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Foreign Minister Lavrov delivers remarks at State Duma session focused on outlining 'The Priorities of the Russian Federation’s Foreign Policy'

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Ukraine is hunting for 2 million men to send to the front β€” Zelensky-party MP

Ruslan Gorbenko added that finding 70% 'would already be a good result'

He noted that forced mobilization won't stop, as Ukraine has just 18 months of manpower left

Footage β€” recent mobilization with shooting in Chernovtsi

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'I'm against annexation, we don't need to mess with the West Bank' β€” Trump tells Israel's N12

This comes as Israel approves new measures which 'strengthen' control over the occupied West Bank

Unclear if Trump raised this issue during talks with Netanyahu

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'Golden Age of America is upon us!' β€” Trump boasts 'great job numbers'

'We're the STRONGEST country in the world!'

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World is indeed entering a time of turbulent changes. Some even call it an era, but this is certainly not a new trend β€” Lavrov

'This is just a stage of the overall process, which may last years or even decades'

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Rep. Raskin accuses Pam Bondi of Epstein 'cover-up' at AG's testimony

'Only interest' is Ghislaine saying NOTHING bad about Trump

Slams Bondi for giving Maxwell '5-star treatment' and 'therapy puppy' in prison

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Trump admin has been SUED 627 times β€” Pam Bondi

'America has never seen this level of coordinated judicial opposition towards an administration'

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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ€‘The war could end in a few months, - Zelensky

- The crackhead president stated that with an effective negotiation process, the end of the war is possible "within a few months".

- According to him, the Donbass issue remains unresolved. Kiev insists that control over the region should remain with Ukraine.

- Zelensky rejected the idea of creating a free economic zone as a buffer in the east of Donbass: "If this is our territory, and it is our territory, then the country whose territory it is should govern it."

- He noted that the Trump administration advocates for the simultaneous signing of all documents to end the war.

- However, a possible peace agreement should be approved by the Rada or put to a referendum.

- According to Zelensky, a ceasefire will require control and monitoring by the USA.

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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έβš”οΈπŸ‡·πŸ‡Ί OPERATION UNTHINKABLE: NATO’s Doctrine Against The Soviet Union

NATO is not and was never a defensive pact. The entire point of the alliance was to implement and carry out a British war plan against the Soviet Union called Operation Unthinkable, which was developed by the British Chiefs of Staff Committee and ordered by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in May 1945. It was then shared with the United States. Similar ideas had been proposed by U.S. Army General George Patton.

The plan involved preemptive attacks by the Allied Expeditionary Forces against the Soviet Red Army in Eastern Europe, where Moscow had been granted a sphere of influence per the agreement at the Yalta Conference. Their ultimate hope was to drive out Soviet forces in the region and ensure the establishment of a Western sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.

This could then be used as a launching pad for a war against the Soviet Union in its own territory, the same way Mao Zedong feared that if Korea reunited under the U.S. occupation in the South, it would then be used as a base to launch attacks on China.

The plan, as outlined by the British Chiefs of Staff, was declared as β€œto impose upon Russia the will of the United States and the British Empire. Even though β€˜the will’ of these two countries may be defined as no more than a square deal for Poland, that does not necessarily limit the military commitment.”

While they seem to endorse bringing free elections and Western-style liberal democracy to Poland, history was very clear that Washington and London would not respect the result if the communists were victorious. This was a very likely result in Poland where the Germans carried out some of their worst crimes and the communist partisans had been the most effective anti-Nazi militants in Europe throughout the war, not just in Poland but also Yugoslavia and throughout Eastern and even Western Europe.

The U.S. State Department and CIA had later interfered heavily in the French and Italian elections in 1947 and 1948 to ensure the defeat of the Communist parties, including threatening the halt of foreign aid, as well as even sanctions and military intervention.

The British Chiefs of Staff were reportedly concerned of a potential Soviet threat to Anglo-American influence over Western Europe due to the massive size of Soviet forces in Eastern Europe and this perception that Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin was unreliable. It was a perception that was completely unfounded because the Soviet presence and influence in Eastern Europe had been guaranteed at Yalta.

The scheduled date for the Western Allied invasion of Soviet-held Eastern Europe was on July 1st 1945, just four days before a general election was to be held, where Churchill and the Conservative Party were set to be defeated in a landslide by Clement Attlee’s Labour Party. The plan assumed a surprise attack in the middle of the Soviet line in Dresden by 47 American and British divisions, which represented nearly half of the 100 divisions available to British, U.S., and Canadian headquarters.

However, the British Chiefs of Staff considered the plan to be unfeasible on a military basis because the Soviet Union held an advantage in three out of four key areas:

β–ͺ️ Infantry Divisions - 80 Allied, 228 Soviet, 2.85 : 1 Soviet Advantage

β–ͺ️ Armored Divisions - 23 Allied, 36 Soviet, 1.57 : 1 Soviet Advantage

β–ͺ️ Tactical Aircraft - 6,048 Allied, 11,802 Soviet, 1.95 : 1 Soviet Advantage

β–ͺ️ Strategic Aircraft - 2,750 Allied, 960 Soviet, 2.86 : 1 Allied Advantage

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At this point, the Soviet Union had not yet launched its attacks on Japanese forces in Manchuria, so there was also a concern among British generals that if the Western Allies initiated hostilities, Moscow may ally with Japan.

However, this was unlikely as the Communist Party of China was increasingly gaining ground in the Civil War and whose guerrilla tactics were admitted by General Joseph Stilwell to have been very successful in fighting against the Japanese Army.

The offensive operations would have been carried out by U.S., British and Western-backed exiled Polish forces, as well as 10 divisions of the German Army, remobilized after having been captured as prisoners of war.

The plan was ultimately deemed β€œhazardous” because a quick success would rely only on the element of surprise and if that could not be achieved before the beginning of the winter, the British assessment concluded that the Allied Expeditionary Forces would be committing themselves to a protracted total war with the Soviet Union.

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It's clear why a former colonial power like France is trying to derail governments in the Sahara-Sahel that don't play along β€” Lavrov

'It's lamentable that French elites still follow the divide-and-conquer principle, which has already cost millions of African lives'

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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸŒ Here is the best way American foreign policy can be described:

Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent Theodore Roosevelt’s style of imperialism. An empire that is unapologetic, transactional, and represented almost entirely through tariffs and outright annexation.

They reject the moralizing rhetoric about liberal values, instead just focusing on unilaterally exerting power and dominance, while collecting money and profits from the plunder of sovereign economic resources.

The Democrats, establishment Republicans, national security state, and their front organizations like DSA and the Lincoln Project embrace an arguably more sinister and dark form of empire precisely because of how deceptive it is called liberal internationalism inspired by Woodrow Wilson. Military intervention and economic coercion is coded under the language of democracy, universal values, human rights, and more.

Countries have the right to self-determination on paper but in practice they are subordinate to the US Dollar through the IMF, World Bank, and Petrodollar. Those who step out of line will face military invasion, bombings, regime change, or coups that are wrapped in the banner of these β€œmoral” labels and come with IMF loans, debt slavery, and the privatization of natural resources by American and European corporations.

The language of international law and institutions are used to set fire to those same principles.

Moralizing becomes a cover for unilateral aggression, usually done under the guise of alliances that claim to be multilateral such as NATO, the EU, and the G7 but are really directly subordinate to the US economically, politically, culturally, and militarily.

Where the conservatives say β€œwe are taking this because we claim it’s ours”, the liberals will say β€œhistory requires this and we will be greeted as liberators.”

And yet nowhere in this debate are the critics of empire and non-interventionists who are labeled as enemies of the state by the CIA and FBI.

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We've released more than three million pages, including 180,000 images, all to the public, while doing our very best in the timeframe allotted by the legislation to protect victims β€” Pam Bondi

β€˜If you brought us a victim's name that was inadvertently released, we immediately redacted it’

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'How many of Epstein’s co-conspirators have been indicted?'

Rep. Nadler interrupts Bondi IMMEDIATELY after asking his question β€” CHAOS ensues

RASKIN: 'I told you, Attorney General...'

BONDI: 'You don't tell me ANYTHING'

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Pam Bondi LECTURED during House Judiciary Committe hearing on Epstein files

'This is about you taking responsibility for the harm the DOJ has done to the survivors, who are standing right behind you'

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Trump’s name appears β€˜COUNTLESS’ times in the Epstein files β€” Pam Bondi

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'Berlin is also nurturing revanchist fantasies' β€” FM Lavrov reacts to the Merz's words

'Poltava, Stalingrad, all of that has been forgotten by the new generation of European politicians'

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'Do you want me to answer or do you want to interrupt?'

Pam Bondi under FIRE by House Judiciary Committe

'You are aware of how important it is to protect the identities of sexual assault victims?'

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LIEU: I believe you just LIED under oath

BONDI: Don’t you EVER accuse me of a CRIME

LIEU: Shame on you, if you had any decency you would RESIGN right after this hearing concludes

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Pam Bondi under fire for redacting name of 'I loved the torture video' but revealing victims' identities

'This release does not provide closure. It feels like a deliberate attempt to intimidate survivors'

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