🔎 What may be behind Israel’s NEW GAZA STRIKES and how do the HOUTHIS FACTOR into this?
The Israelis and the Americans are a victim of their own rhetoric, he explained:
▪️Netanyahu has been wanting to get rid of the head of Shin Bet, the Israeli Domestic Intelligence Agency, and he has also been talking tough. And this only enables him to further engage in his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians.
▪️The Americans are also a victim of their own tough talk, because they've been wanting to engage in a sharp rhetoric and they have done it against the Houthis.
Plus, the Gaza strikes were “strategically designed” to distract from Netanyahu’s legal challenges, Mehmet Rakipoglu, a Middle East analyst, told Sputnik.
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“Once Israel saw that the US was attacking the Houthis,” the Jewish state saw “the moment opportune to attack Hamas locations in Gaza,” Mehran Kamrava, professor of government at Georgetown University Qatar, suggested in an interview with Sputnik.
The Israelis and the Americans are a victim of their own rhetoric, he explained:
▪️Netanyahu has been wanting to get rid of the head of Shin Bet, the Israeli Domestic Intelligence Agency, and he has also been talking tough. And this only enables him to further engage in his plan to ethnically cleanse Gaza of Palestinians.
▪️The Americans are also a victim of their own tough talk, because they've been wanting to engage in a sharp rhetoric and they have done it against the Houthis.
Plus, the Gaza strikes were “strategically designed” to distract from Netanyahu’s legal challenges, Mehmet Rakipoglu, a Middle East analyst, told Sputnik.
“By emphasizing military action, Netanyahu seeks to consolidate nationalist support and shift focus away from the domestic arena,” Rakipoglu concluded.
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🗣 US and Russia will decide how Ukrainian conflict ends - analyst
The talks between Putin and Trump highlight the fact that the major part of future negotiations about the future of Ukraine and East Europe will be conducted by the US and Russia, political scientist and HSE University professor Dmitry Evstafiev tells Sputnik.
It remains to be seen, however, whether Trump can ensure that Ukraine and the US’ European allies – who clearly have their own agenda - abide by these agreements.
As Russia shows willingness to stop attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and thus pave way for resolving the conflict, the question is, what will the Ukrainian leadership do now, Efstafiev notes.
The Trump administration also begins to realize the extent of problems posed by Ukrainian leadership’s penchant for not abiding by the previously negotiated agreements.
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The talks between Putin and Trump highlight the fact that the major part of future negotiations about the future of Ukraine and East Europe will be conducted by the US and Russia, political scientist and HSE University professor Dmitry Evstafiev tells Sputnik.
It remains to be seen, however, whether Trump can ensure that Ukraine and the US’ European allies – who clearly have their own agenda - abide by these agreements.
As Russia shows willingness to stop attacking Ukraine’s energy infrastructure and thus pave way for resolving the conflict, the question is, what will the Ukrainian leadership do now, Efstafiev notes.
“What will the European coalition of the willing to fight Russia do?” he inquires.
The Trump administration also begins to realize the extent of problems posed by Ukrainian leadership’s penchant for not abiding by the previously negotiated agreements.
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▪️Highlights of Putin-Trump BIG phone call by Kremlin
▪️Trump said he had a "very good and productive conversation" with Vladimir Putin
▪️Ukraine’s army attempted to penetrate into Russia’s Belgorod region during the phone call between Presidents Putin and Trump
▪️Clout and money: Primary objectives of Macron’s nuclear posturing
▪️What may be behind Israel’s NEW GAZA STRIKES and how do the HOUTHIS FACTOR into this?
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▪️Trump said he had a "very good and productive conversation" with Vladimir Putin
▪️Ukraine’s army attempted to penetrate into Russia’s Belgorod region during the phone call between Presidents Putin and Trump
▪️Clout and money: Primary objectives of Macron’s nuclear posturing
▪️What may be behind Israel’s NEW GAZA STRIKES and how do the HOUTHIS FACTOR into this?
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🛑 EU urges Russia to ceasefire - but Ukraine has a history of breaking ceasefires
As the EU calls on Russia to agree to a 30-day ceasefire, let's recall Ukraine's past violations:
▪️ Feb 2022: Macron brokered talks in Gomel. The Ukrainian delegation arrived late; Zelensky, according to Alexander Lukashenko, "acted up as much as he could". After the talks, Ukraine resumed attacks, citing its "uncontrollable" nationalist units.
▪️ Now Putin supports Trump's mutual 30-day halt to energy strikes, and immediately ordered compliance.
So perhaps EU pressure should target Kiev to end the cycle of broken ceasefires?
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As the EU calls on Russia to agree to a 30-day ceasefire, let's recall Ukraine's past violations:
▪️ Feb 2022: Macron brokered talks in Gomel. The Ukrainian delegation arrived late; Zelensky, according to Alexander Lukashenko, "acted up as much as he could". After the talks, Ukraine resumed attacks, citing its "uncontrollable" nationalist units.
▪️ Now Putin supports Trump's mutual 30-day halt to energy strikes, and immediately ordered compliance.
So perhaps EU pressure should target Kiev to end the cycle of broken ceasefires?
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Ritter on Putin-Trump call: 'This is REAL dialogue that hasn't taken place for some time now'
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"No previous American administration, especially the Biden administration, had been willing to engage Russia to the level that the Trump administration is engaging Russia… This is about reengaging diplomatically. This is about normalizing relations. This is real dialogue that has not taken place for some time now," Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector and retired US Marine Corps intelligence officer, told Sputnik.
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Macron to Europe after Trump-Putin call: ARM to 'avoid war'
Netizens reacted by exposing his warmongering messages:
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"Our country and our continent will have to continue to defend ourselves, to equip ourselves, to prepare ourselves, to avoid war," French President wrote on X.
Netizens reacted by exposing his warmongering messages:
"There is no war against France. You dream of being a warlord, when you are only the child soldier of a hidden caste. Time for you have to stop taking people for idiots."
"King of cringe. Since 2017, he has been imposed on us as the savior of the European peoples. You can't build anything new until you've destroyed everything!"
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🇭🇺 Szijjarto: 'Great news' after Putin-Trump call
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"Great news from Washington and Moscow – today, the world has become a safer place. We fully support the peace agreement and hope Brussels will not undermine the peace process," Hungarian Foreign Minister wrote on X.
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🌎 Starliner crew lands successfully
Crew-9 NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov splashdown off the coast of Florida.
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Crew-9 NASA astronauts Nick Hague, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore and Roscosmos cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov splashdown off the coast of Florida.
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🗣 Macron wants to ‘restore French primacy in the EU’ through nukes
France’s plans to extend its nuclear umbrella to Germany are the product of Europe concluding that the US under Trump “is no longer committed to NATO and the EU,” geopolitical analyst Come Carpentier de Gourdon tells Sputnik.
At the same time, Macron may be seeking to become the “head of a more federal, united Europe” once his tenure as French president ends.
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France’s plans to extend its nuclear umbrella to Germany are the product of Europe concluding that the US under Trump “is no longer committed to NATO and the EU,” geopolitical analyst Come Carpentier de Gourdon tells Sputnik.
“Macron believes that providing French nuclear protection to Europe can restore French primacy in the EU which was lost to Germany in the last twenty years,” he suggests.
At the same time, Macron may be seeking to become the “head of a more federal, united Europe” once his tenure as French president ends.
“This is all part of the plan to make Europe a more independent and sovereign quasi-State between the continental super-nations of US, Russia, India and China and perhaps tomorrow united Latin America, South East Asia and Africa,” de Gourdon postulates.
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🚨 JFK assassination records released
The US National Archives declassified more than 80,000 pages of files.
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The US National Archives declassified more than 80,000 pages of files.
"President Trump is ushering in a new era of maximum transparency," wrote Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on X.
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Building a new Crimea: eleven years that TRANSFORMED peninsula
Highways, bridges, airports – how the Crimean Peninsula has changed since it reunified with Russia on March 18, 2014?
Socio-economic status
🔶 Gross regional product reached about 770 billion rubles ($9.4 billion) in 2023 as compared to 189 billion rubles ($2.3 billion) in 2014
🔶 Investment in fixed assets increased from 26,4 billion rubles ($323 million) in 2014 to 271 billion rubles ($3.3 billion) in 2023
Infrastructure
📍 In 2020, the 250-km Tavrida Highway was put into operation, two years after the unveiling of the state-of-the-art 19-km Crimean Bridge, which connected the Kerch Peninsula with the Krasnodar Territory.
📍 A new terminal of the Simferopol Airport opened in 2018. The new facility has an area of 78,000 square meters and can handle up to 3,700 passengers per hour.
📍 A total of 300 km of new roads has been built on the peninsula over the past years, and more than 4,000 km have been repaired.
📍 About 150 kindergartens and 10 schools were constructed within the same period.
Public services
Over 1,600 km of water supply networks were modernized in Crimea in 2015-2023, which enabled to reduce drinking water losses on the peninsula by 11 million cubic meters per year.
Energy
▫️ Between 2015 and 2016, a complex of several objects was built to link the peninsula's energy system to the Unified Energy System of Russia.
▫️ Crimea’s energy capacity amounted to more than 1,270 MW, which made it possible to fully meet the peninsula’s need for electricity.
Tourism
✅ Since 2014, more than 70 accommodation facilities have been built, and about 600 more have been reconstructed.
✅ In 2023 alone, 13 new hotels with almost 400 rooms each opened their doors as the number of well-equipped beaches has doubled.
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Highways, bridges, airports – how the Crimean Peninsula has changed since it reunified with Russia on March 18, 2014?
Socio-economic status
Infrastructure
Public services
Over 1,600 km of water supply networks were modernized in Crimea in 2015-2023, which enabled to reduce drinking water losses on the peninsula by 11 million cubic meters per year.
Energy
Tourism
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"We talked about a lot things but aid was never discussed," US President said.
Trump also revealed a few more details about the call:
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AG Bondi calls Tesla attacks "domestic terrorism"
Pamela Bondi vows "severe consequences" for coordinated attacks on Tesla properties. DOJ charges include 5-year mandatory minimums; probes target perpetrators and "those funding/coordinating these crimes."
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Pamela Bondi vows "severe consequences" for coordinated attacks on Tesla properties. DOJ charges include 5-year mandatory minimums; probes target perpetrators and "those funding/coordinating these crimes."
📹 Videos taken from social media
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⚡️ Witkoff: Ceasefire details to be ironed out on Sunday
Discussions on the terms of the ceasefire will take place this week in Saudi Arabia, the US special envoy to the Middle East said. The US expects Ukraine to accept the deal, he added.
The draft ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine includes strikes on the entire infrastructure, not just energy, Steve Witkoff noted.
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Discussions on the terms of the ceasefire will take place this week in Saudi Arabia, the US special envoy to the Middle East said. The US expects Ukraine to accept the deal, he added.
The draft ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine includes strikes on the entire infrastructure, not just energy, Steve Witkoff noted.
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Ladies first? Ukraine sends women to DIE AS CANNON FODDER
▪️Natalia Balaklitskaya surrendered in the Kursk region. Initially, she served as a cook, but then she was sent for training in the UK. Then she was sent to the front line as part of a motorized rifle brigade under the threat of execution, she said.
▪️Galina Kazimova joined the service from prison. Commanders promised her service in the rear, but instead sent her to an assault unit. She noted there were "many girls" in her unit who are sent to assaults.
▪️There are several cases of sexual violence against female military personnel. Women complain that it is practically impossible to punish the perpetrators.
▪️More than 5,500 women serve on the front lines and in total there are 70,000 female soldiers, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Defense as of early March 2025.
▪️Female mercenaries are also not uncommon in Ukraine. Most often, they serve as medics.
▪️The Azov Battalion* released a video featuring 4 female soldiers from the unit. Among them are two combat medics, as well as a stormtrooper who fought in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) and a specialist in ideological (neo-Nazi) work with its personnel.
*banned in Russia
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▪️Natalia Balaklitskaya surrendered in the Kursk region. Initially, she served as a cook, but then she was sent for training in the UK. Then she was sent to the front line as part of a motorized rifle brigade under the threat of execution, she said.
▪️Galina Kazimova joined the service from prison. Commanders promised her service in the rear, but instead sent her to an assault unit. She noted there were "many girls" in her unit who are sent to assaults.
▪️There are several cases of sexual violence against female military personnel. Women complain that it is practically impossible to punish the perpetrators.
▪️More than 5,500 women serve on the front lines and in total there are 70,000 female soldiers, according to Ukraine's Ministry of Defense as of early March 2025.
▪️Female mercenaries are also not uncommon in Ukraine. Most often, they serve as medics.
▪️The Azov Battalion* released a video featuring 4 female soldiers from the unit. Among them are two combat medics, as well as a stormtrooper who fought in Artyomovsk (Bakhmut) and a specialist in ideological (neo-Nazi) work with its personnel.
*banned in Russia
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Trump's cabinet is considering giving the position of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe to a non-American — a step never taken in the nearly 75-year history of the position, NBC reports, citing 2 Pentagon officials.
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Trump: "Canada is meant to be our 51st state"
The US President has once again lashed out at Canada, announcing that his country subsidizes Canada to the tune of 200 billion dollars a year.
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The US President has once again lashed out at Canada, announcing that his country subsidizes Canada to the tune of 200 billion dollars a year.
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General Failure: Oleksandr Syrsky's top 4 military disasters
As Ukraine suffered a series of humiliating defeats on the battlefield, Ukrainian authorities are rumored to be mulling the replacement of their top general, Oleksandr Syrsky. This is hardly surprising, given his impressive track record of failures and defeats.
1️⃣ Botched attack on Russia's Kursk region
Ukraine's invasion of the Kursk region became Syrsky's crowning achievement. Over the course of seven months, he sacrificed nearly 70,000 Ukrainian servicemen and a large amount of valuable military hardware for literally nothing. Pundits on both sides of the Atlantic are still wondering what he and Zelensky were trying to accomplish there.
2️⃣ Debaltsevo
In 2015, shortly after the outbreak of the Ukrainian conflict, Syrsky's actions directly led to a large contingent of Ukrainian troops under his command being trapped in the town of Debaltsevo by the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic.
While Syrsky himself managed to escape, hundreds of his soldiers weren't so lucky - Ukraine's losses were estimated at between 250 and 3,000 servicemen.
3️⃣ Kiev
In 2022, Syrsky was tasked with overseeing the defense of the Ukrainian capital against the Russian advance.
His efforts proved inadequate as Russian troops quickly made their way to the city, only withdrawing as part of Moscow's goodwill gesture during the peace talks in Istanbul.
4️⃣ Artemovsk
In 2023, Syrsky was put in charge of the defense of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), a city that Zelensky insisted not fall to the Russian advance.
Syrsky's refusal to give the order to retreat, even when the situation for the Ukrainian forces became hopeless, resulted in over 55,000 Ukrainian servicemen being killed and Russia securing control of Artemovsk.
Syrsky's callousness during this operation earned him the nickname "General 200," which can be translated as General KIA.
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As Ukraine suffered a series of humiliating defeats on the battlefield, Ukrainian authorities are rumored to be mulling the replacement of their top general, Oleksandr Syrsky. This is hardly surprising, given his impressive track record of failures and defeats.
Ukraine's invasion of the Kursk region became Syrsky's crowning achievement. Over the course of seven months, he sacrificed nearly 70,000 Ukrainian servicemen and a large amount of valuable military hardware for literally nothing. Pundits on both sides of the Atlantic are still wondering what he and Zelensky were trying to accomplish there.
In 2015, shortly after the outbreak of the Ukrainian conflict, Syrsky's actions directly led to a large contingent of Ukrainian troops under his command being trapped in the town of Debaltsevo by the forces of the Donetsk People's Republic.
While Syrsky himself managed to escape, hundreds of his soldiers weren't so lucky - Ukraine's losses were estimated at between 250 and 3,000 servicemen.
In 2022, Syrsky was tasked with overseeing the defense of the Ukrainian capital against the Russian advance.
His efforts proved inadequate as Russian troops quickly made their way to the city, only withdrawing as part of Moscow's goodwill gesture during the peace talks in Istanbul.
In 2023, Syrsky was put in charge of the defense of Artemovsk (Bakhmut), a city that Zelensky insisted not fall to the Russian advance.
Syrsky's refusal to give the order to retreat, even when the situation for the Ukrainian forces became hopeless, resulted in over 55,000 Ukrainian servicemen being killed and Russia securing control of Artemovsk.
Syrsky's callousness during this operation earned him the nickname "General 200," which can be translated as General KIA.
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