The newspaper front page is fabricated, and so is the Danish expert's quote. Responding to a StopFake inquiry, a representative for Lykke Friis explained that she often comments on Ukraine in the media but has never called for closing the EU's borders.
Bombing civilians does not win wars. Striking non-military targets creates humanitarian disasters and severely damages the perpetrator’s international standing, but it also cannot typically secure victory.
It took Reform leader Nigel Farage less than 12 hours following Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s maiden speech at September’s UN General Assembly to falsely claim the UK’s new National Centre for Information Defence (NCID) would be a “Ministry of Truth to clamp down on free speech.
The summer of 2025 will go down in history as the moment when the foundations of Western security architecture—concepts such as “democracy,” “freedom,” and “border integrity”—were replaced in American public debate by one short word: “Deal.