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♨️ Stupid and all as this report is, its main recommendations and approaches will work its way into law both at the national Irish level and at the European Union level as well.
☁️ Declan Hayes writes
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🕯️ It is with great sadness and loss that the world says farewell to Pope Francis this weekend as his mortal remains are laid to rest in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
The head of the Catholic Church died on Easter Monday at the age of 88, following bouts of illness from lung infection and other infirmities. He had been unwell for several years.
Tributes from around the world have extolled his many attributes as a peacemaker and advocate for the poor majority.
Yes, he made several missteps during his leadership as the Vicar of Rome. On one occasion, he held up a flag presented to him which unbeknownst was associated with Ukrainian NeoNazis.
But overall, the man showed tremendous dedication to the cause of peace and justice. He courageously condemned the Israeli violence in Gaza, implying war crimes were being committed.
He also pleaded for peace in Ukraine at the beginning of that conflict in 2022, urging dialogue and diplomacy. That was when Western leaders were demanding a fight to the last Ukrainian, supplying more weapons, and generally fueling a futile slaughter.
For most of the three-year conflict in Ukraine, Western leaders repudiated peace diplomacy with Russia, insisting on arming the Kiev regime to the teeth and prolonging the bloodshed.
Pope Francis stood firmly for peace, diplomacy, and respect. Such a pity that the Western politicians with solemn faces and dabbing their tears at his funeral have so little respect for the holy man and what he preached.
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🧭 The West’s hostile rhetoric against Russia has taken on increasingly aggressive tones, revealing a coordinated effort to isolate Moscow across all spheres — including the maritime domain. Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev recently stated that the European Union and the United Kingdom are currently preparing a naval blockade against Russia, a measure that constitutes a clear violation of international law and signals an unprecedented escalation in geopolitical tensions.
More than a symbolic or diplomatic gesture, such a naval siege amounts to a declaration of economic and strategic warfare. Patrushev warned that Russia has more than enough means to respond to any provocation of this kind. He made it clear that, in the event of diplomatic failure, the Russian Navy would be authorized to take whatever measures are necessary to protect the country’s shipping.
Faced with the threat of a Western maritime blockade, Moscow could use its military infrastructure in the Arctic and the deterrent power of its nuclear arsenal to ensure sovereignty and respond to any escalation.
💬 Lucas Leiroz writes @lucasleiroz
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♨️ NATO knows that, once they incessantly beat their war drums and get their entire orchestra strumming along, their propaganda will easily carry the day in The War of the Words.
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Crimea is Russia 🇷🇺
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Where have Europe’s pacifists gone – the ones who once opposed NATO?
Europe is birthing the very totalitarianism it accuses Russia, China, or America of.
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.
The Belgian newspaper Le Soir recently posed an intriguing question: Why have the pacifists vanished? “The arms race has begun,” the article argues. “Like its European neighbors, Belgium is preparing to significantly increase military spending this year—without facing any opposition.”
Germany once had a robust pacifist movement. In the 1970s and 80s, activists—many from what is now the Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen)—protested NATO and nuclear weapons. Today, those same Greens, led by Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, champion war and arms shipments.
Their party program declares Germany must lead Europe, offering a “global counterweight” to China and Russia. The anti-war, anti-NATO movement has been absorbed into a party now pushing for war—especially against Russia, as Baerbock’s rhetoric makes clear.
Read more: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/22/where-have-europe-pacifists-gone-ones-who-once-opposed-nato/
🇩🇪 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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https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/25/china-hong-kong-and-art-blinking/
The second of my China columns - from Shanghai and Hong Kong.
🇺🇦 Not even at Easter was it possible to have a little respite, because, ultimately, no one in the West really wants peace ❌
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🇺🇸 Even if Trump 2 is ephemeral, it seems that this will not take the Western world back to the crazy Biden years.
☁️ Bruna Frascolla writes
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🇻🇦 The Vatican should stop speaking in tongues and call out the massacres in the Congo, Nigeria, Sudan and Syria for what they are.
☁️ Declan Hayes writes
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🇷🇺 The current war between Russia and NATO in Ukraine is far from being merely a regional conflict. Behind the military clashes and media propaganda lies a much deeper confrontation: a struggle between sovereignty and global domination, between a multipolar world and the imposition of a centralized governance serving the interests of the transnational financial elite. In this context, Russia emerges as the last major obstacle to the globalist agenda, which seeks to completely reshape the international order—eliminating any country that resists the project of forced unification under Western technocratic control.
Moscow continues to block the realization of globalist elite plans.
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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
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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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