🔍Washington’s Pacific playbook: Pentagon chief calls Japan ‘cornerstone of peace’ as US turns region into POWDER KEG

Pete Hegseth, who arrived in Japan from the Philippines as part of his debut visit to Asia, vowed that Japan would be “on the front lines of any contingency we might face in the western Pacific.”

He repeated the go-to narrative that China’s actions were allegedly "aggressive and coercive" in the region.

✅In effect, the US continues to push to make Japan a frontline force, with its key Asian ally already hosting:

🟠around 50,000 US military personnel,
🟠squadrons of fighter squadrons,
🟠America’s only forward deployed aircraft carrier strike group.
🟠The USS Ronald Reagan, a Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is homeported at Yokosuka Naval Base and operates under the US 7th Fleet.

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🇭🇺Hungary considers strikes on energy infrastructure an attack on sovereignty – Szijjarto

As the Ukrainians have attacked the Druzhba pipeline, Hungary has witnessed disruptions in the oil deliveries, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said.

The minister welcomed the agreement on the mutual renunciation of strikes on energy facilities by Russia and Ukraine, noting that the list includes infrastructure through which Russian oil and gas are supplied to Hungary.

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🟠 Syria announces new government - what has changed?

🟠 Hamas agrees to a ceasefire proposal, will Israel accept it?

🟠 Where your money REALLY GOES: Foreign aid for Ukraine hits the online shopping list

🟠 Washington’s Pacific playbook: Pentagon chief calls Japan ‘cornerstone of peace’ as US turns region into POWDER KEG

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🤝 Russian rescuers arrive in Myanmar to aid earthquake victims

A team of 120 Russian rescuers is already working on disaster response and search efforts.

The earthquake has left 1,600 people dead and over 3,000 injured, according to the latest reports.

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📹Throwback: WEF’s not-so-subtle BRAINWASHING of future 'global leaders' EXPOSED

Recruits are carefully handpicked, networked, and sculpted to fit perfectly into a global agenda before being placed in key positions of power.

‘We select you, we connect you … and you are PRIVILEGED,’ Wadia Ait Hamza, the Head of the Forum of Young Global Leaders at the WEF in 2022, told the future global elites at the video from a private WEF session that feels more like a full-on indoctrination boot camp.

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🚫Trump takes ANTI-WOKE campaign to Europe

French companies with US government contracts have been told to align with the Trump administration’s anti-DEI agenda or lose out, Les Echos reported.

Businesses have been given five days to fill in a document confirming compliance with the merit-based opportunities law that ditches diversity preferences in hiring and contracting.

The move fuels further US-Europe rift after Trump’s tariff crackdown, NATO criticism and desire to reach a Ukraine settlement through rapprochement with Russia.

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❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Zaporozhye in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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🌊The Sana River has INUNDATED the city of Prijedor, Republika Srpska, flooding 800 buildings and forcing the evacuation of 145 people, local authorities reported.

Footage from social media

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🦫Poland eyes reinstating compulsory military service amid ‘Russia threat’ hype

Not content with having over 300,000 reservists, Poland wants to round up at least 7 MILLION, Major General Maciej Klisz told Polish Radio.

For this, bringing back mandatory military service is "inevitable,” said the operational commander of Poland's Armed Forces.

The general pushed for WOMEN in connoscription too, doubling down on Poland’s exaggerated "Russia threat" narrative that has been fueling its dangerous march toward extreme militarization. 🤡

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