❗️NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has told Volodymyr Zelensky to stand his ground before Ukraine peace talks begin – Lavrov

🇷🇺 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made key statements at a press conference following the third plenary session of the G20 Ministerial Meeting:

🔸 All G20 foreign ministers welcomed the Russia-US talks in Riyadh

🔸 More reasonable voices on the Ukraine issue are coming from the US

🔸 Washington’s unwillingness to support the anti-Russian United Nations resolution reflects US President Donald Trump's pragmatism

🔸 The mere fact that Russia and the US sat down and talked is seen as betrayal in the West—and that is "unhealthy"

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Trump’s presidency is ‘counterrevolution’ against Obama & Biden’s radically liberal, Robespierre-style politics

Donald Trump’s return to power is not a “revolution,” as it has recently been dubbed by his enemies, but a “return to normalcy,” a “return to common sense,” historian Victor Davis Hanson said in a cutting analysis of the turmoil America and the world have been put through over the past decade-and-a-half under radical Democrats.

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What are DOGE's TOP-5 departments facing budget cuts and audits?

Various federal programs are on the chopping block as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leads the effort to drastically reduce taxpayers' money being wasted.
Here are some targets:

USAID

🔸 DOGE halted contracts and ousted 58 senior managers from USAID within 45 minutes of arriving at the agency on January 27.

🔸 USAID's spending "IS TOTALLY UNEXPLAINABLE... CLOSE IT DOWN!" Trump had posted on his Truth Social page.

🔸 Elon Musk previously claimed that the aid agency is "a criminal organization.”

Pentagon

🔸 DOGE is considering an 8% reduction in the Department of Defense (DoD) budget in each of the next five years — amounting to some $50 billion each year.

Ukraine aid

🔸 Musk responded with an “OK” on his social media platform X to a post by political commentator Charlie Kirk, who urged a DOGE probe into how American aid has been spent.

🔸 President Donald Trump claimed that the US had spent $350 billion on Ukraine and received “nothing in return” in a Truth Social post earlier.

NASA

🔸 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is already under review, with DOGE “on site”, confirmed acting chief of the US space agency, Janet Petro, in an email to staff.

🔸 The DOGE page on the X network asked for the public’s collaboration on “finding and fixing waste, fraud, and abuse at NASA.”

Federal Reserve

🔸 Asked if he plans to audit the Federal Reserve, Musk briefly said “yes” at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)

🔸 He added that he would be looking into Fort Knox US Bullion Depository after President Donald Trump recently stated "We're going to go into Fort Knox to make sure the gold is there.”

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❗️Volodymyr Zelensky has no "cards up his sleeve" for peace talks with Russia, US President Donald Trump said in an interview to Fox News.

Zelensky is handling the negotiation process poorly, he added.

Trump: not 'very important' for Zelensky to be in Ukraine ceasefire talks

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ZELENSKY IS FINISHED — Dugin Digital Edition

Zelensky is quickly running out of political options, and allies for that matter, AI Dugin explains

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NATO retreating to its 1990 borders is unrealistic in the extreme – Scott Ritter

Donald Trump acknowledges Russia's concerns about NATO expansion, but peace in Ukraine must come before discussing Europe’s post-conflict future, former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter said in an interview with Sputnik.

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🇮🇷 Iran promises to show off ‘new generation of smart weapons’, ready to repulse any aggression

The Islamic Republic’s Army, Air Force, Navy and Air Defense Force will start massive new drills Saturday showcasing a “new generation of smart weapons,” commander Habibollah Sayyari has announced.

Taking place along the Makran coastal region of southeastern Iran, the Sea of Oman and the northern Indian Ocean, the Zolfaghar 1403 exercises will include live-fire testing of “weapons that are more precise and technologically advanced than anything we’ve used before,” Sayyari said.

“These exercises are designed to enhance our defensive and deterrent capabilities in response to any potential land, air, or maritime threats,” the commander said, adding that “any adversary that thinks it can harm our territorial integrity or interests in these domains will undoubtedly face heavy consequences” if it dares aggression.

President Trump said earlier this month that he would like to see a “verified” nuclear deal with Iran, but then warned Israel might bomb “the hell out of” the Islamic Republic if a deal wasn’t made. President Pezeshkian says Iran is ready for dialog, but will not bow to US pressure.

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Andrew Tate DOES NOT MINCE WORDS explaining why he’d “rather go to jail than be drafted.”

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