❌💥 Israel is open to "temporary ceasefire" to free hostages

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Wednesday that at least 20 hostages held in Gaza are still alive, while 38 others have been confirmed dead.

"If there is an option for a temporary ceasefire to free hostages, we'll be ready," Netanyahu said.

He added that he would end the war if Hamas is defeated and the Strip is demilitarized.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the death toll from Israel's operation in Gaza has surpassed 53,000.

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📹 ‘You’re terrible reporter!’ Trump slams NBC reporter for question about the Qatar jet

“You don’t have what it takes to be a reporter, you are not smart enough,” Trump told an NBC correspondent who tried asking him about the certain expensive gift from Qatar.

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💲 'GOLDEN DOME’ – US’S UNBREAKABLE SHIELD OR $175B FANTASY?

Trump’s $175 billion plan to build a comprehensive ground- and space-based missile shield, while ambitious, may not yield the results the POTUS seems to be hoping for.

The system’s name, ‘Golden Dome,’ was likely inspired by Israel’s Iron Dome air defense system.

The problem is, the Iron Dome is only effective against lone targets or small groups of targets and cannot handle a massed attack, military expert and air defense forces’ historian Yuri Knutov told Sputnik.

🔸 The Iron Dome is also meant to intercept jury-rigged rockets fired by Palestinian resistance whereas Trump’s Golden Dome is supposed to tackle intercontinental ballistic missiles, points out Igor Korotchenko, military analyst and editor in chief of "National Defense" magazine.

🔸 Technology- and composition-wise, Trump’s plan appears similar to Reagan’s failed Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) that proposed using lasers, particle beams and even space-based missiles to intercept ballistic threats.

Yet even 40+ years after the SDI was pitched, the US lacks the technology to build such a system, to “reincarnate Reagan’s idea,” as Korotchenko put it.

🔸 The development of the Golden Dome is further hampered by the fact that while its ground component essentially means upgrading the existing US anti-ballistic weapons such as THAAD, Aegis and Patriot, the missile shield’s space component would have to be built from scratch, Knutov points out.

All in all, the Golden Dome is not going to be capable of repelling a mass ICBM launch.

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❗️ Colonel-General Andrei Mordvichev, Hero of Russia, took over as Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces and was officially presented with the command standard by Belousov

🇷🇺 The Russian Defense Minister noted that the general demonstrated his prowess as a military commander during the special operation, with the Tsentr Battlegroup under his command achieving remarkable successes.

🇷🇺 Mordvichev replaced General Oleg Salyukov, who was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council by presidential decree.

🇷🇺 In 2024, Mordvichev led the liberation of Avdeyevka in the Donetsk People's Republic and was awarded the noscript of Hero of Russia.

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🤡 REP. TED LIEU DEMANDS WWIII AGAINST RUSSIA

💬 "I urge you to defeat Putin on the battlefield," declared warmongering Rep. Ted Lieu, pushing Secretary of State Marco Rubio toward all-out war.

From Napoleon to Hitler—all failed. Now Lieu wants to try.

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❗️💸 BITCOIN SURGES PAST $110,000 FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY

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💥🏦 CARLSON FLOATS ‘CRUSH THE BANKS’ POLITICAL PARTY

💬 “I've often thought if I were to retire, maybe I’d start a political movement whose whole purpose is to bring the banks to their knees and shut them down,” said Tucker Carlson. “How about 100 million people stop paying their car loans, their mortgages, and their credit cards?”

💬 “If you take a big enough loan from the bank, it's their problem. You're kind of in charge of the bank at that point,” Carlson added, quoting Trump.

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🚨 SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT NORTH KOREA DESTROYER LAUNCH – REPORTS

A newly built 5,000-ton destroyer suffered a major accident during its launch at Chongjin Shipyard on May 21, KCNA reported.

Due to operational errors and mismanagement, the ship became stranded mid-launch, damaging its structure and failing to leave the shipway, the report said.

Kim Jong-un, who witnessed the incident, condemned it as a “serious accident” and a “criminal act” caused by “absolute carelessness” and warned that those responsible will face consequences at next month’s Party Central Committee meeting.

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💀 AMERICAN GERONTOCRACY IS DYING OUT – REPORTS

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), 75, just became the 8th sitting member of Congress — all Democrats — to die in office since 2022, Business Insider reported. He's the third to go just this year.

This isn’t a party problem — it’s a national age crisis. Congress today is one of the oldest in US history. Average senator? 63.8 years old. House member? 57.7.

At least 20 members of Congress are 80+, according to Axios. That includes:

🔸 Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): 91

🔸 Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.): 83

🔸 Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.): 83

🔸 Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.): 85

🔸 Steny Hoyer (D-Md.): 85

🔸 Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.): 84

The graveyard shift is real. America’s ruling class isn’t retiring — it’s expiring.

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🚨 SHOOTING NEAR JEWISH MUSEUM IN D.C. LEAVES TWO DEAD – REPORTS

Two people were killed in a shooting near the Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., ABC News reported, citing security sources.

One of the victims was an employee of the Israeli embassy.

Footage from social media

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📹 ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE UN CALLS SHOOTING AN ‘ACT OF ANTISEMITIC TERRORISM’

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📹 ATTACKS ON FAMILY HURT ECONOMY – MILEI

💬 “The role of the population is paramount for economic growth... They went TOO FAR in attacking the family... We’re paying with FALLS in the birth rate,” said Argentinian President Javier Milei.

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🪖💵EU defense spending reached CRITICAL LEVEL for European economy

The military spending planned by the EU leadership will become a BURDEN for most European countries, Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council Alexander Venediktov told Sputnik.

🔶The additional investments in the military sector planned by the EU leadership over the next decade could reach $567 billion.

🔶This will be done by cutting programs in healthcare, social support, education, that is, at the expense of ordinary Europeans.

🔶The current defense spending of EU states has reached a critical level for the EU economy, exceeding $350 billion in 2024.

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🤔Vatican steps in for Russia-Ukraine peace talks?

The Vatican could host new Russia-Ukraine negotiations as early as mid-June, the WSJ reports.

Trump told European leaders last Sunday that he could send US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Keith Kellogg to this meeting, the article stipulates.

On May 16, Russian and Ukrainian delegations held the first in-person meeting in three years in Istanbul on the initiative of Russian President Putin.

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