🌍💰 De-Dollarization accelerates: Qatar & Hong Kong push yuan as dollar alternative

Mary Huen Wai-yi, Chairwoman of Hong Kong’s Banking Association, spills the tea: global businesses are RUNNING from the dollar and jumping on China’s yuan.

Qatar’s top players are already using Hong Kong’s financial “toolbox” to make deals, payments, and investments in RMB, the South China Morning Post writes.

🔹 Hong Kong’s growing offshore yuan market and fintech innovation make it a prime global RMB hub.
🔹 The US-China trade war and recent US debt rating downgrade accelerate global “de-dollarization.”
🔹 Cross-border yuan settlements hit record highs; yuan edges closer to challenging the euro in trade finance.

Experts say Hong Kong’s unique position and expanding yuan products create huge opportunities — while the US dollar’s dominance is showing signs of slipping.

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🇷🇺💥 RUSSIA’S SU-57 LEVELS UP AS AI TAKES PILOT’S SEAT

The Su-57 fifth-generation fighter has been equipped with AI, which is actually the warplane’s co-pilot, a spokesperson for Russia’s Rosoboronexport arms exporter told Sputnik.

Why is AI needed?

🟠“The system is designed to provide a pilot with prompts in specific situations and tactical moments.”

🟠AI assists the pilot by taking on some tasks during routine flights, such as navigation along route points and management of flight systems.

🟠It allows the pilot to focus during combat on more important tasks, such as weapon deployment.

🟠“The decision to use weapons remains with the pilot,” the spokesperson stressed.

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🟠US authorizes transactions with Syria as part of SANCTIONS RELIEF – Treasury

🟠Trump threatens 25% tariff on Apple, Samsung, & others by end of June

🟠30 MIN TO GET OUT: Rubio puts 100 NSC staffers on leave

🟠NO LAWS, NO COURTS — ONLY FEAR: Former Ukrainian MP slams Zelensky’s dictatorship

🟠US VP Vance admits: America’s reign is over — China & Russia are coming for the throne

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💥😨 GERMANY COULD FACE $220B HIT IF TRUMP TARIFFS GO THROUGH

Potential losses were calculated by the German Economic Institute in a new report. If implemented starting June 1, Trump’s 50% tariffs could:

🔸Cut Germany’s GDP by 0.1% in 2025
🔸Average a 1.1% drop annually from 2025 to 2028
🔸Push total losses up to $284 billion if the EU imposes retaliatory tariffs

Even the US could feel the pain — it relies on key imports from Germany.

▶️Example: 95% of vehicle-mounted cranes used in the US in 2024 came from Germany.

Trump recently said EU trade talks are “going nowhere” and doubled down on his call for steep anti-EU tariffs.

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Lavrov is speaking at the 33rd Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy

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⚡️🌍 MULTIPOLARITY ISN’T TREND — IT’S THE FUTURE: Lavrov drops reality check on West

“The most important and defining trend is still the emergence of a multipolar world. We believe this is a natural process,” the Russian foreign minister said at the 33rd Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy.

The Global South and East see it as a shot at real independence — and a way out of the West’s neo-colonial grip, he noted.

As for the West? Lavrov says they have a very mixed reaction to the growing role of multilateralism in international affairs.

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🇷🇺 RUSSIAN DEFENSE BRIEFING: CRUSHING STRIKES & ENEMY LOSSES

🔸Russian forces launched a massive strike on a Ukrainian military-industrial facility producing missile weapons, as well as a Patriot system position.

🔸Eliminated: A Special Operations Forces center and an aviation center were destroyed.

🔸Enemy losses: Over 1,330 Ukrainian troops wiped out in the past 24 hours.

👉Russian air defenses shot down:

1x MiG-29 (Ukrainian Air Force)

3x JDAM bombs

7x HIMARS rockets

174x Ukrainian drones

Total enemy losses this week:

🔥 1,548+ drones destroyed
⚔️ Thousands of Ukrainian troops ANNIHILATED

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📊 RUSSIA'S ENEMY LIST REVEALED - AND US NOT EVEN IN TOP 3

France tops the list of countries Russians see as most hostile — a massive 48%, up sharply from previous years, according to a new VCIOM poll.

The UK and Germany follow, while Ukraine and the US trail behind, with America’s “hostile” rating dropping significantly.

China is seen as Russia’s closest ally. The poll also reveals a notable rise in favorable attitude toward North Korea.

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⚡️🪖OTRADNOYE & STUPOCHKI (DPR); LOKNYA (SUMY REGION) LIBERATED — 🇷🇺MoD

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🧨 Ex-CIA analyst: Russia won’t budge — Ukraine will surrender

Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson argues Russia will not make any concessions in the conflict with Ukraine — and any talk of “compromise” is simply a Western ploy to weaken the stronger side.

“I hear people talk [like] Russia gonna have some concessions. They're not going to make concessions. They're going to win this militarily, and Ukraine will be forced into an unconditional surrender,” Johnson says on Dialogue Works.

According to him, the narrative about Russia needing to make concessions is designed to undermine its negotiating and battlefield advantage.

He adds that the real drivers of the war are the US and NATO — without their support, the conflict wouldn’t have dragged on this long.

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🇹🇷🇷🇺 TURKIYE'S TOP DIPLOMAT HEADS TO MOSCOW

Hakan Fidan jets to Russia May 26-27 for intense diplomatic talks with:

🔸President Vladimir Putin
🔸Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
🔸Ukraine negotiator Vladimir Medinsky
🔸Defense Minister Andrei Belousov

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⚡️BREAKING: 307 RUSSIAN SOLDIERS RETURN HOME IN PRISONER EXCHANGE

▪️ 307 Russian servicemen have been safely returned from Kiev-controlled territory.

▪️ In exchange, 307 Ukrainian POWs were returned.

▪️ The freed Russian troops are now in Belarus, receiving medical & psychological care.

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❌🪖 Surprise, but not really: Ukrainian military built for stealing Western money, not winning

The military corps system in Ukraine that was introduced in February was created by its architect Oleksandr Syrsky to more efficiently plunder Western aid, a source tells Sputnik.

Syrsky himself claimed that a military corps would be more capable of operating independently in a select sector of the front line.

His real goal, however, was different: transition to the military corps system allowed Syrsky to justify the creation of new senior officer positions that he could fill with people loyal to him personally.

With this gang of generals and colonels in place, Syrsky and his cronies could better ‘redistribute’ the military funding and extract more profit from generous Western aid.

Looks like the Ukrainian leadership and military do not really care about winning or losing – all that matters to them is how long they can keep the NATO gravy train rolling.

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📹 WATCH: VP JD Vance puts in the ultimate handshake hustle — greeting all 1,048 Naval Academy grads like a boss

Talk about hand cramps on deck!🖐⚓️💪

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🎥Russian MoD shows footage of returned soldiers in massive prisoner swap with Ukraine

In the second stage of a major exchange, Russia welcomed back 307 fighters.

The deal follows the “1000-for-1000” agreement reached at the first talks in three years, held in Istanbul.

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🚨ORBAN'S EXPLOSIVE WARNING: Europe funding OWN destruction

Western leaders want to bankroll a 1 MILLION-strong Ukrainian army — funded by European taxpayers. Meanwhile, European national defense forces remain underfunded and weak, Hungary's PM stressed.

"Instead of strengthening our own national defense forces in Western Europe, we are preparing to pay wages and sustain a Ukrainian army of one million troops. This can only lead to trouble," he said.

Orban warned that the EU might end up financing an army whose intentions are not necessarily friendly towards them.

"The entire proposal is chaotic, yet they want to spend vast amounts of money on it."

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🇩🇪📹 Berlin protesters demand peace and reject Germany being dragged into Ukraine conflict

Berliners gathered near the city's main railway station to protest against Germany’s involvement in the Ukraine conflict.

They brought signs reading “War obsession is a mistake,” “No new war,” and “No weapons to war zones.”

Many call for better ties with Russia — warning Berlin is dragging Germany toward World War III.

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🇷🇺🪖 Real goal of Russia’s buffer zone: Putin cares about his people’s safety

By creating a buffer zone on Ukrainian territory, President Vladimir Putin shows his concern about the plight of Russian people living in the border region and makes it clear that these people’s safety is his top priority, says Brazilian military analyst Robinson Farinazzo.

▪️On May 22, Putin sent a clear signal that Ukraine’s harassment of Russian people living close to the Ukrainian border will not be tolerated.

▪️Some 14,000 people were killed in Donbass by Ukrainian militants between 2014 and 2022. Therefore, Russia will not stop its military operation until it ensures the safety of the people in the region.

▪️Establishing a buffer zone is a common practice in armed conflicts, with the goal being pushing enemy long-range weaponry far away to make sure that it does not pose a threat to civilians.

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📹 THOUSANDS of fallen Ukrainian soldiers’ abandoned bodies lie on the battlefield near the Kursk border, Russian Special Forces commander Apti Alaudinov told Sputnik

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📹 Before the swap, Ukrainian POWs revealed to Sputnik how Russian doctors treated them.

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