Chère Madame @xfedorova ,
Merci d'exprimer ainsi votre attachement à la liberté d'expression en France. Soyez certaine que nous y sommes sensibles.
La France n'est certes pas parfaite, mais nous pouvons au moins vous assurer que personne travaillant pour l'Etat français ne vous jettera d'une fenêtre du 10ème étage ni ne tentera de vous empoisonner au polonium ou de vous tuer de 4 balles dans un ascenseur.
Peut-être pourriez-vous profiter de cette mésaventure que la France vous fait vivre pour, à votre retour en Russie, plaider en faveur de la Liberté d'expression dans votre cher pays ?
En effet, beaucoup de vos confrères et consoeurs compatriotes russes qui avaient des "opinions ne correspondant pas au discours officiel" n'ont pas eu l'opportunité de contester leur assassinat en Justice.
Salutations distinguées.
Chère Madame @xfedorova ,
Merci d'exprimer ainsi votre attachement à la liberté d'expression en France. Soyez certaine que nous y sommes sensibles.
La France n'est certes pas parfaite, mais nous pouvons au moins vous assurer que personne travaillant pour l'Etat français ne vous jettera d'une fenêtre du 10ème étage ni ne tentera de vous empoisonner au polonium ou de vous tuer de 4 balles dans un ascenseur.
Peut-être pourriez-vous profiter de cette mésaventure que la France vous fait vivre pour, à votre retour en Russie, plaider en faveur de la Liberté d'expression dans votre cher pays ?
En effet, beaucoup de vos confrères et consoeurs compatriotes russes qui avaient des "opinions ne correspondant pas au discours officiel" n'ont pas eu l'opportunité de contester leur assassinat en Justice.
Salutations distinguées.
After months of leading Zelensky on, Trump is firmly back in Putin's pocket, blocking all Ukraine's avenues to obtain air defense missiles.
Putin can now slaughter several dozen every night.
Kyiv now just a kill zone.
Read the sentence in this morning's reports: a barrage killed at least ten civilians, including children, and injured more than fifty.
Now notice what you did with it. You read past it.
Four years ago that sentence would have stopped Europe for a week. Today it is inventory — filed between the market open and the weather, with the phrase 'including children' functioning as punctuation.
This is what an aggressor buys with duration. Not territory — vocabulary. Repeat any atrocity long enough and the language sands down to administrative smoothness: strikes, casualties, escalation, de-escalation. Words with no blood in them.
The regime is not merely killing Ukrainians. It is running an endurance test on foreign attention, and the test is going well.
So restore the sentence. Ten people who had plans for today do not have today. Fifty more woke up in surgery. Children among them.
Numbness is not neutrality.
It is the aggressor's most reliable ally, and it costs him nothing to recruit.
"Toronto Television" has published an OSINT investigation into French citizen Nicolas Amber, one of the co-organizers of the "Future of the Ukrainian People" (FUP) movement, which promoted narratives about the alleged "importation of migrants into Ukraine" and participated in organizing street protests.
🔹After the start of the full-scale invasion, Amber became known as the "Frenchman who learned Ukrainian" and called himself a "Frenchman with a Ukrainian soul" on Instagram.
🔹At the same time, journalists established that from 2017 to 2020, he regularly traveled to Russia, studied at the Russian Academy of National Economy under the President of the Russian Federation, and in 2020, he publicly searched for a job and planned to move to Moscow.
🔹According to the investigation, in 2025, Amber abruptly changed the theme of his social media accounts, focusing on anti-immigration rhetoric, talking points about "Soros's friends," and launched a YouTube channel called "Europe, Wake Up." In July 2026, Meta blocked all of his accounts.
🔹The investigators also drew attention to his long-standing ties with an Orthodox parish in Avignon, France, largely composed of people from the Russian emigration, and found his profile on OnlyFans and photos taken in Moscow.
🔹Amber himself confirmed the authenticity of these photos, but stated that they were spread by "FSB agents" to discredit him, and that the photos themselves date back to 2017.
We have detected an intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilization.
There have been more than 1,500 publications on outlets identified by analysts as a pro-Russian network, led by Pravda and RT. Pravda Spanish has posted almost 300 of them. Every language edition of RT has pushed more than 25 news items on the issue.
For years, Moscow has used migration and other sensitive topics to stoke fear and destabilize European countries.
This is not about the situation itself, but about the way Russia tries to exploit any topic that can benefit its agenda. The only way to protect the public from this interference is to cut it off.
All Russian propaganda resources should be completely banned in every European country that takes its national security seriously.
🔴 BREAKING: @RealWorldBoxing lifts its neutrality rule, allowing Russian boxers to compete under their national flag days after Kherson's youth boxing team appealed for Russia's ban from their destroyed gym.
My latest for @EuromaidanPress
https://t.co/bw6lcSAPxz
Trump's latest word salad on Patriots and Tomahawks is the same 2016-era caution tape he used when he dribbled Javelins our way only because CNN was calling him Putin's puppet. "We have the best weapons, nobody has this capability, 8600 miles per hour, bing bing bing." Cool story. Meanwhile Ukraine is eating 30-40 ballistic missiles per major raid three to five times a month and our cities are burning because the interceptors are running low after your Iran adventure.
You want to be "very careful" about giving us the tools that actually work. Careful of what, exactly? That Kyiv might one day turn those same Patriots against Ohio? The historical illiteracy is impressive. It's not the same as 1940s lend-lease paranoia. Ukraine is a frontline state that has already given you more combat data on Russian ballistic threats, drone swarms, and electronic warfare than your own Pentagon collected in the last decade. We are not some random client. We are the only ones actually destroying the missiles your "best in the world" systems are supposed to stop.
The real tell is the selective caution. You had no problem greenlighting technology transfers when it suited Saudi cash or Israeli deals. But when it is Ukraine asking for licensed Patriot missile production so we stop begging Washington every winter, suddenly it is "very important to be very judicious." Translation: isolationist muscle memory still thinks delaying victory is smarter than committing to it. Moscow loves this script. Every time an American leader performs "strategic caution" on camera, the Kremlin hears another six months of free bombing runs.
Zelenskyy is not asking for a blank check or your nuclear codes. He is asking for the right to build the interceptors ourselves, in Europe if necessary, using Ukrainian engineers who have already compressed timelines that NATO bureaucrats said were impossible. F-16 integration took us two years in wartime. We can do the same with PAC-3 components if the paperwork actually moves. The meeting in Ankara already proved the trajectory: no post-call to the Kremlin, actual Pentagon orders to prepare licensing docs, and Trump himself sounding less like the guy who once held up lethal aid for a Biden dirt dossier.
The difference between 2022 Trump and 2026 Trump is starting to show, but the instinct to treat defensive weapons like radioactive gifts that might "turn against you" is still there. Newsflash: the only people who ever turned American weapons against America in any meaningful way were the ones you armed knowing exactly who they were. We are not them. We are the ones paying in blood for the privilege of destroying the serial aggressor you still cannot name without adding three caveats.
Stop performing prudence. Either treat Ukraine as a forward-deployed arsenal of democracy that keeps the next war off your own continent, or admit the "America First" version you are selling still ends with Donetsk, Kharkiv, and Odesa paying the bill for your caution. We have already adjusted. The question is whether Washington finally catches up before the next winter barrage. History is watching the bing-bing-bing, and it is keeping score.
So the USA is going to institute a land blockade against Iran?
I am personally so excited to see US ground forces go back into Afghanistan--let alone see them try and start patrolling in Pakistan and Turkmenistan.
The US is so screwed it is now writing science fiction.
If you cannot accept that what Trump has done over the last year and a half is starve Ukraine of air defense, and put off any new aid for as long as possible, so Putin can terrorize Ukraine from the air for as long as possible--you cannot accept reality.
If you cannot accept that what Trump has done over the last year and a half is starve Ukraine of air defense, and put off any new aid for as long as possible, so Putin can terrorize Ukraine from the air for as long as possible--you cannot accept reality.
Just a reminder that since Laura Loomer announced her support for Ukraine, Trump has: 1) walked back a promise to let Ukraine build Patriots, 2) denied a ukrainian request for 300 PAC3s, 3) slow walked 400mil in congressionally approved aid for Ukraine.
But the vibes were good!
North Korea sends troops to wage war in Europe. Iran sends Shahed drones and missiles to Russia to wage war in Europe, and IRGC trainers to Crimea to show them how to use the drones. China helps Russia evade sanctions to wage war in Europe and now, per Reuters, even trains Russian troops to wage war in Europe. Ukraine hits one Iranian cargo ship carrying military equipment and suddenly wars are merging and it might even be World War III.
We have detected an intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilization.
There have been more than 1,500 publications on outlets identified by analysts as a pro-Russian network, led by Pravda and RT. Pravda Spanish has posted almost 300 of them. Every language edition of RT has pushed more than 25 news items on the issue.
For years, Moscow has used migration and other sensitive topics to stoke fear and destabilize European countries.
This is not about the situation itself, but about the way Russia tries to exploit any topic that can benefit its agenda. The only way to protect the public from this interference is to cut it off.
All Russian propaganda resources should be completely banned in every European country that takes its national security seriously.
France is finally moving to deport Xenia Fedorova, but the domestic media moguls who gave her a platform must also be held accountable.
When the EU banned RT France, Vincent Bolloré did not just fill the void: he gave the Kremlin's chief French propagandist an even bigger platform across mainstream broadcasting.
When RT France was taken off the air, it should have marked the end of state-directed Russian propaganda in the French media landscape. Instead, Bolloré welcomed Xenia Fedorova, the former head of RT France, into his own media empire, handing her prime-time access across CNews, Europe 1, and Le Journal du Dimanche.
She was not brought on to participate in balanced debate. She was given free rein to continue broadcasting the exact same Kremlin talking points she had been pushing before the ban. Over time, her role grew from guest commentator to influential insider, reportedly shaping editorial choices and influencing personnel decisions across those outlets.
If the rumors about her personal relationship with Bolloré are ever fully confirmed, this case will be remembered as one of the most successful honeytrap operations in modern European history.
What transpired on these platforms was never genuine journalistic pluralism. It was pure, unchallenged foreign state disinformation delivered by an operative whose entire career has been dedicated to Moscow's information warfare. The defenders invoking freedom of speech are deliberately misrepresenting democratic principles. Freedom of expression protects citizens who express controversial or even traitorous opinions, but it does not shield foreign state agents deployed to destabilize a host nation.
There is a fundamental difference between a random French citizen holding a pro-Russian view and a Russian official state envoy executing disinformation campaigns inside a target country.
France's ministerial deportation order against Fedorova is a necessary national security measure, but her removal is only the beginning of a much larger fight. Her legal team will undoubtedly file administrative appeals to stall her expulsion, but Bolloré will not suddenly stop promoting Kremlin narratives simply because she is forced to leave. Furthermore, he is far from the only actor involved, as platforms like Sud Radio and Omerta continue to amplify Russian state disinformation across France
Europe has spent four years telling Ukrainians how brave they are.
Bravery is inexpensive when it is someone else’s.
Four years of debating each weapons system for months, then sending it late. Four years of frozen Russian assets that somehow can’t be touched. Four years of capitals that fly the flag on official buildings and veto the delivery in the committee room.
Understand what has actually been decided in those rooms: Ukrainian lives are an acceptable substitute for European risk. Nobody says it aloud. Every timetable says it for them.
You are not supporting Ukraine.
You are subcontracting your own defence to it — and paying the invoice late, in instalments, with conditions.
The continuing attack on Crimea has seen Ukraine take out a valuable piece of the Occupiers' equipment
Near Cape Fiolent, the warfare station "Murmansk-BN" was hit. It's used for radio reconnaissance, interception & signal jamming, with a range of up to 5,000km
#CrimeaIsUkraine
SIKORSKI: I was at NATO summit in Bucharest in 2008 when Ukraine’s NATO membership was discussed, and denied. When Russia invaded Crimea, Ukraine was constitutionally neutral country, which shows how absurd Russian claims that they had to invade because Ukraine was joining NATO.
John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson feel like the last two adults left in the room.
For years they’ve been saying the quiet part out loud: free speech matters, humour is not a crime, and a society that cannot laugh at itself is already sick.
And for that simple, decent stance they have been dragged through the cancellation machine.
These are not angry ideologues.
They are two men who just wanted to make people laugh and tell the truth.
Instead they have been treated like heretics smeared, isolated, and told to sit down and shut up by people who once claimed to love satire.
The British humour they helped create the kind that was razor sharp, fearless, and never cruel for the sake of it has almost disappeared.
That humour didn’t just entertain us.
It made us stronger. It taught us not to take ourselves so seriously. It gave us thicker skin.
Now that skin is being deliberately stripped away, and the only ones still trying to protect it are the ones the culture keeps trying to cancel.
Cleese and Atkinson never asked to be heroes.
They just refused to pretend.
And in an age of mass pretending, that alone makes them extraordinary.