Scratch my previous summary. Yours wins the cake.

The article is a little weird. This is my interpretation, need to look for other sources.

President says that the ambassador is “taken hostage, literally”.
Military in Niger wants him out of the country, but French government says that his work is too valuable, he must stay.
Military says " OK, but he can’t leave the embassy, Persona Non Grata".

Technically the ambassador has either choice of leaving the country or staying inside the embassy. Food is not delivered anymore, leaving him with military rations to eat.

The French variant of the article says that there is only military rations left to eat at the embassy.
But your post kind of implies that the French embassador is “force fed” military rations? This is a very weird way to translate it.

They would stop replying to any message, be overall unreachable, ghosting me when we planned a getaway at that date.
I assumed they needed space. I’m fine with respecting boundaries, even if it stings nonetheless when you miss them.

But stopping literally existing out of the blue?
How much time do you need? Days, weeks? Should I wait for you to contact me? Should we cancel this weekend?
No way to get an answer. No, nothing.
Just toss a coin and try to find out.

Edit: I forgot to explain that they would be back at some point. We would see each other for a while and then another bit of disappearance. Rince and repeat.

Je suis honnêtement curieux de l’avis de la communauté au sujet de cette vidéo, parce que je suis pas mal out of the loop en matière de réseaux sociaux. Avant de regarder la vidéo, je ne connaissais ni lun ni l’autre de ces individus.
Je sais que donner mon avis avant d’avoir celui des autres aurait influencé les réactions.

Sans avoir regardé, est-ce que ça parle de libertés volés au nom de l’environnement ? Est-ce que les médias sont accusées de censure ? Ils disent peut être que c’est hypocrite d’interdire les vols par avion ?

Tu viens de remplir une carte Bingo.

Okay, this is my undocumented, your average Joe type of guess, but here goes: as there is no heat exchange with its environment, I assume your hand would burn from its own heat.