🇺🇸🇷🇺 BEYOND THE DIESEL DEAL: Sanctions Lifted, Donbas Advancing, Debt Spiralling

The diesel deal is bigger than diesel. Trump has effectively lifted Graham's 500% sanctions on Russia — and the 100% secondary sanctions on buyers of Russian energy.

📜 The decree: 500% sanctions gone. Secondary tariffs gone.

🤝 The swap: The US sent a list of companies needing diesel. Russia returned a list of companies whose sanctions must be lifted.

💾 Shared data centres: Dmitriev confirmed Russia and the US will share them — not just exchange. Unprecedented.

🗣️ The tantrum: A 16-signature petition to block the deal. Howling from California to Vilnius.

🔴 The absurd "100-day" proposal:

🛢️ Ukraine halts refinery strikes for 100 days so diesel flows.

📡 Then the US restores Starlink speeds — so Ukraine can strike refineries again.

👉 Read the full analysis: https://thinkbrics.substack.com/p/beyond-the-diesel-agreement-graham

#US 🇺🇸 #Russia 🇷🇺 #DieselDeal #Sanctions #BRICS #GlobalSouth

🇺🇸⚔️ HEGSETH: "GIVE UP YOUR NUCLEAR AMBITIONS AT THE TABLE — OR FACE DEVASTATION"

The US War Secretary has issued a blunt ultimatum to Iran: negotiate away its nuclear program, or face "the kind of devastation that America can bring."

🗣️ "Iran has a choice to make real quick: whether they're going to give those up at the table or face the kind of devastation that America can bring."

🎯 "Iran has built up a conventional arsenal of missiles so big that they were daring anyone to do anything about it — sort of the North Korea strategy."

⚡ He cited "Midnight Hammer," "Epic Fury," and the B‑2 strikes as evidence of US resolve.

#Iran 🇮🇷 #US 🇺🇸 #Hegseth #NuclearDoubleStandards #BRICS #GlobalSouth #Sovereignty

🇺🇸🤡 TRUMP: "WE COULD BE THERE A LITTLE BIT LONGER" — Then Immediately Says "It's Gonna End Very Quickly"

The US president just contradicted himself in a single breath — admitting the Iran war has no clear end, while insisting it's nearly over.

🗣️ "We have to go to the Middle East for a period of time. We gotta knock out the weapons."

⏳ "We could be there a little bit longer because…"

🤣 "It's gonna end very quickly."

#Iran 🇮🇷 #US 🇺🇸 #Trump #IranWar #BRICS

🇪🇺💸 EU ADMITS €70 BILLION UKRAINE GAP – While Energy Costs Explode

The EU's own leaders just laid bare the contradictions: Costa demands more pressure on Russia, while von der Leyen admits a €70 billion financing hole, a €106 billion energy bill, and no answer for either.

1️⃣ The €70 billion hole – EU has a €70 billion financing gap for Ukraine in 2027, separate from the €90 billion loan already approved. Von der Leyen: "I could not foresee how 2027 would look."

2️⃣ 80% of the burden – The EU and member states account for 80% of external aid to Ukraine. "We urgently need other partners to step in."

3️⃣ The energy bill – Imported fossil fuel costs have risen by €106 billion — "without a single molecule of energy in addition." Gas up 140%, diesel doubled.

#EU 🇪🇺 #Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Russia 🇷🇺 #EnergyCrisis #BRICS

🇸🇦💥 SAUDI-LED COALITION CLAIMS INTERCEPTIONS AND STRIKES ON HOUTHI LAUNCH PLATFORMS

The official spokesperson for the Coalition Forces has released footage of what it describes as interceptor air force operations against cruise missiles and drones — and offensive operations to destroy ballistic missile launch platforms belonging to Ansar Allah.

🎯 Interception of cruise missiles and drones targeting coalition assets.

💥 Offensive operations to destroy ballistic missile launch platforms.

🛡️ The Houthis are still firing. After years of war and billions in Western weapons, Ansar Allah continues to launch missiles and drones — and claims to have hypersonic systems and heavier warheads still unused.

#Yemen 🇾🇪 #Houthis #SaudiArabia 🇸🇦 #UAE 🇦🇪 #BRICS

🇫🇷🇧🇪 ISRAELI SETTLERS BEAT FRENCH MAYOR & ATTACK EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS – "Jewish Terrorism Under Government Auspices"

A 78-year-old French mayor was kicked and beaten with iron bars by masked Israeli settlers while joining Palestinian olive farmers in the West Bank. European diplomats were attacked in the same convoy. And Netanyahu called it a "smear."

🚗 A convoy of European diplomats — including France's and Belgium's top representatives in Jerusalem and Polish diplomats — was attacked by masked settlers in the Christian village of Taybeh.

👴 Mayor Bernard Baudoux (78) was kicked, hit with iron bars, and insulted with defamatory comments about France — while wearing his tricolour sash.

📸 One day earlier: An American photographer for The Washington Post, Heidi Levine, was beaten — left with broken vertebrae. Earlier this month, an AFP photographer had several ribs fractured.

#Palestine 🇵🇸 #Israel 🇮🇱 #WestBank #SettlerViolence #OliveHarvest #BRICS

🇺🇦💥 ZELENSKYY: "THE DIESEL DEAL IS ONLY THE FIRST STEP" — Warns Sanctions Will Keep Falling

Ukraine's president has warned that Washington's lifting of sanctions on Russia is not an isolated concession — it is the beginning of a broader collapse of the Western pressure campaign.

🛢️ On the diesel deal: "Unfortunately, the lifting of sanctions will continue. I believe the diesel deal is the first step. This won't stop Putin — on the contrary, he feels joy and happiness that he has such support."

🤝 Negotiators may meet this week — Umeyrov spoke with Kushner; a format is being arranged. Zelenskyy is ready to meet personally.

🗣️ "We support dialogue… but you cannot achieve peace by limiting Ukraine's responses — and certainly not by lifting sanctions."

🏦 On frozen assets: Warns Russia will try to reclaim them "through one partner or another." Says the situation is "under Europe's control — safe for now."

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #US 🇺🇸 #Russia 🇷🇺 #Sanctions #Starlink #BRICS

🇫🇷🔥 LIMOGES CITY HALL BURNS: France's Social Contract Cracks Open

A historic monument, "largely lost." The campanile has collapsed, two-thirds of the façade is gone, and the roof has caved in on the floors below. Over half a million protesters took to the streets nationwide — and the empire's core is burning from within.

🏛️ Limoges city hall — a listed monument inaugurated in 1883, designed by a Versailles architect — was torched. The prefect calls it a "patrimonial catastrophe" and a "deliberate act."

🗣️ Mayor Guillaume Guérin: "This isn't stupidity, it's hatred — hatred of the flag, of institutions, of anyone who embodies authority."

🏙️ Marseille, Lille, and Limoges city halls stormed. A bust of Marianne — symbol of the Republic — knocked down. A tourist office set ablaze in Lyon. Stores looted in Paris.

👮 400 arrests. Interior Ministry puts turnout at 550,000; organisers say 800,000.

#France 🇫🇷 #Limoges #CostOfLiving #Protests #BRICS

🇫🇷 France Yellow Vest Protests: 1,200 Detained

French authorities reported that 1,200 people were detained and 150 police officers and gendarmes injured during nationwide protests over rising living costs, fuel prices and education spending. One demonstrator also died in Paris, according to police.

Source: Anadolu Agency

#France #YellowVestProtests #Paris #Protests

🛰️⚠️ Russia Could Gain Real-Time Drone Control Through ‘Rassvet’ Satellite Network

Ukrainian presidential adviser Serhiy Beskrestnov claims Russia could begin controlling its Geran kamikaze drones and Banderol cruise missiles in real time within six months using the ‘Rassvet’ satellite network.

He warned that full satellite coverage could significantly weaken Ukraine’s electronic warfare capabilities. However, this remains a Ukrainian official’s assessment, and the reported future capability has not yet been independently confirmed.

📰 Source: The Associated Press (AP), cited in the report

#Russia #Ukraine #Rassvet #DroneWarfare

🇪🇬⚓ Egypt Unlikely to Join Saudi Arabia’s Military Response Immediately

Egypt is unlikely to provide immediate military support to Saudi Arabia, even if its parliament approves an intervention, security expert Talha Abdulrazaq told Al Jazeera. He said Saudi Arabia would likely turn first to Pakistan and Türkiye under its defence partnerships.

Instead, Egypt could focus on Red Sea operations alongside the Saudi Navy to disrupt Houthi supply routes. Attacks on shipping have also hit Egypt’s economy, with official data showing the country lost around $7 billion in Suez Canal revenue in 2023–2024.

📰 Source: Al Jazeera

#Egypt #SaudiArabia #Pakistan #Türkiye #RedSea #Houthis #MiddleEast #Geopolitics

🇨🇳🌏 China Deepens Uzbekistan Ties as US Rivalry Grows in Central Asia

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has called for stronger cooperation with Uzbekistan in strategic minerals, artificial intelligence and other sectors as Beijing and Washington compete for influence in Central Asia.

During talks with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev, Li said China was ready to strengthen strategic communication and expand mutually beneficial cooperation, signaling Beijing’s push to deepen regional partnerships.

📰 Source: South China Morning Post (SCMP)

#China #Uzbekistan #CentralAsia #USChinaRivalry #AI #CriticalMinerals #Geopolitics

🇪🇸 Sánchez: War on Iran Has Cost Europe Over $112 Billion

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says the war against Iran has cost Europe more than €100 billion ($112 billion), warning that ordinary citizens are paying the price through rising energy costs and economic pressure. He called for an end to the conflict.

The debate has also intensified over Europe’s role in US military operations, following reports that American B-1 bombers used Britain’s RAF Fairford base for strikes against Iran.

📰 Source: Mehr News Agency

#Iran #Spain #PedroSanchez

🚨 South Africa Records 44+ Political Killings Ahead of Elections

More than 44 politically motivated killings were recorded across South Africa between January and September 2026, according to Gun Free South Africa. The country has also reported six assassination attempts and two foiled plots, with KwaZulu-Natal recording the highest number of incidents.

ANC members account for the largest share of victims, while concerns grow over election violence, illegal firearms and alleged links between political killings and access to government contracts. Police say a dedicated election security plan is in place.

📰 Source: Caxton Network News / The Witness

#SouthAfrica #PoliticalViolence #ANC #Elections2026 #Africa #Crime #BreakingNews

🇫🇷🔥 MACRON: "WE FEEL ANGER AND SHAME" — As France Burns

Six months before a presidential election, the French president has addressed the nation — and his own words betray a state that has lost control of its people.

🗣️ "We all tonight feel angry. We feel shame as well seeing the disasters that have unfolded in our streets."

⚖️ "Nothing" justifies the riots — calling for order and peace.

🧠 Yet he conceded: the youth are "expressing great anguish and concern about the future… we must not minimise the hardships that they are facing."

⚡ "How can French people do this to France?

🏛️ City halls stormed. A national monument torched. 400 arrested. From Limoges to Marseille to Paris — this is not vandalism, it is rupture.

#France 🇫🇷 #Macron #CostOfLiving #Riots #BRICS

🇺🇦💥 UKRAINE STRIKES ST. PETERSBURG OIL TERMINAL — "One of the Biggest Drone Attacks of the Year"

Kyiv has resumed strikes on Russian refineries, hitting an oil terminal in St. Petersburg overnight — hours after Trump's "energy ceasefire" collapsed.

🛢️ St. Petersburg oil terminal struck in a "massive" overnight drone attack — fires also reported at the Ruchyi oil depot and industrial warehouses in Kolpino.

💔 Governor Beglov: one person killed, several injured.

🗣️ Russian state media called it "one of the biggest drone attacks of the year."

#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Russia 🇷🇺 #StPetersburg #DroneWar #NATO

🇮🇱🇺🇸 NETANYAHU'S FLATTERY OF TRUMP: "No Greater Friend of Israel in the White House"

The Israeli PM has issued an extraordinary endorsement of Trump — thanking him for "clarity, conviction, and courage" and tying the Iran war directly to American gas prices.

🗣️ "I'm so honored and humbled by your extraordinary endorsement… There's never been a greater friend of Israel in the White House."

🎯 He framed the war as a joint US-Israeli task: "This vile, murderous dictatorship in Tehran that wants to acquire nuclear weapons and the means to deliver it to every American city."

⛽ "If you're worried about today's gas prices, think of what will happen if Iran gets nuclear weapons… When that threat disappears, gas prices will go down and how — but only under Trump."

🤝 "Israel has been fortunate, and the Jewish people have been fortunate to have a leader of such clarity, consistency, conviction, and courage."

#Israel 🇮🇱 #US 🇺🇸 #Netanyahu #Trump #Iran 🇮🇷 #BRICS

🧱📡 "WE ARE MEDIA GUERRILLAS": Inside Iran's Viral Lego Video Revolution

A few young people with cheap laptops. On the other side, studios with budgets in the billions.

🔴 The story:

🎬 1 billion+ views in months. Ten members, aged 15–25, from communications, engineering, and theology.

⏱️ A two-minute video takes 24 hours. Their ceasefire video was ready before the official announcement.

😢 Favourite: "A Vengeance for All" — each missile dedicated to a victim of empire: Indigenous peoples, enslaved Black people, Hiroshima, Iran Air 655, Epstein's children.

🔴 The crackdown:

🚫 YouTube and Instagram removed their accounts.

🤡 Western media called it "slopaganda." They reply: "We see our work as art. It is cinema."

🧠 "We reverse-engineered Western media. We saw how it buries truth beneath lies—so we fought back not with lies, but with truth."

👉 Read the full interview: https://thinkbrics.substack.com/p/we-are-media-guerrillas-says-one

#Iran 🇮🇷 #MediaGuerrillas #LegoResistance #GlobalSouth

🇸🇦💥 SAUDI COALITION BLEEDING: Helicopter Crashes, Airports Shuttered, Houthis Undeterred

The kingdom's war on Yemen is exacting a heavy toll — and the empire's Gulf allies are struggling to cope.

🚁 Saudi AH-6i reconnaissance helicopter crashed near Najran, killing two crew. The coalition blames a "technical fault" — but the Houthis had already claimed they downed it.

🚀 A Houthi projectile hit a residential area in Najran — six injured, three houses and vehicles damaged.

🛑 Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport remains shuttered — after 20 Houthi attacks this month, leaving about 17 dead and 300+ injured.

🎯 Abha, Jazan, Najran, Dammam airports also under fire. Saudi Aramco's Dhahran headquarters hit.

#SaudiArabia 🇸🇦 #Yemen 🇾🇪 #Houthis #BRICS

🇷🇺🎯 LAVROV: ZELENSKYY DOESN'T WANT NEGOTIATIONS — HE HAS DERAILED THEM REPEATEDLY

Russia's Foreign Minister has laid out a pattern: every time talks approach a breakthrough, Kyiv does something "completely unacceptable and reprehensible" the very next day.

🗣️ "Zelenskyy does not want negotiations. He has derailed them more than once."

🎯 The pattern: Even when understanding was reached at the suggestion of the US president, Ukraine would invariably strike civilian targets the next day.

📜 Paris, December 2019: Macron, Merkel, and Zelensky signed off on implementing the Minsk agreements — including Donbas's special status in Ukraine's constitution. "They had no intention of doing anything about it."

🤝 Abu Dhabi trilateral meeting: Since then, no progress — and not on Russia's initiative.

🧠 Why? "Any agreement acceptable to Russia and the United States would spell the end of his regime — and of his personal rule."

#Russia 🇷🇺 #Lavrov #Ukraine 🇺🇦 #Zelensky #Negotiations #BRICS #GlobalSouth