🚨Europe polarizes as Poland fortifies borders

🦫Poland is reinstating temporary border controls in the Suwalki Gap —the sole land corridor between Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave and Belarus, linking the Baltic states to the EU.

General Wieslaw Kukula, Chief of the General Staff, revealed that 5,000 troops will enforce the measure:

🟠4,000 deployed to the German border
🟠1,000 stationed near Lithuania

While Interior Minister Tomasz Siemoniak insists the move targets illegal migration, critics see it as another step in Poland’s military expansion—justified by the oft-cited 'Russian threat' narrative.

🔍The move comes as Poland undergoes Europe's most dramatic military buildup with its defense budget quadrupled since 2022 to over 4% of GDP ($30B+).

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🌍🌍🌍 Summit in Brazil:

🟠Multipolarity is reality: Lavrov at BRICS Summit

🟠Lavrov meets Iranian FM Araghchi

🟠BRICS to launch new investment platform tied to BRICS Bank

➕Other topics:

🟠US aid to Ukraine reaches $123.3 billion

🟠DOJ & FBI conclude Epstein had no 'client list' or accomplices, show surveillance footage from Epstein’s detention

🟠Trump slams Musk’s America party

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📹🔥WATCH DRONES UNLEASH THEIR POWER AGAINST UKRAINE REGIME

Destroyed:

✅Ukrainian military equipment in the Sumy region
✅Two ground robotic complexes in Seversk direction
✅Vehicles to transport drones and ammunition
✅Enemy's rotation in Orekhov direction

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📊Global debt crisis reaches STAGGERING new heights

💬"The situation with the growing US national debt is spiraling out of control, and trust in the dollar has been undermined due to illegal sanctions," Russian FM Lavrov said at the BRICS Summit.

Sovereign debt issuance shattered records in 2024, surpassing $18 trillion worldwide - with developed nations accounting for $16 trillion and emerging markets $2 trillion.

🟠Government bond issuance has nearly doubled since 2019
🟠The past 5 years saw more debt accumulation than the 8 years preceding COVID-19
🟠Tax policy shifts and high interest rates further fueling borrowing

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❌West’s Ukraine unity myth SHATTERS

🇫🇷France expresses dissatisfaction with the United Kingdom regarding the lack of a shared strategy and differing approaches to dealing with the United States, US media report, citing people familiar with the matter.

Stalled Ukraine negotiations had exposed a lack of unified direction within the coalition, French officials said, particularly criticizing the UK’s reliance on US security guarantees that had not yet materialized.

🇬🇧An unnamed UK diplomat described UK PM Starmer’s strategy as "much more cautious" than Macron’s bolder tactics for navigating Trump’s chaotic policy.

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIA'S MoD UPDATE: CRUSHING GAINS & MASSIVE UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️ DACHNOYE (DNEPROPETROVSK region) LIBERATED

⚡️ BESSALOVKA (SUMY region) LIBERATED

▫️ Heavy Ukrainian losses: Over 1,245 troops eliminated in the special military operation zone in the past 24 hours

▫️ Air defense superiority: 7 aerial bombs and 402 drones shot down

▫️ The Ukrainian military retreats and surrenders in the Dnepropetrovsk region

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📹EXPLOSIVE FOOTAGE of intense battles for the settlement of Dachnoye in the Dnepropetrovsk region which was announced as liberated earlier today.

Fighting continues in the Dnepropetrovsk region.

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✅Kiev regime can’t apply the principle of territorial integrity as it doesn’t represent southeastern Ukraine’s population – Lavrov

🔍In 1970, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on Principles of International Law, which states that the principle of territorial integrity applies to states whose authorities respect the principle of equality and the self-determination of peoples, Russia’s foreign minister recalled.

🔊It is obvious to any impartial observer that the Kiev regime, which has elevated Russophobia to state policy, does not represent the population of the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine, including Crimea, Sevastopol, Lugansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson, Lavrov stressed.

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🔊LIVE NOW: 🌍🌍🌍 summit DAY 2

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🌍🌍🌍 Cooperation within BRICS has never been and will never be aimed at third countries – Kremlin

🔸 Moscow has seen Trump’s statements about the possibility of imposing additional tariffs on BRICS countries

Other statements by Peskov:

🔹 Russia and Azerbaijan must remain partners and allies

🔹 The issues arising between Moscow and Baku should be addressed in a constructive manner.

🔹 Russian diplomats are in constant contact with the Azerbaijani side and are defending the interests of detained Russians

Additionally, the head of Russian Investigative Committee Bastrykin and Russian Prosecutor General Krasnov are in contact with the Attorney General of Azerbaijan.

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⚡️⚡️Iranian President confirms Israel tried to ASSASSINATE him

"They did try, yes. But they failed," Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian tells Tucker Carlson in a bombshell interview.

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🚨🇺🇸 Should the US be AFRAID of Iran? -Tucker Carlson asks 🇮🇷Masoud Pezeshkian

"Iran has never invaded another country in the last 200 years."

🤔Something to think about...

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🚨Did Iran try to assassinate Donald Trump?

This is a LIE being pushed by Netanyahu to draw the US into a new Middle East war, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Tucker Carlson.

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📹A breathtaking drone light show in Southwest China turned the night sky into perfect watermelon slices—floating above the city lights.

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📊US has pumped BILLIONS into Ukraine – but is it making a difference?

That $123 billion could've:

🟠Fixed US infrastructure
🟠Paid for 3 years of welfare support
🟠Given every American $375 cash

But instead... it vanished in Zelensky's pockets

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🎥🎥 Lavrov holds press conference following BRICS Summit in Rio

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🚨 BRICS tackles global health challenges

BRICS is leading the charge in reshaping global health initiatives, from creating an early warning system for infectious diseases to reforming the World Health Organization. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

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🗣IAEA must take responsibility for its assessments made days before airstrikes on Iran – Lavrov

Highlights of Lavrov’s press conference at BRICS Summit in Rio:

🔸 The IAEA must provide guarantees that no fabricated narratives will be introduced in the Iran issue to politicize the situation.

🔸 The expansion of BRICS does not pose any threat to its operations; the potential of the union is just beginning to unfold.

🔸 Masterminds behind attacks on Russian railways and bridges will be held accountable.

💬 “Russia is not trying to introduce the topic of investigations into attacks on railways and bridges into international discussions, but those responsible [for those attacks] will not escape accountability.”

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🚨 BRICS is a threat to the dollar, US hegemony: Trump right to FEAR it

💬 “Clearly the US dollar is under threat from BRICS just by the fact that these countries trade among themselves in national currencies rather than the dollar,” IR analyst Gilbert Doctorow says, commenting on Trump’s threat to slap 10% tariffs on BRICS.

💬 “Trump's threats are a 'straw in the wind’,” Doctorow stresses, pointing out that “we do not have to look to Trump's rhetoric to understand that with each additional country joining the line to be admitted to BRICS it becomes an institution changing the world order and making the G7 and G20 largely irrelevant to global governance.”

🗣Challenge to Western ‘monolith’

💬 BRICS is “a collection of individual, sovereign, independent governments that share a common vision of a multilateral world where they can play an effective role in their national interests,” says veteran business consultant Paul Goncharoff.

💬 This “differs substantially from the monolithic political/economic blocs that comprise the G7 or EU under the de facto direction of the USA,” according to the observer.

🗣Trump fears multipolarity

💬 “While Trump's ‘America First’ explicitly prioritized US dominance, a stronger, financially independent Global South inherently challenges Western unipolarity,” political analyst Angelo Giuliano says. “His policies often opposed multilateralism and perceived rivals. Genuine Global South financial autonomy diminishes US leverage, aligning with trends Trumpism resisted.”

🗣Without dollar, US is emperor with no clothes

💬 “The US benefits from dollar hegemony and its ability to intervene militarily in any country for its own interests or in the interests of its closest allies like Israel and NATO,” says Dr. Anuradha Chenoy.

With BRICS members surpassing the G7 on PPP GDP, creating new institutions of finance, and trading in national currencies, it’s clear why Trump feels threatened.

💬 “Countries in BRICS can exercise strategic autonomy and have more power over transacting with Western and other countries,” Chenoy stresses.

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