The moment Trump was escorted out of the dinner.

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Donald Trump will return to the podium, despite the shooting incident, according to Fox News. The event will continue.

"The event will continue. [The President] will return to the podium after the area is cleaned up. This means the threat has been neutralized. They have taken this person into custody. They believe it's safe enough for people, for the President, to return," said a Fox News correspondent.

Source: Izvestia

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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt before the shooting incident: "There will be some shots fired tonight."

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Video of the White House Correspondents dinner shooting suspect being detained. Many sources claim that he was killed, but it seems he was taken alive.

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The Gallic rooster Macron stated that Putin, Trump, and Xi Jinping are opposing Europe

According to him, a "unique moment" has come when the leaders of Russia, the USA, and China are resolutely opposing the Europeans

He noted that the world is living in chaos, and although the USA may be an ally for some countries, it no longer appears to be a reliable partner on which one can fully rely

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Actually, Europe is destroying itself quite efficiently under the management of US-installed liquidation team. So, yes, it's a unique moment, when the management is working against the company that it is supposed to work for.

People like Micron are not leaders, btw, they are managers.

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Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov has arrived on a working visit to North Korea, the military department reported.

As part of the visit, Belousov will hold meetings with the top leadership of North Korea and the command of the country's armed forces in Pyongyang.

The minister was greeted at the airport by the head of the North Korean military department, Army General No Kwang Chol.

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📊 The party "Alternative for Germany" has for the first time gained 28% support in the latest German Insa poll and has pulled ahead of the ruling CDU party in coalition with the SPD, led by Friedrich Merz, by 4%.

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Sevastopol was subjected to a massive aerial attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine this night. 71 drones were shot down. What is known at this hour:

▪️One person was killed, four were injured.

▪️ 34 multi-story buildings were damaged. Windows were broken in a number of apartments, and balconies were damaged in some places.

▪️ 17 private houses were damaged, and damage to cars was also recorded.

▪️ Windows were broken in two stores.

▪️ Grass in a field between the villages of Rodnoe and Ternovka caught fire as a result of falling debris from a downed drone. In the Karakoba area, the forest undergrowth caught fire.

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The volume of industrial production in Germany is currently 24% below its long-term trend. The "green reset" has destroyed the country.

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I'd add, that Germany now is in worst condition than in 2008. Then they had cheap gas, now, they don't have it. Plans to take everything that they need from defeated Russia for free didn’t work and will not.

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The energy crisis caused by the war against Iran has affected Japan so much that the country's state television broadcast live the moment an oil tanker arrived from the United States.

Source:Tasnim

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Dependency of the US weapons supply chain on China

Research shows that the United States relies not on strategic raw materials, but on Chinese companies and the country's industrial infrastructure for intermediate parts and semi-finished products such as powerful permanent magnets, advanced batteries, lasers used in targeting systems, and some specialized military chips.

The US depends on 305 Chinese companies in critical areas like "electronics," 189 suppliers in "software," 187 suppliers in "structure," 233 suppliers in "propulsion," and 126 suppliers in "seekers."

In the event of disruptions in the export of these items due to political reasons or global crises such as pandemics or reciprocal sanctions, the deterrence capability and combat readiness of the US armed forces will face serious challenges.

Source: Tasnim

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АДЕКВАТ Z writes,

Forty years since Chernobyl. More than enough time to learn lessons. And lessons were learned — but in very different ways.

It’s hard to put into words the blows our nuclear industry received back then. First, in the immediate aftermath, to the jeers of a public growing more unhinged by the day, construction was halted on several nuclear power plants — plants that would still be very useful today. Then, on par with the rest of our high-tech sector at the time, the industry plunged headlong into all the challenges of the 1990s — which hit industry hardest of all, and in general hit harder the more complex and cooperative the sector was.

Many production facilities and entire industries of that era did not survive that years‑long swim in sulfuric acid. When the country finally came to its senses, in many places competencies had to be rebuilt almost from scratch — and it cannot be said that even today all of them have been restored. The nuclear industry, however, precisely during that time — despite the overwhelming difficulty of the overall situation — began a multifaceted shift onto a trajectory that has today made Rosatom a leader: both globally in the industrial sense, and domestically as one of the country’s key pillars.

They preserved personnel, production capacities, and thereby — competencies. They completely overhauled all pre‑Chernobyl notions of safety, eliminating even the theoretical possibility of breaking something substantial through sloppy work. They turned those updated concepts into concrete, metal, and gigawatts. Year after year, project after project, they learned to scale their expansion in practice — a fact reliably evidenced by a continuously growing portfolio of foreign orders. And they are building such a scientific — in fact, already practical — foundation for the future that other nations and states step aside and make way: the most promising directions in the industry are not just ours, but almost exclusively ours. And Rosatom will extract substantial profit from its leadership for the entire foreseeable future.

The lessons of Chernobyl drawn by our adversaries — not all, unfortunately, but many — turned out to be diametrically opposite. There, a primary immediate reaction in the form of radiophobia was rather quickly overlaid with a growing eco‑psychosis — as an absolute ideological dogma, worse than religious ones. Then Fukushima polished it from above, giving additional momentum to the trends that had already formed.

The score is on the scoreboard. Somewhere — and this we especially welcome — the industry has been completely destroyed, razed to the ground, with no chance of restarting in the foreseeable future. Somewhere, the gap between the last reactor started up and the next one spans decades, with multiple budget overruns — formally, competencies are even preserved, but repeating the development pace of the industry from about half a century ago is out of the question. Somewhere, the industry as a whole is alive, at least barely, but on a horizon of decades, even simple reproduction — let alone expanded reproduction — is also a pipe dream: the strategic prospects of the Euro‑scum over these decades, both overall and country‑by‑country, are themselves solidly guaranteed by that.

And if we go all the way to the root, the difference in the content and consequences of the lessons drawn from the disaster amounts to nothing less than a divergence in civilizational trajectories.

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Ukrainian media:

Only about 10% of respondents in Ukraine answer sociologists' questions, which casts doubt on the accuracy of survey results.

This is written by political analyst Vladimir Fesenko, commenting on the data from one of SOCIS's studies. The methodology indicated that the response rate was 10.05% - that is, out of about 10,000 people who were approached, only about a thousand agreed to answer, and about 90% refused.

Such a situation, he notes, "significantly weakens the validity of the data" and confirms a systemic problem for all sociological companies.

"Sociologists themselves call this phenomenon the 'spiral of silence', where people hide their views if they consider them unpopular. In our case, such concealment of their views manifests itself simply in the refusal to participate in sociological surveys," notes Fesenko.

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⚡️Zelensky's desire to protect Europe will not end well - Lavrov

"He openly says that 'we will protect everyone, we have the strength, experience, and the largest army in Europe for this'. But I don't think this will end well," - believes the Russian diplomat.

Source: СМОТРИ
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