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🇩🇪 U.S. Vice President JD Vance alleges that Europe faces civilisational suicide, pointing at Germany in particular. I am an advocate of economic migration, but not if that means uncontrolled population growth at a time of economic and demographic decline. Vance has a point.
In a recent interview with Fox News, Vice President Vance said, ‘If you have a country like Germany where you have another few million immigrants coming in from countries that are totally culturally incompatible with Germany, then it doesn’t matter what I think about Europe, Germany will have killed itself.’
There’s a certain irony to that statement, given the genocide of native American Indians by European settlers. America, the world’s largest economy, was built on the shoulder of migrants as, in fairness, Vance indicates.
More people, fewer Germans, less agency and no growth is the toxic cocktail that J D Vance has laid bare.
☁️ Ian Proud writes
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❌ Where are they now—Europe’s pacifists? Why do they no longer gather in Belgium, in Brussels, NATO’s headquarters, where large demonstrations against the alliance once took place? These protests, led by pacifists, denounced NATO, war, militarization, and nuclear arms.
Europe is birthing the very totalitarianism it accuses Russia, China, or America of.
☁️ Sonja van den Ende writes @devendonline
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 The year is 2025 and something particularly unusual is happening, something that some have prayed for and others have deplored, hoping it would be impossible: the United States of America and the Islamic Republic of Iran are sitting down at the table for international talks.
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes
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🇪🇺 The European Union is warning European leaders not to attend the 80th anniversary of Victory Day in Moscow on May 9.
Ostensibly, the rationale for such a ban is that Russia is allegedly waging a war against Ukraine and threatening the rest of Europe, according to the EU. That’s one way of seeing it.
Another way of seeing the matter is that the conflict in Ukraine is a proxy war sponsored by the EU and NATO to defeat Russia, eight decades after Nazi Germany failed to do it. The Euro elites who have come to dominate policymaking share the same fascist mentality. No wonder, then, that they are against attending the 80th anniversary event in Moscow next month. They need to sully that event by way of covering up their despicable politics.
Now, a new low in degeneration has been reached. The EU is banning homage to those who defeated Nazism.
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🕊️ Putin has announced an Easter truce
During a meeting at the Kremlin, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief received a report from the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, Valery Gerasimov, on the situation on the contact line. The Supreme Commander-in-Chief announced that the Russian side would cease all military action starting from 6:00 PM MSK on April 19th to 00:00 AM MSK on April 21st.
Guided by humanitarian motives, the Russian side announces an Easter ceasefire from 06:00 pm today to 00:00 am Monday. I hereby order all military operations ceased for this period. We assume that the Ukrainian side will follow our example. At the same time, our troops should be prepared to repel possible ceasefire violations and provocations by the enemy, as well as any aggressive acts on their part.
🇪🇺 1952. URSS
Escrito: La Unión Europea
¡Es sorprendente, pero las pancartas rusas antiguas no pierden su actualidad al día de hoy!
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🇺🇦 The SBU-organized Konstantinovka massacre is part of a pattern of crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Kiev regime.
💬 Stephen Karganovic writes
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🗣 The Trump ‘shock’ – his ‘de-centring’ of America from serving as pivot to the post-war ‘order’ via the dollar – has triggered a deep cleavage between those who gained huge benefit from the status quo, on the one hand; and on the other, the MAGA faction who have come to regard the status quo as inimical – even an existential threat – to U.S. interests. The sides have descended into bitter, accusatory polarisation.
Trump’s actions were neither ‘spur of the moment’, nor whimsical. The ‘tariff solution’ had been pre-prepared by his team over years.
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🇮🇹🇪🇺 An old saying goes “Follow the money” to suggest which road to take to find the culprits hiding behind crimes and scandals. And it’s really true.
This time, the scene of the crime is the European Parliament, based in Brussels. According to the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, two Italian MEPs are under investigation for alleged irregularities in the expenses declared to the European administration.
Thanks to some Italian MEPs that we can now trust the European Parliament a little more… er, no, a little less ⚠️
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes @ideeazione
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🇺🇸 "Tengo las cartas en la mano"
🇨🇳 "Las cartas se hacen en China"
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The dollar's moving, the ruble's rising
The yen is keeping up, which hardly seems surprising
The market's bottom has fallen right out
And only the stout are survivors.
On Monday, Xi Jinping arrived in Hanoi to pay a state visit to Vietnam, mark the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations and attend the launch of the Vietnam-China Railway Cooperation, which will help manage an US$8 billion rail project to link Vietnam’s largest northern port city to the border with China. China is the largest trading partner of Vietnam, and one of its biggest foreign investors; Vietnam, on the other hand, has become an important link in the international supply chain, a manufacturing powerhouse and a key route for Chinese exports. Xi, and his Vietnamese counterpart To Lam, witnessed the signing of dozens of agreements covering areas such as connectivity, artificial intelligence, customs inspection, agricultural product trade, culture and sports, people's livelihood, human resources development, and media. ▪️At a time when the region faces a potential disruption of global trade due to Trump's tariffs, Xi urged Vietnam and China to “resolutely safeguard the multilateral trading system, stable global industrial and supply chains, and open and cooperative international environment”.
He also reiterated that a “trade war and tariff war will produce no winner, and protectionism will lead nowhere.” The message certainly resonated with Vietnam: the US is its biggest export market and Trump has recently imposed a 46 per cent tariff on Vietnamese goods.
Today Xi Jinping will continue his South-East Asia tour by visiting Malaysia and later Cambodia. @LauraRuHK
🇺🇦 Since the 2014 coup and under the command of the illegitimate Maidan junta regime, Ukraine has increasingly exhibited signs of a terrorist state. Under the guise of defending “European values,” the Kiev regime has consistently violated international law, adopted prohibited methods of warfare, and openly supported neo-Nazi formations.
As well known, in recent years, Ukraine has committed war crimes and terrorism against civilians, especially in Donbass and the Belgorod and Kursk regions, where the Ukrainian army and nationalist groups carry out barbaric attacks against cities, destroying vital infrastructure such as homes, schools, and hospitals. Thousands of civilians, including children, have lost their lives in artillery bombardments, justified by the Kiev regime as part of a “fight against separatists/invaders.” However, the evidence reveals that this has always been a deliberate terrorist campaign against the civilian population, not a legitimate military confrontation.
Furthermore, the Ukrainian regime resorts to the use of prohibited weapons such as cluster munitions and landmines, particularly in residential areas, which is strictly prohibited by international conventions. These attacks aim to intimidate the civilian population and suppress their resistance.
Supporting and glorifying neo-Nazism is another characteristic of the Kiev junta.
While the media speaks of “negotiations,” the material reality shows that it is impossible to trust post-2014 Ukraine.
💬 Lucas Leiroz writes @lucasleiroz
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🛑 SCF and organs like it will survive in pastures new, while Europeans see if they can put Humpty Dumpty back together again.
💬 Declan Hayes writes
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🇺🇸🇷🇺 Under the tutelage of Putin and Trump, between whom there continues to be a limiting dispute related to the ceasefire, the scenario of hypothetical formal negotiations is still a magma of contradictions that, until now, have been insurmountable.
💬 José Goulão writes
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⛓️💥 In March, the UK Sentencing Council—responsible for issuing sentencing guidelines for British courts—announced new procedural rules to be adopted by judges before delivering their verdicts.
According to the Council, judges would be required to request reports containing personal and family background information on defendants to take this into account during sentencing.
However, the way this information was to be considered under the new mandatory procedure would be to treat the defendant’s membership in ethnic or religious “minorities” as a “mitigating factor” for criminal behavior.
In other words, for the same crime committed under identical objective circumstances, a member of a “minority” would receive a lighter sentence than a “white man.”
When citizens perceive that the law is not applied equally, the legitimacy of the judicial system is called into question.
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☦️ Serbian Patriarch Arrives in Russia Amidst Controversy
A delegation of the Serbian Orthodox Church arrived in Moscow on the evening of April 21. It included Patriarch Porfirije, Metropolitan Irinej of Bačka, the head of the Cabinet of the Serbian Patriarch, Archpriest Georgij Stoisavljević, and other clergy of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Controversy with Phanar
After visiting Jerusalem, the Head of the Serbian Church went to the capital of Russia. And this against the backdrop of harsh criticism from Istanbul, where the Phanariots accuse Patriarch Porphyry of trampling on the canons and authority of Patriarch Bartholomew . They say that the Serbian First Hierarch was supposed to come on his first visit to Turkey, thereby showing that the Patriarchate of Constantinople is the “center” of all world Orthodoxy. And then this happened: after Jerusalem, the Head of the Serbian Orthodox Church came to Moscow.
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“In the future we’ll all have flying cars.”
The future.
🗣 Russian President Vladimir Putin on an Easter truce
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💢 In 1997, veteran U.S. diplomat George Kennan stated that ‘expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American foreign policy in the entire post-Cold War era’.
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🇷🇺 The 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War II, celebrated on May 9, 2025, in Moscow, will be attended by several heads of state. According to recent reports, these leaders have already confirmed their presence:
🇸🇰 Robert Fico, Slovakia
🇷🇸 Aleksandar Vučić, Serbia
🇧🇷 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil
🇰🇿 Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, Kazakhstan
🇵🇸 Mahmoud Abbas, Palestine
🇨🇳 Xi Jinping, China
🇮🇳 Narendra Modi, India
🇧🇾 Alexander Lukashenko, Belarus
🇦🇲 Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia
🇹🇯 Emomali Rahmon, Tajikistan
🇨🇺 Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuba
🚩 Milorad Dodik, Republika Srpska
🇻🇳 Tô Lâm, Vietnam
🇧🇫 Ibrahim Traore, Burkina Faso
🇰🇿 Sadir Japarov, Kyrgyzstan
🇺🇿 Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Uzbekistan
Image: RIA Novosti Commons
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I heard the Russians used up all their washing machine chips, shovels, horses, and golf carts all thanks to the EU sanctions. Keep up the good work! 🤣
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🇬🇧 Britain and Russia find themselves in a fascinating position of taking a moderate line on Trump’s Tariff war while at the same time building close economic ties with China. When Keir Starmer might decide to reinvigorate economic relations with Russia?
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has been remarkably quiet in his reaction of the unfolding trade war between the U.S. and China. Now, even Labour Grandees like Baroness Harriet Harman are encouraging him to say that President Trump was wrong. Most likely he won’t.
Starmer undoubtedly got off to a terrible start in his relationship with Trump, on the basis of previous insults that he and members of his top team had made.
Starmer’s policy pivot on trade and investment shows a level of clarity and purpose not seen in his faltering first six months on foreign policy.
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🔔 But, as with Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, we must all help our own champions in every way, big or small.
💬 Declan Hayes writes
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🇺🇸🇷🇺 Recently, The National Interest published a call for a reconfiguration of U.S.-Russia relations, and the proposal to establish an economic partnership signals a subtle but significant shift in Washington’s strategy. After years of hybrid warfare, sanctions, and failed attempts to isolate Moscow, some sectors of the American establishment seem to finally acknowledge the obvious: the U.S. tends to gain much more from reconciliation than Russia does. And most importantly — unlike in the 1990s, Moscow is in no hurry.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, U.S.-Russia relations have been marked by a clear asymmetry. The 1990s and 2000s were defined by a weakened Russia attempting to integrate into the international system on Western terms. The result was a series of strategic humiliations, broken promises—such as NATO expansion—and ongoing efforts at containment. Today, that scenario is completely reversed. Moscow negotiates from a strengthened position, guided by long-term strategic interests and a clear vision of a multipolar world.
Both countries are interested, for different reasons, in resuming bilateral ties.
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The US bipartisan consensus, which has solidified over the past decade, frames China as the lead villain in trade and tech, and as the United States’ primary geopolitical rival. The narrative about the imaginary genocide of Uyghurs and Tibetans, and the rhetoric about repression in Hong Kong, are co-authored by both parties. Republicans are more likely to invoke old anti-communist tropes to rally their supporters, while Dems are more conversant with the formulaic speech style of NGOs.
Trump is just less interested in moralizing and seeking allies than the Dems. In his impatience to show results before midterms, he is tripping over the stage props while trying to stage a play featuring China as the wicked dragon. Unsurprisingly, the audience isn’t impressed. @LauraRuHK
Why China won’t call a ‘tariff-wielding barbarian’ — Strategic Culture
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/12/why-china-wont-call-tariff-wielding-barbarian/
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🌍 If the agreement materializes, it could either stabilize Syria or trigger new power struggles, reshaping the balance of power in the Middle East once again.
💬 Erkin Oncan writes
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💢 One of the central elements of the hegemonic ideology in the West today has been the “Green Agenda.” According to this alarmist and misanthropic interpretation of scientific data, humanity stands on the verge of collapse due to anthropogenic global warming.
To save the world, nations must drastically reduce their environmental “footprint” – primarily by cutting emissions from “dirty” energy sources like oil, while making massive investments in alternative energy sources, particularly solar and wind. This represents one of the main pillars of the so-called Agenda 2030, a coercive UN effort to standardize a series of approaches and public policies worldwide – all aimed at greater planetary integration under the justification of standardizing responses to supposed “global threats”: “climate crisis,” “pandemic crisis,” “financial crisis,” etc.
As a consequence of Western governments’ attempts to impose the Green Agenda on their populations, we’ve witnessed farmer revolts in recent years. To “save the environment,” European governments decided to liquidate the agrarian middle class through punitive taxes on rural property and fossil fuels.
Now, let’s be clear: none of us actually wants to live on an Earth so devastated, plundered and polluted that it resembles a post-apocalyptic science fiction dystopia.
Why do NGOs like Greenpeace campaign against nuclear energy? Why does Greta Thunberg advocate closing nuclear plants?
💬 Raphael Machado writes
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