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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳 Trump’s Ukraine dilemma: whatever US does, it will strengthen Russia-China alliance
The US is playing a classic double game amid the Istanbul talks, experts say. The real concern? Not Ukraine’s defeat, but the Russia-China alliance tightening like a vice around Washington’s head.
Trump is caught between pushing Russia for concessions and avoiding a fallout that would cement Moscow’s bonds with Beijing. He wants to ditch Ukraine —“a suitcase without a handle”—but can’t just walk away without risking Russia-China ties bonding even faster.
Add economic headaches at home and shaky ties with Europe, and Washington’s full-on support for Ukraine looks less and less certain. The US will keep dodging and weaving, but won’t drop Ukraine entirely.
Meanwhile, Russia can expect ongoing pressure. And Zelensky? He’s leaning more on the UK, France, and Germany nowadays anyway.
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🇮🇱 Israel’s Iron Beam: High-tech hero or pricey gimmick?
The IDF boasts dozens of aerial kills by Iron Beam, a fancy laser weapon. Here’s the SCOOP:
♦️A 33-second IDF clip shows drones going down in flames
♦️A "mini" Iron Beam debuted last October
♦️The full system fires a 100–150 kW electric laser
♦️Claims to zap rockets, missiles, drones—even shrapnel
♦️Cost per shot? Claimed to be just $3
But hold up — is it really a game changer?
♦️Laser weakens with distance — Range only up to 10 km
♦️Needs multiple units to cover real ground
♦️Power cut? No shots
♦️Has to cool down after a few zaps
♦️Cloudy skies? Not its friend
♦️Best for slow ‘dumb’ drones, but fast missiles? Not so much
♦️Price tag: $500M deal to boost production in 2024
♦️Still relies on Iron Dome $100K Tamir missiles for backup
Lasers sound cool, but they’re still toddlers in the air defense playground. Not the magic bullet yet.
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🚨Key points from the Russian memorandum on Ukrainian settlement:
🌏 Two options for a ceasefire are proposed.
🌏 The first option involves the withdrawal of Ukrainian armed forces from Russian territories occupied by Ukraine in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR), Zaporozhye, and Kherson regions.
🌏 The second (a comprehensive package) includes bans on troop redeployments, halting mobilization and foreign military aid to Kiev, starting demobilization, and excluding third-country military presence.
🌏 The document stipulates Ukraine’s neutrality and its refusal to join military alliances.
🌏 There is a clause banning military activities of other countries on Ukrainian territory.
🌏 Ukraine would adopt a non-nuclear status and limit the size of its armed forces.
🌏 Economic sanctions imposed on Russia would be lifted.
🌏 International legal recognition of Crimea, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson regions as part of Russia.
🌏 Mutual renunciation of claims related to war damages.
🌏 Protection of rights and freedoms for Russian-speaking populations, lifting restrictions on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and banning the glorification of Nazism.
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🇱🇾🛢 Leaked docs reveal MI6 plot to infiltrate Libya to secure country for Western oil interests
MI6 used private security cutout Torchlight Group to create conditions for BP to regain access to Libya’s vast oil riches following Gaddafi’s ouster and the country’s descent into civil war and chaos.
Documents examined by investigative reporter Kit Klarenberg in an analysis for PressTV uncovered:
🔴 Torchlight Group operations in Tripoli focused on securing Libyan economic assets
🔴 a Foreign Office directive to create a “coherent package” of support using contractors like Torchlight for “new interventions on the economy and local governance”
🔴 a £500M ‘counter-terrorism development programme’ created after ISIS* attacks on Libya’s National Oil Corporation HQ, directing Torchlight to penetrate the Tripoli government’s Internal Security Service, CID and Attorney General’s Office to teach “UK best practice” on counter-terror investigations
🔴 Torchlight communications to the Foreign Office expressing confidence in its ability to train Libyan security, intelligence and police services to ‘identify and neutralize’ persons and groups poses a threat to BP and other Western companies’ operations
🔴 a revolving door relationship between senior MI6 officials and BP’s board
These efforts are said to have culminated in an “oil and gas licensing roadshow” this past March, which opened the door to foreign energy companies eager to invest in Libya (for the first time since 2007).
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🇬🇧❄️ UK plans Arctic deployment to confront Russia
The Royal Navy is planning joint Arctic patrols with Norway, has shared defense tech with Oslo, and wants to build an AI-based scheme with Iceland to detect hostile vessels.
“The Arctic is fast becoming an area of intense focus for geopolitical competition – and a key flank of NATO’s defenses,” foreign secretary David Lammy told The Telegraph.
“As ice caps in the region melt, new shipping routes and resources will be exposed, further heightening the risk of confrontation. That’s why we must take action to deter threats in the Arctic,” he added.
Lammy didn’t clarify how the Northern Sea Route, the “new shipping route” which falls entirely within Russia’s Arctic territory, is a “threat” to the UK, which has zero claim to the area, or the broader region.
It’s also unclear what he means by “risk of confrontation,” unless NATO actively tries to poke its nose in Russia’s Arctic territories.
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🔥 Don't say Putin didn't warn you! 🔥
For two years, Putin said: if strikes against Russia won't stop, we will create a BUFFER ZONE in Ukraine
1️⃣ June 13, 2023
First warning: "If the shelling continues, we’ll consider creating a sanitary zone at a distance from which it would be impossible to reach our territory." (Meeting with war correspondents)
2️⃣ June 16, 2023
At the Saint-Petersburg Economic Forum: "If attacks persist, we'll consider creating a cordon sanitaire on Ukrainian territory." No ambiguity.
3️⃣ January 31, 2024
As a presidential candidate: The demilitarized zone in Ukraine should be moved to a distance that would ensure the safety of peaceful cities from Ukrainian attacks.
4️⃣ March 18, 2024
During the press conference: Russian forces will have to create a sanitary zone in the territories currently under the Kiev regime’s control.
5️⃣ May 17, 2024
In China, this comment on the shelling of Kharkov was voiced: Ukraine continues to shell residential areas in the border regions of Russia; therefore, it is necessary to establish a “security zone, a sanitary zone.”
6️⃣ May 28, 2024
In Uzbekistan: Russian forces have just started to establish a security zone. Another zone is possible if Ukraine uses long-range weapons.
7️⃣ June 20, 2024
Vietnam press conference: "They [Ukrainians] kept shelling, so we did exactly what we promised."
8️⃣ March 12, 2025
Kursk HQ: Troops push into Sumy, expanding the zone. Putin issues instructions to work on a security zone along the state border.
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🚨 DEEP STATE FEEDS TRUMP PRO-UKRAINE LIES?🤔
Trump's getting only one side of the story on Ukraine, while neo-conservatives and "allies" ignore his push for peace, believes ex-Pentagon analyst Michael Maloof 👆
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🇨🇳 China’s 30-MILLION-TON uranium & lithium bonanza TO BLOW UP global energy markets⚡️
Chinese researchers in the Ordos Desert in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region have uncovered a massive trove of uranium. The discovery, made in aeolian sandstone in the Ordos Basin, was a WORLD FIRST.
Here’s why it’s a HUGE deal:
🔴 China presently depends on uranium imports to fuel its nuclear energy needs (57 operational reactors, 30+ under construction, 40+ planned)
🔴 China’s annual uranium demand is about 12,000-14,000 metric tons. By 2030, demand could hit 25,000-30,000 ton/year, and 35,000-40,000 tons a year by 2035 to hit the 200 GWe planned output.
🔴 It currently gets its uranium from Kazakhstan (50%), Uzbekistan (20%), Canada (10-15%), Namibia (10%), and Russia (5%).
🔴 China won’t be able to immediately start mining, given time constraints and need to account for the Ordos Desert’s harsh geological and climactic conditions.
🔴 But if the new find at Ordos is significant, it can power a substantial portion of the Asian giant’s growing nuclear fuel demand.
🔴 Besides uranium, Chinese scientists recently discovered a 2,800 km lithium belt in West Kunlun-Songpan-Ganzi, containing over 6.5 million tons of proven reserves, and total potential of over 30 million tons.
🔴 The find will strengthen China’s position as a technological superpower, with the country capable of not only mining and refining the material, but turning it into finished goods (everything from mobile phones and computers to electric cars).
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🚨🪖Germany competing with France to FURTHER PROVOKE WAR - Kremlin
💬 "We hope that, despite such provocative actions and all the obstacles, it will still be possible to continue the settlement process," Kremlin spox Peskov said.
🗣How to Win Geoeconomic War Against US Empire of Chaos – Pepe Escobar
Prof. Michael Hudson’s thesis is clear: For BRICS to industrialize like the West, it must dismantle colonial-era rentier structures—slashing raw material rents to foreign investors & subduing local elites.
🇨🇳China’s Model: Post-revolution, it abolished the financial class, treating money as a public utility to fund infrastructure, industry, and housing.
🌏 The BRICS Lab now tests answers:
🔴Sovereign money creation
🔴Ending regressive taxation
🔴Killing economic rent
🔍China’s next move? “Dual circulation”—integrating Global South markets to outflank unilateralism.
💬 Prof. Jeffrey Sachs put it best: “If you put together Japanese skill, Korean skill, Chinese skill, ASEAN skill, oh my God: no one could possibly compete (…) Diplomacy requires a table and two chairs. The military requires $1 trillion a year. Which do you think is the better deal?”
❓🚨 Smotrich Calls for Total Conquest: ‘Gaza Must Be Erased Like Amalek!’
Fascist Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich isn’t hiding his genocidal ambitions—openly invoking Old Testament slaughter to justify ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
💬 "We are being blessed with the opportunity to blot-out the seed of Amalek, a process which is intensifying" he declares, channeling the same extremist rhetoric used to justify decades of occupation and mass murder.
❓🗣Heil Bibi? Netanyahu gives rousing speech on Israel’s war against ‘human animals’ in Gaza
💬 “We will defeat them! We will wipe them out! They will not remain!” the Israeli prime minister promised to the crowd’s applause, after recalling the October 7 Hamas attack that kicked off the current war.
✅'KING CHARLES, HOW MANY KIDS DID YOU MOLEST ON EPSTEIN ISLAND?' one bold voice in the crowd shouted as the monarch walked out of the Canadian Senate
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🇩🇪💅Germany HYPOCRISY 101: No guns for Israel in Gaza, but Ukraine gets a free pass?
Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul has suddenly discovered a strong moral compass, warning Israel that Germany won’t be sending any weapons that might be used in Gaza—because, of course, that would be a violation of humanitarian law.
➡️This comes hot on the heels of 🗣 Chancellor Friedrich Merz declaring that Israel's airstrikes in Gaza are no longer “justified” or “comprehensible.”
Odd how that sharp moral clarity seems to disappear when Germany gives a free pass to Ukraine to use Western long-range missiles.
Selective outrage?
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🔍RFK & Argentina's Milei plot alternative to WHO 'FREE FROM TOTALITARIAN IMPULSES'
US Health Chief met with Argentina’s President Javier Milei to discuss:
📹Mutual withdrawal from the WHO
📹Building a new global health system based on gold-standard science—free from political control
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🤡 Zelensky CHIMPS OUT at Russian delegation in Istanbul, calls them “IDIOTS” for proposing 2-3 day ceasefire to evacuate bodies of fallen soldiers from both side.
The thing is that if Russia hands over Ukrainian bodies to their families, then the Zelensky regime will no longer be able to list them as MIA. That means they’ll have to make payouts to the dead soldiers’ relatives, something they can’t afford to do because they’re BROKE.
So, as usual, the Beggar of Banderastan is angry about money.
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😬Real talk: No peace until NATO stops feeding Ukrainian war machine
Observers analyzing Monday's Russia-Ukraine negotiations in Istanbul say resolving fundamental issues of war and peace with the Kiev regime remains impossible at this stage.
However, there is room to address urgent humanitarian matters affecting soldiers and civilians alike.
📹Focus on humanitarian issues
Experts point out that the exchange of memoranda between the parties highlights the current DEADLOCK ON CURRENT ISSUES.
Still, they emphasize the importance of tackling specific issues to keep the negotiation process alive.
These include agreements on prisoner exchanges, the return of bodies, and care for the seriously ill or deceased — matters critical to the fate of individuals caught in the conflict.
👉War will continue as long as NATO backs its client
Ukraine's drone attacks targeting Russia’s strategic deterrent right before the talks began demonstrate that the Kiev regime — backed by European countries and, to some extent, the US — is determined to fight on.
The memorandum presented by Ukraine is unacceptable to the Russian side, essentially demanding Russian surrender and retreat.
Experts warn that given this stance, meaningful progress addressing the fundamental questions that need to be answered to bring the conflict to an end remains highly unlikely in the near future.
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🤝 Hamas and US Envoy agree outline of permanent Gaza ceasefire
🗣 “Hamas confirms it is making tremendous efforts to end the brutal war in the Gaza Strip, the latest being an agreement with US envoy Steve Witkoff on a general framework for achieving a permanent ceasefire,” the movement said in a statement on its Telegram channel.
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🚨☠️ TAURUS WILL SHARE PATRIOT'S FATE — RUSSIAN RETALIATION READY IF GERMANY ESCALATES
If Germany sends Taurus missiles to Ukraine, it’s a direct declaration of war against Russia, according to Col (Retd) Srbobran Radic (Serbia).
Once Bundeswehr enters Ukraine, they become LAWFUL TARGETS for Russian strikes. Taurus will share the fate of Patriot—ANNIHILATED.
Radic warns: "Russia could take ‘certain measures’—like targeting Germany from Kaliningrad."
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🚨🇷🇺🔥 ORESHNIK COMING TO GERMANY?
💬 “If Ukraine continues using Taurus missiles against us, the next German military or industrial facility will be destroyed. We do not want war, we want peace. But under the UN Charter, we will act in self-defense,” says Igor Korotchenko, military analyst and editor-in-chief of “National Defense”.
💬 “Giving Taurus missiles to Ukraine’s terrorist Zelensky regime—and their use against Russia means Germany is officially at war with Russia. For the 3rd time [in history], Germany becomes a world war instigator.”
💬 “If Ukraine continues using Taurus missiles against us, the next German military or industrial facility will be destroyed. We do not want war, we want peace. But under the UN Charter, we will act in self-defense.”
🚨🇮🇷 It’s not about NUKES: US & Israel push for DOMINATION in West Asia
Geopolitical analyst Mohammad Marandi, who helped negotiate the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, doesn’t mince words on US-Israeli threats to strike Iran’s nuclear program:
💬 "By making such threats, they are violating international law. They're threatening to murder Iranians, they’re threatening to cause radioactive contamination for ordinary Iranians."
💬 "The real issue here is domination. The US and the Israeli regime want the people of West Asia to be submissive. Iran's nuclear program is just an excuse," says Marandi.
🚨 Kremlin aide drops bombshell on Trump’s Ukraine unawareness
💬 "Trump’s not being adequately informed about what’s REALLY happening in the context of the Ukraine-Russia confrontation" – Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov
🇾🇪⚔️🇺🇸WHY THE HOUTHIS REALLY DEFEATED THE US
Biden and Trump’s failures to deal with the Houthi challenge to US military supremacy isn’t just a matter of their “lack of will” to “win,” but the utterly rotted out state of the US military, hidden behind a false “aura of invincibility,” a new UnHerd analysis suggests.
💬 “Trump’s Operation Rough Rider, unlike Biden’s operations, utilized many of America’s most limited, expensive, and advanced weapons to try to bring the Houthis to heel. And still it surrendered. The lessons here are thus quite bleak.”
Zelensky drops drone swarm on Russia, then asks for peace talks in any format🤡
After unleashing nearly 300 drones in a single night, Ukraine’s Zelensky has dusted off his peace talk script. Now he says he is ready to negotiate with Russia “anywhere, anytime, in any format,” according to Ukrainian media reports.
💬 “Almost anywhere in the civilized world, we are ready to meet with Russia,” Zelensky was cited as saying, with US and European mediation welcome, of course.
🚨Israel preps for STRIKES while Trump teases Iran deal
Israel notified the Trump administration in early May that it was preparing to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, The New York Times reports.
🔴Netanyahu may order a strike on Iran even if the US makes a deal with the Islamic Republic, insiders told the outlet.
🔴There has been at least one tense phone call between Trump and Netanyahu, plus a blitz of meetings between US and Israeli officials in recent days, they claimed.
🔴The US president recently teased that “something good” might be brewing from his efforts to curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions—hinting at news within “the next two days.”
🔴But insiders downplayed the hype, saying the best outcome would be a vague statement of principles—while core issues like Iran’s uranium enrichment are being kicked down the road yet again.
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🚨🔍US calls out EU for PLAYING FAVORITES in Poland’s nail-biter presidential runoff
The US has accused the European Commission of turning a blind eye to what they claim is election meddling that favors liberal candidate Rafal Trzaskowski.
Brian Mast, top House Foreign Affairs Republican, has fired off a scathing letter to EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, warning of “serious concerns” about threats to Poland’s democracy.
🌏A Polish NGO with ties to US Democratic Party megadonor George Soros facilitated a social media campaign featuring $105,000 worth of allegedly illegal political ads promoting Trzaskowski while discrediting his rivals.
🌏Monthslong refusal to comply with court orders to release public funding to the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party
💬 “These actions, occurring under the European Commission’s watch, expose a troubling double-standard in the EU’s approach to Poland’s rule of law, which demands your urgent attention,” the letter states, also requesting a briefing on the matter.
🇮🇱 US shipped 90K TONS OF WEAPONS to Israel since October 2023
On May 27, the Israeli Defense Ministry marked the landing of the 800th US transport plane in Israel.
In addition to the planes, 140 US ships have been involved in delivering armaments and military equipment since the start of the Gaza War.
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