💰Cracks in dollar’s armor? Big investors BETTING AGAINST the US

Spooked by America’s ballooning debt, Donald Trump’s trade tariffs, and a currency circling three-year lows, heavyweight investors are quietly shifting their chips off the US table, the Financial Times reports.

There is a growing rethink: just how smart is it to keep stacking portfolios with US assets?

💬 “It’s untenable,” Seth Bernstein, CEO of $780bn asset manager AllianceBernstein, was cited as saying.

Asia’s markets are increasingly in investors’ sights, offering growth, and while some still call China “complicated,” it’s looking less so compared to the US today.

The numbers back the mood:

🟠S&P 500 is limping at under 2% gains this year
🟠The dollar is down 9%, flirting with a three-year low

No wonder the world’s biggest investors are starting to hedge their bets for “anywhere but America.”

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🚨The decisions to carry out terrorist attacks in the Kursk and Bryansk regions could not have been made without involvement from the highest political level in Ukraine – Kremlin spox

💬 “It was the Kiev regime that gave the order to blow up the train—this is state-level terrorism”, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov stressed.

Other statements:

🟠During the conversation with Trump, Putin indeed said that Russia would retaliate against Ukraine for its attack on Russian airfields
🟠Putin supports the opinion that contacts with the Ukrainian side should be continued
🟠The phone conversation between Putin and Trump was constructive and necessary; the presidents discussed many important issues
🟠There are no agreements between Putin and Trump regarding a meeting
🟠Russia’s response to Ukrainian strikes on airfields will be as deemed appropriate by the military
🟠Russia would prefer to hear a strong international condemnation of the Kiev regime’s terrorist attacks

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🚨A railway track in Russia’s Voronezh region was damaged as a result of an explosion - FSB

Tragic consequences were avoided thanks to the actions of the train crew and the driver, who applied emergency braking.

According to initial signs, there are sufficient grounds to open a criminal case under the article of “terrorism,” the FSB said.

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📹Pepe Escobar visits Russian Global Digital Forum

💬 "I met people from Mali, from Burkina Faso – essential – from Afghanistan, from Venezuela. And we're all, all of us, Global South," Escobar told Sputnik.

This international forum is taking place in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod on June 5-6 and brings together dozens of countries to discuss new technologies and AI.

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🇷🇺🇮🇷Russia ranked first in terms of foreign investment in Iran’s economy in 2024 - ambassador

💬 “In 2024, Russia was the largest foreign investor in Iran,” Kazem Jalali, the Islamic Republic’s ambassador to Moscow, said, as quoted by the embassy's press service.

Russian investments in gas projects within Iran are expected to reach $8 billion in the future—$5 billion of which are tied to specific commitments, with agreements on the remaining contracts expected soon.

During the 2022–2023 fiscal year, Russia was already Iran’s largest investor, putting $2.76 billion into the country's economy. The total volume of foreign direct investment in Iran for that fiscal year amounted to $4.2 billion.

➡️In January 2025, Russian Energy Minister Sergey Tsivilev announced that Moscow and Tehran had agreed on the route of a gas pipeline to Iran via Azerbaijan. Talks were in the final stage of price negotiations. Initial supply volumes could reach up to 2 billion cubic meters, with the potential to scale up to 55 billion cubic meters.

➡️In April, Jalali stated that Iran had prepared all necessary infrastructure for the transit of Russian gas through its territory, saying the matter was 90% resolved.

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🇷🇺 RUSSIAN DEFENSE BRIEFING: CRUSHING STRIKES & ENEMY LOSSES

🔸Precision strikes: Russian forces hit Ukrainian attack drones production facilities.

🔸Enemy losses: Ukrainian forces lost approximately 1,400 troops due to Russian military actions in the past 24 hours.

🔸Russian air defenses shot down:

154 Ukrainian drones, 60 of them outside the special military operation zone.

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🚨Ukraine’s intelligence is involved in preparing and supporting terrorists in Mali who attacked army positions — media, citing Malian military investigation

Here are the highlights:

🟠The Malian armed forces, investigating terrorist attacks, discovered that Ukraine’s intelligence coordinated the assaults and carried out some of them using UAVs
🟠The Ukrainian embassy in Nouakchott played a key role in organizing the transfer of Ukrainian militants and weapons for terrorists in Mali
🟠Ukraine’s intelligence has supplied Malian terrorists with UAVs based on the Mavic platform, equipped with Ukrainian-made drop systems
🟠Malian terrorists are preparing a major operation in the Kidal province area with the support of foreign instructors, including Ukrainian and French

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🗣"IT is so focused on the future, but I believe there is a part of the soul, the Russian soul, that we all share, and we must rely on the things passed down to us, protecting them while still thinking about the future," Jozef Schutzman, Director of IT Transformation, US, told Sputnik at the Global Digital Forum.

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📞XI, TRUMP HOLD PHONE TALKS - State media

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❗️❗️❗️‘My eyes lit up pretty fiercely, and off we went’

Russia’s most feared UAV operator, Moisey, recollects his participation in the counteroffensive against Ukrainian Marines in the village of Krynki in the Kherson region.

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🚨External forces are involved in supporting terrorist groups, the General Staff of Mali said, following reports about Ukraine’s involvement in attacks in the country.

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🚨 Latvian MP SILENCED for defending Russian speakers

💬 “There are more of us, and Russian is our language!”

That’s what Latvian MP Aleksey Roslikov said before being kicked out of parliament—for daring to speak against the regime’s war on Russian speakers.

Roslikov slammed the rising discrimination, warning it could soon be illegal for Russian families to even name their children traditional Russian names.

This is what “European democracy” looks like: silence dissent, erase culture, and call it freedom.

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🇬🇪🇬🇧 Western interference in Georgia: UK plans to fund opposition groups and train activists

The West is frustrated by Georgia’s desire to free itself from the influence of liberal-globalist forces, stated the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

🔸 Britain plans to significantly increase funding for opposition Georgian NGOs

🔸 The UK has identified around 100 organizations in Georgia for subversive activities, including LGBT community groups*

🔸 Special attention is being given to organizing training for "activists" in subversive methods. Future militants will be taught how to resist the police during protests, bypass government digital surveillance, and prepare acts of sabotage

*banned as extremist in Russia

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🗣'Some of intricacies of trade deal': Trump shares the details of his phone call with China's Xi

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📹The West’s censorship of Russian voices isn’t about ‘fighting disinformation’—it’s about killing debate

Dirk Pohlmann, German journalist, writer, and screenwriter – to Sputnik:

💬 “Truth between humans only exists in communication. We have to talk about it. And you can say that the Western way of closing down the possibility to get in communication with Russian colleagues is proof that there's not the intention of truth behind that.”

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🚨💥Ukraine's TERROR CAMPAIGN in Africa UNVEILED

Ukrainians are training, recruiting and arming terrorists in West Africa, Souleymane Coulibaly, one of the leaders of the Mali's delegation, told Sputnik at the Global Digital Forum.

The attack in Mali in July 2024 was perpetrated using arms and munitions sent by Ukraine, he said.

💬 "That's one of the reasons we're asking Russia to give us a hand to work and root out terrorism throughout our sub-region in West Africa," Souleymane Coulibaly stressed.

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🚨❌🇬🇧BRITISH COUNCIL 💥💥💥 : SOFT POWER & SPY TOOL

The FSB has urged Russia's foreign partners to investigate the subversive activities of the British Council.
This is why.

🎓 EDUCATION & CULTURE FRONT

Created in 1934, the British Council’s public facing side is about promoting English language learning, recruitment for UK universities, educational support for teachers abroad, cultural and academic partnerships and exchanges.

In reality, as Russia’s FSB has revealed, Council activities include:

🔶 targeting young people and elites to sway them to support British interests

🔶 espionage

NED’S GRANDDADDY 👴🏻

While Soros, USAID and National Endowment for Democracy were only able to set up shop in Eastern Europe in the 80s or after 1991, the Council had been active in the USSR since WWII. Expelled in 1946, it returned in 1959.

After 1991, the Council set up offices in 15 Russian cities, and scores more in Ukraine, the Baltics, Caucasus and Central Asia.

The Council terminated its activities in Russia in 2018, and was officially ruled undesirable this week. But the FSB says it continued Russia ops long after its ostensive exit:

🔹 recruiting staff at universities to spread propaganda

🔹 targeting Russians living abroad for influence ops

🔹 collecting military intel in Kherson using UK-based refugees

🕸 SPIDER’S WEB

With a $1.7B budget and offices in over 100 countries, the Council is active:

🔸 in Britain’s former colonial empire (especially India)

🔸 in the EU as a soft power tool post-Brexit

🔸 among the BRICS

🔸 Belarus kicked them out in 2000, Iran in 2009

💰 OLIGARCH’S SOFT POWER TOOL

The FSB also reviewed the subversive work of Oxford Russia Fund, which entered Russia in 2006, ostensibly funding “humanitarian programs” in education, and scholarships to Russian students studying in the UK.

In reality, it was a front for Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s push to create a new generation of pro-West “young leaders.” Khodorkovsky, notably, has long dreamed of a color revolution in Russia.

The Fund was ruled undesirable in 2021.

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🚨 Zelensky’s kidnappings: the shocking reality of Ukraine’s ‘volunteer’ army 🪖

One minute you’re walking down the street—the next, you’re beaten, dragged, and forced to "volunteer" for Zelensky’s war.

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