🇺🇸🗣🆗🇷🇺 — 📰 Bloomberg | NATO Chief Says Russia Relations Should Be Restored Post War | March 14, 2025:

"NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said relations with Russia should eventually be normalized once the fighting ends in Ukraine, while stressing the need to keep pressure on Moscow to ensure progress in ceasefire negotiations.

“It’s normal if the war would have stopped for Europe somehow, step by step, and also for the US, step by step, to restore normal relations with Russia,” Rutte said in an interview on Bloomberg TV Friday. “But we are absolutely not there yet, we have to maintain the pressure on them” to guarantee that Russia takes the negotiations seriously, he said.

Rutte met with President Donald Trump Thursday in the White House, where the two discussed a potential US-brokered ceasefire in Ukraine. Europe has largely been sidelined in the negotiations, a fact that has rankled many leaders on the continent.

Rutte has been engaging in intense diplomacy in recent weeks to keep the transatlantic alliance together as Trump has pared back support for Ukraine and has indicated that the US will step back from its traditional security role in Europe. The surprise move has sent European countries scrambling to boost defense spending and rethink their military positioning.

The NATO chief said he was confident Trump was “committed” to NATO and there was “no room for doubt there,” while also praising him for “breaking the deadlock” between Russia and Ukraine."

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🇺🇦🗣🇺🇦🧪🤝🇺🇸 — ✅✅ ZN.UA:

"The agreement with the US on minerals is ready, no changes are being made to the text. Negotiations are closed — Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration - Minister of Justice of Ukraine Olga Stefanishyna at the Forbes Exporters Summit.

"The American side has not decided when, under what conditions they want to sign it at this stage. Ukraine is ready to sign at any time"

— she said."

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📈💸 Gold Prices Trade Above $3,000/oz for the First Time

The chaotic situation in the physical gold market remains with precious metal imports exploding. And while gold lease rates have normalized somewhat. The flow in COMEX vaults continues. Every single day for the past 3 months physical gold has been delivered to COMEX vaults bringing the total to a record 40.15MM oz or 1,250 metric tons.

Finally, we note that Gold's recent strength has almost entirely erased bitcoin's outperformance since the election. Barbarous relic vs digital gold - who will win?

https://www.zerohedge.com/precious-metals/gold-soars-record-high-tariff-tensions-rise

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🇺🇸❌🇿🇦❗️ — United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio declares the Ambassador of South Africa Emrahim Rasool as persona non-grata over Anti-American behavior and race baiting, expelling him out of US

🇺🇸❌🇿🇦South African Ambassador Emrahim Rasool: Trump is Leading Global White Supremacist Movement

Rasool was addressing the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) in Johannesburg in attempting to explain Trump’s recent foreign policy stances against South Africa’s property expropriation legislation and its alliances with Iran and Hamas, among others.

He said that white supremacism was motivating Trump’s “disrespect” for the “current hegemonic order” of the world, including institutions like the United Nations and the G-20.

He also said that the Make America Great Again movement was a white supremacist response to growing demographic diversity in the United States, and suggested that South African farmers who had presented Afrikaner grievances within the U.S. were part of that global effort

https://www.breitbart.com/africa/2025/03/14/south-african-ambassador-emrahim-rasool-trump-is-leading-global-white-supremacist-movement/

🇮🇷📌❗️— United Kingdom Maritime Trades Operation reports a major GPS disruption on Strait of Hormuz

🇨🇺⚡️📉❗️— Cuba, once again, hit by nationwide power outage; Investigation launched by the Communist Regime

🇺🇸📞🇸🇴❗️ — Financial Times quoting a US official: Discussions have begun regarding a deal to recognize Somaliland in exchange for establishing a base near the port of Berbera.

🇺🇸📞🇮🇶 — US Vice President JD Vance:

Our invasion of Iraq led to the destruction of one of the greatest historic Christian communities in the world, the Assyrians

🇺🇸📞🇸🇾🇸🇾🇬🇷 — US Vice President JD Vance:

We are talking with our allies and doing unannounced things to protect minorities in Syria, such as Christians and Druze.

🇺🇸❌🇸🇾❗️ — US Vice President JD Vance:

What happened to minorities in Syria recently seems very bad, and we are trying to determine exactly how bad it is.

🇺🇸❌🇸🇾 — US Vice President JD Vance:

We will not send troops to Syria, but there is much we can do diplomatically and economically to protect minorities.

🇺🇸❌🇸🇾 — US Vice President JD Vance:

We will not allow a Christian group [in Middle East] to be destroyed again.

https://x.com/AJABreaking/status/1900721893843620206

🇺🇸❌🏴❗️ — United States President Trump announces the killing of the leader of ISIS in Iraq, Abdullah Makina Musleh Al-Rifai (Abu Khadija), by the US-led Coalition with help from Iraqi authorities via Truth Social

🇺🇸🌏❌🏴 — United States Central Command confirms that it conducted targeted strikes against the convoy of Islamic State terrorists, killing its Iraqi Emir & 2nd in Command

🌏📝 In Statement, the US Military has said:

CENTCOM Forces Kill ISIS Chief of Global Operations Who Also Served as ISIS #2

On March 13, U.S. Central Command forces, in cooperation with Iraqi Intelligence and Security Forces, conducted a precision airstrike in Al Anbar Province, Iraq, that killed the Global ISIS #2 leader, Chief of Global Operations and the Delegated Committee Emir – Abdallah Makki Muslih al-Rifai, alias “Abu Khadijah”, and one other ISIS operative.

As the Emir of ISIS’ most senior decision-making body, Abu Khadijah maintained responsibility for operations, logistics, and planning conducted by ISIS globally, and directs a significant portion of finance for the group’s global organization.

After the strike, CENTCOM and Iraqi forces moved to the strike site and found both dead ISIS terrorists. Both terrorists were wearing unexploded “suicide vests” and had multiple weapons. CENTCOM and Iraqi forces were able to identify Abu Khadijah through a DNA match from DNA collected on a previous raid where Abu Khadijah narrowly escaped.

“Abu Khadijah was one of the most important ISIS members in the entire global ISIS organization. We will continue to kill terrorists and dismantle their organizations that threaten our homeland and U.S., allied and partner personnel in the region and beyond,” said Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, commander, U.S. Central Command.

🇷🇸🔥📹 — Massive columns of vehicles are forming at the entrances to Belgrade as people from across Serbia make their way to the capital for the student protests against Vucic's Government