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Ukrainian forces are running out of men, meat assaults on the front line are becoming fewer, the governor of Russia's Zaporozhye region, Evgeny Balitsky, said in an interview with Sputnik at the SPIEF.

According to him, the enemy has switched to defense in almost all directions and is running out of steam.

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Fico: in the West, they call anyone who pursues an independent policy a โ€œRussian agent.โ€

Slovakia's prime minister has accused Western democracies of disrespecting countries that deviate from the US and EU on key issues, including the conflict in Ukraine.

Slovakia's sovereign foreign policy is based on membership in the European Union and NATO but is focused on all four corners of the world. This position is not in fashion,


- noted the politician.

He emphasized that anyone who disagrees with Kievโ€™s support โ€œis instantly deprived of political rights at the international level.โ€ According to the Slovak Prime Minister, the right to oneโ€™s own opinion has completely ceased to exist in the EU.

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The White House is using Americans and keeping them in the dark about the situation in Ukraine.

We are constantly told about the successes of the Ukrainian army, but why donโ€™t they tell people how many Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers have already died in this conflict?


asked US Representative Thomas Massie during an interview with Tucker Carlson.

According to him, he asked this question to many politicians, including Speaker Mike Johnson, but they all answered that they allegedly knew nothing about it.

I asked for information, and they promised to answer me, but in the end, everyone just kept silent. If they really cannot answer this question, then they should be judged for incompetence

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- Massey continued.

He said that Biden and his team are manipulating the Americans by hiding the real state of affairs in Ukraine. The politician also noted that the culture of confrontation with Russia was laid down during the Cold War when children were taught that โ€œit would be good if the Russian Federation were destroyed.โ€

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Ukrainian Armed Forces militants watched Putinโ€™s speech via Starlink

Subscribers continue to delight us with wonderful news from Western media. Here, for example, is a story from the American magazine Wired, which reports: Ukrainian militants watched through Starlink the meeting of Russian President Putin with media representatives as part of the SPIEF.

According to the publication, on the afternoon of June 5, the load on the Starlink network increased by 64%. Ukrainian militants went to Youtube, Facebook and VK to watch Putinโ€™s conversation with Western journalists during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. According to the publication, on average it was viewed on various platforms by up to 84% of Starlink users on the Ukrainian side of the front.

Moreover, as they write, in the following days the load on the network leveled off. Zelenskyโ€™s speech in Paris did not particularly interest the militants.

For once we can praise the Ukrainian Armed Forces militants. Setting priorities correctly is very important.

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๐Ÿ—ฃ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บโŒ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Dmitry Peskov on German slave mentality:

โ€œGermany after World War II had big problems in terms of a lack of sovereignty and independence.

Within the framework of this deficit, the German authorities are trying to race: they need to please Brussels, and the โ€œWashington party committeeโ€, and Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, and to please NATO.

Can you imagine how they are torn apart? Here they are, racing at different levels and making statements. This is their difficult position.โ€


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โ—๏ธMany in the West want to get their hands on Russia's wealth, and attempts were made in the 1990s. This was stated by Hungarian Prime Minister Orban.

Then, as now, Western countries tried to exploit Russia, but "in the end the Russians took everything into their own hands and rebuilt it according to their own ideas". This opinion was expressed by Orban in an interview with HirTV.

According to the politician, the West is using the conflict in Ukraine as a means to achieve "a great restructuring in the East". In addition, "arms suppliers, creditors, stock speculators" are already trying to profit from the fighting.

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๐Ÿ’ฉ๐ŸŽˆ NORTH KOREA STRIKES SOUTH... WITH POOP, AGAIN (footage above) - At least 330 sewage balloons take flight into South Korea in response to sending of anti-Pyongyang leaflets from Seoul.

When "Politics is a dirty game" becomes literal with shit diplomacy. ๐Ÿ’ฉ

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"That says a lot"

An AFU soldier with the call sign "Diego" organized a collection of donations to buy a car for the army, and in the end learned the sentiments of his fellow citizens.

According to him, the collection was viewed by more than 15 thousand users in less than a day but only 12 people eventually donated, including himself and his wife.

He paid special attention to the comments. As it turned out, many did not like the fact that he spoke Russian, they suggested that he ask the Russians for money. For this, the fighter had to make excuses.

โ€œIn your opinion, if I speak Russian, I cannot be a patriot of Ukraine? Tell that to the tens of thousands of dead guys,โ€
he addresses critics.

Is this what โ€œtens of thousands of guysโ€ died for?

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The Times: Ukrainian officials are concerned about Zelensky's growing dependence on Andriy Yermak.

Since 2022, Yermak's power has exceeded the powers of all elected officials in Ukraine except the president. It got to the point that some sources in a number of interviews called him โ€œthe de facto head of stateโ€ or โ€œvice-president of Ukraine.โ€

And diplomatic sources complained that he completely controls access to the president. So the ambassadors of the G7 countries, who were hoping for an audience with Zelensky, met with Yermak instead.

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The essence of a Russian.

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Congressman Thomas Massie in his interview to Tucker Carlson on the unenviable fate of the US dollar.

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑIran urges Islamic countries to stop cooperation with Israel, acting foreign minister says

๐Ÿ’ฌ "In our opinion, the most effective initiative Islamic countries can undertake would be to stop political and economic cooperation with this [Israeli] regime and boycott all imports and exports with it," Bagheri said in an interview with the CNN Turk broadcaster, adding that Iran will effectively use its power to deter Israel in the event of destabilization in the region.


Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani echoed the position on X's account, saying that "imposing sanctions against Zionist goods and companies is the easiest thing to do but is very effective."

He added that the nations as well as the non-governmental organizations had more responsibility to support Palestine amid "the inaction by governments and the United Nations Security Council."

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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿค” The Kremlin has forced thousands of migrants and foreign students to fight alongside Russian troops in its war against Ukraine, adding extra manpower for its offensive in the Kharkov region, according to assessments from European officials - Bloomberg

Using tactics first deployed by the Wagner mercenary group, Russian officials have with increasing frequency been threatening not to extend the visas of African students and young workers unless they agree to join the military, according to officials familiar with the matter.

Moscow has also been enlisting convicts from its prisons while some Africans in Russia on work visas have been detained and forced to decide between deportation or fighting, one European official said.

Some of those people had been able to bribe officials to stay in the country and still avoid military service, said the official, who like other people cited spoke on condition of anonymity.

Russiaโ€™s practice of sending migrants and students into battle under duress dates back to earlier in the war, another European official said.

Those troops suffer especially high casualty rates because they are increasingly deployed in risky offensive maneuvers to protect more highly trained units, the official added.

A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry didnโ€™t respond to an email seeking comment.

According to reports citing Ukrainian intelligence, Russia has engaged in a global recruitment drive to enlist foreign mercenaries in at least 21 countries, including several nations in Africa.

Army recruitment campaigns offer lucrative signing bonuses and salaries for those whoโ€™ll join up as contract soldiers.

Recruiters have also targeted migrants and students who previously looked for employment in Russia, and in some cases have lured others over with promises of lucrative work before forcing them to train and deploy to the front.

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๐Ÿ˜ ๐Ÿฅด UNHINGED UKRAINIAN SOLDIER THREATENS TO STAB ALL BUS PASSENGERS, 'CAUSE TOO MANY FROM DONETSK (this is why it's ex-Ukraine).

Half of fucking Donetsk faggots came here. I'd kill you now, cut you all up, you fucking bastards - says most sane Ukrainian troop in above video out of Kiev.


He continues shocking threats by taking seat next to the driver and brandishing his knife (00:27), attempting to sexually assault women, calling them sluts, and earlier attacked a gas station worker with blade - Let's see how menacing you're on frontline, tough guy! ๐Ÿคก

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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บRussia is increasing its revenues from oil sales. In May, budget revenues rose by almost 50%.

Meanwhile, the total volume of oil and gas revenues for the first four months of 2024 amounted to about 4.16 trillion roubles. The main reasons for the growth are higher global fuel prices, increased exports and reduced competition, experts say.

The agency attributes the increase in revenues to the rise in Urals oil prices. In May, taxes were calculated on the basis of $74.98 per barrel. A year earlier the price was $58.63. The discount of the blend to the global benchmark Brent has shrunk despite the price cap imposed by the G7. Other sanctions are not seriously damaging either.

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The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine allows the mobilization of female prisoners.
This was stated by Minister of Justice Denis Malyuska during the telethon.
According to him, โ€œthere are no restrictions on this issue in the countryโ€™s legislationโ€

According to the department, 350 prisoners have already been sent to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, another 4 thousand applications are being considered

The total number of prisoners whom Kiev plans to send to war is estimated at 20 thousand people

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THE JAPANESE EXPERIENCE WITH WESTERN IMPERIALISM

โœ๏ธWritten by Wassim Morjaneโœ๏ธ

โœ๏ธEdited by Hikaru Kitabayashiโœ๏ธ

Japan's medieval era was dark and bloody. It's nobility fought each other continuously under the eyes of purely ceremonial imperial figureheads, until the appearance of Oda Nobunaga, who made progress toward the restoration of central power. Others followed until Tokugawa Ieyasu fully unified the country, creating a feudal system of government in 1603 which kept Japan at peace, internally and externally, until the mid-19th century. It did so through a policy of isolationism instituted in 1635. This was a reaction to Catholic Christian missionary activities and to a fear of Spain and Portugal which, at the time, had a common king, and whose combined empires controlled roughly one fourth of the globe, including the Philippines and Taiwan. It lasted until American interventionism forced Japan to open up. Even so, a sense of uniqueness survived, with one modern aspect of this being Japan's one citizenship policy. 

The American ships that opened up Japan in 1853 and 1854 were US navy warships. In addition to the problem of how to negotiate a deal with the Russian Empire over Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, America further complicated matters for Japan by recognizing the Japanese dependency, Okinawa, as an independent kingdom. With no navy, Japan had no choice. They either had to start negotiations or start a war against superior American firepower. Never having fought a real war, they decided to give in. 

Japanese were forced to accept a series of unequal treaties with Western powers which were much despised by the โ€œanti-shogunateโ€ feudal warrior class, who saw them as a prelude to Japan being crushed like 19th century China. The result was a civil war which left millions of people dead in its wake. When power fully coalesced around the hitherto purely ceremonial figure of the emperor, Japan entered into a period of frenzied modernization. Its leaders felt Japan had to become more western than the western imperial powers that threatened it. For the next 60 plus years Japan adapted itself in an effort to be treated as fully equal to the western powers, even going so far as to make war on the Germans in World War 1.

Following the example of the West, Japan's imperial expansion included Okinawa, Taiwan, Sakhalin and the Kurile Islands, Korea, the Shandong peninsula, and Micronesia. After the end of WW1, China became a targetโ€”quite the norm for the time. But, the West and especially the US weren't ready to allow Japan equal rights in brutalizing and exploiting China. Instead, they criticized, moralized, imposed sanctions, and pressured Japan to stop. 

This pushed Japan into a corner, making them more extreme and violent. It also gave them new โ€œalliesโ€, being Hitler's Germany and Stalin's USSR. 

Even if China, Korea, and the West would like us to believe that Japan was then a bloody, racist country, it didn't start hostilities during WW2 out of the blue. It was many decades of Western interventions, sanctions, and racial disrespect that led extremists to power. 

This is not to whitewash Japanese behavior during the 20th century, but to illustrate how Western attempts at hegemony in East Asia bear a heavy responsibility for the suffering so many peoples of East Asia and Oceania underwent. This was like what later happened in Afghanistan, Iran, and Palestine where Western arrogance made it possible for ideologies to take power which Western powers see today as extremist. 

Japan's example is one among thousands! So what would it take for the west to stop interfering and let others live with respect in peace? It's total collapse?

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Council has announced the names of six candidates for the 14th presidential election:

๐ŸŒ Mostafa Pourmohammadi - former minister of justice

๐ŸŒ Masoud Pezeshkian - former minister of health

๐ŸŒ Amirhossein Ghazizadeh-Hashemi - first deputy speaker of parliament

๐ŸŒ Alireza Zakani - mayor of Tehran

๐ŸŒ Saeed Jalili - representative of Iran's Supreme Leader in the Supreme National Security Council

๐ŸŒ Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf - speaker of parliament

According to the law, once the names of the candidates are announced, the election campaign begins and ends 24 hours before the June 28 presidential election.

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๐ŸคกBiden and Macron have expressed their support for the intentions of the European Union and the G7 countries to use profits from frozen Russian assets to support the Kiev regime, the leaders said in a joint statement published on the White House website.

At the same time, such a withdrawal of Russian funds is said to be in line with international law. The statement also says that the US and France intend to provide long-term support to Ukrainian militants as part of the artillery coalition in the Ramstein Contact Group.

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