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Damaged but not deterred: US investor sets sights on Nord Stream 2 auction
An American investor with a flair for Russian dealmaking is reportedly aiming for the sabotaged Nord Stream 2 pipeline, viewing it as the deal of the century - if not a geopolitical mic drop.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Stephen P. Lynch has approached the US Treasury for permission to bid on the $11 billion project in a Swiss bankruptcy auction, undeterred by sanctions or the less-than-ideal "damaged goods" status of the pipeline.
With many investors likely steering clear due to the geopolitical chaos, Lynch appears eager to step in, arguing that US ownership of the pipeline could be a game-changer - not just for peace talks with Russia but for locking down control of Europe's energy supply.
He’s called it a "once-in-a-generation opportunity," which is certainly one way to describe buying a pipeline that’s both politically radioactive and physically broken.
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💬Western media about Putin's statement about using Oreshnik in response to NATO's aggressive actions:
🔹The Mirror: "Vladimir Putin issues WW3 warning shot boasting Russia fired new missile at Ukraine";
🔹The New York Times: "With the use of new missile, Russia sends a threatening message to the West";
🔹Forbes: "Ironically, a missile hit the center of Ukrainian missile production in Dnepr";
🔹The Guardian: "The Russian leader said that the strike on Ukraine on Thursday morning was a response to Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory carried out earlier in the week by American and British missiles";
🔹Newsweek: "Putin called mid-range missile test successful";
🔹The Economist: "The Russian president said that there are currently no countermeasures to Russia's new supersonic weapon";
🔹Bloomberg cited the opinion of the director of the Moscow Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies: "This is a very powerful signal from Putin. This is a carefully calculated step, since it does not require retaliatory actions from the United States."
Austrian journalist Chris Weber: Russia launches non-nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile as a warning against further escalation.
The warmongering faction says: That doesn't scare us. Written from the safety of the living room couch.
Dear idiots, those who don't want to understand the warning will have to face the consequences at some point. Russia has demonstrated that it is quite capable of responding to NATO missile strikes on its territory. And everywhere. Then even your own couch will no longer be safe. Whoever does not want to understand this - out of thirst for war or ideological blindness - in the not too distant future will receive an intercontinental missile with a nuclear warhead in response.
For NATO, it was clear that annexing Ukraine would mean war. Russia explicitly warned against it. But it did it anyway. Now Russia is warning very clearly about what it means for NATO to formally enter the war by firing NATO missiles into Russian territory. There can be no clearer warning than an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Western warmongers apparently believe that a third world war against a nuclear superpower can be won. Anyone who thinks so is obviously insane and should be removed from power. Or rather, they should be kept out of power.
We are ruled by lunatics who fear cold viruses and CO2 but think nuclear war is insignificant.
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‘The West’s 500-year global hegemony is over and the future will belong to Eurasia’ – Hungarian PM
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‘UK forces are ready to face Russia tonight’ — British Deputy Chief Rob Magowan
This was his response when MPs asked him ‘how many British brigades could get to NATO's eastern flank’ in the event of a major escalation with Russia.
#UK #Russia #Ukraine
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🇬🇧‼️ While the UK government welcomes Albanians and Africans with open arms, its own citizens, especially the elderly and vulnerable, suffer in the cold
🥶 A report by Labour states that at least 4,000 pensioners could die this winter, as the government has stripped them of their Winter Fuel Allowance, leaving them without support during the harsh season.
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Unfortunately + sadly unless there will be a real change when Trump goes to power, which is unlikely, it looks like soon or later Russia will be forced to hit NATO territory just like it was forced to launch the SMO after an endless stream of provocations.
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🔥 The nuclear version of the "Hazel" can carry 200 "Hiroshima" bombs.
The Oreshnik missile, which Putin spoke about, can carry both a high-explosive fragmentation charge and a nuclear one, military expert Anatoly Matviychuk suggested.
"The missile is quite modernized, good, with a range, most likely, about 6,000 km, with a separable warhead — 6 or 8, while each is most likely capable of carrying a charge of hundreds of kilotons, which exceeds the total charge dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki by a factor of 100-200. It was a demonstration of a dummy that could be in nuclear gear. Most likely, the Hazel is already on combat duty," he said.
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Where can the "Hazel" get to
All countries of continental Europe, from Poland and the Baltic States to Portugal, as well as the United Kingdom, are in the affected area.
In addition, newly minted NATO members Finland and Sweden are in the affected area.
The flight time of the "Hazel":
■ Great Britain - 19 minutes.
■ Poland - 8 minutes.
■ Belgium - 14 minutes.
■ Germany - 11 minutes.
This missile can be equipped with a nuclear charge. To be clear, this is about 150 Hiroshima.
High energy prices due to Germany's rejection of Russian gas are the main reason for the deterioration of the manufacturing sector, which accounts for 20% of GDP, which is twice as much as in France.
"Germany's energy-intensive industries have not grown for two decades. The automotive sector has been losing jobs for six years now. For years, they believed that "we are the best," and suddenly "it's over," says Moritz Shularik, a representative of the Kiel Institute of World Economics.
Meanwhile, Reuters, citing the Central Bank of Germany (Bundesbank), warns of a high risk of corporate default in Germany as early as 2025.
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It's not viable for Russia to let a terrorist state exist along its borders. So unless the West put the around 10.000 criminals between politicians, journalists, military officers and generals who are part of the Kiev regime or support its policies on a train to Russia to serve a life sentence there's no way the SMO can end without liberating Kiev itself. This is a fact that must be taken into account before any kind of negotiations.
If the West is not ready to give Kiev to Russia then it must hand over all those responsible for the post-2014 policies, atrocities, war crimes.
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Putin about the inability to defend against attacks by the Russian Oreshnik missile: There are no means of countering such weapons today. These missiles attack targets at a speed of Mach 10, which is 2.5-3 kilometers per second. Modern air defense systems available in the world and missile defense systems deployed by the Americans in Europe do not intercept such missiles. It's out of question.
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Putin says that a successful test of Oreshnik hypersonic MRBM was conducted on a target in Ukraine’s Dnipro. The missile approach speed to the target is 10 Mach, which is about 3.4 kilometers per second.
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Biden-Starmer Go All In On Ukraine: Storm Shadow Kursk Attack, Land Mines; West Embassies Close
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Since the Ukraine war triggered a EU energy crisis, the bloc hasn’t been completely honest about its dire situation. It misinterpreted what was pure luck with the weather for strategic success, for example. Now, it’s worse: European policymakers are gaslighting themselves about the outlook.
The result is another winter of high prices, not just for gas but also for electricity, further darkening the future for energy-intensive companies in the region. Rarely a week goes by without a major manufacturing sector announcing plant closures, job losses and write-downs worth billions of euros. Households, too, will feel the hit; retail gas and electricity prices will climb, boosting inflation and posing another headache for the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
European wholesale gas prices have risen this week to €47 MWh, double the February low point. While current prices are a fraction of the all-time high set at more than €300 per MWh during the worst of the energy crisis in mid-2022, they remain about 130% above the 2010-2020 average.
The challenge is encapsulated by two prices. First is the cost of gas in Europe, measured by the so-called TTF benchmark. On Wednesday, it was about $14 per million BTUs. The second is the cost of the same gas, but in the US, it was at $3 per mBtu. It is evident where businesses will invest.
Source: Bloomberg
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Senate Republican Leader-Elect John Thune slams ICC arrest warrant for Bibi Netanyahu as ‘outrageous, unlawful, and dangerous’
He encouraged outgoing Senate Leader Chuck Schumer to bring a bill to the floor sanctioning the International Criminal Court for targeting Israel’s PM and ex-Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
#Senate
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🇷🇺❌🇺🇸The NATO Protection Racket Exposed: Seconds to Midnight
Ukraine’s ex-top general may not be wrong, kinetic World War III may have begun. But if this nightmare ignites into a full inferno, the blame lies not with Kiev but with its masters in DC and lead vassal-London, who have spent years engineering the conditions for this conflagration.
The latest round of escalation tells the tale: the U.S. authorizes ATACMS, the UK follows suit with Storm Shadows and Russia retaliates with Oreshnik, a hypersonic ballistic missile, leveling an industrial zone in Dnipropetrovsk. While Oreshnik wasn’t nuclear-tipped, the message was clear: you push; we’ll push harder. What’s unfolding is a deliberate script, albeit one written in desperation, authored by the West, with Europe and Ukraine cast as sacrificial lambs. When faced with cosmic humiliation (total defeat in Ukraine), the Deepstate goes full Dr. Strangelove.
The UK, ever eager to play the loyal attack poodle, has been leading the charge. Let’s not forget it was Boris Johnson who scuttled peace negotiations in Istanbul, ordering Zelensky to double down on confrontation instead of diplomacy. Britain’s suicidal zeal for escalation has earned it nothing but Russia’s righteous hatred and deservedly so. Unlike Germany and France, who at least maintain some dialogue with Moscow, the UK’s foreign policy is a kamikaze act of malice and myopia. Britain, it seems, truly has no friends, only its delusions of imperial grandeur.
And then there’s NATO. A grotesque parody of a protection racket. A Tony Soprano wannabe demanding "protection fees" from its shopkeepers, while offering nothing in return but manufactured fear and unnecessary wars. But here’s the difference: even Tony had the self-awareness to admit that “the best was behind him.” NATO, and its American godfather, cling to the illusion of invincibility, refusing to acknowledge the reality that the Global Majority. led by a resurgent Russia, is no longer buying their extortion and fraud.
The reality is cold: the US has no loyalty to its vassals. It engineered this war post-Soviet collapse, ramped it up in 2014, and set the stage for the SMO in 2022. It sabotaged Europe’s energy independence via state terror with the Nord Stream bombing, turning Germany from an industrial powerhouse into a gas-starved beggar reliant on overpriced American LNG. And when inflation suffocates Europe, when the energy crisis bites, does Washington offer subsidies or a Marshall Plan 2.0? No. It offers zero material help but more weapons at extortionist prices, more money laundering for its military-industrial complex, and gleefully extracts profits from Europe’s misery.
The UK should take note: the U.S. is happy to sacrifice you in the best of times, so what makes you think it will sacrifice ITSELF for you in the worst? If Russia were to launch a handful of strategic ICBMs at London (delivered faster than Dominoes Pizza- 15 minutes), would Washington risk annihilation for its loyal but disposable pawn? Of course not. The U.S. would wail, demand sanctions, but offer Russia an off-ramp, it would not risk mutual destruction for Britain. The protection racket would be exposed as a fraud, unable to shield its shopkeepers when the righteous-wolves arrive.
Russia knows this, as does the U.S. Only one nation has ever used nuclear weapons: the United States, on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The bluff works great on regimes like Saddam's Iraq or Gaddafi's Libya or CIA-asset turned "enemey" drug dealer Noriega in Panama. But the bluff doesn’t work on a nuclear superpower like Russia. What’s unfolding is the beginning of the end for NATO’s extortion empire. The Global Majority sees the racket for what it is: a failing enterprise reliant on fear, coercion, fraud and lies.
Europe and especially the UK, must wake up before it’s too late. You are not protected. You are pawns in a game where the empire holds no loyalty and no honour. And the resurgent forces of history, led by a fearless Russia, are calling the bluff.
- Gerry Nolan
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🇮🇷 Following yet another round of anti-Iran sanctions by the IAEA, Iran has kept it's promise of "decisive and immediate" action and begun the launch of a new set of "new and advanced" centrifuges, greatly expanding it's nuclear refinement capabilities.
Iran issued a joint statement from the Foreign Ministry and Atomic energy agency saying:
'Due to the renegade acts of the Western nations and in accordance with international law, in response to the approval of the anti-Iran resolution at the IAEA, we have issued the order to activate new and advanced centrifuges to increase the output of enriched uranium
Serbia’s Vucic issues a passionate warning to Western leaders
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Crimean beach party permanently cancelled 😂
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Hungary; EU Ukraine policy of escalation is crazy
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NATO's official response to Russian hypersonic missile strike on Dnipropetrovsk is: "We are not afraid because we can hit Russia with impunity while Russia of course will not hit us".
Just this way of thinking makes clear that the current Western elites are de facto psychopaths who should be placed into a mental asylum ASAP.
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Vladimir Putin puts the US and West ‘on notice’ with state-of-the-art missile strike
As Russian President Vladimir Putin lamented the use of Western long-range missiles against Russia, retired CIA intelligence officer and State Department official Larry Johnson points out that the missiles would fall under the now-defunct INF Treaty.
“Recall that there was the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty that was signed. It came into effect with Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev back in December of 1987,” Johnson tells Sputnik.
“And that treaty dealt with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, missile launchers with a range of 500 to 1000km, ie short-medium range and 1000 to 5500 are called intermediate range.”
According to him, the recent missile strike against the city of Dnepropetrovsk in Ukraine was President Putin’s way of sending a message to the West and to the United States who earlier “unilaterally abrogated” the INF Treaty.
“The fact that the United States unilaterally abrogated this treaty, I think Vladimir Putin was putting the United States and the West on notice, ‘okay, you abrogated that treaty. Now, let us show you what we have’,” Johnson elaborates.
The aforementioned strike on Dnepropetrovsk, he says, shows that Russia “developed both a short-medium range and an intermediate range ballistic missile with MIRV capability, which refers to multiple independent reentry vehicles so that one missile can carry a warhead with multiple warheads that can disperse.”
“What makes this particularly interesting is this is a hypersonic so this travels at a speed that no Western air defense system is capable of stopping,” Johnson adds.
“So Vladimir Putin in destroying this one defense facility in Dnepropetrovsk was sending a very clear message to the West that more will follow. We'll see if the West backs down now or not.”
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Can't shoot these down.
Russia's hypersonic missiles 🔥
https://x.com/MedvedevRussiaE/status/1859659775132492036
"Once-dominant Germany is in despair as its economic model collapses".
The British Economist on the impending collapse of the German economy amid the ongoing recession:
On the eve of elections that could deprive Chancellor Scholz of his post, Germany is suffering from fears of deindustrialization. Germany has missed the opportunity for large-scale investments in an era of low interest rates, and its economic model is crumbling.
Germany has lost the ability to master new technologies, despite its strengths in basic research and engineering. The last major successful German startup was SAP, a software development company founded in 1972.
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Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico announced his intention to come to Moscow with Vucic on May 9 during a joint press conference: You are a country that chooses an independent and open policy on the bright side of the world. We agreed that we would go to Moscow together in May. Because we have common thoughts on how to fight fascism. And we respect the countries that were present at the liberation of our countries during the Second World War.
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President Putin on the possibility of medium-range missile strikes against NATO countries: We are conducting combat tests of the Oreshnik missile system in response to the aggressive actions of NATO countries against Russia. The issue of further deployment of medium-range and shorter-range missiles will be decided by us, depending on the actions of the United States and its satellites. The targets for destruction during further tests of our newest missile systems will be determined by us based on threats to the security of the Russian Federation. We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against the military installations of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities. And in case of escalation of aggressive actions, we will also respond decisively and in a mirror manner. I recommend that the ruling elites of those countries that have plans to use their military contingents against Russia seriously think twice about this.
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❗️WATCH: President Putin Addresses The Nation After Long-Range Western Weapons Used Against Russia
https://rumble.com/v5rozhw-vladimir-putin-addresses-the-nation.html
🇺🇸🇷🇺 The US has expanded its sanctions list against Russia.
The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions against Gazprombank, BCS Bank, Centrocredit Bank and a number of other credit institutions.
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