🇦🇫 USAID flooded Afghanistan with taxpayer money that fueled OPIUM TRADE

As part of his vow to clean house, Donald Trump has frozen all spending via the notorious US Agency for International Development (USAID). The White House accused it of “waste and abuse” of taxpayers’ funds.

One cited recipient of “unaccountable” cash infusions was Afghanistan

❓What was USAID doing there?

🔶 USAID launched its first program in Afghanistan in 2001; by FY2002, its budget was $30 million.

🔶 In 2006, USAID started distribution of vouchers for seed, fertilizer, tools, skills, and technology

❓What really happened

◼️ Between 2005 and 2008, USAID sank at least $330 million in funding failed alternative development projects (ADP), according to a 2016 Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report

◼️ USAID funds served to boost poppy cultivation in Afghanistan, SIGAR’s John Sopko revealed

◼️ USAID’s Kandahar Food Zone program’s efforts to rehabilitate canals increased the fertility of at least 113,808 hectares of land, satellite imagery showed

◼️ Areas under opium poppy cultivation reached 328,000 hectares in 2017, which is 60% more than the year before

◼️ Historic production of opium and its heroin derivative reached a RECORD output value of up to $6.6 billion in 2017

◼️ This provided the Taliban* with an estimated 60% of its funding, valued at around $200 million

*under UN sanctions for terrorist activities

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📹 INCREDIBLE PROFESSIONALISM: Russian troops struck a Ukrainian bunker with absolute precision, launching an FPV drone directly into the building.

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RFK Jr is CONFIRMED as US health secretary by the Senate Finance Committee panel with a vote of 14-13

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🚨☢️ BREAKING: Zelensky demands that the West give him nuclear weapons

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West-funded PR frame-ups and embezzled billions: USAID’s legacy in war-torn Syria

Throughout the CIA-sponsored dirty war in Syria, USAID was given free rein to use taxpayer funds to sow destruction.
Its heinous legacy in Syria includes:

◾️ White Helmets:

▫️ Support for the pseudo-humanitarian organization, the so-called Syrian Civil Defense (SCD) also known as "the White Helmets"

▫️ SCD was notorious for Western-funded PR operations on behalf of its militant allies, like the Douma false-flag attack exposed by Russian military chemists

▫️ White Helmets frame-ups accusing Syrian government forces of using chemical weapons against the local population were used to justify massive US-led strikes on Syrian government targets

▫️ Witnesses claimed that the SCD recruited residents for staged video shoots in exchange for food

▫️ SCD fakes repeatedly sought to discredit Russian counter-terrorism efforts in Syria

◾️ SAMS:

▫️ The White Helmets’ fabricated reports relied on unproven allegations by the USAID-funded Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS)

▫️ The organization’s budget jumped from $672,987 in 2013 to nearly $6 million in 2015, with over $5.8 million coming from USAID, according to SAMS 2015 financial statement

◾️ Embezzlement:

A $44.6 million dollar USAID program was implicated in “numerous instances of possible or confirmed diversions to armed groups in Idlib Governorate in northwestern Syria,” a report by the Pentagon’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) revealed in 2018.

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AZAL crash investigation: HIGHLIGHTS from Kazakh Ministry of Transport’s preliminary report

▫️ Russian Air traffic controllers discussed among themselves the introduction of airspace restriction regime in Grozny before AZAL crash - report

▫️ The crashed aeroplane showed damage consistent with penetration of the airframe by external objects into

▫️ The crew of the AZAL aircraft reported a strong impact and an explosion in rear seating area

▫️ The report on the plane crash in Kazakhstan is PRELIMINARY and may be clarified and supplemented, the Ministry of Transport of the Republic said

▫️ New investigations will be conducted to determine the damage to the AZAL flight caused by foreign objects

An Azerbaijan Airlines Embraer 190 flying from Baku to Grozny crashed on December 25 near the city of Aktau in western Kazakhstan.

As the plane was preparing to land, Ukrainian terrorist attacks with kamikaze drones hit the civilian infrastructure of Grozny in the Chechen Republic and Vladikavkaz in the North Ossetian Republic, and Russian air defenses were repelling these attacks.

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Swedish police have reported that "about 10 people" were killed in a shooting at a school in Örebro, with the total number of casualties still being clarified.

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🇨🇳 Top 5 Chinese space projects to watch out for

China plans to launch its revolutionary Chang’e-7 hopper robotic probe in 2026 to search for water in craters on the far side of the Moon. The mission will follow the success of four earlier Chang’e missions.

As China rises to space superpower status, what are some of its other awe-inspiring projects to watch out for?

1️⃣ Space station pioneering

After assembling its first space station, the Tiangong, in 2021-2022, China carried out groundbreaking experiments to artificially produce oxygen and make ingredients necessary for rocket fuel, in orbit.

In 2026, China will add the Xuntian – a massive space telescope more powerful than NASA’s Hubble. The Xuntian will be a cosmonautics world first, building on the Soviets’ Mir Kvant-1 astrophysics module.

2️⃣ Lunar exploring

The final, eighth phase of the Chang’e missions will launch in 2028 to scout for resources on the Moon’s south pole, and feature lander, rover and AI explorobots.

3️⃣ Another giant leap for mankind

A CNSA and Roscosmos-led effort to build an International Lunar Research Station is underway, with the prospective surface/orbiting base’s construction expected to start after 2028.

4️⃣ Back to Venus

China’s long-term space science program includes plans to collect a sample of the Venusian atmosphere in the years between 2028-2035. Details are scarce, but fascinating, given Venus’s notoriously inhospitable atmosphere. Venus hasn’t been landed on since the Soviet and US missions of the 1970s.

5️⃣ Painting the Red Planet red?

The Tianwen-1 and Zhurong orbiter/rover duo successfully made it to Mars in 2022, crowning China as the third nation after the USSR and US to touch down on the Red Planet.

In 2028, China plans to launch the Tianwen-3 mission to retrieve Martian samples. By 2033, crewed missions are planned to start.

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📹 Zelensky’s demands for nukes reek of ‘DESPERATION’, will backfire: Larry Johnson

💬 “He's losing on the battlefield and he recognizes he's losing political support,” the former CIA analyst told Sputnik, adding that the WMD push will “further alienate” his Western backers.

“It’s insanity” and “just a further sign that he’s in trouble,” Johnson said.

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📞 Trump-Xi phone call scheduled amid trade war fears

The leaders of the world’s economic superpowers will have a conversation Tuesday, US presidential trade advisor Peter Navarro has announced.

“It’s up to the boss. I never get ahead of the boss,” Navarro told media when asked whether Trump’s plans to levy 10% additional tariffs on Chinese imports will get month-long grace period like those given to Canada and Mexico.

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