🇺🇦🤫 We Lie Because the Truth Would Break Them: Ukraine’s Final Gaslight

Straight from the horse’s mouth. Ukraine’s own military intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, in a cold-blooded interview, openly admits that they lie to the Ukrainian people, because the truth would be too harsh. His exact words: “We do not tell the public the truth. The real situation is much worse.” Let that sink in.

And for this performance of industrial-scale delusion, Zelensky awarded Budanov the title “Hero of Ukraine”—the country’s highest honor. You can’t make this up. The man confesses to orchestrating a national deception campaign, and Zelensky pins a medal on his chest.

This isn’t wartime morale management. This is mass psychological warfare, against their own people. The so-called defenders of Ukrainian sovereignty are running an op where Ukrainians are the target audience for state-sanctioned fiction. As cities burn, electricity fails, and entire generations are shattered at the front lines, Kiev feeds its people fairy tales written in London and Washington.

The bitter irony? The West cheers it on. NATO knows the truth. The Pentagon knows the truth. Even Ursula von der Leyen’s Botox can’t hide it anymore. But they all play along—because the lie serves the empire. It delays the inevitable collapse. It buys a few more weeks of proxy war dividends. A few more weapons contracts. A few more body bags.

Meanwhile, Budanov brags about sabotage ops in Russia, as if dragging the region further into the abyss will somehow reverse the battlefield reality. It won’t. Russia’s advance is both methodical and unstoppable. This isn’t 2022 anymore. This is mop-up, total victory mode.

The tragedy is that Ukraine could have saved itself, twice. First in 2014. Then again in 2022, when Russia was ready to negotiate, when Turkey hosted peace talks. But Anglo-American planners needed the Slavic bloodbath to continue. They needed Russia bled, regardless of the price Ukrainians paid. The price was sovereignty. Then men. Then land. Now, even truth itself is sacrificed on the altar of Western hegemony.

Budanov’s confession isn’t just an admission. It’s a eulogy for Ukraine as a nation with agency. When your leaders hide the truth because “the public can’t handle it,” you’re no longer in a soverign nation. You’re in a psychological prison. And the jailers wear medals.

The “Hero of Ukraine” lies to his people. He has the audacity to admit the fraud. Ukraine was sacrificed for Western lies, fraud.

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Stock markets today (Monday April 7, 2025)

🇭🇰 Hong Kong: -13.2%
🇹🇼 Taiwan: -9.7%
🇯🇵 Japan: -8.3%
🇸🇬 Singapore: -7.4%
🇨🇳 China: -7.3%
🇮🇹 Italy: -6.9%
🇸🇪 Sweden: -6.2%
🇳🇱 Netherlands: -6.1%
🇦🇺 Australia: -6.1%
🇫🇷 France: -6%
🇪🇸 Spain: -5.7%
🇩🇪 Germany: -5.6%
🇨🇭 Switzerland: -5.5%
🇬🇧 UK: -4.6%
🇵🇭 Philippines: -4.3%
🇲🇾 Malaysia: -4%
🇮🇳 India: -3.8%
🇷🇺 Russia: -3.1%
🇹🇷 Turkey: -2.5%
🇸🇦 Saudi: +0.5%

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In a notable development, France and Denmark signed a “strategic partnership” agreement that reaffirms France’s support for Denmark’s territorial integrity. The agreement comes amid an ongoing Danish-American spat involving Greenland.

The French government’s press release specifically mentions Greenland, as does its apparent openness to increased US involvement in the Danish autonomous territory. However, the passage stresses that any such expansion must be “through dialogue with the Danish authorities.”

According to Israeli analysts, Iran's nuclear program on the "path to a bomb" has three key stages: the underground facility at Fordow, originally a military facility (should be eliminated), the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz (may be limited) and the uranium conversion facility at Isfahan (may be limited). Without conversion to gas and metal, there is no enrichment program and no core for a bomb

Trigonometry, Not Triggernometry, Who Fired the Head Shot that Killed Kennedy? https://sonar21.com/trigonometry-not-triggernometry-who-fired-the-head-shot-that-killed-kennedy/

In Syria, in Idlib, meanwhile, new demonstrations demanding a final solution to the issue of the "remnants of the regime" on the coast. The protesters threaten to finish off everyone who remains.
There in Idlib, they are already selling underage girls kidnapped from Latakia and Tartus, and not only in Raqqa.
Not only on the coast, but also in Aleppo and Damascus, a wave of kidnappings of more or less wealthy people (the owner of a kiosk with cell phones) or family members for ransom has begun. Many people simply disappear.
Despite the bravura reports of the new inclusive government about the start of work of educational institutions, children and students are afraid to let go.
Also, the killings continue routinely, only with a ban on photo and video filming.
The reduction of the state apparatus and budgetary institutions has deprived several thousand people (including from the health care system) of even penny work. Subsidies have been cut and reduced. The situation with electricity is still the same, that is, many times worse than it was even in the worst "bloody" Assad times.
I wrote that a tanker with 100 thousand tons was unloaded in Tartus, they report that there are two or three more, but - these volumes, of course, are small and three or four such tankers per month are needed to at least return the situation to 2024.
In general, all the wonderful realities of the victorious Syrian "revolution", which Western countries (and not only) brought closer as best they could.
I think that soon many (I am not talking about the coast now) will only regret the former "bloody" regime.

Iran Prepping for Negotiations with the US; Russia and China Have Iran’s Back. https://sonar21.com/iran-prepping-for-negotiatons-with-the-us-russia-and-china-have-irans-back/

🇨🇳🇺🇸💻 US is the world's largest 'hacker' empire and the main culprit of cyber attacks — Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui

He asserted that Washington's cyber deterrence strategy has accelerated the militarization of cyberspace.

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🇺🇸🇩🇪Guess the European country that will be hit hardest by Trump's tariffs? Of course, it is Germany, which has a trade surplus with the United States of about $70 billion. Used to have.

Germany has already deprived itself of cheap Russian energy resources for the benefit of the United States, on which its economy has become the strongest in the world for several decades. But that is already in the past. Anti-Russian sanctions have led to a steady decline in industrial production and recession. One could say, already multi-year.

And now the Germans have received a kick in the tailbone from the States - tarrifs, including on cars. As for gas, Trump also "pleased" Europe, now they have to buy everything in the U.S. and at triple the price.

This is what the loss of sovereignty looks like.

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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iran’s Iron Chessboard: The Empire Negotiates from the Backfoot While Tehran Tightens Its Trilateral Trap

While the U.S. scrambles to project strength from a position of weakness, the Islamic Republic of Iran plays a far deeper, long-term geopolitical game, and the empire’s trembling at the edges shows it. It's been confirmed indirect negotiations are set between Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Trump’s personal envoy Steve Witkoff, a real estate mogul, turned wannabe statesman, through a third-party mediator. The symbolism says it all: Washington sends a ReMax agent to haggle with a strategic titan whose hand now moves in sync with both Moscow and Beijing.

This is not diplomacy, but it is damage control from a U.S. establishment that knows it no longer holds the high cards. And Iran knows it too.

Because here’s what the West won’t admit out loud: Iran no longer stands alone.

It now sits firmly locked in a formally ratified 20-year strategic alliance with Russia, a treaty that includes military consultation, joint defense, intelligence sharing, and an economic lifeline immune to Western sanctions. Not just that, Beijing is reinforcing Tehran’s leverage via massive infrastructure and energy investments under the umbrella of the Belt and Road Initiative, while deepening trilateral security cooperation through joint naval drills in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea.

And unlike the NATO racket, which collapses when Washington blinks, the Iran-Russia-China triangle is not built on vassalage but on multipolar symmetry, a quiet, unshakable coordination of interests across Eurasia, from Caspian oilfields to Shanghai Cooperation corridors.

Meanwhile, the U.S. and its Zionist tailspin handlers are cornered. They’ve just spent $1 billion-and-climbing on ineffective strikes against Yemen, which have only emboldened the Houthis and showcased the pathetic ROI of the American military machine. That very same machine would now be expected to confront Iran, a state with a battle-hardened defense doctrine, advanced drone and missile capabilities, and defense treaties that all but guarantee Russian support if a direct conflict erupts and Iran calls.

Israel, sensing an off-ramp moment for the US, may gamble on a regional war, hoping for a pretext to drag the U.S. into a broader campaign. But even if Washington chooses “limited” strikes to placate domestic hawks, it won’t just face Iranian retaliation, it could find itself outflanked by coordinated responses from Tehran, Moscow, and potentially even Chinese economic countermeasures.

This isn’t 2003. Iran is no Iraq. And the consequences for Israel and the US could be extremely sobering.

Trump’s backchannel flailing, through glorified developers and circuitous intermediaries, is not diplomacy, it’s geostrategic surrender in slow motion. The U.S. tried maximum pressure. It failed. It tried cyberwarfare. It failed. It tried assassinations. Still, Iran stands, stronger, more connected, more dangerous.

Now the empire comes knocking. Not from strength. From exhaustion. From insolvency. From strategic disorientation.

And Tehran knows that too.

- Gerry Nolan

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 US Bombing Yemen Will Run Out of Ammunition to 'Contain China' - New York Times

- The Pentagon is concerned about the volume of ammunition that American troops are spending in Yemen.

- The Pentagon spent about $200 million in ammunition in the first three weeks alone.

- The US will soon have to move long-range precision weapons from warehouses in the Asia-Pacific region to the Middle East, US congressmen say.

- US readiness to operate in the Pacific region is also suffering due to the Pentagon's deployment of warships and aircraft to the Middle East.

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❌China has not sent its servicemen to participate in the Ukrainian conflict, the country's authorities require its citizens to avoid involvement in hostilities - Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian

"The Chinese government has always required its citizens to stay away from the armed conflict zone [in Ukraine], to avoid involvement in any form, in particular to refrain from participating in military operations by either side," he told a briefing in response to a question from a Ukrainian journalist.

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