Stéphane Frappat

To watch in the next 24 hours: Japan is on alert for a possible release of its strategic petroleum reserve, the world's 3rd largest (after China and US). Tokyo may act alone, without US/IEA involvement. The American SPR is very well known; so it's the Chinese -- but Japan has its own massive oil stockpile, split in 10 sites (ground tanks, underground tanks, floating tanks and rock caverns). In total, the governmet holds ~260m barrels (vs ~415m for the US). Plus, Tokyo mandates private sector stockpiling, and it has joint agreements with Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait to store additional crude in the country. Those deals bring another ~178m barrels. According to official data, Japan holds in total about 440 million barels in stockpile, enough for 204 days of its imports (most from the Middle Easts).

@G_deVarenne Si l'on en croit les infos sur la politique espagnole (le financement du PSOE par le Venezuela fait curieusement peu de bruit en France), le financement de LFI vient d'en prendre un sacré coup.

Dès que tu parles de Maduro, le Vieux gicle et part dans les gradins en 2 secondes. x.com/FrenchCarcan/s…

In a brilliant troll of Donald Trump, Tik Tocker Jamie Kaler announces he has conducted a regime change of his neighbor’s house in the spirit of Trump's takeover of Venezuela. This is perfect.

🔴INSOLITE - Dans une manifestation antifa pro-Maduro, en Suisse, un réfugié vénézuélien les confronte et demande lequel d’entre eux est originaire du Venezuela. Réponse : AUCUN !

Two people close to the White House told The Washington Post that Trump lost interest in backing Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, despite her recent efforts to flatter him, because she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, an award Trump has openly wanted. One of them put it bluntly: “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today.”

OK, WHO DID THIS???🤣🤣🤣

@Rainmaker1973 Why is Russia not on any slide? Because this is typical Trumpist data manipulation.

Jack Ryan clip about Venezuela gets viral amids capture of Nicolàs Maduro.

‼️ZELENSKYY ON VENEZUELA: “About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you”

Putin shows a masterclass in "strategic partnership"

Un assez bon résumé de la situation : "les Venezueliens ne comprennent rien à la situation créée par Trump." youtu.be/x76kl7RD9B0?si…

[ 🇺🇸 ÉTATS-UNIS | 🇻🇪 VENEZUELA ] 🔸 « À ceux qui prétendent que les États-Unis ne s’intéressent qu’à notre pétrole, je vous pose la question : Que croyez-vous que les Russes et les Chinois voulaient ici ? La recette des arepas ? » déclare un vénézuélien.

L'arrogance et la bêtise de la propagande russe en 30 secondes. Il y a à peine quelques jours : "nous avons garanti la paix au Venezuela et Trump respecte désormais Maduro".

🤔🇷🇺 Ceci n’est pas une blague. À Saint-Pétersbourg, 70 personnes ont été arrêtées par le FSB alors qu’elles priaient pour la bonne santé de Zelensky et des défenseurs de l’Ukraine. Un texte que je n’aurais jamais imaginé écrire un jour…

A video that everyone must watch to understand what happens in places where the Russian army arrives. In Pokrovsk, Russian soldiers brutally dealt with a family of "waiters" who stayed in the city waiting for the Russian army. The video shows the testimony of the city's resident, Viktoriia Shvaiko, to Senior Investigator of the Russian Military Police Polianskyi Oleksii Valerievych. The woman recounts that on the night of December 22–23, 2025, three drunk Russian soldiers from the 30th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade of the 2nd Guards Combined Arms Army, with call signs "Smile," "Build," and "Scramble," burst into her home, where she, her husband, and her mother-in-law were present. First, they tormented her husband for a long time and beat him, then shot him in the leg and killed him. The woman herself was raped in turn. They also wanted to kill her mother-in-law, but she managed to escape while the Russians were gang-raping the homeowner. Viktoriia Shvaiko emphasizes that her husband was not a supporter of Ukraine; he was waiting for Russia and planned to join the Russian army as a driver. He was killed just for fun. By those he was waiting for—and who finally arrived.

For Russian speakers...

1962: JFK warns against lawless defiance. "If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men... can defy the commands of our court... then indeed the American experiment has failed." 2025: 63 years later, Trump is the embodiment of that warning.

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. “There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. “If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice! “Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”