Rédacteur traducteur, wine writer (with a penchant for the nuts and bolts), sceptique, père de famille, lover not fighter
Quebec, Quebec
Joined June 2008
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Rémy Charest retweeted
Hundreds of Russians are not in hospital with the plague. It is a "special medical operation".
I remain a master strategist.
Rémy Charest retweeted
BREAKING NEWS: Youppi! has signed an executive order to rename Washington Nationals as “Montreal Expos,” a change the mascot says would take effect immediately
Rémy Charest retweeted
Day 1567 of my 3 day war. Petrol queues in Crimea will soon be so long you need a tank fuel to drive from the start of the line to where you can fill up.
I remain a master strategist.
Rémy Charest retweeted
Laughed hearing Lightning fans in Tampa chanting "U-S-A! U-S-A!" during last night's 4-3 OT loss to Canadiens. The Lightning roster last night had 10 Canadians on it and three Americans. Their head coach is also Canadian and their goalie and best player are both Russian. #Habs
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Ukraine: destroys Russian airfields, oil depots, military manufacturing, missile launch sites, radars.
Russia: crushes residential buildings full of residents inside, destroys power and heating facilities, churches, UNESCO sites.
That's the war we're having.
Rémy Charest retweeted
Homan to MN, Trump speaks with Walz, Leavitt distances Trump a bit from Noem—all show Trump’s feeling heat. But these gestures mean as much as Putin suggesting he’s changed and wants peace with Ukraine.
Don’t fall for it.
Insist: ICE and CBP off the streets of Minnesota.
Rémy Charest retweeted
🇺🇦 Ukrainian forces continue advancing on the Zaporizhzhia axis.
Units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have reached the northern approaches to Mala Tokmachka and captured positions previously held by occupying forces.
Enemy attempts to advance in the Orikhiv and Huliaipole areas have failed; the positions remain under Ukrainian control.
See the latest updates with us: @NSTRIKE1231
Rémy Charest retweeted
Today is a big win for Illinois and American democracy.
I am glad the Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump did not have the authority to deploy the federalized guard in Illinois.
Rémy Charest retweeted
Military analysts in 2025--The Russian military has adapted and pressed forward inexorably and will soon take Pokrovsk.
Historians in 2055--The Russian military campaign of 2025 was one of the most self-destructive in modern military history.
Rémy Charest retweeted
🇷🇺🪖 URGENT : « Je ne suis pas président, alors je le dis : la guerre ne s’arrêtera pas tant que nous n’aurons pas écrasé l’Europe. »
— Karaganov, conseilleur géopolitique de Poutine.
On ne peut faire plus clair.
Ignorer ces menaces est criminel.
Oui, la Russie est une menace.
Rémy Charest retweeted
THIS IS WHY MAGA LOVES HIM.
EVERY DAY, DURING EVERY MEETING...
DONALD FIGHTS WOKENESS.
Rémy Charest retweeted
Not that anyone asked, but the country with the World's lowest life expectancy (Chad) has a higher life expectancy than the country with the highest life expectancy 120 yrs ago (Sweden)
Think Science (and especially Medicine) has somehow failed you? Think again
#ScienceMatters
Rémy Charest retweeted
MORE: Putin's claim that Russian forces will inevitably seize all of Donetsk Oblast if the war continues is false. Russia could only rapidly seize all of Donetsk Oblast if Ukraine concedes to Putin's demand and withdraws from the remainder of the oblast. 🧵(1/3)
The Russian campaign to seize all of Donetsk Oblast has been ongoing since Russia's first invasion in 2014 and remains incomplete.
Russian forces have been bogged down in campaigns to seize multiple towns and cities in Donetsk Oblast since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, and Russian forces are still struggling to achieve the objectives of several of these campaigns today.
Seizing the remainder of Donetsk Oblast will very likely take Russian forces multiple years to complete after several difficult campaigns.
Russian forces have historically thrown themselves into costly campaigns to seize fortified or urban areas in eastern Ukraine, a reality far from Putin's claims of rapid advances. Russian forces undertook four notable campaigns in eastern Ukraine in 2024 into 2025 that illustrate how difficult it will likely be for Russian forces to seize the remainder of Donetsk Oblast through force.
- Russian forces first began efforts to retake Kupyansk, Kharkiv Oblast in October 2023 and have conducted multiple separate campaigns aimed at seizing the town in the nearly two years since. Russian forces are currently struggling to complete the encirclement or envelopment of Kupyansk from the northwest and have not yet seized the settlement despite 22 months of offensive operations.
- Russian forces began a dedicated effort to seize Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast in mid-June 2024. Russian forces started this effort not far from the positions that Russian forces held prior to the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022. Russian forces seized Toretsk by August 1, 2025, taking 14 months to advance about 6.4 miles from the southeastern outskirts of Toretsk to the northwestern outskirts of Toretsk.
- The Russian campaign for Chasiv Yar, Donetsk Oblast began in May 2023 after Russian forces seized Bakhmut (east of Chasiv Yar), and Russian forces intensified efforts to seize Chasiv Yar in April 2024. It has taken Russian forces 26 months to advance about 6.8 miles (roughly 11 kilometers) from western Bakhmut to the western edge of Chasiv Yar.
- Russian forces began efforts to seize Pokrovsk, Donetsk Oblast in February 2024 after the seizure of Avdiivka and have dedicated multiple efforts to seizing Pokrovsk through frontal assaults, envelopment, or encirclement – all of which have thus far been unsuccessful after more than 18 months.
NEW: US officials acknowledged that Putin has yet to demonstrate a willingness to offer the concessions necessary to reach a peace agreement. ISW continues to assess that Putin has not moderated his original war aims throughout the full-scale invasion and has offered no indication that he intends to change or compromise on these aims in any peace talks with Ukraine.
Other Key Takeaways ⬇️
Russia will be unable to seize the remainder of Donetsk Oblast rapidly through force, as Russian forces have failed to do for over a decade. Russia could only rapidly seize all of Donetsk Oblast if Ukraine concedes to Putin's demand and withdraws from the remainder of the oblast.
Russian forces have historically thrown themselves into costly campaigns to seize fortified or urban areas in eastern Ukraine, a reality far from Putin's claims of rapid advances. Recent Russian advances northeast of Pokrovsk do not indicate that Russia can rapidly seize fortified or urban areas.
Russia continues to deny Ukraine's sovereignty and to demand the right to dictate Ukrainian domestic affairs.
Putin's insistence that any peace agreement must address Russia's perceived "root causes" of the war will make it difficult to reach a peace agreement as rapidly as Trump desires, given the complexity of the "root causes." Russia's "root causes" extend beyond Ukraine, and eliminating them would require substantial negotiations with NATO.
Putin's offer of a Russian law forbidding a future invasion of Ukraine is not credible because Russia has already twice broken previous binding international commitments not to invade, and as Putin has shown that he can freely change Russian law as he desires.
The details about Ukrainian security guarantees to which Putin may have agreed remain unclear at this time, but the Kremlin may be attempting to resurrect its demands about security guarantors from April 2022 that would have neutered such guarantees.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Brussels on August 17 to meet with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and to participate in a Coalition of the Willing teleconference
Ukrainian forces recently advanced in northern Sumy Oblast and near Toretsk. Russian forces recently advanced near Pokrovsk.
Rémy Charest retweeted
Finger Lakes wineries are already losing contracts to sell in Canada. Example: Lakewood Vineyards on Seneca Lake, which consummated a deal just three weeks ago.
Lakewood's Chad Hendrickson: "It’s a real big deal. I’m not really sure how we’re going to recover from this."
Rémy Charest retweeted
New statement from Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein: "We respect the traditional independence of the editorial page, but this decision 11 days out from the 2024 presidential election ignores the Washington Post's own overwhelming reportorial evidence on the threat Donald Trump poses to democracy. Under Jeff Bezos’s ownership, the Washington Post’s news operation has used its abundant resources to rigorously investigate the danger and damage a second Trump presidency could cause to the future of American democracy and that makes this decision even more surprising and disappointing, especially this late in the electoral process."