📹 82% of the world isn't the 'Global South' — it's the Global Majority

International Digital Economies Association (IDEA) unites 92 nations to build a digital economy by and for the people. But global majority youth face a crisis: financial apps lock out kids, while Western content erases their cultures, Dr. Christina Amor-Maklang told Sputnik at the Global Digital Forum in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod.

“The superheroes of our kids in the Philippines or even in Africa are basically Marvel superheroes coming from cultures that are very detached from ours," she stresses.

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🎭 "The Trump opera" just got an Update!

Remember that infamous Cantonese Opera about Trump? Well, it just dropped a wild new patch:

Zelensky vs. Trump – Epic fistfight over Zelensky’s "inappropriate outfit"

Flirting with WW3 – Because why not? We’ve totally seen this plot before...

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📹WATCH Russian airstrike destroy a bridge over the Oskol River near Kupyansk, which had been actively used by the Ukrainian army

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🗣🇺🇸 Musk’s father: Trump and Elon feud like ‘two gorillas’

Errol Musk has described the clash as “over the top”, and advised his “alpha” son to accept that Trump was the more dominant of the two and would “win this round”.

“In any successful group of animals, whether gorillas, elephants or human beings, the dominant males will always fight for dominance,” Musk said, forecasting a heated clash “would now fizzle out”.

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🚨 Russia has reason to "BOMB the hell out of" Ukraine — Trump

Donald Trump said that Russia's retaliatory strike against Ukraine was inevitable, in a clear expression of dissatisfaction with Zelensky.

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🇫🇷🗣 ‘The French army is running on dry bread’ as Macron is ‘giving everything to Ukraine’

Florian Philippot, the leader of the French Patriots party, says Macron is promoting the idea of a unified European army because all the funds from the budget have been diverted to financing Ukraine.

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🔎 Things that do not age well: US dollar and its hegemony

The decades-long hegemony of the US dollar faces a multitude of serious challenges today, Ashraf Patel, a research associate at South Africa's Institute for Global Dialogue, tells Sputnik.

The insurmountable US national debt, well over $34 trillion and growing at an alarming rate, means “financial volatility and risk” for the United States.

Donald Trump’s protectionist policies make the US dollar less attractive in the eyes of foreign countries as his “disruptive trade and tariff wars” put a dent in the “US image in terms of international economics.”

The “irreversible rise” of the multipolar world order “centered within the BRICS Plus nations” offers the world a viable alternative to the US dollar’s dominance.

So what are the potential competitors for the US dollar on the global scale?

According to Patel, they are:

🔸Crypto currencies
🔸Central Bank Digital CBDOs currencies
🔸Potential BRICS currency
🔸Chinese yuan

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↩️ CANADA U-TURN: India "SHOULD BE" at the G7 table

PM Carney DEFENDS inviting Narendra Modi amid India-Canada dispute:

"India [is] the fifth-largest economy in the world .. central to a number of those supply chains," he told reporters.

🔶 The G7 meeting will take place from June 15 to 17. Modi has agreed to participate.

🔶 In 2023, Canada accused Modi's government of murdering a leader of the Khalistan separatist movement that Canada and the US shelter on their territories.

Have Trump's tariffs hit Canada so hard that it is crawling back to India?

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🔊 Trump will personally decide on Russia sanctions

The US president told reporters that the Senate bill on new sanctions against Russia grants him the final decision.

"I haven't decided to use it. It's a strong bill," he added.

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🇺🇸🚁 TRUMP’S AIR POWER GAMBLE: TOO LATE?

Trump's new executive orders push drone expansion & supersonic flights. But systemic flaws threaten dominance:

🔸 Drone decline: Russia/Iran/China lead battlefield drone tech. US $30M Reapers? Houthis shoot down 10 like skeet ($300M+ lost). Expensive ≠ effective.

🔸 Supersonic dependence: Trump scrapped 1973 speed ban to "revive" supersonic flights.

Reality: US jets/missiles rely on Chinese rare earths (90% supply). Beijing restricted exports – Lockheed Martin is sweating with its F-35s.

🔸 Air Force collapse: Reserve fighters being scrapped (48% by 2030).

"We’re taken out of the fight" – Lt. Gen. Healy told Defense One. Active duty hoards F-35s, while reservists fly relics.

The US Air Force isn't losing on spending or regulation – it’s being outmaneuvered.

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🚨 UKRAINE'S DRONE CRISIS HITS HARD

Ukrainian forces are facing a critical shortage of FPV drones, which is hampering their operations, according to a BBC report.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces complain of bureaucratic delays and poor-quality supplies while Russia advances in drone technology.

"A year ago, we could afford to launch 100 FPVs a day, but now that's no longer possible," the commander of a UAV unit told the BBC.

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🇷🇺🚀🇮🇷Iran & Russia team up for SATELLITE POWER

Iranian Ambassador to Moscow Kazem Jalali met Russian state space corporation Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Bakanov to discuss Russia-Iran space cooperation, namely:

🔶Development of advanced technologies
🔶Joint design and creation of satellites
🔶Joint construction of infrastructure
🔶Conducting training courses and knowledge sharing
🔶Combating Western sanctions

In early November, the Soyuz-2.1b rocket launched the Fregat upper stage with 53 small spacecraft into orbit from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, including the Iranian Kowsar remote sensing satellites and the Hodhod telecommunications satellite by private Iranian company Space Omid.

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📉 CRUSHING HIT TO UKRAINE’S ECONOMY: EU pulls the plug on Ukraine’s trade perks

The 2014 Association Agreement rules are back, and the EU is letting Ukraine's special trade access expire, dealing a major blow to the Ukrainian economy, according to the German media.

🔸 Ukrainian farmers can now only export limited duty-free volumes to the EU.
🔸 Corn quotas? Slashed from 14M tons to just 0.65M.
🔸 Meat, sugar, eggs, and sunflower oil — all now face quotas and tariffs.

These agri-goods made up 60% of Ukraine’s exports, most of it to the EU. Billions in foreign currency? Gone.

In 2022, the EU gave Ukraine near-total market access — sparking fury in Eastern and Central European member states.

While Poland cheers, Ukraine gets a harsh lesson: EU solidarity has limits.

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🇷🇺💥Ukrainian ammo dump BLASTED by pinpoint Krasnopol strike

Hidden enemy site ERADICATED by the Yug battle group — confirmed by secondary explosion.

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🔥California threatens TAX REBELLION vs Trump

Gov. Newsom warns California may ditch federal taxes if Trump slashes their funding.

"We provide over $80 billion more in tax revenue to the federal government than the federal government provides to the people of the state of California. So if Donald Trump's going to continue to threaten 40 million Americans that live in California, maybe we should consider withholding those resources," he said.

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