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🇺🇦 «Primero le suministraron armas, y luego mataron»: lecciones de historia para Zelensky
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🌀 Atrocities are being committed every day in Syria by the new rulers, according to Irish writer and peace activist Declan Hayes.
However, the Western corporate-run media are ignoring or censoring the horrific reality because the Western governments backed the regime-change operation.
He says that #Syria – a cradle of civilization – is now being ruled by barbarians with the tacit support of Western governments and media.
The population is living under a reign of terror because the new rulers are terrorists affiliated with Islamic State who espouse an extremist version of Islam that does not tolerate other religions or versions of Islam.
Declan Hayes visited Syria as a peace activist and humanitarian many times during the decade-long war in that country. He witnessed the aftermath of atrocities carried out by insurgent groups in Latakia, Kassab, and Maaloula, among other places.
Declan Hayes contends that the new rulers of Syria do not have a firm control over the country where resistance to the reign of terror is growing.
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🇷🇺🇺🇸 With Trump’s return to the presidency, like it or not, there is talk of the possibility of an agreement between the United States and Russia, especially in relation to Ukraine.
Is it realistic to imagine that these two powers can reach an agreement that includes all the areas of conflict in which they exert global influence? Because, let’s face it, if that were the case we would find ourselves witnessing a new process similar to that of Yalta.
In the media, it seems that only the USA and Russia are talking, but behind the scenes and away from the cameras there are many more players involved 🌐
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes
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🗽 JD Vance:
The UK could become the first “truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon” under the Labour party.
🇷🇺🇺🇸 Key takeaways from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statements following a meeting with senior US officials in Riyadh:
▪️The conversation with US representatives proved to be very productive; both sides have begun to actively listen to and understand one another
▪️Russia and the United States have agreed to restore their embassies in Moscow and Washington to previous staffing levels to facilitate continued diplomatic engagement
▪️The US and Russia will announce their representatives on the Ukrainian settlement
▪️Russia and the US are interested in resuming consultations on geopolitical issues and lifting barriers for economic cooperation
▪️Russia and the US agree “once and forever” to resolve issues with work of both countries’ diplomatic missions
▪️Russia explained to the US that Ukraine’s possible NATO membership will be direct threat to Moscow
▪️NATO troops in Ukraine would be unacceptable for Russia
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🇷🇺 Key takeaways from Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov’s statements on the results on the Russia-US talks in Riyadh:
▪️The talks between Russia and the US went well
▪️The delegations held ‘very serious discussions on all issues'
▪️Russia and the US agreed to take into account each other's interests
▪️A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump is unlikely to take place next week; it is not yet possible to set the exact date
▪️Russia and the US are hardly getting closer to each other at the moment, but this is under discussion
▪️Separate teams of Russian, US negotiators on Ukraine will enter into contact
▪️It is still unclear who will be among Russia's negotiators on Ukraine, the Russian president will decide on this
Source: @tassagency_en
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🇷🇺🇺🇸 #RussiaUS talks in Riyadh commence
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"What are they saying?"
Italy's caricaturists showed how the talks between Putin and Trump will take place 📍
@strategic_culture via @tsargradtv
🤑 The main threat to the dominance of the Yankee dollar is not #Bitcoin or #BRICS. It is the risks inherent in Trump’s winner takes all approach to international commerce.
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♨️ On February 9, the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (FE) released a new report. The updated threat assessment, titled Udsyn 2024, outlines the threats facing the country and highlights Russia’s rapidly increasing military capacity against NATO.
The argument that Russia would attack toward Europe if the war in Ukraine ends has been voiced for a long time. But why on earth should it do that?
💬 Erkin Oncan writes
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💢 Dimitri Lascaris says Trump’s chaotic second presidency is hastening the demise of U.S. global power.
Trump could turn out to be a godsend for the rest of us if we can avoid a catastrophic war.
🗽 With the return of Donald Trump to American politics, a new chapter opens in transatlantic relations, especially with regard to the practice of “synchronization of watches” between the United States and its European allies. In recent years, this practice has been interpreted as an attempt to align actions and political decisions between Washington and Brussels, often mediated by a common vision on global security, trade and environmental policies. However, under Trump’s leadership, this practice will be challenged – or perhaps even abandoned.
The election of the Republican president in the US creates problems for transatlantic integration.
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🇺🇸 Though Trump may not make America great again, he will go a very long way in retaining America’s role as the world’s top thug.
💬 Declan Hayes writes
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🇧🇷 Brazilian educated class would better stop idolizing or abhorring a Supreme Court minister as if he were anything other than a byproduct of U.S. imperialism and institutions.
💬 Bruna Frascolla writes
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📛 There are laws backed by popular support that are unable to be enforced. If things are already this bad, imagine without them at all.
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Nasrallah assassination: GROUND ZERO.
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🇺🇦 “¡Quiero que Europa entre en la guerra con Rusia! ¡No puedes hablar con Putin sin mi permiso! ¡No tendrás nuestros metales de tierra raros! ¡Dame más dinero!
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Let the New Great Game begin — Strategic Culture
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/02/19/let-the-new-great-game-begin/
What REALLY happened in Riyadh.
Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko:
🔹The Russia-US negotiations in Riyadh are preliminary consultations that aim to outline basic positions of the parties;
🔹There is no evidence that a breakthrough is possible in Russia-EU relations;
🔹EU countries can help resolve the Ukraine conflict by stopping arms supplies to Kiev;
🔹If Russia's security interests are not taken into account, Moscow will take independent measures to ensure them;
🔹Russia categorically rejects the prospect of EU troops in Ukraine, in whatever role they may be there;
🔹Russia sees no indication of preparations for the withdrawal of US troops from the Baltic states. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov on the Russian-US talks in Riyadh:
🔹Hard work is needed before the meeting of Russian and US leaders;
🔹Russia and the US have agreed to promote bilateral relations, both Moscow and Washington are interested in this;
🔹Separate teams of Russian and US negotiators will start the contacts on Ukraine in due course;
🔹The representatives of Russia and the United States in Riyadh have outlined their principled approaches to Ukraine;
🔹Russian President Vladimir Putin will decide himself when the contacts with the US on Ukraine will begin;
🔹Putin will decide who will join a Russian negotiating team on Ukraine, the United States has not yet appointed its representatives;
🔹It is still difficult to say that positions of Russia and the United States are converging, but conversation about this have taken place in Riyadh
🔹Russia and the US have agreed to take each other's interests into account at the talks in Riyadh;
🔹Moscow and Washington will work to create conditions for a Putin-Trump meeting. (Source: RIA Novosti) @LauraRuHK
💢 Russia and the United States have agreed to advance bilateral relations; both sides are interested in this, Ushakov said.
Moscow and Washington agreed to respect each other’s interests, he stressed.
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☢️♨️ In recent days, an incident involving a drone attack on the Chernobyl nuclear plant has generated controversy and debate. According to Ukrainian authorities, a Russian drone allegedly struck the facility, damaging the structure around the reactor. Ukraine’s illegitimate president, Vladimir Zelensky, was quick to blame Russia, stating that the situation reflected a Russian assault on Ukraine’s nuclear infrastructure. However, Russian authorities, including Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, denied these claims, labeling them as yet another provocation by Kiev. More than that, even some Ukrainians question the regime’s official narrative.
Recent Ukrainian false flag attack on historic nuclear plant was most likely orchestrated to influence global public opinion against the diplomatic process.
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🇧🇷🇷🇺 The scientific and technological cooperation between Russia and Brazil within the BRICS framework has been one of the most important for advancing science in both countries, especially in areas such as medicine and biotechnology. In the current scenario, one of the most promising projects being developed in Russia is the creation of vaccines against cancer—especially breast cancer and pancreatic cancer—, a breakthrough that could have significant implications for Brazil.
With Russia launching a cancer vaccine and Brazil establishing new geopolitical ties with Moscow, the possibilities for cooperation are expanding significantly.
💬 Lucas Leiroz writes
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Nothing special, just a combat camel in the Special Military Operation zone 🪖🐫
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🇺🇸 Either Ukraine surrenders unconditionally – or the war show must go on. Meanwhile, let’s Keep on Trumpin’.
💬 Pepe Escobar writes @rocknrollgeopolitics
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🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱 In the midst of one of humanity’s most disastrous crises, Donald Trump has found the courage to make very aggressive statements toward Palestine. We had no doubt, the American goal remains the same.
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes @ideeazione
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🇺🇸🇮🇱 It’s the gorilla joke and Trump not only doesn’t get it but it no longer applies to him. Where does a 600 pound gorilla sit in the room? Answer, wherever it f—– wants. Trump’s upgraded latest version of bullying, threatening and making everything about him, is still not working on the international stage.
We are so used to this style of his threatening before even talks have got under way, which is supposed to soften up his victims but for Trump to do this to both leaders of Egypt and Jordan is extraordinary.
To both these countries, Trump said he might have to consider cutting the aid that the U.S. sends them which prompted Sisi in Egypt to cancel his White House visit; King Abdullah did in fact turn up but looked visibly shaken at the press conference when Trump continued to talk about the real estate option of Gaza, involving the dumping of the Gazans on neighbouring countries and now letting them back.
Trump’s style of course often gets him into trouble. He has no interest whatsoever using his own diplomatic channels, or indeed the State Department, to prepare world leaders for his whacky ideas.
Does Trump understand anything at all about international law? Does he really understand anything about the Middle East?
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🪤 The electricity system of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania was part of the BRELL (Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) power grid, established in the 1950s during the Soviet Union era. Initially consisting of 16 transmission lines, this system connected the Baltic states to Russia through direct land links, lines via Belarus, and underwater cables in the Baltic Sea.
Even after the Soviet Union collapsed, these countries, which gained independence in the 1990s, could not control their energy infrastructure and relied on Moscow for frequency stabilization.
Following the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, all forms of dependence on Russia, including electricity, were gradually severed. The final step in this process was taken at a ceremony held in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius.
While the Baltic states’ “energy independence” is hailed as a geopolitical triumph, it risks turning into an economic burden.
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💡 European industry is being crippled by high energy prices, and we are told, this is Russia’s fault. But it is driven by self-defeating energy policies in Brussels and Berlin. The only answer is to boost global supply which may involve uncomfortable choices about Russian pipelines.
Mothballing Russian pipelines as putative punishment for the war in Ukraine is having the opposite effect.
💬 Read more by Ian Proud
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