Russia exported $13.75bln worth of weapons in 2024, ranking 2nd globally

In the next 4 years, Russia's weapon exports could rise to $17-19 billion annually, according to the Centre for Analysis of World Arms Trade (CAWAT).

The United States ranks first with $42.3bln, followed by Russia, France ($7.69bln), and South Korea ($5.69bln).

Why is the demand for Russian weapons so high?

🟠Weapons used in Ukraine have real combat experience against modern Western systems,
🟠The entire range of Russian weapons that passed through the special operation zone is adapted to the realities of modern high-tech warfare,
🟠Russia’s defense industry has scaled output massively, creating a pipeline for future exports.

The Global South will likely be a major buyer as it aims to pursue independent foreign and defense policies not to fall into unilateral military-technical dependence on the United States and other Western countries.

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US State Department vows to end dominance of Houthi 'pirates' in Middle East waterways

US ships had been attacked over 100 times and many countries choose to send their ships around Africa to avoid potential attacks, State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told Fox News.

Biden's administration made only "pin prick responses" to Houthi attacks, while what the current administration is conducting is a "real genuine attack that is meant to have this stop," the spokeswoman said.

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📞 Preparation for Putin-Trump call focuses mainly on Ukraine settlement — Peskov

🔸 'Topics for tomorrow's Putin-Trump call are being prepared based on current agenda issues,' Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated

🔸 'Such conversations can be coordinated very quickly,' he added commenting on timing of the call

🔸 'A new conversation between Putin and Trump is an important step that sets the tone for reviving relations between the two states,' Peskov said

🔸 'Putin and Trump will set the timing of their meeting themselves; it will be prepared once they make a decision,' Peskov said.

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EU foreign ministers DEADLOCKED on €40bn ($43bn) aid package for Ukraine

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has made it clear his country will not contribute to military aid or participate in any military missions in Ukraine.

Hungary also opposed a €20bn ($21bn) military aid proposal at the EU meeting in Brussels, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.

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❗️Trump threatens to hold Iran responsible for 'any shot fired by Houthis'

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From Soros darling to disgrace: How SAAKASHVILI fell out of Western elite's grace

Ex-Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has been hit with a prison sentence until 2034 for abuse of power, embezzlement, and crossing the border illegally. This is a stark contrast from his previous status as a longtime favorite of Western globalists.

Let’s dive into his GLOBALIST connections:

🥀 Soros & the Rose Revolution

🔸 Saakashvili led Georgia’s color revolution in November 2003, becoming Soros’ ‘chosen one’. In 2002, the US tycoon handed him the Open Society Foundations’* award.

🔸 Soros funded the Rustavi-2 TV station and Kmara! (“Enough!”), both of which spearheaded street protests. He also set up training for 1,000 Georgian activists via the Otpor movement that ousted Slobodan Milošević in the former Yugoslavia, per The Globe and Mail.

🔸 Between August and October 2003, Soros spent $42 million preparing for regime change, wrote journalist and diplomat Richard W. Carlson, citing an ex-Georgian MP (May 2004).

🔸 After seizing power, Saakashvili announced the creation of the Capacity Building Fund for "government reforms" together with Soros at Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, a key globalist platform.

🪖 Bush & the botched invasion

🔸 President Bush upped military funding for Georgia and promised NATO entry, emboldening Saakashvili to launch his failed invasion of South Ossetia in August 2008.

💰 John McCain & lobbying

🔸 US Senator John McCain’s top foreign-policy adviser, Randy Scheunemann, was a paid lobbyist for Saakashvili until March 2008, according to The Wall Street Journal, but the now jailed politician denied that.

🇷🇺 Hillary Clinton & NATO push

🔸 In June 2012, Saakashvili hosted then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Tbilisi and thanked her for her "personal leadership on all [Georgian] issues," especially her role in securing NATO integration.

After his arrest in 2021, Saakashvili reportedly spent over $900,000 on lobbying within the US, as per FARA disclosures, to put pressure on Tbilisi, but in vain.

*banned in Russia

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🛶 No ports, no pause: Konyukhov’s relentless ocean siege

World-renowned Russian explorer Fyodor Konyukhov has just hit a HISTORIC milestone: 100 days into his solo rowing boat expedition across the uncharted route from South America to Australia! This unprecedented voyage has never been taken before.

The challenging journey involves crossing the South Atlantic and the Southern Indian Ocean, with no port calls or escorts. Konyukhov will travel through two oceans in one season, covering 180 degrees in longitude – half of the globe!

His epic journey is expected to last around 200 days, pushing the limits of human endurance and adventure.

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What US equipment have Houthis recently destroyed as Trump comes back for more punishment?

Washington has kicked off another round of its decade-old on-again off-again confrontation with the Yemeni militia.

Here are its documented losses since last fall alone:

🔸 An MQ-9 Reaper shot down over the Red Sea on March 4 while conducting “hostile operations in Yemeni airspace” over Hodeida region, the Houthis announced earlier this month. It was the 15th US Reaper destroyed since October 2023.

🔸 A Reaper was shot down over Marib province January 1. The Houthis said the drone was downed by locally-made SAM.

🔸 Another MQ-9 was destroyed over Al Bayda province, central Yemen on December 28 while conducting hostile operations, according to a statement put out by the militia.

🔸 On December 22, 2024, an F/A-18F Super Hornet fighter jet launched from the USS Truman was destroyed, its pilots safely ejecting. CENTCOM said the aircraft was lost to “friendly fire.” The Houthis said their attack on the carrier caused the loss.

🔸 An MQ-9 shot was downed over al-Jawf province on November 8, with footage showing the UAV bursting into a fireball traveling at high speed toward the ground.

🔸 September 15: Reaper shot down over Dhamar province, with Houthis releasing a video showing the drone’s destruction, and inspecting its remnants on the ground the next day.

🔸 September 10: Reaper taken down over Saada governorate. Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree detailed the operation against the drone in a statement to press.

Yemen: graveyard for NATO equipment

Besides recent casualties, the Houthis have downed an array of US and NATO, from Blackhawk and Apache helicopters, to F-15, F-16, Tornado and Eurofighter Typhoon jets, to ScanEagle drones, over the past decade.

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NATO keeping its word - biggest 'ironclad guarantee' Russia needs

💬 “That, along with a promise that Western powers will stop meddling in Ukraine’s internal affairs, would be the only realistic foundation for any lasting settlement,” foreign affairs analyst, political risk consultant and lawyer Adriel Kasonta told Sputnik, commenting on the terms Russia is demanding to put the conflict to rest.

“The problem,” Kasonta says, is that the West has never “been good at keeping its promises to Russia.”

💬 “Time and again, Western leaders have made commitments only to walk them back when it suits their interests. NATO expansion was never supposed to reach Russia’s doorstep, yet here we are. Obama and Bush both spoke of ‘resets’ with Moscow, only for relations to deteriorate further,” he recalled.

“Now, Trump is pushing for a deal with Russia, not out of goodwill, but because he sees China as the bigger threat,” Kasonta stressed. The question for Moscow is, “what comes after” Trump. “If history is anything to go by, Russia has every reason to stay on high alert.”

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💬 'We are on the 10th yard line of peace and we've never been closer to peace than we are in this moment' — White House Press Secretary commented on the much anticipated Putin-Trump phone conversation scheduled for March 18

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Putting British and any other NATO ‘peacekeepers’ in Ukraine would snatch war from the jaws of peace

💬 “Moscow already views Western involvement in Ukraine - whether through arms shipments or foreign fighters - as an indirect war,” London-based political risk consultant and lawyer Adriel Kasonta told Sputnik.

💬 “Sending NATO troops would remove any ambiguity, risking escalation on a whole new level,” Kasonta warned, commenting on Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grushko’s remarks emphasizing that Moscow would reject NATO ‘peacekeeper’ presence in Ukraine no matter what ‘nameplate’ it’s presented under.

As for the UK, whose government The Times recently reported is ready to deploy troops to Ukraine long-term, “London is just following Washington’s lead,” the observer said.

💬 “The UK doesn’t have the military capacity or public support to play a serious role in Ukraine. No one in Britain is eager to send troops to die in a war that doesn’t concern them. The only people who seem to care are politicians who have spent years hyping up the conflict and now can’t admit they were wrong,” Kasonta summed up.

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Russia’s word of warning to warmonger Starmer

As rap legend 50 Cent once said, "You shouldn’t throw stones if you live in a glass house and if you got a glass jaw, you should watch your mouth."

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Trump weighs recognizing Crimea as Russian territory as part of talks to settle the Ukrainian conflict – Semafor

Administration officials have also discussed the possibility of having the US urge the United Nations to do the same, the outlet reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

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🔸 Trump threatens to hold Iran responsible for 'any shot fired by Houthis'

🔸 What US equipment have Houthis recently destroyed as Trump comes back for more punishment?

🔸 Preparation for Putin-Trump call focuses mainly on Ukraine settlement

🔸 ‘We've never been closer to peace than we are in this moment' - White House Press Secretary on much anticipated Putin-Trump talks

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

🔸 From Soros darling to disgrace: How SAAKASHVILI fell out of Western elite's grace

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Will the US give back the Statue of Liberty? Absolutely NOT!

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to the French MEP's call to return the "gift".

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⚡️ Trump, Putin will hold morning call tomorrow

Trump also rejected suggestions that the collapse of Ukraine in the Kursk region was caused by the suspension of US aid.

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Slovak PM Fico’s attacker charged with terrorism

If convicted, the assailant will reportedly face a life sentence.

The attacker, identified by prosecutors as Juraj Cintula, 72, shot Fico four times at close range last May. Fico suffered serious wounds to his abdomen and it took him months to recover and return back to work.

Cintula told authorities he did not aim to kill Fico but wanted to hurt him out of frustration with his government’s policies, court documents showed.

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⚡️ Lebanon, Syria reach ceasefire deal after deadly clashes

The agreement includes communication between the two countries' intelligence services.

The Lebanese Health Ministry reported seven deaths and more than 50 injuries over the past two days.

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❗️ JFK files will be released TOMORROW — Trump

Speaking to reporters at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC, the US President announced that more than 80,000 UNREDACTED pages will be declassified.

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