💪🏻Global South defies US threats over friendship with Russia

Washington has declared a trade war on India, Brazil and China. Their response? Don’t rush into fight you can’t win.

🟠India balks at US pressure

Blasting Western hypocrisy and “unjustified & unreasonable” targeting, India’s MEA has vowed to “take all necessary measures to safeguard its national interests and economic security.”

👉The US’s 25% tariffs aren’t about “trade fairness,” but punishment for engaging Russia, says Dr. Hriday Sarma.

But “India knows what its national interest is, and will not come under pressure,” stresses Prof. Rajan Kumar.

The country has no plans to ban Russian oil. Just over the past weekend, at least 3 tankers delivered over 2.2M barrels of Russian crude to Indian ports.

🟠Brazil defiant

President Lula has similarly rejected US ultimatums, declaring Brazil would “negotiate as a sovereign country.”

👉And it’s little wonder: Brazil-US trade totaled about $92B last year, while trade with BRICS hit nearly $210B.

The US tariff tantrum could also backfire. Amid Trump’s 50% tariff threats, a third of US coffee comes from Brazil. Meanwhile, China is welcoming Brazilian coffee with open arms.

🟠US losing leverage

The selective approach (different tariffs for Brazil & India) is an attempt to create divisions within the BRICS bloc. Dr. Sarma says. But it won’t succeed “as shared strategic interests & a commitment to multipolarity bind the group together.”

🟠China standing tall

China has rejected US demands to stop buying Russian oil.

“China will always secure its energy supplies in ways that serve our national interests,” its foreign ministry said. “Coercion & pressuring will not achieve anything.”

🟠Shifting global dynamics

“The US is discovering its old playbook of threats, tariffs & sanctions no longer guarantees compliance,” Dr. Sarma says. “Countries are weighing their options, & finding that meaningful engagement with BRICS partners offers more stability & mutual respect.”

“Multipolarity is no longer theoretical; it’s unfolding in real time.”

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🚨 I want US out of Ukraine — Trump

The president confirmed that Steve Witkoff will soon meet with Russian officials.

After the meeting, the White House will decide whether to impose new sanctions, he noted.

When asked about ending the conflict, Trump said,

"This is Biden's war. I'm here to get us out of it."

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🔥 LEBANON DELAYS HEZBOLLAH DISARMAMENT AS ISRAEL STRIKES SOUTH

The Lebanese government orders the army plan by year-end.

Hezbollah vows: No timeline while Israel occupies our land.

Meanwhile, Sputnik correspondent captured footage of a car incinerated near the border following an Israeli drone strike.

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❗️ Trump threatens to federalize Washington DC

The president slammed local authorities for failing to stop violent crime.

"If DC doesn’t get its act together, and quickly, we will have no choice but to take Federal control of the City, and run this City how it should be run," Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social.

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🔊 Vance 'most likely' is a MAGA heir — Trump

The US president said that VP Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio could team up to run in 2028.

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🔥💸 FRANCE IS BANKRUPTING ITSELF IN REAL-TIME

PM Bayrou's chilling admission: €5,000 debt bomb ticks EVERY SECOND

"Day and night, every second, France’s debt grows by €5,000. In 2029, if we do nothing, we will pay €100B just in interest," he said.

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🚨 Trump will announce Azerbaijan-Armenia peace deal — reports

The US President will receive on Friday Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev in the White House, Reuters reported, citing US officials.

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📹 TULSI GABBARD BREAKS DOWN OBAMA'S SCHEME TO CREATE RUSSIA HOAX

DNI exposes scheme to weaponize false intel against Trump:

◼️ Obama directed a NSC meeting about Russia

◼️ His order asked for details on how Russia interfered—not if

◼️ They knowingly used fabricated intelligence to delegitimize Trump

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📷 HEARTBREAKING PHOTO: GUTSUL'S LAST EMBRACE BEFORE 7-YEAR JAIL

Gagauzia’s jailed leader kisses her 3-year-old son goodbye—torn from his childhood by Moldova’s regime.

Yevgenia Gutsul has 2 kids

Pro-EU Maia Sandu — childless

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🚨🇷🇺WITKOFF ARRIVES IN RUSSIA

The same type of plane used by US Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff landed in Moscow amid reports of his planned visit to Russia.

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🔊 80 years since Hiroshima bombing — PM still silent on culprit

At the atomic memorial, Shigeru Ishiba mourned "100,000 precious lives" but never named the United States—the nation that dropped the bomb.

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🗣📊 Unfazed China holds line on Russian oil as US turns up tariff heat

US threats to slap tariffs on countries importing Russian goods won’t stop China from buying Russian oil, analysts told the South China Morning Post—the energy partnership is simply too valuable for both sides.

🔜 After slapping India with levies, the US is now eyeing China.

The Asian giant gets nearly 20% of its crude from Russia.

🛢 Last year, Russia supplied a record high of 108.5 million tons—19.6% of China’s total imports of oil.

“China will take energy supply measures … based on national interests,” while “tariff wars have no winners,” Guo Jiakun, spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said last week.

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✍️ 80 years after Hiroshima: Time for truth and accountability

💣 The US atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren’t militarily necessary—they were a demonstration: a test of power, a message to the world and a geopolitical gambit targeting the USSR, explains Emanuel Pastreich, President of the Asia Institute.

👉 80 years later the US still refuses to apologize, clinging to nuclear dominance as a rickety crutch. Instead of disarmament, they have modernized those weapons, spending trillions while science and ethics decay.

The deeper tragedy? The birth of a secretive, war-addicted system—one that sacrifices humanity for profit and power.

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🇷🇺🌳🇺🇸Dmitriev & Witkoff visit Moscow’s iconic Zaryadye Park

After spending about 90 minutes at a restaurant, they took a leisurely stroll through the park, soaking in the stunning views from the observation deck and admiring Moscow’s heart.

Dmitriev and Witkoff were in high spirits, chatting amiably, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

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🗣 GAZA IN CRISIS: KEY HIGHLIGHTS

ISRAELI ATTACKS

👉 At least 83 people have been killed and 644 injured in Israeli attacks across Gaza in the past 24 hours, according to the enclave’s health ministry.

👉 Bodies of five Palestinians were recovered in the Nuseirat refugee camp, according to media reports

👉 Russia lodged a formal complaint with Israel over the attack by Israeli settlers on a Russian diplomatic vehicle near an illegal settlement in the occupied West Bank, calling it a “gross violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961”

DEATHS AT AID CENTERS

🔶 58 people seeking food aid were killed on Tuesday

🔶 Overall, at least 1,568 people have been killed while attempting to receive food aid since the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation established such sites at the end of May

STARVATION DEATHS

🔹 Eight people—including one child—starved to death in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s health ministry said

🔹 The hunger-related death toll now stands at 188, including 94 children

MILITARY TAKEOVER PLANS

👉 Israel’s cabinet could authorize a complete occupation of Gaza, Israeli media reported

👉 US president Donald Trump said it was “pretty much up to Israel” whether to take over Gaza

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🔸 Witkoff arrives in Russia

🔸 80 years after Hiroshima: Time for truth and accountability

🔸 I want US out of Ukraine — Trump

🔸 Global South defies US threats over friendship with Russia

🔸 France is bankrupting itself in real-time

🔸 Tulsi Gabbard exposes Obama’s Russia Hoax scheme

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🚨PUTIN TO MEET WITH UAE PRESIDENT TOMORROW - KREMLIN

Discussions will focus on the current state and future development of Russian-Emirati cooperation, as well as key international issues, including the situation in the Middle East.

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🗣 US avoids accountability for Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings - Russia's MFA spox

💬 The United States, having never apologized for the nuclear bombings of Japan, is reinforcing the belief that they did the right thing at the time, Maria Zakharova told Sputnik.

"What does 'lack of condemnation' mean for the US? It creates a comfort zone for them. It doesn’t push them out of it. It keeps them in it so they don’t have to wonder (over questions like) ‘Do you regret it?’, ‘Would you do it again?’, and ‘Will you ever do it again?'" the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman added.

💣 In August 1945, American pilots dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. From the atomic explosion and its aftermath, 140,000 people died in Hiroshima, out of a population of 350,000, and 74,000 in Nagasaki.

☢️ The overwhelming majority of the victims of the atomic bombing were civilians. Every year, on the anniversaries of these tragic events—August 6 and 9—"Peace Ceremonies" are held in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIAN MOD UPDATE: HUGE GAINS & DEVASTATING UKRAINIAN LOSSES

◻️ Russian Armed Forces struck gas transportation infrastructure supporting Ukraine’s military-industrial facilities, as well as long-range UAV stockpiles, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

◻️ Black Sea Fleet forces destroyed two enemy unmanned boats in the southwestern part of the Black Sea.

◻️ Heavy Ukrainian losses: 1,155 soldiers, seven guided aerial bombs and 244 drones.

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⚔️ EU using Moldova as pawn in anti-Russia agenda – Russian MFA spox

The EU can’t afford real integration of Moldova, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik.

“The only funds being allocated now are for militarization. If by ‘integration’ they mean turning Moldova into a military outpost, they should say so. Moldova is just a pawn — a means to push anti-Russian rhetoric or distract from the West’s own economic failures,” she said.

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