📹 Russian MoD releases footage from the village of Nikolayevo-Daryino in the Kursk region, liberated today by Russian forces

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🔸 West’s obsession with Baltic ‘sabotage’ attempt to aid sea’s transformation into ‘NATO lake’

🔸 Who really liberated Auschwitz – and why is the West lying about it?

🔸 New Russian nuclear submarine joins the fleet – what is it capable of?

🔸 US military industrial complex RAKES IN BIG BUCKS from Ukraine proxy war

🔸 ‘New age of empires’: philosopher Dugin explains what will replace globalism

🔸 Russia’s personalized CANCER VACCINE coming to clinics in 2025

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Houthis warn Israel: you break Gaza truce, we fire missiles

🗣 Yemen’s Ansar Allah militia, better known as the Houthis, are “monitoring and following up on the implementation of the [ceasefire] agreement in Gaza,” Abdul-Malik al-Houthi has said.

“If the Israeli enemy breaks the agreement and resumes escalation and genocide, we will resort back to escalation,” he said.

The militia leader also had a message for Donald Trump, who redesignated the Houthis a “foreign terrorist organization,” last week, promising to “stand against American evil and the Zionist project.”

“America is the cause of evil, war, and enslaving nations. The Arabs and Muslims should know that following America and the Zionist regime will only make them remain their slaves,” al-Houthi said.

The Houthis supported Gaza through the course of the 15-month-long Hamas-Israel war via a campaign of missile and drone launches and a blockade of the Red Sea to Israeli and Israeli-linked merchant shipping that the US and UK proved unable to foil.

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🚨🇺🇸🪖Trump is an old-school American imperialist — philosopher Alexander Dugin

From a Russian perspective, Trumpian hemispheric imperialism is less threatening than Biden’s globalist hegemony

👉 Watch full Dugin interview here

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Bloody minerals: US and EU eyeing Congolese coltan amid war

The US and EU are quietly seeking ways to exploit Central Africa's vast mineral wealth and diminish China’s influence in region – while publicly criticizing Rwanda for its alleged role in the war engulfing the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

⚔️ Rebels seize control of key coltan hub

🔸 Rebels from the Rwandan-backed Congolese M23 movement has claimed control over Goma, a critical transport hub for coltan—a metallic ore containing niobium and tantalum, essential for smartphones and electric vehicles

🔸 The Kinshasa government accuses M23 of smuggling minerals from the DRC to Rwanda under the pretext of protecting local Tutsis

🔸 The UN Security Council's Group of Experts claim M23 illegally exported at least 150 metric tons of coltan to Rwanda last year after seizing the Rubaya area

❓Is the DRC conflict a smokescreen for mineral smuggling?

The EU and US have long been actively pursuing access to the DRC's mineral wealth:

1️⃣The EU and Rwanda signed a memorandum of understanding on sustainable supplies of minerals and rare earths and continue to work on details, despite Rwanda's alleged role in the DRC conflict (Feb 2024)

2️⃣Advocacy group Global Witness recently traced minerals sourced from eastern DRC to European traders, The Guardian reported

3️⃣Of the four major coltan processing plants worldwide, the two largest are located in Germany and the US

4️⃣Rwandan President Paul Kagame has a close relationship with former US President Bill Clinton and takes a pro-US stance

5️⃣Washington also pushed to expand the Lobito Corridor to provide the US and Europe greater access to the DRC's mineral wealth in 2024

6️⃣The US is keen to secure control over rare earths and develop alternative supply chains to outpace China, reducing Beijing’s influence in Africa

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Trump to India: You should buy more US weapons

In a phone call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaders discussed their commitment to advance the strategic partnership between the countries, the White House said in an official statement.

"The President [Trump] emphasized the importance of India increasing its procurement of American-made security equipment and moving toward a fair bilateral trading relationship," said the statement.

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👤 Tucker Carlson: Blinken was a secret US president before Trump

"I see his fingerprints everywhere... I know that in the last two months Blinken did everything he could to accelerate the war between the US and Russia," the journalist said in an interview with Matt Taibbi.

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🚨🇺🇸🪖 Trump MISINFORMED about Ukraine conflict — philosopher Alexander Dugin

Trump has a sincere desire to get a peace deal done, but he totally fails to understand why Ukraine poses an EXISTENTIAL THREAT to Russia

👉 Watch full Dugin interview here

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❗️ CDC stops collaboration with WHO

The move by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention affects global health projects, including flu surveillance and disease outbreaks.

Donald Trump previously announced that the US would withdraw from the World Health Organization in 12 months.

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🚨 Trump: 'I am not 100% sure I can't run again'

"I have raised a lot of money for the next race that I assume I can't use for myself, but I'm not 100% sure, because I think I'm not allowed to run again," Donald Trump said addressing GOP Members of US Congress.

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⚡️ US Senate Confirms Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary

Bessent spoke in favor of tightening sanctions against Russia, especially in the oil sector, and also said that the US dollar should retain its status as the world's reserve currency.

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🚨 Trump announces new executive orders

Trump unveiled orders for an 'Iron Dome' defense, removal of transgender ideology from the military, an end to Critical Race Theory training, and reinstatement of those removed due to Covid vaccine mandates.

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📈 Ukrainian public debt rises to over $166 billion in 2024

"The public debt increased by 14.3% in foreign currency - an increase of $20.7 billion," Ukrainian lawmaker Danylo Hetmantsev said on Telegram.

The IMF earlier expected Ukraine's public debt to grow to 106.6% of GDP.

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Trump recognizes DeepSeek, says it is a "wake-up call"

The US president expressed surprise at the Chinese AI model at the meeting of GOP members of the US Congress, saying it was "unusual" for US companies not to be first.

"The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake up call for our industries that we should be laser focused on competing to win. We have the best scientists in the world. This is very unusual. We always have the ideas. We’re always first," he said.

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🚨 DOJ fires Jan 6 case lawyers

Acting attorney general James McHenry "does not trust" a dozen prosecutors who worked with Special Counsel Jack Smith on the two federal prosecutions of Donald Trump "to assist in faithfully implementing the President’s agenda", Justice Department spokesman said.

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🇷🇺🇨🇳🎉 Russia and China celebrate together: Moscow prepares for Chinese New Year

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping marked 2024-2025 as the Year of Russian-Chinese cultures.

From January 28 to February 9, Moscow is planning major celebrations for the Chinese New Year, preparing parades, master classes and tea ceremonies under bright decorations and red lanterns across the city.

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🪖Denmark earmarks $2 billion for militarizing Greenland, Arctic Sea

In line with NATO’s full steam plans to further militarize the Arctic, Denmark has unveiled plans to bolster own military presence in the strategic region.

Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has announced the new plans as Denmark has been riled up by Donald Trump’s determination to get his hands on Greenland as central to the Pentagon’s Arctic Strategy.

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✍️Trump orders construction of Iron Dome missile defense shield for US

Donald Trump has given the Pentagon 60 days to submit a draft for the development and deployment of the ‘Iron Shield for America’ akin to Israel’s vaunted system.

“The threat of attack by ballistic, cruise and hypersonic missiles remains a catastrophic threat facing the United States,” the White House stated.

Perhaps Trump will take an interest in other Israeli air defense systems? Check out Sputnik's post on them!

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📹Crucial Gaza crossing at Rafah may finally reopen

The checkpoint will be reinstated, after preparations are completed on the Palestinian side, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told Egyptian broadcaster Al-Qahera News, adding that Egypt completed all preparations.

According to the 2005 agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Rafah crossing may operate only when EU observers are present at the site and if the Israeli side agrees.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas confirmed that the European Union decided to resume the assistance mission on the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip in Rafah.

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🟠 Trump orders construction of Iron Dome missile defense shield for US

🟠 Russian philosopher Dugin to Sputnik: Trump misinformed about Ukraine conflict

🟠 Ukrainian public debt rises to over $166 billion

🟠 Houthis warn Israel: you break Gaza truce, we fire missiles

🟠 Tucker Carlson: Blinken was a secret US president before Trump

🟠 Bloody minerals: US and EU eyeing Congolese coltan amid war

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🚨 Lebanese army chief reportedly leaked military secrets to Hezbollah

A Southern Lebanon military intelligence head handed Hezbollah classified information jeopardizing a ceasefire agreement with Israel, Britain's The Times reported citing intelligence sources.

Suhil Bahij Gharb, responsible for peacekeeping, allegedly provided the information from inside a security control room operated by the US, France and the UN.

He was present in the international situation room on the insistence of the senior Hezbollah commander Wafiq Safa. Safa, who heads the group’s so-called co-ordination and liaison committee, survived an Israeli assassination attempt in Beirut last October.

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