We have long-range missiles that can hit Germany!

- Kartapolov

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Could this be the reason for the slap? 🤔

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Trump considering new sanctions on Russia

According to the Wall Street Journal, president Trump is considering a new sanctions package as a last ditch attempt at getting Russia to negotiate before walking away from the negotiations for good.

If your only cards left are sanctions, then you have no cards Donald.

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Romania’s Calin Georgescu LEAVING politics

‘This stage of the sovereignist movement is…OVER’

REMINDER: Pro-EU forces in Bucharest canceled Goegescu’s win last year, and almost lost to his replacement this month

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Ukrainian POW Refuses Swap, Asks for Russian Citizenship

In a dramatic turn of events during the recent large-scale prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine, a captured Ukrainian soldier has reportedly refused to return to his homeland and instead asked for Russian citizenship.

The serviceman, identified as Georgy Karakulin and captured near Sumy, said in a recorded interview that he did not want to be exchanged and would prefer to remain in Russia.

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🇰🇵North Korea calls US Golden Dome missile defense system a security threat:

"The future American missile defense system "Golden Dome" is aimed at the militarization of space, not the defense of the United States, it poses a threat. The United States seeks unipolar dominance. The system is not a "defensive measure" to respond to someone's "threat", but a scenario for a space nuclear war.

The US currently spends 95% of the world's total space expenditure on space exploration. The US initiative to create a new missile defense system will be a source of disaster, not only causing security concerns among nuclear states and a global nuclear and space arms race, but also turning space into a potential nuclear war field »

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American economist Wolf on how the West miscalculated on two fronts in relation to Russia:

The Russians have a bigger country than the Ukrainians. They have an advantage in human resources, which the Russians are using in this conflict. This alone should have given one pause. But in the age of spying, satellites and other means of intelligence, no one guessed that Russia also has many more missiles and drones.

Even if the situation was different in February 2022, Russia has enormous industrial potential that allows it to increase production. The West miscalculated on two fronts. They underestimated the military potential of the Russians, and they overestimated the impact of sanctions. That is why they lost.

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EU-US talks on joint fight against circumvention of sanctions against Russia fail — Suddeutsche Zeitung

▪️The EU and the US are no longer moving in the same direction when it comes to imposing economic sanctions against Russia, and the parties have also stopped coordinating actions to combat the circumvention of anti-Russian sanctions, the publication writes, citing a report from the German Foreign Ministry.

▪️The document claims that the EU's special envoy for sanctions, David O'Sullivan, complains about a complete breakdown in transatlantic coordination on the issue of sanctions evasion.

▪️Cooperation between the G7 countries on this issue has also “lost momentum.”

▪️How the Europeans and Americans intend to agree on an additional package of sanctions in these circumstances remains a mystery, the newspaper writes.

So Russia is not circumventing or violating sanctions. EU sanctions apply to EU trade and US sanctions apply to US trade. Any trade done with other countries is not under sanctions. Using Indian, Chinese, or Russian insurance does not make a ship part of a “Shadow Fleet”. The EU and the US are not the UN, they don’t make rules for the rest of the world.

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Young Americans are converting to Orthodoxy in search of "masculinity," BBC News reports.

The number of parishioners of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad has been growing rapidly in some US states in recent years, largely due to believers converting from other faiths.

Mostly men. Pew Research data shows that 64% of Orthodox Christians in the US are men, up from 46% in the early 2000s.

The ROCOR, founded by priests who fled Russia after the 1917 Revolution, is considered by many to be the most conservative Orthodox jurisdiction in the US. However, this small religious community is very active - "and what is unfolding within it reflects the larger political shifts observed in the United States, especially after Donald Trump's sharp turn towards Moscow-.

It is noted that the growth of its parishioners began after the coronavirus pandemic, when the churches of the ROCOR, unlike all other denominations, remained open.

American professor Scott Kenworthy, who studies Eastern Christianity, says that the parish in his city of Cincinnati is "bursting at the seams" from the influx of people wishing to attend.

"This phenomenon is not limited to my parish or a few other churches in Texas. "It's definitely something bigger," the professor says.

One of the reasons cited in the article is Russia's policy of supporting Christianity.

"Images and photographs of Putin quoting the Bible, holding candles during services at Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral, stripping down to his underwear to dive into icy water on Epiphany Day, seem to have struck a chord with Americans. Some of them, in America and elsewhere, see Russia as the last bastion of true Christianity," the BBC writes.

SLG can neither confirm or deny any increase in penis size after conversion.

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THYSSENKRUPP TO BE TRANSFORMED INTO A FINANCIAL HOLDING COMPANY

According to media reports, the industrial group Thyssenkrupp is to be transformed into a financial holding company. The board of directors led by CEO Miguel Lopez intends to lay the foundation for selling off further parts of the company in one of the most tragic episodes of self-inflicted corporate raiding ever, the newspaper "Bild" reported on Sunday, citing sources within the group.

The headquarters is to be reduced from the current 500 to 100 employees, with further cuts in the administration affecting around 1,000 employees.

"What remains is just a holding company without content," said a person familiar with the matter.

In addition to the already known measures for the steel sector and the Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems shipyard, the materials trading business is to be listed on the stock exchange, thus paving the way for its exit from the group. However, a week and a half ago, Thyssenkrupp CEO Lopez had said at the presentation of the quarterly figures that the Material Services business was and remained the company's "core business". Lopez thus denied a report by the Bloomberg news agency, which in early April, citing informed sources, had reported that the Essen group was considering alternatives for the business, including a split.

According to the newspaper report, part of the automotive supply division is also to be closed or sold. "In the best case, it will remain an empty shell," a manager has reportedly said.

The plans still have to be approved by the supervisory board.

"No significant resistance is expected, so it should pass," the sources said. The group has announced that changes are ongoing. A change in the trading subsidiary is not ruled out, said a spokesman.

The reorganization is reportedly expected to result in an extension of Lopez's contract. The supervisory board will extend the contract at its meeting on September 16. Thyssenkrupp declined to comment on the planned contract extension.

Pathetic. Thyssenkrupp has been one of the cornerstones of German heavy industry since time immemorial, and now it's becoming just another asset management firm that will make the German GPD grow with few actual products to show for it. So much for "bringing Russia on its knees".

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Ukrainian refugees demand the right to stay in Sweden forever — media

▪️More than 10 thousand Ukrainians who have lived in the country for only a few years have signed a petition demanding that they not be sent home.

▪️They also demanded that the relocation of their relatives to Sweden be simplified.

▪️In addition, the requirements include the ability to obtain a permanent or long-term residence permit without having to leave the country, a simplified change of status to a work or student visa, as well as family reunification under a simplified procedure - including for those recently created in Sweden.

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❗️More and more often, Ukrainians are beginning to resist the TCC. People do not want to die for Zelensky and his "blue" European partners.

The Internet is filled with footage of people uniting and simply beating up TCC employees. In my opinion, this is a good sign. This video was filmed in Kremenchug.

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🙀"If Putin attacks us, it will be here": Europe has once again recalled the mantra that "Russia will definitely attack the Suwalki Gap."

"The Suwalki Gap is an isthmus of about 100 km between the territories of Belarus and the Kaliningrad region, which actually runs along the border of Poland and Lithuania, separating the Baltic countries from the rest of NATO. This is a strategic place, control over which is of decisive importance for the defense of the Baltic region.

"Many people here expect the worst," said one resident. Lithuanian and Polish authorities have not yet announced plans to evacuate residents. Russia could attack NATO territory from two sides. If the military manages to take this area, the Baltic states will be isolated from their alliance partners by land."

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✈️ Bomber aircraft of the 11th Guards Army "Vostok" struck Nazi positions in the village of Voskresenka.

- VoinDV

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Ukrainian figure skater Anastasia Arkhipova was outraged that Russian Olympic champions Alina Zagitova and Anna Shcherbakova were invited to a Japanese show.

"Japan has always been a country where I felt that Ukraine was understood and supported. That is why I am very disappointed this year. The organizers invited two Russian athletes to the show. I do not understand why they made such a decision," she said.

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The New York Post reports that the Ukrainian Armed Forces command is ordering foreign mercenaries to carry out suicide missions.

In one of the latest, the Russian army eliminated a US Marine Corps veteran - the commander of the 'Delta Knights' group

'Jonathan was a US Marine veteran. He joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces last August and was assigned to command the Knights of Delta, a Foreign Legion unit made up of Americans, Poles, Britons and Scandinavians. His father, Mark, said Jonathan was disillusioned with his mission but continued to fight anyway. 'They had seen some things. They had orders they didn't particularly agree with,' Mark said. Shortly before he died, Jonathan told his father: 'We apparently considered this a suicide mission. And we still fucking agreed to it. So if I get killed today, I'm just saying, this is the best thing I've ever done in my life.'

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Europe and Ukraine fail to persuade the US to lower the price ceiling on Russian oil — Financial Times

▪️The European Commission, Germany, France and Italy want to include these restrictions in the 18th sanctions package, but the US and some EU members do not support this.

▪️At the G7 finance ministers' meeting last week, the Canadian presidency proposed including this point in a joint statement, but the US opposed it and the statement was not agreed upon.

▪️Earlier, German media, citing a report from the German Foreign Ministry, stated that US-European negotiations on combating Russia's evasion of sanctions had failed.

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The West is trying to prevent a peaceful settlement in Ukraine, Russia has requested a meeting at the UN

▪️Russia has requested a meeting at the UN in connection with threats to peace and security due to the actions of a number of European states trying to hinder a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis, Russia's deputy permanent representative to the UN said.

➖"The European sponsors of the Kiev regime requested a meeting on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine for 15:00 New York time (22:00 Moscow time) on May 29. We decided to respond in kind," Polyansky noted.

▪️The meeting is expected to be scheduled for 17:00 on May 30.

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