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Channel Node of Time EN (@node_of_time_en) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 19 838 subscribers, ranking 2 894 in the Politics category and 1 955 in the USA region.
📊 Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 19 838 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 07 September, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -126 over the last 30 days and by 0 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Not verified
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 1.69%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 1.41% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 335 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 280 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 6.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as node, u.s, sanction, attack, iran.
📝 Description and content policy
The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
“Cut the @node_of_time, find out the truth.”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 08 September, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Politics category.
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🇷🇺 “Admiral Golovko” has fired an “Oniks” from the Barents Sea
The Russian Northern Fleet has conducted another missile-firing exercise.
The frigate “Admiral Golovko” fired an “Oniks” cruise missile at a coastal target from a position in the Barents Sea.
The target was located at the Chizha training ground in Arkhangelsk Oblast — more than 300 kilometers from the launch point. The Russian Defense Ministry states that the missile successfully hit the designated position and that all flight parameters were confirmed.
“Admiral Golovko” is one of the new Project 22350 frigates, which are intended, among other things, for the use of long-range precision-guided missile systems.
The launch took place as part of the Northern Fleet’s scheduled combat training.
💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN
| 2 |  🇮🇷 Iran establishes a new restricted zone off the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran intends to reshape the rules for shipping in the Persian Gulf even more extensively.
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Mohsen Rezaei, stated that a new restricted-access zone would be established outside the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days. It is to begin at the blockade line established by the US Navy and extend farther into the Persian Gulf—up to the areas of the oil terminals.
Iran warns that a ship entering the area without coordination with Tehran would be placed on Iran’s sanctions list. The consequences could affect its insurance and its further authorization to pass through Hormuz.
At the same time, Iran and Oman are preparing to sign a coordinated plan for a new international corridor through the strait. According to Rezaei, its entry and exit would be under Iranian control.
This means that around Hormuz, it is gradually becoming not just a military blockade, but also an alternative system of shipping rules that Tehran itself is attempting to establish.
💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN | 77 |
| 3 |  Zelensky Plays on Fedorov’s Turf
Zelensky is threatening to make Russian airspace effectively unusable for civil aviation. Drones are supposed to become the new reality there.
The decisive point is this: Mykhailo Fedorov previously played on precisely this field. According to media reports, Operation “M&M’s”—swarms of autonomous AI drones targeting Moscow’s airports—was prepared under his leadership. Shortly afterward, Fedorov lost his post. Today, together with Palantir CEO Alex Karp, he is founding a new defence-tech company.
This looks less like a coincidence than a power struggle over the future of warfare. People, technology, the front line—versus algorithms, drones, data, and autonomous systems.
And Berlin is watching closely. Germany is rearming, financing Ukrainian drones, and at the same time seeking an answer to the question of what wars it will wage tomorrow.
Ukraine as a showcase according to Zelensky—that is, God forbid, the future of a Germany at war.
Ukraine as a showcase according to Fedorov—that is, God forbid, the apocalypse.
👉Link to the full article
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| 4 |  ⚡️ On countermeasures in response to the unfriendly actions of the German authorities
In connection with the unfriendly actions by the German side concerning the closure of the Consulate General of Russia in Bonn and the Russian House of Science and Culture in Berlin, the Chargé d’Affaires of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Russian Federation was informed on September 7 of the adoption of the following countermeasures.
❗️ The Russian side is withdrawing its consent to the operation of the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in St. Petersburg, which must cease its activities no later than September 18, 2026. All of its employees must leave the Russian Federation by this date at the latest.
The Goethe Institutes in the Russian Federation must close. Their employees have been instructed to leave Russia no later than September 13, 2026.
The head of the diplomatic mission was handed the relevant notes from the Russian Foreign Ministry.
☝️ It was pointed out that, once again, it was the German authorities who provoked a new round of escalation in bilateral relations. Full responsibility for the consequences lies entirely with the government of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (mid.ru)
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| 5 |  +1🇩🇪 Saxony-Anhalt: 51% for the AfD at polling stations—and 24% by mail
The elections in Saxony-Anhalt revealed a striking difference between voting at polling stations and voting by mail. While the AfD received 51.2% at polling stations, it received only around 24% of the postal votes. The picture is practically reversed for the CDU: 14.5% at polling stations and around 24% by mail. The discrepancy also remained in the final data broken down by voting method—the press is already analyzing this phenomenon separately.
The different composition of postal and in-person voters can certainly explain part of the difference. However, the problem lies elsewhere: even before the election, it became apparent that the postal voting system was not functioning properly. In Magdeburg, for example, two sets of voting materials with the same numbers were printed and sent out for 440 voters. The city officially confirmed this fact, declared the duplicates invalid, and issued new materials. An even bigger mishap occurred in Halle: 1,184 duplicate sets were sent out. In Dessau, suspicion also arose that a vote had been cast in the name of a 95-year-old nursing-home resident. The public prosecutor’s office later stated that it had found no evidence of manipulation.
Voting materials do not multiply by budding. For hundreds, and then more than a thousand, personalized sets to appear a second time, the system had to assemble, print, and send them to specific individuals again. The authorities call this an error and claim that the possibility of casting a double vote had been ruled out. Perhaps. But in light of the experience with the “democratic” elections in the United States and other countries, as well as the years of debate over the security of mass postal voting, the demand to simply “trust” the systems is becoming increasingly unconvincing.
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| 6 |  🇩🇪 After the election defeat, German business calls for a change in economic policy
The election result in Saxony-Anhalt has already reached Berlin — and not only the politicians.
Following the AfD’s victory, representatives of German business are calling on the federal government to stop concerning itself with cosmetic corrections. BDI President Tanja Gönner warned the federal government against political paralysis and called for better conditions for investment, innovation and economic growth.
DIW President Marcel Fratzscher expressed himself even more sharply. In his view, Germany needs structural reforms to subsidies, bureaucracy, taxes and the welfare system — and on a significantly larger scale than the Agenda 2010 reforms of the Schröder era.
Fratzscher described the election result primarily as a vote of no confidence in the federal government.
Almost 44% for the AfD in a federal state can no longer be explained solely by the “East German problem.” German business is speaking out ever more loudly about the problem being in Berlin.
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| 7 |  +9Good morning, dear friends! ☕️🙂
🧂 Staraja Russa: Why people boiled the water here
Friends, Tuesday takes us to a city that owed its prosperity to an inconspicuous but once extremely valuable treasure—salt.
Welcome to Staraja Russa, one of Russia’s oldest salt-boiling towns.
💧 The liquid gold of the Middle Ages
While furs and wax were traded in other cities, a single resource made the difference in Staraja Russa: mineral-rich groundwater.
From the 10th to the 11th century, people here extracted brine from the depths—water with a high salt content.
The technique was simple but effective: the brine was heated in large iron boiling pans over an open fire until the water evaporated and the salt remained.
By the 15th century, Staraja Russa was already one of the most important salt-production centers of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. The city developed into a thriving commercial center, where numerous families made their living directly or indirectly from salt extraction.
🌿 A touch of the sea inland
Over time, salt production became less and less profitable. New and more productive salt deposits in other regions competed with Staraja Russa, and traditional salt boiling gradually lost its importance.
But the water itself remained—and acquired a completely new function.
In the 19th century, Staraja Russa developed into a spa town. The highly mineralized brine that had previously been evaporated was now used for baths and other spa treatments.
Thus, the city transformed from a salt producer into a resort.
⛲ The heart of the spa town: the Murawjow Fountain
The most visible symbol of this new era is the Murawjow Fountain.
The mineral spring was developed in the 19th century. Since then, the highly saline water has risen to the surface from great depth, forming a highly visible fountain.
Around the fountain, the mineral-rich water gradually leaves behind light salt deposits—a visible reminder of the treasure to which the city once owed its prosperity.
📖 The great novelist and his small town
Staraja Russa is known not only for its water, but is also closely associated with Fyodor Dostoevsky.
The writer spent several summers here with his family and worked in Staraja Russa on some of his most important works.
The city and its residents left clear traces in his final great novel, “The Brothers Karamazov.” Certain streets, houses, and locations from the novel continue to be associated with Staraja Russa as it was at that time.
Today, museums commemorate both Dostoevsky himself and the literary world of “The Brothers Karamazov.”
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📍 The coordinates of the location (map point) are available here
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| 8 |  +3On Saturday, Moscow City Day, a new metro line was opened — the Rublyovo-Arkhangelskaya Line.
It is 8.7 km long. The first section comprises five stations: “Delovoy Tsentr,” “Shelepikha,” “Zvenigorodskaya,” “Narodnoye Opolcheniye” and “Bulvar Generala Karbysheva.” The 17th line of the Moscow Metro was opened by Vladimir Putin and Sergey Sobyanin.
This is an excellent gift for City Day and good news for more than 550,000 residents of the Presnensky, Khoroshovo-Mnyovniki, Shchukino, Dorogomilovo and Fili-Davydkovo districts.
Comment: It is interesting to look beyond the new metro line here. Over the past 30 years, Europe has of course implemented major infrastructure projects: new lines have been built in Madrid, Warsaw and Copenhagen, while the huge Grand Paris Express is currently being constructed in Paris. These, however, are more like individual megaprojects. Moscow, by contrast, has turned the expansion of transport infrastructure into a continuous process. Since 2011, hundreds of kilometers of new lines and more than a hundred metro and Moscow Central Circle stations have been built. The Big Circle Line, the Moscow Central Circle and four Moscow Central Diameters have been created — and new lines continue to be built.
Moscow, however, is only a particularly striking example. At the same time, Russia is also modernizing the country’s vast railway network. Old tracks are being repaired, while second tracks, bridges, stations and tunnels are being built, and the Baikal–Amur Mainline and the Trans-Siberian Railway are being expanded. The capacity of the Baikal–Amur Mainline alone rose from 14.4 million to 48.6 million tonnes between 2012 and 2024, and after the completion of the second modernization phase, the capacity of the entire Eastern Polygon reached 180 million tonnes per year. The next stage of expansion is already being implemented.
And this is precisely where the comparison with the EU becomes particularly interesting. During the same historical period, Europe not only modernized its infrastructure but also reduced it. Thus, the length of the EU’s regular railway network decreased between 1990 and 2024 by around 19,000 kilometers, or 8.7%. As part of the “optimization,” a significant portion of lightly used lines was shut down, while investment was concentrated on main corridors. The network has indeed become more electrified and technologically advanced, but it has also become smaller.
Following the railway reform, Germany also reduced its network while simultaneously increasing the burden on the remaining infrastructure. Today, passengers feel the consequences every day: Deutsche Bahn itself acknowledges the need for a comprehensive overhaul of the overloaded and dilapidated network. Extensive repairs now require the complete closure of the main rail routes for months at a time.
The question, therefore, is not whether Europe can build. Of course it can. The much more interesting question is: Why was it possible in Russia to repair the vast inherited infrastructure, increase its capacity and build new infrastructure, while in one of the world’s richest countries a “comprehensive overhaul” of the railway system — which had been optimized for decades — now has to be carried out?
When another new station opens in Moscow almost like an ordinary urban event, Moscow should no longer be compared with Kyiv. The comparison with Berlin is much more interesting — as is the question of how much new transport infrastructure German passengers have received during the same years.
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| 9 |  🇯🇵🇷🇺 Japan demands that Russia remove monument commemorating victory over militaristic Japan
Tokyo has officially demanded the dismantling of the new monument in Khabarovsk, dedicated to the USSR’s victory over militaristic Japan in 1945. The reason is the depiction of a Soviet soldier smashing a boundary post bearing the Imperial Chrysanthemum with the butt of his rifle. The Japanese side says that such a depiction is “unacceptable from the perspective of the national sentiments of the Japanese people.” The demand to remove the controversial element was conveyed before the monument’s opening and repeated after its opening.
However, this post has a very specific historical precedent. After Russia’s defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, South Sakhalin was transferred to Japan under the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth, and the border ran along the 50th parallel. Boundary posts were erected there. The Russian side displayed the double-headed eagle, while the Japanese side displayed the Imperial Chrysanthemum. The history and design of these boundary markers have even been published by the Japanese Foreign Ministry itself.
Forty years later, history took the opposite course. In August 1945, the USSR entered the war against Japan. Soviet troops carried out the Manchurian and South Sakhalin operations. The Japanese government of Karafuto ceased to exist, and South Sakhalin came under the control of the USSR. This is precisely the historical episode symbolized by the monument unveiled in Khabarovsk: A soldier destroys the boundary marker that had been erected after Russia’s defeat in 1905.
In 1905, victorious Japan erected boundary posts bearing the Imperial Chrysanthemum in the territory it had seized from Russia. After Japan’s defeat in 1945, this border disappeared. Eighty-one years later, Russia erected a monument to this event. Now Japan is demanding that the image of its own historical boundary post be removed because it does not accept the end of its history.
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| 10 |  “We now have three different fences at different levels. A 24-hour, seven-days-a-week security service. Now: 24/7 surveillance, surveillance towers. <...> A high-security wing. Hessen Mobil has to spend a low six-figure sum on this.”
No, this is not about a new Bundeswehr base, but rather a construction site in Raiskirchen, where “a bypass road will be built after almost 50 years.” Why all this effort? “All this because of lizards,” because this area turned out to be their home.
Fun fact: The lizards still have not been found on the site.
The people responsible for delaying the construction of a skyscraper in Berlin have come here too! Is there really a “lizard conspiracy”?
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| 11 |  🇯🇵 Waseda Professor Has Found the Culprit for Hiroshima: the Soviet Union
Japanese historian Tetsuo Arima claims that the atomic bombings were primarily a means of intimidating the USSR, and then takes the next step: Moscow allegedly bears responsibility for them. The problem begins with the very thesis of a “violation of the Yalta Agreement.” The agreement itself stated that the USSR would enter the war against Japan two to three months after Germany’s surrender. Germany capitulated on May 8, and the USSR declared war on Japan on August 8—exactly three months later. By that time, Hiroshima had already been destroyed by an American bomb—on August 6.
The debate over whether the atomic bombings were actually necessary has continued for decades. One interpretation holds that Washington wanted not only to accelerate Japan’s surrender, but also to demonstrate its new power to the Soviet Union. Yet even if one accepts this interpretation, that is a dispute over the motives of the United States, not proof of the “USSR’s guilt.” More than that: Tokyo’s decision to surrender is linked to a combination of several factors—the USSR’s entry into the war, the destruction of Japanese forces in Manchuria, and the second atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The logic is outstanding. The United States builds the atomic bomb, the American president authorizes its use, an American plane drops it on a Japanese city—but the USSR is to blame because Washington may have wanted to frighten it. If one continues this method of historical analysis, the person the shooter wanted to impress becomes responsible for every shot.
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| 12 |  🇸🇪 Swedish counterintelligence has uncovered the alarming Russian spy network. Beer, schnitzel and conversations about politics
Swedish Säpo reported that it had thwarted a Russian intelligence operation: Two people whom the agency says are employees of the Russian intelligence service operating under diplomatic cover met with a diplomat from a third country. The latter allegedly passed on information about how political decisions are made in Sweden, so that Russia could influence controversial social issues and discredit Sweden, NATO and the EU. Säpo has presented the public with neither stolen military secrets nor confidential documents—not even the specific content of the information that was passed on.
The details of the operation, however, are impressive. According to SVT, the suspects met in an ordinary pub, where, according to the owner, they ordered beer and Wiener schnitzel. Säpo even published a photograph of the meeting. The result of a brilliant counterintelligence operation: All three left Sweden, there will be no criminal proceedings because of diplomatic immunity, and the agency stated that it had thereby made it more difficult for Russia to access information.
Diplomats meet with diplomats, discuss the politics of the host country and try to understand how decisions are made there. It used to be called diplomatic work. Today, when there is a Wiener schnitzel and beer on the table, it is apparently a Kremlin intelligence operation. The main thing is that the waiter is not declared a resident.
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| 13 |  🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 Washington tries again to bring Moscow and Kyiv to the table
After more than three hours of talks with Vladimir Putin in Moscow, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled to Kyiv. The American side is currently trying to restart direct negotiations, which had effectively come to a standstill after the previous rounds. Moscow had publicly stated all along that it was ready to continue the dialogue: After the negotiations in Istanbul, the Russian delegation proposed setting up permanent working groups, and Russia later once again declared its readiness to return to the talks in Istanbul. At the time, Kyiv placed particular emphasis on a ceasefire and a meeting between Zelenskyy and Putin.
Washington is now trying to restart the process. After the meeting with Witkoff and Kushner, Zelenskyy himself already stated that the resumption of the negotiating process was important and that the absence of any negotiating format was worse than the fact of negotiations themselves. But the central deadlock remains unchanged: The territorial issue remains unresolved, Kyiv is not prepared to give up the part of Donbas under its control, and Moscow is not backing down from its demands. The Americans want to achieve at least some movement by winter, but following the current visit there has so far been no concrete breakthrough.
It is interesting to observe how, after months of suspension, Kyiv is now thanking the Americans for the “restart of the negotiating process.” Moscow said all along that it was ready to continue. Apparently, Washington once again has to do not so much invent a new peace plan as bring back to the table those who had already parted ways because of it.
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| 14 |  🇬🇧 “Small boats” are turning into floating buses
In 2018, an average of 7 people per boat came illegally to the United Kingdom across the English Channel. In 2020, the figure was 13; in 2022, 41; in 2024, 53; and in 2025, already 62. This year, the average occupancy has risen to around 65 people, according to the UK Home Office statistics. Then, on 10 August, a new record was set: 230 people came illegally to the United Kingdom across the English Channel in a single boat. French rescuers reported that around 260 people had originally attempted to board.
The crossings are becoming increasingly dangerous. On 4 August, an overcrowded boat caught fire and began to break apart—more than 150 people had to be rescued in the middle of the English Channel. And the consequences of the migration crisis are becoming increasingly visible on British streets: In Portsmouth, a major anti-immigration protest took place after another group of around 140 asylum seekers arrived; there were also protests in Dover.
In eight years, “small boats” have evolved from a means of transport for 7 people into floating buses for 60 to 70 passengers, and the record already stands at 230. The smugglers have scaled up their business far more effectively than the British authorities have scaled up their efforts to combat it.
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| 15 |  🇺🇦 Another source of revenue for Ukraine’s budget has been found — the legalization of pornography
Ukrainian lawmakers are discussing the legalization and taxation of the pornography industry. As The Wall Street Journal writes, a rather curious system has emerged at present: Producing pornography can lead to criminal prosecution, while the tax authorities simultaneously require OnlyFans models to pay taxes on the money they earn. Legislative changes are intended to bring the existing industry out of this gray area.
One of the initiative’s supporters, the chairman of the Rada’s Finance Committee, Yaroslav Zheleznyak, estimates the potential revenue at around $25 million per year. According to his calculations, this money would be enough for approximately 30,000 drones. At present, the relevant amendments are not yet law — parliamentary work is continuing.
The number of men is shrinking, and taxes do not pay themselves. When taxpayers run out, the state has to expand the tax base. In both the literal and figurative sense.
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| 16 |  🇺🇦✈️ Ukrainian F-16s are running out of missiles
Ukraine’s F-16s are increasingly being used to intercept Russian drones. But the ammunition shortage is now beginning to affect the fighter aircraft themselves as well. A commander of a Ukrainian unit with the call sign “Phantom” told The War Zone that there is a particularly noticeable shortage of AIM-9 “Sidewinder” and AIM-120 “AMRAAM” missiles. Stocks have to be conserved so severely that pilots are already destroying some aerial targets with the built-in 20 mm M61A1 Vulcan cannon.
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that the air force and ground-based air defense are competing for the same missiles. AIM-120s are used by NASAMS systems, meaning that ammunition consumption affects several areas at once. According to Phantom, Ukraine is literally counting the hours until new deliveries arrive and is asking its allies to increase production of AIM-9s and AIM-120s. The shortage of Sidewinders is not new: The War Zone previously reported that their stockpile would shrink to a “handful” by the end of 2025, making it necessary to use more expensive AMRAAMs and seek inexpensive alternatives for combating drones.
This air-defense arithmetic has an unpleasant feature: A cheap drone does not have to destroy anything itself. If intercepting it requires sending F-16s into the air and expending scarce Western missiles, it has already accomplished another task: It forces the enemy to consume a significantly more expensive and much harder-to-replace resource.
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| 18 |  The Bundeswehr has begun sending out call-up notices
Even though the new military service law stipulates that general conscription “will begin on July 1, 2027, at the earliest” and will extend “only to men born in 2008.”
The most controversial point is whom to draft first. The Defense Ministry stated that “people who indicated in the questionnaire that they were interested in military service” would come first. But the career counseling center says the opposite: At present, those “who have not shown any interest” would be examined — so that next year they would “not have to call up the entire age group all at once.”
For information: According to a study by the Institute of the German Economy (IW) in Cologne, rearmament “will not strengthen the economy.” Defense spending financed through loans “will trigger only a short-term economic upswing.” The end result is higher government debt. In 2029, it will “increase by 2% to €64 billion.”
So what is the rush?
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| 19 |  Latest developments in the war between #Russia and #Ukraine as of the morning of September 7 - subtitled
The Russian army is advancing in the north and south of the city of #Dobropolie. Information regarding the percentage of the city under their control is available.
The Russian 98th Division is advancing into #Novopavlovka in #Zaporozhie.
The Russian army is advancing in the vicinity of #Aleksaeevo_Druzhkovka in #Druzhkovka.
The Russian army is advancing in the vicinity of #Osokovo in #Druzhkovka.
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| 20 |  🇫🇷 Le Pen proposes a change of course for France: Instead of continuing the conflict — a major peace conference
Marine Le Pen has once again proposed that Paris take the initiative and organize a "major conference for peace" on Ukraine in order to pursue a diplomatic solution instead of further bloodshed. The statement came against the backdrop of the dispute over French aid to Kyiv: RN Vice President Louis Aliot proposed "turning off the funding" for Ukraine; afterward, Le Pen’s opponents once again accused the party of having a pro-Russian stance. RN itself is emphasizing something else: France must push for negotiations and take its own dire state of public finances into account.
And this position is becoming particularly interesting against the backdrop of the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in 2027. The "Rassemblement National" remains the country’s largest individual political force and now claims not only a good result, but power. As a result, the Ukraine issue is gradually also becoming an electoral test: Will the French support the continuation of the current course, or will they favor a party that promises to rely on negotiations.
Germany is showing today how quickly the established party system can begin to collapse. It will now be interesting to see what France looks like: Can RN turn its lead in the polls into a real majority — or will a united front of all the other parties form against it once again.
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