Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 Macron listens to a number of excellent China experts and receives top-notch intelligence on his table. For some reason, he doesn't hear, or rather, he himself knows best.

What's up with this totally unnatural Chinese? This man needs more competent China advisors in his team. No wonder he still thinks 'flatter-the-tyrant' strategy works, even after it failed catastrophically with Putin.

My colleagues Luke Coffey and Peter Rough are still at it and lay out a plan to enable Ukraine to win and not merely to defend and exist. hudson.org/defense-strate…

“For all its democratic rhetoric, the EU is closer to an oligarchic institution. Overseen by an unelected body of technocrats in the European Commission, the bloc allows for no popular consultation on policy, let alone participation.” Lea Ypi views EU’s problems via Machiavelli

🇺🇸🇺🇦 The $300 million in Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative funds that is included in the DoD budget request isn't very important. We all know that the Biden Admin will spend it all on Switchblades that Ukraine doesn't want anyway, but the Speaker should reject these demands…

❗🇺🇲🇮🇱 Politico reports the Biden Admin has placed a hold on two pending arms sales to Israel:

Mark 80 series bombs & the JDAM kits that turn them into precision guided munitions; and Small Diameter Bombs.

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One of the many areas of Polish aid for Ukraine is the Starlink terminals. A year ago, Poland donated 20,000 Starlinks, half of all operating in Ukraine, and will continue to pay the subscriptions for these devices.

A blanket statement about sanctions usefulness is meaningless without defining the criteria for success/failure. They fulfil several functions and have obvious limits, within which we can only assess their effectiveness or lack of it, and rarely it is 'either-or' problem /1

Nuclear signalling loses all credibility when it is 1) used repetitively with no follow-through; 2) bandied in a blatantly flippant manner (F-16s have been flying around 🇷🇺 for yrs fm the high North (Norway) to the Baltics (NATO policing) to 🇹🇷(an F16 shot down a Sukhoi in 2015)

French ambassador to Russia Pierre Levy likely to be pretty lonely at Putins 'presidential inauguration' today.

'Other European countries including Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic have signalled that they will not send representatives'.
france24.com/en/europe/2024…

🇺🇸🇺🇦 Really? Two weeks ago Sullivan said that the just passed supplemental aid bill would allow the US to support Ukraine through 2024. How is a combined total of $10.7 billion in PDA going to last into 2025 and support a counteroffensive? The math doesn't work.

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The overall strategic goal of Xi's Europe visit is obviously to divide Europe and the West and rule --

I also believe that peace is better than war. But you cannot achieve peace without force. Peace without force is surrender, and surrender has little to do with peace. Ask all those who surrendered to Nazi Germany or Soviet Union, if they lived happily in peace ever after

Христос воскрес!

Бажаю всім моїм православним і греко-католицьким друзям в Україні радості, віри і перемоги!

Perfectly laconic post on Telegram by Valery Zaluzhnyi - the first since his dismissal by Zelensky from the post of Commander in Chief.
It says only:

25 meters. Glock 17. There is still powder in the powder bins.

I'm absolutely pleased to have heard that some are now mocking this thread by referring to my nationality (Poland/Polish). This is straight out of the propaganda textbook and proves that I have stepped on their toes. Good! There's gonna be more of it. Hold on!

Widziałem że tak będzie!
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My match kit for the Polish Cup Final is ready. Jazda, Jazda, Jazda, Biała Gwiazda!

#PoPucharWi5ło #POGWIS

Ambasador RP w Chinach o podobieństwach między polskim 3 maja a chińskim niepodległościowym ruchem 4 maja, wystąpienie z okazji polskie święta konstytucji 3 maja - po chińsku! PISM wychowuje świetnych analityków, z których niektórzy stają się znakomitymi dyplomatami!