💳The upcoming US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE BUDGET WILL for the first time TOTAL $1 TRILLION, Pentagon Chief Pete Hegseth stated.

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🩸Asian billionaire BLOODBATH: Trump’s tariffs wipe out $46B

With markets getting hammered, Lei Jun, chairman of smartphone-maker, Xiaomi Corp., lost the most in a single day after Donald Trump doubled down on his new import tariffs.

The billionaire bled $7.8B, or 20% of his fortune as Asian markets nosedived on Monday, according to Bloomberg.

🔍Other prominent Asian tycoons also took heavy blows:

🟠Tencent Holdings’ co-founder Pony Ma shed $6.8 billion
🟠India’s industrial magnate, Gautam Adani, saw his fortune slide by $4.2 billion
🟠Hong Kong’s battery king, Robin Zeng, lost $4.1 billion

Overall, Asia’s top 20 moguls saw $46B go up in smoke as markets tanked.

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💬 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has confirmed that upcoming talks with US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff are scheduled to take place in Oman on Saturday, April 12.

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🔸 Asian billionaire BLOODBATH: Trump’s tariffs wipe out $46B

🔸 US-Iran talks: What is known so far?

🔸 Big Tech, Big Banks, Big Pharma: Biggest losers of Trump’s tariff wars

🔸 VIDEO: Gaza should be a 'safe field' – Trump

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💬 FCC chief reveals agency spent MILLIONS OF DOLLARS pushing DEI

DEI was listed as the SECOND highest strategic priority for the Federal Communications Commission, said FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

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🔍GAMING THE SYSTEM? Companies hatching plans to DODGE Trump’s tariff tornado

As turbulence sets in from Trump’s new and much-talked-about economic policy, companies are now resorting to various customs tricks, according to a report by the Financial Times.

Two notable hacks are gaining traction:

1️⃣Tweaking supplier contracts to declare prices before the addition of middlemen's markups, thereby reducing the dutiable value.

2️⃣Splitting payments into non-taxable services, such as advertising, which can lower costs by 20% or more.

However, given that these tactics clash with long-standing tax strategies, global corporations must tread lightly, navigating a fine line between evading tariffs and venturing into risky territory.

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🚫DOGE axes $51M in African grants

In its latest move, the US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has nixed handouts to the US African Development Foundation as part of its endeavors to streamline operations.

Programs put on the chopping block include:

🟠$229,000 for marketing organic shea butter in Burkina Faso
🟠$239,000 for marketing pineapple juice in Benin
🟠$246,000 for infrastructure to support mango drying in Ivory Coast
🟠$99,000 to enhance yogurt production in Uganda
🟠$48,000 for a WhatsApp marketing chatbot in Kenya
🟠$84,000 for a business incubator aimed at spa and wellness entrepreneurs in Nigeria
🟠$50,000 for training in dragon fruit cultivation in Senegal

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📹THROWBACK: Musk slams virtue-signaling proponents of forever war in Ukraine

"I take great offense at those ... who virtue-signal and say we can't give in to Russia, but have no solution to stopping thousands of kids dying every day," Musk stated.

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🔊LIVE NOW: The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft is docking with the ISS🚀

On board: 🇷🇺Sergey Ryzhikov, 🇷🇺Alexey Zubritskiy, 🇺🇸Jonathan Kim

👉 Watch live in our Telegram

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📹🚀The Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft with Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim aboard has docked with the International Space Station.

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🔍EU’s tit-for-tat tariffs: Find out which goods DODGE THE BULLET & which GET HIT

Bourbon, wine, and dairy products have been excluded from the European Union’s list of countermeasures, thanks to vigorous lobbying efforts by France, Italy, and Ireland, according to The Financial Times.

Donald Trump had threatened a 200% levy on European alcohol if the EU went after bourbon.

Instead, Brussels is slapping 10% to 25% tariffs on a variety of US goods in response to American duties on EU aluminum and steel. The affected products include orange juice, soybeans, rice, sweet corn, almonds, tobacco, iron, steel, aluminum, textiles, and certain clothing items.

These tariffs are set to take effect between April 15 and December 1, as outlined in an internal European Commission document cited by European media reports.

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❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Guevo in Russia's Kursk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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📹 Russian troops have raised the national flag over the liberated village of Guevo in Russia's Kursk region following today's Defense Ministry announcement of its liberation.

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🚫MERIT over mandates: DOGE DISMANTLES Biden-era DEI rules at State Department

US foreign service officers will now be evaluated based on “true merit,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on X, reposting a message from DOGE.

The department had blasted the old system that judged diplomats 20% on diversity box-ticking, and shared PowerPoint slides with examples of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirements that have now been scrapped.

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🗣Key statements from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

🔹 The Biden administration caused "tremendous damage" to US-Russia relations, and mutual trust will take time to restore, Peskov said.

🔹 Russia welcomes US-Iran talks in Oman.

🔹 Japan claims it wants a peace treaty but has joined every hostile move against Russia.

🔹 There are currently no contacts with Japan regarding a peace treaty.

🔹 Peskov called Latvia’s plans to mass-demolish Soviet war memorials "a disgrace."

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📹The American roots of German Nazism, Part 3: How America’s wars with Mexico and Spain led Hitler to replicate 'Manifest Destiny' in Europe

In the mid-19th century, the principle of the so-called 'Manifest Destiny' gained popularity in the United States, justifying American expansionism across the continent under the pretext of civilizing neighboring lands. According to this plan, American settlers were destined to occupy nearby territories, even at the cost of expelling their inhabitants and annexing the lands of other nations.

This idea peaked during the US wars with Mexico and Spain.

In the third video of the series the researcher of Nazism’s origins and evolution, and author of War of Annihilation, Yegor Yakovlev explains how Hitler adapted this American doctrine to his Nazi ideology.

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