📍 Retired senior US diplomat Chas Freeman has claimed that America is waging an undeclared war with Russia in Ukraine "to the last Ukrainian" in order to maintain its hegemony in the world.

"It's US-Russia. It's not Russia versus Europe", he asserted. According to the retired diplomat, the current situation is playing into the hands of the US.

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▪️ The goal of the United States is to weaken Europe and cause maximum damage to its relations with Russia, creating undeniable advantages for its development, Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said on Monday.

"The goal of the Americans, as in the Second World War, is obvious — to weaken Europe and cause maximum damage to its relations with Russia, creating undeniable advantages for its further economic development. The most odious and tragic example of Washington's destructive policy was Ukraine, which has been programmed in an anti-Russian vein for 30 years since gaining independence", Patrushev said.

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⚡️WATCH: the aftermath of the bombing of a Mariupol theatre by Azov neo-Nazis

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❗️ Pentagon: Six US naval aircraft and 240 maintainers deploying to Germany to boost NATO readiness

❗️ Moscow slams expulsion of five Russian diplomats from North Macedonia as 'unfriendly step', vows to retaliate

💵 What's in US President Joe Biden's 2023 budget proposal?

▪️ $682mln in Ukraine assistance, which is $219mln more than in 2021

▪️$6.9bn for the European deterrence initiative, NATO, & countering 'Russian aggression'

▪️nearly $1.8bn to support a 'free, open' Indo-Pacific region

▪️$400mln for the countering China’s 'malign influence' fund

▪️$773bn for the Pentagon

▪️$223mln to support development of commercial space stations

▪️ a new 20% minimum tax will be imposed on billionaires

▪️$10.6bn to 'bolster US leadership' in addressing global health security challenges

▪️$11bn in international climate financing

⚡️Russian MoD: Ukrainian Mi-8 heading to Mariupol to evacuate Azov battalion leaders shot down

❗️ Former US president Donald Trump likely committed a felony obstruction of the US Congress on 6 January 2021 - US judge

Bill limiting LGBTQ instruction in Florida schools to be signed on Monday - Ron DeSantis

The Republican-backed bill would prohibit classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity for many young students.

🗣 Americans need to see the truth: Russell Bentley, a US volunteer fighter and war correspondent who first arrived in Donetsk in 2014 and is currently helping the people of Donbass, reveals the crimes of Ukrainian neo-Nazis, how they use civilians to their advantage, and how MSM disinformation costs people lives.

❗️Gunfire reported at Cancun international airport

🇺🇦 Logistics giant DHL tells Sputnik that vehicles with its markings seen transporting weapons for the Ukrainian armed forces were confiscated by Ukrainian authorities.

⚡️ Russian MoD: Bodies of tortured civilians with carved out swastikas found in Mariupol basements

All-out support from US, EU unleashed Nazism across Ukraine - Russian MoD

Latest briefing from Russia's Defence Ministry:

▪️ Over 4.5 million civilians are being used as human shields by Ukrainian neo-Nazis;

▪️ More than 12,000 people have been evacuated from Ukraine, DPR and LPR over the past day;

▪️ Russian Armed Forces strictly observe the ceasefire;

▪️ Russia takes every step to ensure civil navigation in the Black, Azov and Mediterranean seas

▪️ Ukrainian militants fire mortar shells at civilians on Kharkov outskirts, killing 3 and injuring 10

▪️ Kiev still refuses to coordinate humanitarian corridors to Russia, having agreed to two routes only

❗️Film Academy "condemns" Will Smith's slap at Oscars, launches a formal review of the incident - statement

⚡️Biden says he is not walking back his comments on President Putin, was expressing moral outrage

"I’m not walking anything back … I was expressing the moral outrage I felt. I wasn’t articulating a policy change," Biden told reporters when asked about the comments following remarks on the new FY2023 budget proposal.

He also added he is not concerned that his remarks may foster escalation

🦠Meanwhile, Elon Musk announced Monday he has possibly contracted COVID-19

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🇺🇸The White House unveiled a $5.8 trillion budget request for the 2023 fiscal year Monday, with the highlights including a tax hike on the richest Americans and a massive increase for military and law enforcement spending

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