Wouldn’t we be in a much saner place right now if, 30 years ago, Hugh Grant had refused to apologise and just told everyone to f*ck off?

Corruption in Ukraine is a colonial hangover — a Russian infection! It is precisely because Ukrainians are striving to root it out that they unsettle others — especially in the West, where those who shout loudest about it are often the very ones already compromised by Moscow!

La corruption en Ukraine est un vestige de la russité — une infection coloniale. Et c’est justement parce que les Ukrainiens veulent l’en extirper qu’ils dérangent — notamment chez nous, où ceux qui la dénoncent le plus bruyamment sont souvent ceux que la Russie a déjà corrompus !

🇺🇸 🤝 🇷🇺 Fifty days — just enough for Putin to stage his ritual summer offensive and ride the bloodshed. Krasnov must really think we’re as dumb as his own spawn if he believes we can’t see through this!👇

🇷🇺🎬 1/8🧵 Is Russian Ark (2002) the last ‘great’ Russian film still remembered in the West ? At the time, it felt like a promise — a gesture of cultural reconciliation : “Russia is back — alive, sophisticated, European.” But 23 years on, it reveals something else entirely.

🇺🇸💔 Hard to forget how I felt on this day last year !👇😞

a woman is holding a microphone in front of her face

ALT: a woman is holding a microphone in front of her face

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1/20 🧵 Et si la Russie, plus encore que l’Allemagne, avait été l’instigatrice du conflit le plus meurtrier de l’histoire européenne — bien avant de trahir ses alliés en 1917, lorsqu’elle déserta le front de l’Est? C’est en tout cas la thèse de plusieurs historiens…

"Vladimir Putin is not looking for a cease-fire, and he does not want to negotiate. Why? Because he believes that he can win. Thanks to the actions of the U.S. government, he still thinks that he can conquer all of Ukraine" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Great Realignment

Trump is giving the Russian dictator every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.

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Why does anyone still expect Agent Krasnov to do anything but the job he was planted in the White House to do?…

« Il n’y a pas de solution diplomatique au problème russe!» Nicolas Tenzer (@nicolastenzer.bsky.social)

The only way to talk to Putin is this way—the only way. (Otherwise, of course, there are always the judges of the International Criminal Court). kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-in...

Ukraine shows footage of Bober drones hitting Russian air defenses, fighter jet in Crimea

The footage shows the combat use of UJ-26 drones, commonly known as Bobers (Beavers), targeting high-value Russian military systems.

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1 There can be no peace with russia. 2 We dont talk to a criminal who has committed crimes against humanity & of genocide. 3 Talking to a radical enemy who seeks normalization gives them a narrative advantage and ultimately weakens us. 4 It leads to dividing the Allies and damages reputation. Period

Trump is slowly, quietly, lifting sanctions on Russia. And halting previously allocated munitions too. Without an announcement, US policy is beginning to favor not a ceasefire, but Russian success www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/u...

Lack of New U.S. Sanctions Allows Restricted Goods and Funds Into Russia

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🇺🇦 🏹 Слава Україні!

🇺🇦 ⚔️ Moscovia pereat Moscovitaeque puniantur!

🇺🇦 ⚔️ Moscovia pereat Moscovitaeque puniantur!

🇺🇦✊ Vae Moscoviae !

🇺🇦✊ Ucraina victura est !

🇺🇦✊ Vae Moscoviae !

🇺🇦✊ Moscovia delenda est! Героям слава!

What cozying up to Trump really means…👇

It beggars belief that European leaders seemingly planned their Kyiv visit last month under the illusion that Trump would back their efforts! At this point, one has to ask: is whoever’s briefing them on Trump working for the Kremlin?

🇪🇺🇬🇧🇺🇦🇮🇱 < 🇺🇸 > 🇷🇺🇮🇷 The Iranians have spurned our diplomatic input, and Israel doesn’t need our offensive support. Europeans would do better to sit this one out — and focus on Ukraine, the one front where they could still make a difference, if they truly wanted to!

🇺🇦✊ Let’s be clear about this : the only reason Putin feels emboldened to indulge in this kind of taunting isn’t just because his man in Washington is enabling him — but because we Europeans do! Let that sink in! A nice weekend to everyone. And stay cool!🧊

Natalka@natalkakyiv.bsky.social · last yr.

“Whatever a Russian soldier’s foot steps on becomes ours!” - Putin

🇺🇦✊ Let’s be clear about this : the only reason Putin feels emboldened to indulge in this kind of taunting isn’t just because his man in Washington is enabling him — but because we Europeans do! Let that sink in! A nice weekend to everyone. And stay cool!🧊

Natalka@natalkakyiv.bsky.social · last yr.

“Whatever a Russian soldier’s foot steps on becomes ours!” - Putin

🇺🇸🦅 What do you get when tech bros read pseudo-intellectual reactionary blogs? Curtis Yarvin, would-be Machiavelli of a world ruled by CEO-kings! This @NewYorker profile truly nails the dark heart of Silicon Valley authoritarianism.👇 www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

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I can’t keep running a daily commentary on Europe’s abandonment of Ukraine — not from this position of complete helplessness. Even wishing you all a lovely summer feels almost obscene, given what Ukrainians are enduring. But please take care of yourselves, and stay safe! 🙏💙💛

Le jour même où paraissait l’article de @marionvanr.bsky.social dans @lexpress.fr sur les « frexiteurs masqués », Jordan Bardella s’empressait de lui donner raison — en nommant pour conseiller Charles-Henri Gallois, frexiteur et pro-russe notoire! Les masques ne tombent pas : ils coulissent…

C’est la méthode Farage : « Pas la peine de répéter sans cesse qu’on n’aime pas les Arabes, les Noirs ou les Juifs — tout le monde le sait, non ? Alors on va faire un petit jeu : à la première langue qui fourche, blâme ; à la deuxième, exclusion du parti ! »

Do not be deceived by MAGA's professed pacifism, for what moral foundation could it possibly stand upon? This tribal cult awaits only one thing: for its guru to designate yet another external enemy to loathe. Then, its belligerence will know no bounds!