Russia is a terrorist state.

This is Howard Buffett, Warren Buffett’s middle son. He is 71 years old. He dropped out of college three times. He drinks Dr Pepper and like his father, looks for a McDonald’s wherever he travels. Since the beginning of the war, his foundation has become the largest private donor to Ukraine: $1.4 billion. Over four years, he has personally visited Ukraine 27 times. In April 2022, he saw burned-out agricultural machinery all over Ukraine and called the president of John Deere: “How many combines are available in Europe?” “Fifteen. All of them were supposed to go to Russia.” “I’ll take them all. Ship them to Ukraine.” Then came all the available New Holland equipment in Europe. Altogether, more than 100 tractors and combines have been provided to Ukrainian farmers. Free. He tested de-mining equipment on his farm in Illinois, detonating explosives beneath rollers. When someone asked if blowing up his own tractors to find a solution was worth it, Buffett replied: “Stop counting my tractors. If necessary, I’ll blow up a thousand of them.” When he heard about the "Superhumans" project, the medical program to provide arms and legs for soldiers who have lost theirs, they asked if he'd be willing to kickstart the program with $1 million. Buffett asked how much was needed to build the entire center. “$14 million" was the answer. He replied: “Okay. Build it.” Today, his support for Superhumans has reached $77 million, and the center has treated almost 2,000 wounded soldiers and civilians who have lost limbs due to the war. But his largest area of spending is neither agricultural machinery nor prosthetics. It is food: 642 million meals. He has built, stocked and staffed mobile kitchens that go into areas where civilians, often very elderly, whose homes have been destroyed by Russian bombing. Real help from a person who has no personal motivation to profit from Ukraine. He simply chooses to help.

« Léon XIV en France : une visite officielle comme une autre ? ». C’était le thème du « débat du jour » sur @RFI auquel m’a convié @romain_auzouy. Occasion de rappeler l’importance diplomatique des visites papales (Pologne 1979, Cuba-USA 2015, etc.). rfi.my/D4Xs

De gauche à droite, le déni de nos politiques face à la menace russe👇🏾

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski at the UN Security Council: 🗣 "To the representatives of the Russian Federation, I have this to say: You have been trying to conquer Donbas for over twelve years and Kyiv for over four. You have been stopped by heroic Ukraine, a country with one-tenth of Russia's GDP. But Poland has almost half of your GDP. Europe has 10 times your GDP. NATO has 25 times your GDP. You can still kill a lot of people, but you cannot win. You can stop this imperial war of choice at any time. Don't endanger Europe and the world any further. Stop destroying Russia's future. Sergey, I know you're listening. Tell your boss: 'enough is enough.' Thank you."

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RT @DarthPutinKGB: When you vote for the wrong candidate.

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Ingérences étrangères dans nos élections : à lire aujourd’hui dans @lemondefr la tribune co-signée avec @charillon et @josephinestaron à partir d’une note de recherche réalisée pour l’Observatoire des stratégies d’influence, d’ingérence et d’intimidation de @Essec_GDL

Damn Ukraine! 😂

Relecture des 400 pages d'épreuves avant envoi chez l'imprimeur : c'est fait ! Mon nouveau livre, "Le Clair-obscur de la diplomatie. Contribution à une histoire du secret des négociations internationales", paraîtra aux éditions Bruylant à la fin du mois de septembre. A suivre !

This is a masterclass on how to respond to pressure and blackmail from your adversaries. First, you make opaque transparent. Second, you respond to every claim with facts. Third,you make sure that everyone understands what just happened. Europeans have a lot to learn from this.

MAHIYA NAMAN KAYO | Secretary of National Defense Gilberto C. Teodoro, Jr. responded to a note from the Chinese side during the Seoul Defense Dialogue (SDD) 2026 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. #DNDPHL #DiKaPasisiil #SDD2026

Un travail de recherche mené par les Pr. @charillon et @AColson_ avec @josephinestaron dans le cadre de notre Observatoire des stratégies d’influence, d’ingérence et d’intimidation (OS3i). Merci @RomainGubert / @LePoint ! @Viginum_Gouv

Merci à @RomainGubert / @LePoint d’avoir présenté les résultats de ces travaux de recherche menés par @charillon, @josephinestaron et moi dans le cadre défi @Essec_GDL

Take a close look at these two photos. Thirty years ago, in 1996, on this day, August 31, russia and Chechnya signed a peace agreement. Russia had failed to destroy Chechen independence by force, so it signed a “peace agreement.” Three years later, in 1999, russia invaded again. Russia used the three year peace to prepare for revenge. Chechnya was devastated by war, economically isolated, politically destabilized, and largely abandoned by the outside world. Moscow portrayed Chechnya as a failed state and exploited their weaknesses. When russia returned, it finished what it had failed to accomplish in the first war. This is why neither Ukraine nor any other country of the world can trust russia to uphold a ceasefire or peace agreement. A ceasefire that allows russia to rebuild its army while Ukraine is pressured to demobilize, Western military support declines, and the world gradually moves on is simply an intermission before the next, even more devastating war. Ukraine needs peace. But it needs a peace that leaves Ukraine strong and russia unable to attack again. History has repeatedly shown that Moscow interprets weakness as an invitation. The only language russia understands is the language of force. Without strength and credible deterrence, today’s peace agreement can become tomorrow’s preparation for another war.

Merci à Caroline Roux et @Cdanslair pour cette discussion sur les ingérences, à partir de notre note @AColson_ Josephine Staron @essec_GDL OS3i

Ukraine is developing Russia into a cloud based economy.

C'est avec une profonde tristesse que nous avons appris le décès du vice-amiral d'escadre (2S) Olivier LEBAS. Conseiller Défense auprès de la direction d'AIRBUS, il était notre correspondant chez ce partenaire important du Centre GDL. Condoléances à sa famille et ses proches.

À la cérémonie de commémoration de la libération de Nîmes.

Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner have canceled their planned trip to Kyiv because of “heavy russian air strikes on the city.” Witkoff and Kushner have traveled to Moscow eight times for meetings with Putin. But when it comes to visiting Kyiv, russian air strikes suddenly make the trip too dangerous. Meanwhile, presidents and prime ministers from a dozen European countries have visited Kyiv over the past several days — despite those very same russian attacks. This tells you something important about American diplomacy under Trump. For months, we have been told that Witkoff and Kushner are trying to broker peace between russia and Ukraine. Yet the people supposedly acting as intermediaries repeatedly travel to Moscow, meet with Putin, listen to russia’s demands - and cannot even bring themselves to travel to the capital of the country russia is invading. You cannot understand this war by visiting Moscow eight times and Kyiv zero times. And you certainly cannot be an honest broker if you are willing to sit comfortably across the table from the aggressor but are too afraid to visit the victim because the aggressor might bomb you. European leaders are showing what solidarity looks like. Washington is showing what cowardliness and complacency look like.