💬 The US secretary of state’s remarks on potentially ending the US peace push in Ukraine ‘within days’ signal dual frustrations: with Steve Witkoff’s influence over Ukraine policy, and with Russia’s demands for a lasting peace instead of a temporary ceasefire, the former Marine Corps intelligence officer told Sputnik.

💬 “On the 1st of March of 2024, the People’s Bank of China opened up the Shanghai Futures Exchange, enabling gold trading to be accessed by commercial and private citizens, and as we’ve tracked every month since then, it was clear that this was an official strategy to drive massive gold investments into China,” Maguire told Kinesis Money.

💬 “By no coincidence, one year later, in the early stages of the second quarter of 2025, we’re witnessing a similar, officially sanctioned, commercially-targeted gold-buying mandate being sprung on the West, driven by a directive for Chinese insurance companies to invest 1% of their assets into physical gold,” the analyst said, explaining the methodology behind his forecast.

💬 “As the US-China trade war escalates into what really actually threatens to roll into a once-in-a-century financial war, payment chains are rapidly onshoring, providing sufficient liquidity to actually digitize [Russian economist Sergei] Glazyev’s fully beta tested, BRICS-facing, gold-backed commodity currency,” Maguire said.

"It was as if THEY HAD A PREMONITION that it would be impossible for them to fly to the Holy Land in the last few days," commented Archbishop Markell.

"We are giving diplomacy a chance, but time is not infinite," Naim Qassem added.

"First, that was pressure. Then, it was arrests. Then, it was violence. Priests were attacked, all under the pretext of national security," opposition leader Victoria Shapa told Mario Nawfal.

"More money wasted," responded one netizen.

"During the negotiations between Tehran and Washington, guarantees will not be provided only by the US," Iranian lawmaker Alaeddin Boroujerdi said ahead of the second round of US-Iran talks in Rome.

"Great work by NSF [US National Science Foundation] canceling 402 wasteful DEI grants ($233M in savings), including $1M for ‘Antiracist Teacher Leadership for Statewide Transformation,’" the Department said.