💬 Ukrainian forces threw grenades at residents they couldn't rob – PoW

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US looks to secure economic isolation of China with tariff cuts for 70+ countries

The plan includes prohibiting China from transporting goods through certain countries and banning Chinese companies from establishing operations to bypass US tariffs, the Wall Street Journal reported.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is leading the strategy, with hopes of reaching agreements with Japan, the UK, Australia, South Korea, and India.

In the ongoing trade war between Washington and Beijing, US tariffs on Chinese goods have reached 145%, while China’s duty on American goods stands at 125%.

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📹 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova compared the forced Westernization of Moldova to the Nazi genocide.

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📉WTO lowers forecast for global GDP growth in 2025 due to tariffs, from 2.8% to 2.2%

Global merchandise trade is expected to decline by 0.2% in 2025, with North America facing the steepest drop. Exports in the region are projected to fall by 12.6%.

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🚨 Vladimir Putin compared Elon Musk to Sergei Korolev, the mastermind of the Soviet space program in the 1950s and 60s.

"Such people don't appear often," the Russian president said at a meeting with students at Bauman Moscow State Technical University.

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🚀 Space cooperation between Russia and the US is still going strong, despite the suspension by Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

💬 "We continue to cooperate with the US, no matter what," he said at a meeting with Bauman University students.

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✋Gagauzia says ENOUGH: People protest PRESSURE from Chisinau

A mass rally in support of Gagauz regional head Evgenia Gutsul and against pressure from the Moldovan government is taking place in Comrat, capital of the Gagauz autonomous region.

"We, the residents of the Gagauz Autonomous Territorial Unit, gathered for this mass rally in response to the systematic violations by Chisinau of our constitutional rights and the special legal status of Gagauzia," reads the statement delivered at the rally.

"[We] express our firm protest against the anti-Gagauz policies of the central authorities of the Republic of Moldova. We demand from the central authorities of the Republic of Moldova all the rights and powers of the Gagauz ATU, and the immediate release of Bashkan Evgenia Gutsul from house arrest."

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✋ Tesla, caught in crossfire of rising US tariffs, suspends Chinese shipments for Cybercab and Semi trucks

📈 While Tesla initially planned to absorb the 34% tariff, it became unsustainable as tariffs increased to 125%, Reuters reports, citing sources familiar with the matter.

🏭 The company had intended to begin trial production of the two models in October, with mass production set for 2026 in Texas and Nevada. This move follows President Trump's recent tariff hike on Chinese goods, which could disrupt Tesla’s production schedule.

↗️ The increased tariffs, now totaling 145%, have significantly impacted Tesla’s shipping plans, threatening the timeline for these major innovations.

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👁EMPIRE OF HACKERS: Top-6 US most infamous hack attack worldwide

The US loves accusing Russia or China of cyberwarfare, but their own hands are dirtier than anyone else's:

🔸 China names names: This week, China outed NSA hackers who launched “advanced” cyberattacks on the Asian Winter Games in Harbin in February. The unprecedented ‘name and shame’ campaign signals a major escalation in the China-US cyberwar.

🔸 Russia in the crosshairs: In 2019, NYT detailed a US cyberwar campaign against Russia’s energy grid. Officials revealed that hacking had begun in at least 2012, and gradually shifted “toward offense” through the deployment of crippling malware.

🔸 Targeting Venezuela: In 2019, President Maduro charged the US with a massive cyberattack targeting Venezuela’s power grid. The attack, part of a broader US effort to destabilize the country and overthrow its government, lasted weeks, and caused nearly 70 deaths.

🔸 North Korea frameup: In 2015, NYT ran and then scrubbed a story about US cyberattacks on the DPRK’s power grid and communications networks. The campaign was a “response” to the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, blamed on North Korea but possibly done by disgruntled employees.

🔸 Target - Iran: In 2010, CIA, Mossad and Dutch intelligence infected computers in Iranian nuclear installations with the sophisticated Stuxnet virus, causing untold physical damage and forcing Iran to temporarily pull infected infrastructure offline.

🔸 Sabotaging the Soviets: In 1982, the CIA and NSA teamed up to insert a bug into the control systems of the USSR’s Urengoy-Surgut-Chelyabinsk pipeline, causing a massive explosion. Ex-Reagan national security aide Thomas Reed spilled the beans on the operation in 2004.

Targeting adversaries online since 1997

In 2013, the NSA declassified docs detailing a global US cyber war, outlining “operations to disrupt, deny, degrade or destroy” target computers and networks. No wonder China has called the US the ‘Empire of Hackers’.

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🇨🇳🗣🇺🇸 China is open to trade talks if the US SHOWS RESPECT

Beijing is willing to engage with Trump’s administration, but only if certain conditions are met, Bloomberg reported, citing a source familiar with the matter.

🤔 What are these conditions?

1️⃣Reining in disparaging remarks from members of Trump’s cabinet to show more respect

2️⃣Addressing concerns over US sanctions

3️⃣Clarifying the White House’s stance on Taiwan

4️⃣Appointing a point person for talks who has the president’s backing and can help prepare a deal for Trump and Xi Jinping to sign when they meet

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👋US begins full withdrawal from military base at Conoco field in eastern Syria

The first convoy, consisting of over 70 vehicles, heavy equipment, and tankers, left ten days ago, followed by a second convoy of more than 200 vehicles, according to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.

US forces are reportedly relocating to Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The surveillance balloon that was previously monitoring the base has not been seen for over a week, signaling the ongoing withdrawal.

The Conoco oil field base, located in the Deir ez-Zor countryside, is a US military installation, a source told the media. The field houses Syria's largest gas processing plant, which previously supplied power to several power plants, including the Jandar power plant in Homs, one of the largest in the country.

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👎 No arms for cash: Trump turns down Ukraine's $50B offer

🚫 Trump turned down a $50 billion arms deal with Ukraine – because he’s not in the mood to sell weapons to Kiev, even for cash, according to Bild.

💸 Zelensky proposed using EU financial aid and frozen Russian assets to buy hundreds of Patriot missiles and other weapons.

🗣But it looks like Trump’s more into peace talks than cashing in on weapon sales.

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