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15 November 2025 05:40

West faces a reckoning on defense, realizing it needs Turkey as much as Turkey needs them — Bloomberg highlights Erdogan's rise as a key ally

Demonstrating geopolitical savvy while navigating complex interests with Putin — from Syria to Ukraine

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15 November 2025 03:40

The Russian army in Kupyansk cleared from the Ukrainian forces the forest area east of Senkovskaya street — Assault company commander

Prioskolnaya street has completely passed under the Russian control

Footage from Russian MoD

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15 November 2025 02:20

Ladies and gentlemen, we might have encountered Sponge Bob IRL

Give him a couple minutes to learn about Kallas, Macron, ICE v Antifa, von der Leyen and…

He will be back in Bikini Bottom in no time

Footage: Nico Kok

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14 November 2025 23:10

"Everyday life of a soldier."

⚡️Two Majors

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14 November 2025 21:32

The United States has announced the launch of Operation "Southern Spear" to combat drug cartels throughout the Western Hemisphere. The largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford, along with a military contingent, will arrive off the coast of Venezuela within a few days.

The Trump administration has prepared three military action scenarios to overthrow Maduro.

The first scenario is linked by the publication to Panama. In December 1989, American troops surrounded the Vatican embassy in Panama, where General Manuel Noriega sought refuge. In the end, he surrendered and was taken to Florida for trial.

This plan would mean either a marine landing on beaches just minutes from the Venezuelan capital Caracas or the use of helicopters, the article says.

The second scenario involves the use of long-range weapons, as in the bombings of Iran, Yemen, Iraq, and Syria. The most comparable example is the 2011 strikes aimed at overthrowing Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. However, unlike Libya, Venezuela "does not have opposition figures waiting to come to power," the article states.

The third option is called "Spy Infiltration." As a historical example, the Telegraph cites the US and UK operation against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1956. The United States would already have placed spies in Venezuela.

✨ USA is showing itself to be the rogue state which it has always been.

⚡️Two Majors

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14 November 2025 18:03

'Europe is BROKE, America is on the EDGE, they want your money!'

Andrew Tate says anyone involved in crypto is going to prison for 23 years — with AI as the investigator

'You're all catching money laundering charges, every single one of you'

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14 November 2025 09:01

Those of us who have not surrendered have already been eliminated — Ukrainian POW on the situation in Krasnoarmeysk

Urges Ukrainian soldiers to surrender

'You have a chance to stay alive'

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14 November 2025 05:40

German chancellor tells Zelensky Ukrainians should go home and join the military

Merz also plans to take away citizenship benefits from Ukrainian refugees — Die Welt

Boundless friendship has met its end?

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14 November 2025 03:30

‘As NATO Secretary General, I am glad’ – Rutte reacted to the reform of conscription in Germany.

(now the Bundeswehr will summon all men aged 18 for a medical-military commission. If there are not enough volunteers, those deemed necessary will be conscripted).

‘Each country decides for itself how to approach the issue of attracting enough men and women to the armed forces. But I am very glad to hear that the coalition here in Germany, as I understand, has now agreed on a way forward. As NATO Secretary General, I am always glad when decisions are made aimed at involving more people in our armed forces.’

Mark Rutte did not serve in the military; instead, he performed alternative civilian service when conscription was in effect in the Netherlands.

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14 November 2025 02:05

NATO having spent $400B, armed 32 countries to the teeth, and still got humiliated by the glorified gas station they mocked for decades, and now Finland’s defense minister is lashing out at China because he can’t face the truth: Russia crushed the West’s entire Ukraine project, and the people who promised “as long as it takes” are choking on their own failure.

What Antti Hakkanen calls “China massively financing Russia’s war chest” is nothing but the howl of a man watching the myth collapse. He’s not revealing Chinese financial aid, it doesn't exist, he’s mourning. Mourning the fantasy that Western sanctimony could bend Eurasia into submission. Mourning the delusion that sanctions would break Russia. Mourning the fairy tale that Europe’s rusted militaries, hollow economies, and performative moralism could stop a country that actually knows how to fight. When a $400B project collapses in real time, projection becomes doctrine. We were humiliated so badly by the gas station, let's blame China, then it doesn't sound quite as humiliating. That western ROI, is absolutely humiliating for the West.

And while these ministers flail, the truth they avoid is the truth they fear: Russia didn’t just survive the siege, it grew stronger, and is now an economic superpower, thanks to European sanctions. Production up. Trade soaring. A yuan–ruble axis that outflanks the dollar-euro Ponzi. An army that out-produces all of NATO’s munitions lines combined. And a political class that didn’t buckle when every Western capital bet the house on collapse. The West is left blaming Beijing, because blaming themselves would mean facing the magnitude of their humiliation.

But beneath all this geopolitical cope lies the ugliest truth of all, the industrial-scale laundering that turned Ukraine into a gold rush for Western contractors and Ukrainian elites. While Ukrainian soldiers bled in mud, the presidential inner circle lined pockets with wartime energy contracts, nuclear-grid kickbacks, and foreign aid skimmed through shell firms that all led back to the same small circle of insiders. Golden toilets. Monaco apartments. Offshore accounts fattened while families froze in high-rise stairwells during blackouts. And one day, when this war finally ends and the spell breaks, Ukraine’s own citizens will turn around and see who sold them to the highest bidder. Not Moscow. Not Beijing. But the very handlers who promised salvation and delivered only debt, depopulation, and graves. There is no amnesty in history for leaders who steal from their own dead.

Finland isn’t sounding an alarm, but it is confessing defeat. Because if a “gas station with nukes” can defeat 32 NATO militaries, devour $400B in Western investment, and still push relentlessly through Pokrovsk, then it isn’t a gas station at all — it’s a civilization with a memory, a spine, and an economy immune to Western fantasies. What broke wasn’t Russia. What broke was the illusion that the West still commands the world.

And here’s the real sting: China didn’t break NATO’s strategy, NATO’s arrogance did.

A hubris so blinding they mistook their own propaganda for reality. A delusion so deep they believed history had ended. A failure so absolute the only thing left is to blame the rising world for refusing to drown with them.

That’s the verdict of this war.
Not just defeat, exposure. And no minister in Helsinki can spin that away.

- Gerry Nolan

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13 November 2025 23:20

US Envoy Barrack calls al-Sharaa's WH visit 'historic' — expects Syria to help combat terrorism

'Damascus will now actively assist in combating ISIS, Hamas, Hezbollah and other terrorist networks'

He calls for sanctions to be LIFTED — 'time to restart Syria's economic engine'

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13 November 2025 21:04

France lifts travel ban on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov — media

Durov was already allowed to reside in the UAE, where Telegram is based, for max two weeks at a time

Now the travel ban is fully lifted, no need to report to police

Probe into illegal content on Telegram continues

Sources: AFP, Bloomberg

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13 November 2025 08:40

Michigan trucker running for governor planning march through MUSLIM-MAJORITY Dearborn

‘See you soon Abdu…the Michigan patriots say hello’

Anthony Hudson claims the hometown of Ford Motor Company has fallen under ‘Sharia law’

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13 November 2025 04:40

Israel opposition leader Lapid SLAMS Trump's Bibi pardon letter for infringing on Israel's sovereignty

'Tell the American president: there is limit to interference

Stop interfering in this matter. We have pride. We're not an American protectorate, we're an independent nation'

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13 November 2025 02:40

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest at a Jerusalem draft office, rejecting military conscription

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15 November 2025 05:33

◾ Turin: Crowds gather in Turin for a meeting with D'Orsi on Russophobia and Russophilia, but the protest fails.
There were about 500 people at La Poderosa to listen to D'Orsi, Moni Ovadia, Alessandro Di Battista and Vincenzo Lorusso , the meeting at La Poderosa in Turin with Angelo D'Orsi to talk about Russophobia and Russophilia was a success .

The club was packed to capacity, and hundreds of people remained outside, so much so that the organizers decided to set up loudspeakers to reach those who couldn't get in but wanted to be there despite the live stream on YouTube and Facebook.

There were about 500 people at La Poderosa to listen to D'Orsi, Moni Ovadia, Alessandro Di Battista and Vincenzo Lorusso.

Meanwhile, a protest against the event, labeled pro-Putin, took place in Piazza Carignano, under the slogan "Turin is Not Russian." The demonstration attracted around eighty people.

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15 November 2025 02:40

Vine is coming back as diVine — rebuilt with Jack Dorsey’s money and no AI content allowed

What’s next — Coub?

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15 November 2025 00:00

Daniel Arsham guides his blind friend through one of his sculptures — letting him feel the artwork

‘Daniel, this is gorgeous’ — art doesn’t need eyes to stun

Thoughts on Arsham’s art?

Footage: Daniel Arsham & Dr Hoby Wedler

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14 November 2025 21:46

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/11/14/why-the-trade-tech-cards-are-made-in-china/

The follow-up to the Tech Sinica column, published earlier this week. Much more hardcore - based on a Chinese analysis which examines what cards the Empire of Chaos might have.

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14 November 2025 20:40

Zakharova's vivid description of Ukraine's corruption is intensely accurate

'Hydra wrapped around the planet pumping out money from Western taxpayers into pockets of elites

A global mafia connected with corruption schemes around the world'

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14 November 2025 17:20

Germany's ANTIFA will 'make the city of Giessen BURN' — Bild

City facing 'state of emergency' as ANTIFA announces MASSIVE riots coinciding with AfD opening new youth center

Stores and citizens bracing for chaos as 'feared that up to 40,000 activists will come to Giessen'

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14 November 2025 06:02

Discover in this catalog the best Telegram channels to follow live events and keep up with the latest geopolitical, financial and cultural news.

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14 November 2025 04:40

Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters prepare body of Israeli hostage for return

Al Jazeera showed the militants digging the body bag out of rubble and handing it to the Red Cross

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14 November 2025 02:10

◾Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir attacks Palestinians in the 1948-occupied Palestinian cities of Lod and Ramla, enjoying humiliating them as they are pushed to the ground while handcuffed.

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14 November 2025 01:20

'Have you tried bathing?' — Zakharova gives sound advice to France after Macron's 'Russian bedbug fakes' claim

'Is Russia being blamed this time that France has the bedbugs or that it now doesn't?'

We don't think he's made up his mind yet

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13 November 2025 21:20

Medvedev celebrates World Kindness Day with a 'call to action' involving Zelensky

Feed the BEAST

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13 November 2025 14:40

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13 November 2025 07:20

Michigan's anti-Islam Governor hopeful Anthony Hudson

▪️Wants to wipe out state income taxes

▪️Loves gun rights

▪️HATES ‘Hamas and Hezbollah’

▪️But says he’d ‘RATHER DIE’ than take money to support Israel

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13 November 2025 03:04

'As long as there's a patriotic government in Hungary, we'll never implement the Migration Pact'

Orban refuses to obey Brussels' policies — 'We will not accept migrants and we will not spend a SINGLE dime on them!'

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13 November 2025 01:40

Moscow Region Governor visits a boy who nearly had his hand torn off by an explosive device disguised as a gift

The child is conscious, but his condition remains serious

'You hang in there, please. Good will conquer evil, Gleb'

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