🟠 US & Panama sign deal on FIRST, FREE PASSAGE of US warships through Panama Canal – Hegseth

🟠 Trump freezes global tariff push: What comes next?

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

🟠 Ukraine’s COSTLY Kursk gamble bleeds the West

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

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😆 TOTALLY SCREWED: US can't produce 2x4 lumber and has to import it from Canada 🪵

"What is our plan now? I don't think we're in a position to simply replicate the imports coming into this country," political commentator Chris Matthews on Trump's tariffs effect.

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Back to the FUTURE? DOGE finds $41K benefit claim by someone born in 2154 😮

Other jaw-dropping claims exposed by the Department of Government Efficiency:
🟠At least 24,500 people over 115 years old have claimed $59 million.
🟠At least 28,000 people under the age of five have claimed $254 million.
🟠9,700 people with birth dates over 15 years into the future have claimed $69 million.

Elon Musk shared on X: "This is so insane; I had to read it multiple times before it actually sank in."

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🚨HOW US MEGA-FUNDS SECRETLY CONTROL EUROPE

After the 2008 financial crisis, the US money managers took control over major banks & industries in Europe.

Alexander Yakovenko, the Deputy Head of Sputnik's parent media group Rossiya Segodnya, reveals how:

❓What are mega-funds?

▪️BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity, State Street, Morgan Stanley, and JPMorgan. They control $36.4T+ in assets.

▪️That's MASSIVE power to consolidate controlling stakes in systemically important industries across the globe — including Europe.

💵New (corporatocratic) world order

▪️Mega-funds enjoy strong patronage from the US government, which uses the Federal Reserve, the courts, sanctions and SCANDALS to deal blows to foreign competitors before US capital swoops in to buy them out.

🌍Control on all fronts

▪️US mega-funds have seized control of KEY European companies.

▪️This gives Washington powerful levers to exact pressure — economically, politically & even militarily.

🔍Who feeds mega-funds?

▪️Mega-funds draw their power from the US $52T private savings market.

▪️This market thrives thanks to the Fed’s rate policies and "quantitative easing," which keeps deposit and bond interest at zero or negative amid inflation.

🎯Mega funds' major purpose

▪️Mega-funds’ influence has effectively turned the EU into a gigantic buffer absorbing US financial and economic risks.

▪️Through them, the US can EXPORT its INFLATION, jettison toxic assets, WEAKEN competitors, and IMPOSE unfavorable trade deals.

😈Hostile takeover

▪️From 2008-2018, US funds took managerial and shareholder control of most of Europe’s top 20 banks, and $16.7T in assets.

▪️This cost just $300B, thanks to the PIIGS crisis, the LIBOR and Forex scandals, in which US actors often played a clandestine role.

🔄Flip flop: Now I'm the boss

▪️Europe’s crisis, made possible with US mega-fund and regulators’ help, allowed the US to reestablish the DOLLAR'S DOMINANCE.

▪️It also flipped control over international currency markets: from 45% European bank-owned in 2007, to 72% US bank-owned in 2017.

🌱Cultivating elites

▪️The takeover of Europe wouldn’t be possible without the nurturing of leaders unconditionally ready to accept US “leadership.”

▪️Germany is a case in point, with 24 of 30 of its top firms under US management by 2017, and bank capitalization down 70%+.

⚔️Ukraine war sealed Europe's fate

▪️The US economic war against the EU that began in 2008 ESCALATED dramatically in 2022.

▪️The cutoff of Russian energy ramped up Europe’s deindustrialization and loss of competitiveness, while aiding America’s reindustrialization.

Bravo.

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⚡️The supply of oil from the US to China will decrease ALMOST TO ZERO due to Trump's tariffs, Bloomberg reports.

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🇷🇺🤝🇺🇸Russia, United States exchange prisoners in UAE

The swap took place in Abu Dhabi on April 10 in a sign of continuing confidence building, the WSJ reported.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe and a senior Russian intelligence official led the talks for the swap, according to a CIA source, highlighting the growing communication between the intelligence agencies of both countries.

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❗️Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out 11 attacks on Russian energy infrastructure facilities, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The strikes targeted facilities in the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, the Zaporozhye, Kursk, Kherson, Bryansk, Belgorod regions, and in Krasnodar Krai.

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❗️Russian troops liberated the settlement of Zhuravka in the Sumy region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

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✅The prisoner exchange with the United States took place at Abu Dhabi airport, facilitated by the UAE, Russia's FSB confirmed

The agency reported that Russian citizen Artur Petrov, detained in Cyprus at the request of the US, was exchanged for Ksenia Karelin, who had been convicted of treason.

Ksenia Karelin, transferred to the US as part of the exchange, was pardoned by a presidential decree in April, the FSB stated.

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