It was bad enough when they arrested him, but even worse when we heard that he was trying to cross the Polish border after they allowed him to go free . But they caught him. He was tortured before they killed him. They virtually hunted him down.
I had followed Gonzolo daily since the beginning of his coverage the SMO. He was the real deal. At the time of his second arrest his Roundtable live casts were getting really yuge numbers of views and his random panel was varied and talented in their own regards.
RIP Gonzolo Lira. TY for spreading truth in the world war of lies.
It was so said when he reported in that he was going to try and reach the Polish? border. Every day we would check in with Alex Christoforou to see if Gonzalo had contacted him. Then the terrible news came thru.
One person that Elon needs to speak with is Patrick Lancaster. Also an independent journo and an American living in Russia now. His Russian wife was living in Ukraine but the Zelensky goons launched a bomb and it created a huge crater in the backyard, missing the house by feet. They then moved into Russia for their safety. Some of his early videos were very distressing where dead Russian civilians litter playgrounds, quadrangles, and were dodging Ukraine snipers. From 2014 and Up until the SMO, 14,000 Russian speaking civilians Iiving in the Donbass and now under the protection of Russia, died at the hands of the Nazi Ukrainian battalion regimes. Much reported by Patrick was very graphic and he was given the privilege of being with the Russian military on many occasions bringing truth to the world, delivered in sometimes confrontational realities.
I saw those videos too. Thanks to you u/MatildaJ for posting them here. Gonzalo RIP, I enjoyed his no bullshit analysis. So tragic what happened to him. And Patrick's footage was soberingly remarkable. True journalism, brave and raw.
I agree. At the time and to this day I do not know why he chose to flee that route.
If it were me, I would've rode that bike in any other direction other than further West through Ukraine. His route was like attempting to run from hornets but choosing to go through the heart of the nest.
Also, hmm... interesting Musk posts about Mr. Lira mere hours after your post on here and no other recent mentions across the greater social media scape AFAIK.
Gonzalo saw, heard and knew too much of what the Nazis were doing. Blinkin couldn’t take that chance. Do you all remember that photo of the attack on Benghazi where Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden, Kerry?, and others were watching it unfold, if you look close, that weasel was at the back peering around someone. He is such a blantant liar. The lies he told regarding Ukraine were monumental. He has the blood of millions on his hands.
Jean-François Gariépy 🧬 @JFGariepy I was the last person Gonzalo Lira called before he got arrested and died at the hands of the Ukrainian war regime.
He sent me a direct message and we went into a zoom call. He was in a small room, extremely nervous, smoking one cigarette after the other. I had never seen so directly the mental effect that physical torture and extortion can do to a man.
In the previous months, he had been tortured by his Ukrainian guards, and amounts in the 6 figures were illegally taken from him as they forced him to reveal his passwords through physical torture unto his nails and eyes. One of these amounts was the 6-figure amount that had been dormant in his Patreon account, which his fans had donated to him across the years. Gonzalo was rich enough that he never needed to withdraw it, but I know it was the pride of his life; the idea that a bunch of regular people thought his commentary was worth enough to pay for when they didn't have to.
Two years before that call, a very intelligent and enlightened version of Gonzalo had called me. He was in the UK, then. He had then told me: "JF I'm about to do something radical. A radical change. I won't tell you what it is, but things are about to change in my life. I'll be covering something different."
It's only later that I got to know he had decided to go live in Ukraine with a family he had already established there, and he would then make a stand as a free thinking commentator as the war raged on, staying at the frontline with a clear message: The West is not the side of freedom it claims to be. Little did we know then that things would escalate to the point that his own death would prove that point conclusively.
Before he got brought to prison and died, the Gonzalo Lira I was seeing on screen in that zoom call was not the enlightened man I used to know. It's very hard to explain what torture does to a man, but if I was to summarize it for you, it strips a man of his humanity and turns him into a scared rat-like creature. Shifty, squirrely, looking out the window in nervousness at all times. The man who was capable of delivering such intelligent analysis on this war, the first to call out the impossibility of what Western countries were demanding of Ukraine (everyone knows today he was right), that man was reduced to a state of constant fear.
I did not tell Gonzalo how different he was. I thought the best I could do was to stand there emotionless, a reassuring pillar of autism on which he could hang unto in order to stay afloat mentally.
"I... I'm not calling you for any reason JF. I just wanted to have someone. I need someone."
"So how's everything?," he asked, as he was lighting up another cigarette.
I knew there was not much I could do for him. I didn't tell him how he could flee the regime or how he should behave. I didn't tell him that everything was going to be okay. I didn't tell him he could survive this.
I told him that the sacrifice he had done was the most honorable thing in the history of independent journalism. That his action in standing at the front line of a war while calling the lie that it was based on would remain engraved in history. And that no matter what would happen from there, he had committed to a highly moral path that one day his children would read about.
Then as we ended the call I said: "Greatest respect to you, Coach."
Hopefully the new US administration, with Trump and @elonmusk , ends up understanding his message: that any money sent Ukraine's way is not only a waste, it's an active investment into corruption and death. That the corruption does not lie only on the Ukrainian side, that it lies in the Blinkens and Nulands of our side. And, finally, that beyond the people that had to die in the war itself, so many were also just executed politically with the intent of socially engineering this war. For that last point, the words of Gonzalo Lira: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkM4-BqXgAE8D_Y?format=png&name=small7:44 PM · Feb 19, 2025 Views 256: //x.com/JFGariepy/status/1892420021227249907
It was bad enough when they arrested him, but even worse when we heard that he was trying to cross the Polish border after they allowed him to go free . But they caught him. He was tortured before they killed him. They virtually hunted him down.
I had followed Gonzolo daily since the beginning of his coverage the SMO. He was the real deal. At the time of his second arrest his Roundtable live casts were getting really yuge numbers of views and his random panel was varied and talented in their own regards.
RIP Gonzolo Lira. TY for spreading truth in the world war of lies.
It was so said when he reported in that he was going to try and reach the Polish? border. Every day we would check in with Alex Christoforou to see if Gonzalo had contacted him. Then the terrible news came thru.
One person that Elon needs to speak with is Patrick Lancaster. Also an independent journo and an American living in Russia now. His Russian wife was living in Ukraine but the Zelensky goons launched a bomb and it created a huge crater in the backyard, missing the house by feet. They then moved into Russia for their safety. Some of his early videos were very distressing where dead Russian civilians litter playgrounds, quadrangles, and were dodging Ukraine snipers. From 2014 and Up until the SMO, 14,000 Russian speaking civilians Iiving in the Donbass and now under the protection of Russia, died at the hands of the Nazi Ukrainian battalion regimes. Much reported by Patrick was very graphic and he was given the privilege of being with the Russian military on many occasions bringing truth to the world, delivered in sometimes confrontational realities.
I saw those videos too. Thanks to you u/MatildaJ for posting them here. Gonzalo RIP, I enjoyed his no bullshit analysis. So tragic what happened to him. And Patrick's footage was soberingly remarkable. True journalism, brave and raw.
I agree. At the time and to this day I do not know why he chose to flee that route.
If it were me, I would've rode that bike in any other direction other than further West through Ukraine. His route was like attempting to run from hornets but choosing to go through the heart of the nest.
Also, hmm... interesting Musk posts about Mr. Lira mere hours after your post on here and no other recent mentions across the greater social media scape AFAIK.
Ol snake eyes Blinken needs murder charges. Had he pickec up the phone Gonzalo would have lived. Telling the truth got him killed.
Gonzalo saw, heard and knew too much of what the Nazis were doing. Blinkin couldn’t take that chance. Do you all remember that photo of the attack on Benghazi where Obama, Hillary Clinton, Biden, Kerry?, and others were watching it unfold, if you look close, that weasel was at the back peering around someone. He is such a blantant liar. The lies he told regarding Ukraine were monumental. He has the blood of millions on his hands.
Oh the State Dept was well aware of GZ. Best case scenario would be stand down or containment orders... but we all know better than that.
They killed him just like they tried to kill JA.
Coach Red Pill
Brave guy with balls of steel.
Gonzalo Lira, from X:
Jean-François Gariépy 🧬 @JFGariepy I was the last person Gonzalo Lira called before he got arrested and died at the hands of the Ukrainian war regime.
He sent me a direct message and we went into a zoom call. He was in a small room, extremely nervous, smoking one cigarette after the other. I had never seen so directly the mental effect that physical torture and extortion can do to a man.
In the previous months, he had been tortured by his Ukrainian guards, and amounts in the 6 figures were illegally taken from him as they forced him to reveal his passwords through physical torture unto his nails and eyes. One of these amounts was the 6-figure amount that had been dormant in his Patreon account, which his fans had donated to him across the years. Gonzalo was rich enough that he never needed to withdraw it, but I know it was the pride of his life; the idea that a bunch of regular people thought his commentary was worth enough to pay for when they didn't have to.
Two years before that call, a very intelligent and enlightened version of Gonzalo had called me. He was in the UK, then. He had then told me: "JF I'm about to do something radical. A radical change. I won't tell you what it is, but things are about to change in my life. I'll be covering something different."
It's only later that I got to know he had decided to go live in Ukraine with a family he had already established there, and he would then make a stand as a free thinking commentator as the war raged on, staying at the frontline with a clear message: The West is not the side of freedom it claims to be. Little did we know then that things would escalate to the point that his own death would prove that point conclusively.
Before he got brought to prison and died, the Gonzalo Lira I was seeing on screen in that zoom call was not the enlightened man I used to know. It's very hard to explain what torture does to a man, but if I was to summarize it for you, it strips a man of his humanity and turns him into a scared rat-like creature. Shifty, squirrely, looking out the window in nervousness at all times. The man who was capable of delivering such intelligent analysis on this war, the first to call out the impossibility of what Western countries were demanding of Ukraine (everyone knows today he was right), that man was reduced to a state of constant fear.
I did not tell Gonzalo how different he was. I thought the best I could do was to stand there emotionless, a reassuring pillar of autism on which he could hang unto in order to stay afloat mentally.
"I... I'm not calling you for any reason JF. I just wanted to have someone. I need someone."
"So how's everything?," he asked, as he was lighting up another cigarette.
I knew there was not much I could do for him. I didn't tell him how he could flee the regime or how he should behave. I didn't tell him that everything was going to be okay. I didn't tell him he could survive this.
I told him that the sacrifice he had done was the most honorable thing in the history of independent journalism. That his action in standing at the front line of a war while calling the lie that it was based on would remain engraved in history. And that no matter what would happen from there, he had committed to a highly moral path that one day his children would read about.
Then as we ended the call I said: "Greatest respect to you, Coach."
Hopefully the new US administration, with Trump and @elonmusk , ends up understanding his message: that any money sent Ukraine's way is not only a waste, it's an active investment into corruption and death. That the corruption does not lie only on the Ukrainian side, that it lies in the Blinkens and Nulands of our side. And, finally, that beyond the people that had to die in the war itself, so many were also just executed politically with the intent of socially engineering this war. For that last point, the words of Gonzalo Lira: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GkM4-BqXgAE8D_Y?format=png&name=small7:44 PM · Feb 19, 2025 Views 256: //x.com/JFGariepy/status/1892420021227249907
😢. My Lord, hold him close and tell him he was greatly respected and loved by many in bringing the truth.