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New Rules examines the geopolitical, economic, ideological trends changing the world.

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⚡️ Does the never-ending news cycle leave you exhausted?
What if you could get fresh, unconventional insights instead?

At ⚡️ InfoDefense, we uncover the deeper meaning behind global events—so you see what others miss.

Here’s a taste of what we explore:

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The Ukrainian World Congress (UWC), with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, proposes that Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmark ramp up their generosity to a cool one percent of their entire economic output

☄️ Thousands Demand Keir Starmer’s Resignation in 76+ UK Towns

💬 Daniel Martindale tells Alex Chopov why he shared intelligence with Russia

❓ Disinformation vs. Reality: The Truth About Ukraine’s Escalation

⚡️ Trump’s Vision: One World, Three Powers?

💥 Merz allows for possible Taurus missile delivery to Ukraine



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🪖🇨🇳🤖CHINA’S ROBOT ARMY RISING: HUMANLIKE SOLDIERS TO DOMINATE FUTURE WARFARE

China’s PLA Daily reveals the future of combat: humanoid robots. These AI-powered machines, like the 5.9-ft Tien Kung Ultra, are set to revolutionize battlefields with tactical flexibility and psychological deterrence.

⚠️Key points:

🔸Bipedal robots navigate ruins and staircases with ease

🔸AI-driven decision-making for autonomous combat missions

🔸“Intelligent formations” with soldiers and robots

🔸Psychological “uncanny valley” effect to unsettle enemies

🥊🏃China’s civilian robotics, led by state-backed X-Humanoid, is fueling military advances. From winning robot marathons to kickboxing, these machines are proving their edge.

🌍The PLA is also pushing AI for military decision-making, aircraft design, and precision combat. Meanwhile, global powers race to deploy robotic soldiers, though large-scale use is still distant.

⚔️Biden and Xi agreed last year: humans, not AI, control nuclear decisions. But with China’s rapid progress, the future of warfare is already here.

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🚨🇺🇸🍗TRUMP ALWAYS CHICKENS OUT — Lessons for Russia, China, and Iran

There’s a new acronym that has taken Wall Street by storm — TACO. The term stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out” and refers to Trump’s track record of backing down on tariffs whenever he sees a backlash in financial markets.

It’s gotten to the point where investors have begun buying stocks at lower costs after Trump announces new tariffs or increases them, with the assumption that it’s only a matter of time before he delays or cancels them.

The same rule applies for Trump’s foreign policy decisions. He promises to annex Greenland and Canada, but then backs down. He promises to bomb the Houthis into submission, but then quietly declares a ceasefire after the US loses several F-22s. He declares trade war against China, but now finds himself begging Xi Jinping for deescalation.

Now he’s trying to threaten Russia and Iran into submitting to his diplomatic ultimatums. But our suspicion is that when push comes to shove, Trump will ultimately choose disgrace over war. At the end of the day, his bark is far more impressive than his bite.

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Some thoughts about Ukraine’s most recent drone attacks:

After a series of painful and humiliating defeats on the battlefield, and after more than a year of planning and preparation, the Ukrainians launched a massive drone attack against Russian airbases today. The damage they inflicted was meaningful, but by all accounts, fell short of critical.

Some Ukrainians are celebrating today as “Russia’s Pearl Harbor.” That’s peculiar analogy to choose considering that Pearl Harbor was a strategic failure for Japan.

The goal of Pearl Harbor was to not simply destroy some American warships, but to cripple Americans Pacific Fleet and terrify the Americans into surrendering. The Japanese failed on both accounts, and it wasn’t before long that Japanese decision makers were ruefully conceding that they had awoken a sleeping giant.

Russia suffered a number of difficult setbacks over the past three years, but it always ended up emerging stronger than before. I have no doubt that this time will be no different.

What comes next? Moscow is largely silent now, but I wouldn’t be celebrating now if I were the Ukrainians.

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🚨🇺🇦🇷🇺Operation Spiderweb: Separating Fact From Fiction

Amid the fog of war, Ukrainian propaganda is pushing inflated numbers of Russian bombers supposedly destroyed yesterday. You should be highly skeptical of these claims.

For starters, videos that circulated on social media yesterday only show a handful of airplanes burning. There's simply no evidence that suggest that Ukrainians destroyed over 40 planes, as their officials and propagandists are now claiming.

🔍What about the planes on fire?

🔸A small FPV drone alone is unlikely to fully destroy a massive bomber—unless multiple hits occur or fire teams fail to respond in time.

🔸Aviation fuel fires produce thick smoke, making damage appear worse in distant, grainy footage.

🔸Russian bases have fire suppression teams, and bombers have survived fires before, returning to service after repairs.

🔸Even if a drone hits a wing and starts a fire, the entire plane isn’t necessarily lost—but repairs could take months.

🔸Ukraine has damaged Tu-95s in the past (shrapnel hits), and Russia repaired them. Likely the same here.

📌 Bottom Line: Don't buy into sensationalist and self-serving Ukrainian propaganda, and don't rely on a handful of social media videos as a basis for a sweeping damage assessment.

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦Operation Spiderweb: Zelensky Goes Rogue On Nuclear Arms Control

For over 50 years, landmark treaties like the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) maintained global stability via strict verification measures. Now the world is in peril thanks to Zelensky's drone attack.

🪖Why were Russia's bombers out in the open?

Under the New START Treaty requirements from 2010 to 2026, agreed by Russia and the United States when Dmitry Medvedev was president, Nuclear-capable bombers must be stationed at visible locations like airbases for satellite monitoring, ensuring compliance with arms control verification.

🛰Non-Interference with National Technical Means (NTM)

"The treaty permits the use of national technical means of verification (e.g. satellites) in a manner consistent with international law, and contains explicit provisions that prohibit interference with NTM and the use of concealment measures that may impede monitoring by NTM."

That section of the New START Treaty implies that both parties are obliged to display, review and inspect nuclear weapons. That was why Russian bombers were parked in the open unprotected – in full confidence of the treaty with the US.

🔥Zelensky risks WWIII

As a result of the reckless attack by Ukrainian forces with NATO support, the treaty is now at risk and may lose its force in the coming months.

Zelensky's will to keep power at all costs threatens the long-standing nuclear stability between the US and Russia—a balance carefully maintained for over 50 years—raising fears of a dangerous escalation.

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦FIRST TRAIN SUCCESSFULLY RUNS ON REPAIRED RAILWAY IN BRYANSK AFTER UKRAINIAN ATTACK

📍Bryansk Region — Russian repair crews have COMPLETED RESTORATION of the railway tracks sabotaged by Ukrainian forces.

🔧Rapid Reconstruction:

🔸Tracks fully cleared & operational.

🔸Heavy machinery now working to rebuild the destroyed bridge—Gov. Alexander Bogomaz overseeing progress.

🔸Full bridge restoration expected within months, despite Kiev’s cowardly attacks.

💥Yesterday’s WAR CRIME:

🔸Ukrainian terrorists blew up a passenger train, tearing it in half.

🔸Russian emergency teams heroically rescued survivors & cleared debris under extreme conditions.

🔸Tragically, innocent civilians—including a doctor from a children’s hospice and a 5-month-old baby—were murdered by Kiev’s regime.

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🚨🇷🇺 MEANWHILE ON THE BATTLEFIELD

🔥580+ km² LIBERATED in the Special Military Operation (SMO) Zone – BEST MONTHLY GAIN SINCE NOVEMBER 2024.

🪖Russian forces are ACCELERATING their advance in order to set a buffer zone. With these numbers the final target could be reached in a few months.

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🚨🇺🇦🇷🇺BREAKING: Sumy in the Crosshairs – A Tactical Nightmare for Ukraine?

🗺The Situation:
Shocking visuals confirm—Russian forces have secured the high ground to the north of Sumy, effectively boxing in the city.

🔥Why This Matters:

🔸Death Box Activated: Sumy is now vulnerable to relentless Russian artillery strikes—a textbook siege in the making.

🔸Strategic Prelude? Is this the first move toward a full-scale liberation of Sumy in the coming months?

🔸Even if Russia doesn’t storm Sumy, Ukraine will be forced to divert troops from Donbass, weakening other critical fronts.

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🇬🇧💥🇷🇺BREAKING: Starmer Drops WAR DATE for England vs. Russia

England is shifting to "war preparedness" mode, with PM Keir Starmer unveiling a 132-page defense plan—the UK’s biggest nuclear expansion since the Cold War. But here’s the bombshell: Starmer set a deadline for full war readiness—2035.

Key Takeaways from Starmer’s Plan:

🔸Buying overpriced F-35A jets (Eat for Russian air defenses)

🔸Desperate nuke expansion (trying & failing to match Russia’s might)

🔸Army expansion. 72.5K → 76K troops in 2 years (Still smaller than the Romanian and Bangladeshi armies)

🔸$6B wasted on "defense factories" (Don't forget about The Ajax armored vehicle program, billions $ throwed)

🔸Promising 3% GDP on "defense" by 2034 (too little, too late)

🤡Starmer whined about Russia being an "immediate threat"—but the real threat is the UK’s own collapse. His hollow threats mean nothing to a nation that can’t even stop migrant boats from invading its shores.

🎪Meanwhile, in Britain…

🔸7.2 MILLION Britons struggle to eat

🔸22 MILLION live in inadequate housing

🔸Homelessness at record levels

🔸Wages stagnant since 2007

🔸Homeownership impossible for young Britons

🔸Energy, housing, & food prices skyrocketing

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🚨🇺🇦❓UPDATE: Ukraine's Dubious Claims on Russian Aircraft Losses

The Ukrainian military has dramatically altered its initial report, they claimed 41 Russian aircraft destroyed earlier, now it was changed to 12.

🔍Key Points:

🔸Original claim: 41 aircraft lost.

🔸New claim: 12 aircraft, including "strategic bombers" (with zero evidence).

🔸Verifiable footage: Only 8-16 aircraft damaged/destroyed.

⚠️Reality Check from Former Russian Lawmaker Sergei Markov

1️⃣ Actual losses: Likely only 8 aircraft—four strategic bombers, four transports.

2️⃣ Strategic bombers lost? Maybe 4 (out of 130 total)—just 3% of Russia’s fleet.

3️⃣ Zelensky’s wild claim: "40 strategic bombers destroyed" (a third of Russia’s fleet)—blatantly false.

4️⃣ Reality check: Ukraine routinely exaggerates Russian losses. This time is no different.

5️⃣ Even if true, 3% losses won’t affect Russia’s military operations.

If Ukraine’s claims were real, why no verifiable evidence?

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🇷🇺🚨🇺🇸🇺🇦WHEN DO WE WIN THE WAR? ALEXANDER DUGIN DROPS TRUTH BOMBS!

🔸The Istanbul talks were SYMBOLIC—a critical battleground for Trump’s stance on Ukraine & ultimately, America’s role in the war.

🔸Trump wants to end the conflict, but objectively CAN’T. Any "deal" he imagines is unacceptable—not just for Russia, but even for Ukraine.

🔸This isn’t about a truce. It’s about whether the US stays in the fight or WITHDRAWS.

👉 Withdrawal = de-escalation.
👉 Withdrawal = avoiding nuclear war.

That’s the realistic goal—which is why we’re negotiating.

Meanwhile, What is Zelensky’s play? Keep the US engaged at ALL COSTS. Because without America, Ukraine doesn’t fight—it COLLAPSES.

🔴Key takeaways from Istanbul:


🔸Russia conceded NOTHING.

🔸Medinsky? A BEAST negotiator. (Though his leash is short—Putin’s hand is firm.)

🔸Ukraine’s team? Weak. Zelensky, the bloody clown, tries to claim credit—saying we only came to the table because of his terror strikes on our nukes.

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia’s Tech Leap in 3 Years

The war in Ukraine has entered a new phase, with Russian forces swiftly adapting—deploying advanced drones, robotic systems, and a fresh wave of soldiers

🔸 Dominant EW Arsenal – Krasukha, Moscow-1, Murmansk-BN & more lead the world.

🔸 Drone Supremacy – Matched drone numbers, now outclass with jamming-proof Fiber Optic drones.

🔸 Robotic Warfare – Unmanned carts deliver ammo, supplies & even evacuate wounded.

Watch the full exclusive interview HERE

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🚨🇪🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺 EU’S ENERGY SUICIDE: RUSSIA & AMERICA WINS

The EU’s new plan? Fully cut Russian energy — gas, LNG, oil and nuclear by 2027.

BUT while slashing pipeline gas, the EU BUYS MORE RUSSIAN LNG THAN EVER 🛢💸

🔍ANALYZE THIS:

✅ EU gas imports from Russia dropped from 45% in 2021 to 19% in 2024 and are projected to fall to 13% in 2025

✅ But Russian LNG deliveries to Europe JUMPED by 12% in early 2025

✅ Who’s buying? France, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy—then feeding gas back to Germany

✅ Pipeline gas still flows via TurkStream through Turkey to Hungary, Serbia and Bulgaria

💣THE COST?

LNG is two or three times pricier than piped gas.

EU industry COLLAPSING:

🔸 German power four to five times as expensive as US

🔸 Chemical sector cutting 11M+ tons of production

🔸 Firms fleeing to cheaper markets

🤡EU HYPOCRISY:

🚫 Bans Russian energy even if it kills EU economy

🚫 Hungary and Slovakia still rely 80% on Russian oil, but the EU is forcing a phaseout

🚫 German Chancellor Merz vows NEVER to reopen the Nord Stream pipeline despite 49% public support

🇺🇸AMERICA’S GAME:

🔸 US LNG provides 50% of EU supply

🔸 Trump pushing harder for more EU dependence to gain profit and leverage

🔸 ‘Strategic autonomy’ is a joke: the EU bows to US as industry dies

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🚨🇺🇦🇷🇺UKRAINE'S "STRATEGIC STRIKE" EXPOSED: CHRISTMAS TREE DECOYS HIT, NOT COMBAT JETS

Zelensky’s "18-month masterstroke" looks more like an amateur miscalculation—Ukraine targeted scrap metal, not Russia’s active bomber fleet.

🔥THE REALITY:

🔸 Russia operates ~60 Tu-95MS bombers—the rest (140+) are stripped-down hulks in open storage.

🔸Ukraine assumed operational jets would be left exposed while retired ones were hidden. WRONG. Russia stores both outside.

🔸 Drone footage shows strikes on engine-less A-50s & no fires—proof they hit empty "Christmas Trees," not fueled bombers.

⚠️The Ukrainian attacked 'iron row' scrap planes—same effectiveness as bombing monuments. Fuel burns, but these wrecks had none. Only a few actual losses. Our long-range aviation? Still fully operational.

BOTTOM LINE:

Zelensky’s "victory" was a fireworks show over a junkyard. If Ukraine repeats this, will Russia let them strike real targets next time?

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