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Aurélien Colson retweeted
Today, Russia expressed its thanks for the lifting of sanctions on diesel exports by dropping five glide bombs on residential buildings in Zaporizhzhia. As of now, sadly, twelve people have been confirmed killed, including three children. My condolences to all their families and loved ones. Another fourteen people have been injured, and two of them are in critical condition – the doctors are fighting to save their lives. The status of twelve more people who may have been there is still being verified. All emergency services are at the scene, and search-and-rescue operations are underway. Overnight, thirteen of our regions came under attack. Residential buildings, infrastructure, and railway facilities have been damaged.
Last night confirmed once again that in Russia, they take any easing of pressure to mean they can keep fighting, to mean they can keep dropping bombs on cities. Different signals are needed. Russia must understand that it needs to stop the war, and for that to happen, Russia must feel its losses. Right now, it is our long-range capabilities that are ensuring this. And we will respond to Russian strikes. I thank everyone who is helping.
Aurélien Colson retweeted
Dans le cadre de nos partenariats avec le porte-avions Charles de Gaulle et le 1er REG, nous avons accueilli pour une semaine de cours intensive l'enseigne de vaisseau Clothilde et le capitaine Thibault.
Ils ont suivi le cours « Atelier de négociation » du Pr. @AColson_.
Aurélien Colson retweeted
Mariani est une crapule qui prenait des selfies à côté de « l’abattoir humain » de Saidnaya en Syrie tout en vantant l’humanisme de Bachar, et a systématiquement participé aux opérations de propagande du Kremlin, au point que l’ancien DGSI avait dû émettre un message très transparent devant les députés, parlant de « franchissement d’un seuil en terme d’allégeance à une puissance étrangère ». C’est peut-être la plus ignoble des figures politiques françaises, et il est sans surprises au RN.
"Thierry Mariani est un patriote qui défend les intérêts de la France", assure Sébastien Chenu, vice-président du RN
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Aurélien Colson retweeted
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.
Aurélien Colson retweeted
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."
Aurélien Colson retweeted
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
Aurélien Colson retweeted
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
Aurélien Colson retweeted
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
En étudiant les récentes opérations de manipulation de l’opinion en Europe, trois chercheurs de l’Essec alertent les candidats sur plusieurs scénarios catastrophe. En exclusivité, « Le Point » dévoile leurs recommandations.
Par @RomainGubert
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Aurélien Colson retweeted
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.
Aurélien Colson retweeted
Merci à Caroline Roux et @Cdanslair pour cette discussion sur les ingérences, à partir de notre note @AColson_ Josephine Staron @essec_GDL OS3i
#Ingérences étrangères : "Les attaques lors des municipales étaient la répétition générale avant la #présidentielle. La #Russie est très active mais probablement pas seule. Et la France, après l'Ukraine, est le pays le plus ciblé en #Europe." @charillon était l'invité ##cdanslair
Aurélien Colson retweeted
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.
Aurélien Colson retweeted
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.
Aurélien Colson retweeted
Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 campaign for president, was interviewed on MSNOW. In response to a very general question regarding the Trump presidency, Mr. Schmidt spoke for two minutes and gave the most insightful and brutally honest response of what the Trump presidency has done to our great country: "Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is.
But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And, there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.” "When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile.
An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.” "It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City.
Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale. And, let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter.
We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk." @SteveSchmidtSES r/t Ron Tipton
