Réjean Brousseau

[Réjean Brousseau @rbtextra]

@slovakianfella And all the occupiers as well.

[Réjean Brousseau @rbtextra]

@Oct7NeverForget This son-of-a-bitch is doing all he can to sow discord between Poles and UKR. By doing so, he plays into Putler's hands and weakens the EU at the crucial moment when utmost cohesion is required to defeat the mad czar. Doesn't he know UKR is also fighting for the Poles?

[Mina Shohdy @XMinaShohdy]

The details of the statues on one of the facades of the Grand Place in Brussels, Belgium 🇧🇪

[Mina Shohdy @XMinaShohdy]

This architectural gem is the Oval Room (Salle Ovale) at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) Richelieu site in Paris.

The room is open to the general public free of charge and offers access to approximately 20,000 volumes, including a large collection of comics and graphic novels. It features a massive oval glass ceiling, or cupola, designed to maximize natural light within the reading space. Located in the 2nd arrondissement near the Palais Royal, this historic site has roots dating back to the 14th century and serves as a major hub for literary treasures.

📸: thedustyvalise

[Réjean Brousseau @rbtextra]

@Beefeater_Fella And he's also a wanker and a complete idiot.

[medoyid_ua @LetsArmUKR]

Zuganov just admitted what the Kremlin pretends isn't happening: this war is a gold rush for the connected elite. Billionaires up from 101 to 155, their combined wealth bloated to 700 billion dollars, and Russian state TV is almost framing it as some kind of patriotic dividend. Meanwhile the average Ivan is still cannon fodder or scraping by on wages that haven't kept pace with wartime inflation. The regime's message is clear, war pays if you are inside the right circle.

This is not an accident. It is the logical endpoint of an imperial project that treats its own population as expendable raw material. Moscovia has always run on extraction, whether it was serfs, gulag labor, or now the bodies of mobilized men traded for yachts and London real estate. Every village they grind into rubble at the cost of thousands of their own soldiers is another line item that funnels contracts, kickbacks, and resource access to the right oligarchs. The human losses do not appear on their balance sheets. Only the revenue does.

And that is exactly why any talk of freezing the front or "compromise" is not pragmatism, it is subsidy to this machine. Every month the war drags on without decisive Ukrainian victory lets those 155 billionaires consolidate another slice of the loot. Sanctions that actually bite, targeted strikes on refineries and logistics, accelerated Western arms packages, these are not charity. They are the cheapest insurance Europe can buy. Let moscovia win and the next set of neighbors will face the same choice at far higher cost, with Russian elites already fattened and confident that Western hesitation is permanent.

The useful idiots in Washington and European capitals who keep pushing "peace talks" while the Kremlin rewrites its own casualty figures are not saving money. They are investing in the next war, on worse terms, closer to their own borders. Zuganov let the mask slip. This is not a security operation. It is a business model built on conquest, theft, and the industrial-scale disposal of its own people. The only solvent response is to make that business unprofitable, fast, by arming Ukraine to dismantle it on the battlefield. No truces. No frozen lines that let the oligarchs regroup. Total military defeat of the imperial center is the only exit ramp that actually leads somewhere other than the next slaughter.

The numbers do not lie. Their billionaires are richer because ordinary Russians are poorer and their sons are dead. That is not victory. That is predation wearing a flag. Ukraine is not asking for favors by fighting it. Europe and the sane parts of America are simply being offered the chance to pay now in weapons and production contracts instead of paying later in blood and rebuilt cities when the same machine rolls west again. The math has always been brutal. The Kremlin just confirmed it out loud.

[Réjean Brousseau @rbtextra]

@ChurchillFella Kudos to her for telling the truth. Unfortunately, the voice of reason and common sense is only heard from people living abroad like her. I congratulate her for moving to UKR because she's witnessing Putler's atrocities in real time and unravel the propaganda lies.

[Réjean Brousseau @rbtextra]

@NatalkaKyiv "Who is to blame? The answer to that question isn't so obvious". Yes, the answer is obvious for everyone who has a brain and a few functioning cells left. Unless you are willing to name the culprit, you are caught in an endless circle of lies, disinformation, and delusion.

[Réjean Brousseau @rbtextra]

@JayinKyiv Everybody knew that the herd populace would eventually pay the war bill. Well, they're paying it right now big time, and that's only the beginning. Wait until they suffer from food shortages in the grocery stores because that's exactly what's is store (no pun intended) for them.

[Réjean Brousseau @rbtextra]

@Mylovanov How dumb a reporter can be?

[Mina Shohdy @XMinaShohdy]

Staircase inside Ducal Castle of Corigliano Calabro in Corigliano Calabro, in the province of Cosenza, Italy. 🇮🇹

Built as a military fortress in 1073, the Castle was subjected, over time, to a series of transformations. The Sanseverino Princes, the Dukes of Salluzzo, and the Baroni Compagna, enlarged the original structure to make it impregnable to the sieges of the enemies and to adapt it to a noble residence.

Today the Castello Ducale di Corigliano is a museum that allows you to take a dip in the past; the rooms, furnished with original furniture, recreate evocative atmospheres of past ages.

📸: robi_ciaffoni

[Réjean Brousseau @rbtextra]

@Soupedesques Especially if we consider how the authorities are raiding the streets and grabbing all those passer-bys to send them to their death in the meat grinder. Imagine their will to fight in such conditions! This will only lead to mutiny and cause even more chaos in the army ranks.

[Film Diary @filmdiary00]

Notre Dame Cathedral and the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France
A view of the historic city center, Île de la Cité, is shown
The Seine River is visible, complete with tourist boats and historic bridges. There are several bridges that connect the Île de la Cité to the rest of the city 🇫🇷

[THIERRY D "ardéchois et français" @ThierryTout]

🇮🇹🇻🇦✝️
Que dire, quand on entre dans la Basilique Saint-Jean-de-Latran à Rome, si ce n'est qu'elle est magnifique ? �

[Mina Shohdy @XMinaShohdy]

Église de la Madeleine 🇫🇷

Standing majestically in the heart of Paris, the Église de la Madeleine is one of the city's most distinctive churches, renowned for its grand Neoclassical design.

Inspired by the architecture of ancient Greek and Roman temples, the church is surrounded by 52 imposing Corinthian columns, giving it a monumental appearance unlike any other church in Paris.

Completed in 1842, after decades of changing plans and political upheaval, La Madeleine features a richly decorated interior adorned with sculptures, frescoes, and magnificent religious artwork.

📸: Dwi Setyo Wibowo

[Pete @splendid_pete]

📚 Russian disinformation strategy across the United States and Europe is fundamentally opportunistic. The primary objective is not necessarily to persuade Western citizens to adopt pro-Russian views, but to paralyze NATO and the European Union by exacerbating existing social, racial, and political fractures. By fueling both extremes of the domestic culture war, the strategy aims to convince Americans and Europeans that their true enemy is their neighbor or their own government, thereby degrading social cohesion, institutional trust, and the ability to maintain unified support for Ukraine. 

The Transatlantic "horseshoe".

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union utilized "active measures" to exploit social unrest. Modern Russian intelligence agencies and proxy organizations, such as the Internet Research Agency (IRA) and the Social Design Agency (SDA), have modernized this approach using social media, bot networks, and generative AI.

The defining characteristic of these campaigns is that they do not pick a side; they play both sides simultaneously across the Atlantic. In both the U.S. and Europe, they exploit a "horseshoe" dynamic, targeting both the far-left and far-right because both extremes share a utility: skepticism of NATO, hostility toward institutional establishments, and a vulnerability to polarized outrage.

Left-Wing / Anti-Imperialist:

Institutional corruption, systemic hopelessness, framing the cessation of Ukraine aid as "pacifism," and anti-NATO sentiment.

Right-Wing / Nationalist:

White replacement fears, anti-immigration panic, "traditional values" under attack by "woke" establishments (Washington/Brussels), and election denialism.

The tactical evolution:

Russian operations have continuously adapted to evade platform detection while exploiting the Western media ecosystem, moving from human troll farms to sophisticated, AI-driven subversion.

➥ Internet Research Agency (IRA) Infiltration. 2016.

Troll farms created thousands of fake accounts posing as both right-wing "patriots" and left-wing activists to artificially inflate domestic hostility in the United States.

➥ The Doppelgänger Campaign. 2022 - 2023.

The Russian IT firm Social Design Agency (SDA) launched a massive campaign cloning legitimate Western news sites (like The Washington Post, Le Monde, and Der Spiegel) to spread anti-Ukraine and culture war narratives simultaneously in the U.S. and Europe.

➥ Electoral Subversion via Deepfakes. 2024 - 2025.

Operations pivoted heavily to releasing "leaked" audio deepfakes and forged documents during critical European elections (e.g., Moldova, Romania, Hungary) to manufacture last-minute scandals and discredit pro-Western candidates.

➥ AI and the ATAFIMI/Matryoshka Operations. Early 2026.

Cross-border investigations revealed Russia heavily utilizing generative AI to exploit international crises and European protests, rapidly tailoring wedge issues to specific national audiences across NATO and the EU to force "war fatigue."

The feedback loop.

Russian operatives frequently utilize a "firehose of falsehood" approach, prioritizing volume and rapid dissemination over consistency. When a domestic issue arises, such as an immigration crisis, a controversial police shooting, or EU agricultural protests, Russian bot networks flood the zone. 

Agitation: Fake left-wing accounts post inflammatory rhetoric demanding extreme institutional overhauls or violent protests.

Reaction: Fake right-wing accounts immediately capture those posts and present them as mainstream left-wing thought to stoke fear and existential threat.

Amplification: The algorithm rewards the high engagement of this manufactured outrage. Real domestic users, politicians, and media outlets adopt the talking points and carry the culture war forward organically.

This dynamic exhausts Western citizens with constant domestic outrage, making the political and economic cost of transatlantic solidarity too high for elected officials to bear.

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

This clock is 600 years old, and it still works.

Every hour in Prague, Death rings the bell.

The apostles appear and pass by.

Crowds gather beneath it as gears, saints, planets, and symbols move across one of the most dramatic machines ever built.

Made in 1410, the Prague Astronomical Clock remains the oldest working astronomical clock on Earth.

It tells the time, but that is the least interesting thing it does.

It turns the passing hour into a public reminder that every life is being counted.

[Mina Shohdy @XMinaShohdy]

Rue de Rivoli in Paris, France, looking down the long thoroughfare near the Tuileries Garden.

Street features characteristic white stone buildings with consistent architectural lines and covered walkways (arcades) on the ground floor.

Major commercial axis in the city, known for its shops, museums, and high pedestrian traffic 🇫🇷

[СВЯТА РУСЬ @rus_svata15287]

Фінал ціеї війни це перемога України і повернення до меж 1991 року. І головний бонус перемоги Українського народу - роспад Московії, який поки, що непомітно, але вже йде.

[Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 @eeldenden]

The endless Meloni-Trump drama is a symptom of a deeper disease. It's time to skip the "daddy" act and build a real, unified European Army. Zelensky was right! Being a US satellite state is not sovereignty