🇺🇸🇷🇺 US Secretary of State Blinken on the possibility of Biden meeting with Putin: “Never say never.”

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💬 "...Prime Minister Trudeau, who yesterday talked out of all the sides of his mouth about what happened. He said, ‘It was a mistake. It was an accident. You should forgive us.’ At one point, one of my colleagues told me, he said it was Russian disinformation – literally said that. He said everything except ‘Listen, this man is a monster. If what people are saying about this man is true, he's a monster. He should have never been allowed into Canada. We are disgraced that this person is in Canada and that people like him are in Canada. And we are going to take every step. We are going to introduce new legislation. We are going to the courts. We are going to fight, to vomit these people out of Canada.’ But that's not what he said. He made excuses," Steven Rambam, private investigator and Nazi hunter about Canadian PM Trudeau's excuses for honoring SS Nazi soldier in the country's parliament.

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💸 West pays for 70% of the Zelensky government's expenses as Ukraine’s debt hits a new high

The US has spent over $113 billion on military and economic aid to Ukraine, with questions from Congress about “just how much is enough” growing louder by the day. Meanwhile, Kiev is searching for cash as its debt breaks records.

Sputnik reached out to international politics professor Nicolai Petro for his take on the situation’s endgame.

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☢️ More nuclear states would have a 'domino effect,' triggering a 'different level of arms race'

Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has warned that if Iran were to acquire a nuclear weapon, his kingdom would seek to do the same, prompting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to point out that Tehran has repeatedly said it does not have such plans. Lavrov added that, "No one wants more nuclear countries to emerge in the world.”

If Saudi Arabia were ever to become "nuclear-armed," it would set off a chain reaction that would augur badly for the region, Mehran Kamrava, professor of government at Georgetown University Qatar, told Sputnik.

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🇨🇦 Trudeau expressed his apologies to Zelensky and the Ukrainian delegation, saying that it was a mistake and an accident that violated "the memory of those who suffered grievously at the hands of the Nazi regime." But was it really an accident?

He decided not to mention the glorification of Nazi war criminals in Ukraine, which took place during World War II and is taking place today. Did the Canadian government really not know about Ukraine and Yaroslav Hunka's close connection with Nazism when naming scholarships in his honor?

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🇦🇲🇺🇸 Armenia's Pashinyan 'sold'out' Nagorno-Karabakh to 'US interests'

Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan "has been doing the dirty work for the US, as [Volodymyr] Zelensky is doing in Ukraine. It is all geopolitics,” Professor Alfred de Zayas, former UN independent expert on international order, told Sputnik.

The “end of Nagorno-Karabakh” is much more than specifically a foreign policy failure of Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Alexander Konkov, associate professor at the Department of Political Analysis at Lomonosov Moscow State University, agreed. It is a testimony to the “collapse of the general model of pro-Western policy in the Caucasus, at minimum.”

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🇨🇦🇷🇺 The University of Alberta has announced about the closure of the research endowment fund bearing the name of Ukrainian Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka soon after the public address by the Russian Embassy in Canada, Russian Ambassador to Ottawa Oleg Stepanov told Sputnik.

The Russian Embassy in Canada will send a note to the country's Foreign Ministry on legal steps regarding SS veteran Hunka and is awaiting Ottawa's reaction, said Stepanov, adding that Russia has no illusions about the prospects for the extradition of Hunka, as Canada will certainly drag out the process until his death.

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🇰🇵🇷🇺 North Korean Minister of Foreign Economic Affairs arrived in Moscow, a diplomatic source told Sputnik

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❓How long does it take to train an Abrams crew, and who will be manning them in Ukraine?

President Zelensky confirmed Monday that the first Abrams had arrived in Ukraine, expressing “gratitude” to Kiev’s US “allies” for fulfilling their promise…nearly four months after the start of Ukraine’s disastrous counteroffensive. What problems will the tanks run into in Ukraine. Will they even be operated by Ukrainian troops?

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🇺🇸US government shutdown would 'absolutely' impact the training of Ukrainian pilots - Pentagon

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There is no way Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was unaware of 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka's Nazi criminal background when he received a standing ovation in the Canadian legislature, Nazi hunter Steven Rambam told Sputnik.

Rambam, that called out Trudeau's hypocrisy, is a private investigator and Nazi hunter based in New York, publicly known for his pro bono activities, which have included the location and investigation of nearly 200 Nazi collaborators and war criminals in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia.

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The long, blood-soaked dispute between ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijanis over the remote, mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh came to a crashing conclusion Thursday as the self-proclaimed republic announced plans to disband. Sputnik turned to one of Russia’s top Caucasus affairs experts to find out how Karabakh’s autonomy could have been saved.

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🇺🇸 The US military will continue to serve without pay in the event of a shutdown, while most civilian employees will go on unpaid leave, Pentagon Deputy Press Secretary Sabrina Singh said.

Singh explained that the vast majority of Pentagon civilian employees will stop working.

The shutdown, which is the suspension of the federal government, could come as of Oct. 1 if Congress does not agree on a new budget before midnight on Saturday.

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The Pentagon has increasingly turned to the private sector for cutting-edge technology solutions for the US military, creating opportunities for companies like SpaceX, led by Elon Musk, to secure lucrative contracts, according to an expert.

SpaceX has recently secured its first contract with the US military to provide satellite communications through the Starshield system, an adapted version of the Starlink internet network. However, Musk raised concerns within the Pentagon by declining to allow Starlink's use by the Ukrainian military for operations in Crimea.

SpaceX, officially known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., was awarded a one-year, $70 million contract by the US Space Force (USSF) to develop Starshield, as confirmed by the company. This contract is part of a competition involving 18 firms vying for approximately $900 million in contracts under the USSF's "Proliferated Low Earth Orbit" program over the next five years.

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📊 In a recent poll of US voters conducted by NewsNation/Decision Desk HQ, more than half of the respondents expressed significant concerns about the cognitive health of President Joe Biden, who is presumed to be the Democratic Party's nominee for the 2024 presidential elections.

The poll primarily focused on the Republican Party's presidential primary race but included questions about President Biden's cognitive health. One question asked voters about their level of concern regarding Biden's cognitive health affecting his ability to effectively serve another presidential term.

The poll results showed that 52.21% of respondents were "very concerned" about Biden's cognitive health, while an additional 22.1% were "somewhat concerned." A smaller percentage, 12.51%, expressed being "a little concerned," and 13.19% stated that they did not care at all about Biden's cognitive health. These findings reflect widespread unease among voters regarding President Biden's cognitive capabilities.

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🇺🇸 US Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ) has remained intransigent in the face of growing calls for him to step down from office after being indicted on federal bribery charges.

“He will not resign,” US Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told reporters on Thursday, following a private lunch between Menendez and Senate Democrats. The New Jersey senator reportedly didn’t say if he intended to seek reelection in 2024.

“I think what we all really have to realize is [that] the rule of law is for all of us. No matter what you may think, no matter what I may think or any of us may think,” Manchin said. “He is going to vigorously defend himself.”

Several other Democratic lawmakers who spoke with US media after the meeting indicated they weren’t swayed by Menendez’s 15-minute speech about his situation, and suggested the majority of people in the room felt the same way.

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US President Joe Biden looks likely to face off against his predecessor Donald Trump for a second time in the 2024 presidential election. Despite the hostile rhetoric between the two figures, Marxist economics professor Richard Wolff argues that both are peddling the same economic policy.

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🇰🇵 North Korea's female shooting team has won a gold medal in the women's 32-foot running target competition at the 19th Asian Games in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, the first top prize for North Korean athletes in major international competitions in the past five years, South Korean media reported on Thursday.

The North Korean shooters managed to put up 1,655 points on the board and beat Kazakhstan, media reported.

This is also the first gold medal for the North Korean shooters in the team event in this discipline. Their last medal came at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, where they won bronze, the news agency said.

North Korea has won a total of nine medals and is 13th on the medals table. China is first with 149 medals, South Korea is second with 74 medals and Japan is third with a total of 66 medals.

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NATO members are drawing dangerously close to direct involvement in the Ukraine conflict, a former US Marine told Sputnik, noting that when it came to the military bloc's stand-off approach to hostilities, "the ten foot pole is now two feet long."

"We saw this all throughout the US proxy war in Syria until they ended up invading Syria themselves, occupying the eastern part of the country east of the Euphrates River," independent journalist and former US Marine Brian Berletic said.

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🇺🇳 Russia has circulated in the UN Security Council a draft statement by the Council's president calling for condemnation of last year's terrorist attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Dmitriy Polyansky said on Telegram.

The draft statement, seen by Sputnik, says the UN Security Council condemns the terrorist act against the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines and calls for a thorough investigation into the attack.

It said the Security Council stressed that the attack was a direct threat to international peace and security and caused devastating consequences, such as environmental damage, long-term economic loss to a number of countries and danger to the Baltic Sea navigation.

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