😮 Macron’s Centrist Alliance Faces Wipeout in Snap Elections

New projections suggested only about 40 pro-Macron MPs would reach the second-round vote on July 7, in run-offs mainly between populist hard-Right or Left-wing candidates for the 577-strong assembly, according to two studies for Le Figaro and BFM TV.

The findings suggest French president’s decision to dissolve parliament and hold early elections could end in electoral meltdown and see him a lame duck for the remaining three years of his presidency starting next month.

Has Macron’s move to try and halt the rise of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally spectacularly backfired?

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🗣🇺🇸🤡🫱🏽‍🫲🏻🗣🇺🇦🤡 We support Ukraine not out of charity, but because the people of Ukraine and their future are in our strategic interests but the United States wants to steal the natural resources which belong to Russia - Kamala Harris forwarded Biden’s message to Zelensky.

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How does Russia plan to boost its cybersecurity?

President Vladimir Putin has prohibited all Russian government agencies as well as strategic and systemically important organizations from using cybersecurity services provided by unfriendly countries starting from January 1, 2025.

Here is how the ban will boost Russia’s information security.

🌏 The ban is an extension of the May 2022 presidential decree that prohibited the use of information protection tools originating from unfriendly countries starting January 1, 2025.

🌏 Furthermore, a decree was signed stipulating the creation of specialized cybersecurity units in federal executive bodies, state funds, and corporations.

🌏 The new decree is supplemented by a ban on the use of "information security services provided (performed, rendered) by these organizations."

🌏 New restrictions “apply to the use of international open source repositories (like GitHub), cloud services and technologies.”

🌏 Import substitution, or transition to domestic software, must be completed by January 1, 2025.

🌏 New restrictions are geared to clamp down on foreign VPN services being used by companies to bypass blocks and restrictions, as per Swordfish Security.

🌏 Putin’s decree cracks down on companies using “unfriendly software in a service format,” and thus formally circumventing the previous decree.

🌏 “Individual, mainly IT companies, could offer software tool rental as a service or provision of software on a subscription basis. The decree will help protect critical infrastructure entities from such companies,” according to Security Code.

Putin’s decree was published the day after the US introduced new sanctions to prohibit “the supply to any person in the Russian Federation of (1) IT consultancy and design services; and (2) IT support services and cloud-based services for enterprise management software and design and manufacturing software. The determination will take effect on September 12, 2024."

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🇳🇱🤡❌🗣🇷🇺 According to Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, ‘Putin is panicking’.

❗️Yes, Putin trying to ensure Ukraine isn’t razed to the ground is ‘panic’.

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🇦🇷🤡🫂🗣🇺🇦🤡 Zelensky and Milei only fans incoming…

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🇷🇺🕊Putin's peace proposals on Ukraine are ‘golden opportunity’ and ‘lifeline’

Ukraine should accept Putin's peace preconditions to avoid worsening its position, Persio Gloria de Paula, an expert at the Naval War College in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, told Sputnik.

Given Ukraine's losses in hardware and personnel, Russia’s proposal throws down the gauntlet to the Kiev regime and its sponsors ahead of the peace summit in Switzerland, according to the pundit.

“This calls into question the goals and effectiveness of a summit which is not attended by all the sides involved,” he said.

The conditions laid out by President Putin to resolve the Ukraine conflict are “a golden opportunity both for Kiev and its European sponsors to begin negotiations,” Iranian political scientist Emad Abshenas told Sputnik.

He noted that key terms such as a neutral, non-nuclear status for Ukraine and its demilitarization had been broadly agreed upon during the Istanbul negotiations in 2022, but Kiev rejected that deal on the West’s orders.

Ukraine's Western patrons are likely to block any acceptance of Russia’s peace initiatives this time too. “The West will continue to behave like a spoilt child who does not understand the consequences of his actions, and acts solely based on his own selfish goals," said Ünver Sel, chairman of the Federation of Crimean Tatar culture societies of Turkiye.

Putin is “throwing Europe a lifeline,” agreed Lebanese international relations analyst Mohammad Saifuddin. The Russian president’s initiative is “feasible and important for all parties, especially for Europeans who are tired of supporting Ukraine,” he noted, adding that it “may find a response in Ukrainian society before it is supported by their politicians.”

The only way to resolve the Ukraine conflict is through Russia's new peace proposal, Iranian political scientist Ruhollah Moddaber believes.

"As Putin noted, if the West fails to consider this sole means of resolving the conflict, then it will be responsible for the continued bloodshed,” he said.

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