US media falsely portrays Mexican AMLO's comments as pro-cartel

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said on Friday during a press conference in Veracruz, that his government will not “act as policemen for any foreign government” in what he described as a “Mexico first” policy, noting “Our homes come first.”

The comments were painted by US media as López Obrador’s justification for “his refusal to confront” drug cartels in Mexico. However, the comments came after López Obrador was asked about the US Ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, who recently appeared with several Mexican ministers and praised the Mexican judiciary, who is feuding with López Obrador. The reporter asked López Obrador if Salazar was interfering in Mexican affairs.

López Obrador’s comments did not downplay the opioid epidemic in the US.

“What we want is peace, tranquility in our country, no murders, no kidnappings. We are not going to act as police for any foreign government. Mexico first, our homes come first,” López Obrador said. “Of course, we do help and cooperate in the fight against drugs. Above all because it has already become a very delicate, sad humanitarian issue because a lot of young people are dying in the US because of fentanyl.”

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Textbook US stupidity: No one will believe that ISIS was behind Moscow terror attack - ex-Pentagon analyst

“The immediate suspicion of who was behind this act of terror is the US/NATO/Ukraine,” retired Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former analyst for the US Department of Defense, tells Sputnik, referring to the Crocus City Hall attack near Moscow.

According to her, the conclusion can be made “given the recent increased intensity of terrorist attacks against Russian civilian and cultural centers as part of the NATO and the US proxy war in Ukraine against Russia.

“Could Ukraine independently conduct such an attack on their own, without US or NATO help or knowledge? Maybe, but in a hot war that has been in play for over two years now, it is likely that Ukraine would have needed assistance, and because the US and NATO routinely provides intelligence and targeting assistance, it will be difficult to deny without proof of innocence,” Kwiatkowski points out.

She also touches upon “an alternative explanation” of the Crocus City Hall attack, which killed at least 143 people, according to the latest information.

"Because we naturally expect Ukraine to be blamed for this – and that is the likeliest explanation – having an alternative explanation ready to go, like ‘ISIS-K* did it to get back at the Russian government for supporting Syria’ – is textbook. It is also textbook US stupidity to think anyone would believe it,” the former Pentagon analyst argues.

*ISIS (ISIL/Islamic State/IS) is a terrorist group banned in Russia and many other countries

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People continue to carry flowers to Crocus City Hall

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▪️Day of national mourning in Russia for the victims of the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall began

▪️Textbook US stupidity: No one will believe that ISIS was behind Moscow terror attack - ex-Pentagon analyst

▪️Watch a 15-year-old boy helping people to get out of the building during the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall

▪️Zelensky disclosed himself with his accusations against Russia over the terrorist attack, Russian Foreign Ministry

▪️Take a look how the world's tallest tower and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company headquarters in UAE are painted in colors of the Russian flag

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❗️Russian forces attacked the Ukrainian airfield of Martynovka in the Nikolayev region and hit two Ukrainian Su-24s that attacked Sevastopol that night, Sergei Lebedev, coordinator of the Nikolayev underground, told Sputnik.

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"Killers go home": Greeks stop train hauling American tanks

Members of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and its youth organization KNE stopped a train transporting American tanks from the port of Alexandroupolis to Bulgaria and forced it to turn back, the Communist Party's website reported.

The protesters' slogans "Alexandroupolis is a port of nations, not an imperialist base" and "Killers, go home" forced the train to retreat.

"The train's retreat was met with chants of "When the people do not bow, even the trains turn back." The banners read: "No military mission outside the borders. Stop the country's participation in the wars of the US, NATO and the EU. Hope is in the struggle of the people," the article stated.

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‘We know what grief and pain feel like’: Donetsk residents offer solidarity with Moscow after Crocus City Hall terrorist attack

“In our city, we know what this grief and pain is, but Moscow is a peaceful city. People are not prepared for this at all,” a family with children told Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley(@TXDPR).

“We [in Donetsk] are used to this kind of news, but it is still terrible. When we think about a normal life, a quiet, peaceful life that we have unfortunately already forgotten, we want it to be better for everyone,” they said.

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On March 24 1999, 25 years ago, NATO began bombing Yugoslavia and its capital Belgrade under the pretext of "protecting" Kosovars.

Ahead of the bombing in February 1999, Paris hosted talks between Yugoslavian government and Kosovo Albanians, mediated by the US, Russia and the European Union. The talks failed because of unacceptable conditions for Belgrade like deployment of a NATO corps in Kosovo. Pressured by US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, the Kosovo delegation signed the draft agreement.

On March 23, 1999, US envoy Richard Holbrooke came to Belgrade in order to talk to Yugoslavia's leader Slobodan Milosevic into accepting the February conditions. In the evening, a state of military threat was declared. The next day NATO secretary general green-lit the start of bombing.

The so-called “humanitarian intervention” resulted in large-scale catastrophe with thousands of people killed and the eventual collapse of Yugoslavia as a sovereign state.

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Flags are lowered to half-staff at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Secretariat in Beijing as a sign of mourning for the victims of the terrorist attack on Moscow's Crocus City Hall.

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French President Emmanuel Macron seeks to “please” the US leadership, as well as to provoke NATO allies, by announcing the possible sending of troops to Ukraine. His actions are not related to plans to create “strategic autonomy” for Europe, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Andrei Kondrashov’s documentary “Belgrade" dedicated to the 25th anniversary of NATO aggression against Yugoslavia.

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Ukraine was likely ‘at least an accomplice’ in the Moscow terrorist attack - analyst

The Ukrainian leadership in Kiev apparently had prior knowledge of the March 22 terrorist attack in Moscow, political and military analyst Sergei Poletaev tells Sputnik.

He pointed out that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) officially announced that the terrorists “had contacts on the Ukrainian side,” and suggested that the attack could have been masterminded either by some sort of Islamist terrorist groups with ties to Ukraine or by Ukraine directly.

“In any case, it seems that those in Kiev knew about the terrorist attack, so that makes them accomplices at the very least,” Poletaev says.

Commenting on the attempts by both Washington and Kiev to hastily deny Ukraine’s trace in this terrorist attack, Poletaev suggests that the West is going to insist that ISIS* alone was responsible.

Thus, he postulates, there will be two narratives – the Russian and the Western – and it all comes down to whose side the “global majority” is going to take.

“It is in our best interests to collate a convincing body of evidence for our case. It would greatly help us with diplomacy,” Poletaev remarks. “We’re talking about the ‘third countries,’ of course, as the West will most likely dismiss any talk of Ukraine’s involvement.”

*ISIS (ISIL/Islamic State/IS) is a terrorist group banned in Russia and many other countries

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Serbs will not forgive NATO for bombing Yugoslavia because they killed Serbian children and feel no remorse, former head of the Serbian Security and Information Agency Alexander Vulin told Sputnik.

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