🌍👀 Global Eyes, Europe edition

🇫🇷🇪🇺 Globalists stronk! Vive la République!

Note: Here is the link to Tecumseh Court’s column. The bug that resulted in my sending you the wrong link twice has not been fixed, because le bug, c’est moi. But I am absolutely sure, this time, that the link will take you to the right place.

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Ukraine

The US tone—the Western tone—in the wake of the Blinken-Austin visit to Kyiv has dramatically shifted. As meetings began at Ramstein, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that allies are prepared to move “heaven and earth” to get more weaponry into Ukrainian hands. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen echoed the sentiment: “We will make sure that the unprovoked and unjustified aggression against Ukraine will be a strategic failure.” Von der Leyen seems to have been deeply shaken by her visit to Bucha:

This is a defining moment. Our decisions in these days will shape decades to come. Our response to Russia's aggression today will decide the future of both the international system and the global economy. Will heinous devastation win or humanity prevail? Will the right of might dominate or the rule of law? Will there be constant conflict and struggle or a future of common prosperity and lasting peace?

By the UK defense ministry’s estimates, 15,000 Russian soldiers have now been killed in Ukraine, as many as the entire USSR lost in Afghanistan in ten years. Ukrainian puts the estimate twice as high.

According to the Ukraine Now Telegram channel:

Nuclear-capable strategic missiles have been loaded onto Russian submarines. The Veliky Novgorod submarine in the photo was docked, they say, at Sevastopol port in Crimea:

Below the jump: Threats. Nukes. Macron thumps Le Pen. Slovenia sends Janša packing. Switzerland fusses. False flag attacks in Moldova. And more …