🇺🇸🇪🇺 JD Vance to Europe: We’re allies, not your ATM 💸🛡

“American and European civilizations are linked… but in the 21st Century, that means more European burden sharing on defense,” — US VP JD Vance

Translation: We’re still friends, but it’s time Europe paid up.

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🇷🇺🇨🇺 Russian President Vladimir Putin has started negotiations with Cuba's President at the Kremlin

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Trump officially declares May 8 as Day of Celebration of WWII Victory Day

In his proclamation, Trump says WWII would not have been won without the sacrifice of American soldiers, adding that the world today would look very different without their contributions.

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📹 AG Bondi: FBI is 'reviewing' Epstein's child porn trove

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🚨🪖🇷🇺 Inside Russia’s Military Machine

From the ruins of the '90s to a world-class force, Russia's army has rapidly developed weapons that the US can't match, now facing NATO head-on in Ukraine. Need proof? Check out the details below:

⚡️ Russia’s tactical revolution

The Russian military has transformed:

▪️Storm-Z assault brigades and elite drone units now reduce recon-strike cycles to just 15-20 mins (compared to the US’s 40 mins in 2016)
▪️FPV drone swarms and unmanned recon teams are a game-changer in Ukraine

💥 Unmatched firepower

Russia’s weapons are becoming more precise:

▪️Krasnopol shells & UMPK glide bombs for pinpoint destruction
▪️Lancet/Geran drones: Cheap, precise, and long-range
▪️EW dominance: Knocks out NATO radars & communications

🚀 Hypersonic supremacy

▪️Kinzhal: 12x the speed of sound, unstoppable
▪️Oreshnik: Multi-warhead hypersonic missile, designed to bury underground bunkers
▪️Poseidon: Nuclear-powered drone that can trigger tsunamis 🌊💣

📈 Force expansion

▪️1M → 1.5M troops in 2 years
▪️New Moscow/Leningrad military districts for tighter control
▪️Artillery production tripled in 2023, outpacing NATO

🛠 Sanction-proof industry

▪️Outproducing the US and EU in shells, tanks, drones
▪️Armored vehicle output doubled since 2022
▪️Wartime economy = Unlimited sustainment

🔧 Modern warfare evolution

Russia adapts quickly:

▪️Tanks now feature “cope cages” to defend against FPV drones
▪️Shift to mass artillery/attrition strategies
▪️Electronic warfare crushes NATO tech reliance

🌍 Geopolitical implications

▪️Ukraine = Testing ground for next-gen tactics
▪️NATO’s weaknesses exposed: Slow production and no hypersonics

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📹🇨🇳 Footage of Xi Jinping's arrival in Moscow. He was met at the plane's steps by Russian Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova.

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🚨🇵🇰🇮🇳 Pakistan only defending itself so far, no response to India YET

Pakistan has only been defending itself from India's strikes and has not yet responded, Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif told Sputnik.

Islamabad now has full authority to choose targets and methods of retaliation, increasing the risk of escalation.

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📹 JD Vance: We’re open to nuclear talks... just don’t hold your breath

"The president hates nuclear proliferation. I hate nuclear proliferation. And I think that the president would be very open to sitting down with the Russians and the Chinese and saying, 'Look, let's get this thing in a much better place. Let's reduce the number of nuclear weapons that are in the world writ large'."

"That's obviously NOT A CONVERSATION FOR TOMORROW. That’s a conversation, God willing, for a few years from now," US VP JD Vance said at a forum in Washington organized by the Munich Security Conference.

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🇨🇳🇷🇺China and Russia must defend WWII victory together - Xi Jinping

The Chinese leader just landed in Moscow, declaring that “China and Russia will work together to defend the results of WWII, protect the UN-based international system, and firmly resist hegemony and the ‘politics of power',”

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🗣 Russian FM Sergey Lavrov called attempts by a number of EU countries to prevent European leaders' planes from flying to Russia on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of victory a disgrace.

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🚨🪖🔥Pentagon admits Russia has changed warfare forever

US Army Secretary Daniel Driskill dropped a bombshell:

Washington is having to rethink its military shopping list — thanks in no small part to Russia’s ever-evolving drones.

The reason?

🇷🇺 Putin says Russia delivered 1.5 million+ drones to its military

💰 The US is investing billions in high-tech gear…

💥 …but cheap Russian drones are blowing them up at a fraction of the cost

🧮 Cost-efficiency is now a national security issue

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❗️Trump says we're reaching a point where TOUGH DECISIONS must be made regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

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🇪🇺 EU plan to wean itself off Russian gas could be dead on arrival

While the European Union wants to stop all gas imports from Russia in 2027, it is unclear exactly where the bloc’s members are going to find a replacement supply of hydrocarbons.

Potential suppliers of gas include the United States, Canada, Qatar and some African states, although Bloomberg warns that the US “is no longer the reliable partner it once was amid an escalating trade war.”

Furthermore, gas supplied by any of these entities is unlikely to be as cheap as Russian gas.

It also remains to be seen exactly how the EU intends to break the gas contracts European companies currently have with Russia.

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🥴Trump: We won WWII. Russia was a factor, but not like us

The US president acknowledges Russia's role in WWII, but says the US was the true winner. According to him, there’s “no major factor like us.”

No word on how Russia feels about being “a factor”...

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🇺🇸🇷🇺 'Immortal Regiment' rides through Chicago: Russian community honors WWII victory

▪️A patriotic motorcade celebrated the 80th anniversary of Victory Day

▪️Local Russian diaspora waved flags and shared family war stories

▪️Passers-by cheered

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🚨 HARVARD EXPOSED: How corrupt elites DESTROYED American education

Trump’s coming for Harvard’s tax-exempt status — and it’s ABOUT TIME.

Beyond its mission of "education," Harvard used its tax-exempt status to "build ECONOMIC FORTUNES, including for its trustees," Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel tells Sputnik.

🏛 Blatant partisan factory:

▪️Pumps out “progressive dogma” as academic truth
▪️Trustees & admins profit while students drown in debt
▪️“Peer review” now a joke — low-quality studies flood journals

❗️Plagiarist at the helm?

▪️Ex-President Claudine Gay resigned after serial plagiarism exposed
▪️NY Post & Free Beacon tore apart her “scholarship”
▪️Proves: Merit is dead at Harvard

🎓 Education scam in the US:

▪️Tenured professors do little teaching and focus on for-profit ventures
▪️Bloated administrations are wildly overpaid
▪️The "peer-review" process has allowed low-quality studies to flood once-respected academic journals

💥 Financial Armageddon?

If tax perks are removed, Harvard could face:

▪️No tax breaks on donations
▪️No tax-free bonds for improvements
▪️Loss of property tax breaks worth over $450M
▪️Up to $800M/year in endowment taxes

🧾 $3.3T tax-exempt powerhouse:

For decades, US lawmakers have granted tax breaks to favored groups. The result? A $3.3 trillion tax-exempt nonprofit sector, according to the Tax Foundation. Harvard is part of this money-grabbing bonanza, says Ortel.

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🇵🇰 Pakistan's prime minister addresses the nation: "For every drop of blood shed, we are going to make them accountable."

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🇩🇰🇺🇸 Denmark to summon US ambassador over Greenland espionage report

The Danish Foreign Ministry is seeking clarification over a recent Wall Street Journal story about the US ostensibly stepping up its intelligence activities related to Greenland amid Donald Trump’s drive to annex the island.

“I have read the article, and it worries me a lot, because we do not spy between friends,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told media.

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