H.Benoit 🇫🇷🇺🇦

Imaginez la France 🇫🇷 notre magnifique pays si nous laissions les français comme le Général Georgelin et Tony Estanguet construire, bâtir notre futur notre économie nos entreprises plutôt que de systématiquement bloquer, stopper, ralentir par des chicaneries stupides l’avancée 🇫🇷

It’s impossible to spot the year when France decided to massively increase its nuclear energy generation capability. Can someone please explain why the greens are so heavily against clean nuclear energy that they are willing to close nuclear power plants but keep coal instead?

During the Cold war, we 🇸🇪 had a 1000 jets and could mobilize 800 000 trained men within days. After 1991, due to ignorance and naivety, we thought Russia would become a democratic peaceful nation. We let our guard down and now we have to rebuild the whole shebang...

Footage of a (likely French) Dassault Rafale shooting down an Iranian attack drone over northern Iraq today.

@RpsAgainstTrump 👏🫡

New footage shows Arkansas principal Kirk Moore lunging at a school shooter, helping save students’ lives. A real hero

@Mylovanov Les russes n’ont pas la capacité d’attaquer la Pologne n’y la Finlande Ils n’ont que une infime chance que avec les Baltes Ils sont déjà incapables de vaincre les ukrainiens

NATO’s eastern flank is getting much harder for Russia. Europe fields roughly 8,000+ tanks across NATO members. Russia has 3,460 active plus 2,100 in storage — but most are T-55s, T-62s, and Soviet-built T-72s. NATO is pulling ahead on quality, writes United24. 1/

@NAFOvoyager 😢💔💔🫡

Tragically, during the Easter holidays — Ukrainian defender Alina Ryabtseva was killed. She leaves behind two children — Anfisa and Daniil — now without their mother. She served at a Kyiv recruitment center and later voluntarily joined the AFU for frontline service. May she rest in peace. Her sacrifice will not be forgotten.

@OlenaHalushka @Mariam__Lambert 🤞🍀

Greetings from a shelter — we're expecting 50+ cruise missiles, Shahed drones, and possibly ballistic missiles.

Peter Magyar: "I know exactly what's going on in Serbia. I know the ties between Orban and Vucic in Serbia, between Orban and Fico in Slovakia, and I know who is the godfather behind all these ties"

@DGA @Marsattaqueblog 👏👏

[#Notification 🚀] #MASTF - AKERON LP La DGA valide avec succès les essais du nouveau missile air-sol tactique ⤵️

La meme unanimité dans le parlement français que dans celui de nos voisins italiens ?

@top_force @Armee_de_lair @ThalesDefence @KNDS_France Quand je vous dis que nous n’avons pas d’argent

🚀✈️🛩️ 🇫🇷 #LAD L’@Armee_de_lair & de l'Espace confirme l’achat prochain de seulement sept canons antiaériens #RapidFire de 40 mm @ThalesDefence @KNDS_France opex360.com/2026/04/14/lar…

JD Vance: Stopping funding for Ukraine is one of the things I’m proudest we’ve done in this administration.

Notre président fait du running eux jouent au hockey 👏👏❤️

@h2_mobile 😂 l’hydrogène pour la mobilité est un rêve pour les perdants qui on quelques chose à vendre et pour bruler du capital public ou privé

Tourner la page de l'hydrogène a un prix... et la note sera particulièrement salée pour Stellantis ! h2-mobile.fr/actus/pile-hyd…

@Tsihanouskaya 🤞🍀

I’m always struck by the dignity of democratic elections, when leaders accept the people's choice and peacefully step aside. In Belarus, a dictator clings to power, jails his opponents, and trades away our sovereignty to survive. Belarusians deserve the same right to choose.

@aakashgupta You forgot the laser communication into SL satellites It is a big advantage

Amazon spent $10 billion to put 200 satellites in orbit. Starlink has 10,000. And Amazon just landed Delta, JetBlue, and Airbus anyway. The antenna explains why. This thing is 58 inches long, 30 inches wide, and 2.6 inches tall. A phased array with no moving parts. Full-duplex, meaning 1 Gbps down and 400 Mbps up simultaneously. One antenna covers an entire commercial aircraft. Every seat, every class, gate to gate. Starlink's aviation antenna tops out at 220 Mbps. Amazon's does 1 Gbps. That's 4.5x the throughput from a company with 2% of the satellites. The engineering constraint most people miss: inflight wifi has always been limited by the antenna on the plane, not the constellation in the sky. Geostationary satellites had plenty of bandwidth. The bottleneck was a mechanical dish on the fuselage trying to track a signal while moving at 575 mph through turbulence and temperature swings. Amazon solved that with an electronically steered array. No gimbal, no motor, no maintenance. Install it in a day, forget about it for a decade. And here's where the business model becomes clear. The antenna connects directly to AWS. No public internet routing. Delta's operational data, crew communications, passenger streaming, real-time AI analytics from seatback to cloud with private network interconnect. Starlink sells you a wifi pipe. Amazon sells you infrastructure. United has 800 Starlink planes. IAG committed 500. Lufthansa committed 850. Collectively, thousands of aircraft locked into Starlink's ecosystem. Amazon looked at that and decided: we'll take fewer airlines but own the entire data layer underneath them. Delta's 500 planes running on AWS through Leo is worth more to Amazon than 5,000 planes on commodity wifi. The $10 billion on satellites was never the product. The antenna was the product. And the antenna is a trojan horse for AWS.

@TF1Info @davidlisnard @agindre Quand tu perds de façon aussi magistrale il de reste 2 choix Ok j’ai perdu ou envoyer la police calmer les foules pour cette option il faut avoir la maîtrise des forces de l’ordre Si elle n’ont pas envie de le faire parce que elle voit bien l’écrasante victoire il te reste Perdu

▶️ Défaite de Viktor Orbán aux élections législatives en Hongrie "Celui qu'on décrivait comme un antidémocratique semble en tout cas respecter la démocratie et se retirer du pouvoir", souligne @davidlisnard. 📺 #EnTouteFranchise avec @agindre

@JayinKyiv C’est pas le même poids politique Pour Babis ça serait du suicide politique Je pense que non tout ça est terminé les amitiés proches avec Moscou En France au RN on sent le jeune Bardella s’éloigner de Le Pen à ce sujet trop dangereux politiquement

Putting Orban aside, Slovakia's Fico has become MUCH more valuable to Putin. Likely negotiating a new deal with the Russian dictator as we speak. Paralyzing the EU now rests on his shoulders almost completely, maybe with a side deal for Babis.

I suspect there are quite a few politicians sitting in various corners of Europe and North America who are rather anxious these days about the prospect of information emerging in the coming weeks and months regarding how they received funds, channelled through the Hungarian government and Hungarian state-financed organisations, to conduct subversive political activities in their home countries. And yes, Orbán himself has in all likelihood received a substantial portion of this money directly from Russia — primarily through Gazprom. The evidence for the broader Kremlin-Hungary nexus has grown dramatically in recent weeks. A major consortium of investigative journalists published transcripts of phone calls between Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Russian officials, strongly suggesting that Budapest functioned as a fifth column within the EU with Szijjártó allegedly coordinating with Moscow to undermine sanctions and sharing intelligence on Ukraine's EU accession process. Szijjártó himself visited Moscow no fewer than 16 times following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The financial architecture underpinning this relationship is also becoming clearer. Investigative reporting has traced Orbán-linked financial forces specifically connected to Hungarian state-affiliated banks to the financing of far-right parties elsewhere in Europe, including Marine Le Pen's campaign in France and Spain's Vox party. The money trail does not appear to run directly from Gazprom to Orbán to foreign parties, but rather through a layered system of Hungarian state intermediaries. The deeper Russian connection comes via energy deals: between 2011 and 2015, Hungarian gas purchases were routed through an opaque intermediary company, MET International, with both Russian and Hungarian ownership and documented ties to Putin's inner circle and Orbán's government. This brings us to CPAC Hungary. Magyar has now confirmed publicly what many suspected: CPAC was paid for by the Hungarian state. In his words, "the state should never have financed them in the first place — it was a crime." The same applies to related institutions such as the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, which served as a key vehicle for spreading Orbán's ideological influence across Europe and beyond. I am not suggesting that every politician who attended CPAC Hungary knowingly received Russian-linked funds. But the financing chain is now confirmed — Hungarian taxpayers' money, quite possibly supplemented by Russian energy revenues, was used to host and cultivate a global network of like-minded politicians. If I were a journalist in any country whose politicians attended those events, that would seem a rather pressing line of inquiry. The urgency of that inquiry is underscored by what is reportedly happening right now. According to Magyar's international press conference, Szijjártó has barricaded himself with close colleagues and is actively destroying and shredding documents specifically evidence relating to sanctions against Russia. If accurate, this is not the behaviour of an innocent man. It is the behaviour of someone who knows exactly what those documents contain and who those documents implicate. One hopes the new Hungarian government moves fast enough to secure what remains.

Twelve years ago, on April 13, 2014, the first blood of the war in Donbas was spilled. A group of Russian special forces led by Igor Girkin ambushed a vehicle of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU), killing Captain Hennadiy Bilichenko. Ukrainian side had orders “not to respond to provocations.” It was Palm Sunday. Girkin reported to his superiors in Moscow that he had “chopped up someone important.” He used the word “chopped up,” as if it was piece of meat, not humans His superiors (in the person of the future founder of “Donetsk People’s Republic”, Alexander Boroday) congratulated him: “Well done marking the holy day!” It was all verbatim on a phone intercept published online on 15.04.2014. These two Russians knew they were starting a war. They thought that “chopping up” a person was an excellent way to celebrate a holy day. In essence, this is all you need to know about the people who brought war to Ukraine in 2014.