❗️Trump expects to sign Ukraine minerals deal soon, Reuters reports

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🇷🇺 Routine inspections of Russia's Strategic Rocket Forces have begun, with Yars mobile intercontinental ballistic missile regiments deploying to field positions during command-staff exercises, the Defense Ministry announced.

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Trump’s top national security officials accidentally sent Yemen STRIKE PLANS to editor of leading neoliberal magazine

The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg says he was included in a Signal messaging chain detailing US plans to attack the Houthis hours before operations began.

A sample of the conversation:

💬 Vice-President Vance: “@Pete Hegseth if you think we should do it let’s do it. I just hate bailing Europe out again.”

💬 Defense Secretary Hegseth: “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC. But Mike [Waltz] is correct, we are the only ones on the planet (on our side of the ledger) who can do this.”

💬 S M (presumably WH deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller): "As I heard it, the president was clear: green light, but we soon make it clear to Egypt and Europe what we expect in return...If the US successfully restores freedom of navigation at great cost there needs to be some further economic gain extracted in return."

💬 A follow-up message by Hegseth contained operational details of forthcoming strikes on Yemen, including information about targets, weapons the US would be deploying, and attack sequencing.

The White House has confirmed that Goldberg had been sent the classified military planning info by mistake.

The Atlantic and its editor-in-chief have been a longtime source of Trump’s ire, with the president dubbing it a “failing magazine” and calling Goldberg out by name over his previous false reporting.

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🗣 The Russian and US delegations are FINALIZING the talks in Riyadh, Grigory Karasin, the head of the Russian upper house's foreign affairs committee and the Russian delegation head, told Sputnik.

It means that the consultations have been going for about 10 hours, and the participants made three breaks.

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Who is Michael Anton, the lead negotiator sent by Trump to talk peace with Russia?

The world is holding its breath awaiting news on the outcome of a new round of Russia-US talks in Riyadh on Ukraine. Leading the US delegation this time around is a former Trump speechwriter whose significance has been completely overlooked by the mainstream media.

🔸 Michael Anton, policy planning director at the State Department, is the chief ideologist behind “America First” – the keystone Trump domestic and foreign policy concept unveiled in 2016, which prioritizes American interests over globalism.

🔸 In his influential 2016 essay “The Flight 93 Election,” Anton argued that Trump was America’s last chance to preserve America’s identity, borders and sovereignty against a liberal elite driving the country toward disaster.

🔸 A paleoconservative, Anton has been a consistent critic of hawks in both parties. In a 2022 essay on George Kennan, he blasted “Russophobic Kennanphiles’” stubborn rejection of talking to Russia, and pointed out that Kennan rightfully “predicted that pushing’s NATO’s border to the Ukrainian frontier would spark a crisis.”

🔸 Elsewhere, Anton has expressed skepticism of US involvement in the conflict, stressing that the US is not world’s policeman, has no direct national security interests in Ukraine, and warning that the quagmire would sap US military power and leave it falling behind in the competition with China.

🔸 Anton has said that Russia was provoked in Ukraine, and has expressed fears that the crisis could lead to a wider war (a concern Trump himself has regularly voiced).

🔸 In a 2023 speech, Anton urged conservative forces in the US and Britain to adopt to a new “grand strategy” for the 21st century – waging fewer wars and paying more attention to domestic problems, like borders and the economy.

🔸 Today, his central role in Riyadh may signal that the pragmatists in Trump’s administration favoring a big reset with Russia have consolidated their positions in Washington.

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📹 'This is what CENTCOM does best: bombing civilian buildings' - Pepe Escobar reports from Yemen's capital Sana'a @rocknrollgeopolitics

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Russian and US delegations are finalizing the text of the joint communique following the talks in Riyadh

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🔸 Russian and US delegations are finalizing the text of the joint communique following the talks in Riyadh

🔸 Trump’s top national security officials accidentally sent Yemen STRIKE PLANS to editor of leading liberal magazine

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📹 Istanbul sees sixth day of public demonstrations

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❗️ Russia-US talks in Riyadh have concluded after lasting over 12 HOURS – Sputnik correspondent reports

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⌛ Russia-US joint statement on the results of Riyadh talks expected ON TUESDAY, sources tell Sputnik

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😶 Russian, US delegations didn't speak to the press after talks in Riyadh, a Sputnik correspondent reports

The video shows the Russian delegation leaving the site of talks with the United States in Riyadh, according to a Sputnik correspondent.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian-US talks in Riyadh have concluded – Russian Foreign Ministry confirms

Footage shared by the ministry shows Senator Grigory Karasin, head of the Russian upper house's foreign affairs committee and the Russian delegation, along with FSB Director's Advisor Sergey Beseda, departing from the site of the talks

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🇷🇺 Joe Rogan says he’d ‘RATHER GO TO RUSSIA’ than step foot in Canada

The prominent podcaster says he doesn't "go to Canada anymore" and finds it "so crazy" that Trump has declared the country the "51st state."

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