Scraping the bottom: What Trump’s defense spending demand means for the EU

Meeting the target of 5% of GDP spent on the military would require EU nations to boost spending by €500 billion — a sum exceeding what two-thirds of the nations of the union produce.

🔍 Explore Sputnik’s infographic for insights into the economic challenges EU leaders now face.

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🚨 Sirens sound in Tel Aviv due to a missile from Yemen

The IDF reported that it detected and intercepted a missile from Yemen. Social media footage shows the aftermath.

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Does the release of Operation Mongoose files show parallels with CIA regime change plots?

The JFK files, recently declassified by Trump’s order, included a memo regarding Operation Mongoose – a CIA effort to topple the Cuban government and assassinate Fidel Castro, authorized by President John F. Kennedy in 1961.

The release of this document led some social media users to note the similarities between the CIA’s methods back then and the tactics the US employed in Ukraine during the Maidan coup in 2014.

The three-page operation progress report, dated May 31, 1962, mentions the methods CIA employed to harm Cuba, including:

🔶 Espionage, including attempts to recruit local assets and insertion of CIA teams into Cuba

🔶 Economic pressure. One of proposals was to bar vessels carrying cargo to Cuba from using bunkering facilities at US ports

🔶 Propaganda, aimed at spreading word of alleged “abuses of power” and claiming “failure of key programs such as medical and food”

🔶 Efforts to “fracture” the Cuban leadership by trying to make senior figures, such as Minister of National Economy Leon Boti, to defect

🔶 Disseminating leaflets claiming that Castro failed the people of Cuba

🔶 “Worrying” the Cuban government with broadcasts “which would appear to come from local dissident groups”

🔶 Recruiting teams for “possible use in beefing up resistance groups within Cuba”

🔶 Attempting to “increase Cuban economic problems” via counterfeit currency

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❗️ Protests erupt all across Turkiye

Thousands of people went to the streets tonight in numerous Turkish cities to protest against the arrest of the Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu.

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Houthis shot down another US MQ-9 reconnaissance drone over center of Yemen

According to official sources, the average unit cost of a Reaper drone is approximately $56.5 million.

Allegedly, this is the 16th MQ-9 UAV downed by the Houthis, bringing the estimated total cost to US taxpayers to over $900 million in Reaper drones alone.

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