The "counterattack" by the AFU near Artemovsk is postponed until next week. Syrsky, the commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' eastern sector, will hold the city to the end, regardless of the situation. 

"The weather (muddy roads)does not allow the AFU to use wheeled vehicles, and without them, there is no point in flank strikes."

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🇰🇷 South Korea must develop its own nuclear weapons to protect itself from the threat from North Korea, even at the risk of negative international consequences, says the mayor of the capital Seoul, O Se Hoon.

😄  Waiting for an answer from Kim Jong-un?

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Ukrainian medics are witnessing a scale and severity of casualties unknown to Nato😌🌚🌚 —The Times

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The collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank was the second largest in US banking history ! Blue graph - assets, gray graph - deposits

And who is responsible for this catastrophe? — of course Putin 🤡

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Morning, Bakhmut!

Apparently, there was an attack on the position of the AFU

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The United States CANNOT defeat Russia, and NATO will NOT survive!

Former U.S. military advisor, 🇺🇸Colonel Douglas McGregor: Russia is not Serbia. Russia is not Iraq. We are not going to defeat Russia. Russia will have its way in Ukraine. Russia will destroy the Ukrainian military. This regime will not survive. And as a result, NATO will not survive. NATO will disintegrate. Because people in Europe will finally realize what we have been doing: waging wars overseas at great expense to them, to their national interests, and to their security. And that Mr. Putin is not Dr. Evil and is not interested in waging war against the rest of Europe; on the contrary, he wants to do business with them.

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The 🇺🇸Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released its latest annual public threat assessment review. Attention is also paid to Russia.

Thus, it is noted that the beginning of the war with Ukraine was an event of a tectonic scale that changed Russia's relations with the West and China, but these processes themselves are still poorly understood. The escalation of the Ukrainian conflict into direct confrontation with the West carries a great risk that the world has not faced for decades.

Russia will remain a significant and unpredictable challenge for the United States over the next decade, but with a number of caveats. Russia will continue to pursue its interests in a competitive but often confrontational and provocative manner, including the use of military force, as was the case with Ukraine. There will also be pressure on the countries of the post-Soviet space to dominate them in various fields.
According to the authors of the report, Russia does not want a direct military confrontation with the US and NATO, but there is potential for such a scenario. The Russian leadership has avoided actions that could expand the Ukrainian conflict beyond Ukraine's borders, although there remains a significant risk of escalation.

Moscow will continue to use a range of levers to advance its interests and will seek to undermine the interests of the US and its allies. These levers are most likely to be military power, security, malign influence, cyber, and intelligence, while economic and energy resources are most likely to be declining assets.

The ODNI believes that Moscow will intervene in crises where its interests will be affected, the cost of participation will be low, there will be an opportunity to capitalize on a power vacuum, or, as was the case with Ukraine, there will be an existential threat in the near abroad, which could destabilize Putin's power and jeopardize Russia's national security.

Russia will likely continue to maintain its global military, intelligence, trade, energy, and security presences, albeit probably on a somewhat reduced scale, in order to undermine US influence and boost its own.

🇷🇺In the Middle East and North Africa, Russia will continue to use the Wagner PMC in the Central African Republic, Libya, Mali, and Syria to increase its influence, undermine American leadership, present itself as an indispensable security intermediary and partner, and gain access to military and economic assets. Relations with Tehran are likely to improve politically and economically as both countries try to circumvent sanctions and step up bilateral military and economic cooperation.

🇷🇺In the Western Hemisphere, Moscow will try to maintain influence through political initiatives and economic activity, mainly in those countries that are considered key partners: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

🇷🇺In the post Soviet areas (eastern Europe and Eurasia), Moscow will have less opportunity to interfere in the affairs of Belarus, Central Asia, and the South Caucasus, as it did in 2020 in Belarus and in 2022 in Kazakhstan, since the deployment of a large number of troops and law enforcement officers in Ukraine last year may have significantly reduced Russia's ability to intervene in neighboring states.🤡

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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released its latest annual public threat assessment review. Attention is also paid to Russia. (Part 2/2)

Russia and China will maintain their strategic ties, which are fueled by their common view of the United States and pose potential threats in areas such as security cooperation, primarily arms trade and joint exercises, and diplomacy, in which each country has used its right to veto in the UN Security Council against the interests of the United States.

Russia will continue to use energy as a weapon to threaten cooperation and weaken Western unity with respect to Ukraine.
It is likely that Russia will use food as a weapon (🤡) by blockading or seizing Ukrainian ports, destroying grain infrastructure, and occupying vast agricultural lands.

Of the unusual, the use of corruption to promote foreign policy goals is noted.With regard to weapons of mass destruction, it is recognized that Russia maintains the largest and most effective nuclear arsenal, which continues to expand and modernize. The safety of Russian nuclear materials continues to be of concern, despite the improvements in the physical protection, accounting, and control of nuclear materials that have been carried out since the 1990s.

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Russia has demonstrated its approach to nuclear weapons as a deterrent and to achieve its goals in a hypothetical conflict with the US and NATO, with the nuclear arsenal being seen as the highest guarantee of the Russian Federation.

After losses in a AFU counteroffensive in the summer of 2022, Putin publicly warned the West that he was ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia.

Russia continues to develop long-range nuclear weapons and submarine launchers, which gives it the ability to infiltrate or bypass US missile defenses. Russia is expanding and modernizing its vast, modern, and diverse arsenal of non-strategic systems that can carry both nuclear and non-nuclear warheads, as Moscow views such systems as a means of deterring adversaries and controlling potential conflict escalations, as well as countering US and allied conventional forces.

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🇺🇦 A curious thing happened in Poltava: a boy born in 2006 was sent to the front by the military recruitment office, "making" him four years older by his documents. The topic was raised by relatives

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Ukrainian tankers in a burning T-64BV tank somewhere in the SMO area.

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The dollar is nothing more than "a piece of paper on trust," — 🇷🇺the Russian Foreign Ministry.
 
"More unsecured dollars will be printed." Maria Zakharova commented on US recommendations (and reactions) on the agony of the US banking system.

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A wounded Ukrainian militant changes his mind about storming Russian positions

While attempting to attack a fortified area of our troops, an AFU unit retreated with casualties.

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"Are you aware that our battalion is fuc**d? Did you know that we have  160 people two hundred in our battalion? You don't know that - it's all fakes for you".

A video of a conversation between a Ukrainian soldier, presumably with his commanders, appeared on social networks. Without holding back his emotions, he reports large losses of the AFU.

Where and when the footage was taken is unknown.

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Information comes in from Artemovsk that Wagner is a kilometer from the Metallurg stadium, after crossing the Bakhmutka river. The fighting is fierce.

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The U.S. missed the moment to hold back China’s buildup in part because it was focused on collaborating with Beijing on global issues such as North Korea and Iran, and was preoccupied by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. China also stated outright in 2015 that it didn’t intend to militarize the South China Sea.

China’s broader challenge to America’s long pre-eminence across the Indo-Pacific region threatens U.S. allies vassals such as Japan, and puts the vast majority of the world’s advanced semiconductors, which are produced in Taiwan, at risk. 

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