🇺🇸 OBOMBER OBAMA WARNS BIDEN ABOUT TRUMP'S POLITICAL STRENGTH:

Obama and Biden met for lunch in December and discussed [Biden's] campaign, with Obama expressing deep concerns about Trump's political strength - MSNBC reports.

Given Biden can't run on merit, the strategy is to run by discrediting others. "This is an all hands on deck moment" for the Democratic Party, in ensuring all forces against Trump are deployed.

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THE WAR IS LOST (FOR UKRAINE) - Alistair Crooke, former British MI6 analyst.

The war is completely lost, and Kiev is coming apart. Political infighting, rivalries between different groups, the economy is a disaster, it's effectively financially bankrupt. Running out of money, men & weapons - how do you recover this? Is it really sensible to create some kind of victory narrative, like it's Putin who lost? - Crooke asks.

🇬🇧🇺🇦 For an intelligence analyst, Crooke appears to underestimate the power of narrative on the local population. "Sensibility" has very little to do with it.

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🇷🇺 BORDER TOWN TO RELOCATE CHILDREN - Gladkov (speaking), Governor of grief-stricken Belgorod (pre-war West Russia) informs that regional governors are all working on options to temporarily take children out of the Russian town bordering Ukraine, and send them to safe school camps elsewhere in the country.

1300 people have already applied - eligible are 47,000 residents of Belgorod who are under 18 years of age, but of those are 19,000 under 6 (not school aged.)

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⚡️NOWHERE TO HIDE: FSB (Federal Security Bureau) detains Ukrainian Security Services informant in Lugansk Republic (ex-Ukraine.)

Given this territory is now a part of the Russian Federation, this constitutes treason. The man alleges he was beaten by Ukrainian Security Services and made to cooperate. The Court will decide...

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🇷🇺 "I'D LIKE FOR KIEV TO BE LIBERATED" - the head of the Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) Denis Pushilin, doesn't hold back.

Pushilin calls Zelensky’s recent claims about Russia’s lack of victories in 2023 a lie.

The President of what's left of Ukraine can make any excuses, but the Russian army is moving forward - he says.

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🇵🇱⚡️HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS SILENT as Polish security throws 2 refugees across border, one of them dies.

Belarusian border guards find 2 men, citizens of Yemen and Syria, near the Polish fence. The Syrian man crying says that they were detained by Polish soldiers and severely beaten, any money they had - stolen.

Belarusian border guards immediately called an ambulance, but doctors pronounced the Yemeni man dead. The Syrian is currently receiving medical help.

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⚡️🇮🇱 PITCH BLACK SOOT IS ALL THAT'S LEFT AS PRIVATE VEHICLE ANIHILATED: Israel strikes South Lebanon killing elite Hezbollah Radwan Force commander, Jawad al-Tawil.

Retribution is expected.

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⚡️Following Russian missile strikes, Ukraine lost enterprises that produced the most powerful missiles in the country - former head of Ukrainian Special Forces, General Krivonos (which translates to "wonky nose" 😜).

Our government is leaking data about these enterprises, which produced powerful weapons - General Wonky Nose says.

No one is responsible for the damage this causes, Krivonos complains. "Kiev officials think only about winning elections, and not about how to win the war."

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