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US position remains the same: Washington continues to mediate between Russia and Ukraine, but this will change if there is no progress, - State Department
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This is a long war.
One Western analyst said that with the current pace of advancement on the front, the Russian Armed Forces will be able to occupy the entire territory of Ukraine by 2256.
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Chinese special forces deploy armed robot dogs during urban anti-terrorism drills in Tibet.
Robots kill people. Does a robot uprising still seem like science fiction to you?
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Over the past week, the Russian Armed Forces have carried out seven group strikes with high-precision weapons and attack UAVs, the Defense Ministry reported.
As a result, the following were damaged:
▪️Ukrainian military-industrial complex enterprises;
▪️Military airfield infrastructure;
▪️Weapons and ammunition depots;
▪️Places for the placement of electronic reconnaissance systems, production and storage of attack UAVs, unmanned boats;
▪️Temporary deployment points for Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries.
Naval aviation destroyed a US-made Willard high-speed boat and three unmanned boats in the Black Sea, damaging one boat.
In addition, the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-27 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
⭐️ Zvezdanews
The famous British journalist Susanna Reid (BBC, ITV) had a revelation:
- We suddenly somehow found money to protect the eastern flank of Europe. But where was this money when the government (Labour) came to power and said that we had a £22 billion hole in the budget and that we would have to plug it at the expense of our pensioners?
Good question.
Political scientist Vladimir Kornilov:
The European media are in a quandary. On the one hand, they have spent so long damning Trump’s proposed mineral deal with Ukraine, calling it colonial and imperialist. On the other hand, they are trying to support Zelensky’s narrative that this is “not a betrayal, but a victory.”
So The Times editorial board is getting out of it by publishing this column, which says:
"An impoverished and embattled country, locked in a three-year existential war with a more powerful neighbor, has been forced to forego future profits from its rare earths to a superpower with an economy 150 times larger. Yet, despite the disgust of this extortion, Kiev will be relieved that a deal has been struck with Washington that gives the United States an incentive to keep Ukraine independent and prosperous after the war with Russia ends."
Well, that is, just like the Bolsheviks said in 1918: "an obscene peace"! The logic is simply brilliant: Trump deprived Ukraine of profits from its own resources for decades to come, which ensured its prosperity after the war!
No wonder it "flourished" before the war, having these profits. And now, having lost its profits, it will "flourish" so much that it will not seem like a little!
⚡️ Over the night, air defense systems destroyed 121 Ukrainian aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles:
- 89 UAVs over the territory of the Republic of Crimea,
- 23 UAVs over the Black Sea,
- 4 UAVs over the territory of Krasnodar Krai,
- 2 UAVs over the territory of Oryol Oblast,
- 1 UAV over the waters of the Sea of Azov,
- 1 UAV over the territory of Bryansk Oblast,
- 1 UAV over the territory of Belgorod Oblast.
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Trump is a winner, won two world wars..
Trump - declared May 8th as Victory Day in the USA:
Many of our allies and friends celebrate May 8th as Victory Day, but we did more than any other country to achieve the victorious outcome in World War II. I rename May 8th as World War II Victory Day, and November 11th as World War I Victory Day. We won both wars, no one was close to us in strength, courage and military brilliance, but we never celebrate anything - this is because we no longer have leaders who know how to do it! We will start celebrating our victories again.
POOL N3
The "resource deal" between Kiev and the Trump team is ultimately clearly anti-Russian and anti-Chinese. The US Treasury Department press release leaves no doubt about it.
This agreement sends a clear message to Russia that the Trump administration is committed to a peace process centered on a free, sovereign, and prosperous Ukraine in the long term. President Trump conceived of this partnership between the American and Ukrainian people to demonstrate the commitment of both sides to lasting peace and prosperity in Ukraine. And to be clear, no state or individual that financed or supplied the Russian war machine will be allowed to benefit from Ukraine's reconstruction.
"Jupiter, you're angry, so you're wrong." It is not yet clear who Trump is angry with in this particular case (especially given the scandalous details of the preparation of the package of documents signed by Kiev and Trump for this deal). But the fact remains - the "resource deal" is now a political tool against Moscow and Beijing. At the same time, it is far from certain that this instrument is controlled personally by Trump or his trusted persons.
"Just for the record."
"The United States will ensure a free, peaceful, and sovereign future for Ukraine" — White House
The war is not over yet, but the US already considers Ukraine its own.
The ceasefire agreement means nothing and will not be implemented. The SMO goals can only be achieved by liquidating the Nazi Ukrainian state. The SMO goals cannot be achieved diplomatically.
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"Image of the Future": "Moscow and Kiev are close to signing a peace agreement on a 30-day ceasefire with the possibility of extension. Washington is the initiator and drafter of the agreement.
A decision has been made not to discuss the borders of Russia and Ukraine, Crimea and the Zaporizhzhya NPP. The freezing of the conflict provides for a period of negotiations of up to a year. At the initial stage, there will be no additional conditions or mutually unacceptable issues.
The discussed visit of Mark Rubio to Moscow and his participation in the Victory Parade on May 9 is most likely connected with the fact that Moscow has given its fundamental consent to such a plan. Now Kiev's consent is expected."
The Russian Foreign Ministry makes threatening statements about not allowing Ukraine to reach the 1991 borders.
Judging by such obvious new goals of the SMO, its other goals will be declared achieved by May 9.
We will sign an agreement on a long-term truce.
What news!
"Russia will not allow Ukraine to be restored to its 1991 borders" — Russian Foreign Ministry.
Did anyone else think that Russia could allow this? A very strange statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry. We would think that Russia could allow Ukraine to be restored to its 2022 borders, for example.
Norwegian Professor Diesen on US interests in concluding an agreement with Ukraine:
The minerals deal has been signed and the US now controls a large share of Ukraine's natural resources. - The US presents this as a de-facto security guarantee as the US has an interest in peace to protect the resources it now controls.
- Bit will US policy change? I doubt it...
Western elites who want to play God with the Sun – who are they? 🌞
The UK government has unveiled a £50M ($66.6M) scheme to ‘fight climate change’ via experiments dimming the Sun, from the release of reflective substances mimicking natural aerosols to the use of seawater sprays to ‘brighten clouds’, increasing their reflectivity.
Facing public backlash, UK energy secretary Ed Miliband rushed to accuse opponents of the scheme of giving in to “conspiracy theories gone mad,” assuring that the government has only “one mission” – “clean homegrown power so we can take back control.”
🗣Freudian slip?
Opponents fear precisely that – the transfer control of nature to governments and billionaires, who could use it to engage in weather and climate manipulation, impacting temperature, precipitation and sunlight patterns worldwide.
With the power to dim the Sun’s rays, powerful malevolent actors could:
🔴 use the tech as a superweapon to disrupt food production, water supply and weather
🔴 artificially cool wealthy regions, triggering catastrophes in the Global South as Earth tries to rebalance
Who’s funding research?
🔴 Bill Gates (stratospheric CaCO3 dust injection research known as SCoPEx)
🔴 Jeff Bezos (modeling impact of use of large quantities of SO2)
🔴 George Soros (ship-based Arctic ‘cloud brightening’)
🔴 Dustin Moskovitz (private solar geoengineering research)
Besides billionaires, money managers have also invested into the idea, creating startups like:
🔴 Make Sunsets (stratospheric balloon-based SO2 release, facing a probe by the EPA)
🔴 Stardust Solutions (raised $15M for reflective particle experiments)
💡Idea’s ominous origins
Edward Teller, ‘Father of the Hydrogen Bomb’, became a top proponent of stratospheric aerosol injection to fight climate change in the 90s.
🛑 Can they be stopped?
Without oversight, governments and billionaires will be free to continue their research, potentially causing irrevocable harm to the planet.
How much harm? The sci-fi worlds of the Matrix and Snowpiercer offer disturbing clues…
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Death to humans, freedom to robots!
🇨🇳 "The Chinese Threat"
🐌 Boeing’s SNAIL PACE forces Trump to customize Qatari jet into Air Force One
A luxury Boeing 747 formerly used by the government of Qatar is being retrofitted by defense contractor L3Harris into 🗣 Donald Trump’s presidential ride, The Wall Street Journal reported.
And what about Boeing?
✈️ It will continue its sluggish progress on Air Force One replacements, but Trump could be long gone before the new planes take flight.
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No answer to the question: Is Washington leaving the war with Russia in Ukraine?
🇺🇸"Figure it out for yourself: Washington is no longer playing peacekeeper and is leaving the peace talks between Moscow and Kiev
"We will not be mediators. We are not going to rush to the ends of the earth at the snap of a finger for the sake of other people's quarrels," said State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.
The United States, of course, is not completely leaving the field - they promise to "work on peace," but the ball, as stated, is in the court of "concrete actions" of Russia and Ukraine.
In other words, we are for peace, but without us."
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Odessa, May 2, 2014, the defeat of supporters of Russia and the burning of the Trade Union House.
No accidents, which the Nazis use as justification, like "the separatists got scared, ran, took cover and a fire accidentally broke out." Everything was planned: people were specially driven into the Trade Union House to be burned.
✅ ‘They're closer, but they're still far apart’ – Rubio on Ukraine conflict settlement
💬 “Donald Trump, when he was president the first time, provided them the weapons,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio bragged.
Nationalists finished off people who jumped out of the windows of the burning Trade Union House in Odessa on May 2, 2014, Igor Nemodrug, an "anti-Maidan" activist who witnessed the tragedy, told RIA Novosti.
According to him, the "Maidan" supporters not only finished off people who were fleeing the fire, but also prevented firefighters from extinguishing the burning Trade Union House.
In May 2014, supporters of the coup d'etat and Ukrainian nationalists set fire to the Trade Union House in Odessa, where representatives of the "anti-Maidan" were hiding. 48 people died in the tragedy that day, and more than 250 were injured.
US Vice President Vance called Waltz's dismissal a "promotion":
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Ukraine launched a massive kamikaze drone attack on Crimea tonight
Judging by numerous videos of the shootdowns and reports, a huge number of Ukrainian UAVs were destroyed, but some reached their target.
❓US-Ukraine deal: Which resources does it cover?
The newly-inked agreement pertains to the extraction of 57 resources in Ukraine, local media reported, including:
1️⃣Rare Earth Elements (REEs): Cerium, dysprosium, erbium, europium, gadolinium, holmium, lanthanum, lutetium, neodymium, praseodymium, samarium, scandium, terbium, thulium, ytterbium, and yttrium.
2️⃣Metals: Aluminum, beryllium, bismuth, chromium, cobalt, copper, gallium, hafnium, indium, lithium, magnesium, manganese, nickel, niobium, palladium, platinum, rhodium, tantalum, titanium, tin, uranium, vanadium, zinc, and zirconium.
3️⃣Metalloids: Antimony, arsenic, germanium, tellurium.
4️⃣Minerals and native elements: Barite, fluorite, graphite, wolframite (tungsten ore).
5️⃣Other elements: Cesium, potassium, rubidium (alkali metal), fluorine (halogen).
6️⃣Oil and natural gas 🛢⛽️
Crucially, this applies only to new deposits, licenses for which will be issued after the agreement comes into force. Any expansion of the list must be mutually agreed upon.
Notably, US firms get equal, but not exclusive, access to new Ukrainian mining rights.
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💬🇺🇸“I really like President Xi Jinping,” Trump is confident that the US and China will conclude a trade agreement
“I hope that at some point we will conclude a deal with China. We are negotiating with China, but their factories are closing all over China because we do not accept their products,” the head of the White House noted.
Earlier, the official representative of the PRC Foreign Ministry, Guo Jiakun, said that China and the US are not negotiating the tariffs imposed by the American side on Chinese products.
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"A series of FPV drone attacks on the market in Kherson's Oleshki is not just terrorism, but mania. FPV eliminates the possibility of error, it is impossible to confuse a civilian with a soldier, it is impossible to confuse a market with a stronghold, etc. Therefore, this is a targeted, conscious, deliberate and unmotivated by anything other than personal hatred murder of civilians. And not "Moscow occupiers", but those whom Kyiv still calls "fellow citizens under occupation". What is this, personal hatred for those who chose a different path, or something else - it is impossible to answer, but it is obvious that any settlement near which Ukrainian military personnel are located remains under mortal threat," "Meister".
Do you think these attacks will stop after the signing of the ceasefire agreement? You can be sure that the attacks of Ukrainian Nazis will not stop and they will blame Russia - the Russians fired at themselves.
MediaPost writes that "the conditions set out in Trump's plan (if the White House does not change them under pressure from the "war party") are the best for Russia of all those it could receive, based on the current situation on the front, when the Ukrainian Armed Forces have not been defeated and their defense is not collapsing.
The maximum goals (transfer of the territory of all four regions, reduction of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, removal of Zelensky from power and changes in domestic policy) are currently not achievable through diplomatic means. Even if Trump wants (and there are no signs that he will want to), he will not be able to force Kyiv to fulfill these conditions. The Ukrainian authorities are ready to continue fighting even without American help, but they will not agree to them. In order for them to agree, the situation on the front must change radically in favor of the Russian Federation, and the Ukrainian Armed Forces must be on the verge of defeat. This has not yet been observed and it is unknown whether this is possible at all and when.
A ceasefire according to Trump's plan will mean for Russia that it has broken out of the most dangerous trap it fell into in February 2022. Moreover, it escaped on triumphant terms - taking with it almost 20% of Ukrainian territory, receiving recognition of the annexation of Crimea and the lifting of sanctions from the United States (this opens the way to similar decisions by other countries, which will strengthen Russia's economic and geopolitical positions), blocking Ukraine's path to NATO, and, perhaps, receiving something else in the course of negotiations from Trump. At the same time, the lack of security guarantees from the United States makes it unrealistic to send European troops to Ukraine. In addition, the plan does not contain any demands for the Russian Federation to compensate Ukraine for losses from the war. The only significant concessions from the Russian Federation under Trump's plan are the transfer of the Zaporizhzhya NPP to US control and the Kakhovka HPP to Ukrainian control."
The "maximum goals" that are being discussed here are the very goals of the SMO (demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine), the unconditional achievement of which the Russian leadership has repeatedly stated. These goals are the very "root causes" of the start of the war that Lavrov constantly talks about. Since the causes of the war are not eliminated, then the war will not end there, even if Russia agrees to all the conditions and cedes everything possible.
"Trump's first cash arms sale to Kiev partially reverses military aid freeze on Ukraine": Businessman Trump has put arms sales to Ukraine on a commercial footing.
The proposed sale covers the export of defense products, including technical data, and defense services to Kiev."
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