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"I suggest they get a new leader who can reach an agreement, because he may have reached many agreements, but he hasn't done it." He did it just an hour after the US president, Donald Trump, made a new turn in his rift with the West and stated that Kiev should have a new president. #Burnham #Zelenski #Ucrania (translated)

The author wrote that, at the same hours, Donald Trump had sanctioned the International Criminal Court and concluded an agreement with Vladimir Putin on diesel. He also maintained that those who continued to call for the unity of the West were no longer taking into account the reality of that moment. #Trump #CortePenaleInternazionale #UnitàOccidente #US #RU (translated)

The author wrote that Donald Trump's decision to resume purchases of Russian diesel represented an additional step towards dishonor and argued that the live television announcement of Nidal Hasan's execution was even more serious. He added that Trump was dragging along with him the very meaning of the West. #politica #Russia #Occidente #RU #US (translated)

Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo reported that the National Coordination of Civil Protection informed her that Hurricane Simón had intensified to category 3, according to the National Meteorological Service. She noted that heavy to torrential rains were expected in the western and southern parts of the country, particularly in Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, Jalisco, and Nayarit. Sheinbaum indicated that the DN-III-E and Marine plans were active in preventive phase, and that the teams from CFE, SICT, Conagua, and Pemex were prepared. She also urged the public to follow official channels, take shelter, and if they were in a vulnerable area, to evacuate to the designated temporary shelters. #HuracánSimón #ProtecciónCivil #Evacuación (translated)

Make my day happy, he maintained that the Cross should not be confused with the Church nor reduced to the image of a bishop preaching from a pulpit. He described it as something broader than a religion: a symbol of the West, of the neighborhood, and of the values learned at home during childhood. He added that if the Cross fell, everyone would fall with it. #Cruz #Valores #Occidente (translated)

Fiamma Nirenstein wrote in Il Giornale that October 7 was not over and that antisemitism was, in her opinion, infecting a West in the grip of psychosis. She added that the attack could not be commemorated because it was still ongoing, referring to the breach of the fence by Hamas terrorists. https://t.co/6G4LsvJStv #antisemitismo #Occidente #Hamas #IT #IL #PS #PS (translated)

The author presented Giulio Terzi as the protagonist of an alarm about the challenge for the freedom of the West. He described October 7, 2023, as the bloodiest and most painful pogrom suffered by the Jewish people since the end of World War II and the Holocaust, and mentioned the Chapter Room of the Cloister. https://t.co/F0QTjtKRS4 #Libertà #Occidente #Memoria #IT #IL #FR #DE #US #JP #PL (translated)

Simone Pillon recalled the Battle of Lepanto, fought on October 7, 1571, describing it as a clash between Christians and Muslims. He wrote that the Holy League, composed of Austrians, Spaniards, Venetians, Lombards, Romagnols, Tuscans, Savoyards, Genoese, Sicilians, and Neapolitans, deployed under the command of Don John of Austria 6 galleasses and about 204 galleys. According to Pillon, the Turkish fleet of Ali Pasha consisted of 170-180 galleys, 20 or 30 galliots, and an unspecified number of xebecs and privateer brigs. Pillon reported that Pope Pius V had a premonition and prayed the rosary during the battle, while the Christian fighters received the Eucharist before setting sail. He wrote that, despite the Turkish numerical superiority and the initially favorable wind for the Ottomans, the direction of the wind changed, and the Holy League won. In his account, Pillon indicated that the Turks lost 80 galleys sunk and 117 captured, along with 27 galliots sunk and 13 captured; he added that 30,000 Turks were killed or injured, and 8,000 were taken prisoner. He also claimed that 15,000 Christians enslaved at the oars were freed. He said that Pius V dedicated the victory to Our Lady of the Rosary and that October 7 became the feast of the Rosary. Pillon finally wrote that, in his view, the Christian West was facing new battles, some already open, and hoped that they would be bloodless and victorious. He wondered if there were still strong men capable of protecting the lands and families. #Lepanto #Storia #Battaglie (translated)

The author marked October 7 as a day to remember for all of free Western society. He wrote that demonstrations in support of the resistance had been announced and hoped that the law would be applied to prevent them from taking place, which he considered an affront. #libertà #resistenza #diritti #IT #US (translated)

Luigi Marattin argued that, in the last three years, Western societies had been exposed to a vast campaign of disinformation and psychological conditioning regarding the conflict in Gaza. In his view, this had overshadowed the massacre of October 7, presented by some as an episode of resistance, and spread false claims about genocide, civilian casualties, and attacks on Palestinians seeking food. Marattin said that the reasons for what he termed a campaign of lies would be clarified by historians and hypothesized that factors such as identification with the weaker side, funding of Islamic extremism, and anti-Jewish prejudice had contributed to it. He stated that in the "information war," responses were beginning to appear in the form of documentaries: he mentioned *Naza: the Real Story*, which, according to him, offered more evidence and did not rely on anonymous testimonies, and *We will dance again*, shown the previous night by Nicola Porro and containing images from October 7. Marattin wrote that those images had marked those who had seen them and urged for countering falsehoods without fear of going against dominant thinking. He also accused some protesters with Hamas flags and others of having embraced propaganda and ideology. Finally, he said he would be in Milan the following day to commemorate October 7, which he defined as a dark day for Western civilization, and thanked the Milanese Jewish community for the invitation. #Disinformazione #Guerra #Milano (translated)

Gustavo Petro defended the pension reform and denied that his government had bought support to approve it. He said that the House of Representatives backed it widely and that the then President of the Senate, Iván Name, delayed the debate for eight months so that it would fail due to lack of time. He also accused Magistrate Ibáñez of keeping it frozen for two years in the Constitutional Court, although he pointed out that the reform had already passed that stage. According to Petro, millions of elderly people, many of them from the right, could receive a pension thanks to the law. Regarding the allegations related to the UNGRD, Petro asked the Pacto Histórico bench to commission a forensic audit of the entire existence of the entity, since 2010, and to publish the names of those whom he claimed had embezzled it. He stated that only one person from the Pacto Histórico appeared on the extensive list, whom he said he had removed from the administration and whom, according to him, the party expelled. He also argued that justice should investigate whether Name had received public money through his romantic or political environment. Petro claimed that, during the first month of his government, resources were recovered that he attributed to Olmedo's group and that then the UNGRD was sidelined in the assistance to people trapped after an earthquake in the west of the country. Citing a journalistic investigation by Nueva Prensa, he stated that a private coordination center had been set up in the house of Gregory Schaller, whom he identified as Abelardo's compadre. He linked Andrés Depew, Negre — whom he described as a partner of Fernando Cerimedo — and people who, according to him, had ties to Donald Trump and businessman Dan Newlin to that place. Petro stated that Newlin had illegally lent his plane and resources during Abelardo's campaign. In the same publication, Petro mentioned businessman Yadid Jalaff, whom he said was accused of stealing Colombian-Venezuelan Monómeros, and Jorge Alberto Campillo Vélez, whom he described as one of Pablo Escobar's first pilots. He also pointed out pilot Luis Almeira Quiroz and linked him to a flight of paramilitaries from Urabá to San José del Guaviare, which, according to Petro, allowed the Mapiripán massacre, in which 50 farmers were murdered. He asked how much money had been raised to address the earthquake and if that explained why, according to him, the full operation of the UNGRD had been prevented and international aid and volunteers had been rejected. https://t.co/eiJJnl3Lxu #ReformaPensional #Justicia #Corrupción (translated)

Agustín Laje described the news as excellent and stated that Javier Milei had always positioned himself on the side of the "true right," without making petty political calculations, because, as he wrote, he cared about the advancement of the ideas of liberty in the West. He also described Santiago Abascal and Vox as the hope of Spain. #Libertad #Derecha #España (translated)

The author defined the event as the first major test regarding Chinese means of transportation in the West and in Europe. He argued that governments and local authorities purchased them with taxpayers' money and that they were tools for intrusive spying against businesses. https://t.co/7RPhBL0BtM #spionaggio #trasporti #Europa #CN #EU (translated)

Lupe Sánchez called for an end to praising and romanticizing the lack of scruples and principles among political leaders. He also stated that "political science" was causing enormous damage to the West, comparable to or even greater than that of psychology. #Política #Ética #Liderazgo (translated)

Marco Setaccioli argued that Giuseppe Conte was using an increasingly studied rhetorical scheme to attract conspiracy theorists, opponents of the Euro-Atlantic axis, and pacifists. In his opinion, the speech delivered the day before at a disarmament event organized by CGIL in Sesto Fiorentino, where figures Setaccioli described as close to Russia were present, attributed the responsibility for the war to the choices of the United States, the United Kingdom, and European countries, downplaying the Russian responsibility. According to Setaccioli, Conte also accused the West of prolonging the conflict by aiming for an impossible military victory, without mentioning Russia's attempt to erase Ukraine. The author stated that this stance created a moral equivalence between the aggressor and the victim and portrayed Ukrainians as lacking autonomy. He also contested the reference to reconstruction, arguing that without weapons to defend Ukrainian cities and borders, there would be no country left to rebuild. Setaccioli described the appeal to international law as contradictory because, in his view, Conte was calling for the cessation of arms shipments without explaining how this was compatible with Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. He added that the speech did not indicate other means to stop the war, nor did it request commitments from Russia. Finally, Setaccioli maintained that this position was not progressive and compared Conte and Roberto Vannacci to those, in his view, who would have ceded the Sudetenland in 1938. He asked whether Elly Schlein believed that legitimizing the occupation in exchange for cheaper gas, disarming Ukraine, and accepting an order dominated by great powers could be reconciled with the Democratic Party. #Disarmo #Ucraina #Politica (translated)