BEIJING—Chinese exports to Russia of microchips and other electronic components and raw materials, some with military applications, have increased since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, complicating efforts by the U.S. and Western allies to isolate the country’s economy and cripple its military.

Chip shipments from China to Russia more than doubled to about $50 million in the first five months of 2022 compared with a year earlier, Chinese customs data show, while exports of other components such as printed circuits had double-digit percentage growth. Export volumes of aluminium oxide, which is used to make the metal aluminium, an important material in weapons production and aerospace, are 400 times higher than last year.
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Ukrainian pilots when they are not flying... Do you know, what is "Spanish shame"? Check out here.
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Putin's arrival in Tehran. Note a black brief-case, carried after him by a masked man. That is the one, where the button is.
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The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia greets Biden and Vladimir Putin. Spot the difference 😉💤

Wrong prediction
The "China collapse theory" is a typical example of wrong Western predictions about China, and there are quite a number of Western scholars who used to or still hold these opinions. A representative prediction of such kind was made by Francis Fukuyama in 2012: China's top-down political system, under pressure from a growing middle class empowered by wealth and social networks, is likely to blow up at some point.

Fukuyama told media that "China has always been a country with a big information problem where the emperor cannot figure out what is going on at a grassroots level" […] and "this is in so many respects exactly the Communist Party's problem. Because they do not have a free media, they do not have local elections, they cannot really judge what their people are thinking."

Fukuyama is not alone in this regard. There were some other "famous" Western proponent of the hilarious theory that used their biased knowledge to predict China's course in the past 10 years, such as when former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said in 2011 that the "Chinese system is doomed." In an interview with the Atlantic, Clinton said Beijing's human rights record is "deplorable" and it is "trying to stop history" by opposing the advance of democracy.

Gordon Chang, a "well-known" "China Collapse" theory fanatic, has frequently prognosticated on "China's collapse," but despite all indications to the contrary, he just kept changing the time of the "collapse" again and again.

You probably have seen many similar "predictions" about Russia as well. Wishful thinking of some of the Western and Ukrainian "analytics" does not make sense and contradicts to the reality.
You probably have seen many similar "predictions" about Russia as well. Wishful thinking of some of the Western and Ukrainian "analytics" does not make sense and contradicts to the reality.
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We have already written about explosions and fires at four American natural gas facilities. The destructive trend continues. Now there is a transformer 💤 on fire at the Hoover dam in Nevada.
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Please take time to listen to it. Its is brilliant as usual!

Lavrov announced the tasks of the special operation outside the DPR and LPR

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the geographical objectives of the special military operation in Ukraine have changed. Now it is not only the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), but also a number of other territories, he said in an interview with RT and RIA Novosti. According to the minister, the changes occurred, among other things, due to the supply of multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) ) HIMARS. “As for the special military operation and geographic coordinates, the president said very clearly, as you quoted him, denazification, demilitarization in the sense that there are no threats to our security, military threats from the territory of Ukraine, this task remains. ..” he stated.
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After Biden's "successful" trip to Saudi Arabia, oil prices have risen by almost $10.

A fuel depot in Odessa is burning

"A Magazine Of American Culture" - they have got certain things right 😂🤣

Footage of the combat work of the Kornet ATGM crew near Seversk.

Russian servicemen with precise fire from anti-tank systems destroy a protected position of Ukrainian militants.

ATGM "Kornet" implement the concept of "shot and forget" due to the automatic capture and target tracking.

🇷🇺 Combat operation of 2S4 Tulpan self-propelled mortar crews of Western MD during fire missions to destroy camouflaged fortified positions of AFU

💥 2S4 Tulpan 240-mm self-propelled mortar is the only mortar of such calibre in the world and has no analogues. It is designed to destroy objects that cannot be destroyed by smaller calibre artillery pieces due to their high defence capability.
A rare footage of a rare device in action... 240mm🛠🪖💤

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At the age of 14, he rescued the wounded and dismantled the rubble! The youngest volunteer from Mariupol received the medal "For Bravery"

Back in June, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin presented medals "For Bravery" to several civilians at once. Arsen Popov, a 15-year-old resident of Mariupol, was awarded one of them. At the most terrible time, when there were battles for the city, the teenager was one of the first to go to the local hospital as a volunteer.

The brave boy carried wounded DPR fighters and civilians out of the shelling and destroyed houses, helped doctors and dismantled the rubble. He worked on a par with adults. Doctors of the Mariupol hospital recall that at first Arsen just brought water, and then he began to help doctors rescue the wounded. He wasn't even afraid of the sight of blood.

The adult act of a teenager was appreciated by the leadership of the Republic. The head of the DPR awarded him the medal "For Bravery".

https://youtu.be/NjlpvLNkyxg

MOSCOW, July 21 - RIA Novosti. Gas began flowing again through the Nord Stream pipeline after the completion of technical servicing, according to data from Nord Stream AG and gas transport operators OPAL and NEL.
According to Nord Stream AG, from 07:00 to 08:00 Moscow time, the physical flow amounted to almost 1.9 million cubic meters - about 30 percent of the nominal capacity.

Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership team wants Liz Truss to win the Tory leadership contest because they believe her “wooden style” would make him look “less unexciting” and boost his chances of winning power, according to Labour sources.