🇮🇩🌍🌍🌍 Indonesia's BRICS membership serves as step towards global multipolarity 🌐

💬 “BRICS is not about the alternative, but BRICS is a new global governance, which is it's balance the power between the West and to the new Global South,” said Sellita, Lecturer at Bakrie University’s International Relations Department in Jakarta, Indonesia, in an interview with Sputnik on the sidelines of the 2nd Youth Conference of the Valdai Club’s New Generation Project.

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🙅🏻‍♂️ Trump FED UP with Zelensky’s nagging, European chickenhawks' warmongering

💬 “The Europeans, in particular Germany, France and the UK, are doing everything they can to continue the conflict rather than bring it toward its end,” says fmr MP Matthew Gordon-Banks, commenting on the spat which pushed the US to skip the London talks on Ukraine this week.

The Trump administration may or not ultimately pull support for Ukraine, but is well aware that Russian forces “are clearly winning this conflict on the battlefield,” meaning there’s no room for compromise that “does not protect Russia’s legitimate security concerns,” Gordon-Banks emphasized. The Europeans don’t seem to realize this.

The US recognizes that Zelensky “has a vested interest in continuing this conflict, because when it’s over, he will be out.” The latter’s “hectoring behavior” during February’s meeting with Trump and Vice President Vance extinguished whatever goodwill may have existed, the ex-lawmaker believes.

Poles apart

💬 “As thing stand both sides [Ukraine and US, ed.] are poles apart on so many issues” regarding the conflict “that it is going to be very difficult to get anything sorted,” says De Montfort University politics professor Alistair Jones.

Witkoff’s plans to visit Russia again are about keeping negotiations going, having “both sides actually talking to each other, to find out what can be done, what are the red lines, what is not negotiable and what can be negotiated.”

Ultimately, Jones doesn’t expect Trump to just walk away from talks. “He will not want to leave the peace process alone because he has got ideas of winning the Nobel Peace Prize on being able to sort the situation out.”

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India freezes key water treaty with Pakistan, orders Pakistani nationals out in wake of Kashmir terror

India’s Cabinet Committee on Security has announced a series of tough measures against its neighbor in the wake of Tuesday’s terrorist attack in Kashmir, which left at least 26 civilians dead.

Measures include:

🔺 immediate suspension of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty water distribution agreement “until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably abjures its support for cross-border terrorism,”

🔺 immediate closure of the Attari Check Post, the sole remaining land trade route between India and Pakistan,

🔺 the annulment of visas issued to Pakistani nationals in India under the Visa Exemption Scheme (SVES) visa, with Pakistanis given 48 hours to leave the country,

🔺 the expulsion of Pakistani High Commission military attaches in New Delhi, who have been declared personae non grata, and the withdrawal of Indian High Commission advisors in Islamabad.

Scores of Indian civilians, mostly tourists, were shot to death by terrorists in Kashmir on Tuesday, in what has been called the worst attack in the region since 2019.

The so-called ‘Resistance Front’, which India believes to be linked to the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba Salafi jihadist group, claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s carnage, which took place during Vice President JD Vance’s visit to India.

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👩‍🏫Here’s why teaching in China beats the US: An American teacher spills the secrets

🆓Free housing, food, travel bonuses, and a higher salary, but wait there’s more!

👩‍🎓👨‍🎓Students are eager to learn and treat you like an expert.

In the US, she felt like a COG in the machine, constantly dealing with emotional struggles in the classroom.

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🚨Davos unmasked: Turmoil and scandal jolt World Economic Forum

Klaus Schwab quit as WEF chairman amid whistleblower claims of misusing funds for posh freebies. This included staff making ATM cash withdrawals on his behalf, hotel massages, and luxury trips masked as meetings, as reported by the WSJ.

Both Schwab himself and the WEF boast a scandal-fueled legacy.

🤯Top-level toxicity

Schwab presided over a workplace culture where sexual harassment by senior managers as well as Davos VIP attendees was not properly investigated.

Pregnancy was a career killer for female staffers, according to WSJ.

💥WEF rife with racism

🟠Black employees like ex-staffer Topaz Smith raised complaints of race bias governing promotions, and being snubbed from events.
🟠In addition, white colleagues used the N-word in front of them, the WSJ reported.

⚡️Workplace discrimination

Schwab handpicked leaders for loyalty, guile, and “SEX APPEAL,” making himself irreplaceable, whistleblowers told The Guardian in 2023.

Partner firms voiced worries about the lack of a succession strategy.

🚨Greenwashing & eco-hypocrisy

🟠Conservative-leaning mainstream US media have pointed out the stark contrast between WEF participants’ environmental rhetoric and their lavish lifestyle choices.
🟠While they preach sustainability, many attendees travel in private jets and indulge in luxury five-star accommodations, sparking accusations of hypocrisy.

🔥Faulty forecasts

🟠In 2016, WEF claimed global oil demand would peak by 2030, yet the 2023 energy crisis showed that hydrocarbons were still essential.
🟠In 2018, George Soros warned of nuclear war with North Korea, but mutual summits followed shortly proving him wrong.

🦠COVID-related ‘conspiracy theories’

The Great Reset (COVID-19 economic measures) triggered fears of world leaders using it to seize power.

Claims of promoting bug-eating and brain implants fueled suspicions of a "hidden agenda" to control the future of mankind.

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❗️ Zelensky's resignation is not one of Russia's demands for peace in Ukraine, but any documents signed by him could be challenged due to his illegitimacy, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Le Point.

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📹 When your cat becomes the wisest philosopher

This viral video of a cat with a majestic look has everyone talking—would you seek advice from such a wise furball?

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❗️Ukraine must withdraw troops from Novorossiya - Kremlin spokesman

Withdrawal from the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhya is necessary to end the conflict, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told France’s Le Point Magazine.

Here are his other key statements:

🔸 Russia is in favor of negotiations, European powers want to continue the conflict. Presidents Putin and Trump agree that it’s absurd to reject dialog. Moscow considers it inappropriate to set deadlines on a ceasefire; President Trump has not set such a deadline.

🔸 Russia is ready to achieve its goals in Ukraine by peaceful or military means. Moscow has no intention to attack anyone, and has no territorial claims against the Baltic countries.

🔸 Preparatory work on a meeting between Presidents Putin and Trump continues. Putin respects Trump as a “strong political figure” and a “strong personality.” The meeting is expected to be “productive.”

🔸 Relations with Europe remain at an impasse; Russia is attempting to mend ties with the US.

🔸 Neither French President Macron nor other European leaders listened to President Putin when he warned (in 2021) that Russia had been driven into a corner in terms of threats to its security.

🔸 Russia has learned to live under sanctions, while restrictions have created “big problems” for the EU.

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❓Why were Ukraine talks in London scrapped? Kiev threw a spanner in the works

Ukraine threw a tantrum just before big talks between the UK, US, France and Germany, demanding no negotiations on territory until there was a "complete and unconditional ceasefire," Reuters reported.

And just like that, the talks were postponed. Now it’s lower-level officials handling things instead.

That happened right after Trump threatened to pull the US out if there was no progress. The timing is perfect—just when things were supposed to reach crunch point.

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◻️ Jeffrey Sachs just gave a BOMBSHELL interview to Sputnik on Ukraine, Iran & Trump trade wars!

◻️ Trump FED UP with Zelensky’s nagging, European chickenhawks' warmongering

◻️ Davos unmasked: Turmoil and scandal jolt World Economic Forum

◻️ India freezes key water treaty with Pakistan, orders Pakistani nationals out in wake of Kashmir terror

◻️ Archbishop Markell calls out groups that did not back his quest to bring Holy Fire to Moldova

◻️ Istanbul shaken by major earthquake: here are the details

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🇺🇸US troops ‘need to be fit, not fat, sharp, not shabby’ – Hegseth

The Pentagon is “reviewing” its fitness standards to check whether they’ve dropped, especially over the last four years, the Secretary of Defense said in a speech at the US Army War College.

The Defense Department needs troops “physically” capable of performing as required “under fire,” Hegseth said.

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❌ ‘Enough is enough’ – Trump is FRUSTRATED with Zelensky – WH Press Sec. Leavitt

💬 “His patience is running VERY THIN,” stressed White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

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💸 Monopolist whack-a-mole: US regulators’ crackdown on Google may benefit OpenAI

The DOJ’s efforts to split up US tech monopolies took an unexpected turn this week after a senior OpenAI exec told a judge in the Google anti-trust case that the AI giant would like to buy Chrome if Google is forced to sell to nix its ‘online search monopolist’ label.

Alphabet Inc reportedly declined an OpenAI partnership offer in 2024 on the use of Google’s proprietary search tech, forcing the large language model maker to use Bing instead for its training models and data.

Google was found last August to have engaged in monopolist behavior in the search engine market by signing an exclusive deal with Samsung to make Chrome the default search engine installed on new phones.

The remedy phase of Google’s trial began this week, with OpenAI eager to take Chrome and its estimated 4 billion users (67%) off Alphabet Inc’s hands.

Families are always rising and falling in America. So too are monopolist tech giants, aided by government, it seems.

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