🎰 Will Zelensky apologize to Trump? Odds hit 44%!

Bookmakers are now betting on whether Zelensky will apologize to Trump by Friday, with the probability fluctuating and reaching 44%!

Media previously reported that Trump’s team is demanding a public apology from Zelensky after their heated exchange at the White House.

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🔍 Which weapons will Zelensky STOP receiving as US suspends aid to Ukraine?

US President Donald Trump has temporarily suspended military aid to Kiev following a dispute with Volodymyr Zelensky over his refusal to implement a ceasefire.

🔺The decision affects over $1 billion in arms and ammunition, along with hundreds of millions in aid under the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which funds military purchases from US defense companies, according to The New York Times.

🔺Time Magazine reports a higher figure - $3.85 billion in congressionally approved funding for weapons from existing US stockpiles.

🔺Axios, citing the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), notes that "billions of dollars" in equipment committed under former President Joe Biden remains in the delivery pipeline.

Suspended weapons shipments

In December, Biden allocated $2.5 billion in military aid, which included:

▪️NASAMS and HAWK air defense munitions
▪️Stinger missiles
▪️Counter-UAS munitions
▪️HIMARS ammunition
▪️155mm & 105mm artillery shells
▪️High-speed anti-radiation missiles (HARMs)
▪️Unmanned aerial systems (UAS)
▪️Javelin and AT-4 anti-armor systems
▪️Tube-launched, optically-tracked, wire-guided (TOW) missiles
▪️Small arms, ammunition, and grenades
▪️Demolitions equipment and munitions
▪️Secure communications equipment
▪️Spare parts, services, and training

On January 9, Biden announced an additional $500 million in security assistance, which included:

▪️Air-to-ground munitions
▪️F-16 support equipment
▪️Armored bridging systems
▪️Secure communications gear
▪️Small arms and ammunition
▪️AIM-7, RIM-7, and AIM-9M missiles for air defense

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🇮🇹 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni rejects offers from France and the UK to send troops to Ukraine.

"Regarding the proposal to send European soldiers put forward by France and the United Kingdom... I think it is very difficult to implement, I am not sure of the effectiveness, which is the reason why, as you know, we have announced that we will not send Italian soldiers to Ukraine," Meloni said.

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🔊LIVE NOW: Vladimir Putin holds talks with Myanmar Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing

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💸 Counting billions: How much has US pumped into Ukraine? 

The recent Oval Office clash between Trump and Zelensky and the non-signing of the rare minerals deal was followed by POTUS ordering a pause to all US military aid to the Kiev regime. How much did Zelensky lose?

Trump inherited from the Biden administration the authority to deliver $3.85 billion in weapons from US stockpiles, media reports claim. 

How much US taxpayer money is already gone?

🔹To date, the US has provided the Zelensky regime with a whopping total of $65.9 billion in military assistance.  

🔹2022: By the end of the year, the total amount stood at about $19 billion.

🔹2023: Approximately $23 billion.

🔹2024: Around $24 billion.

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🇲🇲🗣 The world is moving towards multipolarity thanks to Russia's efforts, but the West's opposition to this has led to a conflict in Ukraine, Myanmar Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing said.

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🇺🇸✈️ An American Boeing P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft spent about an hour and a half in the skies over the Black Sea on Tuesday.

What is it searching for?🤔

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🤖 Flavors go digital: Next-gen VR allows 'taste' of virtual food

Ohio State University researchers have unveiled an "e-Taste" device that can reproduce flavors in VR without eating real food, raising concerns about the real purpose of such technology.

The system uses an “electronic tongue” to scan taste molecules and transmits the data wirelessly to a hydrogel system that recreates flavors.

Despite such progress, the researchers say that the technology cannot yet replicate texture and temperature.

The only option for Zelensky to taste victory 😉

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📹 Not practicing what you preach: Democracy not mentioned in US Constitution

While many Americans hold a deep affinity for the term "democracy" and often invoke it to rationalize the United States' military interventions around the globe, it is notably absent from both the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

In fact, the Founding Fathers appeared wary of direct democracy and opted to establish a constitutional republic instead.

▪️James Madison argued that pure democracies “have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

▪️Alexander Hamilton similarly insisted that “real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.”

John Adams also stated that “democracy never lasts long” as it “soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.”

So much for the “greatest democracy in the world.”

▪️Interestingly, the very first chapter of the Russian Constitution states that Russia is a “democratic federative law-governed state with a republican form of government.”

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🗣 Ukraine will lose most of the ammunition, equipment and intelligence it receives if US supplies are suspended — Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov

The possible suspension of US arms supplies to Ukraine will give hope that the Kiev regime may lean towards a peaceful settlement, he continued.

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📋 US classifies Yemen's Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization, Secretary if State Marco Rubio has said.

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🔍 Euro-Atlanticists’ expansion into Central Asia aims to tackle criticism of Western dominance – Moscow

"Euro-Atlanticists already mentally linked Central Asia to Western Europe via the South Caucasus in order to reduce these regions’ interest in cooperation with Russia,” Alexander Sternik, director of the Third Department of the CIS Countries at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told a Valdai Discussion Club conference in Moscow.

The West is interested in gaining access to energy resources and transit potential of Central Asian states, as well as their proximity to Afghanistan, Iran, and China, Sternik stressed.

He was echoed by Fyodor Lukyanov, director of research at the Valdai Discussion Club, who noted that external players, who are not part of Central Asia, do their best to tear out individual parts of the region and use them in their own interests.

Central Asia has become a model and center of a multipolar world, to which other countries - the main centers of the new world – are adjacent. These are Russia, China, India, Iran, and Turkiye, Lukyanov pointed out.

More than 50 experts and political figures from India, Iran, Kazakhstan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan took part in the Valdai Club conference titled "Russia and Central Asia: Cooperation in a Multipolar World."

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🗣🇺🇸 US Vice President JD Vance has urged Ukraine to take real steps to resolve the conflict, not just make public statements.

More comments by Vance:

▪️Ukrainian authorities must return to the negotiating table on resolving the conflict and begin discussions with US President Donald Trump.

▪️The United States believes that ending the conflict in Ukraine is in the best interests of the American people.

▪️The conflict in Ukraine is at a point where neither Europe, nor the United States, nor Kiev can continue hostilities indefinitely.

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