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Trump claims Xi Jinping has called him, amid the latest trade war escalations between the US and China, which Trump has initiated during his second term.
But Chinese officials say that's not the case, and that any claims of economic or trade negotiations are "baseless rumors."
Trump also discussed the future of Ukraine and US recognition of Crimea, as well as where his support stands for a US-Israel attack on Iran, during his 100 days interview with TIME.
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In Trump's interview with Time Magazine, he was asked, "Should Crimea go to the Russians? Should they get to keep Crimea?"
Yet Crimea "went to the Russians" over a decade ago when the people voted overwhelmingly to return to Russia in 2014. This isn't a serious question.
Trump tries to play it off, saying that, "Crimea went to the Russians. It was handed to them" by Obama.
That's one way to describe the democratic will of the people of Crimea who chose to return to Russia following the US-backed coup in Kiev. They fled the new anti-Russian, Western-backed regime that the Trump Admin is still propping up in a proxy war against Russia...
Meanwhile, the mainstream media carries the torch for Kiev, with the BBC's "Why Zelensky can't and won't give up Crimea"
It's already gone. Thousands of sanctions and an all-out proxy war against Russia didn't change that. What's next? WW3 for Crimea?
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While Trump is back to publicly criticizing Zelensky, and accusing him of standing in the way of a deal with Russia, the U.S. is still actively supporting Ukraine in a proxy war against Russia. At the same time, the Trump Admin is also planning for war with China and supporting Israel amid reports of plans for its attack on Iran.
Brian Berletic, a geopolitical analyst and Host of The New Atlas, noted that while talks may be ongoing, it doesn’t change the fact that the U.S. is fighting a war against the Multipolar world—and Russia, Iran and China are pillars of multipolarity.
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Rubio went from admitting Ukraine is a proxy war against Russia, to claiming “it’s not our war,” as he warned that the US will “move on” if there's no progress on a deal soon.
The Trump Admin really thinks they can threaten Russia into a deal over the war Russia is winning...
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Meta's Head of AI Policy is ex-IDF ….along with 100 other employees
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Zelensky has traded in North Koreans for Chinese... as he claims Kiev's forces captured two Chinese nationals fighting alongside the Russians.
As International Relations and Security Analyst Mark Sleboda noted, Zelensky's routine secured long-range strikes from Biden, so now he's telling Trump, "I see Chinese people."
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"Forgive me, mother. I just wanted to help people. I wanted to save lives" – those were the final words of one of the 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers who were murdered by Israeli forces in a video that showed the IDF opening fire on a clearly marked emergency vehicle
But this horrific massacre isn't the exception. It's the rule when it comes to Israel's mass killings of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
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Trump is wasting no time sending tensions with Iran soaring, as he threatens to bomb the country if Tehran doesn’t agree to a version of the JCPOA (the deal Trump withdrew the U.S. from in 2018). This, as Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth orders the Pentagon to deploy an additional aircraft carrier and more U.S. air assets to the Middle East.
Patrick Henningsen, Host of the 21st Century Wire, noted that the Trump Admin is threatening a “preemptive attack” on Iran, despite the U.S. Intelligence Community concluding that Tehran is “not building a nuclear weapon.” He also suggested that if the U.S. is serious about a deal, then they should address the biggest threat in the Middle East that is holding the region hostage: Israel, with its undeclared nuclear arsenal of an estimated 200+ warheads.
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Remember when Trump called Zelensky a "dictator" and called for new elections in Ukraine?
Apparently, he doesn't, because he's now lashing out at Putin for raising concerns about Zelensky's legitimacy, and threatening tariffs if Russia doesn't agree to a deal to end the war...
Trump seems to think threatening tariffs and sanctions is going to get him somewhere... but with Russia, he's in for a wake-up call.
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President Donald Trump said he was “very angry” and “pissed off” when Russian President Vladimir Putin criticised the credibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s leadership, adding that the comments were “not going in the right location.”
“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault — which it might not be — but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,” Trump said in an early-morning phone call with NBC News on Sunday.
“That would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t do business in the United States,” Trump said. “There will be a 25% tariff on all oil, a 25- to 50-point tariff on all oil.”
Trump continues to bomb Yemen, declaring the strikes will continue “for a long time”
It's as if the US didn't just spend 7 years bombing Yemen for Saudi Arabia, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians... only for the Saudis to give up because they couldn't defeat the Houthis.
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The Trump Admin was apparently planning for U.S. strikes on Yemen by exchanging messages and emojis in a group chat on the messaging app, Signal. At least that’s according to Jeffrey Goldberg, the Editor in Chief of The Atlantic and a former IDF prison guard.
But while the messages from Vice President JD Vance seemed to put the reason for the strikes on “bailing Europe out again,” the officials all appeared to ignore the main reason the U.S. would be bombing Yemen: for Israel.
The article exposing the messages and the fact that Goldberg was included in the chat was also published on the same day that Israel targeted and murdered two Palestinian journalists in Gaza.
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The Trump Admin is back to playing ‘Good Cop, Bad Cop’ as it claims it wants to pursue nuclear talks with Iran one day, and then threatens war with Iran the next.
In response, Iran’s supreme leader is warning that the Trump Admin’s threats “will get them nowhere,” as Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveil advanced missile systems on three strategic islands in the Persian Gulf that can target nearby “enemy bases, vessels, and assets.”
Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, of the University of Tehran, noted that if the U.S. pursues war against Iran, it would “a war of self-destruction,” because it would not only send the U.S. into an economic depression from the impact on oil and gas supplies and prices… it would also create “a global catastrophe.”
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Debanking is a ‘top 3’ issue for EU consumers, European Banking Authority says
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After hours of talks, Trump is acting like he can get through to Putin by posting "Vladimir, STOP!" on social media.
Meanwhile, Trump doesn't appear to be telling Kiev to STOP attacking Russians, and there is no STOP to US support for the ongoing proxy war against Russia.
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JD Vance is the latest member of the Trump Admin threatening to "walk away" if the US doesn't get Russia and Ukraine to agree to a deal soon. But while reports say the Trump Admin is planning to offer recognition of Crimea as a way to try to entice Russia, Zelensky is still refusing to play along.
International Relations and Security Analyst Mark Sleboda noted that the U.S. can’t even get its allies in Europe to go along with a plan, not to mention the fact that every version of the reported deal we have seen would be unacceptable to Moscow. Meanwhile, Russia is focusing on what matters: advancing on the battlefield.
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Trump says he wants a deal to end the war in Ukraine ASAP, but every report we get about what his Admin is proposing includes things that are unacceptable to Russia (the side winning the war)
The US can't promise to recognize Crimea a decade late, and expect Russia to thank them…
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While the Trump Administration is escalating tensions with Beijing through a soaring trade war, Chinese President Xi Jinping is on a tour of Southeast Asia, where he’s promoting free trade, and presenting China as a source of “stability and certainty,” at a time when the U.S. is the opposite.
Journalist and Geopolitical Analyst Danny Haiphong noted that the U.S. is actively engaged in a three-front proxy war against China, Russia and Iran, and that while Washington is trying to preserve U.S. hegemony, it’s also worried about other nations choosing to work with China and furthering the rise of the multipolar world.
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Trump's tariff tantrum is up to 145% taxes on the nearly $440 BILLION in Chinese products the US imports every year (a tax that will be paid by American consumers)
He seems to think China is going to back down, but Beijing has done the opposite, retaliating with 125% tariffs...
This come as Trump went from crashing the stock market with his announcement of plans for tariffs, to bragging about how much money his billionaire friends made from its resurgence after he put a 90-day pause on non-China tariffs.
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Trump is announcing plans for talks between the US and Iran... but he's doing it with Netanyahu by his side, as the US Military is increasing its presence in the Middle East and sending additional defense systems to Israel.
The US is preparing for more endless war.
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China has announced plans to impose 34% retaliatory tariffs on all goods imported from the U.S., after President Trump raised tariffs on imports from China up to 54% and global markets were sent reeling as a result.
But as we’ve been reminded by a recently reported leaked memo to the Pentagon, the Trump Admin isn’t just pursuing an economic war with China, they’re actively preparing for a direct war...
KJ Noh, a geopolitical analyst and Co-Host of ‘The China Report’ on Breakthrough News, noted that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent declaration that Japan will be the next “war-fighting headquarters” for the U.S. is a reminder that Washington is working to establish a “Pan-Asian NATO” for a future war with China.
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Trump is throwing out tariffs like candy, leading to fears over the impact on the global economy… but those aren’t the only tensions his Administration is pursuing right now, as it continues to support a proxy war against Russia, plans for war with China, and has increased the U.S. military presence in the Middle East in anticipation of an attack on Iran.
Joe Lauria, Journalist and Editor-in-Chief of Consortium News, noted that after the Israeli assassination of Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and the overthrow of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last year, Israel is feeling more emboldened than ever in its plans for war with Iran. The only question is, will Trump be dumb enough to allow a war that would set the region on fire?
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As if it weren't enough for the US to lose a proxy war against Russia... the Trump Admin seems to want to lose a proxy war against Russia AND China, as a reported memo from Def. Sec Pete Hegseth is directing the Pentagon to prepare for war with China over Taiwan.
This, as China’s foreign minister is in Moscow, declaring that Russia and China are “friends forever, never enemies.”
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Rapid Response 47
POTUS: "Zelensky, by the way, I see he's trying to back out of the rare earth deal — and if he does that, he's got some problems."
"He was never going to be a member of NATO ... If he's looking to renegotiate the deal, he's got big problems."
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The U.S. Intelligence Community has released its 2025 Annual Threat Assessment, and while it warns Russia is a major threat, it also admits Moscow “retains momentum as a grinding war of attrition plays to Russia’s military advantages,” and that this war “will lead to a gradual but steady erosion of Kiev’s position on the battlefield, regardless of any U.S. or allied attempts to impose new and greater costs on Moscow.”
International Relations and Security Analyst Mark Sleboda noted that while the Trump Admin is focused on trying to get Moscow locked into a peace deal that Kiev will never fulfill, and while Kiev is busy trying to launch an incursion into Russia’s Belgorod region (because they didn’t learn their lesson in Kursk), Russia is focused on the task at hand and planning for advances in the Donbass region, as the war continues on.
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Trump's Envoy Steve Witkoff acknowledged the legitimacy of the regions that voted to join Russia, calling it the thing "no one wants to talk about."
"There have been referendums where the overwhelming majority of the people have indicated that they want to be under Russian rule"
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