Spanish schoolgirl Lucia received a gift from Putin - a photo with an autograph.

A year ago, she wrote him a letter in which she confessed her love for Russia.

Now she dreams of a personal meeting with the president.

Source: RIA Kremlinpool

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For everyone who remembers the name Samantha Smith by age, she was the product of an experiment in extraordinary informal diplomacy during extremely explosive times: in the short 15 months of Andropov's rule, the global situation was electrified unprecedentedly since October 1962, and the chances of a major conflict simply due to the high concentration of geopolitical tension were far from zero. And today, we can confidently say that this experiment played at least some positive role at that time.

Refreshing the memory of this long-gone past, let's look at Oviedo in Spain. A local schoolgirl, who has been fascinated by Russia since her early years, first wrote a letter to Putin, which was forwarded through our embassy, then received a response in the form of a photo of the Supreme Leader with an autograph, and after that expressed a desire to meet him in person. The most notable aspect of this story is that the girl wrote the letter back in July last year, and received the response only now. This seems a rather clear hint that in a well-run system, any information opportunity can be leveraged when the time is right.

I can't swear that the future will unfold exactly as predicted, but I believe there's a high chance that in the not-so-distant future, we'll see the girl in the Kremlin and beyond. The opportunity to send certain direct signals to the Spanish, and indeed European, public is obvious - and much will depend on how these signals are heard and perceived.

In any case, it's definitely worth following this story.
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🇧🇫🍅 Burkina Faso is living the tomato revolution right now under President Ibrahim Traoré. This landlocked nation, where 80% of the people farm, still imported most of its rice while watching mountains of its own tomatoes—over 300,000 tons a year—rot by the roadside. No processing capacity meant raw commodity sold cheap or wasted, while the government paid out to import canned paste from Europe and China. That was the colonial trap working exactly as designed.

Traoré crushed it. In November 2024, the SOBTO facility fired up in Bobo-Dioulasso: six tons of fresh tomatoes per hour, nearly 100 tons daily. Then came the SOFATO plant in Yako. These aren’t aid projects or IMF loan deals. They were built through popular shareholding—ordinary Burkinabè at home and in the diaspora buying in, community capital, coordinated with the state. 100% Burkinabè-owned. Over 10,000 indirect jobs. They even banned fresh tomato exports to feed the processors first. Now rivers of Sahel-grown tomatoes move down local conveyor belts, crushed, canned under local brands, hitting domestic shelves and crossing into Ghana. Not aid. Trade. The beginning of real regional food power.

This is sovereignty in action: seeds in the ground, water systems engineered even near the Sahara, soldiers turned farmers, gold revenues redirected to the people instead of parked in Western banks. No begging. As Traoré put it, those who beg are always at the bottom. Burkina Faso stopped begging.

That fight is the exact same battle raging inside America’s soul since before 1776. No colony—whether the Americas or India—was ever meant to have industry. London’s system was brutally clear: the Navigation Acts, the Iron Act, and the deliberate smashing of India’s textiles. You grow the cash crops, dig the minerals, and ship raw materials out. We keep the factories, the machines, the profits, and the power. The center stays developed; the periphery stays dependent cash-crop colonies. Forever.

America’s Revolution wasn’t just about tea and stamps. It was a revolt against being locked into that raw-supplier role for eternity. Alexander Hamilton, Henry Carey, and the American System fought to build America’s own industry, protect America’s productive powers, and reject permanent colonial status. That argument never ended. It’s still the soul of America today: Hamiltonian nation-building that develops industry and sovereignty for Americans and others, versus the British imperial logic that keeps everyone else underdeveloped so the few can extract.

What Traoré is doing in Burkina Faso is a direct continuation of that revolutionary spirit. He’s asserting the right of any nation to process its own resources, climb the value ladder, and own its future. It’s a living repudiation of the neo-colonial dogma that tells the Global South to stay poor on purpose. When Burkina Faso builds its own plants with its own capital and turns tomatoes into national wealth, it proves the old imperial model is a lie.

This is why Burkina Faso’s tomato revolution matters to America. It forces the choice America has faced since the founding: Will Americans stand with the tradition that builds industry and sovereignty everywhere, or drift back into the British model of managed dependence? The most American revolution happening in the world today is unfolding in Ouagadougou. It shows exactly which side of America’s soul must be chosen—the one that builds, or the one that keeps colonies begging for scraps.

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Larry C Johnson Strategic Update June 29, 2026

➡️"The Spirit of Anchorage"
➡️ the 5th column operation around "oil shortage"
➡️ Fact: Russia is advancing
➡️ Ukraine Oligarch Bombed?
➡️ Is the Iran-US MOU dead?
➡️ supply chain shortages
➡️ AI bubble bursting ...
➡️ World central banks intend to reduce dollar shares in reserves

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Without payments from countries, the UN will run out of money by September, said the organization's Assistant Secretary-General, Chandru Ramanathan.

The UN is facing a crisis, as the United States, its largest donor, has refused to pay contributions to the regular budget and has reduced voluntary funding to the world organization's agencies.

Source: TASS
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Actually, UN must move out of the US in general. It will do only good.

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👔"Ursula is a consummate liar." Maria Zakharova accused the head of the European Commission of lying after statements about an alleged Russian decision to stop gas supplies to Europe.

"Not once in its history has Russia cut off gas supplies to Europe. Any EU citizen could sue her for this lie and win,"

the diplomat emphasized.

Source: TASS
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First we thought it was AI, but it is real.

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