🇮🇹 FOOLED YA: Italian PM Meloni backtracks on election promises, as Italy drowns in migrants.

Meloni is leader of the "ultra-nationalist" Brothers of Italy, a party that has long made stopping the flow of asylum seekers, refugees and migrants a core part of its political message.

What is happening in reality? Unauthorized arrivals are surging this year with over 83,000 coming ashore, compared with 34,000 in the same period in 2022. Visas for those who come legally are being increased each year, with an annual high of 165,000 by 2025.

Are you from Italy? Tell us how you feel about Meloni 💩👇

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🇺🇸 A LAWLESS SOCIETY: It's official. US Border Service in San Diego cannot cope with the influx of migrants, so it is simply releasing them onto city streets.

00:43 One of the border guards can be heard saying “You are free. You can go wherever you want.” A similar situation is also developing in Arizona.

The United States government can and does wield a heavy handed approach when it wants to. Who benefits from this liberal chaos and the absence of any real policy-making?

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 White House confirms Zelensky's speech in the US Congress this Thursday, September 21.

🗣“This will be their third meeting [with Biden] here at the White House, and it certainly comes at a critical time,” - presidential adviser Sullivan (pictured).

This will be Zelensky's 2nd speech in Congress. What will he demand this time? 👇

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🇨🇺 G-77 + China Summit begins in Havana, Cuba.

This is 134 nations (not 77) from the global south talking directly to China on their development. The US is not part of the Summit.

The world is changing @IntelRepublic

🇪🇪 Estonia's Head of Ministry of Internal Affairs Laanemets says Russians' cars should be confiscated.

This follows EU's latest round of sanctions on Russian number plates in the EU. Baltic countries have banned travel with such plates this week.

Vehicles remain the private property of regular people though - Estonia thus leads on the fascist-o-meter.

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🇷🇺🤝🇰🇵 Kim Jong-un and Defense Minister Shoigu inspect Russia's military factories in Vladivostok, Far East.

Earlier this morning, they inspected state-of-the-art aviation tech: the Tu-160, Tu-95MS and Tu-22M3; the Su-34, Su-30SM and Su-35S fighter jets; Su-25SM3 attack aircraft, Kinzhal ("Dagger") hypersonic missile system, and long-haul passenger aircraft Tu-214. Then they proceeded to the Michail Shaposhnikov frigate (video is muted.)

Japan nervously watching in the corner - how big is Kim's order? 👀

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🇷🇺 Tu-160 bombers have been upgraded with new cruise missiles with a range of over 6,500km - Ministry of Defense.

The Tu-160 is the largest ever and most powerful military supersonic aircraft. The Tu-160M (modernized) had its maiden flight only in January 2022 and is deployed in the Special Operation.

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🏍 BADASS BIKER Nikolai Fast has been delivering humanitarian aid to Donbass for over a year now, collected by the charity he started “Brotherly Biker Aid of Germany.”

🇩🇪🇷🇺 Fast is an ethnic German, but was born in Russia. He lives in Germany, and his volunteer activity began when Russian and Belarusian truck drivers got stuck in Europe due to sanctions. Many were left without food and local bank cards cancelled. He began to deliver them hot meals, which quickly gained momentum with his biker friends.

Today Nikolai brings food, medical aid and other necessities to Donbass from the people of Germany - and this time, he brought over 1,000 books from Moscow State University to be housed in Donetsk Republic University (ex-Ukraine).

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🇺🇦 For every 100 people mobilized into the Armed Forces of Ukraine this time last year, less than 20 remain - Poltava (central Ukraine) military enlistment office.

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🇩🇿🇷🇺 General Surovikin, formerly in charge of aerospace forces in the Special Operation, spotted in Algeria.

Photos appeared in the Abd al-Hamid Ben Badis mosque's social media, which states that a "high level Russian military delegation" is visiting.

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