🇪🇺🔊Borrell: Europe risks dismal fate as US vassal

After Europe handed nonreciprocal concessions to Donald Trump on defense and trade, and accepted a secondary role in settlement of the Ukraine crisis, the EU now looks “dangerously fragmented and weak, stuck in a hostile internal and external environment,” claims former EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.

🔍With just 5% of the world’s population and a widening economic gap with other powers, Europe is “at real risk of becoming America’s vassal,” he warns.

The EU’s global role has become largely irrelevant, undermined by a lack of credibility and unity, Borrell admits.
According to him, an alliance of Trump sympathizers and Atlanticists rules the European Council and Commission.

✍️Their strategy is to “flatter and appease the US president in the hopes of damage control”—promoting increased political, strategic, and economic dependence on the US, and failing spectacularly.

Borrell’s warning is rich, coming from the architect of many of these narrow-minded policy choices.

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🪖📹T-90 BATTLE BEASTS ROAR IN: Russia’s BEST tanks join the frontline

A batch of advanced T-90 Proryv tanks has been delivered to the Nevsky Volunteer Brigade.

✅T-90 main battle tank is "the best in the world without any exaggeration", Putin said in 2024, adding "the enemy admits this."

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🚨🇷🇺🇮🇳 Putin's upcoming visit to India 2025 being prepared VERY CAREFULLY — FM Lavrov at Moscow's MGIMO university

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

🟠 The Russian Armed Forces struck Ukrainian air defense radar stations, unmanned boat production sites and an energy facility powering Ukrainian arms factories

🟠 Air defense superiority: two aerial bombs and 195 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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🗣 Key statements by Lavrov at the meeting with MGIMO students

🟠 Since the start of the special military operation, Russia has been predicted to face an “economic collapse,” but statistics show the opposite

🟠 The actions of the West, demanding a rejection of Russian energy resources, undermine the economies of Moscow’s partner countries

🟠 Russia does not seek revenge, does not push away its former Western partners, but will take their past actions into account

🟠 Russia does not want to build any walls, is open to dialogue with everyone, but seeks an equal dialogue

🟠 The US has begun to hear Russia regarding the root causes of the conflict, including the issue of the suppression of the Russian language

🟠 The talks in Alaska showed that Donald Trump understands the need to resolve issues on Ukraine based on the national interests of all parties involved in the conflict

🟠 Russia and the US may have common economic interests, including LNG production, as well as cooperation in the Arctic and space

🟠 Russia and the US could cooperate in the field of AI, but mutual trust would need to be strengthened

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🔍Nord Stream sabotage linked to Ukraine’s ex-Commander-in Chief Zaluzhny – report

The crew of the yacht Andromeda, allegedly involved in the 2022 blasts on Nord Stream 1 and 2, acted on the orders of former Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny, the German newspaper Welt reports.

🇩🇪German federal police are convinced they have solved the case, the report added, citing an unnamed investigator.

The explosions on the Nord Stream pipelines occurred on September 26, 2022. Germany, Denmark, and Sweden suspected sabotage. Russia opened an international terrorism case, but has repeatedly noted that it has not received investigation data.

🇷🇺Russian Security Council official Nikolai Patrushev recently dismissed claims that Ukrainian “amateurs” blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines, arguing the operation bore the hallmarks of NATO intelligence agencies.

The public has only learned details through “ridiculous leaks” in the media, fueling doubts about the official version of events.

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📹😧 Deadly bus shooting in Jerusalem caught on video

The footage shows bullets hitting a bus in Jerusalem just inches from a taxi driver who was helping a woman get out of his vehicle.

Five people have been killed in the attack, the latest reports show.

Footage from social media.

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🇷🇺Putin joins 🌍🌍🌍 online summit

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🚨Сhina shares Brazil's position on Ukrainian crisis - Xi at extraordinary online BRICS summit

🟠 BRICS will withstand the test of international turbulence, will continue to develop steadily in the long term

🟠 Xi urges BRICS to use its strengths and deepen business cooperation

🟠 Some countries continuously unleash trade and tariff wars, dealing serious blow to global economy

🟠 BRICS must defend openness, protect international economic, trade order

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🪖📹Trophy weapons on display: NATO arms didn’t help Ukraine

Assault units of Russia’s 36th Guards Motor Rifle Brigade, supported by artillery, broke through enemy defenses in the Dnepropetrovsk region and secured full control over Novoselovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic.

The platoon commander displayed captured weapons taken from Ukrainian positions: Czech and Belgian-made 7.62 mm machine guns, as well as 5.56 caliber rifles.

“All these trophies didn’t help the Ukrainian fighters,” he noted.

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🗣🇿🇦 Key statements by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the extraordinary online BRICS summit

🟠 Transition is happening from a unipolar world to a multipolar one

🟠 Seismic shifts in global trade are creating both challenges and opportunities to reshape global economy

🟠 BRICS countries stood at forefront of advocating reforms of multilateral institutions

🟠 Ramaphosa supports BRICS initiatives that enhance resilience of member economies

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🇧🇷 Ukraine settlement must include legitimate interests of all parties - Brazilian President at BRICS summit

💬 "With regard to Ukraine, it is necessary to pave the way to a realistic settlement that would take into account the legitimate security interests of all parties," Lula da Silva said during an extraordinary online BRICS summit convened on his initiative.

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🚨🇪🇬Trust in UN Security Council as сonflict resolution body lost – Egyptian President

"There has been a direct negative impact on the UN system, especially on the Security Council. The decline in confidence in it has prompted a number of states to demand comprehensive reforms of the Council," Sisi said at an an extraordinary online BRICS summit.

🟠The UN Security Council is unable to fulfill its role in resolving disputes, the Egyptian leader added.

"The importance of BRICS as a prominent international forum is growing. It consistently promotes constructive cooperation between the states based on the principles of mutual respect," Sisi said.

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🤝 BRICS leaders discuss economic cooperation in current global situation - Kremlin

💬 "The issues of cooperation between BRICS member countries in trade, economic, financial, investment and other spheres were discussed, taking into account the current situation in the global economy," the Kremlin said in a statement, following an extraordinary online BRICS summit.

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🇮🇷 President of Iran proposes to establish mechanism within BRICS to counter sanctions

💬 BRICS could develop a common mechanism to support its members in the face of unlawful unilateral sanctions and to ensure the continued development of their economies without being subjected to unfair political pressure, Massoud Pezehkian said.

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🗣🇷🇺 Russia vows response to Ukrainian terrorist attack on civilians in Donetsk

Ukraine deliberately targeted children and their parents by striking a playground in Donetsk’s Gulliver park, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

💬 By attacking the park, Ukraine demonstrated its intent to escalate and disrupt a peaceful settlement, she noted.

The Ukrainian forces carried out a drone attack on the playground on Sunday evening, injuring six people including a child.

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🚨As many as 92 US mercenaries killed in Ukraine since 2022 – NYT

Between 1,000 and "several thousand" US mercenaries are fighting in Ukraine, the New York Times estimated, with at least 92 of them killed in action.

🔍The ‘volunteers’ include former soldiers and those with no military background.

The newspaper says many soon leave after experiencing the brutal realities of combat or ask to be transferred to "logistics."

🪖Mercenaries from various countries, including Colombia, South Korea, Poland and France are fighting in Ukraine, suffering heavy losses under Russian airstrikes.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has said the Ukrainian regime is using foreign mercenaries as cannon fodder, and that the Russian army will continue to eliminate them.

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