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💬 'Nobody gives a f**k what Europe says' — Andrew Tate
"When the peace talks happen they’re not even invited. Ignored [...] Clowns, "candidate for British PM and leader of the BRUV party wrote on X.
Money talks: European stocks surge as Trump sparks hopes for peace
While the EU’s political class loses its collective mind in the wake of the Putin-Trump phone call, those seeking to rebuild the region’s shattered economies are apparently cautiously optimistic.
🔴 The indexes of the EU big two—Germany’s GDAXI and France’s FCHI—rose by 1.7% and 1.4%, respectively. The European STOXX 600 jumped 8%+.
🔴 Even the euro, recently pummeled by Trump’s tariff threats, saw a mild rebound against the dollar (0.1%).
🔴 Meanwhile, oil and natural gas, key inputs for Europe’s energy-starved economy, tumbled, with the natural gas benchmark TTF dropping 9% and Brent crude shedding 1.1%.
🔴 Automakers, steel, chemical companies, other industries, and airlines also enjoyed a bump—3.6% for Stellantis, 2.6% for ArcelorMittal, 3.6% for BASF, 6.4% for Legrand, and 3.6% for Lufthansa.
Analysts from Societe Generale, BNP Paribas, and Barclays told FT the gains were linked directly to “optimism” over Ukraine, and presumably, hopes of Russia’s return to the European energy market.
Europe committed what President Putin characterized as economic “suicide” in 2022 after rejecting Russian energy, triggering recessions and what some European companies have dubbed the worst deindustrialization crisis since WWII.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says he was surprised by the world's reaction to the Putin-Trump conversation, adding that they consider it something "out of the ordinary."
"Judging by the surprise and brain freeze that the telephone conversation between Trump and Putin caused, it seems that the West has begun to take for granted everything that is happening in Ukraine," Lavrov says.
⚡️The European Parliament says Georgia’s departure from the EU integration and “democracy” will result in sanctions for Tbilisi, the parliament’s resolution on Georgia reads.
The Parliament calls on the EU Commission to identify the sectors of the Georgian economy against which EU sanctions could be imposed and to assess the suspension of the EU-Georgia association agreement, the documents adds.
Sudan on Wednesday said it had agreed a deal for Russia to establish a naval base on the war-torn country’s Red Sea coast, marking a rare success for Moscow’s drive to expand its network of military bases in the region.
Asked about the progress of talks on the base, Sudan’s foreign minister Ali Al-Sharif said on a visit to Moscow: “We agreed, we agreed, we reached an agreement on everything.”
The Kremlin did not immediately comment on what was agreed, but a base in Sudan could offer Moscow an alternative to its naval base at Tartus in Syria, where the future of its presence is uncertain after the overthrow of its ally Bashar al-Assad.
Samuel Ramani of the Royal United Services Institute, a London think-tank, said: “A Russian Red Sea base in Sudan would ease logistical pressure on its forces in Africa, which now rely on Libya for logistics with the loss of bases in Syria.”
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🇷🇺🪖More statements from the Russian Defense Ministry's daily briefing on the special military operation's progress:
▪️Russia's Battlegroup Yug has struck the Ukraine’s Foreign Legion formations.
▪️Russian forces struck Ukrainian military airfield infrastructure and drone storage facilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
▪️Ukraine lost up to 200 soldiers and three warehouses in the areas of responsibility of Russia's Battlegroup Dnepr and Sever.
▪️Russian aviation shot down three HAMMER guided bombs, three HIMARS missiles and 202 Ukrainian drones.
▪️Ukraine has lost up to 270 troops over the day and more than 60,000 militants in the Kursk region since the start of hostilities.
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While Trump and Putin work on peace, the EU is preoccupied with worthless statements – Orban eviscerates Brussels
Hungary's PM says the bloc simply did not earn a seat at the table
‘The position of Brussels - to support killing as long as it takes - is morally and politically unacceptable’
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❗️Preparations to form a negotiating group for dialogue with the US have begun — Kremlin
Other statements from Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov regarding yesterday's conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump:
🔸 The leaders agreed to immediately issue instructions for preparing contacts, including deciding a meeting location.
🔸 Trump's invitation to Moscow does not necessarily mean he will attend the Victory Day celebrations.
🔸 On whether China will be involved in the negotiations: it is too early to discuss the composition of the parties. Moscow values its relations with China.
🔸 The issue of recognizing Crimea and the four new Russian regions was not raised during the conversation.
🔸 There is no clear understanding yet of the format for possible talks on Ukraine, and it is premature to discuss Europe's participation.
🔸 The conversation was significant because Russian and US leaders had not communicated for several years.
🔸 The current US administration believes the conflict should be stopped, and the Kremlin is open to dialogue.
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'That's your language, not mine' — Hegseth shuts down reporter claiming Trump's push for peace in Ukraine is a 'reward for dictators'
He stresses it's 'certainly not a betrayal' of Ukraine
#Trump #Ukraine
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Trump Tells Ukraine and NATO: You’re Fired! https://sonar21.com/trump-tells-ukraine-and-nato-youre-fired/
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Gold reserves in the three largest COMEX vaults increased by almost 500 tons in 2 months.
We are talking about gold storage facilities approved by the Commodity Exchange (COMEX), located under and around Manhattan, New York. It is reported that in January alone, more than 19,000 contracts were delivered, which had never happened before in its history.
As stocks on COMEX grow, stocks in London vaults are depleted, and the United States has moved from gold exporter to importer status since November 2024, and the US gold markets and demand for physical gold signal a major turn from the norm. Gold prices are now up 40% in 12 months as the US dollar and interest rates have risen sharply.
It is noted that the start of the US President Trump's trade war has only accelerated this trend, amid the collapse in bond prices, as Treasury yields are rising and US deficit spending is out of control. Thus, the United States borrowed $838 billion in the first 4 months of fiscal year 2025.
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The United States plans to extradite Alexander Vinnik to Russia after the extradition of American Vogel to the US — Reuters
The transfer takes place as part of a bilateral prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States.
Alexander Vinnik is suspected of cybercrime in the United States, he was the head of BTC-e, one of the world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges. In 2017, he was arrested at the request of Washington and detained on suspicion of laundering four billion dollars through this exchange.
In May 2024, he agreed to a charge of organizing a money laundering scheme, which could result in a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
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📞 Putin-Trump phone call: what we know so far
🔸 The leaders of Russia and the US discussed Ukraine, the Middle East, energy issues, and the exchange of citizens between Russia and the US
🔸 The two leaders discussed a peaceful resolution to the situation in Ukraine
🔸 Trump called for an immediate end to hostilities and a peaceful resolution to the crisis
🔸 Trump said he and Putin agreed on the necessity of stopping the conflict in Ukraine
🔸 During their conversation, Putin emphasized the importance of addressing the root causes of the conflict in Ukraine
🔸 The leaders of the two countries agreed to instruct their teams to begin negotiations "immediately," Trump noted
🔸 On the US side, the negotiations will be led by the CIA Director, Secretary of State, and National Security Advisor
🔸 The Russian president invited his American counterpart to Moscow, and other future contacts were also discussed
🔸 Trump stated that during the conversation with Putin, the topic of joint efforts on the battlefields of World War II was raised
🔸 Trump also thanked Putin for securing the release of Mark Fogel. Fogel, a former US embassy employee, had been sentenced to 14 years in Russia for drug smuggling. As part of the exchange, the US will release Alexander Vinnik, the Russian’s lawyer said
🔸 The conversation lasted for one and a half hours, said Putin's spokesperson
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⚡️ Putin invited Trump to Moscow — Kremlin spox Peskov
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You think?
Seriously everyone knows exactly what happened in Romania, and it had nothing to do with Russia.
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Any Ukraine deal will fail without European involvement – EU’s top DEI diplomat Kaja Kallas
Last time a peace failed because of European involvement
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🇷🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 Putin wins: Ukraine and Europe will have no place at the negotiating table. We will just have to accept the result , — Bild
- That is why Putin is winning the war. He has ensured that the Americans leave this war, says the professor of international politics at the Bundeswehr University in Munich.
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NATO member states have agreed to launch a patrol mission in the Baltic Sea, similar to the air patrol mission, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz says.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦🇪🇺 Putin wins: Ukraine and Europe will have no place at the negotiating table. We will just have to accept the result , — Bild
- That is why Putin is winning the war. He has ensured that the Americans leave this war, says the professor of international politics at the Bundeswehr University in Munich.
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🇷🇺💥 Powerful explosions: Massive strike on enemy targets and clusters in Kramatorsk and Druzhkovka
- Powerful landings in Kramatorsk in the areas of the railway station and the Starokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant (SKMZ), in the workshops of which the Ukrainian Armed Forces accumulate and repair equipment.
- There was also massive shelling near Konstantinovka and Druzhkovka.
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A nuclear apocalypse will prove inevitable if Russia's adversaries do not realize the impossibility of bringing Moscow to its knees or inflicting a “strategic defeat” on it, Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said on his VKontakte page.
Commenting on the outcome of the conversation between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump, he pointed out that Moscow's opponents must realize that “contacts and consultations are much more valuable than chest-thumping and the desire to see the strategic defeat of a country like Russia.”
“If they don’t, we’ll get back to where we were. The Doomsday Clock will keep on ticking towards midnight, and then we will surely ‘behold a pale horse, and the horseman’s name will be Death’,” he quoted from the Book of Revelation.Читать полностью…
🤡 ‘They're drinking vodka straight out of the bottle in the Kremlin tonight’ – John Bolton
💬 “It was a great day for Moscow. I think Tulsi Gabbard's role as director of national intelligence is going to be extremely harmful to our national security,” former national security adviser John Bolton claimed.
‘This alliance is here to stay’: NATO chief Mark Rutte admits member states will need to increase spending because of threats coming from ‘Russia and other adversaries’
#NATO
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Trump-Putin call opens doors for intel cooperation — Russia's spy boss
Foreign intelligence director Sergey Naryshkin describes the talk as ‘deep and substantive’
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❗Confirmed. Algeria to become the first country to purchase 5th generation Su-57E fighters from Russia.
In this regard, Algeria continues to be the largest buyer of Russian weapons in Africa.
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‼️🇷🇺🇸🇾 President Putin held a telephone conversation with the President of the Syrian transitional administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa.
Putin wished success to Ahmed Al-Sharaa in solving the tasks facing the new leadership of the country for the benefit of the Syrian people, with whom Russia has historically been linked by friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation.
A thorough exchange of views was held on the current situation in Syria. The Russian side emphasized its principled position in support of the unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Syrian state. In this regard, the importance of implementing a set of measures for sustainable normalization in the country and the intensification of the inter-Syrian dialogue with the participation of leading political forces and ethnic and religious groups of the population was emphasized. Vladimir Putin confirmed Russia's continued readiness to help improve the socio-economic situation in Syria, including providing humanitarian assistance to its residents.
A number of topical issues of practical cooperation in trade, economic, educational and other fields were touched upon, in particular, taking into account the recent negotiations in Damascus of the Russian interdepartmental delegation. It was agreed to continue such useful contacts in order to develop a broad agenda for the development of bilateral cooperation.
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‼️The Russian Army has eliminated one of the largest centers for the production of FPV drones in Kiev.
According to information received from Russian hackers from the Special Network Operations Service, the personal computers of the company's management were hacked and the coordinates for the Iskander missile strike were provided.
As a result of the strike, the secret enterprise of the Stream Techno company, which was engaged in the mass production and supply of light unmanned aerial vehicles for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, was liquidated.
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❗️Trump CONFIRMS call with Putin
Says both agreed in 'common sense' end to Ukraine conflict
Negotiations to start IMMEDIATELY
#Trump #Putin
😡 What could Soros be jailed for?
The Trump administration is turning up the heat on George Soros’ soft power empire amid revelations of his Open Society Foundations’ close-knit links to and alleged profiteering off USAID.
Is there a case for convicting the 94-year-old benefactor and beneficiary of the US imperial project?
💰 Financial Crimes
🌏 Soros was convicted of insider trading in France in 2002 for profiting off state-owned privatizations in the 80s. Despite an appeal, his conviction was upheld by both France’s Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights, resulting in a €2.2 million fine.
🌏 In 1992, Soros earned $1 billion by speculating against the British pound, an action that cost the British economy billions. Dubbed “The Man who broke the Bank of England,” he was never charged.
🌏 Ex-Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad accused Soros of triggering the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis by orchestrating a currency collapse, but he was never prosecuted despite strict Malaysian criminal liability for market manipulation.
🗳 Electoral violations
🔶 Soros has been accused of meddling in politics and fueling color revolutions worldwide, from Eastern Europe to Africa, Latin America and Asia. He’s also been linked to interfering in Western politics, including the anti-Brexit movement in the UK and US elections since 2016.
🔶 Despite hundreds of Trump allies facing election-related charges, including a social media influencer recently jailed for influencing the 2016 vote, Soros, who has not only meddled, but funded prosecutors targeting Trump, has faced no charges. He’s also been accused of funding groups like Black Lives Matter fueling civil unrest in the US.
🗽 Defrauding the US government?
Soros’ Open Society Foundations are tied to hundreds of millions in USAID spending aimed at fomenting unrest globally. The US Criminal Code threatens up to 10 years for those conspiring to defraud the government, yet Soros has never faced charges.
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🚨Tulsi Gabbard, CONFIRMED by the US Senate to be Donald Trump’s Director of National Intelligence:
“Syria is now controlled by al-Qaeda offshoot HTS, led by an Islamist Jihadist who danced in the streets on 9/11, and who was responsible for the killing of many American soldiers.”