🗣️ On whether the world really needs a reserve currency:

“You take the Russian economy, it's a very and it's very powerful because of the enormous energy reserves, because of the enormous agricultural potential. And you look at the Chinese economy, it is a major manufacturing economy far greater than the United States. These are countries with currencies that have a real basis, and they are not vulnerable in the way that the dollar is,” Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, economist and former Reagan administration official, told Sputnik.

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📹 ‘They didn't let me go’: Ex-Ukrainian servicewoman details how she ran away from the army and moved to her family in Russia, going through several European countries in the process.

🇷🇺 The escapee wants to apply for Russian citizenship.

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🇷🇺⚛️🇭🇺 Russia, Hungary ink documents on construction of Paks-2 NPP

The documents have been signed by Paksi Atomeromu Zrt CEO Gergely Jakli and ASE JSC (part of Russia's Rosatom state nuclear corporation) Vice President Alexander Merten.

The Paks-2 project is attracting the interest of the Hungarian industry, European countries and other states, Merten said

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🇧🇾🛡🇷🇺 Belarus shields Russia from NATO's 'backstabbing' during a special operation, Belarusian Defense Minister Viktor Khrenin said.

Belarus has done a lot to oppose the rehabilitation of Nazism and the spread of neo-fascism and to preserve the historical memory of the heroic deeds of the Soviet people in the Second World War, Khrenin said at the International Anti-Fascist Congress in Minsk. The position of preservation of historical memory and opposition to fascism is formalized in the key legal acts of Belarus, he added.

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🇷🇺🌍 Russia to expand its energy footprint in Africa as Europe snubs its gas

As the EU drastically reduced its gas imports from Moscow following the escalation of the Ukraine crisis and with Russian gas pipeline flows to Europe remaining historically low, Africa has been eyeing natural gas as a promising direction of cooperation with Russian energy companies in order to become an energy self-sufficient continent.

Russia is mapping a mutually beneficial energy relationship with African nations, while Europe continues to snub Moscow's gas as part of self-harming sanctions.

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🇺🇸☣️ The USA is engaged in biomilitary activity more than any other country in the world, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said, commenting on the Pentagon's recent report on biological threats.

The US often fabricates reports on so-called threats for geopolitical purposes "to deter and suppress other countries, to protect its hegemonic interests," the diplomat said, adding that Washington thus provokes confrontation and damages the global biosecurity management system.

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🇺🇸🇰🇷🇯🇵 The USA, South Korea and Japan plan to invest in a trilateral hotline to engage in moments of crisis, a senior US administration official told reporters.

Leaders of the three countries will “take a pledge” to consult with each other in the event of a crisis or other significant circumstances, the official added.

The leaders of the United States, South Korea and Japan will underscore during their trilateral summit at Camp David on Friday their commitment to maintaining such discussion on an annual basis, the official said.

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🇺🇸 Who is 2024 GOP Presidential Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy?

A political novice and the youngest major Republican candidate ever, Vivek Ramaswamy first announced he would give the 2024 Republican nomination a shot in February on Tucker Carlson Tonight. He sat down with the former Fox News host again on Thursday, but now more in the status of a realistic contender whose message appears to be gaining a foothold. The statements he made were unabashed, and to the point.

The very existence of the US might be at stake in the event of a war against Russia and China, Ramaswamy told Carlson

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🇷🇺 Su-25 attack aircraft crews of the Russian Aerospace Forces launched missile strikes on military facilities and equipment of the UAF.

As a result, enemy camouflaged fortified positions and armored vehicles were destroyed.

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🇺🇸⚔️🇨🇳 What are Yuan? Biden’s deranged attacks on the Chinese economy are at odds with reality

John Ross, senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at the Renmin University of China, said Joe Biden must be "deranged" to believe China's economy is doing worse than that of his own country.

US President Joe Biden has lost touch with reality with his latest disparaging comments on China's booming economy. Biden insisted last week that China was a "ticking time-bomb" of economic problems waiting to strike — even as inflation in the US outpaces growth.

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🇺🇸 The US is the main instigator of coups, terrorism, and assassinations around the world - media commentator

While Washington complains that the military takeover in Niger "does not comport with the constitution," James Carey, host of "The Left is Dead" podcast, noted that the US was behind regime-change efforts across the globe.

The US is the driver of political destabilization and insurgent violence around the world, says a media commentator.

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🇺🇸 American mercenary complains about disorganization and poor training of Ukrainian troops

On condition of anonymity, he told US media that the command had made the worst tactical decisions in the offensive operations in which he participated: "We lost three Leopards in one day because they were just ordered to drive through a minefield."

Another American mercenary, with the call sign “Tango,” said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not using Western military equipment to the fullest due to the insufficient training of Ukrainian soldiers. The Russian military offered a competent resistance, noted another American with the call sign “Goldfish.” He added that the Russian Army is a very professional force.

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🇺🇸🇯🇵 US-Japan plan for hypersonic interceptors is part of the declining Empire's "Greasing Palms Overseas"

A former Pentagon analyst told Sputnik that a forthcoming US effort to help Japan develop hypersonic missile defenses is little more than an attempt to shore up the overseas periphery of a declining US empire with buckets of money for defense contractors.

The US and Japan are expected to announce a program to jointly develop a hypersonic missile interceptor as a counter to ultra-fast weapons unveiled by Russia, China, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in recent years. The announcement is expected at a trilateral summit in Maryland to which US President Joe Biden has invited Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida as well as South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, two of Washington’s strongest allies in East Asia.

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🇱🇷 Accra Peace 20 Years Later: Roots of Second Liberian Civil War

🕯August 18 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement concluded in the Ghanaian capital Accra, which ended Liberia's violent Second Civil War.

The armed conflict in Liberia between the government of the country and rebel groups started in 1999 and lasted till 2003.

In honor of the occasion, Sputnik Africa reviews the background and course of the bloody events, the echoes of which are still visible in the country today

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