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The United States should stop sending money to Ukraine and attempt to negotiate peace as soon as possible, US Congressman Thomas Massie told Sputnik.

“I think we should quit sending money there. I think we should try to negotiate peace as soon as possible,” Massie said on the sidelines of the 2024 Libertarian National Convention.


US lawmakers are showing dwindling support for sending military aid to Ukraine each time the matter comes to a vote, Massie highlighted.

“The support for sending weapons to Ukraine is weakening in the US Congress, as you can see with each subsequent vote,” the congressman emphasized.


Russia has repeatedly warned NATO countries that arms supplies to Ukraine would be considered legitimate targets. Moscow has accused NATO countries of "playing with fire" by arming Ukraine, emphasizing that such actions hinder the possibility of Russia-Ukraine negotiations.

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❗️ NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg called on the alliance to lift restrictions on Ukrainian military strikes using Western weapons against targets on the Russian territory.

At the same time, he clarified that the alliance did not intend to deploy troops to Ukraine.

"We do not have any intention to send NATO ground troops into Ukraine because our purpose … has been two-fold, to support Ukraine as we do, but also to ensure that we do not escalate this into a full scale conflict," Stoltenberg said.


Stoltenberg rejected the idea of allowing to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine using NATO air defense systems in Eastern Europe.

Western countries have ramped up military and financial aid to the Kiev regime since the start of the Russian special military operation, with Moscow condemning that ongoing assistance as a NATO proxy war with Russia.

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The United States should stop sending money to Ukraine and attempt to negotiate peace as soon as possible, US Congressman Thomas Massie told Sputnik. “I think we should quit sending money there. I think we should try to negotiate peace as soon as possible…
There should be some effort made to bring both Ukraine and Russia to the upcoming conference in Switzerland as it is hard to imagine negotiations without Russia, US Congressman Thomas Massie told Sputnik.

“This sounds kind of hard to negotiate a peace if they don't have Russia at the table. So I think there should be some effort to have Ukraine and Russia there,” Massie said on the sidelines of the 2024 Libertarian National Convention.


Moscow has repeatedly signaled readiness for negotiations, yet Kiev has legislatively imposed a ban on them. The West calls on Russia for talks, to which Moscow shows willingness, but Western countries overlook Kiev's consistent refusal for dialog.

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There should be some effort made to bring both Ukraine and Russia to the upcoming conference in Switzerland as it is hard to imagine negotiations without Russia, US Congressman Thomas Massie told Sputnik. “This sounds kind of hard to negotiate a peace if…
Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden could help solve the conflict in Ukraine, and even lower-level discussions between top diplomats could help achieve progress, US Congressman Thomas Massie told Sputnik.

"I think it could help," Massie said when asked whether talks between Biden and Putin could help solve the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. "Although, even lower-level negotiations would help as well, I think."


When asked at what level such discussion should be held, Massie said, "Maybe at the secretary of state level, for instance."

Massie expressed his view that it is "wrong" that communications between the US and Russia are limited.

"I think there should be talks," he said.


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Germany currently has no plans to recognize Palestine as a state, since a token recognition would lead nowhere, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.

"I think we have no reason to recognize the Palestinian Authority as an independent state at the moment. There is no clarity about its national territory or any other aspects," Scholz said at a joint press briefing with Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro.


What is needed is a "negotiated solution between Israel and the Palestinians that would amount to a two-state solution," the German leader added.

"It is about a Palestinian administration that would control both the West bank and the Gaza Strip, but we are still far from that. All we need to do now is achieve a lasting ceasefire. It is also a matter of getting all parties involved to commit to the two-state solution," Scholz also said, adding that he believed a token recognition of Palestine would lead nowhere.


Earlier this week, the Palestinian ambassador to Austria and permanent observer to the United Nations in Vienna, Salah Abdel Shafi, told Sputnik that each new recognition of Palestine as a state would bring it one step closer to the implementation of the two-state solution.

On Wednesday, Norway and Spain said they would formally recognize Palestine as a state on May 28. Later in the day, Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris announced his country's recognition of Palestine.

Until Wednesday, Palestine was recognized by nine EU member states. Eight countries — Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania and Slovakia — recognized it in 1988 before joining the European Union, and Sweden in 2014.

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Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden could help solve the conflict in Ukraine, and even lower-level discussions between top diplomats could help achieve progress, US Congressman Thomas Massie told Sputnik. "I think it…
The US government freezing of foreign assets, including those of Russia, is a very short-sighted policy and sends a message to the international community that the United States may stop honoring transactions, US Congressman Thomas Massie told Sputnik on Friday.

"I think it's very short sighted of our government to freeze for instance, Treasury assets, that are held by other countries, such as Russia, because it sends a message to the world that if you buy our debt, then we may not honor the transaction at some point," Massie said on the sidelines of the 2024 Libertarian National Convention.

Massie also said US moves to freeze foreign assets are "extremely dangerous" because they will increase the price that Washington has to pay to finance its debt.

"I'm sure that our closest allies will still trust that we'll be good on our word, but other sovereign funds will have a diminished appetite for financing our debt," Massie said. "So, I think it's very short-sighted of us to do that."


Moscow has maintained that any attempt to confiscate its frozen assets would violate international law, with the Russian Foreign Ministry labeling such an action as theft.

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has also said that Moscow is willing to issue a "symmetrical" response to this form of Western financial aggression.

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Barry Pollack, the lawyer who represents Julian Assange in the United States, told Sputnik that there has been no progress on US President Joe Biden's consideration to end the prosecution against his client and the US Justice Department has continued to proceed with its extradition request.

In April, Biden told reporters that he was considering Australia's request to drop the prosecution against Assange.

"No news here in the [United] States. The Justice Department is proceeding with its extradition request," Pollack said.


Earlier this week, the UK High Court of Justice in London ruled that Assange will be allowed to appeal his extradition to the US.

Polack said the prosecutor and the defense teams submitted filings to the UK court on Friday regarding Assange’s appeal not to be extradited to the United States.

In the United States, he faces prosecution under the Espionage Act for obtaining and disclosing classified information that shed light on numerous war crimes and human rights violations committed by US troops during the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

If convicted, Assange could face up to 175 years in prison. One of the last means of preventing his transfer to the US may be an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights. Assange lost his previous appeal at the UK High Court last June.

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Will Western leaders start World War III to distract from their political failure?

The West faces an ongoing crisis of political legitimacy, with approval ratings among the G7 countries ranging from 44% for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to a mere 20% for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The situation is particularly dire in the United States where three-fourths of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction.

Given such grim political and cultural indicators, will leaders seek global conflict to distract from their own failings? That’s the fear of author Jeremy Kuzmarov, who appeared on Sputnik’s Fault Lines program Friday to discuss the increasing desperation of the Western ruling class as the US-backed Ukraine puppet state nears collapse.

“These leaders seem to want a world war,” said Kuzmarov, the managing editor of Covert Action magazine. “Maybe that is what they want. I mean, they're losing, they've lost legitimacy as far as governing at home. My feeling is that this is a strategy, that they're provoking conflicts abroad to divert the attention of the public from their misrule at home and corruption.”


“So, I don't know if they could do that politically unless they resort to more and more authoritarian standards at home, which seems to be what's going on. But, again, you're going to sustain a domestic political backlash. So I think they're in trouble, and that's why we see these reckless threats and very reckless behavior. And I hope it doesn't provoke a third world war, which is where it could be leading.”

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Russia and Ukraine stand "very far" from potential peace talks and one of the reasons is that Kiev does not formally allow itself to start any negotiations, Russian Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Dmitry Polyansky told Sputnik.

"So far, we're very far from any practical move towards negotiations. The reasons are quite clear. First of all, the Kiev regime and the leader of the Kiev regime forbids himself to enter into any negotiations with Russia," Polyansky said. The Russian diplomat noted that Volodymyr Zelensky, whose term in office expired on May 20, had adopted a decree at the end of 2022 to not enter peace negotiations with Russia."


In addition, there is the issue of legitimacy regarding Zelensky, who continues to be in power without having held elections as required, in case of signing any official documents, Polyanskiy said.

Ukraine was due to hold a presidential election on March 31 but it was called off allegedly because of the martial law and general mobilization that are in effect. Zelensky said now was not the right time to hold elections.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine's political and legal systems themselves should answer the question of Zelensky's legitimacy after his term expires.

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Units of the Yug Battlegroup defeated three Ukrainian brigades and wiped out four field ammunition depots, group’s spokesman Vadim Astafyev told Sputnik, adding that the Kiev regime lost over 400 soldiers.

“The enemy lost more than 400 military personnel, three vehicles, a 155-mm M777 howitzer, a 155-mm 2A65 Msta-B howitzer, a 122-mm D-30 howitzer. An AN/TPQ-50 counter-battery station and four field ammunition depots were destroyed," Astafyev said.


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Liberal fascism: analyst says European legacy is ‘one of a criminal gangster cartel’ (Part 1)

Germany’s Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party has been rocked by scandal after its top candidate in upcoming EU elections defended the Nazi Party’s notorious Schutzstaffel paramilitary organization.

“I will never say that everyone who wore an SS uniform was automatically a criminal,” said Maximilian Krah in comments made to an Italian newspaper. The Nazi Party was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of people during World War II, including 27 million in the Soviet Union alone.


“It's actually the liberal center of the European Union that is fueling the kind of resurgence of that far right,” said Belfast-based political commentator Phil Kelly on Sputnik’s Political Misfits program, criticizing establishment politicians’ support for the Ukraine proxy war.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas sparked controversy recently with comments suggesting NATO should seek to Balkanize Russia after its current conflict with Ukraine. “There could really be a change in society,” said the Baltic leader, claiming the Eurasian country should be split into several “small nations.”

Pro-war figures like Kallas have dominated EU politics as mainstream forces have sidelined the populist left. Establishment parties formed a grand coalition to thwart Sinn Féin from taking power after the Irish republican party prevailed in recent elections.

In the United Kingdom, state intelligence actors and Zionist donors joined forces to sabotage socialist Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, with claims of “anti-Semitism” taking center stage in the smear campaign against the pro-Palestine candidate. US intelligence apparently assisted in the effort, with former Vice President and ex-CIA director Mike Pompeo promising to help prevent the populist figure from being elected Prime Minister in private comments leaked by the Washington Post.

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Liberal fascism: analyst says European legacy is ‘one of a criminal gangster cartel’ (Part 1) Germany’s Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party has been rocked by scandal after its top candidate in upcoming EU elections defended the Nazi Party’s notorious…
Liberal fascism: analyst says European legacy is ‘one of a criminal gangster cartel’ (Part 2)

“The architects of this, the people who are goose stepping Europe towards the abyss are those liberal centrists whose policies have failed, who are arming actual Nazis in Ukraine,” said political commentator Phil Kelly on Sputnik’s Political Misfits program.


Host Michelle Witte blamed liberal and centrist forces in the EU for mainstreaming the far right’s policies around immigration. As Western military and political interference has destabilized countries like Libya and Syria, Europe has faced a significant migrant crisis. The European Union has responded by funding aggressive programs wherein “tens of thousands of migrants every year” are dumped in the North African desert – policy which critics have called a “death sentence.”

“More and more the ‘lesser evil’ is appearing to be just as bad as what it warns against,” said Kelly. “When people talk about European values and ‘is there a difference between liberals and fascism’ – I don't understand what ‘European values’ means because Europe is the continent that built Auschwitz. Europe is the continent that colonized Africa, Asia, huge swathes of Latin America. Some of the worst crimes in human history were committed by the Belgian empire in Congo.”


“This is, again, the continent that gave rise to the Nazis,” he added, “where ex-Prime Minister of Britain Boris Johnson only this week was posing with members of the Azov* Brigade and saying that Ukraine should be sent weapons with which they should attack Russia and fire missiles into Russia.”

“These are the European values that supposedly Ukraine is the shield of? European democracy and freedom? Europe is living up to its historical legacy, which is one of a criminal gangster cartel creating misery across the world. And its inhuman response towards refugees and migrants is just a further example of that.”


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Shock: EU official appears to issue mafia-like threat to Georgian prime minister

Just over a week after an attempt on the life of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, a top European Union official has warned another Ukraine-skeptic leader that he could suffer a similar fate. That’s the claim made by Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, who made the startling revelation Thursday.

“You see what happened to Fico, and you should be very careful,” European Commissioner for Neighborhood and Enlargement Oliver Varhelyi allegedly told Kobakhidze during a telephone call in which the Georgian leader was threatened with “a number of measures” in response to the passage of a proposed foreign NGO transparency act. Varhelyi acknowledged the comment in a statement released soon after, but claimed it was not intended as a threat.

“It sounds so Mafia-esque,” said Garland Nixon on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program. Analyst Steve Poikonen agreed, noting a string of independent world leaders who have been harmed or killed in recent years in Iran, Haiti, and throughout Africa.

“The bill that [Kobakhidze is] trying to push through the Georgian Parliament is for the color revolution industry to have to declare itself that it's coming into his country to start doing color revolution stuff,” said Poikonen. “For everybody that's been happy to basically have watered down versions of the exact same laws that the United States itself has should on its face show you that they're trying to get whatever are the whims of NATO, or the US and UK and Israel, and that's what the agenda is.”


Western-backed non-governmental organizations are an important way for the United States and other foreign powers to exercise influence in adversary countries, allowing outside actors to foment unrest and even regime change. The tactic forms an important part of US efforts to install compliant regimes through non-military means in events that are known as “color revolutions.”

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Which countries recognize Palestine?

On Wednesday, Norway and Spain said they would formally recognize Palestine as a state on May 28. Later in the day, Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris announced his country's recognition of Palestine.

To date, the State of Palestine has been recognized by 143 countries around the world, a significant majority of the international community.

Russia's move toward recognition of a Palestinian state came in November 1988, with the declaration by the Palestine National Council of an independent State of Palestine.

Check out Sputnik's infographic to see which countries have recognized the State of Palestine.

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🗣 NATO is forming a network of cyber laboratories along the perimeter of Russia's borders: in Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Romania, and in the future – in Georgia and Moldova, Presidential Special Envoy and Director of the Department of International Information Security at the Russian Foreign Minsitry Artur Lyukmanov told Sputnik.

“Washington has long been practicing methods of hybrid warfare against Russia in the information sphere. Ukraine is used as the main testing ground, whose hackers, including those from the touted ‘IT army,’ carry out electronic sabotage under the tight tutelage of NATO curators,” he added.


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Tu-22M3 long-range bombers, MiG-31 fighter jets, and Iskander ballistic missile systems are involved in non-strategic nuclear weapons exercises in southern Russia, Russian military expert Alexey Leonkov told Sputnik.

He noted that the MiG-31 is equipped with the Kinzhal missile, and drew attention to the red color of its head fairing: according to him, this could be the marking of a special warhead.

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