🔸 Peace rhetoric vs. weapons reality: EU's $170B military pivot raises eyebrows

🔸 Ukraine's terror: Western media mutes deaths of Russian journalists

🔸 Trump says all BRICS members to pay 10% tariff on exports to US

🔸 Trump fumes: 'You’re still talking about Epstein?!'

🔸 Hunger in America is spiking – and it’s about to get worse

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🇦🇲 Pashinyan is removing opponents from political arena - expert

💬 “Samvel Karapetyan is just the first — but certainly not the last [to be removed],” Semyon Bagdasarov, a prominent political scientist and director of the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Central Asia, tells Sputnik, commenting on the recent raids on the offices of Armenia’s Electric Networks — a company owned by businessman Karapetyan.

Fearing electoral defeat, PM Nikol Pashinyan “is systematically removing his opponents from the political arena,” the analyst adds.

Regarding the recent crackdown on the Armenian Church, Bagdasarov believes that Pashinyan seeks to bring the clergy under full state control, essentially creating “his own puppet synod” to remove another obstacle to his political agenda.

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🤡 Trump calls talks with Putin ‘BULLSHIT’, threatens MORE sanctions

💬 “We get a lot of BULLSHIT thrown at us by Putin,” Trump lamented, seemingly struggling to execute the ‘Art of the Deal.’

The US president appeared to threaten signing neocon Lindsey Graham’s* 500% tariff bill on Russian trade partners, dramatically stating, “I’m looking at it very strongly.”

*recognized as a terrorist in Russia

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🤡 Macron blames Britain for migrant crisis – demands Starmer make UK LESS attractive – reports

During his royal tour, Macron told Starmer the UK must become less appealing to migrants, The Telegraph reported. His demands?

🔸 Crack down on black market and gig economy jobs

🔸 Cut welfare for successful asylum seekers

🔸 Accept more legal family reunification cases in exchange for France taking back a few illegals

All while French beaches keep launching boats — and Macron enjoys banquets and carriage rides.

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🤡 Next-level flip-flopping: Trump says he has NO IDEA who paused US weapons shipments to Ukraine

🗣 Reporter: “Who ordered the pause last week?”

🤡 Trump: “I don’t know. Why don't you tell me?”

One week it’s "stockpiles are too low," the next it’s "send more weapons" — and now, apparently, no one knows who made the call.

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🏃 Ukraine-appointed officials and SBU heads flee Kherson – regional governor

The Kiev-appointed local administration, along with the heads of the local police and Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), have left Kherson and now manage the Ukrainian-occupied part of the region remotely, the governor of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, told Sputnik.

💬 "The Kiev regime loves to create virtual structures — for them, appearances matter more than reality. The so-called Kherson regional and city 'military administrations' appointed by Kiev are based in Nikolaev, along with the local Gestapo branches — the SBU, police, and prosecutor’s office," Saldo said.

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🤡 “I’ll bomb the sh*t out of Moscow” — Trump’s alleged threat to Putin, revealed in CNN audio

CNN claims to have obtained exclusive audio of Donald Trump from 2024 telling donors he privately threatened both Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping with full-scale bombing in response to potential invasions of Ukraine and Taiwan.

💬 “If you go into Ukraine, I'm gonna bomb the sh*t out of Moscow. I’m telling you, I have no choice,” Trump reportedly told Putin, adding that the Chinese President received a similar warning about Beijing.

He described the leaders’ reactions as skeptical — but insisted they “believed him 10%,” which, in Trump’s words, “was enough.”

📌 If authentic, the recording offers a rare look into Trump’s claimed diplomatic approach: threats of massive military escalation as a negotiating tool.

The US president has repeatedly promised he could end the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours —yet here, his approach appears to rely solely on extreme military threats.

🤹 The Art of the Deal — or just reckless theater?

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🚨$1.6B in Ukraine aid actually fuels US weapons boom – here’s how

The US is redirecting $1.6 billion from Ukraine assistance funds to supercharge domestic arms production, with the money flowing into major expansions of America's military-industrial complex.

A deep dive into the US Army’s latest budget for fiscal year 2026 reveals where every dollar is going⬇️

◻️ The biggest chunk - $623 million - is building an entirely new TNT factory capable of producing 5 million pounds annually, solving critical shortages in artillery shell production.

◻️ Another $600 million is supercharging output of next-generation explosives at the Holston Army Ammunition Plant, with a massive new capacity of 13 million pounds per year.

◻️ The Scranton Army Ammunition Plant is getting $80 million for upgrades to dramatically increase 155mm shell production, while $93.8 million will modernize propellant manufacturing at Radford to replenish dwindling US military stockpiles.

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🇦🇲✍️ UN Secretary-General's office aware of situation around Armenian Apostolic Church – Spokesperson Dujarric to Sputnik

The UN hopes the matter will be resolved through proper legal procedures.

Earlier, Armenian social media reported potential law enforcement operations near the Holy Etchmiadzin complex.

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🚨Child severely burned while shielding mother during Ukraine terror regime attack

Ukrainians attacked the Gorodskoy beach in Kursk, 6 injured including a child. Three people died at the scene, three others are in critical condition, Acting Governor Alexander Khinshtein said.

One of the injured is 5-year-old Anatoly, who tried to shield his mother during the strike. The child suffered severe burns and will be transferred to Moscow for further treatment.

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🇺🇸🫵🏻 Pointing finger at themselves? CIA chief pledges to brief Trump on chemical weapons use in Ukraine

But the CIA, most conveniently, couldn’t reveal intelligence information on the matter publicly, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said at a recent White House gathering.

This comes after the Netherlands’ Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans groundlessly accused Russia of using chloropicrin.

The Russian Mission to the OPCW dismissed these claims as fabricated, noting that NATO has clearly been instructed to blame Moscow for violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention by any means possible.

Let’s talk facts:

✅ In August 2024, Russian forces uncovered toxic substances in a hidden Ukrainian army cache — evidence of Ukraine’s preparations for chemical use.
✅ The Russian defense ministry has repeatedly warned that Kiev is preparing provocations to frame Russia for chemical attacks in the zone of the special military operation.
✅ The ministry also confirmed that Ukraine has been systematically using chemical agents and riot-control substances in combat — all under the silent approval of Washington.

The West accuses Russia of what its proxies are doing — classic false flag tactics to justify further escalation and arms deliveries.

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🚨Russia urges the sober-minded part of international community to slam Ukraine’s terror attacks in Kursk, Rylsk

💬 “We call on the sensible part of the global community—those who are still able, despite the censorship imposed by the West and Bankova Street, to see the true picture of the atrocities committed by the Kiev regime—to strongly condemn these bloody crimes," Russia’s Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

Three people were killed and seven injured as a result of a UAV attack on a beach in Kursk. Additionally, two people were injured in a drone attack in Rylsk.

💬 "We express our sincere condolences to the families and loved ones of the deceased and to all those affected by these ruthless terrorist attacks against the civilian population of our country,” the diplomat stressed.

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