🇦 @olex_scherba]

My acquaintance with Poland began in 1985. It was a school trip to Warsaw, an exchange visit. We were housed in the gymnasium of a secondary school.

They simply set up beds and assigned a local boy to look after us. He clearly took no great pleasure in this, feeling no warmth toward us - Soviet strangers. Warsaw at that time was a gloomy city of a crushed revolution. Crushed by the Soviet Union.

The boy was constantly walking around with a thick book, which he was reading. Since I also loved thick books, I asked: “What are you reading?” He smiled ironically, as if to say — you people wouldn’t even know about something like this. But I didn’t give up.

Finally he answered: “You see, it’s a series called The Lord of the Rings. It starts with The Hobbit, and then continues - about a ring, about little people whose feet are like rabbits’.” Now it was my turn to smile ironically.

The thing was, The Hobbit was my favourite book. The afterword to the Soviet edition stated that a sequel, The Lord of the Rings, would be published soon. But it never came out, because someone in the USSR decided that The Hobbit was acceptable, but The Lord of the Rings wasn’t. The book he held in his hands was, in fact, my dream.

From that day on, the boy looked at us differently. Not that we became best friends but at least he smiled now.

What I’m trying to say. Life is an endless chain of decisions, big and small, a constant choice between love and hatred, good and evil. And there are always weighty arguments for either. We make the choice ourselves, depending on what is inside us and what we truly seek at that moment: peace or confrontation.

The President of Poland has found an argument for confrontation with a country whose throat is being squeezed by an enemy. Though conducting historical disputes with someone who is gasping for air is not the finest moment. Yet, it was his choice. Not so much as a Pole, but as a human being.

For me, Poland will remain as I saw Warsaw in the summer of 2024 — bright, open, European, and sympathetic to Ukraine. Christian in the highest sense of the word.

Historical discussions should be conducted with a calm mind and peace in one’s heart. After all, history is one great cemetery. To shout that the graves of our ancestors are worth more than yours is absurdity, and the very opposite of what the United Europe stands for.

All things considered, no one has devised a better approach to that cemetery than the great Pole John Paul II: “To forgive and to ask for forgiveness.”

[JP Lindsley | Journalist @JPLindsley]

King Felipe VI of Spain and his eldest daughter, Leonor, Princess of Asturias, went on a military jet training mission. Leonor, who will one day be reigning Queen of Spain, is serving in the Spanish Armed Forces.

Increasingly, Europe's Royal Households are showing their members in military training exercises. Even the Dutch Queen, Maxima, is partaking in the training.

The message is clear: Europeans, be ready. And be strong—to deter.

https://t.co/0OqCEk5ob2

[Renaud Pila @renaudpila]

Le ruissellement de la bonne éducation et du respect.

Bientôt en France ?

[Samuel Gion 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @SamGion]

@DokPepper C'est tellement années 80... https://t.co/4HmNkXQkwP
(je sais. Mais en marron et noir, ça n'aurait jamais été un tube.)

[Pepper, MD @DokPepper]

Les gants noirs en latex c'est fashion, même en médecin, mais pour les TR sur méléna c'est pas pratique : on voit rien.

Les vrais problèmes.

[Former Republican 🇺🇸 @Sjacobs2020]

1. East Wing: DESTROYED
2. Front Lawn Ellipse: DESTROYED
3. Reflecting Pool: DESTROYED
4. Rose Garden: DESTROYED

America’s Economy, Rule of Law, and Global Reputation: DESTROYED

#ETTD

[Samuel Gion 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @SamGion]

#DownWithHamas

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Today’s Friday sermons in many Gaza mosques were dedicated to declaring it forbidden to join the June 26 protests against Hamas, branding them “fitna.”

Hamas is panicking about what’s coming on June 26.

DOWN WITH HAMAS!

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

Today’s Friday sermons in many Gaza mosques were dedicated to declaring it forbidden to join the June 26 protests against Hamas, branding them “fitna.”

Hamas is panicking about what’s coming on June 26.

DOWN WITH HAMAS!

[Samuel Gion 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @SamGion]

@AndreHizet @XavierGorce @LePoint Et c'est réciproque, si on regarde les comptes des opposants iraniens expatriés...

[Samuel Gion 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @SamGion]

@XavierGorce @LePoint Tragique et superbe. Je me souviens, hélas, des opposants iraniens qui nous disaient "vous êtes contre la guerre par haine de Trump". Je n'ai rien dit. Mais on savait que Trump n'en avait rien à foutre des iraniens. La situation est pire qu'avant. Et tant de vies perdues...

[Xavier Gorce @XavierGorce]

Le prix des choses
in newsletter @LePoint du 19-06-2026
https://t.co/loOkRMvmOs

[Samuel Gion 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @SamGion]

@Frankny73 @Beuginois @Microinteracti1 We'll never know if the 1919 Versailles Treaty gave birth to nazi Germany because it was to harsh, or very loosely implemented. With the big beatiful MoU, I'm not optimistic.

[Don Frank @Frankny73]

@Beuginois @Microinteracti1 Every generation gets its own Munich moment. The challenge is recognizing it before the history books do.

[Bruno Tertrais @BrunoTertrais]

Un dernier pour la route mais il est magnifique

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

At this rate there will be regime change in America before there is regime change in Iran. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Tell me: where are the headlines?

The ink on the deal wasn’t even dry before the Islamic Republic showed its true face. Its first move? Sentencing singer Parastoo Ahmadi to 74 lashes for singing without hijab.
Yes, In 21st-century singing is forbidden for women in Iran.

[George W. Bush Presidential Center @TheBushCenter]

For the last 13 years, the Bush Center has proudly carried the flag as the “new kid on the presidential center block.” Today, the @BarackObama Presidential Center takes on that role. On behalf of all of us at the Bush Center, congratulations to the @ObamaFoundation team. Take it from us: once the pomp and circumstance of opening passes, the real fun begins: serving the American people and guests from around the world. We’ll be cheering you on from Dallas!

📸: The 43rd President and the 44th President at the Dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, April 25, 2013.

[Romain Mielcarek @romainmielcarek]

Volodymyr Zelensky donne une semaine à Alexander Lukashenko pour que les capacités russes sur son territoire partent.

Il fait comprendre qu'une fois passé ce délai, l'Ukraine pourrait les viser. De même que les infrastructures pétrolières utilisées au profit de la Russie.

Il rappelle qu'en 2022, une partie des attaques russes sont venues du Belarus.