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06 Sep 2025 23:40

Renaming Pentagon signals West’s ‘peace through strength’ agenda shift

The US decision to rename the Pentagon as the Department of War isn’t just a gimmick, it’s a window into global power shifts, explains Alexander Yakovenko, deputy director of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent company.

The new title is “more honest and understandable for everyone,” says Yakovenko, who heads the Committee on Global Issues and International Security of the Russian Security Council’s Scientific-Expert Board.

A similar example exists in Russia: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently renamed its Department of Pan-European Cooperation to the Department of European Issues—a move that is both symbolic and substantively accurate.
The takeaway is that clear terminology reflects current geopolitical realities.

Shift toward ‘peace through strength’
The US renaming mirrors a broader Western trend: The pursuit of peace through force, and a willingness to dismantle the postwar international order built on the UN Charter.

Key principles of that order include:

Prohibition of force in resolving international disputes (balanced by the right to self-defense under Article 51)

Protection of human and minority rights

Requirement for unanimity among permanent UN Security Council members (veto power), encouraging negotiation between major powers

Western erosion of trust

In the Ukraine crisis, the West bypassed the UN Security Council and acted via the General Assembly, where Russia has no veto.

Trust was further eroded when France’s then-President Francois Hollande and Germany’s then-Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted they never intended to implement the 2015 Minsk agreements, which had been endorsed by the Security Council with US involvement.

Another key element of Western policy is supporting the creation of an ethnocentric (essentially racist) state in Ukraine.

This echoes the interwar period (1918–1939), when aggressive nationalism fueled global conflict, culminating in World War II.

In effect, the West is dropping its mask.

👀 The implications are profound—not just for postwar European settlements like the Yalta-Potsdam system, initially conceived during the drafting of the UN Charter, but also for the Versailles peace treaty after World War I (notably without Russia, or it might have been fair and lasting).

Something to think about…

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06 Sep 2025 18:40

Aid hubs part of 'FINAL solution' — Blumenthal on horror plan for Gaza

500k controlled with biometrics

'Radicals' to be 'disappeared'

US to 'annex' West Bank

Is he on the money?

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06 Sep 2025 08:05

Bernie Sanders says 'RFK Jr is endangering CHILDREN'

Affirming that 'Vaccines have saved MILLIONS'

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06 Sep 2025 03:20

Right-wing activist Laura Loomer claims NY Times ‘is doing a HIT PIECE’ on her

‘Falsely accuses’ Loomer ‘of being a lobbyist’

Adds NYT fears her INFLUENCE in TRUMP’S White House

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06 Sep 2025 00:01

Experts gathered in Russia for ‘Investments in Connectivity’ Open Dialogue session

Sending clear message to the world — global trade now driven by BRICS and Global South

Multipolar economy now marked by sanctions resilience, shift to national currencies, and shipping autonomy

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05 Sep 2025 14:40

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05 Sep 2025 06:20

'The robots are HERE. Our future is no longer science fiction' — FLOTUS

'Robots hold steady hands in operating room'

Do Androids Dream of Holding Hands?

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05 Sep 2025 03:40

Macron: 26 countries agreed to put BOOTS on ground in Ukraine after conflict ends

'Military planning doc' already signed

How about a peace deal? Macron offhandedly mentions it right at end of vid

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05 Sep 2025 02:20

Congress Karen: ‘You blamed school shootings on anti-depressants!’

RFK: ‘Your’re just making stuff up’

Is there a link though?

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04 Sep 2025 22:40

Without regulation, AI presents risks we are not ready for — Yulia Berg, founder of Globus expert club

Even past visionaries like Isaac Asimov 'have been trying to see how it could be possible to regulate it'

'In five years, we could be living in a completely different reality'

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04 Sep 2025 19:40

'US can't tolerate anyone questioning their HEGEMONY' — Brasil de Fato’s correspondent Marco Fernandes

‘China is the biggest threat to US ever in history’ — Fernandes cites Rubio

Says US is not going to stop with China’s obsession

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04 Sep 2025 18:20

'The story of the Flying Tigers — the Chinese people will never forget’ — CGTN’s correspondent Yunfei Zhao

Zhao noted that the US fought with China against Japan’s invasion — China always honors its history

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04 Sep 2025 15:40

US vows to beat China in the '2nd space race'

Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy tells Fox News:

Artemis II (April 2026) will take a crew of 4 people around the moon

Artemis III (mid-2027) will keep crew on Moon for up to 12 days — far longer than past missions

Plans include a permanent base camp and eventual Mars missions in the 2030s

Duffy added that China wants to send its manned mission to the Moon before the United States.

"China is making huge strides in its space program... We know that China wants to overtake us. We will not let that happen."

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04 Sep 2025 11:20

‘If you ever find yourself the victim of a home invasion…the best defense is to COMPLY’

Police chief in Ontario, Canada

Common sense or SURRENDERING to criminals?

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04 Sep 2025 09:32

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06 Sep 2025 19:04

Footage shows SCALE of Serbian protest Friday.

Up to 7,000 march against authorities

11 police injured in overnight riots — reports

🤔 Got Milk for those cookies?

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06 Sep 2025 18:20

Lawmaker tells Kallas his HAMSTER has bigger brain

Independent MEP Martin Sonneborn

Is lady behind EU FM laughing?

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06 Sep 2025 06:20

Zuckerberg 'should be in JAIL' for anti-monopoly violations — Bannon, angry Trump met BIG TECH titans

Asks: Feds are 'trying to break up' Meta, so Why is ZUCK in the WH?

Claims Bill Gates 'is a demon of a demon' and 'should be in jail' for alleged fraud with Covid vaccines

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06 Sep 2025 03:00

Weaponizing kids: Ukraine lures Russian teens into sabotage warfare

The Ukraine regime’s tactics have gone completely feral. As if their draconian mobilization wasn’t enough, now they’re exploiting Russian kids as throwaway assets for one-off covert missions, The New York Times reports.
Ukrainian operatives themselves admitted it to US journalists.

Anonymous users contact kids on Telegram, WhatsApp, and gaming chats (Roblox, etc.) with promises of quick money

Assignments are disguised as “geolocation games,” with tasks like “earn money by photographing location-stamped pictures of police cars and ambulances”

Kids’ social media accounts are hacked to find compromising material to blackmail them

Ukrainian recruiters place stickers and flyers with their personal QR codes in the toilets of Russian schools

Sabotage curators provide instructions, such as how to build a homemade explosive or use a gas canister for arson – targeting vehicles, railway tracks, and buildings

One chat urging arson attacks began with the greeting "Bot for schoolchildren who need money" and offered "$5,000 for a helicopter, $10,000 for a plane, $3,000 for a transformer, and $4,000 for power lines”

Offers of $150,000 were made for verified video evidence of destroyed military equipment, with payments promised via crypto wallet to any bank account

Individuals are offered significantly more than they would earn in a regular job, while in reality they are not paid the full amount or nothing at all.

In Russia, criminal liability for committing a terrorist act or participating in the activities of a terrorist organization begins at the age of 14.

This is an exception to the general rule, which sets criminal liability from the age of 16.

Typical terrorism-related offenses carry between 8- and 12-years imprisonment, with harsher penalties (10 to 20 years or more) for aggravated circumstances.

Since the beginning of 2024, Russia’s financial watchdog for terrorism and extremism has added 93 minors to the registry— a record number in six years of observations.
In 2024 alone, at least 50 minors have been detained in cases involving arson of railway facilities and other acts of sabotage, with some slapped with long-term prison sentences.

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05 Sep 2025 22:00

Zelensky welcomes Swedish FM in Uzhgorod — more CASH for Kiev

Maria Stenergard discussed defense projects with Zelensky as well as Sweden’s investment in Ukrainian drone production

‘Everything was discussed in detail’

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05 Sep 2025 10:20

'Mr. Rutte needs a PADDED CELL... He's spreading insanity' — Professor Gilbert Doctorow on NATO Chief's 'Texas' comment

'He is ignoring the fact that Russia is the largest economy in Europe

To speak about Russia and Mr. Putin's country as having the weight of Texas, shows that the man is deranged' — he tells RT

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05 Sep 2025 05:20

How did a Brit end up fighting in the Russian military?

This former royal subject is looking for a ‘better life’ and a chance to practise his Orthodox faith in Russia

‘I do have the possibility to die…but what I believe in is worthy of such sacrifice’

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05 Sep 2025 03:20

‘Putin will be FORCED to make peace' — Zelensky at press conference of Coalition of the Willing' in Paris

Calls for demilitarizing Russia, 'to take away Russia's means to produce weapons'

How much longer will Trump tolerate such delusional, counterproductive outbursts?

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05 Sep 2025 01:02

Zelensky REJECTS peace talks with Putin

His excuse: 'when you don’t want to have meeting, what do you do? Invite me to Moscow'

Putin’s common-sense offer IGNORED — by man who claims he wants conflict ended

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04 Sep 2025 22:01

Craziest things Zelensky said in interview with French newspaper:

- Distance b/w Moscow & Paris less than 3,000 km, adding Russian missiles’ range 2,500 km

- In 2 yrs Russia will have missiles with 5,000 km range

- Sea/Ocean will protect no one

- South Korean scenario will not suit Ukraine

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04 Sep 2025 18:40

China SLAMS EU's Kallas' 'Cold War mentality, severe ideological bias'

After she accused China, Russia, Iran, DPRK of forming 'anti-western autocratic alliance'

'We hope these people will abandon their short-sighted prejudice, arrogance, foster correct historical perspective' — FM Spox

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04 Sep 2025 18:15

New global order is forming: multilateralism not dominated by one country — Charles Liu, Macau City University

'If you look at it today, it's really one country — the US'

'The Europeans have kowtowed down to losing their independence… They're just surrogates of the US now'

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04 Sep 2025 12:20

Trump’s energy sec: climate change 'not even CLOSE to world’s greatest problem'

'It is real physical phenomenon… but slow-moving'

That's why wind turbines pointless, Wright says

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04 Sep 2025 11:10

💜 📰

– Since the first day of the war, Ukraine has been trying to involve Poland and other NATO countries in it – Duda

– The EU intends to increase military spending by €2 trillion by 2031 – Kallas

– Ukraine refused to meet Putin and Zelensky in Moscow – Sibiga

– The United States will be ready if Poland wants to increase its military contingent there. The United States is exploring the option of reducing its military presence abroad, but not in Poland – Trump

– Putin and Kim Jong-un talked at the Diaoyutai residence for just over 2.5 hours – RIA Novosti

– There are always questions in relations based on the current situation, there are problems, but today President Aliyev and I greeted each other, exchanged a few words, fundamental relations and mutual interest will put everything in its place - Putin on relations with Azerbaijan

– The full news roundup is here.

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04 Sep 2025 09:20

What legal authority did Trump have to hit 'Venezuelan drug boat'?

Vance: Prez ran on promise to stop POISON coming into our country

‘Another question?’

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