❗️ The US will become India's top supplier of oil and gas, Trump said after talks with Modi.

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Why does the EU need war in Ukraine?

Brussels is alarmed by US President Donald Trump’s push to end the conflict. What are the reasons?

🔶 The European Union leadership is using the Ukraine conflict to justify a massive power shift from national governments to its structures.

🔶 The conflict allows EU elites to push for military integration, increase defense spending and centralize decision-making.

🔶 Fear and war rhetoric help Brussels suppress dissent and make citizens accept economic hardship, including inflation, energy shortages and declining living standards.


Brussels' power grab began in the early 2000s, using crises to expand its control step by step

🔶 2005–2009 institutional crisis – Creation of the EU diplomatic service, centralizing foreign policy

🔶 2006 and 2009 gas crises – Development of the EU’s Third Energy Package to consolidate purchases of energy resources

🔶 2010–2014 euro crisis – New debt rules and partial EU control over national budgets

🔶 2014–2015 Ukraine crisis – Expansion of EU sanctions policy

🔶 2015–2017 refugee crisis – Greater EU control over immigration, enforcing immigrant quotas

🔶 2020–2021 COVID crisis – EU takeover of healthcare policy and centralized vaccine procurement


What is EC President Ursula von der Leyen’s role?

🔶 She has led efforts to strip EU member states of sovereignty, centralizing power in Brussels

🔶 Since 2019, she has pushed the EU as a "geopolitical" project

🔶 She drove joint COVID vaccine procurement, energy and weapons purchases, sparking fraud accusations

🔶 In September 2024, she appointed Andrius Kubilius as the EU’s first-ever defense commissioner, accelerating the bloc’s militarization

Until 2022, defense policy remained under national control. NATO played a role, but governments managed military budgets and procurement independently. That era seems to be over.

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Macron turns to NATO amid Trump's claims on Greenland

The French president told the Financial Times that he has asked NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to develop a security strategy for the Arctic region.

He added that Trump's plan for Greenland was an example of the global atmosphere of "extreme strategic uncertainty."

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Trudeau announces border enforcement after Trump's tariff threats

The social media video shows Canadian troops arriving at the US border in response to Donald Trump's demand to stop the flow of fentanyl from the country.

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🛩 Marco Rubio's plane returns to Washington mid-flight

The plane carrying the US Secretary of State to Munich turned back after a crack was discovered in the windshield. Rubio and his team will be transferred to another plane.

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🚨 Scholz calls for state of emergency in Germany

Outgoing Chancellor Scholz has urged the Bundestag to declare a state of emergency "in the wake of recent events", including Trump's comments on Ukraine.

This move could allow Germany to bypass debt restrictions and take out more loans.

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🐋 Chilean man survives being swallowed by humpback whale

A 20-year-old man was packrafting with his father in Águila Bay, Punta Arenas, Chile, when the incident occurred. Although the whale looks huge, it cannot swallow a person because its esophagus is only about 10 centimeters in diameter.

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🚨 'GAME OVER, we're coming'—US border czar vows to tighten screws on illegal migrants

“We're going to start suing people if we have to. If they impede us, or if they're going to harbor and conceal an illegal alien from us, especially a child predator, we're going to seek prosecution,” Tom Homan told Fox News.

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🚫💉'This is a CRIME' — RFK Jr. calls out lack of COVID vaccine data

The newly sworn-in US HHS secretary also exposed gaps in US vaccine safety data, saying that "less than 1% of the vaccine injuries were reported."

“That's inexcusable,” he added.

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🚓NYC police clash with anti-ICE protesters amid gov’t crackdown on illegal migrants

Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier announced that the federal government was suing New York over its immigration policies.

She accused state officials of having “chosen to prioritize illegal aliens over American citizens.”.

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😱🌋⛷Daring explorers ski down volcano... While it's ERUPTING

A group of fearless adventurers is skiing on active Mount Etna, in Italy's Sicily, with lava flowing in the background.

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📊 Illegal border crossing hits record low after Trump steps in

360 migrants a day are being caught at US southern border—a 90% downslide from February 2024 when patrols were halting around 4850 illegal trespassers, NYP reports citing Customs and Border Protection data.

After assuming the presidential mantle, Trump pretty much sealed off the border with Mexico and buried Biden’s “catch and release” policy by deploying additional troops to the border.

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🤡 JD Vance ghosts Olaf Scholz, showing Germany 'isn't taken seriously'

"We don’t need to see him; he won’t be chancellor long,” an undisclosed former US official explained to the media Vance’s take on talks with Scholz.

Ironically, Vance will hold a meeting with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, whose position is purely symbolic. Reportedly, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Chancellor Minister Wolfgang Schmidt will participate to ensure that the government has some say, at least.

“This is an embarrassing setback that just shows how Germany isn't taken seriously as a major power player in Europe by the Trump team,” said one senior Eastern European diplomat.

Germany will hold snap elections on 23 February to elect a Bundestag member. Scholz’s SPD is forecast to lose the race with CDU/CSU taking the upper hand.

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