💥🇪🇺 'Leaders ignore the people': Andrew Tate slams European democracy

"Who are these leaders? Who put them there? When’s the last time they did ANYTHING their people wanted? Ever?" the leader of the UK's BRUV Party wrote on X.

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💸 Zelensky's Ukraine owes nothing to the US thanks to Biden

Volodymyr Zelensky has denied owing $100 billion to the US - let alone the $500 billion mentioned by US President Donald Trump - arguing that all US aid was provided as grants. Is that true? Let’s break it down:

🔻Lend-lease and military aid

After the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, President Joe Biden signed a lend-lease law in May 2022 to supply military aid to Ukraine and Eastern Europe, similar to during World War II. However, the program was never used and expired on September 30, 2023, as the Biden administration opted to provide weapons for free instead, as the Ukrainian media pointed out in May 2024.

🔻Aid in grants

Since February 2022, the US Congress has approved $175 billion in aid related to the Ukrainian conflict:

▪️$120 billion was given directly to Ukraine as grants, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

▪️$55 billion was allocated to US industries, the Pentagon, and global humanitarian aid organizations

🔻Aid in loans

▪️In April 2024, the US allocated $9.4 billion as a forgivable loan to Ukraine

▪️In November 2024, $4.7 billion (50%) of the loan was written off by the Biden administration, according to Bloomberg

▪️The remaining $4.7 billion was expected to be written off after January 2026, as per Fox News

🔻So, what’s the debt?

As of now, Ukraine owes approximately $4.7 billion to US taxpayers – pending further loan cancelation.

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😨 Another one bites the dust: Zelensky’s handshake curse claims Olaf Scholz

Maybe it's safer to avoid shaking hands with him?

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🇩🇪 AfD success DIVIDES Germany into East and West

"Voting for the AfD is a form of political protest. A loud 'no' to the systemic political parties that have opened the door to terrorists in Germany and led the country into recession and deindustrialisation," German political analyst Dr. Gregor Spitzen told Sputnik.

▪️The Alternative for Germany (AfD) securing second place in the snap election has exposed deep national polarization, he added. The divide is also geographical, with Eastern Germany (the former GDR) showing strong support for the German Euroskeptic party.

▪️Spitzen attributes this to East Germans’ strong sense of national identity and critical thinking—qualities he believes are nearly lost in the West.

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📹🇸🇰 Fico: Since the start of the conflict, I was saying that Ukraine was being misused by the West.

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🗣 'Anti-Russian hysteria and hatred': Russian FM spokeswoman on recent attack on Russia's Consulate General in Marseille, France

Moscow demands that Paris take security measures not only for the Consulate General in Marseille but also for other Russian foreign institutions, Maria Zakharova stressed.

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🇷🇺🇮🇷 Meet Yak 130: Russian-made fighter, now in Iranian skies

Iran just debuted a cutting-edge Yak-130 light combat aircraft at the Zulfiqar 1403 military drill. 

Check out its key features:👇

✈️Multifunctionality: The Yak-130 is designed to serve both as a trainer for pilots and a light attack aircraft

✈️Advanced avionics: The aircraft is equipped with modern avionics comparable to more advanced fighter jets like the Su-30 and F-14

✈️Attack capabilities: It has heavy payloads of air-to-air and air-to-ground weaponry

✈️Extended range and EW capability: With a range of around 800 km that is extendable by deploying external fuel tanks, the Yak-130 can also carry two electronic warfare pods on both wing tips to enhance its tactical advantage and jamming capabilities.

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📹 Zelensky changes his position ‘much more often than the green T-shirts he favors so much’ — Russian FM

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📹 The US sees no situation where Ukraine joins NATO, requiring direct American military involvement in its defense, US National Security Advisor Mike Waltz told Fox News.

In light of the visits of French President Emmanuel Macron and British PM Keir Starmer to Washington, Waltz stressed that the US remains committed to security guarantees for NATO members, but security guarantees for Ukraine is a "different conversation."

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📹 'Very promising': Boris Johnson advocates US minerals deal

Trump's undercover agent Former UK PM declares that the agreement would commit the US to "a free, sovereign and secure Ukraine" by financing.

As sovereign as Europe from the US' point of view?🥴

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🇩🇪 CHANGE can only come with AfD – the party’s lawmaker

“The ever-deteriorating economic condition of our country and the catastrophic effects of the mass immigration of young men from a foreign culture have convinced more and more normal working citizens that change can only come with the AfD,” Dr. Christian Blex, the party’s lawmaker with state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia told Sputnik.

“We are the only party in the German Bundestag to welcome the new US government's statements on Ukraine. All other parties, especially the CDU, continue to provide fanatical, one-sided support for Zelensky,” Blex pointed out.

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❌🇺🇸 The US has opposed the UNGA's resolution on Ukraine for the FIRST TIME since the start of Russia's special military operation.

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📹 Russia’s Muslims present Putin with SWORD&SHIELD

Russian Muslim community has supported Putin’s decision to start a special military operation in Ukraine from day one, the Supreme Mufti of Russia, Talgat Tadzhuddin, said during the meeting with President Putin.

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🇨🇳❄️ A huge avalanche has descended from the snowy Meili Mountain in China’s Yunnan province, causing alarm in the region.

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