Russian deputy envoy to UN says Trump’s campaign promises are all talk and ‘now it’s time for actions’
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"WE AGREE TO AGREE ON THE THINGS WE AGREE ON: Earlier, the Iranian delegation met with the IAEA & neither made any concessions.
Iran: Our nuclear program will
continue within the framework of national interests, and we will take countermeasures against the resolutions.
IAEA: Nuclear installations must not be attacked; it is my duty to prevent such attacks - Grossi Head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) speaking in Iran.
❗The villages of Grigorovka and Petrovka near Selidovo came under the control of the Russian Army.
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In December 2024, exercises will be held in Russia to disconnect the Russian segment of the Internet from the global network. The reasons are obvious - in the event of a full-fledged war with NATO, Russia's entire network infrastructure connected to the western part of the global network might be brought down. Therefore, in the conditions of a hot war with the West, we will have to exist within our own segment. Checking such scenarios is an urgent need, even without reference to the need to test the resilience of our Internet segment in the face of ongoing cyber attacks on our network infrastructure.
We can only wish that the exercises are successful and in the process we do not bring down the services necessary for people, including those that are used in the interests of the actions of our troops in the Ukraine.
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From military overreach to shrinking revenues: What’s driving the US deficit and debt explosion?
The new US fiscal year has just begun but the federal budget deficit has already ballooned some 287% to $257 bln in October, up from $67 bln in October 2023, the Treasury has announced.
The deficit bump – the largest since 2020, was attributed to shrinking revenues (down $77 bln, or 19%), growing spending ($114 bln or 24% more, mostly military, Social Security and Medicare-related), and various “one-off” factors.
In annual terms, the deficit reached $1.8 trln in 2024, up from $1.7 trln in 2023, with $1 trln+ in interest payments on America’s gargantuan $36 trln debt – the largest expense after Social Security, accounting for well-over half of expenses.
Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency has vowed to tackle the deficit by providing “advice and guidance” on how to slash spending, cut bureaucracy and regulations, but the vote is still out on how effective it will be.
The US has run deficits for all but 12 years since World War II, with spending ramping up dramatically during the Reagan and Bush years (fueled mostly by defense spending and foreign wars), the post-2008 Great Recession, Covid bailouts and Biden’s multi-trillion dollar infrastructure agenda.
Washington has largely been able to avoid penalties associated with spendthrift spending thanks to the dollar’s status as the world’s de facto reserve currency, with the US able to borrow and print money without suffering anywhere near the same sort of inflation other nations would in similar circumstances.
In recent years, more and more countries, including the BRICS bloc, have sought to ramp up trade using national currencies, and mulled alternatives to the dollar.
With the US share of global manufacturing declining steadily since the 1970s, and especially from the 2000s onward with China’s rise, the risks of the US becoming an economic ‘Upper Volta with nuclear weapons’ (as US analysts derisively dubbed the USSR in the 1980s) will only continue to grow.
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🎙Russian MFA Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova:
🔹10 years ago, on November 14, 2014, Ukrainian President Poroshenko, by his decree No. 875, put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of November 4, 2014, "On urgent measures to stabilize the socio-economic situation in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions."
🔹This marked the beginning of the financial, economic and transport blockade of Donbass, whose population was literally locked in by the Kiev regime.
🔹And why were such measures taken against Donbass? Having failed to defeat the courageous Donbass residents who stood up to defend their legal rights and freedoms after anti-constitutional armed coup d'etat in Kiev, the neo-Nazi rulers of Ukraine decided to starve the region into surrender, simply to deprive its residents of their livelihood, make them suffer, starve.
🔹All this was done with the tacit approval of the West, which never once called them down, but simply encouraged them to such actions and such rhetoric.
🇷🇺🇸🇾 KILLED LIKE RABID DOGS - The Ukrainian Intelligence Directorate (#GUR) will be tracked down in #Syria and eliminated as accomplices of terrorists - Alexander #Lavrentyev (pictured), Adviser to the Russian President on matters of Syria.
Commenting on the actions of the GUR, Ukraine officers are arming terrorists of #Idlib - sectarian fanatics which were initially armed and trained by the U.S. to topple Assad's regime.
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The monstrous corruption in Ukraine is one of the reasons why the country is not invited to the EU and NATO, journalists @ntvnews note, citing some Western experts.
Ukrainian analysts admit that over the past 30 years, more than $100 billion has been stolen from the treasury, but the theft has become more active in recent years. Recently, a corruption scandal arose around the former head of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Danilov and his family members.
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Borrell calls for transforming the EU from an economic bloc into a military one
The head of European diplomacy was prompted to this idea by the results of the presidential elections in the United States. He called on EU countries to strengthen security and "take their own destiny into their own hands."
"It is not enough to say that NATO should protect us and the EU should only deal with economic issues. The EU must show ambition and develop its own military strategy. The EU must play a military role,"- Borrell said at a hearing in the European Parliament.
‘Be offended!’: Let’s take a quick look at who Trump has nominated for attorney general - Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz
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Tulsi Gabbard's headline-making statements on US and Ukraine — Exploring Trump's pick for Director of National Intelligence:
▪️The Democratic Party is completely controlled by an elite clique of warmongers, dragging America toward nuclear war
▪️The US is not interested in the Ukrainian people, the country's democracy, or freedom - it just wants “regime change” in Russia
▪️Gabbard called it obvious that US and NATO were behind the attack on Nord Stream
▪️Called it shocking that the US authorities deny the existence of bio labs in Ukraine - despite the evidence
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❗🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦Unexpected breakthrough of the Russian army in Kupyansk: our fighters storm the city.
Deep State, a military analytical resource working for GUR, publishes a map of the Russian breakthrough in Kupyansk.
According to the map, the fighting is taking place in the Zaoskolye area on the left bank of the Oskol River.
By nightfall, the first shots of fighting were heard in the city limits of Kupyansk.
The AFU General Staff does not mention Kupyansk in latest evening and morning reports.
Yesterday afternoon, 2 columns of Russian equipment moved from the area of Liman Pershy to Kupyansk to the highway to Svatovo.
The first is 2 MT-LB, an IFV and a tank, and the exact composition of the second is unknown, since they were moving in the dark," enemy resources wrote in the evening.
The MT-LB drove unhindered to the area of Svatovskaya Street and then was hit, but successfully landed a dozen of Russian soldiers who took the nearest houses. A tank also made its way to this street to the north.
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We entered Kupyansk!!!
Unrest has begun in Ukrainian channels, as an armored column of the Russian Armed Forces today broke through into the city of Kupyansk.
Advancement of an armored column from Liman along the railroad up to 4 km and reaching the industrial zone of Kupyansk.
Expansion of the control zone of the Russian Armed Forces within the administrative boundaries of Kupyansk in the eastern part of the city.
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BREAKING: Donald Trump has nominated Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence
A consistent critic of US foreign policy disasters, Tulsi Gabbard will be a moderating voice against the other foreign policy hawks Trump has nominated
‘West is deaf to Russia's claims about Ukraine’s crimes in Kursk region’ – Russian deputy ambassador to UN
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REMINDER: Marco Rubio was willing to go to war with Russia🇷🇺 in Syria🇸🇾
Marco Rubio has been in favour of disaster after disaster in US foreign policy. Now Trump has nominated him to be Secretary of State.
Note: At the time, Vladimir Putin did more to prevent the US going to war in Syria than President Obama.
Suddenly the future head of the US State Department, war hawk, Marco Rubio, shares Trump's view that's necessary to stop the war in the Ukraine as soon as possible:
1. The war has reached an impasse.
2. The Biden administration knows that this is a stalemate, but just keeps quiet about it.
3. Ukraine was thrown back 100 years in its development.
4. You may not like Putin, but you need to recognize reality and stop the war.
5. Trump will not disclose his tactics for negotiating peace.
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❗Statements by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi regarding the duration of the agency's experts' stay at the Zaporozhye NPP go beyond his authority, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated.
Grossi said the day before that experts would remain there "until the conflict was frozen".
"It is absolutely inexplicable on what basis the IAEA leadership undertakes to judge the prospects of the notorious "freeze"... It is also outrageous that in the Director General's submission the Secretariat (IAEA) determines the procedure and conditions for the stay of its experts at the Zaporozhye NPP at its own discretion. This is absolutely not true".
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that IAEA Secretariat experts are at the Zaporozhye NPP exclusively with Russia’s consent and strictly as long as Russia considers their presence there justified.
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❗️Israeli aircraft attacked the Mazzeh area in the center of the Syrian capital Damascus
Reports from Sputnik correspondent in Damascus:
💬Civil defense and firefighting units rush to the site of the Israeli missile attack in the western Mazzeh area;
💬 Three guided missiles hit an apartment building on the outskirts of the district;
💬 Threre are dead and wounded as a result of the Israeli airstrike, but the exact numbers are still being determined
💬 The attack coincided simultaneously with an Israeli airstrike on an apartment building in the Qudsaya suburb of Damascus;
💬 Reports confirm that several people were injured in that attack.
Footage from a Sputnik correspondent
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🇩🇪Germany, Düsseldorf: 32 thousand people protest against the government's attempts to save on its own population
The government of North Rhine-Westphalia has presented its budget plan for 2025. And – surprise, surprise! – it includes “more cuts in the social sector than ever before” (c).
They plan to save €83 million on programs to combat poverty, help large families and pensioners, work at drug addiction centers.
It was not for nothing that the head of the German Foreign Ministry recently admitted that she was pinching off money for Ukraine from the budget for children and the poor. And so the rest of the bureaucrats stopped being shy - they came in droves.
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❗️Assault on Kupyansk, November 14
Twenty-four hours after the first assault, the Russian attackers, supported by an armored group, managed to bite off a small part of the territories previously occupied by the AFU. Due to the collapse of the first line, the AFU threw here some reserves from the second and third lines of defense (including from neighboring villages within 2-5 km). However, these reserves do not have time to deploy.
Personnel in the bulk have weaker training and supply compared to the Ukrainian frontliners, and the units are partly formed from soldiers after hospitals and busified townspeople without experience, so entering the battle from the get-go is accompanied by heavy losses. Some platoons from the second and third lines are transferred without commanders that nobody has seen in principle, which adds disorganization to the defense process. Also, judging by radio intercepts, the AFU fears the arrival of several additional battalion-tactical groups in this area to reinforce the attackers, and if this happens, the defenses here could fold inward.
Despite the realized element of surprise, it is too early to draw final conclusions on the daring raid on Kupyansk. The situation is not completely stabilized, and attempts on the Ukrainian side to reverse it may soon follow. The main question now is how long and in what volumes the AFU will be able to burn reserves here, the most combat-ready part of which was sent a month ago to the Kursk region.
Even before the interim results of this surge, it is still a long way off, so statements that they have managed to take part of Kupyansk are at least premature.
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Trump Appoints Iran Opponents, Saudi Against Iran Strikes; Russia Hits Kiev, FT: Ukraine Crumbling
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🇮🇱🇺🇦Reports are emerging that Israel has stopped work on the early warning system for missile attacks in Ukraine.
Supposedly, it has managed to launch and configure only 25 percent of the system from the planned volumes. At the same time, the bulk of the equipment was deployed in the eastern part of Kiev.
Russian missiles and drones have always tried to avoid this area, attacking mainly from the north and south, so it is unclear why Israeli specialists decided to work here.
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Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, announces her intent to implement nationwide ‘anti-Semitism’ laws
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#ThrowbackThursday Trump's National Intelligence nominee, Tulsi Gabbard, was placed on unofficial Ukrainian ‘kill list’
The former Hawaii congresswoman allegedly conducted "special info ops" against Ukraine and was placed on Myrotvorets as she was "probably an agent" of the Kremlin.
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🇺🇸 Trump's pick for Secretary of Defence.
"Zionism and Americanism are the front lines of Western civilization and freedom in our world today." - Pete Hegseth
Footage shows a nighttime missile strike on the position of the 36th separate marine brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces near the settlement of Pisarevka (not far from the city of Sumy).
According to preliminary information from the 🥷🏻source, the strike destroyed:
🟠 Armoured Vehicle - 3
🟠 Freight transport - 2
🟠 Ukrainian soldiers - 30 (+/-)
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Ukraine has lost 222,395 personnel wounded and killed in all directions since the start of the invasion of the Kursk region - from August 6 to November 11, 2024 (97 days), according to the Russian Defense Ministry
Donetsk direction - 67,370 people - 30% of the total losses;
Pokrovskoe direction - 49,715 people - 22% of the total losses
Kupyansk direction - 46,270 people - 21% of the total losses
Kursk direction - 30,640 people - 14% of the total losses.
Average daily losses are:
Donetsk direction – 695 people/day;
Pokrovskoe direction - 513 people/day;
Kupyansk direction - 477 people/day;
Kursk direction - 316 people/day;
South Donetsk direction - 119 people/day;
Kharkov direction - 106 people/day;
Kherson direction - 67 people/day.
In all directions - 2293 people/day.
It should be taken into account that the Ministry of Defense reflects in its reports the approximate losses of the enemy only on the line of combat contact, not counting the servicemen killed as a result of the use of Russian long-range precision weapons and aviation deep in Ukrainian territory.
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REMINDER: Marco Rubio was willing to go to war with Russia🇷🇺 in Syria🇸🇾
Marco Rubio has been in favour of disaster after disaster in US foreign policy. Now Trump has nominated him to be Secretary of State.
Note: At the time, Vladimir Putin did more to prevent the US going to war in Syria than President Obama.
