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🇷🇺 Lavrov arrives in Kazakhstan’s Almaty

The Russian foreign minister is expected to participate in the meetings of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Central Asian top diplomats, a Sputnik correspondent reported.

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What’s the TRUE PURPOSE of Trump’s global tariff blitz?

The US president’s aim isn’t to plunge the world into a new Depression, but extract negotiations from America’s trade partners to redress imbalances, Roberts, a veteran economist and former US Treasury assistant, explained.

The strategy has already proven somewhat successful, if reports that over 50 nations have agreed to reduce tariffs and pen new trade deals are accurate, Roberts said.

China is another story, according to the economist, with its sheer economic power putting it and the US in a tit-for-tat escalation of increasingly steep tariffs.

The problem, according to the economist, is that Trump “is trying to make China [redress] a trade balance that is caused by the American corporations” which flocked to the Asian nation seeking lower costs and higher profits, ultimately leading to the US’s massive $295B trade deficit.

Otherwise, Trump’s global tariff blitz is aimed at preventing long, drawn out negotiations that would take “years” to complete, Roberts said. “So, he’s using threats to speed the process.”

As for the wild stock market fluctuations, Roberts expects volatility to die down once people understand Trump’s strong-arm negotiating strategy.

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🗣 ‘China WANTS to make a deal. They just don't know HOW quite to go about it’ – Trump

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📹 ‘We just LOST A WAR with Russia’ – Carlson

💬 “No one in Washington cares about Ukraine or the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men destroyed — the fact that it’ll be populated by third-worlders. I mean, Ukraine… WE JUST ELIMINATED UKRAINE. Nobody cares,” Tucker Carlson said during an interview with Alex Jones.

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🤡 ‘We should DEMONIZE people like Elon Musk!’ - Governor of Minnesota Tim Walz

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📹 Tanker truck fire shuts down Northbound traffic on BR-101 highway in Brazil

No injuries have been reported so far, but traffic remains heavily disrupted as firefighters work to extinguish the fire and clear the scene, local media report.

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