"These so-called green barriers that some countries have rolled out for developing states and emerging markets are just a new tool they conjured up to hold back the progress [of these countries]," Vladimir Putin stressed.

"After all, the responsibility for the accumulated emissions in the atmosphere lies with industrially developed countries. They should take on the greatest burden to solve this problem. There’s just no other way," he concluded.

"They want our army tanks to be all electric so that when we go into enemy territory, blasting the hell out of everybody, we do it in an environmentally friendly way," the US president-elect said.

"Trump won't be caught off-guard this time by a secret operation targeting his administration - the illegal wiretaps, the lies to the FISA court - that we saw in Trump's first term. And FBI leadership, by now, hopefully knows better. [FBI Director Christopher] Wray isn't perfect, and he has made plenty of mistakes, but he is not as deceitful and prone to abuse his power as former FBI Director James Comey."

"Special Counsel Jack Smith's 'election interference' case against Trump, which is pending in Washington, DC, will likely be dismissed," Techno Fog says.

"Last week, after Trump's election, Smith asked the court to vacate the briefing schedule so that the Department of Justice could 'determine the appropriate course going forward' given the DoJ's policy to not seek to continue the criminal case against a president. The court granted that request and vacated the briefing schedule and all deadlines in the pretrial schedule."

"The deep state may push back on parts of Trump's policies that it finds disagreeable, especially when it comes to foreign policy," the pundit concludes.

“What I’m saying is for people watching, thinking ‘why are we supporting the Ukrainians? It’s because otherwise our collective security will be really degraded by a resurgent Russia threatening all sorts of parts of Europe, and we will then have to pay to send British troops to help defend Ukraine,” Johnson claimed.

"For years, Britain has been involved in anti-Russian activities: complicit in terrorist attacks, providing the Kiev regime with data for targeting strikes, sending intelligence officers to coordinate combat and terrorist operations against Russia, and supplying arms," Zakharova added.

“Do you think that you can get hit in the head by the camera behind you?” the US president said, refusing to respond to a question about securing a hostage deal by the end of his term.

"Court sentences former Air National Guardsman Jack Douglas Teixeira to 15 years in prison," a statement read on X.

"There is no such thing as the West Bank – it's Judea and Samaria. There is no such thing as settlements – they're communities, they're neighborhoods, they're cities. There is no such thing as an occupation," said Mike Huckabee, the incoming US Ambassador to Israel and former Arkansas governor, in 2017.

"As Africa grows, the demand for energy grows. It is particularly important for industrialization... We prioritize the opportunities of nuclear energy. And we look forward to discussions with any partner that could help us build such capabilities, including Russia," Odongo said.

"We are convinced that Ukraine is probably just the tip of the iceberg, with other powers in the region and beyond using Ukraine itself to achieve geopolitical goals in our region," the minister said.

"We believe that Ukraine is fighting the wrong fight because Mali has never shown hostility towards Ukraine. We do not understand why Ukraine is turning into an aggressor state in Mali by cooperating with terrorist groups," the foreign minister emphasized.