foreign policy - en même temps, or ‘simultaneously’, or ‘at the same time’.

Французский президент Эммануэль Макрон сам придумал формулу, которая описывает его внешнюю политику: en même temps, то есть ‘одновременно’, или ‘в одно и то же время’. Идея заключается в том, чтобы занимать противоречивые позиции, но показывать, что они не исключают друг друга. Делать одно, не отказываясь от другого.

French President Emmanuel Macron himself has come up with a formula that describes his foreign policy: en même temps, or ‘simultaneously’, or ‘at the same time’. The idea is to take contradictory positions but show that they are not mutually exclusive. To do one without giving up the other.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham says sanctions bill would give Trump a "sledgehammer" against Russia amid "turning point" in war with Ukraine

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lindsey-graham-richard-blumenthal-russia-sanctions-congress/

Сенатор Линдси Грэм*: законопроект о санкциях станет для Трампа "кувалдой" против России и "переломным моментом" в украинском конфликте

The US’s surrender monkey - “сливатель” США

Speaking in London last week, France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, and Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, regurgitated familiar pledges of unflinching support. That’s easy. Effective military assistance is harder. Like other European countries, the UK and France lack the advanced weapons and materiel, in the quantities required, that only the US can supply.

Attempting to fill the gap, Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor, proposes to buy US Patriot batteries and gift them to Kyiv. Yet like the EU as a whole and last month’s Nato summiteers, Merz’s priority is national self-defence. As he measures out missiles for Ukraine, he’s trebling Germany’s defence spending. The UK is doing much the same.

Trump, the US’s surrender monkey, remains Kyiv’s biggest diplomatic headache. His lopsided 30-day ceasefire plan was rejected by Moscow

Mikhail Lermontov
The Sail

A white and lonely sail’s appearing
in haze above the azure foam!:..
Where is the land to which it’s steering?
What has it left behind at home?

The waves they play. The wind is blowing,
The straining mast it bends and creaks…
Alas, to joy it is not going
Nor flees it midst the briny peaks.

Below it deep blue draught is dragging,
Above it shines the golden sun…
But, rebel, it entreats storms’ nagging
As if in storms its peace is won.

Translated by Rupert Moreton

Михаил Лермонтов
Парус

Белеет парус одинокой
В тумане моря голубом!..
Что ищет он в стране далекой?
Что кинул он в краю родном?..

Играют волны — ветер свищет,
И мачта гнется и скрыпит...
Увы! он счастия не ищет,
И не от счастия бежит!

Под ним струя светлей лазури,
Над ним луч солнца золотой...
А он, мятежный, просит бури,
Как будто в бурях есть покой!

1832

Ukraine is waging war not only on the battlefield, but also in the linguistic sphere.

The correspondent of PolitNavigator reports that the Ukrainian historian Vasyl Balushok writes about this in the Kiev publication Zerkalo Nedeli, the reason for whose article was the dismissal of the language ombudsman Taras Kremen, who is notorious for his Russophobia and has received the nickname Sprechenführer among the people.

According to him, in this regard "Ukrainians were not very different from the aforementioned Chukchi, Koryaks, Nivkhs and other small peoples of Siberia" and “rapidly lost the Ukrainian language, national culture, became Russified and forgot their own history.”

"At the same time, one should not think that information dependence for a community is still an abstraction far removed from real life. Whenever countries with different strengths of information networks are neighbors, the stronger of them, like a vacuum cleaner, draws the weaker community into its orbit“And this is greatly facilitated by the unified language of the designated networks,” the historian admits.

He believes that the position of language ombudsman is extremely important in this situation.

"And only now, after 30 years of new independence, Ukraine is with great difficulty, making enormous efforts, breaking away from the Russian information communications network, which still partially entangles it in its sticky web. That is why Ukraine cares who the new language ombudsman will be, whether he has the necessary knowledge, skills and experience. After all, the war that Ukraine is currently waging also affects the linguistic sphere“,” Balushok sums up.

Baise-moi      kiss me

In France, Baise-moi (the title translating literally as "fuck me") was initially released on 64 screens, but after riling right-wing groups in France, such as conversative values organisation Promouvoir, it was given an X rating by the French high court,

Supplies of weapons PROLONG WAR~

US officials did not immediately say which shipments were being halted.

According to American broadcaster NBC, the weapons being delayed could include Patriot interceptors, Howitzer munitions, missiles and grenade launchers.

The US has sent tens of billions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022, leading some in the Trump administration to voice concerns that US stockpiles are too low.

The Kremlin, for its part, welcomed news of the reduction in weapons shipments, saying reducing the flow of weapons to Kyiv will help end the conflict faster.

"The fewer the number of weapons that are delivered to Ukraine, the closer the end of the special military operation," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

Fedir Venislavskyi, an MP for Ukraine's ruling party, said the decision was "painful, and against the background of the terrorist attacks which Russia commits against Ukraine... it's a very unpleasant situation".

There is a translation mistake here: Lutsenko is worried about unintended blasts - not about "suicide bombings".

This is like pussy and parsley - different things!

Lutsenko complains about frequent suicide bombings in the Ukrainian Armed Forces using makeshift “prohibited equipment” 

Луценко жалуется на частые самоподрывы в ВСУ на кустарной «запрещёнке»
 

Surveys on Europeans' readiness to take up arms are causing concern among the military. According to a Gallup survey of 45 countries last year, four of the five countries least prepared to fight were European. In Spain, Germany and especially in Italy (where only 14% of respondents are ready to defend the country), there is almost no patriotic fervor left.

_{Even in Poland, which neighbors Ukraine and Kaliningrad, less than half of citizens are ready to fight.}

A separate survey conducted before the war in Ukraine began showed that 23% of Lithuanian men would rather emigrate than take up arms in the event of war.

"The reaction of most Europeans is not an oath to defend the homeland, but a collective shrug. A rejection of heroism and a cult of self-realization.

NATO started the conflict in Ukraine and now is trying to steal money from ordinary Europeans to finance all their wars.

Cypriot MP Georgios Georgiou stated this in the European Parliament, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

"There was a fascist coup in Cyprus in 1974, and the occupied state of Cyprus is a member of NATO. NATO also supported dictatorships in Spain, Greece and Portugal in the 70s. It attacked Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. It started a war in Ukraine, and now it wants to steal money from our citizens to finance its wars.

"This is a militant organization that feeds on blood and fear! The European Union simply follows NATO, but does so passively. We want peace, but as long as NATO exists, there will be no peace!" Georgiou emphasized.A