🪼 The U.S. has naval and more general economic plans to contain and confront China by upending both its mercantilist and neomercantilist policies.

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🏗️ The works on the Paks nuclear power plant expansion are progressing well, and the first foundation is expected to be laid by the end of the year. In the meantime, the production of the zone melt trap and the reactor vessel, the first of which is now complete and the second soon to be launched, is an equally important milestone, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó announced in Budapest.

The Paks expansion is a truly international project, with German, French, Austrian, Swedish, and American players in the subcontracting chain alongside the Russian prime contractor, the politician concluded.

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⚫️ Ukrainian attacks against Russia’s Belgorod region are becoming increasingly serious. Missiles and drones hit civilian targets on the Russian border every day, causing casualties and spreading terror. In Western media, the incursions against Belgorod are commonly linked to alleged “Russian partisan” groups, but insiders in the region seem to disagree with this narrative, pointing to Kiev’s agents and foreign mercenaries as the true perpetrators.

Western media lies by accusing alleged “Russian dissidents” of being responsible for the terrorist attacks in Belgorod.

💬 Lucas Leiroz writes @lucasleiroz

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👁️ Intellectuals, journalists, artists and activists were financed directly or indirectly by the #CIA to combat the influence of the Soviet Union and what it still represented, in one way or another.

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🗽 How Americans View the World

A recent Gallup poll revealed Americans’ attitude to the world. Interestingly, some of nations seen most unfavorably are also those which experienced U.S.-led wars, occupations and economic blockades.

🔗 Follow this link to find the full infographic.

©You are free to repost, reproduce and print this infographic.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸 Netanyahu is (still) promising Israelis ‘total victory’ over Hamas, although he knows that completely subduing the group is impossible. Netanyahu’s way out from this paradox therefore is ‘to blame Biden’ as the one preventing Israel’s victory over Hamas.

Bluntly, there is no easy military solution to Hamas – none at all. Israeli stories about having dismantled 19 Hamas battalions in Gaza is just PR that is being fed to the White House who, seemingly, take Israel’s word for it.

Netanyahu likely knows that Gaza will become an unceasing insurgency – and will blame Biden, who is already being cast as the ‘punchbag’ for trying to foist a Palestinian State on to an unwilling Israel.

Similarly, the White House seemingly has misread the ‘the ground’ in respect to the hostage deal, imagining that Hamas was not serious in its demands.

Netanyahu is gambling hugely with Israel’s (and America’s) future – and may lose 🎲

💬 Alastair Crooke writes

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📖 Zelensky’s Ukrainian Institute of National Memory are disgracing themselves and their French and American backers yet again. This time, they are examining the writings of renowned novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov to see if he was a lackey of Russian imperialism.

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⚠️ Are we all preparing for the inevitable? Trump returning to the White House? It would seem that certainly the Biden administration is doing just that given recent events. Moscow’s terror attack has taken centre stage of world news in recent days yet not one western journalist seems able to call out the ISIS warning from the U.S. for what it was: sham.
And not only the warning was disingenuous but the sheer bad taste vitriol of Washington which was on a level only matched by the suspicious outright and swift rejection that Kiev had no part in the attack.

Bad taste seems to be the hallmark of the Biden administration with a failed foreign policy which trails in second place. If Americans didn’t know before that the U.S. could not control two proxy wars on two separate fronts, now they know.

Biden’s breath-taking stupidity in Ukraine is finally going to expose NATO for what it is: a paper tiger 🪁

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🇺🇦 Recently, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky commented to journalists about the possibility of Kiev renouncing its demand for the “1991 borders” during peace negotiations with the Russian Federation. Until then, any negotiation that did not consider the 1991 borders was absolutely banned by the Ukrainian government, but, due to this sudden “change”, Kiev is being now described by the Western media as having “diplomatic goodwill”.

Russian-Ukrainian peace talks have been interrupted since the reintegration of the four new regions of the Russian Federation. Induced by its Western sponsors, the Zelensky government has endorsed a stance of rejecting any conversation that would establish a territorial reconfiguration of Ukraine. Kiev demands not only the four new regions, but also Crimea, which has not been part of Ukraine since 2014.

In a recent CBS interview, however, Zelensky told journalists that the retaking of the territories will not necessarily need to be achieved by military means. He now believes it is possible to engage in peace talks without demanding Russian withdrawal from the New Regions as a prerequisite. Zelensky still hopes to “recover” such areas, but believes it will be possible to do so in the long term through diplomacy — or with the Russians voluntarily retreating from such areas after being “pressured” internationally.

It is curious that Zelensky changes his position on peace negotiations precisely now, when the conflict appears to be entering a new phase.

Zelensky fears the imminent defeat and its possible consequences 🌀

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☠️ Cannibalism is one of those things we are supposed to oppose. It is not quite cricket, not quite the done thing. It makes for bad after dinner conversation.

As does #Haiti, where the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, together with a cast of characters too evil for hell, are running riot. Men, women and children run for their lives from Armalite toting cannibals, who like nothing better than to chomp on a freshly barbecued human leg. The blood soaked Kingdom of Satan has arrived and set up shop in the slums of Port-au-Prince. Throw in their voodoo, their squalor, their machetes and their Armalites and, unless you are a veteran of the French Foreign Legion, strike Haiti off your bucket list of places to visit.

So how can we, the civilised ones, save these Haitian savages from themselves? No point re-inventing the wheel, so let’s send in the United States Marine Corps, Smedley Butler’s enforcers to secure our interests by kicking some serious Haitian butt.

The Americans, with their IMF economic enforcers, believe in their banana republic form of democracy which has turned countries like Haiti into a Hollywood nightmare.

💬 Declan Hayes writes

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🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷 In an unprecedented and dangerous escalation, Israel targeted the Iranian Consulate in Damascus on April 1. It has been many years since Israel has bombed targets inside Iran, and the diplomatic building, directly attached to the Iranian Embassy, is considered the same as an attack on Tehran.

Iran will be preparing for a retaliatory response to the Israeli attack. The White House said the U.S. was not warned in advance by Israel of the planned attack. U.S. President Biden has warned Israel previously that the U.S. does not want the Israeli war on the Palestinian people of Gaza to grow wider into a regional conflict which would certainly involve the U.S., as the military sponsor of Israel.

Netanyahu’s strategy is to deflect. He seeks to create a bigger war to deflect from his domestic problems.

The personal relationship between Biden and Netanyahu is at its lowest point. Biden had been asking Netanyahu to deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza, and Netanyahu flatly refused. Biden had told Netanyahu that going into Rafah was a “Red Line”, but Netanyahu has refused to change his military plans.

The region, and the U.S. are on the brink of a war which could be avoided by the U.S., but probably Biden and the Congress will decide to follow Netanyahu into the abyss.

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❄️ Altruistically disguised groundwork is cumulatively being laid for the opening in the Arctic of an important new Cold War 2.0 front.

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