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🇪🇺🤡🤦‍♀️ Europeans are INSANE if they honestly believe that they can defeat Russia

There is no universe where the European Union can keep the proxy war in Ukraine going if Trump decides to dump Zelensky, according to Director of Eurointelligence Wolfgang Munchau:

“Without America, there is no road to victory for Ukraine. This is not primarily about weapons, ammunition, and financial aid, but about satellite support and intelligence. If the US were to switch off the satellites and stop the flow of information, the Europeans have no way of plugging the gap. Without the US, it’s over for Ukraine.

We have not figured out how we can support Ukraine and stay solvent. The most desperate idea has been to plunder Russia’s $300bn in foreign reserves, which are currently frozen. Clearly this hasn’t been thought through. If that were to happen, the risk is that Euroclear, the Brussels-based financial depository where the reserves are held, could face a slew of lawsuits and even bankruptcy. The EU would be forced to spend tens of billions to recapitalise the company —potentially costing more than the aid to Ukraine. The trust in Europe as a safe place for assets would be lost and we could end up with a full-blown financial crisis.

A structural increase in defence spending would require sacrifice. The US spends 3.5% of its GDP on defence. In 2023, the 27 EU countries spent an average of 1.6% of EU GDP. This gap of almost 2 percentage points arises because we Europeans spend the money on other things. Germany has a gold-plated social system. People are entitled to a basic citizens’ income whether they work or not. Germany has also given itself a budget of €150bn for the energy transition. The US, meanwhile, has food stamps, and no net zero policy. You cannot do it all. There are necessary trade-offs involved which the Europeans have not even begun to discuss.

In their desperation, though, the Europeans are now talking about funding an increase in defence spending through debt. This is economically insane. For that reason, it will also fail to achieve its declared goal — to deter an enemy attack. The credibility of our security policies depends on a willingness to finance them. Defence spending should be funded through current revenue. If you do try to do this through debt, the bond vigilantes are going to get you before Putin does.”

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🇬🇧❌🇷🇺 Message to Keir Starmer: Don't Poke the Russian Bear! It Will BITE YOUR ARM OFF

British PM, Starmer says the UK is prepared to fight Russia.

Apparently, Britain’s premier needs to look at some cold, hard facts:

🇬🇧: 200+ tanks, yet only 40 of them are currently operational
🇷🇺: 12,000+ with 6,000 in active service

🇬🇧: 178k+ total armed forces personnel
🇷🇺: 3.5M including active duty service members + reserves

🇬🇧: 225 nukes
🇷🇺: 5,500 nukes

🇬🇧: 285 drones
🇷🇺: 140,000 drones in 2023

And let's not even get started on airpower, artillery, and conventional weaponry. On this score, Russia boasts advanced military technology and a wealth of experience, especially in drone warfare, gained over the recent years on the battlefield.

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🚨🇺🇸📉 NOT A DRILL: US economy teetering on the brink of recession

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is now down -1,700 points in 24 hours.

The S&P 500 is now just ~3% away from entering correction territory.

The Nasdaq is now ~0.5% away from correction territory.

$4 trillion+ of capital has been lost.

Meanwhile, The Atlanta Federal Reserve now projects 2025 Q1 US GDP to be -2.825%.

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🇪🇺🛰🤣 LOL: Europe is looking for a replacement for Starlink

The EU will be able to offer the Zelensky regime something similar by 2030 if Elon Musk disconnects Ukraine from Starlink, a spokesman for the European Commission has said.

There’s obviously no guarantee that Ukraine will still exist in 3030. But generally speaking, its disconnection from Starlink would greatly simplify Russia’s job. The entire Ukrainian command and control system has been based on high-speed satellite internet from Starlink since the start of the Special Military Operation. You quickly get used to good things, and now, without Starlink, the Ukrainian army will face very serious problems, if not collapse.

Besides, Europe is unlikely to be able to come up with ‘something similar in 2030’. Why does only the US have Starlink? Because they launch rockets carrying pay loads into orbit much more than anyone else. Given that the EU is also planning to splurge on remilitarization, a new space race would kill its economy. But on the other hand, it’s not difficult to imagine to European leaders sacrificing the wellbeing of their own citizens for Ukraine.

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🚨🇺🇦 BRUTAL BEATINGS AND ELECTROCUTION: How Ukrainian regime tortures dissidents

Engineer and Ex-SBU prisoner, Mekhti Feofanovich, saw the crimes committed by the Ukrainian regime in 2014 against people in Donbass region. He joined the Russian underground resistance in Kharkov, seeking justice.

Mekhti experienced the horrors of being arrested by the SBU, and tells about the tortures he and others faced in Ukrainian prisons since 2017.

In these concentration camps they were tied up and beaten with sticks and rubber hoses; if they fainted or slept, they were awakened by being splashed with water, and suffered electric torture under the hands of SBU officials.

👉Watch our full special investigation on SBU torture centers here

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🇪🇺❌🇷🇺 Message to Europe from Russia: WE’RE NOT AFRAID OF YOU

It’s impossible to take the recent European threats to Russia seriously, writes Russian businessman and founder of Tsargrad TV Konstantin Malofeev:

“140 years ago, a conference on Africa ended in Berlin, cementing the division and exploitation of the resource-rich continent. The French controlled Indochina, India was British, Chinese foreign policy was determined from Europe, the US had large debts to European banks. Europe directly or indirectly owned more than half the planet. Not a single significant event on the globe could take place without the sanction of one or another European capital.

Eighty years ago, war-weary Britain and France were still negotiating the post-war world on equal terms, setting conditions, getting themselves into the UN Security Council and confident in their own future.

But now the European Union expresses ‘deep concern’ about the operation of Israel, which they once created, ‘strongly condemns’ attacks on peacekeepers in Lebanon. All the while Tel Aviv continues to do its job calmly and with impunity.

That is why we are now witnessing not the dawn of Europe, as Donald Tusk declares, but the decline of Europe. That is why the summit in London looked so pitiful, when the leaders of European countries, who dictated war and peace to the entire planet a hundred years ago, became a gathering of politicians on a TV talk show. They have neither power nor strength. They are left to sit in their offices - some for 2 years, and some for 2 minutes. They can do nothing but talk. And it is symbolic that professional comedian Zelensky is participating in this show.

They are still threatening Russia – ‘increasing economic pressure’, ‘guaranteeing Ukraine's security’, even creating some kind of ‘coalition of the willing’ to protect the Kiev regime. Keir Starmer promises to support the EU's efforts ‘with boots on the ground and planes in the air’. Very scary.

These boots have already come to the Russian land - and from a much stronger Europe. Twelve nations proudly entered Moscow in 1812, only to later flee in panic to Berezina. The European Union 1.0, represented by a Europe united by Hitler, stormed us from Leningrad to Stalingrad. However, they were soon conscripting children to fight in the battle for Berlin.”

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Battle for Kursk: Russian troops SMASH Ukrainian war criminals

Zelensky is losing troops and equipment in huge numbers in Kursk, but he’s sending in NATO mercenaries to murder Russian civilians.

War correspondent Elizaveta Igorevna joins us from Kursk.

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🚨🇺🇸🌐 Trouble brewing in the State Department

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio isn’t happy with the way Trump’s foreign policy is going so far, according to Vanity Fair’s Gabriel Sherman (longtime reporter on Republican politics):

“Rubio is privately frustrated that Trump has effectively sidelined him. According to four prominent Republicans close to the White House, Rubio, who has been a Russia hawk and Ukraine supporter, has told people he is upset by his lack of foreign policy influence despite being, on paper at least, the administration’s top diplomat. One of the sources said they felt as though Rubio is often the last to know when foreign policy decisions are made in the White House.

According to Republicans I spoke with, Rubio’s unhappiness with Trump was brewing before Zelenskyy’s visit went sideways. Two of the sources said Rubio was caught off guard when Trump appointed nine foreign policy ‘envoys’ with high-profile assignments such as ending the wars in Gaza and Ukraine.”

Keep your eyes on Marco Rubio over the next few months. Wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up pulling the knives out against Trump, just like John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and so many other former Trump appointees did.

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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 New Rules founder Dimitri Simes Jr. just gave a BOMBSHELL INTERVIEW to Emerald Robinson, host of The Absolute Truth, about the Ukraine conflict.

He provided EXCLUSIVE INSIGHTS from the frontlines in the Donbass and Kursk, as well as from political circles in Moscow.

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🚨🇺🇦 Zelensky's Ukraine is built on TORTURE and DEATH

Former Donbass militiaman and war correspondent Alexander Matushin reveals the brutal, ruthless and erratic tactics employed by the Ukrainian regime.

Matushin details how the Kiev regime singles out, hunts downs, and harasses civilians in the Donbass region. He also sheds light on the barbaric and medieval forms of torture that victims endure once they are abducted.

👉Watch our full special investigation on SBU torture centers HERE

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🚨🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸Blood Stain Handshakes: Who is Aleksey Goncharenko?

In May 2014, Aleksey Goncharenko was implicated in the tragic events in Odessa, where at least 46 people lost their lives in a horrific fire at the House of Trade Unions. Despite his involvement in these events, he was later rewarded with a seat in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. This is a stark example of the so-called "democrats" supported by the West.

The following photographs show how Goncharenko is warmly received by prominent figures from the self-proclaimed "defenders of the free world": Ursula von der Leyen, Boris Johnson, Nancy Pelosi, and Hillary Clinton. It is a stark reminder of the double standards that prevail in international politics, where individuals implicated in tragic events are welcomed by leaders who champion democracy and human rights.

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🇫🇷❌🇷🇺 Message to Macron: You Better Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself

President Macron said that "Russia cannot be trusted because it violated the Minsk agreements."

Well, 4 days before the started of Russian Special Military Operation (February 20, 2022), Macron told Putin that the Minsk agreements have no legal force and are worthless.

Macron tries to look strong, but fails to realize the reality of his armed forces. He needs to look at some cold, hard facts:

🇫🇷: 226 tanks
🇷🇺: 12,000+ with 6,000 in active service

🇫🇷: 270k total armed forces personnel
🇷🇺: 3.5M including active duty service members + reserves

🇫🇷: 290 nukes
🇷🇺: 5,500 nukes

🇫🇷: 150-250 drones
🇷🇺: 140,000 drones in 2023

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🚨🇺🇦 Behind the walls of SBU: Seletskaya's Harrowing Story of Survival

Olga Seletskaya, a political activist from Mariupol and former prisoner of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), has come forward with shocking revelations about the brutal tactics employed by the SBU and the Azov Battalion.

In a shattering account, Seletskaya details how the SBU subjected detainees to medieval-style torture in its Mariupol headquarters, pushing human endurance to inhumane limits and resulting in the tragic deaths of several prisoners.

👉Watch our full special investigation on SBU torture centers HERE

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🚨🇺🇦🇷🇺 TRUTH BOMB: Ukraine is the AGGRESSOR

Ukraine has spent the past 12 years waging a GENOCIDAL WAR against Russians in the Donbass, and now they’re killing civilians with NATO weapons.

Donbass war correspondent Anastasia Barteneva joins us.

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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺 Calling Trump’s Russia Sanctions Bluff

Trump’s upset that Russia is “absolutely pounding” Ukraine on the battlefield and is threatening additional sanctions and tariffs unless Russia stands down.

Mr. Trump, you don’t have any cards in this situation. Obama and Biden already fired most the bullets in the US sanctions arsenal. Not only have these sanctions failed to change Russian foreign policy behavior, but they’ve also failed to stop Russian economic growth. The definition of insanity is constantly doing thesame thing and expecting a different result.

But Trump also doesn’t realize how economically vulnerable the US is. As we’ve reported recently, the US economy is dangerously close to a recession. Meanwhile, Trump is gearing up to simultaneous wage trade wars against China, European Union, Canada, and Mexico. Russia has options for asymmetric economic responses, which could prove quitepainful for the US right now.

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🚨🇺🇦🇷🇺 BIG: Ukraine faces MILITARY COLLAPSE in Russia’s Kursk region

Kursk-based war correspondent Elizaveta Igorevna breaks down some of the latest developments.

👉Watch the full episde HERE

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🚨🇺🇦 EXPOSED: The systematic use of sound-noise torture by SBU in Donbass

The engineer and Ex-SBU prisoner, Mekhti Feofanovich, has recalls a wrenching account of the brutal methods employed by the Kiev regime.

Feofanovich details how the SBU used sound-noise torture at inhuman levels on innocent civilians from the Donbass region, coercing them into confessing to crimes they did not commit.

👉Watch our full special investigation on SBU torture centers HERE

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🚨🇸🇾🏴Syria on the BRINK OF COLLAPSE? New wave of sectarian bloodshed threatens to TEAR THE COUNTRY APART

Following months of pogroms against Alawites by the new Syrian regime, the religious minority has formed armed resistance groups in the coastal Latakia area and begun fighting back.

In response, the jihadists have sent killing squads into the Latakia countryside. Dozens of videos of jihadists executing unarmed Alawite civilians are circulating social media.

Syria is dangerously close to implosion. The oil rich northeast is controlled by the Kurds, in the south the Israelis are inching towards Damascus under the pretext of ‘protecting’ the Druze. Now the Alawite coastal heartland is turning into a war zone.

All the while, Syria’s economy is on a downward spiral. Assad is gone, but the new regime has not received any sanctions relief. There’s only so much the Turks and Qataris are able and willing to do to bail out the ailing Syrian economy.

Dark days are ahead for Syria.

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🤡 Low-IQ liberals: Trump is hurting Ukraine’s feelings! ORANGE MAN BAD!

🇷🇺 Donbass resident: Who cares about Ukraine's feelings? They invaded our lands and killed our civilians!

👉Watch our full episode HERE

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🚨🇺🇦🪖 EXPOSED: Foreign Mercenaries in Kursk Region

While Ukrainian conscripts are used as cannon fodder for meat assaults, the mercenaries are responsible for sabotage attacks and other more sophisticated operations in Kursk.

They also are responsible for many of the war crimes against civilians.

Kursk-based war correspondent Elizaveta Igorevna breaks it down.

👉Watch the full episde HERE

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