🇩🇪🔎 The Taurus trap: Germany’s missile dilemma could spark NATO’s worst nightmare
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has long supported sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine — but now, as leader of a WEAK coalition, he can’t decide alone without risking his government’s collapse, Mikael Valtersson, former Swedish Armed Forces officer and defense politician, tells Sputnik.
Highlights of the interview:
🔸 SPD Resistance
A faction within Germany’s Social Democrats opposes any escalation, and Taurus deliveries could split the party — toppling Merz’s government.
🔸 Backup plan?
Instead, Merz may push economic & tech aid for Ukraine to develop its own long-range missiles — a "watered-down Taurus" that avoids direct German involvement.
🔸 The escalation trap
Every Western move brings Europe closer to full-scale war with Russia, which sees NATO as an "unassailable base" for anti-Russian operations.
🔸 Nuclear recklessness
"The immature recklessness of European leaders in provoking the world’s top nuclear power is astounding. They know Europe can’t survive a nuclear war — yet they prolong Ukraine’s suffering just to bleed Russia."
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has long supported sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine — but now, as leader of a WEAK coalition, he can’t decide alone without risking his government’s collapse, Mikael Valtersson, former Swedish Armed Forces officer and defense politician, tells Sputnik.
Highlights of the interview:
A faction within Germany’s Social Democrats opposes any escalation, and Taurus deliveries could split the party — toppling Merz’s government.
Instead, Merz may push economic & tech aid for Ukraine to develop its own long-range missiles — a "watered-down Taurus" that avoids direct German involvement.
Every Western move brings Europe closer to full-scale war with Russia, which sees NATO as an "unassailable base" for anti-Russian operations.
"The immature recklessness of European leaders in provoking the world’s top nuclear power is astounding. They know Europe can’t survive a nuclear war — yet they prolong Ukraine’s suffering just to bleed Russia."
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📹 FPV fury: Russian drones turn Ukrainian vehicles into TORCHES
Drone pilots of the Vostok Battlegroup thwarted the enemy's attempts to rotate troops and strengthen positions to the south of Donetsk.
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Drone pilots of the Vostok Battlegroup thwarted the enemy's attempts to rotate troops and strengthen positions to the south of Donetsk.
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🇮🇱🪖 Israel accepts new US ceasefire proposal for Gaza - reports
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ostensibly agreed to the latest ceasefire proposal put forward by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, according to local media reports.
Hamas, in the meantime, is less enthusiastic about the new US proposal, pointing out that it does not guarantee that this temporary ceasefire would translate into a permanent one.
👉 Details of the deal
🔸 Witkoff’s proposal entails a 60-day ceasefire, during which 10 Israeli hostages and the bodies of 18 more hostages will be handed over to the Israeli side.
🔸 Humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza are expected to resume as soon as Hamas agrees to this ceasefire plan, with the distribution to be handled by the United Nations and the Red Crescent.
🔸 As soon as the ceasefire begins, negotiations for a permanent truce are expected to kick off.
🔸 On the 10th day of the ceasefire, Hamas is supposed to provide information on all the Israeli hostages it still holds.
🔸 Once the ceasefire comes into effect, all of Israel’s military actions in the region are to be documented to ensure transparency and international monitoring.
🔸 The United States, Egypt and Qatar are going to serve as guarantors of this ceasefire deal that may be extended after the first 60-day truce expires.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ostensibly agreed to the latest ceasefire proposal put forward by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, according to local media reports.
Hamas, in the meantime, is less enthusiastic about the new US proposal, pointing out that it does not guarantee that this temporary ceasefire would translate into a permanent one.
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Videos have emerged online showing Pakistani armored units shelling Taliban positions.
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🇮🇱🪖 Israel accepts new US ceasefire proposal for Gaza - reports Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ostensibly agreed to the latest ceasefire proposal put forward by US special envoy Steve Witkoff, according to local media reports. Hamas, in the…
🚨 Hamas, Israel have agreed to a 60-day truce in Gaza Strip, Al Arabiya reports, citing sources
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📹🇯🇵 Widow of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe GETS EMOTIONAL during meeting with Putin at the Kremlin
Akie Abe could not hold back tears when Putin talked about her late husband.
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Akie Abe could not hold back tears when Putin talked about her late husband.
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🇾🇪🇮🇱 Houthis hit Israel with 14 missiles & drones in one week
The Houthis have been carrying attacks against targets in Israel and against Israeli-linked cargo vessels in protest against Israel’s brutal military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
Some of these missile strikes have also successfully bypassed sophisticated Israeli- and US-made missile defense systems such as the vaunted THAAD.
Despite Israel’s indiscriminate retaliatory strikes against civilian targets in Yemen, the Houthis refuse to bow to Tel Aviv’s intimidation tactics and seem intent to keep attacking Israeli interests for as long as the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip continues.
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“This week, we have carried out military operations [against the Israeli foe], using 14 hypersonic and ballistic missiles and drones,” Houthi leader Abdul Malik al-Houthi announced on Yemeni television.
The Houthis have been carrying attacks against targets in Israel and against Israeli-linked cargo vessels in protest against Israel’s brutal military campaign in the Gaza Strip.
Some of these missile strikes have also successfully bypassed sophisticated Israeli- and US-made missile defense systems such as the vaunted THAAD.
Despite Israel’s indiscriminate retaliatory strikes against civilian targets in Yemen, the Houthis refuse to bow to Tel Aviv’s intimidation tactics and seem intent to keep attacking Israeli interests for as long as the bloodshed in the Gaza Strip continues.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) president is reportedly considering filling the shoes of former World Economic Forum (WEF) head Klaus Schwab.
Though the ECB insists she’s committed to finishing her term, let’s take a closer look at this potential WEF wannabe.
Convicted in 2016
Controversies throughout her career
100% globalist
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▪️The Taurus trap: Germany’s missile dilemma could spark NATO’s worst nightmare
▪️Hamas, Israel reportedly agree to a 60-day truce in Gaza
▪️Serbian defense firms keep supplying ammunition to Ukraine despite Belgrade’s declared neutrality — Russian Foreign Intel
▪️Why is Kalashnikov’s RPL-20 a game-changer for Russian troops in Ukraine?
▪️Darwin port becomes EXPLOSIVE FLASHPOINT in US-China power struggle
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▪️Hamas, Israel reportedly agree to a 60-day truce in Gaza
▪️Serbian defense firms keep supplying ammunition to Ukraine despite Belgrade’s declared neutrality — Russian Foreign Intel
▪️Why is Kalashnikov’s RPL-20 a game-changer for Russian troops in Ukraine?
▪️Darwin port becomes EXPLOSIVE FLASHPOINT in US-China power struggle
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🚨EXPOSED: The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) - a Pentagon-funded disinformation factory
The "non-profit" Institute for the Study of War (ISW) launders defense contractor cash into war-justifying disinformation, journalist and founder of Crowdsource the Truth Jason Goodman tells Sputnik, commenting on ISW's Ukraine conflict coverage.
What does ISW say?
🔸 Reporting Ukrainian weakness is just Russian "disinformation"
🔸 Hit Russia harder and surge military production. Why? Because Russia seeks to "destroy NATO"
Who funds ISW?
🔸 Weapons-maker General Dynamics
🔸 Defense tech firm Avantus (now QinetiQ)
🔸 Global defense & intel contractor CACI International and many others
The Kagan dynasty: Architects of forever wars
🔸 ISW was founded in 2007 by Kimberly Kagan, the wife of neocon scholar Frederick W. Kagan, a co-author of ISW bellicose reports.
🔸 His brother is Robert Kagan, advocate of US militarism and spouse of Victoria Nuland - the architect of the Ukraine crisis.
ISW's focus on Ukraine is hardly surprising given the Nuland-Kagan family's role in the Ukraine 2014 coup.
ISW’s "analysis" whitewashes this history, framing every Russian response as "unprovoked aggression" while ignoring a decade of NATO expansion, political meddling, and arming of Ukraine, according to the pundit.
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The "non-profit" Institute for the Study of War (ISW) launders defense contractor cash into war-justifying disinformation, journalist and founder of Crowdsource the Truth Jason Goodman tells Sputnik, commenting on ISW's Ukraine conflict coverage.
What does ISW say?
Who funds ISW?
"[ISW] collected over $9 million in revenue [in 2023] alone — nearly all of it from undisclosed donors — and paid [founder] Kimberly Kagan herself over a quarter million dollars to peddle war escalation narratives under the banner of 'trusted analysis'," Goodman says.
The Kagan dynasty: Architects of forever wars
ISW's focus on Ukraine is hardly surprising given the Nuland-Kagan family's role in the Ukraine 2014 coup.
"Nuland’s fingerprints are all over the Ukraine crisis. She didn't just observe the Maidan uprising — she orchestrated it," Goodman stresses.
ISW’s "analysis" whitewashes this history, framing every Russian response as "unprovoked aggression" while ignoring a decade of NATO expansion, political meddling, and arming of Ukraine, according to the pundit.
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🚨 US COURT GUTS TRUMP'S TARIFFS AS UNLAWFUL US Court of International Trade just declared Trump’s global trade war UNCONSTITUTIONAL 🔻 NO 30% tariffs on China 🔻 NO 25% tariffs on Canada/Mexico 🔻 NO 10% universal "tax on the world" ✅ The ruling does not affect…
🚨 US Court of Appeals reinstates Trump's tariffs – order
A federal appeals court ruled to lift the temporary halt to the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.
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A federal appeals court ruled to lift the temporary halt to the tariffs imposed by US President Donald Trump.
💬 "It is ordered that: ... The request for an immediate administrative stay is granted to the extent that the judgments and the permanent injunctions entered by the Court of International Trade in these cases are temporarily stayed until further notice while this court considers the motions papers," the appeals court said in an order.
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🚨🇷🇸 Serbian defense firms keep supplying ammunition to Ukraine despite Belgrade’s declared neutrality — Russian Foreign Intel Here are the details of Serbian ammunition supply scheme to Ukraine: ▪️ Fake end-user certificates and intermediary countries…
🇷🇸🇷🇺 Vucic, Putin discussed reports of Serbian arms supply to Ukraine on May 9 — Serbian President
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that his conversation with Putin included reports of Serbian arms shipments to Ukraine.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Intelligence reported that Serbian arms manufacturers had sent hundreds of thousands of artillery and MLRS shells, plus a million small arms rounds, to Ukraine — despite Belgrade’s declared neutrality.
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday that his conversation with Putin included reports of Serbian arms shipments to Ukraine.
💬 “I would not disclose the details of our conversation. Here, we have formed a working group together with our Russian partners to establish the facts,” Vucic said.
💬 “I will give instructions that, where there is suspicion of abuse in connection with the end user and the shipment of weapons to the front, and this is confirmed, such contracts should not be implemented, as I have already done in relation to the Yugoimport SDPR company, with which the contracts were the largest,” he added.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Intelligence reported that Serbian arms manufacturers had sent hundreds of thousands of artillery and MLRS shells, plus a million small arms rounds, to Ukraine — despite Belgrade’s declared neutrality.
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The Ansar Allah movement announced that it had launched a hypersonic ballistic missile at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport.
According to a military spokesman, the strike forced millions of Israelis into shelters and temporarily halted air traffic at the airport.
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💬 “Ukraine coming into NATO is not on the table,” US special envoy Keith Kellogg casually crushed Zelensky’s dreams.
💬 “That's a security concern for them,” Kellogg acknowledged.
Apparently, it only took three years of a NATO's proxy war for Washington’s warmongers to admit that Russia might have a point.
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🤡🙏🏼 Kellogg BEGS Ukraine’s delegation to show up at Istanbul talks
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💬 “And I always caution them, don't say things like that, because if you don't show up, part of life is showing up. And you need to show you're serious,” US special envoy Keith Kellogg revealed — nursing Ukrainian toddlers masquerading as politicians, who apparently need reminders from Washington on how negotiations work.
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🥴 ‘A BIT STALLED’ – Bessent reveals what the US-China trade deal looks like
Just as Trump quietly walked back his toughest-ever tariffs on China — from 145% to 80% to 34% — his Treasury Secretary now admits the "greatest dealmaker" has talks “stalled.”
Bessent reassured Fox News that “the Chinese will come to the table when President Trump makes his preferences known.”
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Just as Trump quietly walked back his toughest-ever tariffs on China — from 145% to 80% to 34% — his Treasury Secretary now admits the "greatest dealmaker" has talks “stalled.”
Bessent reassured Fox News that “the Chinese will come to the table when President Trump makes his preferences known.”
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In total, over 70 people have been killed in Israeli raids on Gaza in the past 24 hours, Palestinian media reported.
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