Emmanuel Todd:

"Russia has won the war, the Ukrainian army is dying, and the Americans have understood defeat."
What is most shocking is no longer Kiev or Washington, but Europe, overcome by a "belligerent madness" devoid of any strategic logic.

Russia's Medvedev on Lithuania:

Lithuania, as I understand it, talked about opening the door for the possible placement of any weapon, including nuclear weapons.

If God forbid, something like this happens and we have to react to their actions, no one will step in for them.

The famous Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty will not be implemented. Everyone recognizes this because if it is implemented, it's a global catastrophe, planetary.

Lithuania will disappear from the map of the world.

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov suggests Russia could renounce its 1991 recognition of Ukrainian independence.

Germany has never been de-nazified.
Once again Germany is at war with Russia ... to the last Ukrainian.

Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul told Bild:

“We know who lives here, who receives welfare payments, who is registered here, who has residency status,” he added.
450 000 Ukrainian men could be sent to fight from Germany."

FT:

Saudi Arabia has shut down its crucial East-West pipeline after it was attacked on Thursday, threatening a vital alternative route for crude exports from the Gulf and putting more upward pressure on oil prices.

The official Saudi Press Agency quoted an energy ministry source as saying it had halted operations along the pipeline as a “precautionary measure” after attacks in the Riyadh and Madinah regions caused a “number of injuries”.

Seems that oil at $120 a barrel is not just a fantasy anymore...

France, Germany and Italy are united at last by Brussels ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

WELT:

Nearly 70% of participants view the EU negatively, speaking of a "general decline or loss of normality." Skepticism is particularly high in France, Germany, and Italy. Only 12% of those surveyed, however, see a "European awakening," a kind of new beginning.

It's a devastating result. The EU Commission produces action plans and roadmaps, presents work programs, and conducts "strategic dialogues," repeatedly invoking "unity," "solidarity," and "capacity to act," yet little of it seems to reach the outside world, beyond the Brussels bubble, in real life. The ECFR and ECF quote a young Pole as saying: "The EU talks a lot, but does nothing." This appears to be a widespread sentiment – ​​across national and party lines.

BRICS leaders have adopted a joint declaration at their summit in New Delhi, calling for greater use of national currencies, new cross-border payment mechanisms and the removal of unilateral and secondary sanctions.

The declaration also addresses conflict prevention, nuclear risks and the protection of cultural heritage, and notably makes no mention of Ukraine.

🤡 Zelensky has just told Ukrainians not to worry about food shortages. His argument is that Russia has wrecked Ukraine’s ability to export grain, so more grain will stay inside the country and bread will become cheaper. In his telling, that means Ukraine will not face a food crisis.

Basically he said that Ukrainians have been paying higher prices for food because Ukraine exported grain.

Crackhead 🤡 Zelensky:

No concessions on Donbass. Period.

Also Zelensky:

DW:

I’m ready to meet Putin at G20 summit in Miami. I’ll explain everything to him, and we’ll work it out. Ukraine is in a very strong negotiating position right now.

According to 🤡 Zelensky, he is ready to fly there IF Putin attends.
"We have to be there. We have to meet, talk and make decisions," Zelensky said.

Has Zelensky been invited to G20?

2023 Netherlands

Dutch defence minister Kajsa Ollongren:

“It is very much in our interests to support Ukraine because they are fighting, we are not fighting… Supporting Ukraine is a very cheap way to make sure Russia, this regime is not a threat to our alliance”.

James Carden, a former U.S. State Department adviser who specialized in US–Russia relations, argued that the death ratio is 36:1 in Russia’s favor
* If NATO countries were not fighting with Ukrainians, they would have ended their boycott of diplomacy a long time ago.

If you have idiots like this in power, you do not need a war to ruin your country.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorski:

Poland can easily defeat Russia, even without NAT.
"If Russia attacked us and we took our gloves off, I think we will defeat Russia quite quickly. We have overwhelming superiority over Russia in airpower."

Russia is apparently such an existential military threat that Europe must rearm at enormous cost.
Yet Poland can defeat it “quite quickly,” without NATO, because of its “overwhelming superiority in airpower.”

You have to wonder whether Russia is terrifyingly powerful on weekdays and remarkably beatable on weekends.