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🇪🇺 EU REVEALS €195 BILLION SPENT ON UKRAINE—AS HUNGARY BLOCKS MORE 🇪🇺🇺🇦

Kaja Kallas: "€195 billion since 2022—not including the €90 billion loan in limbo."

The problem:

🇭🇺 Hungary blocked the loan over Druzhba oil halt
🇸🇰 Slovakia may veto—Fico calls it a "gift" Kiev won't repay
🗣️ Zelensky's response? Threatening Orban: "Let the military speak to him."

Meanwhile:

💰 Hungarian cops seized millions in cash + 9kg gold from Ukrainian armored vehicles

🇺🇦 Ukraine: "Theft!"
🇭🇺 Hungary: "Questions about the war mafia."

€195 billion in. Armored vehicles carrying gold. Nobody's buying the explanations anymore.

#EU #Ukraine #Hungary #Corruption #Orban
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🇵🇭 PHILIPPINES ERUPTS: Anti-US Protests Hit Manila as Iran War Sparks Global Fallout 🇵🇭

Thousands of miles from the Middle East, the war is being felt—and resisted.

Footage from Manila shows demonstrators clashing with police on Roxas Boulevard as they tried marching to the U.S. Embassy. Their message: condemnation of American "arrogance" and the attack on Iran.

Why now:

🛢️ Global fuel prices are surging—Filipinos feel it at the pump
🌍 Anti-US sentiment is spreading across the Global South
🇵🇭 The U.S. Embassy became the target

The message:

You bomb Iran. Manila protests. Empire has consequences—and they're not limited to one geography.

#Philippines #Manila #IranWar #US #GlobalSouth #Protests
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🇺🇸 TRUMP THREATENS TO KILL IRAN'S NEW LEADER IF HE DOESN'T SURRENDER 🇺🇸🇮🇷

The message: comply, or else.

Trump told aides he'd back killing Mojtaba Khamenei—newly elected successor to his assassinated father—if he proves "unwilling to cede to U.S. demands."

The context:

🎯 Father killed by US-Israeli strikes Feb 28
🗣️ Son already deemed "unacceptable" by Trump

What this is:

First kill the father. Declare the son "unacceptable." Threaten to kill him too if he doesn't surrender.

This isn't war. It's a campaign of decapitation.

The question: If the US can assassinate two successive leaders of a sovereign nation for not ceding—what does sovereignty mean?

#Iran #Trump #Assassination #Sovereignty
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🇧🇩 BANGLADESH SHUTS UNIVERSITIES, RATIONS FUEL—A War 3,000 Miles Away Hits Home 🇧🇩

The Iran war isn't staying in the Middle East. It just shut down Bangladesh.

Bangladesh relies on imports for 95% of its energy needs. Now:

🏫 All universities closed—Eid holidays brought forward for conservation, not celebration
Fuel rationing imposed. Panic buying. Lines at pumps
🏭 Four fertilizer factories halted—gas redirected to keep lights on
📉 LNG prices skyrocketing. Dhaka buying at crisis rates

170 million people now adjusting daily life around shortages caused by bombs falling on Tehran.

A war started in Washington, executed over Tehran, is now closing schools in Dhaka.

The question: How many more nations become collateral damage in a conflict they never consented to?

#Bangladesh #IranWar #EnergyCrisis #GlobalSouth
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🌍 IRAN UNDER TOTAL ASSAULT: Toxic Rain, Destroyed Water, a Map Being Redrawn 🌍

This is not a war. This is an attempt at erasure.

☣️ Toxic rain: US attacks on fuel depots creating rain that burns skin and destroys lungs—winds carrying it toward Central Asia.

💧 War crime: Desalination plant hit. Clean water now a military target.

🗺️ Dismemberment: Trump says Iran's map will "probably" not look the same after this.

🪖 Proxy war: US sending Kurdish forces into western Iran, instigating civil war.

The stakes: 90 million Iranians. Millennia of history. The declared goal? Destruction.

European leaders cheer. Western media sells "humanitarian war."

The same playbook—Libya, Iraq, Syria—now applied to Iran.

#Iran #WarCrimes #EnvironmentalWarfare #Sovereignty
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JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 President Trump says Iran is a strong country and was on the verge of controlling the Middle East if US hadn't attacked.
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JUST IN: 🇨🇳🇮🇷 Chinese Special Envoy arrives in the Middle East to help stop the war in Iran.
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"For world peace, Barron Trump should marry Kim Ju-ae."

People are "shipping" Donald Trump's youngest son and Kim Jong Un's daughter - so that the world can "heal"

Better "love" story than Twilight?
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Some of Trump’s advisers are privately urging him to plan an exit from the Iran War, worried that rising oil prices, declining public support, and potential political backlash could hurt him and Republicans.

They want him to frame the military operation as already successful and begin winding it down before it becomes a prolonged conflict.

Source: WSJ
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BREAKING:

🇮🇷🇪🇺 Iran gives Europe and the Gulf a choice

Any Arab or European nation that expels the ambassadors of Israel and the United States from its territory will, starting tomorrow, have full authority and freedom to pass through the Strait of Hormuz - IRGC
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🇮🇷 Iran just showed a new version of its Shahed-101 drone, and it’s a little different from the usual ones.

Most Shahed drones have the propeller in the back with a small gasoline engine pushing the drone forward.

This one flips that. The propeller is in the front and it likely runs on an electric motor.

Why that matters? Electric drones are quieter and harder to detect.

The rest of the design is pretty familiar though. Fixed wings, an X-shaped tail, and a rocket booster that helps launch the drone before falling away.

So the takeaway: Iran isn’t changing the whole drone, just tweaking the design to make these attack drones a bit stealthier and harder to track.

Source: BashaReport, Defence Blog
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$5.6 BILLION!

Yes, you read that right...The Pentagon has reportedly spent $5.6 BILLION worth of munitions during the first 2 days of Iran war (according to WaPo)
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JUST IN: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says today will be the "most intense day of strikes" against Iran.
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JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran's Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani warns President Trump to "watch out" for himself.

"Lest you be eliminated."
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🚨The hidden link between crises in Iran, Panama, Venezuela and Greenland

Over the past year, several geopolitical crises have erupted across different regions of the world from tensions around Iran to disputes involving Panama, Venezuela and Greenland.

At first glance, these situations appear unrelated, each with its own local political dynamics and narratives. However, a deeper look reveals that geography and strategic control over global trade and energy routes lie at the heart of all these flashpoints.

Here's how:👇

🇮🇷Iran occupies a crucial position beside the Strait of Hormuz, through which a significant share of the world’s oil flows.

🇵🇦Panama sits at the center of one of the world’s most vital maritime trade corridors through the Panama Canal.

🇻🇪Venezuela holds vast reserves of heavy crude oil, making it a key energy supplier, while Greenland is emerging as a strategic Arctic frontier rich in minerals and increasingly important for new shipping routes as ice melts.

▪️Together, these locations form critical nodes in the global system of energy supply, shipping lanes and strategic resources.

▪️The crises surrounding these regions are less about isolated political disputes and more about a broader contest over control of key economic arteries oil flows, maritime chokepoints, and future Arctic routes. At the center of many such geopolitical flashpoints stands the US, which has long sought strategic influence over global oil reserves, maritime chokepoints and critical energy routes.

▪️Nations that refuse to align with US interests often find themselves under mounting political pressure, economic sanctions or geopolitical confrontation.

▪️Disruptions in these areas have already raised freight risks, increased insurance costs and reshaped energy flows, affecting not only regional actors but also global markets.

▪️The consequences extend especially to Asia, where manufacturing demand intersects with heavy reliance on imported energy from the Gulf.

▪️When shipping routes tighten and energy supplies become uncertain, Asian economies face a double shock higher transportation costs and rising fuel prices.

▪️From the Gulf to Latin America and even the Arctic, the pattern suggests that control over energy and strategic geography remains a key driver behind many of today’s crises.

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🇵🇰 Pakistan just sent navy ships to escort oil tankers in the Gulf as U.S.-Iran tensions keep heating up around the Strait of Hormuz.

The military says the idea is simple, keep ships moving and energy supplies safe.

Pakistan depends a lot on Gulf oil and gas, and fuel prices already jumped about 20% last week, which caused long lines at petrol stations.

Source: Daily Mail
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