Just barely two months after the Srebenica massacre July 1995.

ICTY: Facts about Srebrenica

Only one Dutch politician Jan Pronk called it a genocide on July 18, 1995. Colleague ministers used more guarded terms.

Dutchbat left Bosnia and crossed into Serbia to safety. As soon as the battalion was safe, a party was organized to celebrate their freedom. I recall the presence of crown prince Willem Alexander and Christian Democrat Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. Just unbelievable ... could not grasp the drama and Dutch military partying. Shame, shame!

Less well known are the dark flights sending arms into Tuzla, logistics of the US, cargo plane from Turkey, arms funded by Saudi Arabia and another Gulf State. The first Al Qaeda cell was established in Europe, a blue print for regime change in Libya and Syria. Kosovo leader is standing trial at the ICC in The Hague for war crimes, US ally to fight the Serbs.

'Sapere aude'

I listened to all the political groups. Manon Aubry for GUE/NGL was the nearest thing to a bleating pacifist : Diplomacy, you can't win peace through war, etc...

Best speaker was Philip Lamberts for the Greens (1:53); but I would say that, wouldn't I?

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Bloody hell, I agree with him too!

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

"Vous avez perdu, Monsieur Putin!" repeated half a dozen times with a new talking point at each iteration.

He's a journalist, and he used to be the "Geopolitics" specialist on public radio, when I listened to it 20 years ago. Pure flashback.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

We are stepping up our support for Ukraine.

For the first time, the EU will finance the purchase and delivery of weapons and equipment to a country under attack.

We are also strengthening our sanctions against the Kremlin.
https:/t.co/qEBICNxYa1

— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) February 27, 2022

As EU treaties do not allow it to tap into its normal budget for military purposes, the bloc is activating a vehicle called the European Peace Facility, which allows it to provide military aid up to a ceiling of €5 billion.
[...]
The US is also stepping up its shipments and providing an additional $350 million (€313 million) in military assistance, including Javelin antitank missiles, Stinger anti-aircraft missiles, small arms and ammunition. That brings the total of US military aid to Ukraine to $1 billion over the past year and to more than $2.5 billion since 2014.

archived Europe Council, Ukraine signs key agreement with pro-Russia separatists, Yanukovych v EU Council + Sweden v UNODA, Three Seas Initiative summit in Warsaw, PESCO, Trump calls out Germany over the Euro

< rimshot >

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

a win for Putin!

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Too bad the little ferret Zemmour never got to shake his hand.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Fini «Kiev», «Libération» écrira «Kyiv»

Difficile de changer dans un journal le nom d'une ville quand son usage est ancré. Pourtant, malgré les habitudes des lecteurs, la raison politique s'impose. Pour «Libération», le «Kiev» venu du russe n'a plus lieu d'être et s'écrira désormais «Kyiv».

A tweet in which a British MP inadvertently reveals the scale of Russian money laundering in London.... https://t.co/TvJhXU2YPC

— Dr William Sheehan (@willsheehan68) March 5, 2022

Macron doesn't need to reach out to extreme-right electors; sadly, he is going to be "triumphantly" re-elected, for lack of a credible single candidate of the left (or of the Republicans).

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

Actually, yes, "something is going wrong": your statement clearly implies that the US military support to Ukraine is soooo secret, that the MSM wouldn't report on it and it has to be stumbled upon while checking RFI's "Journal of Haiti and the Americas" (for it is the full name of this RFI section, it's not only about Haiti news).

Well, sorry, your statement is total bullshit: even a cursory search by "a moron in a hurry" (that would be me, by the way) turns out a wide coverage by the French media. Like this by Le Monde, five days ago, from their DC correspondent, Piotr Smolar:

Guerre en Ukraine : le soutien militaire des Etats-Unis à l'Ukraine, constant mais prudent depuis 2014

Ces dernières semaines, les autorités américaines ont souvent insisté sur la somme versée depuis 2014, pour montrer l'effort exceptionnel consenti : 2,7 milliards de dollars en huit ans.

As for Pierre Morcos, the DC based French thinktanker, he is often quoted or interviewed by the media; it's not difficult to find his stuff.

As it happens, the Google.fr News (moron in a hurry, that's me) first hit on Pierre Morcos right now is the RFI piece you quoted as "Haiti news" - no idea why, the ways of the Google are unfathomable...

Q: Kiev always says that the victims are to be lamented on the Ukrainian side by the shelling of the separatists.

A: In the West, people don't like to talk about it. The civilian casualties from both sides are turned into a common figure. But if you read carefully, for example in the Russian opposition media, in which the West is always defended and the Putin-bashers write, where there were also longer texts and conversations with eye-witnesses, then it is admitted there that most civilian casualties from 2014 to the present day were in the East. Also because Donetsk is a big city. If you shell a city, there are more victims

I do not believe Russian propaganda, and I am an experienced propaganda analyst from both sides. But today you will not find anything about the victims in the East in western media, only the victims of the Russian attacks. That is a huge problem, because it was the Ukrainian army that shelled its own population. And because an omission of facts, in this case, is a lie that leads to violence.

The main reason is that Russians and Russian-speaking Ukrainians feel attacked and sacrificed. They see themselves as victims of discrimination, of ethnic discrimination. That is quite clear, we need to talk about it. Some call this Nazism. I wouldn't use such a term, not even genocide. Nevertheless, I find it distasteful to weigh up whether it is genocide or not in the context of thousands of deaths in the hands of nationalist battalions. Fascism is, as Camus said, contempt.

I am a witness that my Ukrainian acquaintances considered the people of the East to be inferior. They used all sorts of arguments --  for example that the lumpenproletariat had concentrated in the East. Is this an acceptable argument? It seemed to be in the Ukraine. Is the slogan Ukraina above all alright? I've heard that all the time in Ukraine.

First one thing, Richard, Russians personally all over NATO-stan are being criminalized just because they are Russians. So there is no other [?] evidence of neo-fascism that is more startling than this one. There's absolutely nothing [?] that compares to it in modernity.

Alright, we had this before against Iraqis, against Syrians, and now to pick up their own perverted logic: Oh, they are blond and blue-eyes just like us as well. Ah, but they're Russians; so this means that they are untermenschen, which is NAZI terminology once again or as my friend The Saker put it so memorably, snow niggers. This is an excellent, ultra hardcore expression to qualify how The Beltway [Washington D.C.], especially, looks at Russians. They don't look at Russians as people. They look at Russians, in general, and I'm not talking only about the [Russian] military or the Putin circle or whatever, as snow niggers. We have to go there and take over those rich lands. They don't deserve those lands. It's crazy, because history always tells us stuff that is basically underneath, and then, when you get to a point of inflection, of explosion, it bubbles back on. You know, it's in the collective unconscious, and then we have something like this [SNAPS FINGERS] that starts a new paradigm, and the whole past goes back. James Joyce used to say "the nighmare of history." No! This was the unconsciousness of history that is bubbling up all over again.

The Western interpretation goes like this: Putin is a dictator;  he is obsessed with the restoration of the Soviet Union or the Russian empire;  or both. As a dictator  he can do anything, while you don't know what ordinary Russians think because they are afraid. This is superficial. Until a few days ago, the Russian media were still free. In an article that appeared in Krass & Konkret in the summer, I had warned: If you provoke Russia, which can happen in different ways, for example by sponsoring Navalny as a Russian Guaido, then tightening the screws will be a self-fulfilling prophecy

I agree with the sentiment. The problem is that despite the relative openness, there were only the trappings of democracy; no separation of powers; not the slightest possibility of electing anyone other than Putin; an extreme concentration of decision-making in a single pair of hands.

The problem with this (a functional dictatorship) is that it has led to a purely discretionary war, on the whim of a single individual. That a majority of citizens will support their country in a war is practically a given, at any time, in any nation. Doesn't make it right.

This could logically be Russia's "Vietnam moment", but the fact that there is no longer freedom of information works against that.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}