This is pure genius...

🇦🇺🤝🇫🇷 Ifri was pleased to welcome Air Marshal Stephen Chappell, Chief of the Royal Australian Air Force, on the occasion of his visit to France for #ANZAC Day — a valuable exchange on the Indo-Pacific’s strategic landscape and the depth of #Australia – #France relations.

On Palm Sunday, as Ukrainian Christians prayed for peace, Russia struck Sumy with cluster munitions, showing its own "commitment" to peace. 32 people were killed as a result, including two children. 99 others sustained injuries, including 11 children.

“Our generation will no longer receive the peace dividend. It is up to us to ensure that our children reap the dividends of our commitments tomorrow.” — Emmanuel Macron

Ça, c'est fait. Une de plus en moins. www.ifri.org/fr/etudes/la...

Tout un programme... Pour ceux qui avaient encore un doute. www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

Le meilleur cadeau de Noël pour @gollumm2000c.bsky.social, qui cite Augustine au moins une fois par semaine !

[French speakers only] Podcast particulièrement inspiré sur les enjeux géopolitiques du marché européen d'approvisionnement en gaz. Marc Hecker recevait Didier Holleaux, DG adjoint d'Engie. Passionnant. youtu.be/IdCLAZC7oms?...

Shadow tanker EAGLE S did not only attack the infrastructure of Estonia and Finland Dec 25. She was recently equipped, manned and used for surveillance of NATO territory, including dropping sensors. Surveillance-staff Russian, Indian and Turkish. Pronouns: she/it/warship

Tout est dans le titre. www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

2/would fall into the Caspian Sea, all witnesses would die and thus all traces of the downing would be hidden.

More and more evidence points to the fact that the Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane that crashed in Kazakhstan yesterday was hit by Russian air defense systems. The plane, traveling from Baku, Azerbaijan, to the capital of Russian Chechnya, Grozny, crash-landed near Aktau in Kazakhstan.

I have a feeling the investigation and conclusions by the Dutch Safety Board into the downing of MH17 are going to be a useful guide in investigating what happened to AZAL flight J28243. I'm already noting a number of similarities in the damage profiles.

Outstanding display of airpower by the Forces aériennes stratégiques on the last operation POKER of 2024. I was given the opportunity to finally fly the Blue Air side of the mission in a A330 MRTT tanker with Héloïse Fayet, after flying a lot of Red Air missions late at night on the Mirage 2000C.

Should the Trump administration follow through on its pledge to negotiate a peace deal with Russia, the outcome will have sweeping ramifications for Ukraine—and for European security more broadly, warn @elietenenbaum.bsky.social and Leo Litra.

This afternoon, a Russian-made Pantsir S1 air defense system was destroyed on the outskirts of Damascus, likely by an Israeli Air Force strike.

⚡️🇷🇺Russia has spent over $200 billion on war with 🇺🇦Ukraine, Pentagon chief Russia has lost at least 700,000 killed and wounded since February 2022 and has "wasted" over $200 billion on war, Lloyd Austin said

🇺🇦 Dans UN Chronicle, magazine de l'ONU, Anna Stavychenko revient sur les défis rencontrés par le monde de la musique classique dans un pays en guerre. @philharmonie.bsky.social s'est engagée depuis 2022 auprès des musiciennes en exil et des écoles de musique ukrainiennes. www.un.org/en/un-chroni...

Powering up on Blue Sky...