Trump’s chaotic hyperactivity, reversals, and setbacks are only the visible part of a methodical, dogged effort to transform America’s institutions, economy and international role. A Revolution Ready for Tyranny, by Philippe de Lara — full article here ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/06/16/t...

"Putin has just made one of his most cherished dreams come true: he has compromised the United States in his efforts to demolish international law. This is the primary objective of the Witkoff/Dmitriev peace plan (...)" Yes, *compromised*❕️🫟

Françoise Thom: Beyond the crushing of Ukraine, the joint exploitation of the EU is the main motivation of the Moscow-Washington axis whose outlines are taking shape in the Witkoff/Dmitriev peace plan. ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/11/27/t...

Point 3: “It is expected that Russia will not invade neighboring countries.” Who are they trying to fool? The disarmament imposed on Ukraine shows that Russia expects to deal with an easy prey during the next operation to “liberate” Ukrainian territory. desk-russie.info/2025/11/27/t...

Point 2: “All ambiguities left pending over the past 30 years will be considered settled.” Forget the threats of nuclear apocalypse, the hundreds of thousands of dead in Ukraine. The Russians are counting on Western amnesia, which has never failed them ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/11/27/t...

Some continue to believe that the Kremlin, once it has pocketed its territorial gains in Ukraine, could be a reliable partner. Let’s not forget that Russia violated the INF & the CFE Treaties several years before it took action in Georgia and then Ukraine. desk-russie.info/2025/12/02/n...

Mikhail Grobman, an “Israeli Zarathustra” French-Israeli-Ukrainian artist Samuel Ackerman pays tribute to his friend Mikhail Grobman (September 21, 1939 – November 23, 2025), an Israeli painter and poet of Russian origin. ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/12/02/m...

Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier: “A form of ‘nuclear sharing’ could be envisaged, with a dual-key system: French nuclear weapons on German, Polish, or other aircraft, with the decision to use them remaining a national one, as is currently the case in NATO.” ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/11/17/a...

Always read Françoise Thom ⤵️ 💫

Putin has compromised the United States in his efforts to demolish international law. This is the primary objective of the Witkoff/Dmitriev peace plan. Françoise Thom decodes the points that have not received sufficient attention from Western observers ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/11/27/t...

Is Witkoff really just a bumbling businessman? Or the incarnation of a new world order in which international affairs are reduced to business deals serving the interests of an international oligarchical elite? By Samantha de Bendern (first pub. in May 2025) ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/05/14/t...

For this article we met with Ihor Tsurupa from the KROVOSPAS project. For almost 4 years now, around a hundred volunteers have been producing enough hemostatic dressings to equip, at cost price, a large proportion of the million soldiers defending Ukraine ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/11/17/u...

Seduce, confuse, isolate — How RT establishes a relationship of dependence and emotional trust, following its Soviet predecessor’s logic of influence ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/10/27/a...

Russia’s Brics Currency That Never Happened ⤵️ — by George Witherington desk-russie.info/2025/10/27/r...

RT no longer needs to broadcast to exist: it now lives in the cognitive reflexes of its audience. RT has transformed itself into autonomous mental software, capable of functioning without its creator. By Guillaume Sancey ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/10/27/a...

What we call “hybrid warfare” is simply war. It is a cognitive war, but also an Orwellian, subversive, systemic war, whose goal is to accustom us to thinking within the universe of Putin’s lies, to make us accept Russian conditions in the real world. ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/10/27/b...

Venezuela has become a “new Cuba” in the eyes of Moscow. — Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier on the Moscow-Havana-Caracas geopolitical axis & Russia’s “secondary front” (a key concept in Soviet strategic thinking) ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/10/27/o...

Just within one year, the number of Poles who know (or, rather, confess they know) a Ukrainian person declined from 66% to 61%; the number of Poles who have a friend or friends from Ukraine fell down from 15% to 11%. By Mykola Ryabchuk ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/10/20/g...

Of all European nations explored by the survey, Ukrainians are assessed most negatively, above only Roma and (since 2014) Russians, roughly on par with Turks, Chinese, Belarusians and, ironically, Germans – other victims of Polish historical resentments. ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/10/20/g...

Putin finds himself indebted to his new war elite, which forms the backbone of his power. He is forced to continue redistribution and expropriation in order to feed it and ensure its support. ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/10/17/p...

“Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with the conquest and subjugation of Ukraine, it automatically becomes an empire again.” — Zbigniew Brzeziński Putin’s Endless War: Imperial Ambitions and Europe’s Moment of Truth, by Borukh Taskin and Aaron Lea ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/10/17/p...

"While Trumpist thinking eludes any coherent doctrine of American foreign policy, it nonetheless has a logic of its own. From the point of view of Russian geopolitical interests, it is even more rational"

“As in the case of Roosevelt, Trumpian policy is only rational in terms of Russian geopolitical interests.” A historical perspective by Laurence Saint-Gilles ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/05/01/t...

Repost from September, but please read it if you haven't already - especially if you haven't read the wonderfully clear "Comprendre le Poutinisme". This time, Françoise Thom makes the parallels between USA and Russia explicit - oligarchs destroy everything they touch. Ignorance is now inexcusable.

How was public money from Western countries transformed into hidden private profits in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union? ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/09/29/e...

Behind Russia, Communist China The West Faces the Strengthening of a Eurasian Axis — by Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/09/29/b...

Four years of “lagging behind reality” — by French essayist J.-F. Bouthors Many political actors (particularly in France) are acting as agents of national and European division, when we should be coming together to counter Russia’s pernicious and brutal actions. desk-russie.info/2025/09/29/t...

Despite having been fleeced by Russia for a century and a half, Westerners are still asking for more. “Economic Relations, an Underestimated Weapon in the Kremlin’s Hybrid War Against the West. Part 2. Contagion.” — By French Sovietologist Françoise Thom desk-russie.info/2025/09/29/e...

Western media outlets have extensively covered the resignation of Dmitry Kozak, deputy chief of staff to Vladimir Putin, seeing it as a sign of a hardening of the regime. What if this resignation was just a cover-up? — By Borukh Taskin & Aaron Lea ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/09/29/t...

Former Soviet dissident Sergei Khodorovich died in Paris on September 21, 2025, at the age of 85. A tribute by French journalist Nicolas Miletitch ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/09/29/s...

@umland.bsky.social: “The Cold War in Europe until 1989 remained cold, not because the West was cautious and Germany was peaceful, but because NATO stood united and resolutely confronted Moscow, responding to every provocation with an adequate counteraction.” ⤵️

Despite apparent progress, Europe continues to treat an ontological challenge with managerial means, without questioning either the nature of the evil it is fighting or the spiritual foundations it claims to defend. Full essay by historian Pierre Raiman ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/09/08/t...

“Europe has long prioritized economic interests, sidestepping the issue of the Russian regime. It is as if the peace of the graveyards were an acceptable political ideal, provided that it spares Europe the heroic demands of its vocation.” Full essay ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/09/08/t...

U.S. officials would do well to consider the repeated misfortunes of those who have been caught in the trap of economic cooperation with Russia. A historical retrospective and a warning by French Sovietologist Françoise Thom ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/09/11/e...

'For were not the Munich agreements part of this fetishized “stability” and this illusion of “dialogue”? Did Chamberlain and Daladier not succumb to this moral fatigue that preferred to sacrifice Czechoslovakia rather than confront radical evil?' 📌One more vital analysis by @deskrussia.bsky.social

"A spiritual re-founding of Europe around its values" and "the will to act" are required. For the salvation of the human race in fact.

A truly existential threat like Russia cannot be dealt with by the ordinary instruments of diplomacy—it requires a spiritual re-founding of Europe around its values and the will to act according to its founding principles. Read the full essay here ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/09/08/t...

Parubiy’s profile may look similar to Farion’s. But unlike Farion, who the Russians used to compromise the Ukrainian national movement, Parubiy was a person of deeds, not words. He played a prominent role during the Orange & the Maidan Revolutions (2004 & 2013-14). ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/09/01/i...

I said it before and I'll say it again 👇 well sourced article 👇 packed with lots of info and plenty of threads left to pull😉 well worth reading

THE CONSTRUCTION OF A BLACKMAIL EMPIRE Before the USSR collapsed, the KGB invested the Party's money in the West. What if some of this horde was invested in human trafficking? The Epstein scandal may be about "the construction of a blackmail empire whose products are accessible to hostile powers."

Russia is staging a “negotiation theater” — a scripted spectacle that resonates with audiences in Europe and the United States. @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @uisweden.bsky.social @deskrussia.bsky.social @armedmaidan.bsky.social @russlandverstehen.eu @russland-analyse.bsky.social @russlandwatcher.de

“It is the equivalent of a nuclear weapon against democracies: all you have to do is drag all the elites, politicians, businessmen, scholars, and clergy through the mud for representative institutions to lose their raison d’être.” Brilliant must-read on Trump, Epstein & Russia, Russia, Russia 👇

Morality may have deserted politics, but it still has its place in history. “The Russian Connection in the Epstein Affair”, by the brilliant French historian Françoise Thom ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/07/30/t...

There is no record of Epstein traveling to Russia before 2014. This does not mean that Epstein never visited Moscow before. Epstein’s Russian connection was first documented by the Dossier Center, a hacker organization funded by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/07/30/t...

Post-communist Russia was a gold mine for the resourceful and unscrupulous. Epstein was able to make useful observations there. He understood that the rich control everything except their reputation. Epstein negotiated his silence and became a billionaire. desk-russie.info/2025/07/30/t...

The question everybody is asking : “Where did the money come from?” Always read Françoise Thom on @deskrussie.bsky.social

The concept of generic fascism helps understanding Russia’s war against Ukraine. @foreignpolicy.bsky.social @sceeus-ui.bsky.social @komrex-unijena.bsky.social @russlandverstehen.eu @russland-analyse.bsky.social @russlandwatcher.de @chrussiaeurasia.bsky.social @deskrussia.bsky.social

Long article, buy I guarantee it won't bore you. At the bottom of the swamp, there is no shortage of dense mud...

Epstein’s sex trafficking concealed another mission he carried out for Russia: providing cover for Russian beauties tasked with infiltrating Silicon Valley. This is probably where we should look for why many of the Big Tech giants have a pro-Russian orientation. ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/07/30/t...

What if it was the FSB that held the infamous “list” of Epstein’s clients? What better way to compromise the American elite than to possess evidence of participation in orgies with minors? An explosive article by French historian Françoise Thom ⤵️ desk-russie.info/2025/07/30/t...