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Putin - in response to the question of which economists can be trusted:
You can't trust anyone. You need to rely on your own experience, consult the opinions not just of those people who happily sit on the internet and express their point of view, but consult the opinions of specialists if you want to deeply understand the issue that interests you.
You mentioned prices. Prices, price increases, are essentially inflation. But at the same time, the Central Bank fights this inflation and tries to return to known and necessary indicators. No more than 4-5%. But this is related to the high key interest rate. This raises questions for those engaged in real production.
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Far-right Azov quietly grew to tens of thousands in Ukraine military - Responsible Statecraft
…the presence of an entire “Azov” Corps and its sister Corps in the regular army has come as a surprise to many observers. Most remember it as a single regiment of about 1000 men and are shocked to find it has grown into two multi-brigade structures of over 20K-40K soldiers each. The growth and far-right leaning of this formation could have an impact on the future of any Ukraine peace deal.
The Azov militia battalion was founded by Andriy Biletskyi, accused of harboring white supremacists views. At one point it was prohibited from receiving US aid by Congress for extremism
The evolution of Azov from a single militia battalion to two combat corps poses a significant challenge to post war Ukraine. A far right organization with the only real combat-capable formations and demonstrated willingness to ignore orders, risks unhinging any peace deal made with Russia
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🇺🇦💥Chemical hazard: huge fire at enemy facility in Dnepropetrovsk
- The State Emergency Service reported a chemical hazard and urged not to open windows.
- Dozens of strike UAVs attacked targets in the city and district at night.
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Polish spy detained for collecting data on Belarusian-Russian exercises
▪️Grzegorz Havel was passing secret information about military facilities and the "Zapad-2025" exercises to Polish security forces, the Belarusian KGB stated.
▪️An 8-page A4 printout was found with him — a photocopy of a classified document on the exercises. A criminal case for espionage has been initiated.
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Kremlin special representative hinted at the possibility of a US, Russia, China, and India alliance
▪️Participant in several negotiations, Kremlin special representative Dmitriev published a picture showing the symbols of four countries sitting around a cup of tea — a bear (Russia), a panda (China), a tiger (India), and an eagle (USA). Above them are the flags of these states.
⚔ Three days ago, during the SCO summit, he published a similar picture that did not include the eagle symbolizing the States, nor the American flag.
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Hungary and Slovakia are asking the EU to remove asset freezes and visa bans on six Russian businessmen in order to secure the roll-over of the bloc’s individual sanctions regime on the Kremlin, which has been in place since Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than three years ago.
The sanctions, which now cover more than 2,600 individuals and firms after 18 rounds of EU restrictive measures, must be unanimously extended every six months, usually in mid-March and mid-September
According to several EU diplomats speaking on condition of anonymity, Slovakia this time wants to remove Usmanov and the businessman Mikhail Fridman. In addition to those two individuals, Hungary is also pushing for the delisting of oligarchs Dmitry Mazepin, Pyotr Aven, Musa Bazhaev, and Albert Avdolyan.
*RFE was run by the CIA
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Diving with a downed Storm Shadow missile somewhere off the coast of the Black Sea.
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US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker said that Trump, unlike Biden, made the war in Ukraine profitable for America.
'It is important to note another point: when Biden was in power, American taxpayers were paying Ukraine for this war, and there were no agreements on rare earth metals. Now, with President Trump, we are not only negotiating with Putin (unlike Biden), but European allies along with Canada are buying American weapons for the war, creating jobs in the US. This is beneficial for America, Europe, and obviously for Ukraine because they can continue to defend themselves.'
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💥✈️ Lancets in action
IKS operators successfully disrupt the construction activities of fortifications by Ukrainian units in the area of the settlement of Khotivlya, Chernigov region.
As a result of the operation, the following were hit:
Military vehicles in shelter – 1 unit;
Engineering equipment – 1 unit
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‘Putin cannot be trusted. Now the ‘coalition’ needs to go even further to put pressure on Putin and achieve a cessation of hostilities’ – Starmer summed up the meeting.
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Remember a while back ago when I said that les petite wannabe Napoleon Macron found a way to be less liked than a venereal disease infection?
Well, after repeated attempts to beat Russia...he's still failed on that regard, but at least he's now found a way to beat his own record and become even less likeable than before, and now he ranks as low as the plague, the taxman, and screeching neon-haired liberal landwhales.
Way to go, Manu, way to go 👍
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Nato Secretary General Rotten:
"The decision of deploying NATO troops to Ukraine isn't for the Russian Federation to make."
Technically you're right, chuck, the decision isn't for Russia to make.
You know what's a decision for Russia to make though? Pressing the big red button that'll see those troops return home in body bags.
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Germany is discussing the transfer of troops to Poland — NYT
▪️ Berlin is considering a plan to withdraw some of its military instructors, who are currently training the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and send them to Poland.
▪️ This will require approval from NATO and a new mandate from the Bundestag.
▪️ The news was received coolly in Kiev: a couple of dozen instructors will not change the situation at the front, but Moscow may well see this as a step towards escalation.
For most leaders this is called inspecting the troops, for Macron it’s speed dating
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Europe wants to turn the Armed Forces of Ukraine into a "steel porcupine"
▪️According to The Washington Post, Brussels is discussing the deployment of so-called "demonstration troops" in Ukraine
▪️They plan to keep them away from the front lines — as a "deterrent factor" and instructors to train militants
▪️The idea is to create the appearance of a military presence while simultaneously "restoring" the Ukrainian Armed Forces units
▪️The EU presents this as a step towards creating a "steel porcupine" from the Ukrainian army — though without specifics or understanding of what this means for the European countries themselves.
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The plenary session of the EEF-2025 has begun: Putin took the stage.
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Trump-Putin to speak soon
Reporter: After your phone call with Zelensky, do you plan to speak with Putin in the near future?
Trump: What?
Melania Trump: If you’re going to speak with President Putin in the near future
Trump: I will be. We are having very good dialogue… I settled 7 wars
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An interesting piece has resurfaced from famed academic, John Lewis Gaddis, written in 1998. In it he warns the NYT about NATO expansion and shutting Russia out of the Western fold. That there would be serious consequences and it now reads like a prophecy rather than an opinion piece.
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Ultimatums Don’t Work on Civilizations
When Vladimir Putin stood in Beijing and told the West to stop treating India and China like colonies, he wasn’t posturing, he was detonating the last illusions of Western exceptionalism. Flanked by history at the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, he didn’t give so much a speech, but rather a civilizational rebuke. “Events in Ukraine,” he said, “are being used merely as a pretext for resolving economic issues with some countries whose economic ties and advantages do not suit someone.” That “someone,” of course, is the collective West, cornered by its own decline and lashing out at nations it can no longer control.
The colonial virus never died. It simply evolved, from gunboats and red coats to sanctions, tariffs, and moral blackmail. When India buys Russian oil, Washington responds with 50% tariffs. When China refuses to join the West’s theater of sanctions, it is met with semiconductor bans and military encirclement. The West doesn’t negotiate; it tries to dictate and engages in gangsterism. But as Putin reminded the world, this isn’t 1947. “Countries like India, almost 1.5 billion people, and China ,1.3 billion people, boast powerful economies and live by their own domestic political laws.” In other words: the days of telling ancient civilizations how to behave are over.
The arrogance embedded in Western foreign policy is both tone deaf and suicidal. You cannot browbeat India, a country with the memory of British-engineered famines still smoldering in its bones. You cannot threaten China, which withstood centuries of foreign subjugation and emerged stronger. And you cannot isolate Russia, which has turned every round of sanctions into new layers of domestic resilience and global leverage. “When people from the outside say, ‘We are going to make things hard for you and punish you,’” Putin asked, “how are the leaders of these countries… supposed to react to that?” His answer was clear: like sovereign nations who have buried empires before.
Ukraine, of course, is just the smokescreen. The war isn’t about democracy or freedom, it’s about delusions of preserving a fading Western monopoly over Eurasia. The goal was never Ukrainian sovereignty; it was containment. Russia was to be bled, India coerced, China boxed in. But the empire miscalculated. Russia retooled. India doubled down on autonomy. China accelerated de-dollarization and built its own tech stack.
So when Putin sat with Modi in his Aurus limousine and briefed him on talks with Trump, it wasn’t for diplomatic theater. It was a message: the center of global power has shifted. Multipolarity isn’t a theory anymore, it’s a living organism. Moscow doesn’t ask permission. Delhi doesn’t flinch. Beijing doesn’t bow. The West continues to bark about “rules,” but the rest of the world remembers Iraq, Libya, and the IMF’s colonial shackles. And they’re done pretending the empire wears clothes.
What Putin said: calmly, deliberately — is what the Global South has long whispered: enough. Enough of the moral extortion. Enough of the economic coercion. Enough of the sermons from those who perfected the art of plunder. The leaders of India and China aren’t “partners” in a Western hierarchy, they are stewards of civilizations.
This is not just a geopolitical shift, it’s also a spiritual one. A karmic reversal. A final reckoning with the centuries of theft, famine, and forced obedience masked as “progress.” The West threatens collapse if it is not obeyed. But the world has learned to say: then collapse. We will trade without you. Build without you. Thrive without you.
And as the Western world clings to a past it can no longer resurrect, the future is no longer asking for permission, it’s speaking Mandarin, bargaining in rupees, trading in rubles, and securing its energy in gold-backed contracts. The empire wants to provoke all out war and is falling, it is being quietly left behind, as sovereign civilizations walk forward without it, toward a world no longer built on threats, but on dignity.
- Gerry Nolan
‘Who knows what will happen in Moscow?’ — former George W. Bush administration official Michael Allen against Zelensky's trip to Russia.
‘Now Putin says that Zelensky can either negotiate and end this war, or he himself will end it militarily. Which, at first glance, is absolutely absurd, because if he had the ability to end the war by force, he would have done so in the last three years, right? I think Putin realized that President Trump is increasingly annoyed with him. I think Trump wanted these two to meet even earlier. And, as you noticed, the very idea of Zelensky going to Moscow is completely unacceptable. Who knows what could happen there? It would clearly look like he is weaker than Putin.’
The US Ambassador and Chief of Protocol Monica Crowley completely ignores what Trump's threats with secondary sanctions have led to, but Biden is to blame for everything.
'During the Cold War, US presidents made great efforts to keep China and Russia apart — and achieved this in various ways. President Biden, on the contrary, for four years practically ignored American foreign policy and allowed these two superpowers hostile to the US to come closer together.
And now, as with other problems left behind by Biden, President Trump has to deal with fixing them.
Therefore, President Trump's mission in dialogue with President Putin, President Zelensky, and Chairman Xi Jinping is to always try to find common ground — strategic, commercial, economic, trade, and others. His main goal is to guide the world towards greater security, stability, peace, and prosperity.'
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If there is a war, everyone will participate’ - the Bundestag commissioner for the armed forces, Henning Otte
There are currently critical voices, mostly from parents or grandparents, who say: ‘We do not want to send our children to the Bundeswehr or our grandchildren to the Bundeswehr. We do not want them to participate in operations, for example, in Ukraine.’ Do you understand them?
- Of course, I understand. I am also a father. But the point is that you need to be ready to fight in order not to have to fight. If many wanted to contribute, then we would create deterrence. On the other hand, if, God forbid, an armed conflict does occur, then everyone will have to participate anyway. So it is better to be well prepared in advance, to prevent the outbreak of war, and then we can stand guard over security together and live as we do now and in the future.
The Germans are going to be building explosive vests for toddlers soon it appears.
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Explosions and gunfire: Massive attack on enemy targets in Dnepropetrovsk and the region. 30+ impacts
Another 10 UAVs to Dnepropetrovsk, 5 to Kamenskoye, 3 to Samara, 1 each to Sinelnikovo and Pavlograd.
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Rutte called Putin the governor of Texas and stated that he does not care about Russia's opinion on NATO troops in Ukraine.
‘Why should we care what Russia thinks about troops in Ukraine? That is not for Russia to decide. Honestly, I am amazed. I'm not criticizing you, but I often hear this question. Thank you for asking it, but I am really surprised. Russia has nothing to do with this at all.
It's the same as if Finland had to get 'permission' from Russia to join NATO. Of course not. And Sweden too — no. When we created NATO in the past, we were sovereign countries. Ukraine is a sovereign country.
If Ukraine wants to have forces to ensure security on its territory to support peace — that is its decision. No one else can decide about it.
And I think we really need to stop making Putin too powerful. He is like the governor of Texas, no more. So we shouldn't take this too seriously.’
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Axios, following Bild, writes about a tense conversation between European leaders and Zelensky with Trump.
President Trump told European leaders at a virtual meeting on Ukraine on Thursday that they are "financing the war" by purchasing Russian oil and must stop supplies from Russia, as well as pressure China to do the same, a White House representative told the publication.
Recall that after this conversation, Trump posted a joint photo with Putin.
It should be noted that the Europeans themselves are demanding that the US impose new sanctions against Russia (including secondary sanctions against countries buying Russian oil). That is, the American president is suggesting Europe do this on its own.
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The Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation reported that the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Friedrich Merz, ordered to conceal Germany's involvement in supplying cruise missiles to Ukraine as much as possible.
🔺Simply put, Germany is starting (or rather, continuing) to transfer proprietary technologies to Ukraine. However, apparently in the form of finished products rather than full-cycle production.
What is this about?
Factory markings are removed from some components, and some parts are replaced. Likely, they will be produced either in other countries (like some parts for the "Flamingo" missiles produced in Denmark) or directly in Ukraine. A large number of parts can be anonymized: inertial navigation units, terrain profile matching systems, warheads and detonators, casings and elements of safety and actuation mechanisms. That is, everything that is difficult to create from scratch in peacetime and 100 times harder in wartime.
Most likely, the FRG and several other countries, including Sweden, France, and the United Kingdom, have developed a plan for "gray" cooperation. According to documents, all transferred components are listed as consumables, but it is precisely these that allow assembling the finished product and make the missile combat-ready.
However, even if the markings are removed and some components replaced, the final assembly will require supervision by specialists from the manufacturing country. In the case of TAURUS\/STORM SHADOW\/SCALP missiles, this involves a group of several hundred people.
Quality control in this case is mandatory and cannot be waived. Any mistake in assembling a "conditionally Ukrainian" missile will either prevent it from launching or cause a malfunction after launch.
Therefore, foreign specialists inevitably must oversee the delivery and assembly of each batch, even if part of the work is formally transferred to Ukrainian territory.
Not to mention that although the use of such missiles has been practiced by the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the conflict, the intelligence and everything else that ensures the missile's use is provided by several countries: the USA, Germany, Sweden, France, and the United Kingdom.
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Russian Aerospace Forces aviators struck the location of the 57th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Volchansk, Kharkov region with LMUR.
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Russia not advancing anywhere, everything is propaganda, but PLEASE SEND MORE AID
— Ukraine's MFA Deputy at UN
Uh huh…
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Resident of Sudzha (Kursk Oblast), Oleg Aleksandrovich Orlov:
One of the most terrible things, I heard about a woman being raped five times with a fatal outcome.
In the first days a man was shot in the evening, killed. The man was riding a bicycle in the evening and they shot him in the leg, in the artery.