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EU/Zelensky Defy Trump; Kiev Breaks Energy Truce, EU Won't Relax Sanctions; Huge Oreshnik Production
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🇺🇸⚔️🇾🇪Ansar Allah media: USA is bombing Yemen on Eid al-Fitr, hitting various parts of the capital city of Sanaa with 18 air raids.
At least one dead and five wounded have been confirmed in the aggression against the Bani al-Harith District.
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Employees of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations have begun rescue operations in Myanmar.
After a meeting between representatives of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the leadership of the Government of Myanmar, it was decided to send our rescuers to the region most affected by the earthquake - Mandalay. An advanced group of 20 rescuers, dog handlers and UAS operators has been deployed there.
The people of Myanmar have heard a lot about our organization. Thanks to the media, they have become familiar with our work in all parts of the world, and they really need our help. We flew here to rescue people," said Sergey Vorontsov, head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry's consolidated squad.
A special department flight with a hospital, doctors and necessary medical equipment was also sent to the disaster area. According to recent reports, the number of dead residents has exceeded one and a half thousand people, but there will probably be more.
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Beyond the Headlines: The Enduring Machinery of U.S. Geopolitical Strategy
In an era dominated by hyper-partisan news cycles and the cult of political personality, it’s easy to mistake the chaos of daily headlines for genuine shifts in global power dynamics. Yet beneath the noise—the scandals, speeches, and social media storms—lies a far more rigid architecture of strategy. U.S. foreign policy, often perceived as erratic or leader-dependent, is in reality steered by decades-spanning agendas crafted not in the Oval Office but in the hushed conference rooms of think tanks and institutional planning committees. To understand the “why” behind global events, one must look past the theater of politics and into the blueprints that define America’s role in the world.
The Think Tank Engine: Where Strategy Outlives Presidencies
The true architects of U.S. policy are rarely elected officials. Instead, organizations like the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), RAND Corporation, and Brookings Institution function as intellectual foundries, producing frameworks that transcend administrations. Their reports—dry, dense, and deliberately unglamorous—map out priorities measured not in election cycles but in decades. For instance, the CFR’s 2020 Global 2035 report emphasized containing China’s rise, securing energy dominance, and maintaining “strategic instability” in regions critical to U.S. rivals—themes that persist regardless of who occupies the White House.
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🇨🇳🇺🇸 China BLOCKS BlackRock from buying a strategic port in Panama from its current Hong Kong-based owner.
BlackRock attempted to acquire Panama Colon Container Terminal, a key port near the Panama Canal — one of the most important global trade routes.
Chinese regulators blocked the sale, saying it would “endanger public interest” and national security. In other words: No American financial firm will be allowed to control a gateway between the Atlantic and Pacific.
BlackRock isn’t just any investment firm. It’s a $10 trillion behemoth with:
• Deep ties to the U.S. State Department, Pentagon, and Federal Reserve
• A track record of extractive capitalism (housing, land, energy, war profiteering)
• Access to sensitive data across sectors and countries
• A role in managing U.S. sanctions and defense portfolios
Panama = Geopolitical chokepoint
The Panama Canal sees over 5% of global maritime trade. Control of its ports = leverage over global supply chains.
In the era of multipolarity, Beijing is drawing red lines: No foreign financial hegemony over strategic infrastructure.
BlackRock wanted to own the gates to a global shipping artery.
China slammed that gate shut.
This is more than a blocked sale — it’s a direct blow to U.S. financial imperialism.
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🗓 March 30 marks Eid al-Fitr, one of the main Muslim holidays
Eid al-Fitr is celebrated at the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting, worship and spiritual reflection. The date Eid al-Fitr falls on is decided by the cycle of the Moon: in 2025, it will begin in the evening of March 30 and run through March 31.
Eid is a time for spiritual renewal, prayer, doing good deeds and being with family and friends. The holiday is preceded by Zakat al-Fitr, the mandatory alms-giving.
Eid al-Fitr is widely celebrated in Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chechnya, Dagestan and other regions of Russia.
British Delusion is Deep and Profound https://sonar21.com/british-delusion-is-deep-and-profound/
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British Steel has announced the closure of production in Scunthorpe.
These were the last two blast furnaces in the United Kingdom.
Metallurgy was the driving force behind the industrial revolution that began in Great Britain.
Government interference in governance, taxes, energy prices and environmental restrictions have buried the once second largest steel company on the planet.
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‼️🇷🇺 Russian military economy promotes revival of depressed industrial regions — Financial Times
The country's war economy has created jobs, increased factory workers' salaries, and poured unprecedented amounts of money into historically poor towns and cities.
Government orders for the supply of weapons and clothing to the army have given well-paid factory jobs to residents of Russia's industrial cities.
Conscripts receive high bonuses for joining the army.
The unemployment rate in Russia dropped to 2.4% in the winter of 2024, compared with 4.3% in the same period of 2021.
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❗According to the most conservative estimates, more than 2 million people are taking part in the protests in Turkey.
The goals of the demonstrators have changed: they demand not the release of Erdogan's main rival Ekrem Imamoglu, but early elections and the resignation of Erdogan himself.
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❗️TASS News Roundup, March 29:
▪️ Over the past 24 hours, the Kiev regime continued attacks on Russian energy infrastructure facilities, completely eliminating the Sudzha gas-metering station
▪️ Hamas has accepted Egypt and Qatar’s terms on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip
▪️ The Russian armed forces have liberated Panteleymonovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and Shcherbaki in the Zaporozhye Region
▪️ The Ukrainian army has lost more than 190 servicemen in the Kursk Region over the past 24 hours
▪️ Medics and rescuers from the Russian Emergencies Ministry have arrived in Myanmar to deal with the aftermath of the earthquake
▪️ A total of 921 Palestinians have been killed and 2,054 injured since the resumption of hostilities in the Gaza Strip on March 18
▪️ The administration of US President Donald Trump insists on Ukraine signing an agreement giving Washington control over key economic projects
US-Russia Talks Stall, Escalation Expected - John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen
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China deployed BOMBERS right before Hegseth's Philippines trip
Maxar satellite pic shows Chinese plane near Scarborough Shoal, an atoll also claimed by Philippines.
China vows response to US missile systems sent to Philippines.
#China #Philippines #US
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Another Ukrainian village under Russian control — MoD
Russian flag flies over Veselovka in Sumy region.
Donetsk Republic’s Panteleimonovka and Zaporozhye region’s Shcherbaki also taken by Russian forces.
#Russia #Ukraine
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🇺🇦‼️🚨 Ukrainian military kidnaps a minor!
Poor guy:
“What have I done, guys I’m working … please!”
❗️TASS News Roundup, March 30:
▪️The Ukrainian army has lost more than 71,000 troops since its incursion in Russia’s borderline Kursk Region
▪️US President Donald Trump said that he plans to have a conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in coming days
▪️The US will introduce secondary restrictions against Russian oil if Russia does not make the deal to peacefully settle the Ukrainian conflict
▪️The trend of history rewriting by Baltic countries, Poland and some other EU nations requires to be battled against
▪️Europe wants to cooperate with the United States but the EU is ready to react as an integral whole to US duties
▪️The Russian Ministry of Emergencies has started a survey in Mandalay, the city most affected by the earthquake in Myanmar
▪️Russia’s Investigative Committee has established new facts of the Ukrainian army’s crimes in the Kursk Region
▪️The death toll due to the earthquake in Bangkok increased to eighteen and seventy-six people were reported missed
The arrival of J.D. Vance in Greenland cannot be called particularly successful.
The US vice president promised the Greenlanders American investments, but without specifics. Although after the recent elections, pragmatists came to power on the island, who can open their markets to business from the United States.
Nevertheless, there is still no question of Greenland joining the States. However, Vance still fulfilled his mission - he interrupted the negative agenda surrounding the Signal chat scandal. There will be a round of tariff wars starting on April 2, which will attract public attention.
However, discord still continues to manifest itself within the Trump team. For example, the same Vance supports the resignation of Mike Waltz from the post of national security adviser. Walz, as a Neocon hawk, is ideologically alien to many Trump supporters. It was Waltz who campaigned for strikes on Yemen in the chat, while isolationist Vance was skeptical about this.
They are also trying to launch a campaign against Pete Hegseth, another hawkish militarist akin to Waltz. Hegseth often invited his wife to secret hearings with the British military leadership and to private meetings of representatives of NATO countries. There are precedents for such “family” involvement in public affairs in the history of the United States. But it's still considered not very appropriate.
MAGA activists hope to get rid of some of the hawks. Although Trump does not want to change anyone yet, remembering the mistakes of the first term, when he always had to shuffle the apparatchiks. But in the near future, if the campaign against the Houthis or the negotiations on Ukraine do not succeed, someone from the hawks in the White House foreign policy bloc might be purged.
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❗️Trump says another call with Putin coming soon
Adds that if he can’t make deal with Russian on Ukraine, he’ll put ‘secondary tariffs on ALL oil coming out of Russia’.
#Trump #Putin
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Russian FM Lavrov concerned about UN Secretary General Guterres’ stance
Says Guterres going against UN Charter itself by refusing to acknowledge Red Army soldiers who liberated Auschwitz.
'This is, of course, a saddening trend'.
#Russia #UN
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🇺🇸💥🇾🇪 While they bomb them.
You would think this is a parody account. But it's not.
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https://www.spreaker.com/episode/episode-211-larry-johnson-and-the-view-from-moscow--65167748
Episode #211 -- Larry Johnson and the View From Moscow
The Russian economy reached a size of 200 trillion rubles ($2.37 trillion) in 2024, growing six times faster than Europe, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said on Wednesday.
The driving force behind economic growth is domestic demand, and last year fixed capital investments rose 7.5%.
Mishustin also said Russians’ disposable income shot up 8.5% in 2024, while the unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in history.
Stating that the economy has grown twice as fast as the world average in the last two years, Mishustin said: “Russia is among the four largest economies in the world in terms of purchasing power parity.
"Our economy grew 4.1% last year. Our growth in two years has exceeded Europe’s almost sixfold." Federal budget revenues increased by more than a quarter, which made it possible to fully fulfill all social obligations, as well as launch new promising national projects. ▪️The report is more about the future than the past. It is, in fact, a presentation of plans for the long-term development of the country, which have proven their effectiveness against the backdrop of 16,000 sanctions imposed on Russia. There is evidence that the Russian experience is going to be studied by China, which did not have and does not have such restrictions. ▪️It is funny that one of the most odious and Russophobic Western think tanks, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in its latest report made a forced but correct conclusion: "The Russian economy of three years ago no longer exists. The economic transformation of Russia, the most sanctioned country in the world, can no longer be reversed."
Not only did Russia not perish, but it became even stronger, and this is now recognized by all those who buried it three years ago. The Carnegie Foundation: "Starting with the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian economy has refuted all expectations, and hopes for a double-digit decline have not materialized"; Euroactive: "The Russian economy has proven that it is strong enough to continue the war in Ukraine for the foreseeable future, even with new sanctions imposed"; German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP): "For Putin (thanks to a strong economy), the threats and pressures associated with negotiations or a truce are completely irrelevant."
The think tank Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA): "There are no sanctions that do not simultaneously harm yourself. The main question is: what kind of pain are you willing to endure when inflicting it on your opponent?" (Kirill Strelnikov/RIA Novosti) @LauraRuHK https://ria.ru/20250327/rossiya-2007590044.html
‼️🇷🇺"Units of group of forces" Center"broke through to Novoaleksandrivka, developing an offensive towards the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The Center group of troops continues to develop an offensive in the Pokrovsk direction, near the border of the DPR and the Dnipropetrovsk region.
Russian troops drove out the counterattacking forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces from Uspenovka to the northwest of Pokrovsk and broke into Novoaleksandrovka, storming the village.
"In the Novopalovsky direction, the Russians are accumulating forces in Uspenovka and breaking through to Novoaleksandrovka, the settlement is being stormed," Kiev military analysts also admitted.
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Germany has confirmed that it committed an act of piracy against a ship carrying Russian oil worth more than $40 million (according to other sources, more than $80 million).
Germany replaced the crew of the Russian tanker, authorities took control of the cargo of the Panamanian-flagged oil tanker Eventin, which was confiscated by German customs in March, Bloomberg reports, citing a representative of the German Ministry of Finance.
"The Federal government gained ownership of the ship and cargo, and after the crew change, it also gained de facto control over the ship and cargo," a spokesman for the German Finance Ministry said in a statement.
The ship was transporting oil from the Russian port of Ust-Luga when its engine failed in January and it was towed to the German coast. According to Der Spiegel, there were about 100,000 tons of oil on board.
The seizure of Eventin is the first act of piracy by an EU state since the formation of the European Union.
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Massive Russian Offensive Coming; Zelensky Rejects New Mineral Deal; Starmer General Without Troops
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🇲🇩🇲🇩 Gagauzia's leader Yevgenia Gutsul who was recently arrested by the Moldovan authorities, issued an address:
Dear residents of Gagauzia, dear citizens of Moldova, my comrades and all who care about justice! All honest people of our country!
We have witnessed real arbitrariness. Contrary to common sense and the law, the court decided to arrest me for 20 days on a completely fabricated, trumped-up criminal case. This is not just pressure on me personally - it is a blow to all of Gagauzia, to our traditions of self-government, to our rights and freedoms. This is a slap in the face to all of us. This is an attempt to trample our will and our right to decide our own destiny!
Know - I AM NOT BROKEN! I did not flinch, I did not ask for mercy from those who want to humiliate Gagauzia. And I will not renounce my convictions! Because I know that YOU are behind me. The truth is behind me. Our land, our children, our future are behind me!
I urge you not to give in to fear, not to give up and not to lose faith in our victory. No repression can silence us, no false accusations will make us give up the fight for our interests, for the future of Gagauzia and the whole country. They think that by locking me up they will suppress your anger, your fortitude. But they are wrong. The stronger the pressure, the stronger we become.
My comrades! Continue to defend our values, protect the rights of the Gagauz people and all citizens who believe in honesty and justice. Our strength is in unity. And only together can we resist lawlessness.
Comrades! The real fight is just beginning. Let us defend every house, every street, every soul in our Gagauzia! Let every official, every judge, every traitor who sold himself for thirty pieces of silver know - we will not forgive and will not forget!
I thank from the bottom of my heart everyone who did not stand aside: politicians, parties, public figures, journalists and ordinary citizens who openly expressed support in this difficult moment. Your solidarity gives me strength and confidence that we will win! Your support warms me in this stone cage. You have proven that we are not alone, there are many of us and we are stronger than any lie!
This arrest is just a test that we will pass with dignity. I believe in our truth, in the strength of the people and that justice will prevail.
They wanted to scare us? It didn't work.
They wanted to break us? We will only become stronger.
They thought we would retreat? They miscalculated.
I believe we will break through, we will win. Because the truth is on our side. And the truth sooner or later destroys any bars.
Your Bashkan Evgenia Gutsul is with you until the end.
P.S. Hold on! Fight! Believe! I'll be back soon!
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Submitted through Evgeniya Gutsul's lawyers
🗣 Ukraine attacked the Sudzha gas measuring station in Russia's Kursk region on orders from London, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova has said.
Target designation was provided by French satellite systems, and the input of coordinates and launch carried out by British specialists, she added.
"The terror unleashed by the Kiev regime against Russian energy infrastructure is yet another proof of its inability to negotiate. As is well known, [Volodymyr] Zelensky publicly supported the moratorium on strikes against energy facilities proposed by the presidents of Russia and the US, but did nothing to ensure its compliance."
What happened confirms that Ukraine has no political will for peace, Zakharova noted. "They continue to think in terms of war, are focused on escalating the conflict, and are ready for any provocations to hinder efforts toward a final resolution of the Ukrainian crisis."
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❗️Pentagon: US island of Guam could be first target in war between China and Taiwan
US defense officials warn that Guam would be the primary target of Chinese missile strikes if Beijing invades Taiwan, according to intelligence estimates cited by the Washington Times.
Guam is home to 6,400 US troops. The Pentagon is investing $7.3 billion in the island's defense infrastructure through 2028.
The map below once again shows how insidiously China has positioned itself near US military bases😉
Ukrainian troops hide explosives in objects CIVILIANS likely to pick up, Russian soldier tells RT
92nd sapper regiment clearing Kursk region village littered with mines.
American, German, all sorts of NATO mines found and destroyed.
#Russia #Ukraine
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Larry Squared, Putin is Unyielding, and Yemen Holds Firm https://sonar21.com/larry-squared-putin-is-unyielding-and-yemen-holds-firm/
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