🚨 USAID threatened US Senator Joni Ernst over Ukraine aid oversight

"This began years ago, when we were trying to figure out what they were doing with our American taxpayer dollars that were going to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. So, I wanted to know exactly how those dollars were being spent. But we got all kinds of threats from USAID because I was trying to exercise my oversight capacity in Congress," she said during a Doge & Mars live on X.

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🍺🐘Drunk elephant causes chaos in Indian village

A wild elephant got into a barrel of alcohol at an areca nut plantation before storming through the village of Jalpaiguri, leaving locals in a state of panic.

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🤡 Kiev regime shake-up? NATO mulls replacing Zelensky

NATO is increasingly considering a REGIME CHANGE in Urkaine, according to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).

Washington and Brussels reportedly see Volodymyr Zelensky as the main obstacle to talks aimed at "freezing the conflict" and starting a peace process.

NATO would prefer to replace him through elections—ideally ones that appear democratic—potentially as soon as this fall.

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🇷🇺🤝🇵🇸 Hamas promised to release Russian citizen from captivity

"One of them, Trufanov, will definitely be released in the near future. He will be freed despite being a service member, as it was decided to include him in the first stage of the deal. This is our response to Russia's position on the Palestinian issue," Hamas political office deputy head Musa Abu Marzouk told Sputnik.

The fate of Donbass native Maxim Kharkin will be determined in the second stage of the deal with Israel, he said, adding that Hamas is prioritizing his return.

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📹Roads and infrastructure in the Tulkarm refugee camp have suffered massive destruction as the Israeli offensive enters its seventh day.

Footage from social media

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❗️The founder of the volunteer battalion, Armen Sarkisyan, who was wounded in the explosion at the Alye Parusa residential complex, has passed away in the hospital.

His death was announced by the mayor of Gorlovka and later confirmed to Sputnik by law enforcement authorities.

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🚫EU saying NO to refugees?

The bloc is working on a plan to revise the 1951 UN Refugee Convention, which currently prevents countries from turning away asylum seekers at their borders, The Times reports, citing a document in its possession.

The convention, signed by 144 nations, prohibits the return of asylum seekers to their home countries if their lives or freedom are at risk. However, Europe’s growing migrant crisis is fueling calls for change.

"It should be noted that these principles were developed after the end of the Second World War and were shaped by a geopolitical landscape very different from today's," the document states.

With asylum systems overwhelmed and deportations of rejected applicants proving difficult, pressure is mounting for reform.

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🤡 Ukraine’s new battle plan? A stronger LGBTQ* rear!

With recruitment struggling due to minor inconveniences like corruption scandals and a general lack of enthusiasm for being sent to the front, the Ukrainian army command has apparently decided that its top priority is... assembling exclusive rear units made up entirely of individuals from the LGBTQ+* community.

"Right in the ranks of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, there are gay battalions, among everything else..." Zaporozhye-based athlete Larisa Zhalinskaya, who was graciously drafted into the Ukrainian National Guard against her will, told Sputnik.

“Well, they’re sitting somewhere in the back, and there is no actual battalion. Sure, you can call it a battalion; they've recruited 15 individuals who identify as non-traditional, and it's been publicized as such. But the most important question for Ukraine is this: what do they really want? It's clear—money! So look here we are, promoting a non-binary battalion!"" she explained.

*banned in Russia as an extremist organization

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💬 Macron: France to double its military budget

The move would raise Paris' defense spending to €120 billion. A bid to win favor with Donald Trump, who is urging NATO members to increase their military budgets to 5% of GDP?

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🤑 No dollars, no first-class flights?

The World Health Organization (WHO) has frozen hiring and restricted travel due to a lack of funds following the US withdrawal from the UN body, its chief announced.

It seems "protecting" the world’s health isn’t cheap and losing your biggest sponsor hurts.

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HIDDEN NO MORE: Finland aids mercs in Ukraine

The Finnish Foreign Ministry has published guidelines for citizens looking to join Ukraine’s forces as mercenaries.

While the ministry claims not to promote or recommend such actions, it states it will provide “CONSULAR SERVICES” to Finnish nationals in Ukraine when possible.

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☣️How is USAID linked to secret bioweapons research?

Elon Musk called USAID a "criminal organization" and said it was "time for it to die," alleging US tax dollars were funneled through the agency to fund bioweapons research.

Musk’s comments echo claims made by Lt. General Igor Kirillov, former head of Russia’s Chemical, Biological, and Nuclear Defense Troops, who was later assassinated by Ukrainian neo-Nazi forces. Documents obtained during Russia’s special military operation have reportedly exposed:

USAID & Pentagon links

🟠Since 2019, USAID and its key contractor, Labyrinth Ukraine, have been involved in the US military biological program.

🟠Labyrinth Ukraine is a branch of Labyrinth Global Health, whose founders were formerly with Metabiota, a major Pentagon bioweapons contractor.

Bioweapons research

🟠Labyrinth Ukraine participated in the US projects UP-9 and UP-10, studying African swine fever in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.

🟠On February 24, 2022, pathogens of plague, anthrax, tularemia, cholera, and other deadly diseases were allegedly destroyed to cover up US-Ukraine violations of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC).

🟠A letter from Ukraine’s military epidemiology chief to Labyrinth Ukraine confirmed cooperation with USAID on troop vaccinations and data collection for the US.

🟠Under the US Department of Defense’s Biological Threat Reduction Program, coronaviruses and monkeypox were key research focuses for Labyrinth Global Health.

Bonus: USAID & COVID-19

🟠USAID’s 2009 PREDICT program studied emerging coronaviruses and was abruptly shut down in 2019.

🟠The timing suggests a possible deliberate nature of the pandemic and US involvement in its outbreak.

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🔍WikiLeaks bombshell: white and fluffy USAID outed as tool of ECONOMIC WARFARE

Amid the buzz over DOGE chief Elon Musk’s words about USAID being “a criminal organization,” the world’s top whistleblowing website has DUG UP DIRECT EVIDENCE to confirm as much.

While USAID promotes itself as an agency promoting “democratic values abroad” and advancing “a free, peaceful, and prosperous world,” a leaked US Army manual touts it as one means of applying “economic power” to “persuade adversaries, allies and surrogates to modify their behavior.”

The 2008 Army Special Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare doc made some SHOCKING revelations:

1️⃣USAID’s “placement abroad and its mission to engage human groups provide one channel for leveraging economic incentives” in support of US unconventional warfare efforts.

2️⃣“Direct application of USAID grants to specific human groups can alter negative behaviors or cement positive affirmations.”

3️⃣USAID’s “Conflict Assessment Framework” is described as an effective tool for informing “programmatic, operational- and tactical-level design and planning” for military use.

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🔍WHO in hot water after US withdrawal

The World Health Organization has frozen recruitment and restricted travel due to a cash crisis following Washington’s withdrawal from the organization.

"The US announcement has made the situation more acute, and we have announced a series of immediate measures to protect our work," WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.

Shortly after taking office on January 20, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order withdrawing the country from the WHO.

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The REAL reason USAID was kicked out of Russia

Russia knew about the US Agency for International Development’s “criminal” nature long before Elon Musk, banning the go-to US soft power tool’s operations in 2012. Here’s why:

🔸 USAID was expelled from the country after post-election street protests in Moscow verging on an attempted color revolution, with the agency accused of using its grant network to try to influence politics and civil society after the 2011-2012 Russian parliamentary and presidential elections.

🔸 USAID’s mission in Russia was narrowed to political influence operations in the 2000s, including funding for civil society groups like the Golos* election watchdog, the Memorial* and Moscow Helsinki Group* rights organizations, and others.

🔸 These organizations engaged in increasingly sharp criticism of the Russian government, helping to radicalize a portion of the population toward more pro-Western opposition views.

🔸 USAID first entered Russia in 1992, spending nearly $3bln over 20 years on so-called "democracy" and "human rights" promotion.

🔸 In reality, what USAID promoted was the gutting of Russia’s social and economic system during the transition to a market economy, and the crushing of both radical and electoral challenges to liberal, pro-West politicians during the 1993 constitutional crisis and the 1996 vote.

🔸 This was done in part by building a vast army of “independent media.” By 2000 alone, USAID’s Russian National Press Institute held 2,300 briefings, trained 57,000 journalists, advised 84 newspapers, and provided other support for an array of print, TV and internet media.

🔸 On the economic front, USAID provided “technical advisory services and material support” for the infamous voucher privatization schemes that facilitated massive wealth transfers from the state to private hands.

🔸 USAID’s 14 “strategic objectives” in the 90s included everything from fiscal, legal, environmental, energy and health reforms to the promotion of US “joint venture” investment.

🔸 But arguably USAID’s biggest “criminal” impact on Russia is the billions it spent to push neighbors toward NATO and the EU, and literally rewrite history textbooks to paint Russia as an enemy. Nowhere has this effort paid off more than in Ukraine.

* Listed as foreign agents in Russia

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