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Reporter in 🇺🇦 for @United24media - former coordinator #RSF Press Freedom Center/ Correspondent for foreign media

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Alexandre Jubelin
Alexandre Jubelin@alexjubelin·
Je parierais personnellement qu'il ne va rien faire du tout, parce que ça reste un promoteur immobilier médiocre qui confond tactique et stratégie et qui pense qu'on peut gouverner avec des coups de bluff, sans comprendre qu'il dilapide le capital que des générations de gouvernants ont accumulé avant lui, qui est certes immense mais pas infini. Cela dit je peux me tromper, et si c'est ainsi que se termine l'alliance militaire sans doute la plus puissante de l'histoire de l'humanité, de la main d'un président qui fait un caprice parce qu'il est incapable d'accepter les résultats de l'enchaînement de conneries qu'il empile...
Hümeyra Pamuk@humeyra_pamuk

NEW: President Trump tells @steveholland1 in a brief interview that he will express his "disgust" for NATO at tonight's speech and that he is "absolutely" considering withdrawing the United States from NATO

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Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦@IAPonomarenko·
What if I told you that for decades, this was largely a U.S. policy -- that Europe largerly disarmed, weakened its defense industries, and handed its security over to the United States, making itself dependent? What if I told you that for decades, this arrangement suited both sides just fine? America secured its monopoly status as the world's military hegemon and the undisputed leader of the West, gained the ability to project its power across the globe, and had a massive market for its defense industry free from European competition -- all while extending its protection over its vassals-allies in return. And Europe was perfectly happy to relax under that American umbrella and spend its money on social programs and comfortable life. And then Donald Trump, at the helm of a superpower, decided that everyone owed him. That he wants a weak, dependent Europe and a vast market for American military exports -- but has no intention of honoring the part of the old bargain that involved actually protecting that same Europe. Doesn't anyone else find it hilarious that the Trump admin first screams at the top of its lungs demanding that Europe defend itself and become independent -- and then turns around and expresses displeasure that European countries are switching to their own weapons instead of signing contracts with the American defense industry?
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Romain Mielcarek
Romain Mielcarek@romainmielcarek·
"Les Etats-Unis sont devenus un Etat voyou." "Les États-Unis se comportent désormais comme une puissance hégémonique prédatrice, tirant parti des leviers d'influence qu'ils ont accumulés au fil des décennies pour exploiter tant leurs alliés que leurs adversaires." "La politique étrangère américaine est aujourd’hui entre les mains d’un groupe de responsables d’une incompétence remarquable, du président jusqu’aux échelons inférieurs. L’influence internationale dépend de nombreux facteurs, mais l’un des éléments clés réside dans la conviction des autres États que leurs interlocuteurs sont intelligents, bien informés et savent généralement ce qu’ils font. À l’heure actuelle, y a-t-il quelqu’un parmi les hauts responsables de l’administration Trump qui mérite cette description ?" "Et comme la scène politique américaine reste profondément polarisée, les autres États doivent également craindre que le pendule ne cesse d'osciller entre les extrêmes. Les Américains ont élu Trump non pas une, mais deux fois, et pourraient bien élire à nouveau quelqu'un de similaire." "Lorsque vous avez affaire à un partenaire peu fiable, la meilleure chose à faire est de réduire votre dépendance à son égard, même si cela vous coûte un peu." "Plus les États se détournent des États-Unis – que ce soit de manière ouverte ou subtile –, plus il devient facile pour d’autres de faire de même. Plus le rôle des États-Unis dans le monde sera perçu non pas comme globalement bienveillant, mais comme activement néfaste, plus il sera difficile pour de nombreux États de rester aux côtés des États-Unis." Source: @stephenWalt sur Foreign Policy foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/26/uni…
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Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss@michaeldweiss·
Look at this nonsense: "Last week, The Telegraph revealed that Mr Trump was considering a shake-up of Nato designed to punish members who did not meet his funding demands.Senior members of the administration have pushed for a 'pay-to-play model' that could block allies from decision-making, including when the bloc goes to war." So, then. Are we quitting NATO or becoming more imperious in our leadership of the alliance? Note that the Scandinavian and Baltic countries and Poland all meet the spending guideline and yet they're not co-combatants in the war in Iran, said to be the source of Trump's ire about the alliance. So do they make the cut here or does Trump decide they're useless deadbeats too because they haven't sent warships to the Strait of Hormuz? And note that the one country actually offering military assistance in the Iran war is Ukraine, a non-NATO ally. Yet Trump has rebuffed them. Kyiv seeks "NATO-like" security guarantees from this president. It should be quite obvious that even Trump's putatively transactional view of alliance is subject to revision.
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toomas hendrik ilves
toomas hendrik ilves@IlvesToomas·
This is an important post.
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86

The Strait of Hormuz is not closed. It is sorted. Iran has built a three-tier access system for the most important waterway on earth. Tier one: allies transit free. Malaysia cleared seven vessels through diplomacy at zero cost. India negotiated zero-fee passage. Pakistan secured clearance for 20 ships. Iraq transits without charge. These countries proved geopolitical alignment and the IRGC waved them through the Larak corridor without collecting a rial. Tier two: compliant neutrals pay. At least two tankers, likely Chinese-linked, paid up to two million dollars each in yuan through Kunlun Bank intermediaries. COSCO container ships attempted the corridor, were turned back on first approach when documentation was incomplete, then succeeded days later with revised paperwork. These are the vessels that prove the system works. They submit IMO numbers, ownership chains, cargo manifests, and crew lists to the IRGC’s Hormozgan Command. They receive clearance codes. They are escorted by pilot boats through the five-nautical-mile channel between Qeshm and Larak. They pay in a currency that does not route through SWIFT. Every successful yuan transit is a live proof-of-concept for non-dollar energy settlement. Tier three: adversaries are denied entirely. The committee plan bans American vessels, Israeli vessels, and vessels from any country participating in sanctions against Iran. These ships do not get vetting. They do not get codes. They do not get escorts. They get the AL SALMI, burning off Dubai, as illustration of what the corridor looks like without permission. But the toll is not the real cost. War-risk insurance is. Premiums have surged from $40,000 per VLCC transit before the war to $600,000 to $1.2 million today, a 30-fold increase, now running five to ten percent of hull value. A VLCC carrying $50 million in crude oil can absorb a combined $3 million in toll and insurance as a fraction of cargo value. A container ship carrying $5 million in manufactured goods cannot. The insurance premium alone exceeds the profit margin on non-oil cargo. The strait has become an oil-only VIP lane. Crude flows selectively for those who can pay the combined cost. Everything else waits, reroutes around the Cape of Good Hope, or does not move at all. And the US Navy is not inside the strait. The Abraham Lincoln strike group operates from standoff in the Arabian Sea. Three Littoral Combat Ships sit in the Persian Gulf. Marine expeditionary units are positioned for contingency. But zero American warships have transited the strait or escorted commercial traffic since the war began. The Navy told the shipping industry it has “no availability” for Hormuz escorts. The world’s most powerful fleet keeps respectful distance from a waterway controlled by a country whose navy is 92 percent destroyed because the mines, drones, and shore missiles that remain make close-in presence prohibitively risky. The result is a geopolitical sorting algorithm operating at the molecular level. One hundred and eighty-one vessels transited in all of March. Pre-war traffic was 138 per day. Of those 181, roughly 70 percent were Iranian-affiliated. The remaining 30 percent were vetted allies or yuan-paying neutrals. The 20 percent of global oil that once flowed freely through this strait now flows selectively, conditionally, and in currencies chosen by Tehran. Iran lost its air force. It lost its navy. It lost two thirds of its production capacity. It retained the only thing that matters: 39 kilometres of coastline on both sides of the narrowest point. The US Navy will not enter. Chinese tankers will. And the sorting algorithm processes another vessel, collects another yuan payment, and demonstrates once more that geography is the one military asset that cannot be degraded by precision strikes. The strait is not closed. It is under new management. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

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Alexander Query@AlexanderQuery·
Les US utilisent exactement la même méthode que la Russie pour diffuser leur propagande pro-Trump, et j’imagine que les ‘hostiles’ sont absolument tous ceux qui s’opposent à ce Père Ubu de pacotille, y compris en Europe. On attends la réaction de @ConquerNicolas - ou pas.
toomas hendrik ilves@IlvesToomas

Well this is wild: Embassies are told to recruit local influencers, academics and community leaders abroad to carry counter-propaganda messaging, an approach designed to make American-funded narratives feel locally organic rather than centrally directed. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

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POLITICOEurope
POLITICOEurope@POLITICOEurope·
Hungary's top diplomat Péter Szijjártó admitted today that he spoke to Russian officials as EU ministers considered new economic measures targeting Moscow. politico.eu/article/hungar…
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Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss@michaeldweiss·
“If you remove names and show these conversations to any case officer, he will swear that this is a transcript of an intelligence officer working his asset,” one senior European intelligence officer said after reviewing a printout of the conversations.
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Michael Weiss
Michael Weiss@michaeldweiss·
New: We obtained phone calls between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó showing them conspiring to lift EU sanctions on Russia -- from oligarchs to banks to the shadow fleet. Full story with consortium partners at @InsiderEng: theins.press/en/inv/290911
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RSF
RSF@RSF_inter·
#Ukraine : face à la menace croissante des drones kamikazes russes, RSF publie avec la Fondation “Union” un guide pratique pour aider les journalistes à se protéger. Objectif : mieux anticiper les risques et sauver des vies sur le terrain. En anglais et en ukrainien 👉 rsf.org/fr/comment-se-…
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David Colon
David Colon@Colon_David·
Les explications apportées par @france2 pour justifier la plage de propagande offerte en Prime Time au ministre des affaires étrangères d'un pays qui mène contre la France une guerre hybride sans merci sont lunaires, irresponsables et inadmissibles. x.com/franceinfo/sta…
franceinfo@franceinfo

TRANSPARENCE. Pourquoi et dans quelles conditions la rédaction de France Télévisions a-t-elle réalisé l'interview de Sergueï Lavrov, chef de la diplomatie russe ? l.franceinfo.fr/kos

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Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦
Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦@IAPonomarenko·
The thing is, many people still refuse to abandon what seems like a self-evident idea, the one we ourselves had to shed with great difficulty after 2022: that the wars of the future would be defined by hyper-precision weapons, extremely sophisticated, super advanced high-tech and extraordinarily expensive systems, produced almost in small numbers. But it turns out that another principle plays a huge role in this new kind of war: "cheap, fast, incredibly mass-produced, even if simple." Innovation is not only about the linear advancement toward the future and increasing complexity of technology. It is also about changing the very approaches to solving problems. So when a country without a navy sinks flagship missile cruisers, drives an enemy fleet back to its bases, and when a small camera-guided bomb on a propeller stops main battle tanks -- well, excuse me, that too is a very real innovation, IMHO.
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Simon Shuster
Simon Shuster@shustry·
Texting this morning with one of Ukraine's top drone producers, Skyfall, and they have some thoughts about my interview with the Rheinmetall CEO, who said their drone factories are housewives with 3-D printers in the kitchen: "If a drone made by Ukrainian 'housewives' is all it takes to take out tanks and artillery... I guess it's officially the 'housewives' era now." theatlantic.com/national-secur…
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Alexander Query@AlexanderQuery·
1 FPV : $1000, bomb included, produced at a rate of thousands a day in a flexible, decentralised defense industry that doesn’t need months of tractation to produce them. 1 Leopard that will realistically be blown up if it comes out in the open : $500 000. The arrogance and bitterness of Rheinmetall’s CEO reminds me of the “no need to give weapons to Ukraine, they’ll lose in 3 days.”
Simon Shuster@shustry

I asked Europe's main producer of tanks and artillery what he thinks about the cheap drones wrecking all those tanks and artillery pieces in Ukraine. "This is not innovation," he said of the Ukrainian weapons. "This is how to play with Legos." An exclusive interview with Armin Papperger in my profile of his company, @RheinmetallAG, whose stock price has grown 15-fold since the Russian invasion, as the Europeans buy up all the tanks and artillery he can produce. Out today @TheAtlantic. Gift link below.

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Olivier Schmitt
Olivier Schmitt@Olivier1Schmitt·
Une fois de plus, des journalistes français (qui ne sont déjà pas bien incisifs avec les responsables nationaux), pensent qu’avec une préparation superficielle ils peuvent échanger avec des professionnels du mensonge et de la manipulation. Tout comme l’interview totalement irresponsable de Douguine sur @franceculture il y a quelques mois, cette interview n’est qu’un cadeau offert à des gens qui nous considèrent comme des ennemis.
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