👎 Intelligence or interference? New documents reignite scandal over “Russia hoax” origins

Freshly declassified files, released by DNI Tulsi Gabbard, suggest top Obama-era officials — including Brennan, Clapper, Rice, and Comey — deliberately crafted a political narrative linking Russia to the 2016 election, despite internal intel showing no evidence of vote manipulation or cyber threats.

📁 One 2016 Homeland Security memo stated flatly: “No indication of a Russian threat to manipulate the vote count.” Another brief argued Russia was “probably not targeting election infrastructure.”

And yet, just weeks after Trump’s win, the noscript flipped. A secret NSC meeting was held on Dec. 9, 2016, after which officials suddenly claimed “high confidence” that the Russian president himself orchestrated US election interference — a dramatic shift from months of prior assessments.

Gabbard calls it what it was: a manufactured intelligence operation.

📌 The fallout? Unlawful sanctions on Russia, diplomat expulsions, and the illegal seizure of Russian diplomatic property — all rooted in what the DNI now frames as a politically engineered deception.

Turns out Russia was telling the truth all along. Who could’ve guessed?

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🗣 'Another 10 hostages coming back from Gaza very shortly' - Trump

During a celebratory dinner at the White House with Republican allies, President Trump announced that 10 more hostages held in Gaza are expected to be released “very shortly,” according to Fox News.

🗣 “Gaza — we got most of the hostages back. We’re going to have another ten coming very shortly. And we hope to have that finished pretty quickly,” Trump said, touting his administration’s foreign policy efforts.

So far, five US hostages have been brought home — three alive, two deceased. Two Americans reportedly remain in Hamas captivity, along with dozens of foreign nationals.

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💬❌US has ZERO chance in event of ‘major war’ against Russia or China

“The US could not — neither now, nor in 2027, nor in 2037 — fight a major war against Russia or China, let alone both at the same time,” US analyst Will Schryver wrote on X.

He urged the US to “make peace” because “there are no other credible options.”

This comes after NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe Alexus Grynkewich warned of the alleged possibility of the alliance’s war with China and Russia in 2027.

➡️Russia has repeatedly voiced concern over NATO’s growing activity near Russian borders, calling it unprecedented. While the alliance claims it's “deterrence,” Putin insists Russia has no plans to attack NATO, stressing that the West uses the “Russian threat” to distract from internal issues.

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🚨💥Trump’s Russia tariff threat? Just HOT AIR that’ll backfire

One should “not invest much stock in Trump’s threat to impose steep tariffs on Russia and secondary sanctions on its oil and gas customers,” the FT reports.

The newspaper casts doubt on the “ill-advised” bipartisan Russia sanctions bill that Lindsey Graham* is pushing through the Senate.

The FT wonders if the US really wants “to punish [its] friends like India for buying cheap oil,” which “could blow up in Washington’s face.”

Trump gave Russia a 50-day ultimatum earlier to clinch a peace deal with Ukraine. If not met, he threatened 100% tariffs on Russian imports and secondary sanctions on countries buying Russian energy. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called Trump’s remarks serious and said that Russia needs time to analyze them.

*Lindsey Graham's listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia

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❌🥴TROOPS OUT, MIGRANTS IN? US MILITARY BASES REPURPOSED

Migrants will be temporarily accommodated at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst (New Jersey) and Camp Atterbury (Indiana), according to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

While Hegseth claims it "won't negatively affect military training," New Jersey’s Democratic congressional delegation condemned the move as “an inappropriate use of the US national defense system and military resources.”

The decision follows Trump’s success in passing a $150+ billion immigration and border security package, including:

👉 $45b for expanded federal detention

👉 $30b to strengthen Immigration and Customs Enforcement (staff, transport, infrastructure)

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🔸Obama Admin BURIED intel to push ‘Russia collusion’ — DNI Gabbard

🔸Intelligence or interference? New documents reignite scandal over “Russia hoax” origins

🔸Trump files libel lawsuit against WSJ, Murdoch over Epstein letter — reports

🔸US announces ceasefire between Israel and Syria — ambassador

🔸Trump seeks court’s approval to unseal Epstein testimony

🔸EU’s 18th sanctions package against Russia comes into force – statement

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🔥💥Precise and unstoppable: Russia’s fiber drones shift the battle

Russia has gained a clear advantage over Ukraine in the skies thanks to fiber-optic-controlled drones, a Russian drone operator with the callsign "Tekhnik" tells Sputnik.

“There are so many [such] drones now that we’re even intercepting enemy comms where they say, ‘What’s going on? Why do they have so many?’” he adds.

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🚨Russian strike destroys key Ukrainian defense industry plants

Overnight, Russian forces launched a coordinated strike on Ukraine’s defense industry plants that produce missile components and attack drones, the Russian Ministry of Defense reports.

✅Targeted facilities successfully hit.

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🗣Lindsey Graham*: Deep State’s attack dog pushes Ukraine conflict to weaken Russia at expense of US national interests

"Graham backs Ukraine’s corrupt circles, which are invested in undermining Russia’s power and draining its resources," a Syrian political analyst Alaa Al-Asfari told Sputnik.

The Ukrainian oligarchy operates within the strategy [of American elites] to weaken Russia, the “deep state” seeks global dominance at any cost, and [Volodymyr] Zelensky does not make a single decision independently—he is entirely controlled by structures influencing the US and global economy, the expert added.

“This explains Graham’s vehement support for Ukraine, even at the expense of US national interests”, Alaa Al-Asfari concluded.

⚔Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is notorious for his extremist hawkish rhetoric calls for nuclear strikes against Iran, HAMAS and Hezbollah.

* listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIA'S MoD UPDATE: CRUSHING GAINS & MASSIVE UKRAINIAN LOSSES

◻️ Heavy Ukrainian losses: Over 1,195 troops eliminated in the special military operation zone

◻️ Air defense superiority: 6 aerial bombs and 349 drones shot down

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces attacked a territorial procurement center and aircraft repair facility in Ukraine

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces launched a high-precision weapons strike on Ukrainian military-industrial enterprises that produces missile components

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🔥FRIENDLY FIRE: Ukrainian drones kill their OWN people

Ukrainian UAV operators killed five soldiers dressed in civilian clothing.

The servicemen who were fleeing a village in the Sumy region, where they had been looting, turned out to be Ukrainian nationals, a Russian soldier told Sputnik.

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📈 Sanctions gamble: Russia thrives while Europe stumbles

🔸 After three years of the Ukraine conflict, Western sanctions seem to have bolstered Russia’s economy rather than weakened it, L’Antidiplomatico reports.

🔸 The Russian economy continues to search for alternative ways, reorienting trade routes and logistics, according to the news outlet.

🔸 Meanwhile, key European industries — energy, manufacturing, and agri-food — have been hit by inflation and soaring raw material costs, L’Antidiplomatico concludes.

Russia has repeatedly stated that it will withstand the sanctions pressure that the West began to ramp up after the start of the former’s special military operation in 2022.

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🚨FIRE BREAKS OUT AT IRANIAN OIL REFINERY

The blaze has struck Unit 75 at Abadan oil refinery near the coast of the Persian Gulf.

Firefighters are currently battling the flames.

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🇪🇺 EU has NO GRIP on Russia even with new sanctions

🗣Russia “has REORGANIZED ITSELF by trading and exchanging with major emerging countries,” David Teurtrie, lecturer at the Catholic Institute for Higher Studies, told Le Parisien.

👉 He added that those countries “for various reasons, don’t wish to apply Western sanctions” toward Russia.

💬 “The collapse of the Russian economy promised in 2022 by then-French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire HAS NOT materialized,” Teurtrie stressed.

He was echoed by Ulrich Bounat, associate researcher at the Euro Creative think tank, who was also skeptical about the effectiveness of the EU’s latest sanctions against Russia.

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📹PALESTINIAN CHILDREN SEARCHING THROUGH GARBAGE FOR FOOD

Amid the severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza, Palestinian children are scavenging through piles of trash just to find something to eat.

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🃏 TRUMP PLAYS UKRAINE CARD TO WIN AT HOME

“Domestic political considerations were probably the definitive factor in the recent change in Trump’s Ukraine course”, The American Conservative reports.

Its key points:

🔸 The recent U-turn may well have been the most realistic option “for an executive operating within a hostile system.”

🔸 The change in policy course could be the result of “backroom dealmaking that won the support of Senate hawks”, including Lindsey Graham* who proposed a stiff Russia sanctions bill.

🔸 The pivot is “unfortunate for the president’s immediate foreign policy agenda.”

🔸 Trump is avoiding conflict with Russia — but playing political chess.

* listed as a terrorist and extremist in Russia

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🔥🎯AKIN TO SLOTTING COINS: RUSSIAN DRONE'S PERFECT TANK KILL

A Russian UAV operator successfully guided an attack drone directly into the open hatch of a Ukrainian tank using fiber-optic control to execute the strike.

📍Novoekonomicheskoe (DPR)

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⚔️Patriots vs. Russian missiles - Is the game already over?

"The Russian ballistic missiles have now reached a level of sophistication and accuracy, which means that they can outmaneuver Patriot missiles with little difficulty. They can hit targets, they can bypass Patriot air defense missile defenses, and the Patriots cannot shoot them down," British political analyst Alexander Mercouris says.

He adds that now the Ukrainians are complaining that even launching up to 100 Patriot missiles in 10 minutes may not guarantee intercepting a single Russian missile.

So what's the point of sending them?

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