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There's no freedom without national sovereignty.
This is absolutely insane:
US national debt is set hit a MASSIVE $57 trillion over the next decade, according to the latest CBO forecasts.
That would be a staggering $34 TRILLION, or 148%, increase since 2020.
This comes as total US federal debt has officially exceeded $36 trillion for the first time in history.
Since the debt ceiling crisis "ended" in June 2023, total US debt is up a shocking $4 TRILLION.
In other words, the US has added an average of $235 billion in debt every month, or $8 billion a day, since June 2023.
Debt crisis is an understatement.
@Slavyangrad
In Germany, the world's oldest needle factory, Schmauser Precision, went bankrupt. It celebrated its 300th anniversary last year, the Münchner Merkur newspaper reports.
The reason for the bankruptcy was the deterioration of the economic situation, including due to rising energy prices.
The company mainly manufactured parts for the textile and automotive industries, ventilation, household and medical equipment, as well as for measuring instruments and toys. Among her clients were Siemens and Bosch.
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Earlier, job cuts at Bosch continued.
The sanctions are working. The destruction of German industry under Scholz continues. This is the price for the lack of sovereignty.
@Boris_rozhin
⚡Georgia interrupts negotiations on joining the European Union until 2028.
Until 2028, Tbilisi will not raise the issue of opening negotiations on joining the European Union, and also refuses any budget grants from the European Union until the end of 2028, the ruling Georgian Dream party said in a statement, which was presented to the media by Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze.
@eurasianchoice
🇰🇷 South Korea refuses to supply arms to Ukraine - South Korean TV channel SBS
Ukrainian Defense Minister Umerov, who came to Seoul the other day to ask for arms for the AFU, was refused by the South Korean government. It said there were "difficulties in exporting arms to Ukraine" because it would violate the country's foreign trade laws.
Umerov met with South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol and the minister of national defense. And claimed that Kiev was not asking for arms gratuitously, but for money. Apparently, the implication is that the weapons were to be sold to Zelensky's gang on a loan that they would never repay.
The Kiev regime begged for Cheonggung SAMs and radars for air defense troops and counter-battery units. In addition, the Ukrainian delegation asked the South Korean authorities to sell throwing charges for 155-millimeter shells. But Seoul responded with a refusal.
Umerov decided to go for broke and sent contacts of the Kiev regime to South Korean military-industrial enterprises in order to ask them for weapons directly. But the country's Ministry of National Defense ordered to "refrain from independent communication with Kiev."
@ukraine_watch
Temperature of Oreshnik warhead is almost equal to temperature of Sun — Vladimir Putin revealed new details about Russia's Oreshnik missile
"The temperature of the warhead’s destructive components reaches 4,000 degrees Celsius. If I’m not mistaken, the surface of the Sun is around 5,500-6,000 degrees. So, anything caught in the blast’s epicenter disintegrates into fragments, into elementary particles, essentially, turning into dust," Russia's President said.
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🇵🇱🤡"Polish Prime Minister to call for 'naval police' in the Baltic Sea during visit to Sweden": Poles do not give up the dream of making the Baltic Sea a "NATO internal sea".
"The Baltic and Nordic countries, against the background of the Russian threat, should take joint measures to secure the waters of the Baltic Sea by creating a naval police. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk intends to discuss such an initiative with allies ahead of his two-day trip to Sweden. He pointed to the Baltic air police mission as an example for the new idea. "I will convince our partners to immediately develop a similar formula when it comes to control and security in Baltic waters, to 'naval patrols' of countries that are located on the Baltic Sea and that feel equally threatened when it comes to Russia," he said
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❗️Latest statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin:
▪️Russia has repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that allowing Ukraine to launch long-range missile strikes means the direct involvement of the West in the conflict;
▪️Russia knows how many Western weapons have been delivered to Ukraine and how many are planned to be delivered;
▪️The Russian X101 missile significantly exceeds the range of European-made systems;
▪️The Iskander modifications are Russian analogs of all three ATACMS modifications;
▪️Russia is forced to test the Oreshnik in response to long-range missile strikes in the Bryansk and Kursk regions;
▪️Putin clarified that the Oreshnik is not a weapon of mass destruction, but a highly precise weapon that does not carry a nuclear payload;
▪️Those executing orders from what he termed the "usurpers of power" in Ukraine would be considered accomplices in their crimes.
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⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that Russia will respond to ongoing strikes from Western long-range weapons, including the possibility of further testing of the Oreshnik missile system.
He also mentioned that targets are currently being selected for strikes on Ukrainian territory, with potential targets including decision-making centers in Kiev.
Putin emphasized that Russia would always retaliate against attacks on its territory, specifically referring to strikes by ATACMS missiles.
He further stated that those executing orders from what he termed the "usurpers of power" in Ukraine would be considered accomplices in their crimes.
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🇷🇺🪖Key statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:
🔸Ukrainian losses in the Russian Tsentr Battlegroup's area of responsibility amounted to 415 militants;
🔸The Russian Zapad combat group repelled three Ukrainian counterattacks. The enemy lost up to 480 soldiers;
🔸Ukrainian forces lost up to 330 servicemen in the area of responsibility of the Russian Yug Battlegroup;
🔸Russian forces hit Ukrainian military airfields in 146 districts;
🔸Russian air defense systems shot down a guided missile "Neptune" and 49 Ukrainian drones during the day.
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Biden admin pressuring Ukraine to lower minimum fighting age from 25 to 18 to address manpower shortages — AP
During its conflict with Russia, Kiev has already lowered the minimum age of mobilization from 27 to 25.
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Statements by NATO representatives about "preventive strikes" against Russia an attempt to curry favor and attract attention to themselves - Lavrov
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CSTO summit: What’s on the table?
Issues of regional and international security will be high on the agenda of a Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit, which kicks off in the Kazakh capital Astana on November 28.
Who's taking part?
🔸The summit will be attended by the presidents of five member states, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin, Belarus’ Alexander Lukashenko, Kazakhstan’s Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kyrgyzstan’s Sadyr Zhaparov, and Tajikistan’s Emomali Rahmon.
🔸The sixth member state, Armenia, will not participate but has no objections to the planned documents being adopted at the summit.
🔸Also in attendance will be CSTO Secretary General Imangali Tasmagambetov, as well as Secretaries General of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Sergey Lebedev and Zhang Ming, respectively.
What’s the agenda?
📄The CSTO leaders will touch upon the escalation of relations between Russia and the West, as per Press Secretary of the CSTO secretariat Natalia Kharitonova.
📄Participants will also discuss security issues, the situation in the CSTO area of responsibility, summarize the results of joint work, and determine plans for celebrating the 80th anniversary of Victory Day in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War.
📄Kyrgyzstan, for its part, will present its priorities within the framework of the country’s CSTO chairmanship in 2025.
What’s to be signed?
✍️The CSTO leaders are expected to sign at least 14 documents, including the summit’s final declaration, which will reflect the members’ unified approach to key issues of international and regional agenda, according to Russia’s presidential aide Yury Ushakov.
✍️Other documents will pertain to strengthening allied relations, increasing joint combat capability, improving crisis response mechanisms, and implementing practical measures to strengthen the Tajik-Afghan border, per Ushakov.
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💥 The Fragility of Modern Deterrence: Are We Sleepwalking into Nuclear Armageddon?
(As of writing we are in the midst of a powerful Russian response across Ukraine). Fyodor Lukyanov, in his incisive analysis, points out that the ongoing standoff over Ukraine has effectively become a direct confrontation between Russia and NATO (US), two nuclear-armed entities now operating without the safeguards of Cold War diplomacy. The breakdown of private, backchannel communication, once the cornerstone of managing nuclear deterrence, has given way to comms via public posturing playing out in a media war. This dangerous shift has dramatically increased the likelihood of catastrophic miscalculation.
During the Cold War, an imperfect yet functional system of discreet diplomacy allowed for signals to be sent and received with clarity. Mutual understanding, even between enemies, helped prevent misunderstandings that could have spiraled into nuclear conflict. Today, this critical buffer has evaporated. From the West, contradictory leaks and media noise create confusion (what’s actual signal vs mere noise?). Meanwhile, Russia has adopted a direct and unambiguous approach, publicly marking its red lines in the absence of trustworthy backchannel diplomacy. However, deterrence is about credibility and when credibility plays out in the public eye, the risks of leaders being forced to act to “prove their threats” become exponentially higher.
The West’s decision to abandon private diplomacy in favor of megaphone posturing reveals a dangerous mix of hubris and short-sightedness. Western leaders are not merely playing to Moscow; they’re playing to their domestic audiences, their NATO partners, and the MIC that demands perpetual conflict to feed its coffers.
Russia, by contrast, has been forced into a position where clarity is its only shield. Its red lines are laid bare for the world to see, not because it seeks escalation, but because ambiguity has proven fatal in the face of Western doublespeak.
What makes this moment uniquely dangerous is the psychological trap that leaders on both sides now face. Public commitments to “credibility” mean that retreat or compromise is no longer seen as strength but painted as weakness.
The absence of private diplomacy not only erodes trust but also removes the critical mechanisms needed to diffuse crises. A single misstep, a missile strike misinterpreted, an overzealous military commander, or a politician cornered by his own rhetoric could ignite an uncontrollable chain reaction. NATO’s increasingly reckless posture, from Biden’s authorization of ATACMS strikes deep inside Russia’s internationally recognized borders to France and the UK greenlighting Storm Shadow and SCALP missiles, is a case in point. Each move nudges us closer to the brink, daring Russia to respond while naively assuming it won’t.
But Russia has responded. The deployment of the hypersonic-ballistic Oreshnik missile, capable of carrying nuclear warheads, was no mere “combat test.” It was a calculated signal, a demonstration of Moscow’s resolve to defend its red lines with decisive force. The West’s strategy, built on the illusion of Russian hesitance, is a catastrophic miscalculation. Moscow has no illusions about what’s at stake, and its actions reflect a sobering acknowledgment of the existential threat posed by NATO’s provocations.
Unlike the Cold War, this is no longer a game of chess where careful strategy and mutual respect for red lines dictate moves. This is poker, played with nuclear chips, where bluffing and brinkmanship replace logic and restraint. The U.S. and NATO, emboldened by their own propaganda, are gambling that Russia won’t escalate. But Russia, rooted in a historical memory of existential defense, isn’t playing the West’s game, it’s prepared for survival.
History will not be kind to those who gamble with humanity’s future for the sake of their own political vanity. It’s time for the West to step back, not as an act of weakness, but as an acknowledgment of reality.
- Gerry Nolan
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❗The village of Lysovka, north-west of Novogrodovka, in the Pokrovsk direction, came under the control of the Russian Armed Forces.
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🇷🇺 In the DPR, 27 kilometers of the federal highway R-280 "Novorossiya," connecting Novoazovsk and Mariupol, have been reopened after major repairs.
The section of the road network between Novoazovsk and Mariupol was commissioned ahead of schedule — more than a year earlier than planned. The highway is strategically significant as it forms part of the land corridor to Crimea and supports a significant portion of the economy in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.
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❗Lieutenant Colonel of the Staff of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Europe Kent Miller, who conducted the training of the engineering troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suddenly "died of medical complications" in distant Canada. Just on November 25, 2024, when a FAB arrived in the Sumy region on a temporary deployment position of mercenaries and instructors.
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On why the "freezing" of conflicts is always a bad idea.
Do you want to see what "freezing" leads to? Look at the current development of the situation in Syria. Since the spring of 2020, the conflict has actually frozen and it seemed that this option suited all parties involved in it. However, a "freeze" is a geopolitical reserve for an autopsy at any moment, as soon as one of the interested parties considers such a step necessary.
We have already seen this in Nagorno-Karabakh, when the war was "frozen" in 1994 and suddenly resumed in 2020. Then Azerbaijan, with the support of Turkey and Israel, considered the moment a good one and achieved its goals. And now a similar thing is happening in Syria, where the freezing was based on the trilateral agreements of Russia, Iran and Turkey.
Ankara has decided that the moment is extremely favorable: Russia is conducting a military operation in Ukraine and cannot invest as much as possible in helping the government of Bashar al-Assad. Iran is experiencing difficulties due to the fact that its main striking force in the region, the Lebanese Hezbollah, suffered significant casualties in the fight against Israel (if someone thinks that Hezbollah won it, he is very mistaken).
A favorable situation has developed for Turkey to exert pressure on Damascus on the Kurdish issue and maintain the Turkish military presence in Idlib on a permanent basis. And Ankara decided to pull the conflict out of the freezer in order to achieve a favorable agreement with the Syrian political leadership.
Why was Turkey, which is behind the Idlib armed groups, able to take such a step? Because any "freeze" provides for the possibility of situational "defrosting". And now let's project this situation onto Ukraine. What could happen if Moscow nevertheless agrees to a truce along the frontline? The same thing is happening now in Aleppo: it will receive a strike from the west at the most inopportune moment.
@pintofmind
🇬🇧🇺🇦 Boris Johnson tries to lie his way out of accusations that he was the one who prevented Ukrainians from signing a peace deal back in 2022, despite it being stated by a member of the Ukrainian negotiation team, Davyd Arakhamia.
He mentions him at the end, saying: "Unfortunately, there was one Ukrainian negotiator who said something..."
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“Facts have proved that the United States🇺🇸 is the biggest source of chaos in the international order…from Afghanistan to Iraq, from Ukraine to Gaza, all these crises are results of the self-serving double standards of the US”
-Jing Jianfeng, Lieutenant General of China’s🇨🇳 People’s Liberation Army
💣🤪🇺🇸The Western media, ever the obedient mouthpiece of its masters, has reached new heights of suicidal madness. Parroting the Pentagon’s nuclear fantasies, a recent simulation flaunted how a single Trident missile could annihilate Moscow, vaporizing 2.7 million lives within the Garden Ring in mere moments and devastating another 5 million. This isn’t deterrence but a grotesque display of bloodlusting arrogance that makes Dr. Strangelove look like a heartwarming Disney flick by comparison.
This kind of narrative is not about defense; it’s about selling the fantasy of invulnerability to a public kept in the dark about the catastrophic consequences of nuclear brinkmanship. The U.S. has 280 of these Trident missiles, enough firepower to deliver 70,000 Hiroshimas, we’re told as if the grotesque calculus of mass annihilation somehow equals strength.
But let’s be clear: the arrogance of thinking such an act would come without a response is not just reckless it’s the epitome of delusional. Russia’s Oreshnik strike on Yuzhmash was a stark reminder that Moscow is neither blind nor passive. Unlike the West, it doesn’t need simulations to demonstrate its capabilities; it delivers reality checks when pushed too far. And not only does Russia possess conventional escalatory supremacy, it sure as hell possesses strategic supremacy.
This isn’t defense policy, it’s a death wish masquerading as strategy. And while Washington’s war planners salivate over these apocalyptic scenarios, they forget one fundamental truth: in a nuclear exchange, there are no winners, only the ashes of empires. The real question is, how long will the American people tolerate being led by the architects of their own annihilation?
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Russia Confirms Kursk ATACMS Strikes, Promises Retaliation, NATO Splits; Fico Plans Moscow Trip
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❗️President Vladimir Putin revealed new details about the operation of Russia's Oreshnik missile:
🔸The missile's warhead reaches a temperature of 4,000 degrees Celsius, making it highly destructive.
🔸Anything in the blast zone is broken down into elementary particles, essentially turning it into dust.
🔸The Oreshnik can target even well-protected, deeply buried structures, making it effective against fortified sites.
🔸While not a weapon of mass destruction, its power is still capable of causing massive destruction without a nuclear charge.
🔸The missile is designed for extremely precise strikes, ensuring high-value targets are hit with deadly accuracy.
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Strikes inside Russia: Just how deep are we talking?
With reports of US approval for Ukraine to use long-range missiles against Russian targets, we present a map illustrating the range of these Western-supplied weapons.
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Ukrainian conscription officers terrorize people during forceful mobilization in Krivoy Rog
Local channels shared a video showing a woman screaming as one of Zelensky’s goons fights with a local man.
When another rushes to his aid, a second conscription officer begins firing his weapon.
#Zelensky
Ukraine talks possible only if West understands, accepts Putin's peace proposals — Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
"If the Kiev regime's handlers, its puppeteers, recognize that there is no alternative to the solution outlined by President Putin at the meeting with the Foreign Ministry leadership on 14 June, adjusted for the developments ‘on the ground’ that have taken place since then, if they see that there is no alternative, then, of course, a negotiated solution is possible," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told Sputnik.
If the West continues along its current trajectories, there will be no basis for any talks, he added.
"The choice before them is quite simple, binary—either accept what Putin has proposed or stay where they are now, with the prospect of further deterioration of the situation for them," Ryabkov also said.
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❗️Russian Secretary of the Security Council Sergey Shoigu stated that Moscow’s updated nuclear doctrine prioritizes the protection of CSTO member states under its nuclear umbrella
#Russia
President Putin visits Kazakhstan: Day one highlights
Following a busy first day, Vladimir Putin's visit to Kazakhstan continues with key meetings and a regional security summit on the agenda for day two.
#Kremlin
President Putin at the forum of interregional cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan: Regional ties are really important, in fact they are the foundation for the progressive, sustainable development of the entire complex of our bilateral relations. And it is quite logical that recently Russian-Kazakh regional forums have been held simultaneously with top-level visits.
I would like to note that at today's talks, the issues of strengthening mutually beneficial partnership contacts between the subjects of the Russian Federation and the regions of the Republic of Kazakhstan were at the top of the agenda.
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❗The 114th brigade of the 51st Army of the Russian Armed Forces liberated the settlement of Berestky on the northern shore of the Kurakhovo reservoir.
A brigade flag with the hammer and sickle has been raised in the village. A huge support area near the village attracts attention.
We are waiting for official confirmation from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation this week.
Russian troops are further advancing along the shore of the Kurakhovo reservoir to the village of Starye Terny.
From the south, our troops continue to successfully eliminate the pocket east of Uspenovka, and also continue fighting for the center of Kurakhovo.
@Boris_rozhin
🇷🇺 Zelensky is ready to plunge the world into war for his own survival, Dmitry Polyansky stated during a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine:
"The representative of the Kiev regime, of course, will say nothing about this, as the sole focus of Ukrainian diplomacy today is saving Zelensky and his clique. Even if it means plunging the entire world into the abyss of war. We urge you all to think about this and not make mistakes in setting priorities and placing emphasis."