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  • 5/9/2025
“Who the hell is von der Leyen to threaten sovereign countries?” 😤 asks Cyrille de Lattre, aviation expert and former airline pilot, in a fiery interview with RT.
He blasts Brussels’ efforts to pressure world leaders not to attend Moscow’s Victory Day Parade 🇷🇺, calling it an outrageous interference in national sovereignty 🌍🛑.
A bold takedown of EU arrogance and the crumbling moral authority of Western institutions 💥🛫.

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00:00And so joining us now is aviation expert, former airline pilot, Cyril DeLatra.
00:05You've been enjoying that beside us.
00:07What do you think in general about the hardware that was on show today?
00:12That was a great show.
00:14That was one of the biggest ones that I've ever seen in my life
00:17regarding the Russian military parade.
00:20And this is a huge success, an absolute success.
00:24It's beautiful.
00:25When you were standing here, one of the things that you pointed out,
00:28of course, were the drones, that's a historic moment
00:31because they've never been shown.
00:33And it really shows that wars will probably be fought for the same reasons.
00:37It's often power, it's geopolitics, it's resources.
00:40But the way in which war is being waged has changed beyond recognition.
00:47And drones, they're a key part of it, aren't they?
00:49Drones are a key player in new war since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine.
00:56And the evolution has been so fast.
01:01Because a couple of years ago, again, I'm not even speaking about the MQ-9 Reaper,
01:06the big drones and stuff like this.
01:07Just speaking about FPV drones, a couple of years ago,
01:11they were still considered as toys to be played in the yard between fathers and sons.
01:16Now, today, it's a key point in the conflict.
01:21You have drones that can watch kamikaze drones and everything.
01:26I mean, it's a huge step forward.
01:30And it's a big step forward in technology.
01:34Outstanding.
01:34Does that make, I suppose it's an amateur question,
01:38does it make warfare safer in the terms of now you're going to be using technology
01:43so you don't need to send in manpower
01:46and you're able to have more targeted rather than this mass use of ammunition?
01:51Or does it actually make it more lethal when you have, for example,
01:55AI-guided drones, which apparently have been spotted, actually, developed by Russia?
02:00Well, you see, there is no war or no conflict without death.
02:07The more the technology we use, obviously,
02:10is to destroy the more equipment as possible to the enemy.
02:15So I wouldn't say that the drones are going to be killing less people.
02:21What I would say is that drones will help you to save the life of your own soldier in your own camp.
02:30But the drill, sorry, the purpose of the drones anyway
02:36is to kill a maximum of people on the other side.
02:41It's nosy.
02:43Of course, Cyril is trying to compete with some of Russia's military hardware,
02:48but it doesn't give you a chance.
02:52We brought them especially for you.
02:55But also talking specifically about the jets that Russia uses,
03:03when you compare Russia's technology with those of other nations,
03:06what's your general impression of the direction in which Russia's military-industrial complex is moving?
03:12Well, once again, the more we're going forward in the technology,
03:16the more heavily equipped aircraft we have.
03:20Russia has always been within the top key players in that area.
03:25Whether you take the Sukhoi 57, the SU-30, 35, SM, or whatsoever,
03:35those are fifth-generation aircraft.
03:38And from a technology standpoint, it's absolutely perfect.
03:43You also have in other countries other fifth-generation aircraft.
03:47That's not the problem.
03:48But for all those people who had believed even one little second
03:52that Russia was far, far, far behind schedule,
03:56well, that's not the case.
03:58Russia is way ahead of schedule.
04:01And, for example, if you take this 57,
04:04if you compare this to other kind of aircraft that we have in the Occident,
04:09they are using vectorial thrust systems.
04:13The United States is using it also,
04:15but France, for example, is not using it.
04:17Great Britain is not using it.
04:19Germany is not using it neither.
04:21And these give capabilities to that aircraft
04:25that are just outstanding, outstanding.
04:28You're a Frenchman.
04:30So you came here for Victory Day.
04:34You came to speak to us as well.
04:36Talking about your nation,
04:38do you think there's a disconnect between the people and the rulers
04:43as regards relations
04:45and what the Soviet Union achieved here?
04:47Because we're seeing all out the EU trying to stop people coming here
04:52to commemorate what's happening.
04:55Do you think there's a disconnect between the people and the elites?
04:58They are totally disconnected.
05:01And this disconnection is not somewhere new.
05:05I'm 55.
05:06When I was a kid and when I was studying history at school,
05:10in my history books,
05:12it was never, ever written
05:14that without the USSR
05:18and what they did on the East Front,
05:19even if we were taught about the East Front,
05:21nothing would have been possible in the West
05:25and the overload operation in Normandy
05:28or in Provence
05:30and the liberation of Europe
05:31would not have been possible
05:32without the greatest,
05:37with the sacrifice of the Russian people.
05:40On the other hand,
05:42on more recent history,
05:44yes, of course,
05:45the elite in France and in Europe,
05:47they are absolutely disconnected.
05:48Who the hell is Kajakalas?
05:51Who the hell is von der Leyen,
05:54who has not been elected, by the way?
05:56She's been nominated
05:57and thereafter elected by a little group of people.
06:00Who the hell are they
06:02to put threats on a sovereign country
06:05like Serbia with Aleksandar Vucic
06:10or Prime Minister Fico to tell them,
06:13oh, if you go to Moscow for the parade,
06:17you're going to face problems.
06:18Who the hell are they?
06:19Come on, this is...
06:21I mean, we are celebrating
06:22the fall of the Third Reich.
06:27If we look at what European Union is doing,
06:30actually, with France, with Germany,
06:32with Great Britain,
06:34what they've been doing in Romania
06:36for the presidential election,
06:37sorry, but we're seeing the rise
06:39of the Fourth Reich.
06:41Literally.
06:42I'm sorry to say this that way,
06:44but who the hell they are?
06:44When you look also at the wider European attitudes,
06:49you know, I mentioned earlier
06:50how George Ribbon has been banned
06:52and criminalized, in fact, wearing it.
06:55Last year, a man, a pensioner in Latvia,
06:57was actually fined 1,000 euros
06:59for singing a Soviet war song.
07:02It seems like the Europeans
07:05are almost running from the past.
07:07What is it about it
07:09that they find so scary, I suppose?
07:14Well, it's a rewriting of the history.
07:18Once again, it's the rewriting
07:20in the history.
07:22Let's go to Estonia, for example.
07:24Estonia is the only country
07:26in the European Union
07:27where you can find official SS Parade,
07:31SS Parade, officially in Estonia.
07:35Come on, this is stupid.
07:36So when you have a country
07:38that is capable to do this,
07:40how can you expect that country
07:42not to be able to rewrite the history,
07:45rewrite what SSSR did,
07:48and to prevent any remembrance
07:52about this?
07:54Look at Ukraine.
07:55The problem is not the Ukrainian people
07:57by themselves,
07:57because we know that most of them,
07:59they want to live peacefully.
08:00But the problem is the government.
08:02The problem is the banderism,
08:05Stepan Bandera,
08:06and the neo-Nazi system
08:08that is still implemented
08:09in those countries.
08:12And after that,
08:13you have the European Union
08:14that has engaged itself
08:16in a past which is a dead end.
08:19And for them,
08:20Russia is the enemy.
08:22And they cannot,
08:23they cannot because
08:24they do not want to pull back
08:25and say,
08:26oh, we made a mistake.
08:27No, we're way too clever and intelligent
08:29for this to say
08:29that we made a mistake.
08:30So they are going way forward
08:32and what they are actually doing
08:35is inversory accusation.
08:40This is exactly this.
08:42But I think the people see through it.
08:43The people see it.
08:45There is a big difference
08:46between the,
08:46like for France, for example,
08:48you have a big difference
08:48between the French people
08:49and the government.
08:50And the Russian Federation
08:52and the Russian people,
08:53they know this.
08:54They know that there is a difference.
08:56They know who pushed them back,
08:57liberated Auschwitz,
08:58who did a lot of things
08:59that the Soviet Union
09:00does not get credit for.
09:02Cyril, a pleasure as always
09:03to see you.
09:03Thanks so much for coming in.
09:05Aviation expert,
09:06Cyril de Laptrop.
09:07You're welcome.
09:07Great pleasure.

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