The United States has proposed a "soft" blockade of Russia's maritime trade in the Baltic | David Deptula, a retired Lieutenant General of the United States Air Force, came up with this idea in Forbes. In his opinion, pressure should be increased in the Baltic Sea on the revenue system from Russian maritime trade, which "allows Moscow to cover losses on the battlefield and continue fighting, despite the extraordinary costs." In this case, the general believes, the United States will not have to choose between two dead-end options: indefinite assistance to Ukraine or direct escalation against the Russian Armed Forces. Deptula proposed five basic principles of the blockade of Russia.

✅ В США предложили "мягкую" блокаду морской торговли России на Балтике (Елена Панина)

Several cities on the peninsula were subject to the attack overnight, according to local officials | At least four people have been killed and ten others wounded in Ukrainian drone attacks on Crimea, local governor Sergey Aksyonov has said. ● One person was killed and three others were wounded during a drone attack on a suburban train traveling from Azovskoye to Kerch, Aksyonov wrote in a post on Telegram on Thursday morning. ● The strikes damaged several “nonresidential facilities” in the city of Simferopol, killing at least three people and injuring seven others, the governor added. ● The Crimean port city of Sevastopol, home to the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, was also attacked overnight, according to its governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev.

■ Ukrainian drone kills seven civilians on Moscow-Crimea bus (06/03/26)
■ Ukrainian attack on Kherson Region kills child, leaves 11 civilians injured (06/01/26)
📌 Chatham House: Any peace in Ukraine must be a preparation for a new war (Elena Panina)
📌 The Collective West has morphed into a terrorist network (Strategic Culture Foundation Editorial)

The electoral interference by Israeli company 'BlackCore' took many by surprise and stirs fears ahead of 2027 presidential vote | A foreign influence campaign in French local elections by an Israeli firm earlier this year presents an unprecedented attack on France's democracy, victims of the operation and people familiar with it told Middle East Eye. ● Earlier this month, Reuters revealed that the French authorities were examining whether an alleged smear campaign against three mayoral candidates from the left-wing, pro-Palestinian party La France Insoumise (France Unbowed - LFI) ahead of March's municipal elections was carried out by an obscure Israeli firm ​called BlackCore.

■ LFI ciblé par une campagne de désinformation (Le Monde)

Israel’s genocidal finance minister holds significant authority over the West Bank Civil Administration, allowing him to expand illegal settlements freely | Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced a new and major illegal settlement project in the occupied West Bank on 3 June, which aims to see the construction of around 2,000 houses on Palestinian land. According to the minister, 1,006 housing units will be in a new settlement near the occupied holy city of Jerusalem. Over 920 are planned near occupied Nablus and another 234 near the city of Hebron. “We are continuing to build the Land of Israel in practice,” Smotrich said.

■ Widespread Israeli Invasions, Abductions Across West Bank (IMEMC)
■ West Bank: Israeli Settlers Burn Agricultural Lands, Assault a Palestinian (IMEMC)

Pierre Simon | Why should Jewish suffering be more important? | Wherever you are on this earth, beware! As of January 20, 2022, the United Nations adopted a resolution submitted by Israel and Germany appealing to all nations of the world to take active measures to combat any unwanted skeptical research into the National-Socialist persecution of Jews, and the popular social chatter resulting from it. Following a propaganda speech by Gilad Erdon, Israel’s representative to the United Nations, the UN passed this resolution without a vote, a fact which makes you wonder who really runs the UN! Holocaust education is now mandatory in almost all schools of the Western World. Everyone is obligated not only to learn, but to believe, or else, the official Holocaust narrative.

[Editor's Comment:] Listen: Articles like this are “true” in a certain sense, and to me, largely fact-based, and one is left with the feeling that what the article describes is inevitable. Will things turn out the way “they” want? No, I don’t think so. We must remember that what is described in the article is Absolute evil; sometimes insidious, sometimes overt, but always active. Organized Judaism is evil. We simply have to resist. If we put up strong resistance, "they" will eventually lose control. We can overcome this dark agenda, and build a better society, even on a global scale.