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There's no freedom without national sovereignty.
Neujahrsansprache - Alice Weidel - AfD
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EU COLLAPSE sped up by today's entry of Bulgaria to Europe open travel zone known as Schengen, national identities being totally erased -- Bulgarian army ex-officer Borachev to @RTnews
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Gas transit through Ukraine has been stopped
Today at 8 am an entire era of gas transit through Ukraine ended.
Gas pumping stopped and from January 1, 2025, Ukraine ceased to be a transit country for Russian gas.
Deliveries to Europe continue via LNG terminals and the Turkish Stream.
It can be expected that the enemy will blow up the station in the Sudzha area, and the Russian Armed Forces will destroy elements of the GTS to be on the safe side.
In Ukraine, as of today, the tariff for gas transportation has increased fourfold.
It may be recalled that for a long time, it was the EU that sought to maintain transit through Ukraine.
And it is the EU that will be the main victim. The main beneficiary is the US, which is consistently eliminating the possibility for Europe to receive cheap gas from Russia, thereby increasing the EU's economic dependence on the US and reducing the overall competitiveness of the European economy.
On the one hand, Russia loses one of the routes for selling gas and will bear certain material costs, but at the same time, it is freed from the situation when Brussels and Berlin twisted Moscow's arms, tying the preservation of transit through Ukraine to other political issues. And, of course, excellent opportunities open up for further destruction of the energy and industrial energy system of Ukraine.
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The main achievement the Russian authorities have made in the past years is that the Russian people no longer have to prove anything to the West, Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.
“I think we have really done a great job. We don’t care anymore if they hate us or not,” she told the Sputnik radio station.
“Developments at home are more important to us,” the diplomat stressed, adding: “The mood of our troops on the front line and our people across the country is more important.” “I see this as a major achievement,” she noted.
Russia Scents 2025 Ukraine Victory, Reaches Sudzha, Missile Strike; HTS: Russia Please Stay Syria
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Briefly about the outgoing 2024
▪️ More than 200 liberated settlements, including 8 cities.
▪️ About 3,000 square kilometers have been liberated.
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❗The 5th brigade raised the Russian flag over the Kurakhovo industrial zone, completing the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the city.
The 5th brigade ended the year with a powerful victory: 3 factories in the last stronghold of the defense of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in the Kurakhovo industrial zone, were liberated.
Russian soldiers hoisted a flag at one of the buildings of the pipe factory.
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Federalist: China has launched a militarization program, the largest since Germany's one in the 1930s.
This is an article from the Western press with appropriate accents, but the fact that China will support the almost tenfold increase in industrial production since 2000 with appropriate investments in defense is quite an obvious and urgent task, given the wild lawlessness that the West is unleashing around the world.
The article reports the following:
- the Pentagon's China Military Power Report says that China is now positioning itself as a global superpower, and despite the wild US military spending, the US is becoming more and more strategically vulnerable;.
- China is rapidly increasing its missile arsenal: 50 new ICBMs capable of striking the United States are on duty, and China has 400 of them in total;
- added 300 medium-range and 100 long-range missiles for deployment in the fleet;
- by 2030, 600 nuclear warheads will be added, totaling more than 1,000;
- the fleet, already the largest in the world (370 ships and submarines), will grow to 435 by 2030;
- a lot of attention is being paid to "cognitive warfare": in the acute phases, deepfakes will be created and planted en masse in order to demoralize the US military and society, as well as undermine their ties with their allies;
- the tasks assigned to the Chinese army are: a) to be ready to resolve the Taiwan issue by 2027, b) to gain strategic dominance by 2035, c) to have the most advanced army by 2049, the anniversary of the CCP coming to power. (c)
@barantchik
https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/27/report-china-rapidly-builds-up-weapons-and-psychological-warfare-operations/
❗The enemy broadcasts about the successes of the Russian Army in Chasov Yar, the battle for the city is approaching its end after months of fightings.
The Russian Armed Forces took the railway station in the north of Chasov Yar. Fighting is already underway in the city center.
"Chasov Yar direction: the Russian army is concentrating attention to the north and was able to dislodge our units from the railway station, a very serious mistake, but we still missed this blow. The Russian military is maneuvering in this area, which greatly complicates the defense in the city center."
@barantchik
Satellite images show the construction of a large Russian military base in the southern Libya region.
The base is located at a strategically important point near the border of Sudan and Chad.
According to several Sudanese military journalists, the base will belong to the Afrika Korps of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the successor to Wagner, as well as former military personnel of Bashar al—Assad who fled Syria.
According to other sources, General Haftar's forces are helping to expand the activities of the Afrika Korps in Libya.
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🍌 Access to certain Russian media has been restricted in the EU under DSA/sanctions laws 🇪🇺
🔉 Meanwhile, all Western media Telegram channels remain freely accessible in Russia 🇷🇺
🤔 Who would have thought that in 2025 Russian Telegram users would enjoy more freedom than European? ❓
🎄Key takeaways from Vladimir Putin's New Year's address to Russian citizens:
▪️We still have a lot [of issues] to resolve, but we can rightfully be proud of what has already been done
▪️We believe that everything will be fine, we will only move forward. We know that the fate of Russia and the well-being of its citizens have been and always will be our ultimate values
▪️ On this New Year's Eve, intentions and hopes of relatives and friends, millions of people all over Russia are together with our soldiers and commanders
▪️Soldiers are true heroes who have taken on the great military labor of defending Russia, providing our people with strong guarantees of peace and security,
▪️The coming 2025 has been declared the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland in Russia,
▪️I wish well-being and prosperity to each of our households, each of our families and our beloved country - Russia! When we stay together, all our wishes will come true!
🇨🇳 "No one can stop China's reunification with Taiwan," Chinese President Xi Jinping declared during his New Year's speech, emphasizing the inevitability of mainland China's reunification with the island.
"People on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are one family. No one can sever our family ties or stop the historical trend of national unification," Xi stated in his address, broadcast on China's state television.
Holiday season in Jerusalem: IDF makes moves in Holy City
The Israeli military has allegedly demolished a building under construction in the Shuafat refugee camp in the occupied West Bank’s East Jerusalem. It has also reportedly torn up streets to the city’s north.
#IDF
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🇾🇪 Yemeni Armed Forces announce the targeting of:
○ "Ben Gurion Airport with a 'Palestine-2' hypersonic ballistic missile."
○ "A power station south of occupied Jerusalem with a 'Zulfiqar' ballistic missile."
○ "The US aircraft carrier 'USS Harry S. Truman' with a large number of drones and cruise missiles while the US forces were preparing to launch a major air attack on Yemen"
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“Musk strengthens those who weaken Europe”
🇪🇺🇭🇺 EU cancels billions in aid to Hungary
EU:
“In order to release the funds, Hungary would have had to implement sufficient reforms by the end of the year. These include, among other things, changes to laws to avoid conflicts of interest and combat corruption. But that didn't happen.”
"The Hungarian government has met all the conditions for the access of EU resources. Brussels wants to take away the money to which Hungary and the Hungarian people are entitled for political reasons”
🇵🇱🤡 Sikorski cements himself as the king of bad takes on gas pipelines.
After thanking the US for blowing up Nord Stream, he’s now succeeded in pissing off most Europeans.
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Shadows of 9/11: From Guantanamo to Idlib, The Empire’s Double Standards
In a military court ruling as surreal as it is revealing, a U.S. appeals court has decided that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin lacked the authority to nullify plea deals for the 9/11 defendants, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind behind the attacks. If upheld, these agreements would spare the men the death penalty in exchange for guilty pleas, ending decades of legal theater at Guantanamo Bay. But as this legal drama unfolds, the farce grows larger: in the same breath that the West debates “justice” for 9/11, it openly empowers al-Qaeda’s heirs in Syria.
Enter Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a rebranded al-Qaeda affiliate running Syria like a de facto state, with the blessing of Washington, Ankara, and Tel Aviv. The group’s leader, Abu Mohammad al-Julani, once pledged allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Now, he’s touted as a stabilizing force in U.S. diplomatic backchannels. His rebranding from terrorist warlord to “moderate, inclusive opposition” isn’t just absurd, it’s a masterstroke of imperial cynicism. Meanwhile, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sits in Guantanamo, a relic of a “war on terror” that now funds and arms the very ideology it once vowed to eradicate. Almost as if terror is an operative arm for some Intel agencies.
HTS’s ascension wasn’t accidental. Turkey played kingmaker, allowing HTS to flourish as a counterweight to Kurdish forces, while the U.S. engaged al-Julani in quiet negotiations, seeking to legitimize his rule over Idlib and then Damascus. Even Israel, long the self-styled bulwark against terrorism, more than turned a blind eye as HTS expanded, as long as its focus remained on keeping Iranian forces and Hezbollah in check, Israeli Air force and special forces would outright support. These alliances reveal the darker truth: terrorism isn’t an enemy, it’s a tool, wielded by states to destabilize adversaries and maintain regional dominance.
The hypocrisy is breathtaking. Al-Julani, with his al-Qaeda pedigree, is hailed as a partner in stability, while the 9/11 defendants rot in Guantanamo, denied the twisted logic that turned their ideological kin into the West’s favorite proxies. If al-Julani’s allegiance to bin Laden can be wiped clean with a PR campaign, why not extend the same logic to those languishing in legal purgatory? Of course, the answer is utility: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has no use to the empire, while HTS serves as a ready-made proxy in Syria’s endless war.
The parallels to past imperial projects are impossible to ignore. Just as the CIA once armed the mujahideen in Afghanistan to bleed the Soviets dry, HTS is being repurposed as a buffer against Iranian and Syrian influence. Terror groups are reshaped, renamed, and redeployed as convenient tools of chaos, providing plausible deniability for policies too sordid to execute directly. The playbook doesn’t change, only the players do.
What’s left is a grotesque spectacle. HTS controls Syria with U.S. and Turkish backing, enforces what has been until now, brutal Islamist rule, and remains a thorn in Syria’s. Israel’s approval of HTS’s presence speaks volumes: for Tel Aviv, as long as al-Qaeda’s heirs keep Tehran and Hezbollah occupied, they’re useful. The war on terror? It’s long dead, replaced by a war for proxies, where ideology takes a backseat to geopolitics.
And so, as the 9/11 defendants await their fate, one has to marvel at the double standards of empire. The very forces that brought down the Twin Towers are now reshaped into tools of statecraft. Al-Julani, once a servant of bin Laden, now walks free in Damascus, an American asset by any other name. Meanwhile, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed faces life imprisonment. The message is clear: terrorism isn’t the crime for the Empire, it’s the branding that matters.
- Gerry Nolan
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⚡️"Russia will only move forward!": Putin rings in 2025 with optimism
Russian President declares 2025 as the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland, honoring soldiers of the Special Military Operation and commemorating 80 years since the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany
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⚡According to unconfirmed reports Kurakhovo has just been fully liberated. Just in time for New Year's celebrations.
MoD announcement expected in around a week as they always wait the complete clearing of the area.
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The price of slavery... Or freedom as they call it.
Starting from January 1, 2025, gas transportation tariffs for domestic consumers in Ukraine will increase by 305%. This decision was made on December 30 by the National Commission for Energy Regulation of Ukraine in connection with the termination of transit of Russian gas.
As noted by the General director of the Operator of gas transmission systems of Ukraine, Lippa, the price increase is forced. This year, 85% of the revenue was generated from the transportation of Russian gas. "That is, 15% is what remains to us from internal customers. A fare increase is not enough to fully compensate," Lippa explained.
He assured that the GTS Operator has taken all measures to reduce costs. Compressor stations are being closed and preserved, the number of personnel and costs are being optimized.
According to the decision of the National Commission, the tariff for natural gas transportation increases from 124.16 to 501.97 UAH per 1000 cubic meters, or by almost 305%.
The Federation of Employers of Ukraine previously stated that an unjustified increase in the tariff for gas transportation in the country would be detrimental to the economy.
"For our industry, this is an increase in annual expenses by UAH 300 million. In the current conditions, against the background of increased electricity tariffs, we simply are not able to withstand such a significant additional load," warned the head of the Federation of Ukrainian Metallurgists Sergey Belenky.
In addition, the National Commission decided to increase the tariff for electricity transmission by 29.8% from January 1, 2025.
Ukrmetallurgprom has already called for the cancellation of the decision to raise the tariff for electricity transmission, as this changes their entire profitability structure.
Naftogaz's advertisement – "The Kremlin is on fire, because the market sets the price of gas, not them" is more than ever useful here.
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Commander of the Year - Colonel-General Andrey Mordvichev. In 2024, his troops (group of forces Center) achieved the greatest success on the battlefield, liberating a large territory and many settlements.
Every commander is a general.
But not every general is a commander.
Mordvichev is a commander without any ifs or buts.
@Boris_rozhin
🇷🇺🔥🇺🇸 Hunting for a column of American HIMARS.
Footage has emerged today of a strike by three Iskander-M missiles on a HIMARS MLRS convoy near the village of Davydov Brod in the Berislavsky district of the Kherson region.
Three different types of missiles hit the convoy, first covering it with 9M723K5 cluster submunitions and finally attacking it with an air-detonated missile at the rear of the convoy, apparently riddling some of the vehicles with fragments.
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25 Years Ago Today - Vladimir Putin Makes First New Year's Address as Russian President
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'2024 a year of tough challenges and important achievements' - Medvedev.
'Whatever hardships and threats we face, we cherish our main treasure - the unity of our multiethnic nation' - Medvedev in NYE address.
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Israel demands sanctions against the Yemeni Houthis.
Israel calls on the UNSC to authorize attacks on the Houthis, arguing that the Iran-backed group poses a threat to global security.
According to the Israeli Ambassador to the UN, the Houthis are a well-armed army that attacks important trade routes, including the Suez Canal, and constantly threatens Israel.
(Video: footage from reported western coalition airstrikes in Yemen)
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