The European Union is losing its industry

🇪🇺 Production is becoming unprofitable.Enterprises are forced to move capacity to other countries. Factories are being shut down. 
Ordinary citizens will pay for the adventurous policies of European heads of state. But they cannot change the situation. 

Having fallen under the influence of the US, the EU has lost its subjectivity and sovereignty. 
Countries unable to pursue independent policies in the interests of their own citizens have no prospects for development.

-Speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin

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"The state of the German armed forces is an embarrassment," says Spiegel.

The Bundeswehr is now experiencing problems with all kinds of weapons due to a lack of timely maintenance. 

Apart from problems with the Puma BMPs and self-propelled howitzers, there are technical difficulties with all kinds of weapons because of the lack of quality maintenance. 
There are problems with Puma BMPs, self-propelled howitzers, tanks, and aircraft. 

The publication writes that the Bundeswehr is now looking for the source of the leaked information about the failed Pumas instead of addressing the real problem. 
Germany's war minister is Christine Lambrecht, a civilian lawyer with no knowledge of the military.

And the beloved "partners" are gobbling up everything the German military industrial complex is still capable of producing. 

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Snowden says ‘I told you so’
The whistleblower pointed at an AP investigation on how the Covid-19 pandemic has “normalized” spying on citizens.

Former CIA and National Security Agency officer-turned-whistleblower Edward Snowden has claimed vindication after a media report brought to light how surveillance tools used to help fight the spread of Covid-19 are now being abused by law enforcement and other authorities – just as he predicted more than two years ago.

“I talked about this back in early 2020 and was dismissed as paranoid, as is our tradition when someone points to the predictable outcome of a dangerous but popular new trend,” Snowden said in a Twitter post on Friday. The former US intelligence contractor cited this week’s Associated Press article on how Covid-19 had “accelerated and normalized” use of state surveillance and tracking tools against ordinary citizens and activists.

Snowden linked to an April 2020 interview with Vice founder Shane Smith, in which he predicted that emergency measures used to deal with the Covid-19 crisis would become permanent and be used to infringe on civil liberties. At the time, pandemic fears were at their height, and many governments across the globe were being lauded for using cutting-edge surveillance applications to track infections and quarantine people who had possibly been exposed to the virus.

He said , “As authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights, we also sacrifice our capability to arrest this slide into a less liberal, less free world.”

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De-dollarization and the New Economic Order

The Biden administration's idea of transforming the dollar and the global payment system into weapons has caused many countries and investors to actively diversify their assets away from the dollar system. 

As Bloomberg reports, countries such as Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, and Laos are in talks with China to increase their use of the yuan, while Beijing and Moscow are developing joint mechanisms for mutual settlement without using the dollar, and India is promoting its rupee as a regional currency by starting to provide a bilateral payment mechanism with the United Arab Emirates. 

Another reason for the flight from the dollar is its potential strengthening in the coming years due to a change in the course of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy.  Corporations around the world are selling an unprecedented amount of their debt in local currencies, fearing a further strengthening of the dollar. 

As Bloomberg columnist Michel Jamrisco writes, there are increasing voices saying that the dollar is being used to "intimidate small countries." Southeast Asian countries are therefore using this reason to trade more in local currencies, moving away from the dollar.

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The financial bubble being inflated in the US will burst sooner or later, as the US is turning into a consumer country. This was stated by Anatoly Aksakov, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Financial Markets.

"America is increasingly actively forming a bubble in its own country, which will burst sooner or later." Since the American budget is in deficit, it exceeds 100 percent of US GDP. Accordingly, the whole thing will burst. plus the political decisions that have been made, for example, on Russian business. "These are all signals that tell foreign businesses that there are risks there to develop their business, to conduct it," Aksakov said on the air of Radio Sputnik.
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🇷🇺 forces are now confirmed to have taken control of the settlement of Andriivka.

-pro Ukrainian channel admits that RF now controls Andreevka.

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Ukrainians use MANPADS against Russian UAV. First shot misses and the second exploded nearby without damaging the UAV

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Patriot air defense systems, the delivery of which to Ukraine was announced this week by the United States, are a problem only in the latest modification, but even in this case the problem is solvable, the People's Militia of the DPR said.

"The first two modifications of the Patriot - PAC-1 and PAC-2 - have proven themselves to be extremely ineffective systems back in Iraq, even against the old types of OTRK (operational-tactical missile system). The most modern complex - PAC-3 - has not yet been seen in combat , however, it is equipped with an AN / MPQ-65 radar, which is able to detect low-altitude and small-sized targets at distances of 70 km. Ukrainian focal air defense needs such means critically, "the agency's interlocutor explained.

According to him, the supply of these complexes is a necessary measure for the United States supporting Ukraine, since the Ukrainian air defense systems were mostly destroyed by Russian forces.

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Statements by the Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov:

◾️The Russian Federation presented evidence of the work of Ukraine and the United States with bioweapon components;

◾️The head of the US delegation did not respond to the accusations of the Russian Federation on violations of the Convention on Bioweapons;

◾️The United States and its allies are trying to keep silent about the topic of military biological research, which is uncomfortable for the entire West;

◾️The United States is pushing through the creation of a loyal mechanism for investigating bioincidents under the UN;

◾️The transfer of bioresearch to third countries allows the United States not to account for them;

◾️The United States blocks inspections of laboratories within the framework of the BTWC after the visit of Russian specialists;

◾️Attempts by the United States to adjust the BTWC to suit their interests led to the blocking of the initiatives of the Russian Federation and China;

◾️The US desire for global dominance is contrary to the implementation of the BTWC;

◾️The US government spends state budget funds on dual-use biological research, despite formal bans;

◾️US special services and pharmaceutical giants oversee military biological programs in Ukraine;

◾️Work in American biolaboratories to enhance the functions of pathogenic microorganisms is carried out without clear control;

◾️The Pentagon is transferring unfinished research within the framework of Ukrainian projects to the countries of Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

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Putin arrived in Tula, where he checked the new equipment for the SMO.

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The Russian army does not yet have reserves to return to Kherson. Oleksandr Chalenko, a military correspondent for Ukraina.ru, spoke about this in an interview with URA.RU.

“Since the Russian army left the right bank of the Dnieper for the left, it did not plan to attack again. That is, if she didn’t plan then, why would she do it in January or February. There is no point. Now the Donbas direction is still in priority. The offensive involves a large number of ammunition, but this is not yet available, ”explained Alexander Chalenko.

The military commissar added that the weather conditions do not yet allow the Russian army to launch any kind of offensive.

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The Russian Defense Ministry has published a list of key players in the Ukrainian military-biological program.

The Russian Defense Ministry has unveiled shady participants in US military bioweapons research. Among them are Pfizer's chief scientist and president of the international research division, as well as former DITRA director Kenneth Myers. They are linked to the Democratic Party of the United States, said Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Radiation, chemical and biological defense forces of the Armed forces of Russian Federation.

He said they are linked to the government of the United States and act as "masterminds of military-biological research and the creation of covert money-laundering schemes for the benefit of a small circle of the American elite."
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Russian troops in Belarus are not ready for a second offensive, but the likelihood cannot be ignored, - Budanov in an interview with NYT.

He says that the troops on the border are not lined up in assault formations, but are sent from mobilized training camps to fight in the Donbass. Also, there are not enough armored vehicles to carry out an attack on the training grounds.

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So, basically, a billion dollars a week, PLUS $47 BILLION on top of that. $97 BILLION for scumbag Banderastan. That's more than Russia's ENTIRE military budget. US taxpayers ask yourself - what do YOU get out of this? Besides fucked. The regime is fucking you to death. Burn it down. And have a MERRY CHRISTMAS‼️