“If you were an American like myself, who is not inclined to go out and protest and hold signs and disrupt things, man, we have to wake up,” he explained. “I have to wake up. We have to join these students one way or another and join their cause in letting the government know that we will not stand silent in the face of police oppression of the right of American citizens to speak out, to assemble, to hold their government account."

Part of the purpose of colleges is "to create an incubator for the development of good citizenship, not compliant zombies," Ritter explained, arguing that the US needs, "citizens who think, who empower themselves with knowledge and information and express that individually and collectively.”

“Any student who has promoted terrorism or engaged in terrorists[sic] acts on behalf of Hamas should be immediately be [sic] added to the terrorist watch list and placed on the [Transportation Security Administration] No Fly List,” Blackburn wrote on Twitter on Monday.

“And that's what the young kids don't have so much. They didn't know anything about it and now they know about it. ‘This is ridiculous. This is colonialism. And we’ve been taught… to reject colonialism and we reject this,” he added.

“They were looking to intimidate people – not just disperse them, but intimidate them. And not only the residents of Odessa, but of all of Ukraine” to crush opponents of the new regime, Vasily Polishchuk, an ex-Odessa lawmaker who has spent 10 years investigating the 2014 Odessa Trade Unions Building massacre, told Sputnik on the tragedy’s 10th anniversary.

“In the end, under the pretext of a football match, they organized a ‘unity march’ through the city, and under its guise, destroyed the so-called Kulikovo Field [anti-Maidan] encampment,” the investigator said.

“I am convinced that [then-Secretary of National Security and Defense Council] Parubiy was involved in this, as well as Nalyvaichenko, who became head of the SBU. [ex-Minister of Internal Affairs] Avakov is also involved. [oligarch] Kolomoisky provided financing. And Nemirovsky, the head of the regional administration, carried out Kolomoisky’s wishes,” he said.

"France stuck in an EU under the thumb of the American deep state will continue to go to war and will ruin itself for Zelensky's Ukraine," the leader of the French Patriots party Florian Philippot wrote on X, calling for the cessation of arms supplies to Ukraine and the start of peace talks.

"Russian ballistic missiles are the real scourge of this war. They’ve been mainly used recently to destroy our energy system. Just to give an understanding to your viewers, half our energy system is damaged," he told the Foreign Policy.