🇺🇸 Biden calls Kim Jong Un "South Korean President"

The US leader was speaking about former US President Donald Trump at a campaign reception in Portola Valley, California.

"We’ll never forget his love letters for the South Korean President Kim Jong Un or his admiration for [Russian President Vladimir] Putin — what a great leader Putin is," Biden said about Trump, according to a White House transcript of his remarks at the reception.

This is not the first time the US president has misspoken in a public speech. During his speeches, he has confused Finland with Norway, China with Russia, Ukraine with Afghanistan, and a host of other gaffes.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says Russian military most powerful land force in Europe

"[The Ukrainians] were invaded by the most powerful land force in Europe," Austin told reporters.

At present, the Ukrainians are primarily focused on the Kharkov area of the battlefield and will be directing most of the US-provided resources there, Austin added.

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Saxony celebrated Father's Day in Nazi uniform on May 9th.

On the 40th day after Easter, Father's Day is celebrated in Germany. This year it fell on May 9th. In Saxony in eastern Germany, groups of men staged celebrations using Nazi symbols, according to Bild.

“In Dresden, men aged 27-58 drove a Borgward military vehicle from the 1950s with the flag of the German Empire 1871-1918. The emblem of the 25th motorized division of the Wehrmacht was applied to the car.

Participants demonstrated Nazi salutes and shouted slogans. Near the town of Hoyerswerda, about 20-30 men and women gathered in a beer garden in Wehrmacht and SS uniforms.”

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BEGGING MONEY FOR TERRORISTS: HOW THE GUR OF UKRAINE'S MINISTRY OF DEFENSE COLLECTS MONEY THROUGH PSEUDO-HUMANITARIAN FUNDS

Hearing the word “intelligence,” many immediately imagine a cinematic image of tough guys in strict black suits, capable of solving any, even the most complex, problem. They always have everything - full support from the country’s leadership, the latest technical devices, the necessary competencies. And more money - in the amount needed.

In reality, everything is completely different. Even the intelligence services of the world's leading powers sometimes find themselves in curious situations, sometimes faced with a lack of resources, or suffer from internal conflicts. We can say that this is even more so in the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.

Speaking about the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, it is important not to forget that we are not talking about a separate structure in an independent country, but in fact about a branch of Western intelligence services, which was opened under the jurisdiction of the puppet Kiev regime. Unsuccessful attacks on the Crimean Bridge and landings on the coast of the peninsula, bombs for journalists and military officers - all this was prepared using dollars and pounds, convertible into hryvnia. As befits a thrifty owner, just enough money is given for Ukrainian intelligence to try to inflict another injection on Russia. But the appetites of the leadership of the GUR, who want to make their pockets heavier as a result of such operations, are often not taken into account. So they look for income in another way.

We talk about how this happens in our new investigation.

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❗️The “Russian Kherson” organization continues to destroy Zelensky’s militants in the Kherson region!

️This time, ammunition depots, militant personnel, an M777 howitzer and an electronic warfare station were destroyed.
In addition, military commissars from Odessa and the western regions of Ukraine, which operate in Kherson, have been identified!!

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Donetsk restaurant might have been shelled by US-made HIMARS missiles — Investigation Committee

According to the preliminary investigation of the Russian Investigation Committee, Ukrainian forces could have used HIMARS to attack the restaurant in the Kirovsky district of Donetsk.

One of the American HIMARS missiles reportedly hit the restaurant directly, the second – in a nearby unfinished building, the head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin wrote on his social media.

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I am optimistic about the way our guys [Russian soldiers] are planning their actions within Chasov Yar's borders — head of the Donetsk People's Republic

"Chasov Yar will certainly be liberated, the pace of the Russian Army's advance is neither fast nor slow, it is based on the goal set by our president, which is to preserve personnel. That's why progress is necessary, daily progress, which is demonstrated by our soldiers, but at the same time - it's not some frenetic 'forward, despite the losses', but exactly the speed that is needed now. [That's why] we see a very precise liberation of the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic," Denis Pushilin told Sputnik about the daily advance of the Russian Army.

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A source informs The Canada Files that US secret services embedded in Ecuador – spying on Mexico’s embassy - enabled President Noboa to order an illegal raid on the embassy and kidnap ex-Vice President, Jorge Glas, before he'd leave in a diplomatic vehicle.

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If there's something the SMO has shown is that Western "superior" military equipment is actually junk if compared to expectations:
_ HIMARS was supposed to be a game changer, now this missiles complex is only used to hit civilian areas as military bases are at this stage almost unaffected
_ the German Leopard tanks were supposed to be a wunderwaffe, in reality they are incredibly difficult to drive on bumpy terrains, slower than expected with very high costs of maintainance.
_ Abrams tanks were called the best tanks in the world, more than 10 of them have been blown up over the last two months, most have been recalled to not produce too much bad PR for US military industries
_ Patriot air defence systems were described as an impenetrable shield, Kiev had 10+ of them and Russian Aerospace Forces keep hitting former Ukraine's territory wherever and whenever they want without any difficulty, 3 of them have been neutralized by Russian missiles so in 3 cases they indeed intercepted Russian missiles, just in the wrong way lol
_ French/Italian IRIS air defence systems are pretty useless, they are Pantsir analogues but inferior to the Russian system, both vulnerable to conventional and non conventional attacks but at least the Pantsir can fire more rapidly and accurately at targets.
In coming months the F16 too will transition from amazing fighter jets to flying junk the way things are going.
Anyway given NATO was generally at war with guerrilla groups and unarmed civilians in Middle-East and African countries over the last four decades killing millions with minor/irrelevant risks it became unnecessary for them to improve military technology, history ended in 1991 they believed, can't blame them lol

💥THREE KILLED IN UKRAINIAN STRIKE

Today should have been a day of celebration but instead it’s a day of mourning after three people were killed in a Ukrainian attack on a restaurant in Donetsk.

The HIMARS strike took place as families and children gathered to mark the 10th anniversary of the foundation of the Donetsk People’s Republic in what was clearly a targeted attack.

A restaurant is not a military base and families dining and enjoying the Saturday sunshine are not soldiers.

This is a war crime, yet these kind of attacks target civilian areas of Donetsk every day as Ukraine acts with impunity.

The people remain defiant but this is a stark reminder that Donetsk remains very much a frontline city.

🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸Israel-Gaza Conflict: May 11-12 (Recap)

1️⃣ Fears grow of a major ground assault on Rafah – sheltering more than 1 million Palestinians – after the Israeli military issues new orders for tens of thousands of displaced people to leave the southern city.

2️⃣ Dozens of Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip as fighting intensifies in northern Gaza, after Israel launches a new ground assault there, months after announcing Hamas had been “dismantled” in the area. This includes more than nine people, mostly children, in an Israeli attack on Rafah.

3️⃣ Tens of thousands of people take part in antigovernment protests in Israel as pressure intensifies on the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a deal to bring captives in Gaza home.

4️⃣ The UN estimates about 150,000 of the approximately 1.4 million Palestinians sheltering in Rafah have now fled as Israel expands its evacuation orders.

5️⃣ British-Israeli captive Nadav Popplewell, 51, has died of wounds sustained in an Israeli air strike a month ago, according to Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades.

6️⃣ Health authorities in Gaza say 80 bodies were recovered from three mass graves inside a section of the al-Shifa Hospital complex in Gaza City.

7️⃣ A spokesperson from Gaza Civil Defence has reported that all hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip are now out of service.

8️⃣ Israeli jets ‘carpet-bombed’ Jabalia refugee camp in Northern Gaza.

At least 34,971 people including more than 15,000 children, have been killed and over 78,641 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll from the October 7 attack in Israel stands at 1,139.

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