K. de Verneuil 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇮🇱 FBPE / Renaissance

‘Not 𝒂𝒍𝒍 Brexiteers are racists, but almost 𝒂𝒍𝒍 racists will be voting for Brexit. Enjoy the ride‼️’ 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟, 22 June 2016. 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇬🇧

[K. de Verneuil 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇮🇱 FBPE / Renaissance @pausilly]

1/17🧵
Depuis que la Russie a rebasculé dans le camp de la réaction, l’idée qu’elle serait un refuge spirituel de la Contre-Révolution séduit à nouveau une certaine France « anticonformiste ».
Un mythe pourtant très tôt démenti… par les figures mêmes de la Contre-Révolution!

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

⚡️ Budapest has reached an agreement with Kyiv on the rights of the Hungarian minority in Ukraine.

This opens the way for Ukraine’s EU accession. Hungary will no longer block it.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Pascal Canfin @pcanfin]

Je m'associe, avec une vingtaine de députés du groupe Renew, à @NathalieLoiseau pour demander que Xenia Fedorova soit placée sous sanctions européennes.

Nous demandons à Ursula von der Leyen et Antonio Costa de la sanctionner, au même titre que Russia Today l'a été.

La propagande de guerre russe n'a pas sa place dans notre espace médiatique.

https://t.co/OO7PzScW51

[K. de Verneuil 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇮🇱 FBPE / Renaissance @pausilly]

@leJDD

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Yesterday, and from just one massive attack, Russia killed 23 people in our country, including children. The Russians used a large number of drones – more than 650 during the night and around 100 more during the day. But the most dangerous threat is, of course, missiles.

Russia has the capacity to produce around 120 ballistic missiles every month. And that is just ballistic missiles. Russia also produces other types of missiles. This means that every month they can launch several large-scale massive attacks on top of the constant missile terror they already carry out.

It's clear that this is the greatest threat we face right now.

From an address to the participants of the NATO–Ukraine Council meeting in Kyiv (1/5).

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

Every sign at this refinery in Ireland is in russian. The official website is a .RU domain.

There’s no reason to hide it because local politicians are openly doing it for them.

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Some people are looking at this and saying oh well let's continue sending alumina to Russia anyway

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Bienvenue, cher @magyarpeterMP.

C’est une nouvelle ère qui s’ouvre en Hongrie, mais aussi pour la Hongrie en Europe !

Nous décidons aujourd’hui de lancer la préparation d’un nouveau partenariat stratégique entre la Hongrie et la France, à signer d’ici la fin de l’année.

Il permettra d’approfondir nos relations dans des secteurs stratégiques comme la défense, l’énergie nucléaire, les infrastructures, les transports ou encore l’agriculture.

Il contribuera également à notre agenda de souveraineté européenne, capable d’agir pour sa sécurité et sa défense, de renforcer sa compétitivité et de protéger sa démocratie.

[K. de Verneuil 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇮🇱 FBPE / Renaissance @pausilly]

@MarianneleMag Tiens, vous vous réveillez enfin ?

[Aline Le Bail-Kremer @ALBK]

Le forum économique international de Saint-Pétersbourg s'est ouvert aujourd'hui avec communiqué ukrainien à longue portée👇
#Ukraine

[NARRATIVE WARFARE @NungRiver]

Chaque jour une dose pour monter au plus haut la barre de normalisation discursive, banaliser les arguments les plus grossiers taillés sur mesures pour les esprits les plus crétins.
L'expulser, tout s'arrête et la semaine prochaine elle est oubliée.
Mais non.

[Alex Taylor @AlexTaylorNews]

"His response has been to appeal for rage. Rage is his response to a father who's lost his son and asked for that not to happen. Exploiting this tragedy to create grievance & division when the family says "please don't" is unforgivable. It shows exactly who he is"

PM to Farage

[Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 @GLandsbergis]

Those who aim to "avoid escalation" must now admit that escalation is not being avoided. Escalation is being allowed, and encouraged. If we are "standing with Ukraine" — we shouldn't be standing on a huge pile of frozen Russian assets that could be used to save Ukrainian lives.

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

EXCLUSIVE: Hungary has signaled it will drop its long-standing opposition to Ukraine’s bid for EU membership, allowing it and Moldova to begin formal negotiations to join the bloc in the coming days, four diplomats told POLITICO. https://t.co/B4jaW4lByv

[François Cherix @Francois_Cherix]

Pour croire que la France est misérable, il faut n’avoir jamais voyagé. Pour croire que la Russie est une terre de liberté, il faut être pauvre en neurones. Pour soutenir Poutine, il faut avoir l’âme criminelle. Certains RN-LFI cochent toutes les cases. Le délire est cumulatif.

[K. de Verneuil 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇮🇱 FBPE / Renaissance @pausilly]

@frenchieinlimbo @MICHELClaude20 Pour ces gens-là, si.
Une présidence française inféodée à Moscou leur offrirait ce blanc-seing tant convoité : la possibilité d’exprimer librement leur racisme et leurs autres haines.
Le même que la victoire de Trump a offert à ses soutiens MAGA.

[Roderich Kiesewetter🇪🇺🇩🇪🇮🇱🇺🇦 @RKiesewetter]

More than 80 percent of the alumina produced in Ireland was shipped to Russia this year. Russia needs it for weapons systems used to kill Ukrainian children and families, as well as for weapons systems it is also directing against Europe. Perhaps Ireland should reconsider its lobbying efforts and propose adding aluminum to the EU’s next package of sanctions. Just as, incidentally, Russian uranium and fuel rods should have been sanctioned long ago, and Germany must enforce the sanctions so that no more German semiconductors or circuit boards end up in Russian drones. Close the loopholes and implement the sanctions without exception.

https://t.co/dBmYIqNsVy

[Bonkor the relentless 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @LuxFella]

Louder for those in the back:

"China stands behind Putin and wants [the war] to continue because it drains the West, splits America and Europe, and weakens Russia."

[K. de Verneuil 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇮🇱 FBPE / Renaissance @pausilly]

@NungRiver And a very short one too, mercifully.

[K. de Verneuil 🇪🇺🇫🇷🇺🇦🇮🇱 FBPE / Renaissance @pausilly]

The ruzzian army uniform suits him to a T.
Bet he’d look even better zipped up in one of their body bags.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We began the visit of NATO’s North Atlantic Council to Ukraine by honoring the memory of fallen Ukrainian warriors at the Wall of Remembrance. Along with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte @SecGenNATO, Chair of the Alliance’s Military Committee Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone @CMC_NATO, as well as the permanent representatives and deputy permanent representatives of all 32 NATO member states.

We deeply appreciate this sign of respect from the Alliance representatives toward our warriors, who defended our country and all of Europe from Russian evil. It is profoundly important to remember every single man and woman thanks to whom we have the opportunity to live freely and choose our own way of life.

Blessed be the memory of the fallen Ukrainian defenders. Eternal honor to the heroes.