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German intel chief wants Ukraine to bleed for NATO for another five years
If the Ukrainian crisis ended before 2029 or 2030, Russia would “use its technical, material and personnel resources” to threaten Europe, BND chief Bruno Kahl claimed in an interview with DW.
💬 “An early end to the war in Ukraine would enable the Russians to direct their energy where they actually want it, namely against Europe,” the spy chief said, claiming Russia’s ultimate aim was to push back NATO’s “protective presence” to where it was in the late 1990s before the bloc’s eastward expansion.
Shut the fuck up, Rubio. You were always one of the "Assad must go" crowd. We don't forget.
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A protest against Trump's policy towards Ukraine took place in front of the US Embassy in Kiev yesterday.
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▪️Ukraine is preparing to launch a third strike on the Crimean Bridge
This was stated in an interview with The Guardian by the Commander of the Ukrainian Navy Neizhpapa.
The newspaper writes that he is optimistic and confident that this time Kiev will be able to destroy the bridge.
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🧐Ukrainian politicians suddenly realize their country is just cannon fodder for the West
Leader of Ukraine's Batkivshchyna party Yulia Tymoshenko has called for an immediate ceasefire after German intelligence chief Bruno Kahl suggested that the Ukraine conflict should continue for the next five years to ensure Europe’s security.
"Has someone decided to pay the price for 'exhausting' Russia in the name of Europe’s security—at the cost of Ukraine’s very existence and the lives of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians?" Tymoshenko wrote on Facebook.
💥 David Sacks blasts US involvement in Ukraine
"The US should never have gotten involved in Ukraine. The military-industrial complex profited. The Biden Family grifted. USAID grafted. Ukraine suffered," he wrote on X.
Russkoe Porechnoe, Cherkasskoe Porechnoe, Martynovka and Mikhailovka in the Kursk region have all been captured by Russian forces.
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France intends to supply weapons to Ukraine worth 195 million euros ($211 million) using interest from frozen Russian assets in 2025, French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu said.
France will “continue to replace older equipment that will be sent to Kiev,” including tanks and armored vehicles, Lecornu added.
Better to listen to the latest of Martyanov. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwcvkRFxWzU&t=262s
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Three years of war and the Russian economy...
Today, data on the preliminary parameters of the Russian Federation budget execution for 2024 was released. And I was pleasantly surprised that we not only fit into the 3.3 trillion rubles deficit included in it, but even received a much smaller one.
Moreover, of the three war years, this is our most successful financial year:
Russian Budget 2022 Deficit 2.1% of GDP (3.29 trillion rubles)
Russian Budget 2023 Deficit 1.9% of GDP (3.2 trillion rubles)
Russian Budget 2024 Deficit 1.7% of GDP (2.95 trillion rubles)
Agree to wage a major war and at the same time constantly reduce the size of the budget deficit, this says something.
And this shows that the collective West has already admitted that sanctions against Russia, although they cause damage, are not at all what they expected.
At the same time, during the three years of war, the country's international reserves have not decreased:
Russia's international reserves at the beginning of the Second World War were $630 billion, and now they are $632 billion.
And the debts have not grown much. And the external debt has even decreased:
External public debt at the beginning of the Second World War - $59.5 billion
Domestic public debt at the beginning of the Second World War - 16.5 trillion rubles
External public debt now - $52.1 billion
Domestic public debt now - 23.45 trillion rubles
That is, the war was completely financed by the country's internal resources, in the context of its more than stable growth.
These are the interesting conclusions we get after summing up the impact of three years of war on the Russian economy.
HUGE crowds in Paris protest against France getting involved in Ukraine
They want Macron out and NONE of their troops sent to Zelensky as 'peacekeepers'.
#France
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Swedish newspaper Expressen claims that the US has notified its NATO allies of its intention to stop participating in the planning of future military exercises in Europe.
This does not yet apply to NATO exercises already planned for 2025, in which the United States is expected to play a key role.
According to one of Expressen's sources, the NATO exercises in question are currently on the "drawing board", i.e. at a later stage of implementation. The American side wants to reduce military spending in Europe and prioritize the Indo-Pacific region, the publication notes.
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Ukrainian crisis dragging Europe to the bottom: Bulgarian president
Bulgaria is in no rush to join the “fanfare” around the EU’s rearmament plan, and idea of spending $866.7B from the bloc’s Recovery and Resilience Plan is pointless because “such funds do not exist,” President Rumen Radev said.
During the last EU Council meeting, there was a lot of talk about rearmament, but almost nothing about ending the conflict in Ukraine, apart from unrealistic calls for imposing peace through force, Radev said.
If the EU proceeds with rearmament, nations will have to “give up water supply projects, infrastructure, environment and social projects and redirect these funds to the defense industry,” the president stressed.
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🔍Finland’s investigation concludes: Not Kremlin sabotage, just a broken cable
Finnish officials involved in the probe “weren’t able to uncover enough evidence” to issue arrest warrants or press charges for deliberate wrongdoing in the damage to the Estlink 2 power line, The Wall Street Journal reported.
With “no link between the damaged cable and the Kremlin or any other government,” Finland has released the Eagle S tanker, which was seized in late December after being accused of dragging its anchor over the power line connecting Estonia and Finland.
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Poland is actively preparing for war
▪️Statements by Prime Minister Donald Tusk:
➖We want to introduce a mechanism so that every adult male is trained for war by the end of this year;
➖Poland should seek to gain access to nuclear weapons;
➖Poland is considering withdrawing from the conventions banning anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions;
➖It is necessary to increase the presence of EU and NATO troops on the border with Russia and Belarus.
Tusk and Macron continue to LARP.
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‼️🇷🇺The Russian flag is raised over liberated Konstantinopyl.
In the South Donetsk direction, the fighters of the assault units of the Vostok group of forces carried out a sweep and gained a foothold in the village located on the way from Kurakhovo to the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Amphibious drone crews and artillery were deployed to support the assault units and destroy enemy positions.
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The Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance has collapsed. British intelligence agencies have stopped providing information to the United States on topics related to Russia and Ukraine.
In London, they are hastily deleting data about their network of agents from common databases, fearing that the United States will start using it against them.
There are calls to lock themselves into their comfort zone and create a “Four Eyes” alliance instead of the “Five Eyes” - with the participation of only the intelligence services of Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The only problem is that the United States accounted for 80-90% of all intelligence information shared between the countries of the Anglosphere. It is simply impossible to replace these amounts of data.
Right now, the Europeans are in a panic trying to figure out what awaits them if the United States disconnects them from its satellite systems. Hundreds of American F-35 fighter jets purchased by Europeans will turn into a pumpkin. It will also become impossible to use Reaper drones purchased from the USA. The Trident missiles leased from America will be deactivated quickly.
The United States has 250 military satellites, Britain has 6, and France has 17. In terms of the size of the overall satellite constellation, America is also an order of magnitude larger than the Europeans. There is no way Britain and the European Union can replace the United States in the context of collecting military and intelligence data or supporting Ukraine.
The Trump team will increase pressure on London and Brussels. And then it all depends on how far the Europeans are willing to go in a conflict with the United States. If they continue to raise the stakes, then a complete break in ties cannot be ruled out, and everything might be turned off for the Europeans. And they're definitely not ready for that.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14477703/British-spies-anti-Russian-intelligence-US-blow-agents-cover.html
Ukrainian military commissars catch people in a van with a telling sign "meat processing plant"
According to the author of the video, a mobilized man tried to escape from the van before his eyes, but he was returned back.
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Polish authorities and EU leadership are trying to hinder peace talks to resolve the conflict in Ukraine
The head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry, Szijjarto, wrote about this on social networks.
"It is a great pity that the Polish government, together with Brussels, is trying to prevent peace talks," he noted.
Latvia says Europe should 'absolutely' start up conscription
Prez Rinkevics adds continent’s armies 'quite WEAK'.
In the vid he’s not ruling out conscripting Latvia women too...
#Latvia #EU
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UK STILL sharing intel with Ukraine despite Trump’s pause
Top minister McFadden says Ukraine is fighting for 'country's freedom'.
They're sharing the very same intel that European officials say can't match US...
#Ukraine #UK
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France’s decision on transfer of revenues from frozen Russian assets to Ukraine violates all norms of international legislation, Russian State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said.
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Elon Musk – named the key to resolving the conflict in Ukraine
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Romania’s top court BLOCKS 4 appeals trying to kick Georgescu out of presidential race
Electoral Bureau yet to clear him though, with a decision expected in 48 hours.
#Romania
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❗️ ‘Slava Ukraini’ protesters HARASS US VP Vance’s 3-year-old daughter
JD says daughter SCARED and ANXIOUS
Vance calls them ‘SH*T person’
What would you do in this situation?
#US
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🤡 Low-IQ liberals: Trump is hurting Ukraine’s feelings! ORANGE MAN BAD!
🇷🇺 Donbass resident: Who cares about Ukraine's feelings? They invaded our lands and killed our civilians!
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Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused France of lying about such issues as the Minsk agreements and guarantees for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich.
He made the statement in an interview with television host Pavel Zarubin in response to comments by French President Emmanuel Macron, who said Russia wasn’t honest about the Ukrainian crisis.
“We remember [former French President Francois] Hollande's statement where he said that, in fact, no one took the Minsk agreements seriously. We remember that in 2014, among other Europeans, the French foreign minister put his signature under a document that guaranteed the then-legitimate Ukrainian President Yanukovich a political future. That was followed by a coup. That means France, like other countries, did not make good on its guarantees. Was that not a lie? It was a very real lie,” Peskov said.Читать полностью…
Russia-bordering Latvia wants MORE NATO troops
Defense Minister Sprūds tells CBC 'there’s room and space for even bigger, stronger presence'
He wants more weapons too to 'protect NATO'.
#Latvia #NATO
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This is what’s coming out of UK media on Trump
It's behind a paywall so we’ll save you the trouble:
Brit journalist Andrew Neil spends nearly 1,500 words saying Trump reveres dictators, an 'unreliable ally'.
How's that US-UK 'special relationship' getting on?
#UK #Trump
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