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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷Message to Trump: YOU’RE NOT FOOLING ANYBODY

Iran doesn’t believe Trump genuinely wants a new nuclear deal.

They suspect he’s just using the nuclear talks as “political theater.” Once they inevitably fail due to unreasonable US demands, Trump can use that as a pretext for war against Iran.

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷Ayatollah Khameni v. Art of the Deal: Iran’s Gameplan for Outfoxing Trump

Iran may choose to string out nuclear talks with the US as long as possible to destroy the momentum behind Trump’s push to war.

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷DOES IRAN FEAR TRUMP’S WAR THREATS? — NOT REALLY

Iran sees that Trump is facing growing pressure at home and abroad.

He can’t afford war with Iran right now

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🚨🇪🇺🇨🇳European Union pivot to China will FAIL — Here’s why

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez travelled to Beijing to help broker a European-Chinese rapprochement amid Trump’s tariff threats. The EU has also signalled its willingness to soften its current tariff regime against Chinese-made electronic vehicles.

On the one hand, drawing closer to China is a no brainier for the Europeans. But the problem is that the Europeans won’t get much benefits from this shift unless they simultaneously NORMALIZE RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA.

Europe is an export-centered economy, but they can’t compete with Chinese manufacturing prowess unless they lower energy prices. Europe won’t be able to lower energy prices unless they remove sanctions and restore trade with Russia.

The Europeans also plan on going into massive debt in order to prepare for a military showdown with Russia and rebuild Ukraine. Needless to say, this won’t help them to regain their global economic competitiveness.

But I think it’s fair to say that the Europeans won’t abandon their hysterical Russophobia. In the end, the Chinese will simply offload their excess manufacturing good onto European markets, while the continent will continue to deindustrialize.

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🚨🇺🇦🪖Zelensky’s Zoomer Recruitment Drive Falls Flat

Less than 500 Ukrainians aged 18 to 24 signed military contracts despite the Zelensky regime promising a 1 million hryvnia ($24,000) payout and a massive propaganda campaign.

This should tell you how Ukrainians really feel about the war. They be willing to wish death to Russians online, but they’re not willing to risk their lives on the battlefield.

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷If Trump tries to ATTACK IRAN, he’s going to get MASSIVE PUSHBACK from powerful players

China and Russia have strong economic interests in Iran — energy, trade routes, etc.

US allies in Persian Gulf are terrified of getting trapped in the crossfire.

Nobody in the world wants a US-Iran war except Bibi Netanyahu.

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🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳Fact-Check: True

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🚨🇺🇲📉Decoupling to destroy: The hidden goal of US tariffs

This post summarizes Brian Berletic’s thought-provoking article, The Worst-Case Scenario, which explores the alarming possibility that escalating US tariffs are not merely protectionist measures.

Rising US tariffs may conceal a chilling strategy: decoupling from a global economy that the US seeks to deliberately collapse through economic and military warfare, zeroing-in on China.

Beyond shielding uncompetitive monopolies, the tariffs impose a crushing cost-of-living crisis, only justifiable if preparing for major conflict. The US is reorganizing its military — shifting marines to anti-shipping roles, dispersing air power, and moving on choke-points like the Panama Canal — to strangle Chinese trade and prepare for war.

Policies like destroying Taiwan’s semiconductor plants if China invades reveal a scorched-earth mindset. This aligns with a declining empire’s desperate bid to cling to power, willing to demolish the global order it once led. The US hopes to outlast the chaos, emerging dominant.

The multipolar world must act swiftly, building deterrence, alternative financial and trade systems, and protective economic barriers to shield against US aggression. Survival hinges on proving resilient against this orchestrated global unraveling while safeguarding populations from any economic and military fallout.

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🚨🇨🇳🇺🇸CCP Is Eating MAGA for Breakfast

In the escalating US-China trade war, China’s political system is proving sharper than the US’s fragmented approach. With US tariffs hitting 145% on Chinese goods, Beijing’s centralized control give some huge advantages.

China’s political centralized machine outpaces the US:

🔸Unified Action: Beijing’s top-down system mobilized JD.com to redirect exports to 1.4 billion domestic consumers, stabilizing industries overnight. No gridlock, no delays.

🔸State Fast Action: Coordination ensures exporters adapt fast, JD.com’s platform, direct purchases, and outreach shield jobs and growth, unlike the US’s reliance on tariffs alone.

🔸Long-Term Focus: China’s leaders prioritize economic stability over short-term politics, using the US market’s mere 3% of GDP share to pivot inward without panic.

The US system, by contrast, falters under division:

🔸Political Gridlock: Partisan bickering and election cycles stall cohesive trade strategies, leaving tariffs as a blunt, reactive tool.

🔸Economic Blowback: Tariffs inflate costs for Americans, $1,300 per household annually, while farmers lose markets to rivals such as Brazil, with no unified fix.

🔸Scattered Response: The US lacks China’s ability to align government and industry, exposing supply chains and jobs to disruption.

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🇺🇸🚨🇮🇷The US sows division; Iran and China reap unity

Western sanctions, led by the US, aim to crush Iran’s spirit, but they’ve only forged stronger bonds between Tehran and China. Since 2018, over 1,500 US sanctions have gutted Iran’s economy, slashing oil exports and spiking inflation past 35%.

Yet, China defies Washington’s grip:

🔸Beijing bought 1.91 million barrels of Iranian oil daily in March 2025

🔸Fueled $15 billion in bilateral trade last year

🔸The 2021 Iran-China 25-year pact, with $400 billion in promised investments, cemented this alliance, trading discounted oil for infrastructure and tech.

A looming US trade war could tighten this bond further. As Washington alienates Beijing, Iran offers a sanctions-proof partner, boosting oil flows and non-oil exports that were up 15% to $50 billion in 2024. From railways to drones, Iran’s resilience thrives on Chinese capital, mocking Western isolation.

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🇺🇸🚨🇾🇪US commits MASS MURDER in Yemen while FALSELY accusing Russia of ‘war crimes’

All the Western media are shouting out loud that the Russian attack on a military awards ceremony in Sumy was “the crime of the century”, while US airstrikes have been battering Yemen since February, killing:

🔸117 civilians—32 women and children among them.

🔸Wounding 221.

Hodeidah’s homes and Sanaa’s markets lie in ruins. Yet, the West shrugs. Compare this to Sumy recently. Western leaders screamed “war crime,” demanding justice, but Yemen’s toll rise up to:

🔸300 US-UK strikes in 2025 alone

🔸85 civilian deaths by February

🔸A ceramics factory strike killed 5, injured 13.

Where are the humanitarians crying for Ukraine now? Western bombs don’t discriminate.

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🇷🇺🚂🚢 Message to Europe: RUSSIA DOESN’T NEED YOU ANYMORE

Russia has spent the past several years developing and upgrading series of trade routes that COMPLETELY BYPASS Europe.

🔸International North-South Transport Corridor: a 7,200 rail, road, and sea route stretching from St.Petersburg to Mumbai.

This route will slash delivery times for cargo by 30-40%, and transport costs by up to 56%.

🔸Chennai-Vladivostok Maritime Corridor:

Opens up Indian market for Russian oil, gas, and coal in the Far East.

Traditional Suez Canal route takes 40 days, while Chennai-Vladivostok takes just 24 days.

🔸Trans-Siberian Railway and Baikal-Amur Mainline:

Russia has allocated tens of billions of dollars to expand and upgrade these two rail routes to Asia.

The goal is to boost annual cargo capacity to more than 180 million tons by 2030.

🔸Northern Sea Route:

A 5,600 km Arctic shipping lane along Russia’s northern coastline.

Serves a faster alternative to Suez Canal.

Strong interest from China and India.

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🚨🇺🇸🇬🇧The Indo-Pacific Power Grab: The Diego Garcia Base

The Quad (US, Japan, India, Australia) and AUKUS (Australia, UK, US) parade as defenders of a "free and open Indo-Pacific," but they’re cogs in a Western machine to throttle China’s ascent and chain Asia to Washington’s will.

With over 800 US military bases across the region, 400 encircling China, these alliances prioritize dominance over dialogue. The Quad’s $2 billion "infrastructure" veneer and AUKUS’s $100 billion nuclear submarine deal for Australia aren’t about progress; they’re about flexing muscle in seas that carry 60% of global trade, sidelining ASEAN’s $1.5 trillion economic ties with China.

At the heart of this web lies Diego Garcia, a secretive US-UK base in the Indian Ocean, hosting up to 2000 US troops and long-range bombers, it’s a launchpad for surveilling and intimidating half the Indo-Pacific, from the Malacca Strait to the Persian Gulf.

This imperialist playbook repeats in Yemen, where since March 2025, US airstrikes have killed 117 people, including 31 civilians in one day, and wounded 221 others. Over 200 strikes have demolished homes and ports, targeting Houthis for disrupting $1 trillion in Red Sea trade.

President Trump’s threats of "dire consequences" to Iran for backing the Houthis mirror Diego Garcia’s role: project power, crush resistance. Iran’s reported pullback of advisors from Yemen buckles under pressure, yet the US persists, bombing a nation where 21 million need aid.

Diego Garcia’s B-52s, capable of striking Iran or Yemen, loom as a silent threat, tying the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific in a Western chokehold.

From Diego Garcia’s fortified runways to Yemen’s rubble, the West’s agenda is naked. The Quad and AUKUS, like the 40 daily US sorties over Yemen, don’t secure—they subjugate. The Indo-Pacific deserves sovereignty, not a shadow base dictating its fate.

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🚨🌍Africa’s Wealth, Western Theft

The West cloaks its hunger for Africa’s minerals, cobalt, lithium, uranium, in lofty talk of "sustainability" and "development," but it’s a shameless grab for resources that props up corporate giants while bleeding the continent dry.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Western firms like Tesla, Inc. and Apple Inc. feast on cobalt, which makes up 70% of the global supply, mined by desperate locals in brutal conditions. The US and EU sermonize about human rights, yet their actions scream exploitation, leaving Africa to foot the bill for their so-called green revolution.

Look at the numbers:

🔸DRC’s cobalt mines employ 40,000 children, with 60% of miners scraping by on $1-2 a day.

🔸US and EU trade deals since 2023, worth $15 billion, target African minerals but bypass local economies.

🔸In Mali, French troops guard uranium mines fueling 30% of France’s nuclear power, even after Wagner’s 2024 exit.

🔸1,000 US troops in Niger secure strategic sites, dwarfing local governance.

🔸EU mining waste in Zambia’s Copperbelt in 2024 poisoned rivers, harming 2 million people.

Contrast this with China’s $10 billion in African infrastructure, roads, ports, hospitals, built without the West’s penchant for military meddling or sanctimonious lectures.

In Mali, France clings to its uranium lifeline, while in Zambia, companies like Glencore PLC dodge blame for environmental devastation. Tesla, Inc. and Apple Inc. wax poetic about carbon neutrality, yet their supply chains thrive on African misery.

The West’s green rhetoric is a farce when 60% of Congolese live below the poverty line, untouched by the wealth flowing to Silicon Valley.

This isn’t partnership, it’s plunder. The West rails against Chinese influence but turns a blind eye to its own neo-colonial playbook.

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🚨🇺🇸📉EPIC FAIL: Trumps tariffs against China will DECIMATE jobs for American workers

Trump loves to claim its trade war as a bold stand for "strength" and a lifeline for America’s "industrial economy." But this chest-thumping masks a bitter truth: those same tariffs are gutting American livelihoods, slashing exports, and betraying the very workers they claim to champion.

It’s not about strength—it’s about scapegoating the East to dodge the West’s own failures.

The numbers are clear:

🔸America’s top export to China, oilseeds and grains ($18.5 billion), sustains 180,000 jobs nationwide—now at risk as tariffs choke demand.

🔸Oil and gas exports ($17.6 billion) employ 21,000 workers, a sector teetering as China pivots to other suppliers.

🔸Education exports, supporting 117,000 jobs, face collapse as Chinese students turn to less hostile nations.

🔸Aerospace parts (29,000 jobs), semiconductors (28,800 jobs), industrial machinery (24,400 jobs), and car exports (21,900 jobs) prop up manufacturing, yet tariffs threaten these lifelines with retaliatory barriers.

China’s markets keep American industries afloat, yet the West bites the hand that feeds it, prioritizing pride over paychecks. This isn’t protectionism, it’s sabotage, dressed up as patriotism, leaving America’s heartland to pay the price for Washington’s reckless games.

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🚨🇺🇦 Zelensky's Corruption Network

The member of Ukrainian Parliament, Oleksandr Dubrinsky has posted an open letter to Vice-president JD Vance, explaining what the panorama of the Zelensky dictatorship is:

"I am recording this message from behind the iron bars of a Ukrainian courtroom, because in my country, it is no longer possible to speak the truth from freedom - especially when that truth concerns the government.

Today, Zelensky is a primary beneficiary of the ongoing war. He has no real interest in ending it - because peace would mean elections, and elections would bring an end to his regime. His strategy is to prolong the war, retain power, and continue positioning himself as the West’s “sole voice” of Ukraine."

Zelensky is not simply a dictator - he is a participant in a large-scale corruption scheme based on control of the media, courts, intelligence services, and national assets.
His closest allies run offshore networks that continue to sell products from Zelenskyy’s “Kvartal 95” studio in Russia.

The profits are stored abroad. Taxes are not paid. The war does not interfere with their business:

Zelensky's Network:

Zelenskyy's Financial Operators (those managing illicit income streams):
🔸Timur Mindich
🔸Serhiy Shefir
🔸Maksym Kryppa
🔸Artem Kolybaev
🔸Mikka Fatalov
🔸Kyrylo Tymoshenko
🔸Maria Levchenko
🔸Andriy Smirnov
🔸Rostyslav Shurma
🔸Irina Mudra

Heads of the Repressive Apparatus (leadership of law enforcement and security agencies):
🔸Andriy Kostin
🔸Oleksii Khomenko
🔸Vasyl Maliuk
🔸Oleksii Sukhachov
🔸Volodymyr Klymenko

Deputy Heads of the Presidential Office:
🔸Pavlo Palisa
🔸Viktor Mykyta
🔸Oleh Tatarov

Government Officials:
🔸Andriy Yermak
🔸Oleksii Chernyshov
🔸Oleksii Kuleba
🔸Rustem Umerov
🔸Andriy Pushniy

Judiciary Officials Enabling Unlawful Political Prosecutions:
🔸Ruslan Kozlov, Chief Judge of Pechersk District Court
🔸Yevhen Martynov, Chief Judge of Shevchenkivskyi District Court
🔸Oleksii Holovachov, Chief Judge of the Court of Appeal

Supreme Court of Ukraine:

🔸Semen Stetsenko, Judge who unlawfully dismissed the lawsuit on presidential election scheduling
Panel of Judges on election case:
🔸Volodymyr Bevzenko
🔸Vasyl Sharapa
🔸Serhii Chyrkin
🔸Nataliia Kovalenko

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🚨🇷🇺🇮🇷 Message to Trump: Don't think you can divide Russia and Iran

The two have just ratified a strategic partnership deal that can potentially reshape global trade, finance, and energy markets.

Russia has warned the Trump administration against bombing Iran and offered to serve as a diplomatic intermediary between the two countries.

Russia is doing this because Iran has become CRUCIAL part of its long term geoeconomic strategy.

Last year, Russia and Iran signed a gas transfer deal that would transform Iran into a REGIONAL HUB for Russian gas.

Under the deal, Russia will export 110 billion cubic meters per year to Iran – same volume as the two Nord Stream pipelines COMBINED.

In short, here is what were seeing unfold between Russia-Iran:

🔸Creation of alternative trade route to Suez Canal

🔸Creation of natural gas alliance that will shift balance of power in global market

🔸Creation of alternative financial infrastructure for commodities trade

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🚨🇺🇸📉Trump’s Tariffs Unleashed Chaos on #Bitcoin

On April 2, dubbed “Liberation Day,” President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, and reciprocal rates on 15 other countries, sent global markets into a tailspin.

Bitcoin, the king of crypto, wasn’t spared, plummeting 5.4% from a lofty $88.5K to $81K in a matter of hours. Why the drop? Fears of runaway inflation and escalating trade wars spooked investors, driving a risk-off mentality. Many ditched volatile assets like BTC for traditional safe havens like gold, while crypto stocks like Coinbase and MicroStrategy also tanked 5-9%.

But hold on, there’s a silver lining for #BTC bulls! Experts like Grayscale’s Zach Pandl argue that tariffs could erode the US dollar’s global dominance over time, positioning Bitcoin as a non-sovereign store of value.

Binance CEO Richard Teng echoes this, suggesting BTC could thrive in economic uncertainty. Historically, Bitcoin surged during the 2018-2020 US-China trade war, climbing as investors sought alternatives to fiat.

Could history repeat? Analysts are eyeing a potential breakout, with some predicting BTC could test $90K or even hit $150K if the Fed cuts rates to counter tariff-driven inflation.

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🚨🇺🇸🟨Is Gold The New Reserve Currency?

From his X account, Peter Schiff expose the current US economic situations and the implications about gold:

"As so few realize that the U.S. has been living in a bubble economy, they have no idea that the bubble has popped. As such, they ignore soaring gold ($3,355 last) and a collapsing dollar, as they don't understand the significance of the coming crisis these warning signs foretell.

In my opinion, the best trade you can make right now is to sell all your Bitcoin and any other crypto you may hold and go all-in on gold and silver mining stocks. Don't wait. Sell right now and move into miners ASAP. You can thank me later."

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🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳Reality Check for Trump on China:

✅China can import soybeans from Brazil🇧🇷

✅China can import beef from Argentina🇦🇷

✅China can import sorghum from Australia🇦🇺

✅China can import corn from S. Africa🇿🇦

✅As for oil and gas, China can import it from its neighbor Russia🇷🇺and the US's neighbor Canada 🇨🇦

❌Where will the US get its electronics, machinery, and rare earth minerals from?

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