💬"The United States had the motive. It had the capability to do it. And it also had the objective to do it as a way of weakening Russia's ability to influence Western Europe," Philip Giraldi, former CIA operations officer commented on the Nord Stream blast.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 US and Russia should open up lines of communication in order to bolster mutual safety and understanding, US Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment William LaPlante said on Tuesday.

💬"It’s only safer when we’re talking to each other, and I think that that’s something that’s in the interest of both countries to make sure that those lines of communication stay open so that we understand each other," LaPlante said during an interview with the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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💬"How can you glorify people that are mass murderers? What do you think Jews feel, how do you think the Poles feel, when someone like Shukhevych is turned into a national hero, and Bandera, and others? These people fought with the Nazis for a victory of the Third Reich, the most genocidal regime in human history. And therefore, they cannot be heroes," Dr Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi-hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the director of its Israel Office, commented on the Canadian MPs honoring Nazi SS veteran with standing ovation.

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⚡️Canada House Speaker says he will resign over honoring Ukrainian Nazi veteran.

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🇷🇺 Russian FM spokesperson Maria Zakharova commented on the resignation of the speaker of the Canadian House of Commons: "Rota was made a scapegoat, taking Trudeau and his associates, among whom, I should remind you, are descendants of collaborators from the The Ukrainian Insurgent Army, out of harm's way. For the Nazi slogans "Glory to Ukraine", which greeted Zelensky, no one apologized."

Zakharova also expressed confidence that "the same ignominious future awaits all those who support the "Forest Brothers", "Galicia", torchlight processions, Banderaites and other Nazi scum around the world."

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🇺🇸🇺🇳🇸🇾 UN is obligated to hold US accountable for stealing Syria’s oil - Syrian Foreign Ministry

💬 “Our latest statistics show that the total value of direct and indirect losses to the oil sector in Syria have exceeded 115 billion US dollars,” Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Bassam Sabbah stated as he addressed the UN General Assembly.

Bassam’s remarks came when addressing US and Turkish illegal military presence on Syrian soil in violation of its national sovereignty and territorial integrity, which is also used to support an array of separatist militias and terrorist groups.

The Syrian official also condemned the “infiltration” by several western political and military officials among others, to occupied areas of the country, in disregard to Syria’s sovereignty. – “This is considered a flagrant interference in its internal affairs,” Bassam said.

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💬 "The destruction of the pipeline was an act of war. The United States, or none of its friends, were at war with Russia, and yet they destroyed an asset worth billions of dollars. And it was also an asset that I'm sure you know, it was not just Gazprom who was the partner in it, it was the major partner, but there were other countries, other companies from Western Europe – Germany, for example, Denmark, Sweden, that were involved, too", Philip Giraldi, former CIA operations officer commented on the Nord Stream blast.

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🗣️ On France's decision to leave Niger and end its military and diplomatic presence in the country:

“France knew that there is no possibility for its soldiers to remain in the country, particularly that no force in the world can stay in a hostile environment, when people are calling for all the troops, including the French ambassador, to leave. And they consider the announcement of Macron as a victory for Niger, because this is what the population wanted during Mohamed Bazoum's presence in power, and this is what people were asking – for the end of the imperialist colonization of the country,” Elijah Magnier, veteran war correspondent, told Sputnik.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 US seeks to 'minimize' level of Armenia-Russia relations amid Nagorno-Karabakh tensions

💬 “It is important for the United States to seize the initiative in relations with Armenia, generate as much visibility as possible, and achieve some results to minimize the level of relations between Armenia and Russia: both, in the defense sphere, and in other areas, Dr. Stanislav Pritchin, senior research fellow at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences, told Sputnik.

Weighing in on the protests sweeping Yerevan, with calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Dr. Stanislav Pritchin underscored that the Armenian PM is now “most beneficial to the United States,” for the mere reason that “under Pashinyan relations with Russia are actually going into a very serious decline.”

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🇺🇸💰The Clinton Foundation's Ukraine project is the latest public fleecing effort by ‘crooked charity world'

The Clinton Foundation was formed as a nonprofit 501(c)3 in 2001 after former US President Bill Clinton left office, and has faced numerous allegations over the years of corruption, bribery, and other schemes, although no charges have ever been brought against them by federal legal probes.

Former investor and charity fraud expert Charles Ortel told Radio Sputnik’s The Backstory that the basis of the Clinton Foundation was itself fraudulent, although it is just one of many such “fake” do-good schemes in the “crooked charity world.”

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🗣️ On Nazi ideas rising among the Ukrainian American population:

“This isn't a new development, right? And I just remember having many arguments with Ukrainian Americans that would start out with me defending the legacy of the Soviet Union and such. And they would insist that 'The Soviet Union was worse than Hitler, worse than the Nazis…Well, Hitler was just trying to protect the Ukrainian people from Stalin.' And the pro-Hitler sentiments among them – that's nothing new... So now it's gotten to the point where the United States is pouring so much money into Ukraine and just trying to prolong this war, and now we have an actual Nazi fighter, a guy who fought against the Soviet Union in World War II. Now, what side does that put him on?“ Caleb Maupin, journalist and political analyst, told Sputnik.

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💬 "Everybody knows about Holocaust denial — in other words, that the Shoah, the Holocaust, didn't take place. But there's a new threat to memory, commemoration and education — which is distortion. What does that mean? It means they don't deny that the Holocaust took place, but they change the narrative of what actually happened," Dr Efraim Zuroff, chief Nazi-hunter of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the director of its Israel Office, commented on the Canadian MPs honoring Nazi SS veteran with standing ovation.

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🇺🇸👁 The CIA is developing an artificial intelligence (AI) tool to help US intelligence agencies sift through high volumes of public information, an agency official told an American media outlet.

The Chat-GPT-like tool would allow analysts to view the original source of information, ask further questions and help them sort and summarize information, Randy Nixon, director of the CIA’s Open-Source Enterprise Division that is developing the tool, said.

The tool is part of a broader government push to harness AI and compete with China, Nixon stressed. The CIA plans to soon make the tool available for use among the 18 US intelligence agencies, including the NSA, FBI as well as military agencies, Nixon stated, adding that policymakers and the public will not have access to the too.

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🇰🇷🔫 What kinds of weapons does South Korea produce and export?

South Korea held a massive military parade in Seoul on Tuesday dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the founding of the nation’s armed forces.

Some 6,000 troops and up to 200 pieces of military equipment marched and rolled through the streets of Seoul, including tanks and amphibious assault vehicles, drones, missiles, and air defense systems, with many of them manufactured by major South Korean conglomerates you’ve probably heard of.

What sorts of weapons were put on display? What kinds of arms does the strategic US ally produce and export?
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🇺🇸⚖️ Second time lucky for attorneys pursuing Democratic Senator Menendez for corruption?

Senator Bob Menendez is accused of using his chairmanship of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee to lobby for a two-year arms embargo on Egypt over alleged human rights abuses to be dropped. The indictment claims he took payments from the Egyptian government through intermediaries, including via a paid position where he hardly ever showed up for work.

The senator also allegedly took bribes in return for political favors from a firm exporting halal meat to the Muslim North African nation.

Law professor Kim Keenan told Sputnik that Menendez had previously escaped prosecution for corruption in 2015 after the jury failed to reach a verdict — "but here we are in 2023, and he's accused of misusing his position as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee."
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🇺🇸 'Catch up with reality': Biden officials warn US must reset relations with Africa

The US needs to adapt policies to the dynamic region which is growing younger and more urban. The continent "has to be at the table," Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council Senior Director for African Affairs Judd Devermont said.

He underscored that Africa is important in a number of key areas from climate change to emerging technologies.

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🪖 WATCH Ukrainian servicemen surrender to Russian forces in Svatovo-Kremennaya area of Donbass

The servicemen used an open channel to contact the Russian Army, and brought boxes of ammunition with them, a source close to the situation told Sputnik.

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🇺🇸 Hunter Biden payments from China list Joe's home as beneficiary address, panel reveals

"A few months after Joe Biden announced his candidacy in 2019, information available to the Committee shows Hunter Biden received two wires from China for $250,000 and $10,000, including from Jonathan Li," the panel said in a statement.

Hunter Biden, via his lawyer, claimed he only served with BHR Partners, a Beijing-backed private equity firm controlled by Bank of China Limited, as a member of its board of directors, which was purportedly an unpaid position, the committee said regarding Hunter Biden's links to China.

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📹 A unit of Russian Viking special forces destroys a Ukrainian pickup truck hidden in a private sector with a kamikaze drone in the Artemovsk direction

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🇬🇧 UK Navy vessels may all contain traces of life-threatening asbestos

All four of the UK’s Vanguard-class of submarines, which are equipped with Trident ballistic missiles and carry the UK's nuclear deterrent, have asbestos-containing materials, UK media reported.

The Daring-class Type 45 destroyers and the Duke-class Type 23 frigates, as well as an Astute-class nuclear-powered submarines, six Duke-class minesweepers and 28 Wildcat helicopters are said to also have asbestos-containing materials.

Previously the UK Defense Ministry had acknowledged that as many as 2,699 pieces of its military hardware contain asbestos. The equipment includes 765 Bulldog armored personnel carriers, 324 Challenger 2 tanks, 841 Pinzgauer military utility vehicles and 540 Warrior infantry fighting vehicles.

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🇨🇦 "Has there ever been a greater diplomatic embarrassment in the history of our country?"

Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre rips into the Trudeau government for honoring Ukrainian Nazi veteran

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