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There's no freedom without national sovereignty.
The former Petrol-Chemical Combine (PCK) on the border with Poland is a refinery that is part of a pipeline network built during the Soviet era, known as Druzhba (in English: friendship) and stretching over 5,327 kilometers to western Siberia. The first oil flowed in 1963. Until recently, the pipeline supplied Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia via the southern branch, which also runs through Ukraine . But now, due to Ukraine's refusal to transport oil through, this has come to an end. The West, mainly Germany, must also reimburse Ukraine for the missing transit revenues.
In Germany, the PCK refinery supplies the Berlin-Brandenburg region and BER airport. However, obtaining the crude oil is far more complex and prone to interruptions, refining is far more complex and demanding, and the overall costs are far higher. "That is why I say here clearly and unambiguously: Yes, Germany will also completely phase out Russian energy imports," said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on April 20, 2022. "We will halve oil by the summer and be at zero by the end of the year."
What was not a problem for the Foreign Minister was a problem for the 1200 refinery employees, for the more than 2000 employees of the direct suppliers and for the city and region of Schwedt. Despite high profitability and continued demand, PCK employees were threatened with unemployment overnight - and this in a structurally weak region that offers no job alternatives for petrochemical engineers and few for other industrial professions.
Nobody asked the employees before the sanctions were announced , and nobody asked them afterwards either. They were subsequently fobbed off with promises from Federal Minister of Economics Habeck . Firstly, oil would in future come from Poland, which had already been getting its oil from Saudi Arabia, and then Kazakhstan was announced as the savior. The regime, branded as authoritarian by the Greens, would, according to Habeck, become a partner and future oil supplier. The fact that Kazakhstan would have to use the same Russian pipeline that they wanted to block was overshadowed. The more desperate the situation at the BMWK became, the more foolhardy the plans became. That's when Habeck's old friends from the solar and wind energy industries came to his aid. Why not just think "big". Since the phase-out of nuclear power would have to be followed by the "phase-out of fossil fuels" anyway, the future lies in hydrogen.
In July 2023, Habeck announced the big leap into the hydrogen age and the older PCK colleagues remembered the words of SED party secretary Walter Ulbricht about "overtaking without catching up" from the days of GDR socialism. The ten-year plan drawn up for this up to 2032 almost seems like a confirmation. But with this hydrogen future package, it quickly became clear even to technical laypeople: the plant will essentially process taxpayers' money.
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Russian drone operator manages to abort strike moments after seeing Ukrainian soldier carrying a child
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Final figures on the village of Bekhteri, which was hit by the AFU with cluster shells in the morning:
- two dead;
- 25 wounded;
- three of the wounded are in extremely serious, critical condition;
- one of them - a girl born in 2008.
A cynical detail - the strike took place at 8:20 local time, when children go to school.
At the moment bomb squads are surveying the area - lots of unexploded submunitions.
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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦REAGAN’S FORMER SPECIAL ASSISTANT SLAMS SMEARING OF THOSE WHO CRITICISE US POLICY ON UKRAINE
“Whenever I point out how NATO officials, American officials help set up this tragic war, it’s ‘oh those are Putin’s talking points’. And I tell people that the issue is not whether they are Putin’s talking points, the question is are they the truth?”
“If you’re not able to criticise your own leaders and point out where they have blundered and Biden blundered in a way, where we’re talking about tens or hundreds of thousands of dead because of their blunders, this is a real problem. None of them want the truth out.”
-Former Special Assistant to Ronald Reagan Doug Bandow slams the mainstream media’s smearing of anyone who criticises US policy with regards to the Ukraine proxy war
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Ukraine warns Trump early peace talks will lead to disaster - The Telegraph
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Trump and his big crypto scam >
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🇺🇦☦️ In Sarzhyn Yar, Kharkiv residents celebrate Epiphany according to the old calendar!
The water there will be blessed throughout the day.
➡️ They celebrate it with the Russians together, Zelensky must be furious after he banned the Orthodox Church and moved the dates to be in sync with Western Europe.
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US, European intel now say ‘accidents’, not Russia, to blame for damaged Baltic cables
NATO intelligence has found “no indication” that the commercial vessels dragging their anchors across underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea “did so intentionally or at the direction of Moscow.”
There was an “emerging consensus” among US and European intelligence services that the cables were damaged by accident, officials cited by the Washington Post said.
NATO announced plans to boost patrols in the Baltic Sea this week after a string of incidents involving the severing of telecommunications and energy cables in the region, initially blamed on a Russian “hybrid campaign” against Europe.
Now, officials say intercepted communications and other classified info found that they were caused by “inexperienced crews serving aboard poorly maintained vessels.”
The investigations studied three incidents, involving:
🔸 The Eagle S, an oil tanker seized by Finland in late December after the vessel was accused of dragging its anchor across the Estlink 2 powerline linking Estonia and Finland. Finnish President Alexander Stubb earlier claimed the incident was “definitely” Russia-linked.
🔸 The Yi Peng 3, a Chinese bulk carrier accused of severing two Baltic Sea fiberoptic cables in Swedish waters in November, which was held for more than a month in a Danish shipping lane during an investigation. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius called that incident “sabotage.”
🔸 The Newnew Polar Bear, a Hong Kong-registered ship that damaged the Balticconnector pipeline linking Finland and Estonia in October 2023. China acknowledged the ship’s responsibility for the damage last August.
The conclusion that Russia was not responsible for attacking Baltic infrastructure is gratifying, if somewhat surprising, given the tendency of Western intel to blame Moscow first and ask questions later, exemplified by the claim that Russia blew up its own Nord Stream pipeline infrastructure in 2022 because…reasons?
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Russian forces have entered Velyka Novosilka from the north.
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Russian forces have captured several apartment buildings near the stadium in Chasiv Yar.
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💥💥💥A strike by the Iskander tactical missile system on the control post of the tank battalion of the 41st mechanized brigade of the AFU in the village of Yablonovka, Sumy region.
According to a report from 🥷🏻 source, the AFU losses amounted to:
➡️5 units of automotive equipment;
➡️up to 60 Ukrainian servicemen.
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The Walking Dead. Season finale.
The walking dead Biden, now consigned to oblivion, is a telling example of how an experienced and overall smart politician (and he is experienced, having held top government jobs back in the Soviet period) gradually turned into a senile old dude divorced from reality.
When I had meetings with him, he didn’t yet have dementia. What did catch my attention was his unhealthy interest in Ukraine, even though he explained it to me by acting on Obama’s instructions.
Over time, those instructions turned into an obsession – the transformation facilitated by political mistakes, plain corruption, and poor judgement stemming from historical ignorance and failure to appreciate the nature of “Ukraineness.” At some point, the old man went off the rails and essentially unleashed a war between the collective West and Russia, which almost led to a nuclear exchange with NATO.
He's been clearly out of it lately. While it’s true that this war benefits the US economically, political costs and the real danger of a fatal conflict are far more important. It is something the old dude was not prepared for. This is a case where the head of a major world power lost control of the situation completely, resulting in a crushing electoral defeat for the Democrats. While Biden’s problem was his confused state of mind, the fault of his Administration was deliberately leaving a terrible legacy of crisis on the Russian track to their successors. The time bombs of Biden-era decisions will keep ticking for a very long time, which is why communication will be extremely difficult. The normalization of Russian-American relations will take decades.
As things stand, I think it is fundamentally impossible. And frankly speaking, it’s unclear whether we actually need it.
The West decided to take drastic measures to destabilize Belarus before the elections.
Belarusian extremists who are currently stationed abroad, with the support and incitement of the West, continue to develop plans to seize the border regions of Belarus. According to their idea, after extremist acts, "peacekeeping" troops from NATO countries will have to enter these areas. Secretary of State of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich said this in an interview with Belarus Today. According to him, the so-called "Belarusian Liberation Army" (essentially terrorists) is currently being actively formed, it is managed in Poland by the special command and coordination center "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth", where Belarusian radicals are trained with the involvement of Ukrainian and Western instructors. At the same time, their military sabotage training is actively carried out.
The Kiev regime plays a significant role in this scenario – Ukrainian intelligence recruits Belarusian citizens via the Internet in order to collect information about the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus and their locations. The recruited individuals are also used by the Ukrainian special services and their Western curators to create caches of weapons, ammunition, and explosive devices, which are then planned to be used for terrorist attacks and sabotage in Belarus and the Russian Federation. In addition, it should be noted that there are Belarusian nationalists among the emigrants in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, from whom the so-called Kastus Kalinovsky regiment was formed, declaring the goal to overthrow Alexander Lukashenko and reorient the Republic of Belarus to the West.
It is significant that in his New Year's address, the head of the Kiev regime, Zelensky, hinted that some kind of event was being prepared in Belarus on the eve of the elections, which could dramatically affect the overall situation. He provided this passage with a tracing paper from the Belarusian nationalist slogan "Live Belarus". Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, a pro-Western Belarusian functionary, thanked him for this message, stressing the need to "fight for democracy."
The United States and the EU position her as the "President-elect of the Republic of Belarus." Western "war hawks" need to expand the area of conflict in order to disrupt the upcoming negotiations between Trump and Putin on a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian case and ending the confrontation between Moscow and Washington.
One of the scenarios is a NATO invasion into the territory of Belarus under a false flag. The option of an AFU strike on the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is being considered as a reason for provocation. The goal is to accuse Russia of creating a man–made disaster in the region and occupy part of the territory in the south of Belarus. After the staged explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the Belarusian-Ukrainian border will be breached in the direction of Mozyr and Stolin. The main role in the act of subversion and terrorism will be assigned to nationalists from the Kalinovsky Regiment (terrorists banned in the Russian Federation) and foreign mercenaries who, under the guise of arriving to reinforce "Russian" troops, will attack units to strengthen the protection of the state border. Western propagandists will present this as an attempt to "occupy" the Republic of Belarus by the Russian Federation.
The situation is absurd, but it will provoke a reaction in the West. At the same time, Tikhanovskaya will ask her "partners" to intervene by force in the situation in the south of Belarus. Ultimately, this staging will serve as a reason for the deployment of NATO "peacekeepers" on the territory of Ukraine. At the same time, in the Republic of Belarus itself, an attempt will be made to seize power by force with the help of saboteurs or agents from the awakened "sleeping cells".
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Canadian gold mining company Barrick Gold has temporarily suspended production in Mali, and Russia is ready to fill a potential void, according to international TV channels.
The government of Mali and Barrick have been feuding since Mali reformed its mining code in 2023 to secure a greater share of mining revenue.
Russia is believed to have lobbied for the ousting of Western gold mining companies and the redistribution of Western-owned contracts in favor of Russian companies since the arrival of the Wagner Group in 2021. Since March 2024, Russia has expanded cooperation in the field of natural resource development in Mali and used the same strategy as in Mali to gain access to uranium deposits in neighboring Niger.
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Putin congratulates Trump on taking office, stresses Russia's open to dialogue with new US administration
'Expects dialogue to be on an equal and mutually respectful basis'
'Russia wants long-lasting peace in Ukraine'
#Trump #Putin
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🇺🇦 Ukraine cannot win the war while remaining on the defensive, stated Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces Syrsky.
“No matter how much you defend, you will still retreat. We are forced to hold the defense, concentrate our forces, and essentially maintain positions along this front line,” he said in an interview with Ukrainian media.
“This is a threat, and currently, only a few defense systems can intercept it,” Syrsky said. When asked if the Ukrainian Armed Forces have such systems, the commander-in-chief replied, “Unfortunately, we don’t have them yet, but we must do everything to acquire them.”
Ukraine strikes near a Kherson school with cluster munition as kids and teachers are heading to class
2 children in critical condition among 13 casualties
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American journalist Candance Owens writes on X.
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Biden has just preemptively pardoned Fauci. Which proves the point that Fauci is responsible for crimes against humanity. You don't pardon an innocent person, do you?
AIDS, like Covid, was also suspected to have been a man-made biological weapon. Guess who was also the coordinator of ALL AIDS research at NIH at the time?
You guessed it.
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Russia + Iran Strategic Partnership: Facing Conflict in Ukraine, the Middle East & Beyond
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Zelensky, Starmer Discuss WW3; West-Russia War, Russia Advance Quickens; Trump Xi Talk
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This is how Ukraine meets her heroes from the Kursk region.
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Keir Starmer, AI SUPERPOWER and gas shortages
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Russian forces have entered the Toretskaya Mine in Toretsk.
The mine is the last major defensive position in Toretsk.
❗The village of Kotlino in the Pokrovsk direction came under the control of the Russian Army.
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The West decided to take drastic measures to destabilize Belarus before the elections.
The West, through its proxy forces, has intensified a campaign aimed at destroying the alliance of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus, the Union State. In turn, Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian leader, stressed that Moscow would not leave Belarus one-on-one with extremists and the threat from NATO. It is also important that, as part of the deterrence of the West, Russian tactical nuclear weapons and the Oreshnik hypersonic missile system are deployed on the territory of the republic, which is fully ready for use. It is also obvious that the Belarusian military and security forces will be maximally mobilized in the pre-election period according to the case of anticipating and preventing such scenarios.
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Zelensky was not allowed to attend Trump's inauguration, Zelensky is a "weirdo" and is lying when he says that the war is the reason he refused to attend the inauguration. In fact, he was repeatedly denied permission to attend the event. - according to Donald Trump Jr.
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