Hi friends!
Our friend Nikolai Parkhitko will give his next history lecture on World War II this Friday 11 April at 21:00 (Moscow time).
Topic: The Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ☢️
During the lecture the following questions will be revealed: 👇
1. Could the destruction of two peaceful Japanese cities have been avoided?
2. Was it necessary to demonstrate nuclear weapons?
3. What are the international consequences of the use of nuclear weapons by the US ?
Let me remind you that Nicholas has:
• PhD in History (his doctor research devoted to the topic of our lecture);
• Associate Professor of the RUDN University named after Patrice Lumumba and the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation;
• Member of the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) and the Russia-Germany Society.
• More information about Nikolai: /channel/roman_braiden_channel/270
❗️Access to the lecture is free of charge.
🏌️♂️To become a participant, write to Nick @braiden_nick:I want to attend the lecture!
In response to your request, Nick will send you access to the lecture.
Unfortunately, we can't share links publicly as there are some people who don't share our values and see it as their job to obstruct in every way possible.
Thanks for your attention and see you soon!
The White House will not respond to requests from reporters that provide gender pronouns, Carolyn Leavitt told The Washington Post .
The White House press secretary said she will not communicate with journalists who include pronouns in their email signatures, the latest step by the Trump administration to crack down on so-called "gender identity" in the workplace, the newspaper reported.
"Any reporter who emphasizes gender pronouns in their bio clearly doesn't care about biological reality or truth and therefore can't be trusted to tell an honest story," White House press secretary Carolyn Leavitt said.
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📸 The Russian Embassy in Kenya shared its vision of the trade wars that have broken out in the world.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺 The Russian delegation arrived at the site of negotiations with the United States in Istanbul, a TASS correspondent reports.
The delegation is in a positive mood ahead of the negotiations.
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🖥️ Trump's senior adviser on trade and manufacturing Peter Navarro called the US president's actions "the art of making mutual trade deals." In his opinion, a favorable and promising situation has been created for the country's economy.
"This is one of the greatest days we've ever had in the history of the American economy. I guess we'll call it the art of making a reciprocal trade deal. And I'll tell you, all these alarmists on Wall Street who are trying to undermine us have consistently underestimated the president's ability to negotiate. What do we have? We're at a point now where we have a 10 percent global tariff.
Well, over the next 90 days, we are negotiating with all of these countries that have come to us. And the goal of these negotiations, Charles, is to dramatically reduce our trade deficit, level the playing field, eliminate all tariff differentials, eliminate all non-tariff barriers. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is 50,000, Charles, I said before, will get there. And we expect a broad recovery in the S&P 500."
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US President Donald Trump announced an immediate increase in trade tariffs on China to 125%.
For all other countries, the introduction of duties has been suspended for 90 days. Until the end of this period, the amount of duties will be 10% for each country.
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The Russian military has begun using new UAVs - drone interceptors with an X-shaped body printed on a 3D printer.
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I’m not an economist, and I could be wrong—but I’ve watched what sanctions did for Russia. Now Trump’s 104% tariffs on China look like a bizarre form of America sanctioning itself… and maybe that's the point.
👉 Full piece: foreignagentintel.com
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❗️ China has announced an increase in tariffs on American goods from 34% to 84%.
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Zelensky, who was the first to publish a video of the alleged Chinese soldier, initially signed the file as "0804_KOREAN_SOLDIER 2".
When downloading a video in Telegram, the file name specified by the sender is visible. Only an hour later, having noticed the error, Zelensky edited the name, shortening it to simply "0804"
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US to withdraw troops & equipment from Jasionka, a logistics hub in Poland that supplies most weapons sent to Ukraine
'After 3 years, this is an opportunity to right-size our footprint' — Christopher Donahue, General of US Army Europe & Africa says this will save 'tens of millions of dollars'.
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Zelensky said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces captured two Chinese citizens who fought on the side of Russia.
According to him, there are more such citizens in the Russian troops, and the detention took place in the DPR.
He instructed the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to contact Beijing for clarification, stressing that China's involvement in the war indicates Putin's desire to continue the conflict.
Only video is provided as evidence.
In a later statement, the former Ukrainian President claims this evidence will be used to prove to Trump that Russia and China are allied against the West.
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🇺🇦 LET OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN DIE
The head of the Radyvilovsky TCC, Kovalyuk, suddenly burst out with criticism of the Ukrainian commanders who sent the Ukrainian Armed Forces to slaughter:
"I won't let my son join the army."
The Ukrainian Armed Forces command failed to adequately calculate human resources, which is why many servicemen died in battles that “did not make sense from the point of view of military strategy.
You see, I saw it happen myself. There are commanders who "lay down" battalions. They simply did not calculate our human resources from the beginning of the war. They are much smaller than the Russians, but battalions were laid down thoughtlessly.
In the army, unquestioning obedience to orders is valued more than reasonable initiative. And for initiative that helped save lives, a commander can even be punished."
🖥️ US President Donald Trump said that Turkish leader Recep Erdogan admitted to him that he had organized the overthrow of the head of the Syrian Arab Republic Bashar al-Assad. He said this during a live broadcast on Fox News from the White House:
“I congratulated him. I said, ‘Nobody has managed to do this in the last 2,000 years. You took over Syria under different names, but you did the same thing. He took it upon himself through proxies. He of course says to me, ‘No, no, no, no, no, no, it wasn’t me.’ I said, ‘No, it was you! But it’s okay.’ He said, ‘Well, maybe it was me.’
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📸 Donald Trump said he will not negotiate with China:
“Yesterday, China imposed retaliatory tariffs of 34%, on top of its already record-breaking tariffs, non-monetary tariffs, illegal subsidies to companies, and massive long-term currency manipulation, despite my warning that any country that retaliates against the United States imposes additional tariffs above and beyond its already existing long-term tariffs. Our country’s tariff abuses will be immediately met with new and substantially higher tariffs , on top of those originally imposed. So unless China reverses its 34% increase, above and beyond its already long-term trade abuses, by tomorrow, April 8, 2025, the United States will impose ADDITIONAL tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9. Additionally, all negotiations with China regarding their requested meetings with us will be terminated! Negotiations with other countries that have also requested meetings will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”
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Russia and the United States exchanged prisoners this morning at Abu Dhabi airport, WSJ reports, citing the CIA director.
Russia has freed Ksenia Karelina, a US-Russian citizen who was sentenced last year to 12 years in a maximum-security penal colony.
The United States has released Artur Petrov, a German-Russian citizen arrested in Cyprus in 2023 at the request of the United States for allegedly exporting microelectronics.
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Trump said his friends made billions off tariff panic.
Suspicions of insider trading emerged: 20 minutes before his tweet about a “good time to buy,” a group opened large positions in the market.
SPY 509 Options Jump 2100% in Hour
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🇺🇸🇷🇺 The negotiations between the Russian and US delegations in Istanbul will last several hours , but will not be as long as the previous round.
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🖥️ Trump's master class in the art of the deal: If you can't get through the wall, "you have to be able to go under the wall, around the wall, or over the wall."
"You have to be flexible. I could say, here's a wall, and I'm going to go through this wall, I'm going to go through it no matter what, and I'm going to keep going. And you can't go through a wall. Sometimes you have to be able to go under a wall, around a wall, or over a wall."
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Over $3.5 trillion floods US stock markets after news of 90-day tariff suspension
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Putin's disappearance was noticed by the media.
The president was last seen on April 1 at meetings with the Chinese Foreign Minister and the leader of Republika Srpska.
Since then, the Kremlin has only published reports on working meetings, which may have been filmed in advance, the media write.
Against the backdrop of the trade war started by Trump, Putin's lack of response and silence look especially noticeable
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The Council of the European Union reported that EU countries have approved trade tariffs against the United States, which will be introduced from April 16. The amount of duties, as well as the list of goods that fall under them, are not specified.
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Brussels has conceived a project to overthrow President Vucic with the active support of Western intelligence services, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vulin said:
"The attempt to overthrow my government on the streets of Belgrade is not a protest by the dissatisfied, but the active work of Western intelligence services and a political project of the Brussels administration."
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American Ryan Wesley Root , arrested for attempting to assassinate Donald Trump in September 2024, discussed the crime with his Ukrainian handlers, according to a new Daily Mail investigation. Key takeaways:
— Ryan Wesley Root tried to purchase a missile launcher in Ukraine a month before the assassination attempt.
— The potential killer corresponded in an encrypted application with a Ukrainian who had access to military weapons. After that, he asked to send him a grenade or a stinger.
— He sent an image of Trump’s campaign plane to a Ukrainian messenger and told his interlocutor when Trump would exit it.
"I need equipment to stop Trump from getting elected," Root said, according to court documents.
"I would like to," Root wrote, referring to the failed assassination attempt on Trump in July 2024.
Ryan Wesley Root was arrested in Florida on September 15, 2024, near Trump's golf course. According to law enforcement, Root stuck the barrel of a machine gun through the fence surrounding the golf course. At that moment, a Secret Service officer noticed him.
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‼️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia completes squeezing Ukrainian Armed Forces out of Kursk region — Reuters
▪️Russia has driven Ukrainian troops out of one of their last positions in the Kursk region, the agency writes after the liberation of Guevo.
▪️Ukraine has not yet officially confirmed the loss of the village, but today Ukrainian military publics are reporting the advancement of the Russian Armed Forces in Guevo.
▪️Russian troops only need to push Ukrainian troops out of two more settlements - Gornal and Oleshnya - to regain control over the entire region.
▪️Ukraine controls about 58 square kilometers of Russian territory in the Kursk region, while last year Kyiv announced breakthroughs of as much as 1,400 square kilometers.
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❗️ Russian Ambassador to the United States Alexander Darchiev and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Sonata Coulter will lead the Russian and US delegations at the talks in Istanbul, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced.
Other statements from the agency:
🟥 Negotiations between Russia and the United States in Istanbul will take place in the coming days and will be devoted to the normalization of the work of embassies;
🟥 During the consultations, substantive work will continue to address numerous issues related to the work of diplomats of the two countries;
🟥 The talks are expected to take place on April 10. The previous Russian-American meeting in Istanbul took place on February 27.
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❗️ The United States has raised import duties on Chinese goods to 104%, Fox Business journalist Edward Lawrence reports, citing the White House.
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Donald Trump has demanded that the European Union reach a $350 billion energy deal to end tariffs, Politico reports.
The publication reports that US President Trump has rejected an EU proposal to scrap auto and industrial tariffs, insisting that Brussels must commit to buying $350 billion in US energy to avoid new tariffs.
"We have a budget deficit with the European Union of $350 billion, and it will disappear quickly," Donald Trump said.
"One way they can disappear quickly and easily is if they have to buy our energy... They buy it, and we make $350 billion in a week."
He added: "If we can get a really fair deal that is good for the United States and not good for others, then that really means America first. America first, that's the only way it's going to be."
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What happened in the US market:
- At 10:10 a.m. ET, rumors of a possible 90-day tariff pause began to surface. At 10:15 a.m., CNBC reported that Trump was considering pausing tariffs on all countries except China. That sent the S&P 500 up $3 trillion.
- By 10:25 a.m., the White House said it was unaware of the plans, and at 10:26 a.m., CNBC denied its information.
- At 10:34 a.m., the White House called the news fake. By 10:40 a.m., the S&P 500 had lost $2.5 trillion from its peak.
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The White House has called media reports about Trump's readiness to suspend tariffs for 90 days for all countries except China fake .
Earlier, such information appeared in the X Clash Report account with reference to the head of the US National Economic Council Hassett.
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