🇹🇷👀 ALL EYES ON TURKEY as its razor-close elections are being watched carefully in Western capitals, NATO headquarters and the Kremlin alike, given Turkey’s role as regional mediator and shifting player as official Western silence is underscored by the US and EU secret delight in an Erdogan loss.

Says Swedish ex-PM Carl Bildt in the New York Times: "We all want an easier Turkey,” a NATO power that is, under Erdogan, an increasing headache to an EU that's mostly abandoned the mere idea of Turkish membership to it that Ankara sought after in decades past.

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🇫🇷🤡 Paris is not at war with Moscow and is not supplying Kiev with weapons to attack Russian territory, claims French Prez Macron.

🗣 We are not at war with Russia. This is not a war with the Russian Federation. We are helping Ukraine to resist, which means that we are not supplying weapons that could reach Russian territory or with which Russia could be attacked - Macron.

That's literally the definition of a proxy war you spineless baguette. 🤦‍♂️

UPDATE: Guy who's "totally not at war with Russia" says training of Ukrainian pilots by the French military may start now.

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🪖🦜 WAR BIRD: Climb into cockpit of Russia's Ka-52 attack helicopter, as it takes to the sky in stunning footage, sending fresh missiles way of Kiev's army's fortified positions (00:41), obliterating command post and sending a bunch of enemy's armored vehicles to the scrapyard.

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🇺🇸 US Justice Department special counsel John Durham, who led the investigation into bogus "Russia-Trump collusion", says FBI should not have launched an investigation into Trump's ties with Russia, as it was based on unconfirmed information.

Cold War dinosaur Hillary's main talking point during her failed run for presidency in 2016 comes crashing down, according to the report compiled over a 3 years long investigation.

UPDATE: Trump commenting on Durham's statement, says the American public was scammed, just as they're still being scammed by those who don't want to see "America Great".

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🌈⚽️GENDER-BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM: Muslim football players Zakaria Aboukhlal of Morocco and Mostafa Mohamed of Egypt come under French FIRE after refusing to adorn virtue signaling LGBT propaganda jerseys.

Cancel-culture sports officials omitted them from Sunday's Toulouse game against Nantes, with Aboukhal previously slated to play on the Toulouse team and Mohamed, for Nantes.

Pretty soon, being a "good sport" will be not a matter of skill or sportsmanship: just don a rainbow jersey and please the alphabet army!

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🇺🇸🇹🇷 ANOTHER US-ORCHESTRATED REGIME CHANGE might be coming to Turkey, as Prez Erdogan accuses warmongering creepy Joe of meddling in country's election and giving the green light to topple him.

🗣 Biden gave the instructions saying we have to topple Erdogan, I know this. All my people know this, but ballots will give Joe an answer as well - Erdogan said, while blasting his opponent, Kilicdaroglu, who parrots fake allegations out of Democratic Party playbook accusing Russia of spreading "fake and fabricated news" in a conspiracy to prevent him from winning the elections.

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🇺🇦 Zelensky wearily thanks Germany and other European capitals for weapons.

Did anyone hear those repeated thuds and bangs, like at (00:38)? Probably the frantic knocking of kids he accused Putin of kidnapping stuck behind those morgue-like doors!

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💥🌉 WHY BURN BRIDGES when you can just blast them instead as Russian forces cut off supply lines to Ukrainian forces in Artyomovsk-Bakhmut in the Donetsk region (ex-Ukraine), with a BLAST to the bridge (00:01) as they continue the path of complete decimation of Ukrainian forces from the region.

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😂 The transfer of the F-16 to Ukraine will significantly modernize the US Air Force without endangering the lives of Americans - Ukrainian Foreign Minister crybaby Kuleba.

"It's for your own benefit too, we promise! 😢"

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