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🔺Next, we analyze the correlation between Biden's foreign policy and the upcoming midterm elections
🔺Also, what are the prospects of a peace deal in Ukraine?

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The Biden administration approved a potential $535 million sale of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (GMLRS) to Finland, the Pentagon’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said

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Russia will still require clarifications from the United States and Ukraine regarding their military bio-laboratories across the Ukrainian territory, the Russian Deputy Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyanskiy told the UN Security Council members.

🗣️ "Regardless of the outcome of the vote today, the questions to the United States and Ukraine is something that we do retain and the evidence which accompanied our complaints still require clarifications," Polyanskiy said on Wednesday.

📃 Earlier, the Russian Federation submitted a draft resolution to the UN Security Council for consideration

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📹 The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing 2S-19 Msta-S self-propelled artillery system in action within the special military operation

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🇺🇸 $320 million are down the drain as Democratic politicians and strategists are reportedly terrified they may have made a big mistake in their midterm strategy.

Instead of focusing on kitchen table matters such as the economy, gas prices, and inflation, the Democrats have placed their bets on side issues like abortion rights and threats to democracy.

According to the media tracking company AdImpact, the president’s party spent a whopping $320 million on abortion rights-focused advertisement, and just $31 million on inflation-related messaging.

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A day after a massive barrage into the Sea of Japan, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) has reportedly fired another weapon into the waterway, according to South Korean military sources.

🗣️ South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff announced on Thursday morning that the launch of an "unknown ballistic missile" into the Sea of Japan had been detected.

According to Seoul, the missile was likely an intermediate-range or intercontinental-range ballistic missile, because a separation of rocket stages was detected

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In the wake of the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol, corporations rushed to distance themselves from political figures who had supported the attack or who had shared the rioters’ politics.

However, in the nearly two years since, many have gone back on their policies, including some of the country’s major makers of military hardware

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🔎 Newly leaked documents reveal how the US “secret police” plan to proceed with online censorship.

The Department of Homeland Security is broadening its efforts to suppress “dangerous speech,” as per The Intercept, which analyzed a trove of leaks and lawsuit documents earlier this week.

Among the targets are the following topics:

🔺The nature of US support to Ukraine;
🔺The origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines;
🔺US withdrawal from Afghanistan;
🔺Racial justice.

And this appears to be just the tip of the iceberg.

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📹 The Russian Defense Ministry has published footage showing the launch of an Iskander-M missile in the special military operation

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❗️Ex-head of the CIA Mike Pompeo has been served with a lawsuit over alleged espionage on Assange visitors.

The plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which was filed in August, include attorneys and journalists who met with Assange while he lived in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

The lawsuit alleges that the visitors were required to surrender their electronic devices to private security personnel before meeting Assange, and that these actions were authorized and approved by Pompeo.

The private security personnel copied information from the devices and gave it to the CIA, then headed by Pompeo, without the plaintiffs’ or the Ecuadorian government’s knowledge, according to the lawsuit.

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🙈 The White House boasted in a Tuesday tweet that seniors in Joe Biden's America "are getting the biggest increase in their Social Security checks in 10 years"... but it looks like it failed to provide context.

Luckily, Twitter was there to do it, adding a label to the tweet and informing users that the increase in Social Security checks for seniors is actually due to inflation.

💁‍♂️For some reason, the White House decided to delete the tweet later.

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🚨 Social unrest in the Western hemisphere is feared amid high inequality and food insecurity, the International Monetary Fund says.

The region is going to face additional challenges in 2023, as economic growth is projected to slow and the situation is expected to be worse than it currently is amid runaway inflation, an acting director at the IMF said.

Earlier on Wednesday, the IMF said in its regional economic outlook that Latin America will face high inflation, which is set to reach 7.8% by the end of this year.

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⚡️ Five or six powerful explosions thundered in Melitopol early in the morning, Sputnik correspondent reports. The city administration said that the air defense system had been activated

WATCH: Mobilized Russian servicemen under the guidance of experienced instructors strike training targets using 'Khrizantema-S' self-propelled anti-tank missile systems at the Baltic Fleet's training grounds

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⚡️"It's done" text message which Truss sent to Blinken after the explosion of the "Nord Streams", confirms the participation of the British Navy in these terrorist attacks, Russian Security Council Nikolay Patrushev says

⚡️The US and the UK are recruiting international terrorists in order to transfer them to participate in hostilities on the side of the Kiev regime, Patrushev said

⚡️Moscow believes that Kiev's creation of a "dirty bomb" doesn't take place without the participation of Western curators, Patrushev says

Situation in 🇸🇾 Syria, 🇮🇶 Iraq and 🇺🇦 Ukraine, as well as bilateral ties will dominate the agenda during Russian FM Sergey Lavrov's two-day visit to Jordan. He arrived in the Jordanian capital on Wednesday. In the capital Amman Lavrov is expected to meet with King Abdullah II and with Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Ayman Safadi. I'm traveling with Lavrov's press pool, and I will bring you the latest about the talks. Subscribe to @BolotskySputnik

📌 The latest statement from Russia's Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev:

▪️"It's done" text message sent by Truss to Blinken after the explosion of the "Nord Streams", confirms the participation of the British Navy in these terrorist attacks;

▪️The West is exploiting a possible provocation with nuclear weapons to recruit more states into a coalition against Russia;

▪️Zelensky's statement about a preventive nuclear strike against Russia confirms how inadequate the authorities in Kiev are at present;

▪️Moscow believes that Kiev's creation of a "dirty bomb" involves the participation of Western curators;

▪️The IAEA delegation's visit to the Zaporozhye NPP did not result in a cessation of attacks on the plant and condemnation of the Kiev regime;

▪️Ukraine has actually turned into the world's major hub of ultra-right extremism

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⚡️ British ambassador arrived at the Russian Foreign Ministry after statements about London's involvement in Ukraine's attack on Sevastopol