🇮🇱🤝🇺🇸 In a normal world, this should be an immense scandal in Europe.

Le Monde has a long article describing the hellish life of Nicolas Guillou, a French judge at the ICC in The Hague, due to U.S. sanctions punishing him for authorizing arrest warrants against Netanyahu and Gallant for war crimes in Gaza.

Guillou's daily existence has been transformed into a Kafkaesque nightmare. He cannot: open or maintain accounts with Google, Amazon, Apple, or any US company; make hotel reservations (Expedia canceled his booking in France hours after he made it); conduct online commerce, since he can't know if the packaging is American; use any major credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Amex are all American); access normal banking services, even with non-American banks, as banks worldwide close sanctioned accounts; conduct virtually any financial transaction.

He describes it as being "economically banned across most of the planet," including in his own country, France, and where he works, the Netherlands.

That's the real shocking aspect of this: the Americans are:
- punishing a European citizen
- for doing his job in Europe
- applying laws Europe officially supports
- at an institution based in Europe
- that Europe helped create and fund

and Europe is not only doing essentially nothing to protect him, they're actively enforcing America's sanctions against their own citizen - European banks closing his accounts, European companies refusing him service, European institutions standing by while Washington destroys a European judge's life on European soil.

Again, in a normal world, European leaders and citizens should be absolutely outraged about this. But we've so normalized the hollowing out of European sovereignty that the sight of a European citizen being economically executed on European soil for upholding European law is treated, at best, as an unfortunate technical complication in transatlantic relations.

🔗 Arnaud Bertrand

👁 Candace Owens has been in the crosshairs for years, new evidence suggests

🔴 American political commentator Candace Owens has long been targeted by high-profile foes, including the US government, claims activist group Project Veritas.

🔴 A leaked text message attributed to Mary Barr Daly, former Department of Justice official and daughter of ex-Attorney General Bill Barr, urges her interlocutor to deal with an “issue with Candace Owens.”

💬 “We need to blackmail her faster,” the text says.

🔴 Daly (assuming the message was authored by her) appeared concerned by Owens’ feud with another political commentator, Kimberly Klacik, with Daly complaining that it might trigger an investigation into the “use of money in the election campaign.”

🔴 Owens has a history of making bombshell allegations that did not endear her to the rich and powerful across the world.

🔴 For example, she argues that French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife is actually a biological male, and alleges that there was an Israeli connection in Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

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🇺🇦🇵🇱 Ukrainian soldier recalls his training experience at a NATO range in Poland:

The Polish side was supposed to train UAV operators, but in reality it could only provide a training ground for that, the major recalls.

“Fortunately, we took 12–15 Mavics with us, and we had one experienced pilot,” he says.

The person who became most interested in the drones was a Czech instructor — a veteran of peacekeeping missions in Afghanistan, Jakub (name changed). Together with him, “Eighteen” decided to run the exercise: Czech paratroopers were to assault the positions of the Ukrainian soldiers. The “Mavics” were supposed to help the defenders.

“After their first assault attempts, Jakub came up to me and said: ‘Hey, can we remove the Mavics?’” the major recalls.
“‘Why would we, Jakub?’ I asked him.”

“‘Well, your Mavics spot us way too quickly, and we can’t get close to you — you detect us as soon as we approach your positions,’ the Czech instructor replied.”

“I told him: ‘Jakub, unfortunately, we are preparing for war.’”

🔗 https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/articles/ce3xe35zl6po