❗️Syria agrees to the deployment of UN peacekeeping forces in the buffer zone on the Golan Heights near the border with Israel, the head of the new Syrian administration said.

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❗️❗️❗️American citizen Daniel Martindale: US elections don’t determine who holds true power

Daniel, who voluntarily supplied Russian troops with intelligence while staying in Kiev-controlled areas, shared his belief that US elections do not determine real power, stating,

"I don't believe that the elections in the United States really determine who becomes president or who is really in power."

He told Sputnik that decisions are driven by profit and the agendas of powerful elites, rather than accountability to the American people.

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🇷🇺⚛️ Who is Russia sharing its nuclear technology with?

1️⃣Countries where Russia has already built nuclear power plants

🇮🇳 India
🇨🇳 China
🇮🇷 Iran
🇭🇺 Hungary
🇧🇾 Belarus

2️⃣Countries where Russia is currently building nuclear power plants

🇪🇬 Egypt
🇧🇩 Bangladesh
🇹🇷 Turkiye

3️⃣More countries Russia is currently discussing the matter with

🇻🇳 Vietnam
🇧🇷 Brazil
🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan
🇲🇲 Myanmar
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇧🇫 Burkina Faso
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇺🇿 Uzbekistan
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
🇰🇿 Kazakhstan

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🤡 Cringy lies, weird outfits, woke rhetoric: Karine Jean-Pierre’s goofy heritage

Another symbol of America’s decline, “the first ever Black gay immigrant White House press secretary” Karine Jean-Pierre is getting ready to leave her post.

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❗️❗️❗️Not the way a war should be fought: US and Israeli strikes VS Russia's careful approach

US citizen who voluntarily supplied Russian troops with intelligence while staying in Kiev-controlled areas Daniel Martindale compared US and Israeli warfare tactics to the Russia’s in Ukraine, highlighting their key differences.

"In Ukraine, nowhere near that amount of bombing...with a lot more care and caution, with a lot more respect for the civilian population than what we see when the United States or Israel fights a war," he told Sputnik, contrasting it with the "massive destruction" of the US’s Shock and Awe campaign in Iraq and Israel's recent bombings in Gaza.

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📹 Russian forces have destroyed a bridge near Konstantinopol, west of Kurakhovo in the Donetsk People’s Republic, which was used to supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces, using FAB-500 air-dropped bombs, the Ministry of Defense reported.

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👉 What set Haiti on the path to disaster?

📍 Rampant insecurity

Haiti's humanitarian disaster, which has left over a million people displaced, is rooted in a colonial legacy shaped by both France and the United States. As a result, Port-au-Prince is besieged by gang violence, with vulnerable communities suffering under the weight of corruption and underfunded police forces.

📍 Geographic vulnerability

Nestled in a region prone to natural disasters, Haiti bears the scars of the devastating 2010 earthquake, which inflicted nearly $8 billion in damages. More than a decade later, signs of recovery remain elusive, leaving many areas still in disarray.

📍 Widespread corruption

Haiti’s political landscape has been plagued by corruption and ineffective governance. The US has historically supported leaders who align with its interests, facilitating the embezzlement of millions of dollars from the nation’s coffers and exacerbating the plight of ordinary citizens.

📍 Foreign meddling

Since its first occupation in 1915, the United States has maintained a stronghold over Haiti’s economy and politics, often using international organizations to impose policies that widen the gap between the wealthy elite and the impoverished majority.

📍 Centuries of exploitation

After declaring independence in 1804, Haiti was coerced into paying reparations to its former colonizer, France, a debt that today would amount to billions of dollars. This financial burden stunted the nation’s growth for over a century, entrenching Haiti in poverty, while hindering its development.

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Top 4 reasons why Israel-Hamas ceasefire is ‘very fragile’

While the recent ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, which may put an end to the Gaza War, may seem like a cause for celebration, Tel Aviv-based international relations expert Dr. Simon Tsipis warns Sputnik that this deal is extremely “vulnerable.”

🔸Israel essentially ended up negotiating with a “third party” instead of Hamas who already lost most of its leadership. This “third party,” which Tsipis says is most likely Britain, seeks to preserve Hamas as a group that would continue to oppose Israel.

🔸“The UK secret services play a key role in this negotiating process. They are the ones behind the negotiations mediated by Qatar and Egypt,” Dr. Tsipis notes.

🔸The issue of the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas is used as ammunition in the political crisis between the Israeli ruling coalition and the opposition. It also triggered a schism between Netanyahu and his “ultra-right Zionist” coalition allies, as well as a conflict between him and the General Staff.

🔸The prisoner exchange stipulated by the ceasefire deal would result in Israel releasing several thousand Hamas prisoners in exchange for about a hundred Israeli hostages, which may not look like a fair exchange to some.

🔸With Hamas demanding the cessation of the Israeli operation in Gaza and for the Israeli troops to vacate the Philadelphi Corridor, a narrow strip of land separating Egypt from the Gaza Strip. Tel Aviv’s acquiescence to these demands would result in the IDF failing to achieve any results on the ground.

The ceasefire talks produced a “dead end situation” that may result in three outcomes:

▪️Israeli military operation ends, Hamas perseveres
▪️Netanyahu’s government collapses, Israel holds new election
▪️Ceasefire deal falls through

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❗️❗️❗️Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who voluntarily supplied Russian troops with intelligence while staying in Kiev-controlled areas, compares life in Russia to the US.

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📹 Donald Trump's Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent has claimed that the Biden administration's sanctions on Russia were insufficiently stringent. He stated his support for implementing tougher measures, particularly targeting Russian oil companies.

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How to spend €900M and lose the NATO-trained Ukrainian 155th Mechanized Brigade

Ukraine’s “elite” brigade - named “Anne of Kiev” after the 11th-Century princess (known in France as “Anne of Russia”) who married into royalty - has made global headlines, though not quite for the reasons its creators might have hoped. Why?

▪️The brigade was formed in 2024 when Ukraine was running out of willing recruits and resorted to press-ganging. France trained 2,300 Ukrainian soldiers for the unit and 50 promptly deserted before seeing combat.

▪️Once deployed to the conflict zone, desertion surged, with nearly a thousand troops reportedly disappearing almost immediately.

▪️On the battlefield, the brigade’s notable “accomplishment” was shedding personnel to both enemy fire and mass AWOLs, ultimately leaving the unit in tatters.

▪️This downfall came despite the brigade being equipped with NATO-grade hardware, including Leopard 2 tanks, AMX-10RC fighting vehicles, and Caesar howitzers - an arsenal that did little to keep the unit intact.

▪️The debacle raises questions about NATO’s training methods. Several Ukrainian soldiers have called these approaches outdated and ill-suited to modern warfare, and the 155th’s collapse seems to confirm their complaints.

▪️Modern training is crucial: deployed near Krasnoarmeisk, the brigade lacked drones and EW tools, leaving them stuck in 2022-era tactics.

▪️Now Kiev is investigating why the brigade turned into a €900 million disaster.

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💰 Former US Army colonel reveals how West makes money by ‘helping Ukraine’

Reports have suggested that NATO training for Ukrainian troops is ineffective and does not help imbue Kiev’s forces with relevant combat skills.

But these training programs are not completely useless – they help Western companies make money under the pretext of helping Ukraine, Ret. Lt. Col. Earl Rasmussen, a US Army veteran and and international consultant, explains to Sputnik.

▪️The money allocated by Western powers to Ukraine gets funneled to US and NATO training companies and NATO weapon manufacturers.

▪️“And I'm sure a certain amount of money is going to individuals or other organizations as well,” Rasmussen suggests.

▪️Lacking the money to pay for NATO aid and training assistance, Ukraine apparently ends up giving up its land and “key industries” to the West to repay the incurred debts.

▪️The whole Western military aid to Ukraine is essentially a “money laundering scheme.” Plus, not only “a certain percentage of pure cash that goes to Ukraine is scraped off the top,” but up to 30% of the weapons sent there end up on the black market.

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Farewell fantasy: Biden's big claims

In his farewell speech, US President Joe Biden proudly listed the many "accomplishments" of his administration. But... did he really do all that?

Let’s dive into this grand goodbye and see how much is fact and how much is, well, optimistic storytelling. Buckle up for a journey through promises, policies, and perhaps a bit of poetic license.

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