Debt From US Military ‘Investment’ Aid Will Make Ukraine ‘Failed State’ Controlled by West - Expert

An expert in regional and military matters told Sputnik on Thursday that the massive amounts of money would be used to control and loot Ukraine, as well as enrich connected persons and institutions in the West, including the Democratic Party.

“The US is investing in the belief that they will be able to weaken Russia and eventually see a regime change and potentially to dismantle Russia which will then also enable a further containment of China,” said Earl Rasmussen, executive vice president of the Washington, DC-based Eurasia Center and a retired Lieutenant Colonel with over 20 years in the US Army.

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💬 "We see today that the Nazis that Volodymyr Zelenskiy is harboring in Ukraine are a completely different ball game. We are not in World War Three and today Europe and the U.S. are defending the Nazi in Ukraine," says Elijah Magnier, Veteran war journalist

🎧 Listen to more of Magnier's analysis in our podcast: Volodymyr Zelensky Visits Washington, Title 42 Deadline, Trump Tax Returns

Roscosmos: Failure in Soyuz MS-22’s Cooling System Not Caused by Meteorite

The object that caused a leak from the Soyuz MS-22 ’s cooling system was not a micrometeorite, as previously thought, since the object hit the spacecraft not from the side of the Geminid meteor shower, Sergei Krikalev, executive director for human space flight programs at the Russian space agency Roscosmos, said on Thursday.

"At first we thought that there could be a micrometeorite hit, but then we found that the radiator was hit from the other side," Krikalev said during a news conference organized by NASA.

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A DPR pensioner spoke about how Ukrainian soldiers shot two of her sons

💬 "Before the result of the Congress election, we had the Republicans saying there is no blank check to Ukraine and what President Biden wants is for this war to continue because the U.S. is making a lot of money out of this war - it is sending the gas 4 to 10 times and more expensive to Europe, it is putting Europe under its a thumb, it is selling weapons to Ukraine even on the lease basis," says Elijah Magnier, Veteran war journalist.

🎧 Listen to more of Magnier's analysis in our podcast: Volodymyr Zelensky Visits Washington, Title 42 Deadline, Trump Tax Returns

🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia and China enjoy a relationship that can be classified as a strategic partnership, demonstrating a united front in many international venues, engaging in cooperation in regional forums such as BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and covering one another's back in the security sense by not deploying forces that could threaten either country near their joint border.

Now, a senior US diplomat has claimed that Moscow and Beijing are also "sharing a toolkit" of strategies designed to undermine the West. What's that all about? And why does it sound bogus?

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‼️ House Jan. 6 panel has released its final report on the Capitol riot findings

Check out the 845-page doc here!

Surrendered Ukrainian soldiers reveal how their commanders ordered not to communicate with locals in Kiev-controlled areas of the DPR

⚡️Russia is ready to cut oil production in response to oil price cap, Deputy Prime Minister Novak said.

🤔The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new report on Thursday revealing the shocking discovery that the average life expectancy for Americans has dropped for the second consecutive year and is the lowest it has ever been since 1996.

▪️Since COVID-19 was first detected in 2019, life expectancy has fallen by 2.7 years as of last year.

▪️Those born in the US in 2021 are now expected to only live until they are 76.4 years old, which is down from a peak of 78.8 years in 2019.

⚡ Modi-Putin meeting scheduled for next year - Indian Ambassador

🇺🇸The US will be hard-pressed to break its rare-Earth dependence on China, a reliance of which the Biden administration has deemed a national security threat due to steep regulatory hurdles along with a lack of capabilities and technologies, the types of which Beijing has developed for over 30 years, experts told Sputnik.

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⚡ An explosion rocked the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad, an explosive device went off near the clinic - media

❗️First footage emerged allegedly from the scene of today's explosion in the Pakistani capital

A suicide bomber reportedly blew up himself when the police approached to search his vehicle.

❗️About 200 people suffered carbon monoxide poisoning during a Christmas party at a Turkish restaurant in London, the British pressnewspaper reported, citing a health worker.

The incident occurred at a Turkish restaurant Gokyuzu in the Chingford district of London on Wednesday night, with the first patients arriving at the hospital at around 23:00 GMT, a UK’s National Health Service worker told journalists.

💬"People were just at the restaurant eating and then everybody just started falling ill - they all thought they had food poisoning. They were calling 111 and they sent them to our hospital and because there was 200 people. They had to split them up and send them to different hospitals around London," the worker said on condition of anonymity.

⚡️North Korea fires ballistic missile towards Sea of Japan - reports

❗️Latest statements made by Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev:

▪️The decision to impose the price cap on gas was carried out due to the EU's impotence in attempting to influence the situation;

▪️The decision on the gas price cap will not work seriously, there are many reservations;

▪️The decision on the gas price cap is dictated by hatred towards Russia, not by economic logic.

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📌Latest statements by Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov:

▪️Gazprom's restrictions on buying gas from joint ventures is not a response to western gas price cap, but to the actions of unfriendly countries;

▪️Kremlin on Biden's remark about his readiness to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin: there are no preliminary contacts on this matter;

▪️Kremlin has no information about Zelensky's new peace plan.

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