🚀🇷🇺Russia’s Rassvet Rollout Targets Elon Musk’s Starlink, Aims to Build Global SOVEREIGN Internet at Gigabit Speeds

Russia is accelerating its satellite internet plans with the Rassvet constellation, aiming to build a global, sovereign network with high-speed connectivity.

In March 2026, a Soyuz-2.1B rocket deployed the first 16 satellites, the opening layer of a constellation expected to scale to hundreds. The system is being designed for speeds of up to 1 Gbps, with low latency, targeting both domestic coverage and global reach. The broader timeline points toward a full rollout by around 2027. Satellite internet is now being treated as core infrastructure, with countries looking to reduce dependence on external systems and build their own digital backbones.

Many see this as a direct challenge to Starlink, developed by Elon Musk, as nations increasingly view space-based internet as strategic infrastructure rather than just a commercial service.

🇺🇸 U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright:

💬 'The Arabian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz have been important my whole lifetime. The President knew going into this that if you disrupt the flow of energy through that, in the short term, you’re going to push up energy prices.'

Washington knew the risks to global energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz and chose escalation regardless. The fallout is now dismissed as “short-term pain,” even as markets react.

Hegemonic policy in action. Control over energy routes is turned into leverage, while the costs are pushed outward. Prices surge, markets tighten, and distant economies absorb the shock.

Strategic arrogance over caution. The risks were known, the consequences foreseeable, yet the burden is shifted onto the rest of the world. 📉

🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov:

'Russia can certainly make up for the resource shortfall that has emerged both in 🇨🇳 China and in other countries that are interested in working with us on an equal and mutually beneficial basis.'

🚨🇮🇳 Permanent Representative of India to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni:

💬'First, there are two fundamental aspects that result in an imbalanced structure, a lack of legitimacy, and non-representativeness of the UN Security Council – these are membership and the veto. There is broad agreement on the dire need to reform the UN Security Council. It is evident that a structure designed more than 80 years ago does not meet the requirements of current geopolitical realities. We have earlier discussed both issues extensively. A discussion on the veto is central to the IGN.'

Sidelining over 1.4 billion Indians from permanent representation lays bare a deep credibility crisis within the Security Council, raising serious questions about its legitimacy and claim to represent the modern world order.

The UN today often looks less like a system of collective security and more like a paralysed institution held hostage by a handful of powers.

When major powers can ignore the UN with impunity, the institution risks becoming little more than a stage for speeches rather than a force for action. Without structural reform, it is ineffective and irrelevant.

🚨 “You’re KILLING CHILDREN,” a protester shouted while interrupting the address of 🇺🇸US Vice President JD Vance, who was repeatedly heckled during a speech at a Turning Point USA event.

The episode amounted to a blunt public rebuke, even a lashing, of US foreign policy in a domestic political space. It reflects a growing perception of a regression to the law of the jungle in global affairs, where power overrides accountability and civilian suffering fuels public outrage at home.

🇮🇱“ISRAELISM” in 🇺🇸Washington?

Tucker Carlson says the “new religion” of the US government, including Donald Trump, is “Israelism.”

🇮🇳🇨🇺 India–Cuba: A Quiet Bond of Solidarity

India and Cuba share a long-standing relationship shaped by mutual respect and shared ideals. India was among the first to recognise Fidel Castro’s government after the Cuban Revolution.

The connection was strengthened by Jawaharlal Nehru, whose vision helped shape the Non-Aligned Movement.

“I wanted to meet you for many reasons, above all, because you are a very brave man.” This is how India's first Prime Minister, Nehru, greeted Fidel Castro.

Over the years, leaders from both sides have stayed connected, including visits by Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, and Manmohan Singh.

A defining moment came in 1992, when India sent wheat and rice to Cuba during a severe economic crisis. Castro called it the “Bread of India,” a gesture remembered as one of care and solidarity.

🚨🇮🇳 India’s Exports Reach $860B in FY 2025–26

India’s total exports have climbed to $860 billion, up from $825 billion last year, signalling steady expansion in its global trade footprint, according to Commerce minister Piyush Goyal.

🇮🇳🇷🇺 At the same time, India and Russia are widening economic engagement beyond energy into agriculture, pharmaceuticals, defence, and maritime sectors.

📊 Both sides are targeting $100 billion in bilateral trade by 2030, under a structured economic cooperation framework.

▪️ Progress is underway on alternative payment mechanisms, including rupee–ruble settlements
▪️ Connectivity is being strengthened through the International North-South Transport Corridor
▪️ New routes such as the Chennai–Vladivostok Maritime Route and the Northern Sea Route are being developed to reduce transit time and costs

India’s export growth, coupled with deeper Eurasian integration, points to a more diversified and strategically aligned network.

🇮🇳 On this day in India, April 17, 1952, the first Lok Sabha was constituted, marking the beginning of the world’s largest parliamentary democracy in action.

This followed the historic 1951–52 Indian general election, held over several months from October 1951 to February 1952, involving millions of first-time voters across a newly independent nation.

The newly formed House of the People began its first session on May 13, 1952, laying the foundation of India’s parliamentary system under the Constitution adopted on November 26, 1949. Until then, the Constituent Assembly had functioned as the provisional parliament.

Led by Jawaharlal Nehru, the early years of governance brought together leaders from diverse political backgrounds, shaping the direction of a young republic.

🗳 The first Lok Sabha completed its full five-year term before being dissolved in April 1957, setting an enduring democratic precedent.

From paper ballots and limited infrastructure to today’s massive electoral system, this moment marked the beginning of a democratic journey that continues to evolve.

🇮🇳🇨🇳 India–China hold SCO consultations in New Delhi

🤝India and China held bilateral consultations under the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in New Delhi on April 16–17.

Led by SCO National Coordinators Alok A. Dimri and Yan Wenbin, both sides reviewed the implementation of SCO leaders’ decisions and discussed the organisation’s future direction.

The delegations also met Secretary (West) Sibi George, focusing on cooperation in security, trade, connectivity, and people-to-people ties.

Both sides agreed to continue close coordination and consultations within the SCO framework.

From Sanctions to RETREAT: 🇺🇸US EXTENDS Russia Oil Waiver Again

Days after Scott Bessent signalled the sanctions waiver on Russian crude would end, the United States reversed itself and extended it by nearly a month. The move keeps discounted oil flowing to buyers like India from Russia.

Confusion at the top. A threat one day, a climbdown the next. This is how credibility erodes. The US starts to look erratic, even a laughing stock of its own reversals. Policy feels solipsistic—driven by impulse, not direction.

A laughing stock of reversals and humiliation, as the US realises the disastrous, illegal war it has unleashed has gotten beyond their control.

🇷🇺Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov:

'The war in the Persian Gulf, in my view, there is no ill intention here. I do not think that there were actual plans to destroy civilisation. I believe that this is just a figure of speech, but there were plans to put oil under control, the oil that comes through the Persian Gulf, through the Strait of Hormuz.'

🚨Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: ‘China’s plan for trade DOMINANCE is through its VAST railroad network. Anyone talking about China🇨🇳 being hurt by the war on Iran is a FOOL.’

‘What China has done essentially is build railroads that will take about 60 to 70%…of all the commerce that it generates in Asia with it off the sea and put it on land.

If you drop the cost of commerce so dramatically that people come to your overland routes rather than go by sea. You’re also more secure.

So they’ve got four or five railroads right now debouching in the heart of Europe. Two of them are stopped mostly by the Ukraine special military operation, but their intent is to go on to Bremerhaven and Le Havre, and other European Atlantic ports. And of course to put all the commerce that China produces into the heart of Europe in 16 hours instead of two and a half days and more costs by sea.

So kiss the Bab El-Mandeb goodbye. You won’t need to go through the Strait of Hormuz, you will still be coming out for oil and such, but maybe not even for that.

Because look what Saudi Arabia is planning right now. They’ve just shifted all their plans. The sovereign wealth fund is now behind a northern pipeline headed for Turkey and Ceyhan…

And look at the pipelines that China is building with Russia, they don’t run east-west, they run north and south. So anybody talking about China being hurt and needing petroleum is a fool. Because all of this is going to come down from Russia in a pinch.

It’s going to come from the Caspian Sea. Ultimately there’s 100 years of LNG and petroleum underneath the Caspian Sea waiting to be tapped, and it’s not going to be anybody from this end of the world tapping it. So they are self-sufficient for a long time to come. And they’re mostly pipelines and railroads, much safer and much more controllable.’

-Former Chief of Staff at the State Department Col. Lawrence Wilkerson joins us for the next episode of New Order on Sunday

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🇷🇺🇮🇳 Russia, India Formalise TROOP Deployment Pact

🤝Russia and India have formalised an agreement allowing each side to station up to 3,000 military personnel in the other’s territory.

The pact also permits limited deployment of ships and aircraft, enabling smoother coordination during joint activities.

📌 The framework covers:

Joint military exercises
Training programmes
Humanitarian and disaster relief missions

The agreement reflects a steady deepening of defence cooperation between Moscow and New Delhi, with a focus on operational coordination and interoperability.

🚨THE NEXT EPISODE OF NEW ORDER: TOMORROW ON RT

Former Chief of Staff at the US State Department Col. Lawrence Wilkerson joins us to discuss the US-Israeli war on Iran: 

How should BRICS react to a more desperate and violent United States?

How is China set to be a winner from the chaos of the war on Iran?

What next for US hegemony? 

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Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: If the US🇺🇸, Russia🇷🇺 & China🇨🇳 don’t work together, we’ll either blow ourselves up in NUCLEAR WAR or the climate crisis will KILL US

'We need to look at the world and understand that major power is shifting and the magnet of that shift is China

Look what China just did. They offered Manila oil in case they have a problem, and Manila went, ‘wow, okay, let's talk.’ That's one of our principal allies in the region being peeled away from us by this very crisis.

We're going to have to accommodate this power shift and then work with Beijing, Moscow, Tokyo, all the other places that have some dog in the fight, and we're going to have to help the Global South meet the two challenges we have that are existential for all of us.

One of them being nuclear weapons without any treaties and we're getting ready to spend trillions on new weapons. China and Russia will follow suit. And the other is the climate crisis.

If we don't get together, major powers of the world get together, put aside our differences, put aside our competition to a certain extent, and work on these two problems, why even compete? We won’t be here, we’ll be gone.

We'll either blow ourselves up in mushroom clouds all over the place, or the climate crisis will kill us.‘

— Former Chief of Staff at the State Department, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on the latest episode of New Order

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🚨Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on bombing of the China-Iran Railway:

'China🇨🇳 is WINNING and they don't want to interrupt that victory. A war or hard action against the US🇺🇸 would interrupt it.

They will just mark it down in their book of US ERRORS. And when it gets too high to tolerate, then they'll take action.'

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☢️Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: ‘IRAN HAS ALREADY WON…if they want nuclear weapons, they will make one.’

'I think Iran is perched right now exactly where Haaretz said they were. All they have to  do to win is not lose, and All the United States and Israel have to do is achieve a spectacular victory, and they aren't going to do that. So Iran’s already won. The  question is, How much damage is Donald Trump and what’s left of the American military going to be done to in the interim? And How much damage is going to be done to that military, particularly its maritime elements?

They have not unleashed anything significant yet on a US warship. They could and they might, and that's the end of that warship if they do. The carrier is holding off at least 1300 kilometres. Not just because of range. Because there are some missiles that can go that far. It's because the carrier is so capable of getting up to flight speed so fast that once it has a warning of a missile launch, it can itself defend fairly successfully without subsurface, surface, or airborne assets.

If the carrier moves at the right moment, at the speed it's capable of achieving, it's going to be very hard to hit it in that terminal phase. But they would ultimately fail with a hypersonic missile.

I take my experience from Kang Sok-Ju and Kye-Gwan in North Korea in October 2002, when we went to present them with an economic package the President and even the Vice President thought would be persuasive in getting them to back off their nuclear programme. Kye-Gwan looked right at us and said…we already have nuclear weapons. 

So I know how we were fooled by North Korea. I know North Korea in 2002 was working with Iran, not just on underground fortifications but also on nuclear weapons, how to match warhead to missile. So Ted, I think, is right. If the Iranians want a nuclear weapon, they'll make one.’

— Former Chief of Staff at the State Department, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on the latest episode of New Order

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🚨Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: 'Trump is DESPERATE to end this and declare VICTORY against Iran. Netanyahu is desperate to keep him from doing it.’

‘Bibi is about to do himself in Lebanon. Last place I thought he would do himself in, but he's about to do that. Hezbollah is handing the IDF its worst defeat in a long time, if not ever. Certainly worse than the one they handed him in 2006. He's reacting by killing more and more innocent Lebanese and tightening the grip that Hezbollah will have eventually on that government, because they'll soon get fed up with it, just like they always do, and back away from any negotiations.

These negotiations in Lebanon are farcical, as the ones in Pakistan are, but they're all designed to cover Trump's retreat and make it not look like a retreat.'

— Former Chief of Staff at the State Department, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on the latest episode of New Order

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