🇬🇧🇸🇦🇦🇪🇶🇦 UK & GULF STATES TO SIGN FREE TRADE DEAL – Ending 4 Years of Talks 📝

The United Kingdom and the six Gulf Cooperation Council nations are set to sign a free trade agreement in London on Wednesday. The deal will reduce tariffs on British car and food exports to the Gulf.

📊 Annual bilateral trade exceeds $53 billion.

🛢️ Talks were delayed by the Iran war – but have now reached an advanced stage.

🚗 The deal reflects a shared commitment to strategic partnership and sustainable development.

📌 The bottom line for the Global South:

While the US blocks and bombs, the UK and Gulf states deepen economic ties. The region is not waiting for Washington – it is building its own trade architecture.

#UK 🇬🇧 #GCC #SaudiArabia 🇸🇦 #UAE 🇦🇪 #Qatar 🇶🇦 #TradeDeal #GlobalSouth #BRICS #ThinkBRICS

The “Green Revolution” looks futuristic in ads… but the reality is a blood myth.

Western governments push net zero and electric cars while ignoring the dirty truth: lithium and cobalt mining in Africa, often under horrific 19th-century conditions.

#GreenEnergy #ElectricCars #EVTruth #LithiumMining #CobaltMining

🇷🇺🚨 “NATO’S NUCLEAR MOVES WILL NOT GO UNANSWERED” – Moscow Warns Over French Strategy ☢️

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov: France’s “forward nuclear deterrence” plan – expanding its arsenal and deploying weapons to other European NATO states – will be met with a response from Russian military planners.

🇫🇷 Macron’s plan: Expand France’s nuclear arsenal and move weapons to allied European territory as “circumstantial deployments.”

⚠️ Ryabkov: “Paris’ false slogans about strengthening its allies’ security are leading to exactly the opposite.” Host nations will come under “closer scrutiny of our military responsible for strategic deterrence.”

🇵🇱🇫🇮 Context: France and Poland are planning joint exercises simulating nuclear strikes on Russia. Finland is moving to allow nuclear devices on its soil.

#NATO #Russia #France #NuclearStrategy #Macron #BRICS #GlobalSouth #Geopolitics #ThinkBRICS

🔋🌍 THE "CLEAN" ENERGY LIE – What They’re Hiding in Africa

Your electric car is not “green.” It is built on a mountain of blood.

While Western consumers are told they are “saving the planet” with every battery purchase, the reality on the ground in Africa is a dark revival of colonial extraction: child miners as young as nine, working in toxic conditions for less than $1 a day.

The “critical minerals” powering your smartphone and EV come from hand‑dug pits, often guarded by armed groups and fuelled by extreme poverty.

This Think BRICS Chronicles documentary exposes:

🧒 Children mining your batteries – the “Zama Zama” workers.

⚖️ Tech giants sued – Tesla and others face legal action over child labour deaths.

🩸 The blood myth – the devastating health impact on local communities: heavy metal poisoning, birth defects.

Is a technology truly “green” if it’s built on violence and exploitation?

🎥 Watch the full documentary here: https://youtu.be/INEfhc5SNTE

#GreenEnergy #AfricaMining #Cobalt #Lithium

🇺🇸🇵🇸 TRUMP’S $70 BILLION GAZA PLAN IS ALREADY BROKEN – Donors Won’t Pay, Board Admits Funding Gap

💸 The US‑led “Board of Peace” has officially acknowledged a massive shortfall in Trump’s Gaza reconstruction plan. $70 billion promised. $17 billion pledged. Only a fraction actually delivered. Gaza remains in ruins – and donors are avoiding the Trump channel

🏚️ 85% of Gaza’s buildings and infrastructure destroyed – 70 million tonnes of rubble need to be removed.

💰 Pledges: $17 billion from member states – but only a fraction has been received.

🚫 Donors are reluctant to fund through Trump’s board due to “transparency concerns” – they prefer traditional UN channels.

📉 The board itself warns that the gap is “the difference between a framework that exists on paper and one that delivers tangible results… for the people of Gaza.”

#Gaza #US #Trump #Reconstruction #Hypocrisy #BRICS

🇭🇷🛑 CROATIA REFUSES ISRAEL’S AMBASSADOR – “No Public or Political Pressure Will Change This” 🇮🇱

President Zoran Milanović has drawn a line: he will not approve Israel’s new ambassador to Zagreb, citing disagreements with the policies of the current Israeli government. The presidential office said no pressure will alter the decision.

🗣️ Milanović has previously accused Israel of carrying out “bestial war crimes” in Gaza.

📜 Israel announced its proposed ambassador before receiving presidential consent – a departure from diplomatic norms, according to the presidential office.

🔁 The Israeli ambassador’s term ends in May; the diplomat will instead arrive as chargé d’affaires – a post not requiring presidential approval.

#Croatia #Israel #Diplomacy #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw #BRICS

🏛️📉 BRICS CORPORATIONS: The Rules Were Written Against Them – And That’s Finally Changing

The multipolar battle isn’t just at the UN or in oil markets – it’s inside the boardrooms of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

For decades, corporate governance rules were designed in London and New York – for Western ownership models. BRICS economies were forced to play by someone else’s rules.

This BRICS Business episode exposes:

⚖️ How independent director quotas became a narrative weapon to restrict capital flows

🏛️ Why state‑backed ownership structures clash with Anglo‑American governance models

📉 How Western rating agencies weaponise governance gaps to target BRICS

🇷🇺 Russia’s sanctions experiment – suspending Western corporate institutions

“The rules of the game were set against us. Now we’re changing them.”

🎥 Watch the full analysis here: https://youtu.be/IzogQjPU8KY

#BRICS #CorporateGovernance #EconomicSovereignty #GlobalSouth #BoardroomWar #BRICSBusiness #ThinkBRICS

🌐 Defying Western pressure: Russia and China deepen economic partnership
Russia and China have deepened economic cooperation while promoting a more multipolar global order Read Full Article at RT.com
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🌐 Pakistan, the Nuclear Hinge of Global Disorder
China, India, the United States, Iran, Russia, Israel, and the Country That Could Tilt Asia “There are countries that seem to live on the edge of the abyss. Pakistan does not merely live there. It lea... Read more →

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In the Mediterranean, the IDF attacked and seized the Global Sumud Flotilla.

The flotilla was trying to break Israel's blockade of Gaza.

🇨🇳🌏 THE GATE OF HEAVENLY PEACE – How China's 600-Year-Old Symbol Explains Xi's World Order

Most people see Tian'anmen as a landmark. It is actually a geopolitical blueprint.

While Western analysts reduce China's rise to trade figures and military budgets, Beijing is operating from a civilizational logic six centuries deep.

- 🏛️ Tian'anmen's architecture is political theology — every arch, tile and number encodes imperial cosmology and China's claim to universal legitimacy

- 🌐 Tianxia ("All Under Heaven") — the ancient Chinese alternative to the Western nation-state system — is the philosophical backbone of Belt & Road and Xi's vision for world order

- ⭐ When Mao stood atop Tian'anmen in 1949, he was claiming 600 years of imperial legitimacy for the Communist Party

📖 Read the full analysis here: https://thinkbrics.substack.com/p/how-china-is-leading-the-world-through

#China #Tianxia #BRICS #GlobalSouth #Multipolar

🇷🇺✈️ BREAKING: RUSSIA’S SU-57D TWIN‑SEAT STEALTH FIGHTER MAKES MAIDEN FLIGHT

The first two‑seat Su‑57D has taken to the skies. Russia now joins China as the only nations operating a 5th‑generation twin‑seat stealth fighter – while the US continues to rely on AI alone.

🛩️ Maiden flight of the Su‑57D prototype, piloted by Sukhoi chief test pilot Sergei Bogdan.

👥 Tandem cockpit – a second crew member can manage drones, sensors, and strike coordination, reducing cognitive load on the pilot.

🎯 Key mission: airborne command platform for crewed‑uncrewed teaming (like China’s J‑20S). The Su‑57D is designed to coordinate drone wingmen in complex electronic warfare and long‑range strike scenarios.

🇺🇸 The contrast: The US has no twin‑seat 5th‑gen fighter; it bets on AI integration to help the pilot. Moscow and Beijing have taken a different path – human‑in‑the‑loop command of unmanned systems.

#Russia #Su57 #StealthFighter #Aviation #BRICS #GlobalSouth #MilitaryTech #China #USA #ThinkBRICS

Breaking: 🇳🇬 Nigerian forces claim US ⁠killed 175 ISIL (ISIS) fighters in recent days.

The Nigerian Defence Headquarters said on Tuesday that operations conducted with the US military’s ⁠Africa Command (AFRICOM) destroyed checkpoints, weapons caches, logistics hubs, military equipment and financing networks used by ISIL and the ISIL affiliate in West Africa Province (ISWAP), which has led a years-long struggle in the region. Nigerian forces working with the United ⁠States claim to have ⁠killed 175 ISIL (ISIS) fighters in a series of joint strikes in ⁠the country’s northeast in recent days.

Source: Al Jazeera

Xi to Putin: China and Russia have persisted in developing a comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era on the basis of equality, mutual respect, good faith, and win-win cooperation.

The political mutual trust between our two countries has continuously deepened. Cooperation in economy and trade, investment, energy, science and technology, culture and at the local level has been steadily moving forward. People-to-people bonds have become stronger.

China-Russia relations have entered a new stage with greater accomplishments and faster development. It is a strategic choice made by President Putin and me to unswervingly promote the long-term, healthy, stable, and high-quality development of China-Russia relations, in view of the fundamental interests of both countries and the general trend of world development..

Source: Clash Report

Just In: FIFA plans to ban fans from bringing Iran's old 'Lion and Sun' flag and related clothing into 2026 World Cup stadiums again.

The 'Lion and Sun' flag was Iran's national flag before the 1979 Islamic Revolution and is now used by those who oppose the current government.

Source: Washington Examiner

🚨🇹🇼🇨🇳 JUST IN: Taiwan’s President Says Island’s Future Will Not Be Decided By “External Forces”

Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te says the future of Taiwan must be decided only by its 23 million people — not by foreign powers.

Lai stated he remains open to dialogue with Beijing, but only under conditions of “equality and dignity.”

China quickly responded, accusing Lai of promoting separatism and escalating cross-strait tensions.

The remarks come as pressure continues mounting across the Taiwan Strait following repeated Chinese military drills and renewed uncertainty over US policy toward Taiwan.

Donald Trump recently suggested US arms sales to Taiwan could become a negotiating tool with Beijing.

Another sign of intensifying geopolitical friction in the Indo-Pacific.

Source: Al Jazeera

#Taiwan #China #US #Geopolitics

🚨🇵🇰🇸🇦 JUST IN: Pakistan’s Military Deployment To Saudi Arabia Signals Major Gulf Security Shift

Reports indicate Pakistan has deployed thousands of troops, JF-17 fighter jets, drones, and Chinese-made HQ-9 air defense systems to Saudi Arabia under a confidential defense pact.

The reported buildup comes as Gulf states increasingly question the reliability of existing regional security guarantees amid rising Middle East instability.

Analysts say the move is not about replacing US power in the Gulf, But creating additional layers of strategic protection as regional tensions continue escalating.

The deployment also highlights China’s growing indirect role in Gulf defense networks through Pakistani-operated Chinese military systems.

Another sign the Middle East is moving toward a more fragmented and multipolar security order.

Source: Asia Times / Reuters

#Pakistan #SaudiArabia #MiddleEast #Geopolitics

🇷🇺🇨🇳 China is seeking larger long-term oil supplies from Russia, according to Russian Deputy PM Alexander Novak.

Novak said Beijing remains interested in expanding energy cooperation with Moscow despite global market challenges, adding that both sides are also discussing new joint energy projects during the Russian delegation’s visit to China.

The remarks come as Putin visits China for high-level talks with Xi Jinping.

Source: TASS

#China #Russia #Oil #Energy

🚨🇹🇷 JUST IN: Turkey’s New ICBM Reveal Sparks Speculation Over Nuclear Deterrence Ambitions

Turkey has unveiled the “Yildirimhan” intercontinental ballistic missile at the SAHA 2026 defense expo a move analysts say signals Ankara’s push for greater strategic autonomy beyond NATO.

Turkish officials claim the missile could strike targets over 6,000 km away at hypersonic speeds.

The announcement comes amid growing instability across the Middle East following the Iran war and rising doubts over long-term US security guarantees.

Analysts say the real message may not be the missile itself, but Turkey signaling it wants the industrial and technological foundation for an independent deterrent capability.

Another sign the region’s security architecture is entering a far more unstable phase.

Source: Asia Times

#Turkey #NATO #MiddleEast #Geopolitics