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❕ The Ukrainian Armed Forces have lost up to 240 servicemen in the Kursk region over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
“Over the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 240 servicemen, two infantry fighting vehicles, one armored combat vehicle, four vehicles, four mortars, and one electronic warfare station were destroyed,” the ministry reported.Читать полностью…
Defining the Deep State https://sonar21.com/defining-the-deep-state/
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🇺🇸💬"What other countries should be on Trump's shopping list?": The Hill is considering what else Trump could add to his "shopping list" - Cuba, Taiwan and even North Korea
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'I would have moved Doomsday Clock to 60 seconds to midnight' - Peter Kuznick
Going on to cite that Russia keeps drawing red lines and the US keeps crossing them
#DoomsdayClock
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🇺🇸⚔️🇷🇺 The U.S. Treasury Department has added 17 companies and 3 individuals from Hong Kong, Latvia, Liberia, the UAE, and Russia to its sanctions list for alleged trade in Russian oil.
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🇺🇸 Biden, before his departure, will further limit the export of AI chips from Nvidia to prevent them from reaching Russia and China, Bloomberg reports, citing sources.
Only a small number of U.S. allies will retain unlimited access to American chips. This first group includes just 19 countries (see the map).
For the rest of the world, a limit will be imposed on how much computing power each country can obtain.
The strictest restrictions will apply to the third group of 20 countries, which includes Russia and China.
Nvidia itself has raised objections following the media reports. The company believes that such restrictions "will not reduce the risk of misuse, but will jeopardize economic growth and U.S. leadership."
The sanctions may be officially announced as early as today.
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🇺🇸Biden made the most of ten days before he left: the US imposed sanctions against Russian oil, gas, drilling and insurance companies.
The sanctions list included:
✔️ Gazprom Neft
✔️ Surgutneftegaz
✔️ Ingosstrakh
✔️ AlfaStrakhovanie
✔️ More than 20 oilfield service companies
✔️ Head of Gazprom Neft Alexander Dyukov
✔️ Head of LUKOIL Vadim Vorobyev
✔️ Head of Zarubezhneft Sergei Kudryashov
✔️ Head of Tatneft Nail Maganov
✔️ Head of Bashneft Vladimir Chernov
✔️ Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev
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At least they are admitting democracy is going to be forbidden in the EU.
Brussels has become the de facto capital of the totalitarian camp.
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Neocons demand Ukraine escalation. Trump signals talks with Putin
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EC President von der Leyen won’t attend Trump’s inauguration as she wasn’t invited - EC spox
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🇪🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺 The European Commission fears that Trump may lift sanctions against Russia immediately after his inauguration, Financial Times reports, citing sources.
EU officials hope that Trump will maintain the sanctions to use them as leverage in negotiations.
They are also preparing for a possible reduction in U.S. aid to Ukraine.
Currently, Europeans are hastily reviewing all of Biden's executive orders to assess the damage Trump might cause if he decides to revoke them indiscriminately, simply because they were issued by Biden.
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🇷🇺🇱🇹 Maria Zakharova advised the Lithuanian president, who called Kaliningrad a historically Lithuanian city, to study history.
She reminded that in 1939, Stalin signed an agreement with Lithuania on the transfer of the city of Vilnius and the Vilnius region, as well as on mutual assistance between the Soviet Union and Lithuania.
Additionally, Zakharova emphasized that Lithuania's largest Baltic port was officially renamed from Memel to Klaipeda and became fully Lithuanian in 1945 thanks to the Red Army's efforts, the monuments to which Vilnius is now demolishing.
All these "gifts" from the USSR, Vilnius can return if history is so burdensome for the Lithuanian president, noted the Foreign Ministry spokesperson on her Telegram channel.
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🇺🇸 Malibu’s waterfront before and after the wildfires, which destroyed some of the most expensive properties in #California
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❗ Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, January 11:
▪️The Russian Armed Forces hit the infrastructure of military airfields, energy facilities, and the military-industrial complex over the past day
▪️Russia’s Air Defense Forces shot down 5 HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 181 drones of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 535 personnel and one Leopard tank as a result of Russia’s Center battlegroup’s actions
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 365 personnel in one day in the zone of Russia’s West battlegroup
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 105 servicemen as a result of the actions of Russia’s North and Dnepr battlegroups
▪️The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 210 servicemen and two warehouses as a result of Russia’s South battlegroup’s actions
▪️Russia’s East battlegroup hit up to 185 Ukrainian servicemen
▪️Russian air defense systems have destroyed more than 40,000 Ukrainian drones since the beginning of the special operation
Will Trump Deliver Peace? - Jeffrey Sachs, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
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🇺🇸 Mike Waltz, Trump's national security advisor, presented a new neocon euphemism for invasion, agression and imperalism: "to bring a country into your sphere".
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Want to know why Greenland has been kept :
- very poor
- under-developed
- living out of welfare paid by Denmark (500 Million dollars per year.
While it has trillions of dollars in mining, gas and oil..
Easy, same as the general strategy of the West in the Global South, use NGOs (climate change, diversity, human rights, animal protections) to completely block any developments.
Those NGOs are mainly financed by the US, blackjack and other Wall Street vultures.
This way the US can better control and influence the 50'000 people in Greenland by giving freebies through USAID to manipulate civil society, education.
The idea for the US is to >
- push for independence
- once independent either strike a multi-billion dollar deal or by force if necessary. Basically pay thousand times less than what Greenland is worth.
If people from Greenland were able to tap into their resources they would be by far the richest nation per capita on earth. Instead they are living out of social welfare, the same as native Indians were treated by the colonisers in the USA, give them survival money and alcohol and turn a proud nation into parasite, zombified nation.
US leadership doesn't care about Greenland, it only sees trillions dollars of reserves, huge real estate asset and strategic land on the artic route.
Wann prüft der Bundestag die Dauereinmischungen von Soros und Gates?
Wann legen Facebook, Instagram und YouTube ihre Algorithmen offen?
#KämpftumEuerLand
US announces $25 million reward for arrest of Venezuelan President Maduro.
Weird flex but ok.
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Biden’s last-minute sanctions on Russia designed to trip up Trump, shoot Europe in the foot (again)
“Trump will be happy with the sanctions because it will mean that the Europeans have to buy more oil and LNG from the United States. And that will raise their costs,” veteran financial and geopolitics analyst Tom Luongo told Sputnik.
On Friday, the Biden administration slapped major new restrictions on two major Russian oil producers, and over 180 vessels involved Russian energy sales abroad.
“Europe is the one who is most vulnerable to these sanctions,” Luongo pointed out, highlighting the deep economic slump the EU has found itself amid the US-led proxy war in Ukraine, which deprived the bloc of a reliable and low-cost source of energy and plunged it into a deindustrialization and recession spiral.
“Brent crude is trading close to $79. I think it’s going to go to $90. Obviously, higher energy prices are never good for anybody. But when you continue to screw with supply chains, then that must be your intended goal,” the observer stressed, commenting on the Biden administration’s motives.
“We know they think they’re going to starve Russia of revenue, which they’re not. They’ll just raise the cost of procuring Russian oil on the open market,” Luongo added.
Move designed to complicate Trump’s job
Regarding the sanctions’ timing, Biden seems to have followed Obama’s 2016 strategy “to disrupt [Trump] as much as possible, to lay so many things in front of him that it derails him, precludes him from getting anything done,” Luongo said.
This includes potential steps toward easing tensions with Russia and stopping the fighting in Ukraine.
“They’re talking about figuring out how they could dump more billions of dollars into the thing and keep it going for as long as possible. That’s what these sanctions are targeting. And they’re targeting Trump trying to end this project,” Luongo summed up.
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'You get China, Russia, or Iran, setting up fake networks of bots, and they coordinate & comment on each others stuff so people think it's authentic and people really believe this' - Zuckerberg on troll farms.
Really, just those countries, Mark? What a coincidence with US foreign policy bogeymen...
#Meta
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Well, what do you want? This is democracy!
Former European Commissioner Thierry Breton - said that the EU canceled the elections in Romania and will cancel the elections in Germany if the Alternative for Germany party wins: Let's wait and see what happens. In the meantime, let's stay calm and apply our laws in Europe when there is a risk that they will be circumvented and that, if not applied, they could lead to interference. We did it in Romania and we will obviously have to do it in Germany if necessary.
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❓Why is Austria’s Herbert Kickl cast as bogeyman by Europe’s mainstream?
Austria’s right-wing Freedom Party (FPO) and the conservative Austrian People's Party (OVP) have begun coalition talks after being tasked by Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen to form a government.
Following the Freedom Party’s parliamentary election victory in September, its leader, Herbert Kickl, was quickly labeled a bogeyman by Europe’s mainstream parties and media. His Eurosceptic, anti-migration, and anti-LGBT* policies align with those of other rising right-wing parties in Europe.
Kickl’s self-styling as a future Volkskanzler (the “people’s chancellor”) has drawn criticism, with opponents noting that the term was once used to describe Adolf Hitler – although such comparisons are often regarded as an exaggerated response to anti-mainstream figures.
Kickl’s key policies at a glance:
On EU & Ukraine
▪️ Opposes Western military assistance to Ukraine, claiming it exacerbates tensions
▪️ Warns that “the European Union is currently pursuing a course of escalation at every turn, which could end in a third world war”
▪️ Argues that Ukraine’s EU accession would drag Austria into the conflict
▪️ Advocates for an EU "peace policy" to bring Ukraine to the negotiation table
On EU anti-Russia sanctions
▪️ Criticizes sanctions as “irresponsible” actions by the “Brussels elite,” damaging Austria’s economy and fueling the conflict
▪️ Pledges to block aid to Ukraine through the European Peace Facility
▪️ Supports continued energy cooperation with Russia
On traditional values
▪️ Promises to defend Europe’s Christian roots and promote the family as a “partnership between a man and a woman with children.”
* banned in Russia as an extremist organization
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134 BILLION euros sent to Ukraine by EU so far
EU Commission Chief von der Leyen proudly totals up just how much cash Brussels has handed over, claiming support will remain ‘steadfast’.
But Western aid sent to Ukraine has a tendency to burn away like in the right pic…
#EU #Ukraine
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🇪🇺🇺🇦 If the United States is unwilling to support Ukraine, the European Union is prepared to take the initiative in providing assistance.
This statement was made today by European diplomacy chief Kaja Kallas, Politico reports.
She added that "there should be no speculation about the future support of the United States," as "it is not in America's interest for Russia to become the strongest power in the world."
"I am truly confident that all other EU members, and hopefully the United States as well, are ready to continue supporting Ukraine. The European Union is also ready to take on this leadership role if the United States is unwilling," Kallas said.
🇱🇹🇷🇺 Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda called Kaliningrad a historically Lithuanian city that should bear its corresponding name.
Furthermore, Nausėda stated that "no matter how hard Russia tries, Karaliaučius will never become Kaliningrad."
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Russian astronaut posts striking space station photos of #CaliforniaWildfires showing fires and darkness sweeping the state
#wildfires #ISS
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Sodom (AKA Los Angeles): the scale of the destruction from the already named historical forest fires in a view of a wide panorama of suburbs with an apocalyptic sky.
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