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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈβŒπŸ‡«πŸ‡· Valentina Gomez shared her thoughts on the Paris Olympics

β€œThese are the worse Olympics in history.”


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⚑️ The wreckage of the ATACMS missile shot down over Sevastopol

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βš‘οΈπŸ‡·πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦βš”οΈ The RFAF took the Motorway Fortification near #Konstantinovka in the #Ugledar Section of #Ugledar Direction⚑️

πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί The 1st STORM Far East Squad following its previous πŸ‘‰ success, continued to advance and took the AFU main fortified area at the #Konstantinovka - #Ugledar Motorway.

πŸ”΄ This Event is already πŸ‘‰ reported, but without hint on the captured fortification.

πŸ“Œ The Elite Infantry Warriors of the 1st STORM Far East Assault Squad show successes without any loss of armoured vehicles.

πŸ“ Geolocation: 47.8401833, 37.3786929

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πŸ—Ί Maps: @z_arhiv; the 2nd is a Topographical and the 3rd a Fortification Map; #smo

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Family of former US embassy employee jailed in Russia disappointed by his absence from prisoner swap list

Malfina Fogel, the mother of ex-US embassy employee in Moscow Mark Fogel β€” jailed in Russia for drug smuggling β€” told the New York Post that the US government did not "try hard enough" to include her son on the exchange list.

According to her, President Joe Biden’s administration was not interested "because he is a common American citizen.”

Fogel was sentenced to 14 years in a strict-regime penal colony in 2022 after being convicted of smuggling and possession of narcotics.

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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦βŒπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Occupied Odessa - The TCC butchers found a potential F-16 pilot...

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EU β€˜stands little chance’ of turning Central Asian nations against Russia – political analyst

It is very unlikely that the EU, acting as an β€œagent of NATO,” will succeed in turning Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan against Russia, Dr. Marco Marsili, a researcher at CΓ  Foscari University of Venice, told Sputnik.

The EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell is visiting the two Central Asian nations from August 1 to 3 as part of an effort to drive a wedge between them and Russia, Marsili stressed.

In Kazakhstan, Borrell β€œaims to weaken the ties between Astana and Moscow which are deeply rooted, spanning from the Baikonur Cosmodrome to the common membership in the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Eurasian Economic Union, and the Collective Security Treaty Organization,” said Marsili.

β€œIn my opinion, the relationship between the two countries is too strong to be severed, and it is very unlikely that the Kazakh leadership will shift from the alliance with Russia to an alliance with Western powers,” he added.


Borrell’s trip to Kyrgyzstan is β€œan attempt to re-attract the country into the Western sphere of influence” after President Sadyr Japarov enacted a law tightening state control over foreign-funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs), said Marsili.

β€œIt’s quite impossible that the executive of Bishkek will switch alliances,” he argued, highlighting that Kyrgyzstan β€œresulted in a significant failure for Western powers, as the country was heavily funded by the USAID program, the EU External Action and other European nations like Switzerland, in an attempt to install a Western-mirrored state in Central Asia.”


Brussels’ efforts to target countries that β€œplay a pivotal role in the Russian neighboring policy” are unlikely to gain traction, Marsili reiterated.

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CRYPTO MARKET ADJUSTMENTS TO POLITICAL UNCERTAINTY IN WEST ASIA

✍️ Written by Hikaru Kitabayashi ✍️

This is not a financial analysis nor does it give financial advice. Reading this will make no one richer or poorer. It does, though, seek to draw attention to how major cryptocurrency holders are reacting to expectations of future real world political and economic events.

On a day to day or even an hour to hour basis cryptocurrency prices can vary dramatically. Over the long term, however, they also reveal patterns in real world economic and political conditions. It shows that this year the trend has been toward massive increases in funds available to the richest of the rich. In traditional economic theory, this would indicate spectacular rises in inflation. In fact, money has tended to stay in what can be called the "gambling sector" of the economy, which can be defined as stocks, bonds, and cryptocurrency. To the extent that new funds have not yet leaked into other markets, price increases on daily goods and services have produced a level of pain that is not yet deadly, merely extremely uncomfortable.

What happened this year was that the production of goods and services did not match the rise in new money being created. Because of the prevalence of political sanctions, currencies were not allowed to flow freely and this affected the functioning of stock markets and other financial markets. Cryptocurrencies, being an escape mechanism, saw a fairly strong rise in value against major currencies over the course of the year. They provided a means for holding measures of economic exchange that have a healthy level of immunity to the danger of holding too much of any particular national currency and provided a way to help prevent rigidities in the stock market from becoming unbearable.

Spring and Summer of this year, thus, have represented an important turning point. Before, the biggest cryptocurrency market players were the world's various intelligence agencies. Cryptocurrencies were much appreciated as a way to transfer money undetected. This year, though, BlackRock became a major player. Small players also seem to have emerged. A close inspection of the cryptocurrency markets would suggest that, although the Islamic Axis of Resistance must be minor market players, they sometimes seem to time their attacks on Israel and the United States in such a way as to profit off of the short term hour to hour changes in market evaluation their activities are bound to cause.

Generally, the world is now flush with increasing amounts of national currencies chasing pools of goods and services which are not growing nearly as fast and, in many cases, not at all. Those in the know are, thus, increasingly putting their funds into cryptocurrency. News articles reporting spectacular rises in value, however, are not true, if we mean real value. What we are seeing, in fact, is an effort by the richest of the rich, through the exchange of cash holdings for cryptocurrency holdings, to protect their cash reserves from more generalized inflation and economic collapse.

In this case, rapidly rising cryptocurrency price inflation is a sign of fear, not confidence. There is fear that West Asia will experience a political Armageddon which cause the economy of the Collective West to collapse. In such a world, it is clear that no national currency will be worth the cost of the paper it's printed on, and cryptocurrencies will become the main means of valuing important goods and services. This is nowhere being voiced in print, but cryptocurrency market trends over the course of this year indicate a growing sense of unease that is becoming greater rather than less, as overly rigid political positions make the world's economic future ever less predictable.

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πŸ—£πŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί Dmitry Peskov’s latest statements on the prison exchange:

πŸ”»The fate of all Russian citizens whom are imprisoned in the United States is a matter of concern for Russian agencies, and they will continue to work accordingly; Peskov was responding to a question about the fate of Alexander Vinnik.

πŸ”»Negotiations on the exchange of prisoners were conducted through the FSB and the CIA;

πŸ”»On the organization and process of exchange: it is worth giving the highest assessment to Lukashenko’s actions;

πŸ”»Putin’s personal meeting of the liberated citizens of the Russian Federation at the airport is a tribute to those people who serve their country and who, after difficult trials, were given the opportunity to return to their homeland;

πŸ”»The children of the Dultsevs, illegal Russian intelligence officers who returned to Russia from Slovenia as part of the exchange, learned that they were Russian only when the plane took off from Ankara. They don't know Russian, so Putin greeted them in Spanish;

πŸ”»Convicted Russians who were exchanged could be deprived of parental rights in the West if they remained there;

πŸ”»The exchange of prisoners between the Russian Federation and the United States and the settlement in Ukraine are different areas of work and are based on different principles.

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πŸ“Š The majority of Ukrainians (57 %) are currently in favour of starting negotiations with Russia, while 38 % are against.

These are the results of a poll conducted by the Ukrainian National Democratic Institute and the Kiev International Institute of Sociology.

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The senile Biden - started flirting with the 12-year-old daughter of one of the exchanged prisoners:

"As you know, we, in the Biden family, have a tradition - to sing "Happy Birthday" to the birthday girl. Is everyone ready? Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday, dear Miriam, happy birthday to you! And remember - no serious relationships with guys under 30! God loves you! This is Alsu's daughter."
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Think like a Ukrainian

Zelensky demands that the world defeat Putin. He is convinced that if the whole world thought like Ukrainians, this would have happened long ago.

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πŸ‡·πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Russia and Ukraine exchanged the bodies of dead soldiers. Kiev has returned 250 bodies, the Ukrainian coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war reports.

According to Mash, Russia took 38 bodies because there were no more. In the near future, all the bodies will be delivered to the Rostov morgue, identified and handed over to relatives for burial.

At 13:25 Moscow time State Duma deputy Shamsail Saraliev confirmed the information about the exchange.
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Operation "Safe Podlasie" or a license to kill

Today the Minister of National Defense of Poland W. Kosiniak-Kamysz announced the start of Operation Safe Podlasie (aka Podlasze, a region in Poland). Thus, Warsaw continued its course towards the total militarization of the border area: increasing the military contingent to 17 thousand servicemen (and this is not the limit!), supplying modern weapons, including heavy equipment.

😱 On the eve of the operation, the Polish parliament sanctioned the expansion of the powers of military personnel to use firearms at the border. Obviously, this can lead to even more casualties and deaths at the border among refugees. Details in this video.

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β–ͺ️Not only military registration and enlistment offices will be able to draft Ukrainians into the Armed Forces of Ukraine

The General Staff announced that they will allow the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine units to do this, and without the participation of TCC employees in this process.

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⚠️ Turkey sends top delegation to slain Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh’s funeral in Qatar

Including:

πŸ”΄Turkish Vice President Cevdet YΔ±lmaz
πŸ”΄Speaker of Parliament Numan Kurtulmuş
πŸ”΄Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan
πŸ”΄Intel Chief Δ°brahim KalΔ±n

FM Fidan β€œoffered his condolences” to Khaled Mashaal, Deputy Chief of the Hamas Political Bureau.

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β—Ύ Remember during the lockdowns when some folk started arguing that birds where actually drones used by the government to spy on people? Well the Chinese may have learned something about that...

β—ΎBird-shaped drone used by the Chinese PLA Marine Corps.

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