Trump vows to add 10% to export duties on goods from China

President-elect Donald Trump has promised to add 10% to export duties on goods from China until the problem of drug trafficking from the country is resolved.

"Representatives of China told me that they would institute their maximum penalty, that of death, for any drug dealers caught doing this but, unfortunately, they never followed through, and drugs are pouring into our Country, mostly through Mexico, at levels never seen before," he said in the post on Truth Social.

Trump also threatened to impose duties of 25% on all goods from Mexico and Canada because of illegal migration and drug trafficking.

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🍞🥷 Biden's sneaky Thanksgiving snack

At an event in honor of a future Thanksgiving with members of the US Coast Guard, Biden pocketed a bun, sneaking tiny bites with furtive glances around the room. One can only guess what the secrecy was for.

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UK sends Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine for first time under Starmer - Bloomberg

A few weeks ago, the UK delivered dozens of Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine for the first time since Prime Minister Keir Starmer came to power, Bloomberg reported citing sources.

The delivery reportedly took place before the recent US and UK decision to allow Ukraine to fire long-range missiles at targets deep inside Russia.

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📹🇷🇺 Skill of Russian drone pilots on display

Russian Ministry of Defense shared video footage of FPV drone teams targeting Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region. The UAVs successfully hit a moving off-road vehicle, Soviet and US-made IFVs, a camouflaged mortar, and an AFU infantry squad concealed in a dugout.

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🚍🔥 Bus catches fire and hits power pole in Brazil

Video from social media shows a burning bus crashing into a pole after losing control in São Paulo. Miraculously, no one was injured in the incident, according to the city's fire department.

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🇻🇪👋'Welcome to Venezuela, Sputnik'
 
The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, welcomed Sputnik's initiative to launch its radio broadcast in the country and announced the signing of the agreement between the Venezuelan Ministry of Popular Power for Communication and Information and the agency.
 
The president also invited Sputnik's team to his program "With Maduro+" on November 25; the representatives of Sputnik were the first Russian journalists to participate in this television program.
 
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📹Russia's Defense Ministry showed a T-80 tank with grill-like cages and chains working in the special military operation zone.
 
According to the ministry, the tank crew hit a Ukrainian stronghold, facilitating the offensive of assault groups in the South Donetsk region.

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'Act of treason' — GOP Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene on the possibility of Biden giving nukes to Ukraine
 

"This must be stopped immediately!! Is the Biden admin trying to start a nuclear war and use it as the reason to stop the transfer of power to Trump?" Greene wrote on her X page, reposting Mario Nawfal's publication concerning the topic.

 
Earlier, the New York Times wrote that Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union, referring to several officials.
 

"They’re floating the idea of returning nuclear arms removed after the Soviet Union’s fall. This unprecedented escalation raises serious questions: Is this about aiding Ukraine -- or is something more at play?" Mario Nawfal, investor and host of the largest show on X, commented on the subject.

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🔸UK sends Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine for first time under Starmer

🔸Trump vows to add 10% to export duties on goods from China

🔸DOJ drops all federal cases against Trump

🔸How Western companies are silently taking control over Ukraine's land market

🔸Which countries is Rosatom building nuclear power plants for?

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Russia's FM spokeswoman mocks US justice system after DOJ drops criminal charges against Trump

The US Department of Justice's (DOJ) decision to settle all federal offenses out of court against US President-elect Donald Trump demonstrates the "amazing cyclical nature" of US justice, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"Because you have figured it out, right? US democratic justice has an amazing cyclical nature - every 4 years, it demonstrates absolute impartiality. First, before the election, and then immediately after, with two completely different results. This is what US democracy is all about," Zakharova said on Telegram.

US Special Counsel Jack Smith has earlier asked the District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss the case against Trump regarding his alleged role in the Capitol riot of 2021. This makes Trump the first US president-elect into whom probes have been launched and against whom a verdict has been returned.

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Key statements by head of the Russian Federal Security Service, Alexander Bortnikov:
 
💬 It is unlikely that Trump's election as president of the United States will lead to a fundamental change in Washington's foreign policy
 
💬The main goal of the Biden team is to make it difficult for the future US administration to find a political solution to the accumulated problems
 
💬Bortnikov called Biden's green light for Kiev to fire long-range weapons deep into Russia the first step in his team's attempts to complicate the work of the future Trump team
 
💬Washington's permission for Kiev to fire long-range missiles deep into Russia will inevitably lead to an escalation of the conflict in and around Ukraine
 
💬We must be prepared for any provocations from the United States, Great Britain and their allies
 
💬Ukrainian organized crime controls a significant part of drug production; this factor is used in a hybrid war against Russia
 
💬Land, subsoil and industrial production in Ukraine are bought out in droves by multinational corporations
 
💬A global shadow arms market has been created in Ukraine; it is constantly being transferred to other zones of instability
 
💬Ukrainian special services are trying to organize campaigns of sabotage against Russian military and civilian facilities abroad

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❗️The Anglo-Saxons are secretly pushing Kiev to carry out actions of nuclear terrorism and create a "dirty bomb" – head of Russia's Federal Security Service

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Ukrainian intelligence is involved in training terrorists to overthrow regimes and eliminate political leaders objectionable to the West, Alexander Bortnikov, head of the Russian Federal Security Service, said

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❗️Head of Russian Federal Security Service Alexander Bortnikov on West's attempts to destabilize CIS:
 
💬It is possible that Biden's outgoing team, as part of the internal political struggle, will try to aggravate the situation in the regions of Eurasia as much as possible
 
💬The United States, Great Britain and their allies will continue attempts at gross interference in allied relations within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
 
💬Individual NATO states are actively pumping weapons to the warring parties on the territory of the CIS countries, adding fuel to the fire
 
💬Western intelligence agencies are expanding their subversive activities in the post–Soviet space
 
💬The West is stepping up efforts to politicize the problem of migrants in the CIS countries, which causes serious concern
 
💬The West has turned Ukraine into a testing ground for methods of undermining security not only in Russia, but also throughout the post–Soviet space
 
💬The United States and its allies want to wreak havoc in the CIS and turn the commonwealth space into a cheap resource base

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❗️Key statements by Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR):

▫️ The Eurasian security structure should replace the bankrupt Euro-Atlantic one
 
▫️ The American base of al-Tanf in Syria has turned into a place for training Western-controlled militants
 
▫️ The destruction of the Nord Stream was an idea fixated on by both the Democratic and Republican administrations of the United States
 
▫️ West places itself everywhere; a player in suppression, conquest, and even plunder
 
Concerning the CIS:
 
◾️Ukraine was tempted by the prospect of being integrated into Europe and became the main anti-Russian battering ram of the United States
 
◾️Washington and London are working on the organization of a "Ukrainian scenario" in some CIS countries
 
◾️We hope that the next attempts to arrange an "orange revolution" in Georgia will fail, and those to shake up the situation in Belarus and Kazakhstan will crash as well.
 
◾️The West plans to use the Kalinovsky regiment fighters trained in Ukraine to destabilize the upcoming elections in Belarus
 
◾️Ukraine has turned into a failed state, and Moldova is following the same path

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❗️Russian troops have liberated the settlement of Kopanki in the Kharkov region, the Russian Defense Ministry said

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said arguments for the possible deployment of nuclear weapons in Ukraine are irresponsible:
 

"This is said by those who do not understand reality well," he added.

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❗️ The town of Energodar and the territory adjacent to the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) were shelled by Ukrainian militants five times in the last 24 hours, three drones were shot down and an administrative building was damaged, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.

The personnel of the Zaporozhye NPP continue to work in normal mode after the shelling, servicing the facilities and monitoring the radioactive situation, the ministry added.

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❗️Key statements by Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR):

▪️Russia categorically rejects any "freezing" of the Ukrainian conflict;

▪️The West is interested in not suffering a strategic defeat itself and preserving the Russophobic regime in Kiev;

▪️The West has stopped thinking about inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia;

▪️Discussions in the West about "freezing" the Ukrainian conflict are connected with the fact that the Russian Federation has full control of the initiative on the front.

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