🇾🇪💥Houthis strike back: US Truman and Vinson carriers targeted in Red Sea

The group also delivered a major strike on a “vital target” of Israeli forces in Ashkelon, followed by another attack on a military target in Umm al-Rashrash, the Yemeni Armed Forces spokesperson said.

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❗️The Kremlin will provide all interested parties with all the data on the violations of the Easter truce by the Ukrainian Armed Forces — Peskov

More statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:

▪️Ukraine should not be a member of NATO, this would pose a threat to Russia's interests.

▪️The Kremlin has heard Washington at various levels declare the impossibility of Ukraine's membership in NATO, this coincides with Moscow's position.

▪️Russia and the United States are working on the Ukrainian issue, Moscow hopes that this will yield results.

▪️The search for ways to peacefully resolve the situation in Ukraine cannot take place in the public arena, information leaks must be treated with caution.

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China vows countermeasures against those backing US isolation push

“China firmly opposes any party reaching a deal at the expense of China’s interests. If this happens, China will not accept it,” CNBC reported, citing the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.

This warning came as the Trump administration reportedly plans to use tariff negotiations to pressure US allies into reducing their dealings with China.

International trade could be at risk if it devolves into the “LAW OF THE JUNGLE,” the ministry further noted.

While Trump has suspended major tariff hikes on other countries for 90 days, he has increased duties on Chinese goods by 145%. In response, China imposed 125% tariffs on American imports and restricted the export of critical minerals.

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🪖🇩🇪 Is Germany getting too close with weapons?

Germany and weapons systems: apparently, it’s more than just a professional relationship. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has admitted the country seems to have an "erotic relationship" with arms, especially when it comes to sending long-range Taurus missiles to Ukraine.

While Germany debates the issue like no other country, Pistorius wonders where this weaponry obsession comes from. Any ideas?

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🇨🇦👋 Bye US, hello EU: Canada to join the bloc?

Forty-four percent of Canadians have said that they support the idea of joining the EU, while a mere 34 percent oppose it, according to Abacus Data. Another broader question on general support for joining the bloc saw an impressive 46 percent approval.

Ottawa “has THE RIGHT VIBE FOR BRUSSELS,” European media has reported. Clearly, with destabilizing tariffs, immigration issues, and soaring prices, Canada is exactly what the EU needs.

While Canada joining the EU may seem outlandish, it’s not entirely impossible:

🟠Brussels was “honored with the results of such a poll,” the European Commission’s chief spokesperson noted.

🟠“Legally and formally, a European state isn’t exactly defined, and if we look to the past, we've had states in Europe that weren’t even on the continent,” said a professor of EU external democracy support at Maastricht University, also referring to Canadians as “special Europeans, in a way.”

🟠“Canada would certainly qualify,” said a professor of European politics at ETH Zurich, explaining that Canada is “probably closer to European values, institutions, and policies than many of the current candidate countries.”

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🚨EXPOSING KLAUS SCHWAB'S GLOBALIST AGENDA

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is where global elites make decisions that affect everyone, without democratic oversight.

Now, its ex-chair Klaus Schwab is at the center of the ‘Great Reset’ — an initiative launched in 2020 to tackle the COVID-19 economic fallout.

In reality, it’s a cover-up for a massive restructuring of the global economy to benefit the ultra-wealthy👇

🔎 The Elite Takeover

Schwab’s “stakeholder capitalism” is code for corporate dominance disguised as fairness. Big corporations get the power, while the rest of us are left fighting over scraps.

⚠️ Social Engineering

Schwab envisions a new social order where elites control technological infrastructure, including AI, surveillance, and data.

This may result in greater surveillance, loss of privacy, and a more controlled society:

▪️Smart cities: to track everything you do

▪️Universal Basic Income (UBI): to keep you docile & dependent on the state

▪️Automation: to replace jobs, leaving millions unemployed & vulnerable

❗️Global Ideas Over National Sovereignty

Schwab’s ideas foster a system where decisions are made by unelected global elites.

National interests are subordinated to international interests, leaving the general population with limited control over policies that directly affect their lives.

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🇷🇺🇮🇷 Vladimir Putin signs law ratifying strategic partnership agreement with Iran

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🗣💢US school board tries to silence teen calling out transgender locker room

A California school board has attempted to silence a high schooler standing up for her privacy. Celeste Diest, a track athlete, revealed how a transgender athlete - a "biological male" - watched her change in a locker room, and the board had the audacity to cut her off.

The video of the moment went viral online.

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🚨🇷🇺🇴🇲 THE SULTAN OF OMAN HAS ARRIVED IN RUSSIA ON AN OFFICIAL VISIT, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

10 agreements and roadmaps would be signed during the visit, including an agreement on the mutual abolition of the visa regime for citizens of the countries, Oman's Ambassador to Russia said.

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🧐 Netanyahu WON’T strike Iran without Trump’s approval

The Israeli PM is reportedly too afraid of angering the US president, who's busy trying to make a deal with Tehran.

According to the Financial Times, Israel knows it can only slow down Iran’s nuclear program for a short time without US military support.

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🇨🇳❌🇺🇸China SLAMS THE DOOR on US gas and oil products amid trade war

Last month’s gas imports plummeted by 44% to $720 million, while purchases of liquefied natural gas have stopped completely, a Sputnik analysis shows.

Imports of American petroleum products decreased by 3.2 times to only $11.6 million.

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🇺🇸😬7 times the Pentagon BLEW its secret-keeping

The latest leak from the Pentagon chief’s home chat on secret war plans could top decades of US strategy leaks:

🔸SIGNALGATE 2.0: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth allegedly shared US attack plans against Yemeni Houthi rebels in a Signal chat that included his wife, brother, and personal lawyer, as per The New York Times.

🔸SIGNALGATE: In March, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg was "mistakenly" added to a Signal chat with Hegseth and Trump officials reportedly discussing Yemen strikes. Three Pentagon officials were subsequently placed on leave.

🔸DISCORD LEAKS (2022-23): Over 100 pages of classified US military docs, primarily concerning the Ukraine conflict, were leaked by US airman Jack Teixeira, revealing Ukraine's military capabilities and US spying on close allies like South Korea and Israel.

🔸AFGHAN WAR LOGS (2010): US Army soldier Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning leaked 91,000 DoD reports on US military operations in Afghanistan (2004-2010) to WikiLeaks, exposing war mismanagement, unreported civilian casualties, insider attacks, and operational challenges.

🔸IRAQ WAR LOGS (2010): Also leaked by Manning to WikiLeaks, 391,832 DoD field reports covering US operations in Iraq from 2004 to 2009 exposed controversial US military strategy, unreported civilian deaths, detainee abuses, and other war crimes.

🔸PENTAGON PAPERS (1971): Leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, the 7,000-page Pentagon Papers study covered the period between 1945 and 1967 exposing systemic misrepresentation of the Vietnam War by multiple administrations, detailing US strategic lapses and real war progress.

BONUS👇

🔻SNOWDEN NSA LEAKS (2013): Snowden’s leaks exposed US spying on key NATO allies like Germany, France, and Italy, along with US "military capabilities, operations, tactics, techniques and procedures," as US Army Gen. Martin Dempsey claimed at the time.

🔻VAULT 7 CIA LEAKS (2017): WikiLeaks exposed thousands of CIA documents, revealing hacking tools, cyberwarfare capabilities and exploits for targeting adversaries’ systems, including smartphones and IoT devices, in intel and sabotage operations.

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❗️Russia has always been supportive of ceasefires, which is why it proposed the Easter ceasefire initiative, stated Russian President Vladimir Putin.

He emphasized that Russia must analyze the experience of declaring this ceasefire.

Putin also pointed out that the Ukrainian armed forces violated the ceasefire nearly 5,000 times. However, despite these violations, he noted that there was an overall decrease in military activity.

Moscow hopes that the Ukrainian side will respond positively to future peace initiatives.

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⚡️President Putin on Sumy strike: The location was being used for a ceremony to reward those involved in crimes in the Kursk region.

On April 14, Russian forces targeted a meeting of Ukrainian military commanders in Sumy, killing over 60 Ukrainian troops, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The ministry also accused the Ukrainian armed forces of using the city’s civilians as human shields.

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🗣 The leaders of Western countries planning to visit Russia on May 9th have much more courage than those who are threatening them, Russian President Vladimir Putin said.

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🇪🇺💣EU rearmament plan could bring BLOC’S COLLAPSE, ex-Italian PM warns

Rearming the EU may only create an “ILLUSION OF SECURITY”, Giuseppe Conte has pointed out.

He underlined that for effective security measures, it’s necessary to build a "horizon of peace" between states through negotiations.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen earlier proposed a plan for the rearmament of the EU worth a whopping €800 billion ($909 billion).

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❗️There is no talk of Donald Trump coming to Moscow on May 9 for Victory Day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

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🇷🇺🌐🛡Russia maintains DIGITAL DOMINANCE despite sanctions, cyberattacks, and tech restrictions — Russian Foreign Ministry

"Russia has not only ensured the integrity and security of critical information infrastructure but also confidently maintains its leading global position in digitalization," Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin told Sputnik.

He added that programs launched by the government to replace foreign information and communication technologies are already yielding results.

Russia is ready to share with its partners the experience of protecting sovereignty in the information space, the deputy foreign minister said.

"[Russia], perhaps like no other in the world, has faced in recent years an unprecedented malicious campaign, pressure on domestic computer networks, and externally supervised computer crime," Vershinin said.

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🇬🇧🏃‍♂️British troops are SIGNING OFF EN MASSE as they don't want to fight for 'prick' Starmer in Ukraine — British influencer

"[The Ukraine conflict] is clearly a proxy war used to funnel billions into very, very wealthy men and women's pockets... If conscription comes in, do not fight for this regime. They're dictators," he said.

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🇪🇬✈️🇨🇳 Egypt and China make history with first joint air drills

In a groundbreaking move, Egypt and China are holding their first-ever joint air exercises coined "Civilization Eagles 2025", signaling a new chapter of closer ties on the global stage.

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