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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud called Putin:
Satisfaction was expressed with the achieved level of friendly and mutually beneficial relations between Russia and Saudi Arabia.Читать полностью…
The importance of continuing close coordination in "OPEC Plus" was emphasized.
The difficult situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone was discussed. It was noted that the fundamental approaches of Russia and Saudi Arabia regarding the Middle East settlement practically coincide;
An exchange of views also took place in the context of the successfully held BRICS summit in Kazan;
It was agreed to continue personal contacts.
Who is Pete Hegseth, Trump’s new secretary of defense?
Peter Hegseth - a former US National Guard officer and Fox News host - has been chosen by president-elect Donald Trump to be the next secretary of defense.
🌏A Princeton University graduate and ex-analyst with Bears Sterns, Hegseth previously served as a Minnesota National Guard officer. He participated in the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and was also deployed at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, the site of probably the most notorious US prison overseas.
🌏He earned himself a reputation of a staunch Trump supporter, even defending such controversial decisions by the 45th POTUS as the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani in 2020.
🌏Hegseth is known for his hawkish stance on Iran, branding the country as “an evil regime” at one point, and for being a big proponent of close relationship with Israel. He stressed the importance of the US being Tel Aviv’s “strongest ally” and accused Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah of seeking to destroy Israel.
🌏Not a big fan of Russia by any means, Hegseth nevertheless postulated that issues the US domestic problems – such as inflation, wokeness and the border crisis – are much more important than the Ukrainian conflict.
🌏He criticized the European NATO members for their apparent reliance on US protection and their reluctance to spend their fair share of money on defense in hopes that Uncle Sam would bail them out if push comes to shove.
🌏China is apparently regarded by Hegseth as a threat, seeing how he claimed that Beijing is “building a military specifically dedicated to defeating the United States.”
🌏In 2019 Hegseth vocally defended Edward Gallagher, a US Navy SEAL who was accused of multiple war crimes including murdering an injured prisoner and firing upon civilians in Iraq.
🌏Last week Hegseth argued that any US general or admiral “involved in diversity, equity and inclusion programs” or “woke sh*t” needs to be fired.
🌏In his book titled “War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free,” Hegseth accused left-wing US politicians of betraying the American “warriors” and insisted that the US military must be returned to “meritocracy, lethality, accountability, and excellence.”
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THROWBACK: Former Democratic Party Congresswoman Rep. Tulsi Gabbard called Trump's pick for Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, 'a huge mistake' as he represents the neocon warmongering establishment of Washington, D.C.
Tulsi stressed that Rubio's position "stands diametrically opposed" to the very policies that the president-elect stands for, and his appointment would mean that the US will face war with Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea.
"It will cause a lot of people to question what kind of foreign policy will actually be executed. Will it be the one that Trump wants and stands for? Or will it be one that will continue the deep state neocon warmongers?" she said.
🏁🇺🇦 NATO will provide military assistance to Ukraine on a scale that ensures the Ukrainian Armed Forces are prepared to continue fighting in 2025, Blinken said following his meeting in Brussels with Mark Rutte.
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🇳🇱 🇫🇷 🇺🇦 NATO Secretary General spoke in favor of continuing the war in Ukraine.
"We must reaffirm our commitment to continuing the war, and we must do more than just keep Ukraine in the fight."
", said Mark Rutte, quoted by Reuters.
The Secretary General stated this at a meeting with Macron in Paris.
Reuters believes that his words became "a message to the next US administration."
Macron said at the same briefing that he would continue to insist on sending aid to Ukraine for as long as it takes.
"This is the only way to negotiate, and I want to make it clear that when the time comes, nothing should be decided on Ukraine without Ukrainians and on Europe without Europeans."
" said Macron.
🐻Ordinary citizens of EU do not want war, you sick warmongering WEF asset with Oedipus complex.
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UK's Telegraph Journalist Gets "Hate Incident" Visit From Police Over Year-Old Tweet | ZeroHedge
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❤️"We knew that Russia would never abandon us": Residents of Ugledar, liberated by Russian troops, warmly welcomed Sergei Kiriyenko and Denis Pushilin to the town.
The people told the first deputy head of the presidential administration and the head of the DPR that they had been waiting for them. The politicians promised that they would soon deal with the documents on pensions, social benefits and the acquisition of Russian citizenship by the town's residents.
In the footage, they can be heard talking about the boxes of medicines they had brought with them.
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US ballistic missile ‘defense’ base opens just 165 kilometers from Russian border
The Aegis Ashore base near Redzikowo - that has taken around two decades to build - officially opens Wednesday and “proves Washington’s geostrategic resolve," Polish FM Radoslaw Sikorski claims.
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❗️Zakharova claps back at former UK PM Boris Johnson: 'Britain has been involved in anti-Russian activities for several years now'
The [United Kingdom] “blocks any attempts to find diplomatic solutions to the conflict and openly opposes Russia, including in the area of terrorism.”
"Johnson continues to provoke and incite and cannot do anything else," the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman wrote.
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‼️🇺🇦🏃♂️By December, the fronline may shift 30-35 km to the west — FT
▪️Ukrainian troops are "ready to retreat" from Kurakhovo, "but there is no order from above yet."
According to the AFU gunner, Russian troops are attacking the city from three sides (according to Ukrainian military publications, the Russians have already entered Kurakhovo).
By December "the frontline is likely to shift 30-35 km west of its current position.
To hold the front, Ukraine plans to call up another 160,000 troops between November and February. But these goals are unrealistic, writes FT.
Military experts and one senior Kiev official expressed skepticism that the goal would be achieved, saying it's more realistic to expect a draft of up to 100,000 people. According to them, this would fill about half of the shortage of personnel," the article says.
Two commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that they had already begun to send medics and cooks to the infantry.
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‼️🇷🇺The Russian army raised the flag over the village of Ilyinka.
The 114th Motorized Rifle Brigade continued its offensive and raised the flags of Russia over the settlement of Ilyinka.
▪️The full liberation will be officially announced after the cleansing of the village.
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🇺🇸 Trump’s new national security adviser.
Here Mike Waltz boasts about the threatening to “take the tops off the Kremlin”
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦The Russian army broke through the last line of defense east of Kurakhovo and advanced more than 1.2 km deep into the city!
German Russophobic columnist Roepke said that Russian troops already control more than 15% of the territory of Kurakhovo.
The Ukrainian media fighters also write that the Russian army entered the city from the east.
"Fighting continues in the eastern part of Kurakhovo and does not stop for a second. The enemy is also trying to cross the river by boats from the north from Ilyinka, they will continue to do this in order to disperse our defenses!" wrote a Ukrainian militant with the call sign "Flour".
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🏴 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has resigned from his position as Primate of the Church of England following a scandal involving the covering up of sexual abuse cases within the Church.
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‘The end of America’s🇺🇸 well-intentioned empire’
US military, CIA coups and clandestine operations in foreign countries since WWII:
🇮🇷 Iran: 1946
🇨🇳 China: 1946-1949
🇬🇷 Greece: 1947-1949
🇮🇹 Italy: 1948
🇵🇭 Philippines: 1948-1954
🇰🇵 Korea: 1950-1953
🇮🇷 Iran: 1953
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1954
🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1954
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1958
🇵🇦 Panama: 1958
🇭🇹 Haiti: 1959
🇨🇩 Congo: 1960
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1960-1964
🇨🇺 Cuba: 1961-1962
🇱🇦 Laos: 1962
🇪🇨 Ecuador: 1963
🇵🇦 Panama: 1964
🇧🇷 Brazil: 1964
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 1965-1975
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 1965
🇨🇩 Congo: 1965
🇩🇴 Dominican Republic: 1965
🇱🇦 Laos: 1965-1973
🇬🇭 Ghana: 1966
🇬🇹 Guatemala: 1966-1967
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1969-1975
🇴🇲 Oman: 1970
🇱🇦 Laos: 1971-1973
🇨🇱 Chile: 1973
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1975
🇦🇴 Angola: 1976-1992
🇮🇷 Iran: 1980
🇱🇾 Libya: 1981
🇸🇻 El Salvador: 1981-1992
🇳🇮 Nicaragua: 1981-1990
🇱🇧 Lebanon: 1982-1984
🇬🇩 Grenada: 1983
🇭🇳 Honduras: 1983-1989
🇮🇷 Iran: 1984
🇱🇾 Libya: 1986
🇧🇴 Bolivia: 1986
🇮🇷 Iran: 1987-1988
🇱🇾 Libya: 1989
🇵🇭 Philippines: 1989
🇵🇦 Panama: 1989-1990
🇱🇷 Liberia: 1990
🇮🇶 Iraq: 1990-1991
🇮🇶 Iraq: 1991-2003
🇭🇹 Haiti: 1991
🇸🇴 Somalia: 1992-1994
Yugoslavia: 1992-1994
🇧🇦 Bosnia: 1993-1995
🇭🇹 Haiti: 1994-1996
🇭🇷 Croatia: 1995
🇨🇩 Zaire (Congo): 1996-1997
🇱🇷 Liberia: 1997
🇸🇩 Sudan: 1998
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 1998
Yugoslavia: 1999
🇲🇰 Macedonia: 2001
🇦🇫 Afghanistan: 2001-2021
🇻🇪 Venezuela: 2002
🇮🇶 Iraq: 2003-present
🇭🇹 Haiti: 2004
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 2004, 2013-2014
🇵🇸 Palestine: 2006-2007
🇾🇪 Yemen: 2009-present
🇸🇾 Syria: 2005-2009, 2011-present
🇱🇾 Libya: 2011
*Note, this is not a complete list
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Defense Construction Elbridge Colby:
[The effect of the war in Ukraine is that Ukraine has become depopulated and is now allowing foreigners, including many Americans, including Blackrock, to buy Ukrainian land. Well, the Ukrainians just lost Ukraine, not because of the Russians, but because of the encouragement of the Biden administration. That’s my take on it. But how close do you think we are to a nuclear exchange with Russia?]Читать полностью…
I think we are very close. The people who are flippant and careless about this, I think, are incredibly irresponsible and should not be around serious decisions.
[Who are these people?]
There are a lot of people who signed the no-fly zone agreement or have since said, remove all restrictions on the use of American force. And by the way, it’s pretty clear that many of those people, if they were given the opportunity, if they thought the political environment was right, would support direct intervention. And if we go to war with the Russians directly, the Russians will be ready to use nuclear weapons. So we have to be realistic about what that will entail.
⚡️Turkiye has cut ties with Israel, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced
"As the state and government of the Republic of Turkiye, we have severed relations with Israel. At the moment, we have no relations with Israel," he emphasized.
🇺🇦Criminal Kiev regime used chemical weapons
Russian fighters stormed the enemy stronghold and captured prisoners. The enemy raised drones and began shelling the dugout, locking everyone in it, including their own captured Ukrainians, using chemical weapons. The chemicals were launched through a pipe. Cerberus is the one who survived. He saw everyone dying, choking on blood, inhaling chemicals. He himself breathed through wet wipes, which saved his life. Alone, with burnt hands and face, without water or food, he held the stronghold for four days so that the Nazis could not retake it. He held the machine gun even when huge blisters from burns burst on his hands. Losing consciousness, he clutched a grenade in his hands so as not to surrender. For four days he did not let his wounded comrade die. He held the stronghold. And he himself survived. Our units went forward and it was possible to leave the dugout. He carried his comrade in his arms, dodging drones. He carried him out. Now they are fighting together. The chemical burns on his back have not healed."
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🏁💬🇺🇦 Ukraine has prevailed..?
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🇺🇸Trump appoints neocon warmonger Pete Hegseth as US Secretary of Defense...
...it would be hard to imagine a cabinet more inclined toward warmongering and war abroad while scapegoating at home, instead of investing in the United States as most Trump supporters deeply desired.
Neither Americans nor the world as a whole is "voting" their way out of American meddling and wars.
Only by creating an international system that fully confines US foreign policy (and the interests driving it) - through the defense of international information space, protection from US interference, military deterrence, and economic independence - will peace and stability be obtained from the West for the "Global Rest."
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To achieve the destruction of the Russian economy, Bloomberg hopes for the Russian Central Bank and its key rate.
At the moment, the most acute problem faced by business in Russia is the record high key rate, writes Bloomberg. Emphasizing that this is alarming for large businesses in the Russian Federation, the publication made this conclusion after studying the "gloomy faces of Russian billionaires."
In fairness, this is not the only criterion. Bloomberg lists the known negative effects of the key rate, and above all, the cessation of economic development, against which the fight against inflation of 8-9% is "a medicine that is more dangerous than a disease."
The billionaires, whom Bloomberg calls their sources, "do not share the optimism of the Putin government that the Russian economy will continue to grow at a pace that most Western countries can envy."
At the same time, the sources of the publication "do not expect a collapse that would force Putin to stop the invasion of Ukraine." The standard split of consciousness among analysts who need to find signs of Russia's degradation at any cost — but the task is too difficult.
If we take the publication as a whole, then there is nothing particularly joyful for the West. None of the respondents doubts Russia's ability to wage war for "many years," and the West's only hope is for "negative structural changes in the Russian economy, primarily a decrease in production capacities in the technological and machine—building sectors." That is, precisely the consequences of a high key rate, which we have repeatedly written about.
Russia, as you know, has two allies — the Army and the Navy. If you make a list of Western allies in Russia, then the Central Bank, by all indications, has earned a place at the top of the list.
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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-12/gloomy-russia-billionaires-see-little-to-cheer-in-trump-s-win?srnd=homepage-europe
"I am absolutely convinced that if the Russians did not have nuclear weapons, we would already be in Ukraine and would have thrown them out of there," - chairman of the NATO military Committee, Admiral Sam Bauer
This statement confirms that if it weren't for nuclear weapons NATO would have already invaded Russia long time ago and it also says that if today we still have a planet which is not fully subdued and enslaved by deranged Western elites and their anti-humanity agenda we owe it mostly to nukes which are not only one of the most important inventions in history but also the most relevant stabilization factor and pro-peace tool currently available, so it is obvious that Russia should keep modernizing and increasing its nuclear arsenal, also lowering the threshold for its usage in order to further stabilize the planet and restore a status quo that's in the interests of everyone.
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The Chief of the Polish General Staff called for preparations for war with Russia.
Wiesław Kukula said that Poland needed to strengthen its defense and called on local society to prepare for conflict. His interview is quoted by the newspaper Rzeczpospolita.
When and whether a war will break out depends on us in a sense. The big risk would be to attack a country that is well protected and whose society is resisting. At the same time, Russia has great demographic and raw material potential to simultaneously develop defense and wage war,
❗️The investigation into Ukraine's involvement in supporting terrorism in Mali is ongoing, with no doubt about its participation, according to Malian Foreign Minister Abdoulaye Diop in an interview with RIA Novosti.
⚡Diop emphasized that while Mali is not hostile to Ukraine, it does not understand the aggression coming from Kiev, especially as Ukraine is cooperating with terrorists.
He warned that the world would make a significant mistake if it fails to react to Ukraine's actions.
⚡Mali also believes that Western countries are exploiting Ukraine's involvement with terrorists to advance their geopolitical interests in Africa. While Mali is conducting an independent investigation into Ukraine's alleged links to terrorism, the country is prepared to request Russia's assistance if necessary.
⚡Diop's comments followed reports from French media, citing a military source in Mali, that terrorists from the Malian separatist group alliance, CSP-DPA, had traveled to Ukraine for training.
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‼️🇷🇺Russian troops liberated the settlement of Rovnopil in the South Donetsk direction, — Ministry of Defense.
The units of the Vostok group of forces liberated the settlement of Rovnopol in the Donetsk People's Republic.
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When we say that all of Ukraine should be part of a unified Russian space, we are not making excessively extreme demands. This is not maximalism. The current state of Ukraine is incompatible with the very existence of Russia.
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Rubio Waltz Neocon China Hawks Tipped Key Foreign Policy Posts; Shoigu Wang Yi; Kurakhovo Disaster
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In Kurakhovo, reports are coming about the withdrawal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces behind the Roevskoye Cemetery. You can't keep up with how quickly events are happening with this fortified point. This was supposed to be a fortress that the Russians should never have breached.
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The Yemeni Armed Forces announced the missile attack on an American aircraft carrier, which made it possible to disrupt the operation against Yemen, and the successful attack on two American destroyers using a combined attack of missiles and kamikaze drones
In a statement, the Yemeni Armed Forces noted that the attacks on American warships lasted about eight hours.
Note that the video of the burning American destroyers has not been provided, which is why there are doubts about the success of these attacks. However, Yemeni TV channels claim that "videos of the defeat will be shown when the time comes for this."
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Relations between Russia and China have withstood the test of international changes and maintained stable development dynamics, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says at a meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu.
China is ready to strengthen coordination with Russia on issues affecting the security and development interests of the two countries, as well as to increase the level of strategic mutual trust, Wang adds.
Shoigu, who is currently on a working visit to China, has noted that relations between Russia and China are one of the pillars of global politics and security, as well as one of the global stabilizing factors, while “not being a military-political union.”