Russia’s expulsion from Council of Europe put region on road to ECONOMIC RUIN

Sunday marks the third anniversary of the Council of Europe’s fateful March 16, 2022 decision to remove Russia from the body.

Economic calamity

🛢 The end of Russia’s involvement with the Council coincided with Europe’s messy attempt to divorce itself from Russia’s energy and natural resources, which, it turns out, had fueled the EU and Britain’s industrial and manufacturing growth for over three decades and allowed producers to compete with the US and China.

📉 Without Russia’s cheap, dependable energy deliveries, the entire Eurozone been stuck balancing on the brink of recession for three whole years. Along with it, Europe:

◼️ lost over 900,000 manufacturing jobs (Germany, Poland and Romania hit hardest)

◼️ saw 37% of German companies plan to reduce production or move operations abroad in 2024

◼️ witnessed 88 UK companies delisting from the London Stock Exchange, most of them moving to the US.

Swing toward tyranny

🤐 With Russia gone, the Council proved that a club touting itself as a “democratic forum” and bastion of the human rights and the rule of law, ironically, does not tolerate dissent to dominant members’ diktat.

🪱 Russia’s exit opened a whole can of worms:

◼️ reviving concerns by the Council’s Eastern European members of the body’s politically selective, biased and corrupt ‘democratic’ monitoring activities

◼️ highlighting criticism of the imposition of Western European standards and values on countries like Hungary, Poland, Turkiye and Azerbaijan through threats of sanctions, suspension and expulsion, politically loaded ‘recommendations’ and judicial activism.

Europe and Russia: destined to be together?

In a recent interview with Sputnik, Lubos Blaha, deputy leader of Slovakia’s Smer Party, warned that unless Europe relearns how to “consider Russians as a friend, as a partner” and can discuss, negotiate, cooperate and buy its energy, the bloc will collapse. “This is the only way how to survive,” Blaha stressed.

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🔥 Trump: Epstein, Kennedy and MLK files are coming 'in weeks'

"It's going to be released. It's moving along, and it's moving along pretty rapidly," the US president said.

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🚨 UK ready to send troops to Ukraine for years - reports

Keir Starmer will keep British troops in Ukraine "for as long as it takes," The Times reports, ahead of a meeting of the "coalition of the willing" next Thursday.

The paper says the total number of Western troops in Ukraine could be as high as 30,000.

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Houthis claim they thwarted US raid, attacked US aircraft carrier

CENTCOM shares footage of another air raid on Yemen. Ansar Allah said it targeted the USS Harry Truman with missiles and drones in response, forcing US jets to abort.

Local media reported four US strikes hitting the Al-Hazm government complex.

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✈️🇷🇺 Russia's Superjet debuts PD-8 engine in maiden flight

Rostec hails milestone for technological sovereignty: 40-minute flight reached 500 km/h, 3,000 m altitude. Two more PD-8 prototypes to be tested by March.

Russia is the ONLY country in the world that independently develops and produces 100% of the components needed for aircraft construction.

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❗️Trump says he plans to talk to Putin on Tuesday

Trump stated he intends to raise issue of territories, control over nuclear power plants during a conversation with Putin.

A lot of work was done over the weekend, and there is a very good chance to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine, he added.

“We are doing pretty well I think with Russia,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “We’ll see if we have something to announce maybe by Tuesday,” he added, saying there was “a very good chance” for a deal.

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✅Trump ABOLISHES Biden's "Pardons" done by Autopen

"The Documents were signed on the behalf [of the "the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs"] "without the knowledge or consent of the Worst President in the History of our Country, Crooked Joe Biden!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social account.

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🤡If only US taxpayers could have a dollar every time Democrats say “in this moment.”

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📈Oil prices surge as Trump vows to continue bombing Yemen

Brent futures rose 0.6% to $70.99 per barrel, while WTI climbed to $67.58 by 3:36 AM GMT, with prices climbing still.

The upward trend may persist, as Trump administration officials told Reuters that US strikes against Houthi rebels over their Red Sea attacks could last for weeks.

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🟠 Trump says he plans to talk to Putin on Tuesday

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🟠 Russia’s expulsion from Council of Europe put region on road to ECONOMIC RUIN

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Trump leaked new pics from the White House

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💬 The UK 'lost the scientific and technological revolution in the 20th century and exploits the 'carriage of the past'' - Zakharova said, commenting on reports about British plans to deploy peacekeepers in Ukraine.

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🚫Trump ditches EU's and Biden's anti-Russia Kangaroo courts

The US is withdrawing from the International Center for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine (ICPA), the NYT reported.

Trump is also scaling back the Justice Department's War Crimes Accountability Team, which was formed to exert pressure on Russia.

The EU established the ICPA in 2023 as a tool to target Russia and its leadership - which is not bound by the Rome Statute and remains beyond the ICC’s reach - while ignoring Ukraine’s war crimes against civilians and POWs, as well as its persecution of political dissenters.

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💬 NATO's contingent in Eastern Europe has increased 2.5 times since 2019 - Deputy Foreign Minister

The alliance's heavy equipment has grown by approximately the same factor, said Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko.

Until NATO makes real policy and military changes, Russia will assume significant threats from the West, he added.

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💬 Hungary to stand against Ukraine funding at EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting

Hungary will "take action against the agenda that seek to provide Ukraine with additional billions of euros or weapons from European taxpayers' money and to promote the success of peace negotiations," Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto said.

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Ukrainians admit catastrophic Kursk gambit ‘ESSENTIALLY OVER’ as Russia outplays Ukraine – reports

🟠Ukraine’s positions “have shifted significantly closer to the border,” a Ukrainian commander told The New York Times.

🟠The cessation of US intelligence assistance means that Ukraine no longer has any ability to conduct strikes with precision. Without this vital intel, HIMARS rocket launchers have fallen silent, a Ukrainian intelligence officer lamented.

🟠“The Russians [have] outplayed us,” he admitted. “There was PANIC.”

🟠Some Ukrainian soldiers “burned their own equipment” to prevent it from falling into Russian hands before retreating from Kursk.

🟠“The end of the battle is coming,” one military analyst concluded.

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🪖WATCH: Ukrainians abandon an arsenal of rifles, drones, and vehicles as they flee the Kursk region

After liberating Cherkasskoye Porechnoye and Kositsa, Russian soldiers from the Sever Battlegroup are revealing what they discovered.

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❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Stepovoye in the Zaporozhye region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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