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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared last week that Ukrainians have no right to the occupied regions of their own country. “I think it is not their territory, but the historical territory of Russia,” he stated.
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.