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๐Ÿค– At a factory in Shenzhen, China, production has been almost fully automated โ€” robots now perform tasks that were previously done by humans.

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๐Ÿ—ฃRUSSIA โ€˜READY FOR TALKS WITH UKRAINE โ€“ NOW THE BALL IS IN KIEV'S COURTโ€™

Key takeaways from Russian FM spokeswomanโ€™s briefing:

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œWe're open for contacts โ€“ but Ukraine must decideโ€

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œThe initiative for POW exchanges with Ukraine โ€“ agreed upon in Istanbul โ€“ came from OUR side."

๐Ÿ’ฌ "We don't expect rationality from them [Ukraine]... but hope their survival instinct kicks in to save what's left of their statehood."

Reaction to Zelensky/EU sanctions threats:

๐Ÿ’ฌ "Russia NEVER responded to ultimatums."

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Trump rejected more sanctions on Russia in call with EU leaders โ€“ report

Following his phone call with Vladimir Putin, the US president told Volodymyr Zelensky and EU leaders that slapping more US sanctions on Russia โ€˜was not a good ideaโ€™ as Putin wants a peace deal, Axios reports, quoting โ€˜sources who were on the callโ€™.

The Russian and US leaders held a two-hour-long phone call on Monday, which Putin described as โ€œfrank and constructive.โ€ Trump said the tone of the conversation was โ€œexcellent.โ€

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๐Ÿ—ฃ๐ŸงนAs Macron eyes sending troops to Ukraine, most French say: Secure our streets first

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ทSome 76% of French citizens would like to see the army deployed to tackle domestic crime and drug violence, a CSA poll shows.

๐Ÿ‘ฉWomen are even more in favorโ€”80% say yes.

Decades of failing policies, rising violence, and mass immigration have pushed safety to the brink. In the past 10 years alone, sexual violence has surged by 86%, Remix News reported.

โ“Maybe instead of playing war games in Ukraine, Macron should try cleaning up his own streets?

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๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Rubio warns Syria could be โ€˜WEEKS AWAYโ€™ from civil war

"It is our assessment that, frankly, the transitional authority, given the challenges they're facing, are maybe weeks - not many months - away from potential collapse and a full scale civil war of epic proportions, basically the country splitting up," the US Secretary of State told a Senate hearing.

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๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Putin-Trump call signals Russia-US NORMALIZATION is possible

The Putin-Trump call showed that "diplomatic pursuits are indeed working"; however, the root causes of the Ukraine conflict, outlined by the Russian president, "have to be addressed" to achieve lasting peace, Christopher Helali, International Secretary of the American Communist Party, told Sputnik on the sidelines of the forum on Russia's role in shaping a multipolar world.

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๐Ÿ—ฃRubio touts โ€˜ongoingโ€™ military aid to Ukraine as his boss talks peace with Putin

The US is โ€œworking withโ€ and โ€œencouragingโ€ its European allies to continue providing Ukraine with sophisticated air defenses, the US secretary of state said in congressional testimony Tuesday.

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๐Ÿ—ฃICC is a โ€˜tool of neocolonial repressionโ€™ that ignores NATO's 'mass atrocities': Medvedev

Itโ€™s telling that not a single North American or European defendant has ever gone on trial at the Hague, the Russian Security Council deputy chairman said, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum.

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๐Ÿ—ฃ Jackson Hinkle to Rupert Murdochโ€™s mouthpiece: get your lies straight

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œThey should open up a New York Post office in the Red Light District in Amsterdam, as far as I'm concerned, because they are prostituting themselves out to every single international oligarch to try and attack the truth,โ€ American X influencer and political commentator Jackson Hinkle told Sputnik, reacting to his recent NYP hit piece.


Hinkle made the comments on the sidelines of a forum on Russia's role in shaping a multipolar world.

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๐Ÿ‘บ Who REALLY ran Biden's White House?

The "Autopen Presidency" likely had a shadow cabinet.

And one Clinton loyalist possibly sat at its core.

๐ŸŽญ The real puppetmaster?

While DC whispered about Jill Biden or Jeff Zients pulling Bidenโ€™s strings, one name kept resurfacing in the shadows.
Hillaryโ€™s longtime fixer. Obamaโ€™s policy architect. Bidenโ€™s de facto gatekeeper.
Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel drops a bombshell.

๐Ÿ” The name is NEERA TANDEN

Biden's former staff secretary and Domestic Policy Council director. She entered the Clintons' orbit in 1996, working for Bill and then closely with Hillary.

๐Ÿช– Hillary's loyal soldier

A 2016 WikiLeaks email reveals her unwavering allegiance: โ€œI would do whatever Hillary needs. Always. I owe her a lot. And Iโ€™m a loyal soldier.โ€

๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ Clinton's proxy in Obama cabinet?


After Hillary lost the 2008 nomination to Barack Obama, Tanden joined his campaign as director of domestic policy. Unlike others chasing political futures, she stayed loyal โ€“ doing exactly what Hillary advised, reports said.

๐Ÿ› CAP shaping US politics

After leaving the Obama administration in 2011, Tanden led liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), founded by fellow Clinton loyalist John Podesta. She later said Obama had implemented "most of what [CAP] asked" on immigration and domestic policy.

๐Ÿ—‘ Trashing Bernie


As an informal adviser to Hillaryโ€™s 2016 campaign, Tanden reportedly worked behind the scenes to undermine Bernie Sandersโ€™ candidacy. Progressives later pushed back when Biden nominated her to lead the Office of Management and Budget โ€“ a job she failed to land.

๐ŸŽฏ 'Proxy warrior'


In 2021, Tanden became Biden's staff secretary, a role dubbed โ€œthe central nervous system of the White House.โ€ She controlled the flow of information reaching the president and, in 2023, was picked to lead the Domestic Policy Council.

๐Ÿ‘ฅ She didn't act alone

Tanden wasnโ€™t the only one shaping US policy behind an ailing Biden, says Ortel. He points to Susan Rice, Jeff Zients, Ron Klain, Bob Bauer and Anita Dunn โ€“ arguing it was the Clintons and Obamas who pulled Bidenโ€™s strings via their proxies.

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๐Ÿ—ฃEurope LOATHES Russia even though itโ€™s SAVED them โ€˜countless timesโ€™

Europe has been choking on the bile of โ€œRussophobia, historical revisionism and outright hostility toward anything Russianโ€ since 2014 and Ukraine coup, American Communist Party International Secretary Christopher Helali told Sputnik on the sidelines of a forum on Russiaโ€™s role in shaping a multipolar world.

Ultimately, attempts to โ€œseparate and sever Russia from European historyโ€ have โ€œonly strengthened Russia and its resolve,โ€ Helali stressed, adding that the European Unionโ€™s โ€œwarmongeringโ€ and attempts to isolate Russia will inevitably fail.

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๐Ÿ—ฃPentagon chief orders in-depth review of Afghanistan pullout dumpster fire

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œOver the last three months, the Department has been engaged in a review of this catastrophic event in our militaryโ€™s history. I have concluded that we need to conduct a comprehensive review to ensure that accountability for this event is met and that the complete picture is provided to the American people,โ€ Pete Hegseth wrote in a memorandum.


The review will sift through previous findings and testimony and analyze the circumstances leading to โ€œone of Americaโ€™s darkest and deadliest international moments,โ€ according to Hegseth.

The August 2021 US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, carried out by the Biden administration, took place as NATO-trained Afghan security forces melted away, the government collapsed and the president fled with suitcases full of cash as the Taliban took over all of the countryโ€™s major cities in ten days.

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๐Ÿ—ฃEurope, open back up and maybe Russia will forgive you

๐Ÿ’ฌ "My voice to you Europeans is: understand what's going on, wake up, because your nation is the one that is really suffering the most," John Whitehead, head of the media project Reporterfy Media & Travel, told Sputnik on the sidelines of a forum on Russia's role in shaping a multipolar world.


Europe has tried to pressure Russia by silencing its voice and imposing sanctions, but it hasn't worked, Whitehead said, urging Western nations to rethink their approach to Russia.

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โ—๏ธRussian forces have destroyed up to 70 Ukrainian troops in a training camp in the Sumy region with an Iskander missile strike, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense.

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๐Ÿ˜จ๐Ÿ’ฒ HALF-TRILLION DOLLAR SHIELD: Pentagon unveils blueprint for its new Golden Dome The Department of Defense has already touted the Golden Dome air defense system as a โ€œdependable umbrella of protection.โ€ But a price tag raises eyebrows: the system couldโ€ฆ
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โ—๏ธ Total cost of Golden Dome will reach about $175 billion when completed โ€“ Trump

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œI'm pleased to announce that we have officially selected an architecture for this state-of-the-art system that will deploy next-generation technologies across the land, sea, and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors,โ€ the US president told the media.


๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œI'm also pleased to report that the one big, beautiful bill will include $25 billion for the Golden Dome to help construction get underway,โ€ Trump said.


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๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บโŒ Hungary UNMASKS more Ukrainian spies as espionage war seethes

Hungary has identified two additional Ukrainian spies, Mate Kocsis, the head of Hungaryโ€™s ruling Fidesz parliamentary faction, has announced.

The outed spies are:

๐Ÿ”น Roland Tseber: previously a Ukrainian-Hungarian dual citizen who renounced his Hungarian citizenship in 2017, โ€œwas identified as an illegal agent of Ukrainian intelligence,โ€ and is now a local lawmaker in Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia).

โž– Istvan Hollo: A Ukrainian national taken into custody by the National Bureau of Investigation on suspicion of espionage.

Two other agents, Ukrainian Embassy in Budapest employees Yuriy Kernichnyy and Dmytro Kisfalusi, were detained and expelled after being uncovered earlier this month. Kocsis told reporters at the time that Hungarian counterintelligence has โ€œlong felt intelligence activity from Ukraine.โ€

Also this month, Ukraine expelled two Hungarians, claiming they were agents, in Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia).

Last week, Prime Minister Orban accused Ukrainian intelligence of trying to disrupt a national referendum on Ukraineโ€™s EU membership through a โ€œcoordinated slander campaign.โ€

Besides bad blood over Russia ties, Hungary and Ukraine have waged a decade-long feud over Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia), a border region inhabited by 150,000-180,000 Hungarians, who have faced discrimination by Ukraineโ€™s post-Maidan governments.

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โ—๏ธ Rubio: Russia prepares list of requirements for ceasefire During their call, Russian FM Lavrov informed the US Secretary of State that the Russian government is drafting a document outlining their demands for a ceasefire, which would "lead to broaderโ€ฆ
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๐Ÿ“น Rubio expects terms for ceasefire THIS WEEK from Russia, warns sanctions COMING

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œMaybe in a number of days, maybe this week, hopefully, the Russian side is going to present terms that they would want to see, just broad terms, that would allow us to move towards a ceasefire,โ€ US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told a Senate hearing.


๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œI am not today in a position to tell you we're going to endorse it or support it at this time,โ€ Rubio said about the new Senate sanctions bill against Russia, co-sponsored by infamous neocon Senator Lindsey Graham*.


*recognized as a terrorist in Russia.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Trump rejected more sanctions on Russia in call with EU leaders โ€“ report Following his phone call with Vladimir Putin, the US president told Volodymyr Zelensky and EU leaders that slapping more US sanctions on Russia โ€˜was not a good ideaโ€™ as Putin wantsโ€ฆ
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โŒ 'Thatโ€™s going to be MY determination' โ€” Trump SHUTS DOWN Zelenskyโ€™s cry for more anti-Russia sanctions

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œThatโ€™s going to be NOBODY ELSE'S determinationโ€ฆ I think we had very good conversations yesterday,โ€ Trump emphasized.


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โ˜ข๏ธ๐Ÿค Iran mulls nuclear deal with Arab states and US ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ทTehran is considering the idea of creating a nuclear consortium involving Middle Eastern countries and the US, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi said. ๐Ÿ’ฌ "If this progresses furtherโ€ฆ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑโš”๏ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Israel allegedly preparing STRIKE on Iranian nuclear sites โ€“ reports

Israel is reportedly preparing for a possible strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, according to new US intelligence, CNN reported. Such a move could risk major regional escalation and potentially break with President Trumpโ€™s diplomatic efforts toward a nuclear deal with Tehran.

No final decision has been made, but US officials say intercepted communications and Israeli military movements point to serious planning. The risk of a strike has โ€œgone up significantly in recent months,โ€ one source familiar with the intelligence told CNN.

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