3h ago

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Greenland votes – in pictures

Earlier today, I brought you a primer on the Greenland election today, with all the key timings, positions, and indications what to look out for.

Local media are reporting that all is going well so far, with early indications of a higher turnout than the last time round in 2021, as voters enjoy what is a very sunny day.

All that is left for me, then, is to post some pictures from the vote, so here they are:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/11/ukraine-russia-us-peace-talks-moscow-war-latest-live-news-europe

This is a reminder in 2023/2024 French Military and Army released three reports that Macron is delusionaland his hoax today in Paris:: Sending French troops to Ukraine would be “unreasonable,” one senior officer wrote. “Make no mistake, up against the Russians we are an army of cheerleaders!==” he added. (See Macron BS today)

12 Mar, 2024 22:19Macron ‘panicked’ over leaked Ukraine reports – MarianneA series of classified documents has debunked Western narratives about Kiev’s battlefield prospects

French President Emmanuel Macron’s talk about maybe sending troops to aid Kiev may have beenspurred by three assessments produced by the French militarythat painted a dire picture of the Ukraine conflict, according to the magazine Marianne. Reports argued that Ukraine wrecked its Western-trained force== in the failed 2023 offensive, has run out of men to mobilize, and that its recent loss in Avdeevka shows it can’t even hold the line against Russia.

•“Ukraine cannot win this war militarily,” concludes the first report, written in the fall of 2023, following Kiev’s disastrous ground offensive.It praises the Russian forcesas the new “tactical and technical” standard=of how to run defensive operations and debunks the media myth of “meat assaults.”

• For the West to continuepursuing a military solution in Ukraine would be “the most serious error of analysis and judgment,” the classified document said, according to Marianne. Sending French troops to Ukraine would be“unreasonable,”one senior officer wrote.“Make no mistake, up against the Russians we are an army of cheerleaders!” he added.

• The second report, outlining theprospects for 2024, says that Kiev needs 35,000 men per month but is “recruiting less than half” of that number, while Russia enlists 30,000 volunteers monthly. Meanwhile, the 2023 offensive“tactically destroyed” half of Kiev’s 12 combat brigades.

•“The West can provide 3D printers to manufacture drones or loitering munitions, but will never be able to print men,” the report said. One solution it advised was sending Western troops to Ukraine to carry out support tasks in the rear, freeing the Ukrainians for frontline duty.

• The secondreport also acknowledged the Western special forces and “soldiers in civilian clothes” had a far greater presence in Ukraine than officially acknowledged, including “quite a few British,” as well as French naval commandos training the Ukrainians.

• The third and latest report, which had theFrench observers “in cold sweat,” described the Battle of Avdeevkaas a possible “rout” of Ukrainian forces. It described how Russia created “hell” for the Ukrainian troops by using massive glide bombs to inflict more than 1,000 casualties per day.The French document also described the Ukrainian retreat on February 17 as “sudden and unprepared.”

• At the end of February,Macron made an argument to NATO membersthat all options for helping Ukraine should be “on the table,” implying the possibility of sending ground troops.The idea was publicly repudiatedby most members of the US-led bloc, however.==

https://www.rt.com/news/594168-french-military-reports-ukraine/

2h ago12.38 EDT

Macron stands by his warnings about Russia as he meets with army chiefs

French president Emmanuel Macron spoke earlier today at the future site of the Internal Security General Directorate, or DGSI, giving his commentary on defence and security issues facing France. Le Monde reports that Macron fired back at his critics who had suggested he was inventing or exaggerating the threat from Russia, saying “these people have clearly not followed the news” on Ukraine.

In an indirect exchange of words with far-right leaderMarine Le Pen who accused him of “posturing” and deflecting from what she believed to be the main threat, terrorism, Macron argued that the focus should be not on arguing over which danger is greater, but on how to respond to them.

“At a time when the balance of the world is shifting, when what we took for granted is going away, and when what seemed ruled out is now coming closer, we must defend these unwavering values of our republic,” he was quoted as saying. Macron was expected to give another speech this afternoon, but instead we should hear from the French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot.

Meanwhile, the French president is meeting with over 30 army chiefs from Europe and around the world to discusscreating an international force to deter future Russian aggressionif a ceasefire in Ukraine is established.(Meanwhile it’s doubtful 30 army chiefs can make the decisions, it’s all BS and scare tactics)

Le Figaro reported in the last few minutes that the meeting has just started. This is all Macron Posturing.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/mar/11/ukraine-russia-us-peace-talks-moscow-war-latest-live-news-europe

8 Jan, 202517:34

EU foreign ministers plan joint trip to US – Politico

The top diplomats of France, Poland and Germany reportedly want to send a signal of unity to Washington

The foreign ministers of France, Germany and Poland are planning a joint trip to the US as a show of unity, Politico EU has reported.

While the visit is still at the planning stage and no date has been set,the trio wants to arrive shortly after the January 20inauguration of President Donald Trump, three EU diplomats told the outlet on condition of anonymity on Wednesday. (I guess they never got an invitation or sent a request, that has to be stupidest group of people to send to see Trump, it’s that arrogance they have in the comfy EU, but when they leave, they wake up)

Jean-Noel Barrot of France, Annalena Baerbock of Germany and Radoslaw Sikorski of Poland might even be accompanied by EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, according to two of the diplomats.

The idea behind the trip would be to make a “show of European unity,” one of the diplomats said. (AKAGang Up because they are very afraid of Trump)

The EU has struggled to respond to Trump’s talk of the US taking over Greenland, an Arctic island that is currently an autonomous territory of Denmark. The Danish government has ruled out selling the island and suggested it would be unacceptable of the US to take it from a fellow NATO member by force.

“There is no question of the EU letting other nations in the world, whoever they may be, attack its sovereign borders,” Barrot has told France Inter radio. (Oh like you did to Romania?)

The European Commission, however, declined to take a position on the issue.

French President Emmanuel Macron has argued that Trump won’t be able to resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict quickly and that the role of Washington should be to bring Moscow to the table.

Barrot, who has been France’s foreign minister since September, is a holdover from Michel Barnier’s cabinet that lost parliamentary confidence in early December. Germany’s ‘traffic light’ coalition that Baerbock is part of crumbled in November and faces a general election in February.

The current government of Poland took power in December 2023 through post-electoral coalition-building. While still in the opposition,Sikorski caused a minor scandal by posting “Thank you, USA” after the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelineswhich had delivered Russian gas to Germany.

Trump has also rattled the European NATO membersby declaring this week that their levels of military spending were too low. As many as 15 members of the bloc have failed to reach the minimum target of 2% of their GDP by mid-2024. According to the US president-elect, even that is nowhere near enough and they ought to be spending at least 5%, which none of the members of the bloc are currently capable of.

https://www.rt.com/news/610585-eu-foreign-ministers-trump/

Hint to EU leaders, don't announce you are going to surprise the US and meet With Trump unless you get approval to come,it's humiliating. I'm so glad I found this article.

>>22742839

==Lutnick is not exactly genteel, like Wittkoff in the way he speaks, he has a gravely voice and seems to enjoys and laughs at chaos and competition.

I wonder what he told Ford, was it FAFO?

Or Lutnick says: "there's nothing I can do for you, when President Trump's mind is made up, it made up! You might consider that in the future!"

Howard starts hanging up the phone andFord screams, wait, wait, you must tell me how to fix this?

So Lutnick has mercy and said,"Well do what Trump says, and don't ever try to punish our citizensby cutting off electricity, Trump doesn't like any citizens WW freezing or being harmed.

Plus you have to apologize. In the future when you want to negotiate something call us, don't be dramatic because you will always regret it.

I can hear Lutnick's gravely voice and laugh when hanging up. KEK

Ford came out weeks ago with how he was going to destroy America and how much he hates Trump, he started it, we didn't.

>>22742839

I wonder if any leader that comes out against Trump, they have research on their life, and know things others don't?

11 Mar, 2025 18:48

Ukraine admits attacking key oil pipeline to EU

The bloc’s eastern members rely on the Russian network for energy supplies

TheUkrainian General Staff has confirmed that one of the targetsof Tuesday’s mass drone attacks was Russia’s Druzhba oil pipeline system, a key delivery route to EU countries, according to a statement on its official Telegram channel.

Druzhba is one of the world’s longest networks, transporting crude some 4,000km from Russia to refineries in the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia

“Ukraine’s security services carried out the operation, reporting explosions near the linear production dispatching station ‘Stalnoi Kon’ (Steel Horse) in Russia’s Oryol region, which manages the pipeline’s operations,”the statement read.

Hungary, which relies on oil shipments through the system, has called the attack “unacceptable” and accused Ukraine of threatening its sovereignty. Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto announced that crude shipments via the pipeline had been temporarily halted, but later resumed.Szijjarto criticized the European Commission, arguing that assurances it had offered regarding the safety of Hungary’s energy infrastructure had been repeatedly violated.

According to media reports, three Ukrainian fixed-wing drones struck the Druzhba terminal in Russia’s Bryansk Region.

The attack was part of a wider assault involving more than 340 UAVs hitting civilian targets across Russian territory,killing at least 3 people and injuring over 20and causing a fire at a Rosneft oil depot in Bryansk.

Ukraine has repeatedly targeted Russian energy infrastructure throughout the conflict, despite resulting supply disruptions for Kiev’s European allies.

In January, Ukrainian forces attempted to attack a compressor station of the TurkStream pipeline, which supplies natural gas to Turkish customers and several European countries, including Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Greece.

In March 2024, Ukrainian drones struck an oil refinery in the Krasnodar region, causing a fire and temporary shutdown. Similarly, in January of that year, a drone attack hit a fuel depot in St. Petersburg, reportedly damaging storage tanks.

The most notable attack on Russian energy infrastructure during the conflict was the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022. The explosions, which severely damaged Nord Stream 1 and 2—key conduits for Russian gas exports to EU—sparked international speculation about the perpetrators. While various theories have emerged, no definitive culprit has been identified.

Moscow has condemned attacks on its civilian energy infrastructure, labeling them acts of terrorism.

https://www.rt.com/russia/614045-ukraine-attack-russian-pipeline/

(The only reason they are admitting it, is they want to get Russian into a tit for tat, and lose their calm position. The Ukrainians are also possibly trying to crash the peace talks in the ME, but Rubio, Walzt and Witkoff know the plan.Putin and his team know what they are doing, but there will be retaliation just not on the public.)

>>22743132

that's notable history and is true