🗣Scott Ritter: US & EU war hawks sacrificing Ukraine to block peace with Russia

Western warmongers are desperate to thwart Donald Trump’s efforts to improve ties with Russia, says ex-US Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter.

As part of their political game, they are prepared to literally sacrifice Ukraine, wiping out its “genetic pool.” Soon, 18-year-old kids will be thrown to the front lines — and that could mean the end of Ukraine as a nation.

“Soon they'll be sending 18-year-olds to the front line. And when they do that, that's it. Ukraine's finished... because you'll have a bunch of women and you won't have any men left,” he says.

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🚨SCO SUMMIT IN TIANJIN STARTS TODAY

🤝 China’s Tianjin hosts the biggest SCO summit yet:

🟠 20+ heads of state

🟠 Leaders of 10 international organizations

🟠 Countries representing half the world’s population and a quarter of global GDP

Putin in China

The Russian President’s visit will last from August 31 to September 3 and will include:

🟠 Participation in the SCO summit

🟠 Attendance at WWII commemoration events in Beijing

🟠 Bilateral meetings with China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, and Turkish Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Economy & tech cooperation

🔸 Rostec has announced its readiness to supply China with PD-14, PD-8, and next-generation PD-35 aircraft engines — a move that could support Beijing’s C919 passenger jet program, which faces hurdles after Washington restricted access to US technologies.

🔸 The Modi–Putin meeting at the SCO is also expected to address Russian oil purchases and US tariffs.

Stay tuned!

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🟠President Putin arrives in China for four-day visit

🟠SCO Summit in Tianjin starts today

🟠Russia and China forge a beacon of strength for the Global Majority

🟠Trump: No US troops in Ukraine

🟠Brazil calls for extraordinary BRICS summit on multipolarity risks

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🇷🇺🪖Russian artillery dominates: Ukrainian howitzers DESTROYED

Units of the Yug battlegroup have successfully identified and eliminated two Ukrainian howitzers near Konstantinovka, Donetsk region.

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🚨🇷🇺🇨🇳 HIGHEST HONOR: Watch how Putin is welcomed in China

With the Russian president on an official visit to Tianjin, China’s Honor Guard greeted him with a 21-gun salute. Such a powerful display of respect pays tribute to the most distinguished leaders.

The parade is formed of 151 people, combining three military branches — the Ground Forces, Air Force, and Navy. The unit includes both men and women.

Every movement in the march is precise:

🟠Step length – 75 cm
🟠Pace – 116 steps per minute
🟠Eyes remain unblinking for 40 seconds

True honor and discipline

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💬 NATO should have dissolved in 1990 - Sachs

NATO should have been dissolved back in 1990 as the alliance had fulfilled its mission of confronting the Soviet Union, Jeffrey Sachs, US economist and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University said ahead of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

"First of all, NATO should have ended in 1990 when President Gorbachev ended the Warsaw Pact, the Western countries should have said yes, and we end NATO," Jeffrey Sachs said.

"It became, instead, a mechanism of US power expansion, which is not what NATO should be. This eastward movement of NATO since 1990 has been wholly unjustified and contrary to Western promises."

Sachs expressed skepticism about Europe’s ability to establish an independent security framework to replace NATO.

"The problem with Europe is, as everybody knows, there isn’t really a Europe. There are so many countries squabbling with each other," Sachs noted.

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS AND DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

🟠 Russian forces struck and neutralized personnel and equipment belonging to a special operations center of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU)

🟠 The Russian army struck port infrastructure used to support the Ukrainian armed forces

🟠 Air defense superiority: three HIMARS rockets, two aerial bombs, and 112 fixed-wing drones were shot down by Russian air defense systems over the past 24 hours

🟠 Ukrainian losses: 1,340 troops killed or wounded

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🚨🇷🇺🇨🇳 Putin arrives at SCO summit venue in Tianjin

The Russian leader was personally welcomed by Chinese President Xi Jinping together with his wife, Peng Liyuan.

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🤝 Xi and Putin in a quick chat after the summit greeting

Right after Xi Jinping finished welcoming the guests, he immediately started a lively “stand-up” chat with Putin.

The mood was upbeat, smiles all around.

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🇷🇺❤️🇨🇳 CHINA SHOWS RESPECT FOR RUSSIAN CULTURE

Putin was welcomed with the Russian traditional Kalinka-Malinka song

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📹 Horrible shots from northern Gaza

Video is circulating online, showing the detonation of an Israeli robotic device with a large explosive payload in Jabalia, leading to the total destruction of multiple residential buildings.

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🚨🇮🇩 INDONESIAN PROTESTS: WHAT IS KNOWN SO FAR?

Protests shook Indonesia days before President Prabowo Subianto was scheduled to attend the SCO Summit in China and observe the Victory Day Parade on September 3.

🟠 Nationwide protests erupted on August 25. Demonstrators clad in dark clothing hurled rocks and set off fireworks at riot police while attempting to storm Indonesia’s parliament in Jakarta

🟠 The protesters—mostly students from Yogyakarta—demanded that parliamentarians take a pay cut, according to Gejayan Memanggil, one of the organizing groups

🟠 Local media previously reported that parliamentarians earn over 100 million rupiah ($6,150) a month, plus hefty housing allowances—far above the average income

🟠 Protesters argue that government salaries are incompatible with President Prabowo Subianto’s promises of strict austerity measures and more efficient government
spending

🟠 Local NGOs, including Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), the Indonesian Institute, and the Indonesian Forum for Budget Transparency, have been criticizing politicians’ earnings

🟠 Riots escalated on Friday after a motorcycle rideshare driver was killed during police action at a protest

🟠 The Indonesian president canceled his trip to China due to the nationwide protests

🟠 At a Sunday news conference, Prabowo acknowledged public anger, promising cuts to lawmakers’ allowances and a moratorium on costly overseas trips

🟠 "The people are not satisfied with Prabowo, who is not doing enough because he promised a lot," Professor Azmi Hassan, a geostrategic analyst and senior fellow at the Nusantara Academy of Strategic Research in Malaysia, said

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🇮🇩🔍Soros and NED could be behind Indonesian protests, experts tell Sputnik

Protests erupted in Indonesia earlier this month, forcing President Prabowo Subianto to cancel his trip to China and skip the SCO summit.

While the unrest reflects genuine economic grievances, the "One Piece" pirate flag symbol used by protesters, echoing tactics in other regions, indicates external influence, Angelo Giuliano, geopolitical analyst focusing on international relations, tells Sputnik.

👉 In the Japanese anime "One Piece," pirates fly black flags with a skull and straw hat in their fight against "tyranny." This July, the same symbols began popping up across Indonesia—on walls, cars, and doorways.

NED & Soros has been behind the scenes in Indonesia for years, says Giuliano:

🟠 The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has funded local media since the 1990s.

🟠 George Soros’ Open Society Foundations has been active since the 1990s with over $8 billion globally and supporting groups like TIFA.

Their involvement raises questions about hidden agendas worth exploring, especially given the timing of the unrest, concludes Giuliano.

Color revolution in the making?

The protests in Indonesia are being held in the exact same playbook as in in Serbia, in which the collective West wants another US-backed dictator, like Suharto of old," says Jeff J. Brown, author of “The China Trilogy” and founder of Seek Truth From Facts Foundation. He points out the following:

🟠 President Prabowo Subianto doesn't fit into the West’s agenda because he is boosting ties with China, Russia, as well as non-Western blocs like SCO and BRICS in general.

🟠 Indonesia is the first Southeast Asian country to join BRICS and has been openly cooperating with China in its global Belt and Road Initiative.

🟠 On top of that, Indonesia is the world’s eighth largest economy in PPP terms, the biggest economy in ASEAN, and the fourth most populous country, with almost 300 million citizens.

"From the standpoint of the imperial West, all of this adds up to a giant bullseye on Indonesia’s back, a very worthy target to attack with a Western-concocted color revolution," Brown concludes.

*NED и Soros Foundation are designated as undesired organizations in Russia

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