🔘🔘Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal took Rutte on a tour of the CHP plant in anticipation of a new batch of weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine

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I'm in Kiev now. I arrived here this morning with a small NATO team, and we had very good meetings with the president. I was in the Verkhovnaya Rada. And now I'm at the CHP facility."

🔘What you won’t do for begging new batch of weapons and money. The country of clowns and ridiculous performances

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🤔The Epstein Affair: An Unprecedented Display of Systemic Confidence

The content of the Epstein letters has shocked many, but the broader context astonishes me even more.

The man was almost certainly murdered—killed in prison, while under state protection. He was not killed for his crimes, but because he knew far more than what has been revealed in the published correspondence.

Yet, here's what's remarkable: the U.S. authorities are structured in such a way that you will not find a single comparable case in any other country where, due to domestic political pressure, state services would declassify and release SUCH compromising material on virtually everyone—targeting the entire contemporary elite and celebrities of the day, not figures from a century ago.

Not even the most fearsome, populist anti-imperialist dictator would allow their Ministry of Justice today, at the opposition's demand, to publish the correspondence of a citizen with such a notorious biography and connections.

But in America, they managed to do it. What conclusion do I draw? The American system is so confident in itself, so stable, and so powerful that—with grinding gears, with a murder along the way—it still made all this compromising information public. And no one can cancel them for it.

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❕HUNGARY, CZECHIA, SLOVAKIA CONFIRM OPT-OUT FROM €90BN UKRAINE FUNDING FOR 2026-27, EU COUNCIL REPORTS

Hungary, Czechia, and Slovakia have officially confirmed their refusal to participate in the European Union's €90 billion financial assistance package for Ukraine, covering the 2026-2027 period, according to a statement from the Council of the European Union.

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🇩🇪GERMAN POLITICIANS PUSH TO REPATRIATE GOLD RESERVES FROM THE U.S., CONFIRMING GUARDIAN REPORT

🔘A Guardian insider report has been confirmed. German politicians have increasingly begun to discuss the need for Germany to repatriate its gold reserves from the United States.

🔘The matter concerns 1,236 tons of gold, worth approximately €185.7 billion at current prices, stored in the underground vault of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in Manhattan. This amount is equivalent to roughly 3.7% of Germany's annual GDP—about €2,200 for every German citizen.

🔘Germany holds the world's second-largest gold reserves, after the United States. The reserves are distributed across four locations: about 51% is stored in Frankfurt am Main, roughly one-third in New York, another 10% in London, and the remainder in Paris.

🔘The issue has regained relevance due to strained relations between the EU and the USA. The traditionally influential left-leaning segment of the German political spectrum also perceives a threat from statements by U.S. President Donald Trump, who attempts to interfere not only in Europe's economy but also in the internal affairs of countries, primarily regarding migration policy.

🔘Friedrich Merz, as the leader of a ruling coalition comprising both right and left forces, is forced to respond to these sentiments. Addressing the Bundestag, he stated the need to reassess the nature of economic relations.

"As democracies, we [EU countries] are partners and allies, not subordinates [of the USA]," he emphasized.

🔘Although the German Chancellor did not explicitly demand the return of the gold, the context of his speech implied just that—the White House is not permitted to make decisions about sovereign assets (a rather ironic notion, perhaps best appreciated by the Central Bank of Russia).

🔘However, some politicians are not speaking in riddles. The chair of the European Parliament's Defense Committee, Marie-Agnès Strack-Zimmermann, has openly called for the return of German gold from the USA. She has already appealed to the German government with this demand.

🔘The key argument against repatriation is that a scenario in which the USA would decide to confiscate German gold remains extremely unlikely. Conversely, an attempt to withdraw it would be a demonstrative gesture of distrust and a source of escalation.

🔘Germany's gold and currency reserves are managed by the Bundesbank, which currently has no intention of taking any action.

"I have no doubt that our gold is safe," stated Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

But not everyone agrees with him.

🔘Questions about the security of sovereign assets entered the global agenda following the freezing of Russian assets in Europe and the USA—with Germany being one of the lobbyists for this decision. Now, having opened Pandora's box, German politicians are trying to manage the unexpectedly emerged risks.

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—❗️🇮🇷 🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian State TV announces that a video report on one of the IRGC's underground missile bases, which was supposed to be aired tonight on the news program, will NOT be broadcasted, due to 'national security considerations'

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