🇪🇺🇧🇾 How EU farming sizes up to farming in Belarus: President Lukashenko, a master of agriculture, demonstrates the ability to generate billions in revenue without relying on oil.

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British activist and TV host Russell Brand about Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin: "The reason that the legacy media are terrified and quacking is because this could lead to a populist uprising and rejection of their myth. This is the hypocrisy that the legacy media continuously propagate, pretending that they're playing a different game with Russia and that Russia doesn't have a right to their own national identity to their own trajectory."

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Russian foreign intelligence service director says contacts with CIA head are planned, but date has not been announced.

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Zelensky said that he met with Zaluzhny, discussed with him the renewal of the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and offered to “stay on the team”

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The most important and interesting takeaways from Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson will be on our channel! Stay tuned so you don't miss it.

We start at 11:00 pm GMT.

This is the first major interview of the Russian President with a Western journalist since 2021.

According to Carlson, the White House did everything to prevent the interview from being published three years ago, and tried to prevent it this time too.

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⚡️Ukrainian Defense Minister Umerov announced the decision to change the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

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⚡️Zelensky said that he appointed Syrsky as commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Syrsky first commanded the defense of Artemovsk, and then the counter-offensive near Artemovsk, as a result of which he successfully lost both battles, losing several tens of thousands of people killed.

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"Zelensky just decided to steal Tucker's show today," Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT, and Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik's parent media group, commented on changes in the Ukrainian military.

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100 Russian servicemen, who were in mortal danger in Ukrainian captivity, were returned, the Russian Ministry of Defense said, adding that 100 prisoners of war were transferred to the Kiev regime.

During the return of Russian military personnel from Ukrainian captivity, the United Arab Emirates provided humanitarian mediation, the Ministry of Defense stated.

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🇪🇺🇺🇸 Europe fears Transatlantic trade war under Trump, but what has Biden done for Brussels? PART I

The European Commission is reportedly drawing up an “impact assessment” of a second Trump term in office, fearing 10 percent tariffs on European goods, a response to digital services taxes targeting American tech giants, and other measures meant to tackle the massive $200Bln+ US trade deficit with the bloc.

But perhaps Brussels should inquire about the impact the Biden administration’s policies have had on Europe over the past three years, especially after the start of NATO-Russia proxy war in Ukraine in 2022.

🔺Europe has had to pay at least €185Bln ($198.8Bln) extra on natural gas over the past 20 months amid efforts to reduce dependence on Russia to support the US-led effort to “punish” Moscow for its military operation in Ukraine.

🔺The Eurozone has spent much of the past two years slipping in and out of recession, with growth forecasts approaching zero as high energy costs, inflation, and regional instability threaten countries and companies region-wide.

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🇪🇺🇺🇸 Europe fears Transatlantic trade war under Trump, but what has Biden done for Brussels? PART II

🔺European industrial manufacturers led by Germany are suffering possibly their worst economic crisis since the Second World War. “Deindustrialization is already taking place on a considerable scale here. If the general conditions remain the same, it is very likely that more companies will follow and more and more important parts of the value creation [stream] will migrate,” Deloitte partner Florian Ploner warned in November.

🔺The Biden administration’s $390Bln Build Back Better ‘green’ spending and subsidies package passed in 2022 has enticed European producers to leave the EU and come to America, where energy is cheaper and support for producers plentiful, with Brussels presented with a fait accompli.

🔺Pushing Europe to abandon Russian pipeline gas, the Biden administration has instead promoted the export of American liquefied natural gas to the EU aboard tankers sailing across the Atlantic – a process Russia’s energy ministry has said means prices “at least” 30-40 percent higher than Russian natural gas.

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Mainstream media and its worshippers call Tucker Carlson a traitor for his interview with Putin. But many other Western journalists have spoken to Putin without being accused of acting as his “mouthpiece.” Watch our video with highlights from those interviews.

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🇺🇸 The US Senate advanced a $95 billion supplemental funding bill with aid for Israel and Ukraine, after lawmakers rejected a version of the legislation with border policy measures.

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Who is Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s new Commander-in-Chief?

Valery Zaluzhny is out as the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The torch has now been passed to Oleksandr Syrsky, a senior officer in Ukraine’s military command.

Gen. Syrsky, born and raised in Russia’s Vladimir Region, led the Ukrainian campaign to try to hold the line in Artemovsk (Bakhmut), a strategic settlement in the Donbass, and then mounted a subsequent “counteroffensive” of Artemovsk, failing both times and getting tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers killed. Russian forces ended up liberating the city, thus gaining better strategic ground in this area.

What else do we know about Syrsky’s background in the army?

🔺In 2019, Zelensky appointed Syrsky as the commander of the Ukrainian ground forces;

🔺On August 23, 2020, he was promoted to the rank of colonel-general;

🔺After the start of the special military op, Syrsky led the “defense” of Kiev, for which Zelensky gave him the “Hero of Ukraine” noscript;

🔺In 2015, Syrsky was in charge of covering Ukrainian forces exit from the so-called Debaltsevo Couldron, a major battle between Kiev regime forces and defenders of Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics. Syrsky received the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky for the ‘successful completion of the combat mission.” Many Ukrainian soldiers, however, blamed Syrsky for failing the operation due to heavy losses.

In December, 2022 Syrsky told the Economist that "the Russians aren’t idiots." "They aren’t weak. Anyone who underestimates [them] is headed for defeat,” he prophesized.

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Team Biden finds itself cornered in struggle to secure funding to arm Ukraine

The Ukraine aid package is hanging in the balance after Senate Republicans nixed the $118 Bln "compromise" bipartisan bill after months of negotiations.

US leaders are now weighing three options for coming up with cash to aid Ukraine, according to the New York Times:

🔺The first option is to grab and use $300 billion of Russia's Central Bank's assets frozen by Western banks after the beginning of Moscow's special military operation in Ukraine. Still, there's no clear mechanism on how to do that legally.

🔺The second option involves having the European Union (EU) cover the cost of US weapons provided to Ukraine. Unfortunately, the EU is currently coping with economic stagnation and has had to enact austerity measures, which have triggered widespread farmer protests across the continent.

🔺Third option is to convince the EU to use its own production capacities to arm the Ukrainians. However, the bloc's industrial power has dramatically diminished since the days of the Cold War.

The New York Times speculates that the meeting between US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz might revolve around Berlin’s military assistance to the Kiev regime.

Germany has long been regarded as the industrial force of the European Union. However, the German industrial sector has experienced a steady decline following Berlin's participation in the US-led energy sanctions against Russia and the subsequent destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, which were vital for delivering affordable gas to Europe. If Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh is right that Washington orchestrated the sabotage attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, one could argue that Team Biden has shot itself in the foot by sabotaging Germany's industrial might.

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The US State Department declined to comment on the Ukrainian government's decision to dismiss Valery Zaluzhny from his commander-in-chief post, but added that it is Ukraine's sovereign decision.

Meanwhile, Politico reported earlier in the day that one the possible reason for Zaluzhny’s removal was disagreements with the United States over how to conduct last year’s counteroffensive.

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🔸Zaluzhny is dismissed as commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Gen. Syrsky takes his place

🔸Who is Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s new Commander-in-Chief?

🔸Europe fears Transatlantic trade war under Trump, but what has Biden done for Brussels?

🔸Russian elections: 4 candidates announced. Who are they?

🔸What is Ukraine’s ‘kill list’ which expanded over decade as US watchdogs turn blind eye?

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