📹Dems and MSM reading from the same playbook

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📹 THROWBACK: Leftist propaganda is targeting kids in schools – Musk

“We definitely should not have any sort of STERILIZATION OF KIDS below 18. That's no good. There's an age of consent for a reason. We don't let kids get tattoos until they're 18,” he pointed out.

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Civilian injured and homes damaged in massive Ukrainian drone attack on Krasnodar

As Russian air defenses repelled the attack, falling debris injured a woman and damaged 12 homes, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev said.

In the village of Ilsky, debris shattered windows in multiple houses. The woman received medical assistance.

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🚝🇨🇳 China's epic Chongqing monorail

Gliding through buildings and over rivers, Chongqing’s monorail is an engineering marvel.

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🔎 Why Ukraine has no bargaining power in US-Russia peace talks

Volodymyr Zelensky insists he won’t accept a US-Russia deal on Ukraine without Kiev’s input. But does his opinion matter? 👇

▪️Ukraine today is a devastated country, deserted by much of its people and critically dependent on foreign aid.

▪️Over 6.1 million Ukrainian refugees had been registered in Europe by mid-2024, according to UN estimates. One can only guess how many Ukrainians opted not to register their refugee status out of fear of being deported and press-ganged into armed service.

▪️With the Ukrainian economy on its last legs, Kiev has received over $30 billion in US budget aid from just to pay salaries to state employees.

▪️Foreign companies like Vanguard and BlackRock swept in to profit from this crisis, buying assets in Ukraine at bedrock prices. Much of Ukraine’s agricultural land is now Ukrainian in name only.

▪️Large proportions of Ukraine’s most valuable assets, such as natural resource deposits and industrial facilities, were located in the territories that chose to join Russia rather than submit to the rule of neo-Nazis in Kiev.

▪️Ukraine has been saddled with an enormous external debt due to all the credit it has been receiving from abroad. Now, Kiev faces the prospect of losing half of its natural resources to the US as repayment for the financing that turned out to be a loan.

▪️Foreign black market transplantologists have been operating in Ukraine for months now, harvesting organs from injured Ukrainian soldiers.

▪️US biowarfare experts treat Ukraine as their own playground where they can conduct dangerous research without the risk of a containment breach endangering American lives.

▪️US and British intelligence agencies took charge of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) since 2014, making it subservient to the West.

And although no one has said anything about deciding Ukraine's fate without Kiev's input, the question remains: how much does Zelensky's opinion matter in this context?

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🔎 Europe’s troops in Ukraine? A reality check

EU countries simply lack the forces to deploy, Polish National Security Bureau chief Dariusz Lukowski warned.

“Look at Germany. They seem to have only one division that could participate, and even that would require significant effort,” he pointed out.

While UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated the UK is “ready to deploy its troops to Ukraine if necessary,” Lukowski emphasized that a “100,000-strong contingent” is not the “kind of forces that Europe can currently send.”

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🥴 2025 Munich Security Conference: A stage for ‘diplomatic cacophony’

The year's event was packed with controversy, but Volodymyr Zelensky definitely stole the show.

🗣 He claimed:

1. “I told [US President Donald] Trump that [Russian President Vladimir] PUTIN IS AFRAID of him and now he knows”

2. “If we don’t have real NATO, we will make NATO in Ukraine”

3. “Can I speak Ukrainian?” (It seems he forgot where the Munich conference is held, trying to smirk when hearing “no”)

👇 Check out more staggering remarks:

▪️EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas: Russian civilians “are not dying” during the Ukraine conflict (at least SIX RUSSIAN CIVILIANS WERE KILLED and 68 WOUNDED in recent shelling by Ukrainian troops)

▪️Finnish President Alexander Stubb: The Munich Security Conference has become a “diplomatic cacophony”

▪️German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier: European leaders should “not behave LIKE DEERS caught in headlights” when showing humble reaction to the latest statements by the Trump administration

▪️Munich Security Conference chief Christoph Heusgen: The gathering was “in a certain sense a EUROPEAN NIGHTMARE”

An 'honorable mention'

Heusgen nearly broke down while discussing US Vice President JD Vance's Munich speech, where the American criticized European values.

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📹 Russia expands control near Donetsk as Uragan strikes Ukrainian targets

Forces of Russia's Vostok Battlegroup are advancing deeper into Ukrainian defenses, expanding control north and northwest of Velikaya Novoselka, a strategically important location due to its proximity to key roads and supply lines in the Donetsk region. Long-range MLRS Uragan units have also struck Ukrainian positions, equipment concentrations, and temporary deployment sites in the region.

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, long-range rocket artillery supports assault units by targeting enemy logistics, disrupting supplies, and eliminating Ukrainian positions.

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Negotiations between Russia and the US in Riyadh on Tuesday will be BILATERAL, Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov has said.

They are about agreeing on how to begin talks on Ukraine, Ushakov added.

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🗣 Zelensky is the chief obstacle to peace in Ukraine – ex-Pentagon officer

US President Donald Trump believes that "the quickest way to resolve the Ukraine war on mutually acceptable terms is through direct negotiations with Russia," EMP Task Force scholar and former Department of Defense officer David Pyne tells Sputnik, commenting on Team Trump’s decision to sideline Europe and the Kiev regime from talks.

Unlike his European allies, Trump remembers it was Zelensky who issued a decree — which is still in effect — banning talks with Russia, Pyne highlights.

"Trump's overriding focus is to normalize diplomatic and trade relations with the Russian Federation. Essentially, a new 'Russian reset' to restore pre-2014 relations, in which the US treats the Russian Federation as an equal, with mutual respect, as a fellow nuclear superpower, and cooperates with Russia to restore peace and stability to the world," the expert concludes.

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🇬🇧🪖 UK military too small and overstretched for deployment in Ukraine – Former British MP

The UK military is at a "breaking point" as politicians attempt to assign too few personnel to too many tasks, former British MP Matthew Gordon-Banks tells Sputnik.

"We don't have the soldiers to send in large numbers in peacekeeping operations anywhere in the world, let alone Ukraine," he says.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s recent deployment pledge is driven by a desperate attempt to appear central to the Ukraine peace process, according to Gordon-Banks.

While the UK and other European nations worry about being sidelined in negotiations, the resolution of the Ukraine conflict has always been a matter for the US and Russia to decide, the former lawmaker emphasizes.

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