“The European Union has fallen victim to its own policy, as the announcement by...Zelensky fits perfectly into the European Union's policy of sanctions against Russia,” Simo said.

“We actually owe Zelensky a debt of gratitude for his decision, as he proved to the country and the world who is a reliable economic partner and who is not. While Ukraine stops the gas supply for political reasons, Russia sees no obstacle to continuing it in other ways,” Simo summed up.

"Patriotism – love of America and celebration of each nation – is on the march,” Wall Street analyst and investigative journalist Charles Ortel told Sputnik after former Democrats Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endored Republican nominee Donald Trump.

"Globalist platforms protest otherwise, but American families want to celebrate and enjoy life, not meddle around the world enriching monopolists and other fat cats," the Wall Street analyst stressed.

"At some point, these people will have to constantly look over their shoulders. They will be under constant scrutiny," he noted.

“We are watching him closely, and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison — as will others who cheat in the 2024 Presidential Election,” Trump said.

"That’s a big step. Very hard for a bystander without direct knowledge, being me, to believe that Macron could or would have done that without the encouragement or at least [the] agreement of the Biden administration," Tucker Carlson noted during his interview with Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official.

"There is a great point along this, which gets right to the France story and this intersection between US and French interests – US and French shared military intelligence and diplomatic and economic interests in arresting Pavel and finally getting the leverage they’ve craved for so long to be able to both control Telegram’s content moderation practice, to ban all Russian propaganda channels, which are infecting the minds of everyone from Ukraine to Belarus to, you know, to sub-Saharan Africa. But also, you know, the ability to get this back-end access, you know, to read every Russian text message effectively. There’s a great example of this in terms of blowback on Americans," Mike Benz, a former Trump State Department official, emphasized during his interview with Tucker Carlson.

"The US is trying to consolidate the European continent because of the hostilities in Ukraine, wants to involve Russia in serious problems and considers regional turbulence important for the balance of power," he said.