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There's no freedom without national sovereignty.
US has a completely inflated economy distorted by overpricing and corruption
- 2 trillion dollars for development of F35, very inefficient and costly to maintain, soon obsolete with competing hypersonic and air defense technology
2 trillion dollars was spent in Afghanistan to fight the Taliban only to replace it with...the Taliban.
Trump wants to invest 500 Billion dollars on AI just when a Chinese company / Deepseek has spent only 5 million dollars to make the best AI system
Healthcare in the US accounts for 18% of US GDP versus China 6% while US citizens have a lower life expectancy than in China, while USA has higher infant mortality than China.
Corruption + waste + inflated economy
❗Saudi Arabia and other OPEC+ members ignored Trump's call to lower oil prices to put pressure on Russia - Reuters
Trump planned to bring down prices in order to encourage Russia to negotiate an end to the war with Kiev.
The ministers of the OPEC+ oil exporting countries held a meeting, after which they stated that OPEC does not plan to change the current plan, which assumes an increase in production from April. And the agenda of the meeting of the countries scheduled for February 3 will not change.
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⚡️⚡️⚡️🇷🇺🇸🇾 BREAKING | Russian Delegation Arrives in Damascus to Discuss Arrangements for Future Relations
High-level Russian delegation arrived in Damascus to launch a comprehensive dialogue on all issues on the agenda of both sides.
The delegation, headed by Mikhail Bogdanov, Russian Deputy FM and Presidential Special Envoy for the Middle East and Africa, includes representatives of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence, officials in the government's economic sector, and a number of other institutions and sectors.
Preparations have been made for meetings with the head of the Syrian administration, Ahmad al-Sharaa, Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani, and other officials of the new Syrian administration.
These will be Moscow's first official talks with the new Syrian leadership, after communication between the two sides was limited to closed military and diplomatic channels.
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The second NATO-trained Ukrainian brigade in a month "is falling apart as it is deployed to the front lines," — Forbes
▪️ We are talking about the 157th mechanized brigade, which is being sent to Pokrovsk: it was recently formed and without proper training is immediately thrown into the hottest spots .
▪️There were no experienced soldiers in it - "all newbies" . Having seen their positions near Pokrovsk, many soldiers immediately abandoned them .
▪️According to the military portal Militaryland, the same situation is in other brigades of the 150th series .
▪️There are 8 such brigades in total, they were formed in 2023 and early 2024 and after a "long period of preparation" began arriving at the front at the end of last year , Forbes writes.
▪️These brigades are large in numbers but "fragile - with inexperienced leaders , too little modern armour and low morale, often leading to high desertion rates ."
A reminder that when you see a Ukrainian brigade listed, that these are likely nowhere near full strength. You are regarded to be combat ineffective after 25% casualties. Instead of rebuilding brigades and pulling them from the front, Ukraine just made new ones.
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Ukraine Faces Defeat, Only 6 Months Left, Needs Peace; Velyka Novosilka Capture Shocks Ukraine
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs explains how Syria🇸🇾 was just one of 7 countries Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to destroy, and how he has succeeded in getting the US to overthrow the governments of 6 out of the 7…
Only one country is left…Iran🇮🇷
PUTIN🇷🇺: 'We will always remember that it was the Soviet people who brought liberation to Europe at a great human cost.’
27 million Soviet lives were lost to defeat Nazism. If you were to hold a minute’s silence for each victim, it would take over 51 years of continuous silence to commemorate them all.
Kaja Kallas spent the weekend in Tikhanovskaya's arms and posted about the illegality of the elections in Belarus
'The sham elections in Belarus were neither free nor fair. The people of Belarus deserve a real say in who runs their country. I spent this day with Tsikhanouskaya and EU foreign ministers to reaffirm our support for a free and democratic Belarus.'
Tehran has purchased Russian Su-35 fighter jets, Deputy Chief of the Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters of the Iranian Armed Forces, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) General Ali Shadmani said.
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❗️ Highlights from the Russian Defense Ministry Press Briefing, January 27:
▪️Russian forces struck Ukrainian military airfields and UAV assembly and storage sites
▪️The Ukrainian army lost up to 355 troops in the responsibility zone of Russia’s Battlegroup West
▪️Russian air defenses downed four HIMARS rockets and 64 Ukrainian drones
▪️Ukraine lost up to 610 servicemen and four armored vehicles in the responsibility zone of the Battlegroup Center
▪️Kiev lost up to 250 soldiers in the area of responsibility of the Battlegroup South
▪️The battlegroups North and Dnepr inflicted up to 50 casualties on enemy
🕔 Developments in Russia’s Kursk Region:
▪️Russian troops liberated the community of Nikolayevo-Daryino in the Kursk Region
▪️Russia’s Battlegroup North inflicted casualties on formations of a tank brigade, a heavy mechanized brigade, four mechanized brigades and two air assault brigades, a marine infantry brigade and three territorial defense brigades of the Ukrainian army
▪️The Ukrainian army lost over 190 troops, two tanks and ten armored combat vehicles in Russia’s borderline Kursk area over the past 24 hours
▪️Three Ukrainian troops surrendered and two enemy’s counterattacks were repulsed over the past day
Putin pays his respects at St. Petersburg Piskarevskoye cemetery to mark the 81st anniversary of Leningrad's liberation
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Michael von der Schulenburg, Member of the European Parliament and former UN Secretary General's advisor:
The EU has chosen war, it has chosen confrontation, it has chosen uncompromising. The amazing thing is that this is in the EU, which was once established as a peace project. Today, if you are in the European Parliament, the word peace, diplomacy and negotiation are swear words. It is a policy based on moral arrogance and uncompromising.
Even today, even after three years, people are still saying that the war must be won, we must defeat Russia. Resolutions are being passed in the European Parliament that I have never even heard of being used during the Iran-Iraq war. Which are so uncompromising. And these resolutions don't mention diplomacy in a single word. Not a word mentioning that there could also be negotiation. Only weapons should be the deciding factor. And in my opinion, these resolutions passed by the EU Parliament are a violation of the UN Charter.
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Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs warns about fraudulent websites for checking whether foreigners are not allowed to enter the Russian Federation. The user is asked to log in via Telegram.
Reference data can be obtained on the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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Mr. President, When it Comes to Russia, Check Your Assumptions https://sonar21.com/mr-president-when-it-comes-to-russia-check-your-assumptions/
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🌐 The Federal Reserve System is controlled by a small cabal of Western bankers who conspire to create global calamities to enrich themselves. Three wars involving the United States during the twentieth century are highlighted as part of this agenda, started by specifically engineered events, including the sinking of the RMS Lusitania, the attack on Pearl Harbour, and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident. Such wars serve to sustain conflict in general and force war spending, steal resources, usher in new draconian laws and build surveillance states.
https://rumble.com/v6ea7oa-the-corruption-of-the-western-world.html
The West Continues to Insult Russia https://sonar21.com/the-west-continues-to-insult-russia/
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Russian forces have completely cleared the village of Pidvarky further expanding their bridgehead over the Oskil River.
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🇵🇱🤡"Poland warns against resuming gas supplies from Russia": Poland's president has said gas flows from Russia to Western Europe should never be restored - even if Russia and Ukraine reach a peace deal.
"I believe that the Nord Stream pipelines should be dismantled," Duda said." It's a threat in terms of energy, in terms of military, but it's also a huge economic threat because it means Russian dominance over Europe in an economic sense.
Duda said that allowing Russia to hold on to territory it occupied in Ukraine would be a "violation of international law." As for the prospect of an agreement between Ukraine and Russia now that U.S. President Donald Trump has taken office, Duda insisted that no peace talks can take place without Ukraine's participation. "I say this as the president of the Republic of Poland, as a neighbor of Ukraine, and also as the president of a country that itself has gone through a very difficult historical experience," he said"
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Hungary will block any restrictive measures against Russia in the energy sphere that may be included in the sixteen package of EU sanctions, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said, as streamed by M1 television
“We will not tolerate any sanctions running counter to the strategic interests of Hungary. We said today that everyone should forget energy sanctions,” Szijjarto stressed.
Israeli Zionists: ‘It is wrong to call Israel a settler-colonial state’
Theodor Herzl: “You are being invited to help make history…it doesn’t involve Africa, but a piece of Asia Minor; not Englishmen but Jews…how, then, do I happen to turn to you since this is an out-of-the-way matter for you? How indeed? Because it is something colonial.”
This is a quote from a letter sent by Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern political Zionism, to Cecil Rhodes, an English mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896.
Yankwashing: How the Empire Erases Truth
The U.S. doesn’t just rewrite history, it deletes it by design. The brainwashing is so thorough that Americans live in a constant state of historical amnesia, blind to their country’s failures, overstating its victories, and erasing the contributions of others. From 1812 to World War II, Vietnam, and Iraq, the truth is either reduced to a footnote or buried altogether. The result? A population that cheers for endless wars while clutching a false narrative of moral and military superiority.
Take the War of 1812. In Canada, it’s a cornerstone of national history: a David-and-Goliath tale where British and Canadian forces not only repelled an American invasion but marched into DC and burned the White House. Yet in American textbooks? It’s barely a footnote, and when it is mentioned, it’s Yankeewashed as a “draw.” A draw? The U.S. had every advantage: manpower, geography, and resources. Britain, preoccupied with the Napoleonic Wars, sent limited resources across the Atlantic, yet even with these constraints, British and Canadian forces decisively crushed the U.S. invasion. By 1814, with Napoleon defeated, Britain unleashed fresh reinforcements, delivering the final blows and marching into DC to burn the White House. But the empire prefers its citizens to believe their flag was heroically waving, not that it survived by begging for mercy.
WWII is another glaring example. The sacrifices of the Soviet Union are minimized to prop up the myth of America as the sole savior of freedom. Trump recently claimed that “70 million Soviets died to help the Americans,” which is absurd on many levels. First, the actual number is closer to 26 million. Second, the Soviets didn’t “help” the Americans, they won the war. The Red Army destroyed more than 75% of Nazi forces, fighting the Wehrmacht’s best divisions on the Eastern Front while the Allies faced second-tier troops - Hitler Youth and middle-aged conscripts in Normandy. But you won’t hear that in American classrooms, where D-Day is lionized and Stalingrad is an afterthought.
And then there’s Vietnam: a war most Americans couldn’t even locate on a map, let alone justify. The empire sold it as a crusade against communism, but in reality, it was an illegal invasion and occupation. Millions of Vietnamese civilians were slaughtered, their villages carpet-bombed, their land poisoned with Agent Orange. Yet many Americans still cling to the fantasy that they were the victims. The same script played out in Iraq, with fabricated WMDs and media cheerleading a war that killed a couple million civilians and destabilized an entire region. Americans still ask, “Why do they hate us?” as if the answer isn’t written in the rubble of Baghdad.
Meanwhile, the U.S. lectures its vassals about not paying enough into the NATO protection racket, demanding they spend 5% of GDP on defense. For what? What kind of return on investment does the U.S. get for its trillion-a-year defense spending? To be humiliated by rice farmers in Vietnam and terrorists in sandals in Afghanistan? No empire that loses to barefoot guerrillas has any business lecturing anyone about military spending. The U.S. military is the most pathetic, bloated, and overhyped force in modern history, a protection racket made in the image of Tony Soprano. History will remember the US as the accidental empire.
This brainwashing is no accident. The Deep State and its Mockingbird media allies have perfected the art of Yankwashing, crafting a narrative where the U.S. is always the hero, never the aggressor. The goal is to hide the truth and weaponize ignorance, to ensure the American public cheers for the next invasion, the next “intervention,” the next imperial adventure.
How long can an empire survive on a foundation of lies? Because as the multipolar world rises: Russia, China, the Global South - the truth is becoming harder to bury. History will eventually judge the United States not as a benevolent superpower but as a crumbling empire that burned the world while lying to its own people.
- Gerry Nolan
Those who smelt it: Panicked British Navy mistook whale farts for Russian drone op
Initially suspecting an underwater listening device, the Royal Navy’s investigation discovered the strange sounds came from a gassy whale
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🗣 Key takeaways from statements by Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, January 27:
▪️Russia remains ready for communication with the United States at the level of President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump but Moscow has not received any requests on the matter from Washington
▪️Moscow congratulates Alexander Lukashenko on his victory in the Belarusian presidential election
▪️Moscow ignores the West’s anticipated criticism of the Belarusian election
▪️Putin and Trump will discuss the prospects of a bilateral meeting when they find it appropriate to have such a conversation
Around 500 Ukrainian servicemen were killed in the northeastern part of Velikaya Novoselka, located in the southern area of the DPR, the commander of an assault company of the marine infantry battalion of the Battlegroup East told TASS.
“About half a thousand Ukrainian servicemen were killed in the northeastern part [of Velikaya Novoselka],” the commander said, adding that some of them died while attempting to escape from the settlement.
🇩🇪 Armin Papperger, the head of the German defense company Rheinmetall, advocated for a decrease in government involvement in the European defense sector during an interview with Der Spiegel magazine.
"We need joint-stock companies in Europe like those in the United States, where the government holds, at most, a minority share,"
❗️Lukashenko wins Belarus election with 86.82% of vote, according to Central Electoral Commission preliminary data
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Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service Naryshkin on attempts to disrupt the participation of foreign leaders in the celebration of the 80th anniversary of Victory:
Today we are already seeing attempts being made by a number of Western capitals to disrupt the participation of international, foreign leaders in the celebration of the anniversary of the Great Victory.
Western capitals understand that their success in such actions will have a significant impact on their plans and dreams of completely isolating the Russian Federation. But, of course, they will not achieve this.
And it must be said that this area of activity, these attempts, are one of the priorities of the foreign policy departments and special services of Western countries.
Putin - addressed the participants in the ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the prisoners of Auschwitz by the Red Army:
We will always remember that it was the Soviet soldier who crushed this terrible, total evil and achieved the victory, the greatness of which will forever remain in world history.
Russian citizens are the direct descendants and successors of the generation of the victors. We will continue to stand firmly and fundamentally against attempts to rewrite the legal and moral verdict handed down to the Nazi executioners and their accomplices. We will do everything to defend the right of people to ethnic, linguistic and spiritual identity, to prevent the spread of anti-Semitism, Russophobia and other racist ideologies.
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💰US military industrial complex rakes in big bucks from Ukraine proxy war
US military equipment sales to surged 29% in 2024 to a record $318.7 billion, according to State Department figures.
🔴Lockheed Martin shares grew by 38.49% over the past year, reaching an all-time high of $611.74 last October.
🔴General Dynamics has also seen its stock rise by 27.81%, reaching an all-time high of $313.39 in November 2024.
🔴Northrop Grumman showed a 25.5% increase over the last three months of 2024.
While NATO collectively financed Kiev to the tune of $191.2 billion over the past three years, the US was the largest donor of military aid ($68.9 billion), according to calculations by Sputnik, based on data from the Ukrainian Finance Ministry and the University of Kiel.
Much of the West’s vast military aid to Ukraine has proven futile and served as a legitimate target for Russia on the battlefield. A significant portion of it has also ended up in the hands of black-market dealers.
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