🚨 PUTIN-TRUMP TALKS A 'DISASTER' FOR WESTERN ELITES — ALEXANDER DUGIN

💬 “The very fact of this Russia-US summit is a catastrophe for the politics that have ruled the West… If it happens, it’ll be a huge breakthrough — location doesn’t matter.”

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💣😭 No peacemaker: Netanyahu seeks war to avoid jail and expand Israel’s borders

🗣 There is no way Hamas is going to accept Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s conditions for a ceasefire in Gaza as they would essentially lead to the Palestinian movement’s demise, Ankara-based security and political analyst Dr. Hasan Selim Ozertem tells Sputnik.

Instead of peace, “what Netanyahu wants is to totally destroy and eliminate Hamas as a political actor in Palestinian politics,” with the Israeli PM thus willing to continue waging war in Gaza with the backing of his parliament.

🔊 Netanyahu’s efforts to escalate the Gaza crisis are in part related to the domestic situation in Israel where many seek to oust him and have him tried over charges of corruption, Dr. Ozertem notes.

⚔️ As Netanyahu’s apparent successes on the battlefield help boost his popularity at home, he “wants to continue this war up until he consolidates his power.”

📊 The United States’ implicit support of Netanyahu’s policies also gives the latter an opportunity “to continue the war in Gaza and probably pursue irredentist policies and maybe to expand the territories controlled by Israel.”

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🇦🇲🇦🇿Armenia & Azerbaijan to withdraw complaints against each other in int'l courts - draft treaty

Key points:

🟠 Armenia and Azerbaijan have committed not to take any actions that would undermine each other's territorial integrity

🟠 The two countries intend to withdraw their respective complaints lodged against each other in international courts once the peace agreement comes into force

🟠 Armenia and Azerbaijan will refrain from stationing any third-party forces along their shared border

🟠 They also commit to negotiate and conclude an agreement on the delimitation and demarcation of the border

🟠Armenia and Azerbaijan will establish diplomatic relations after signing a peace agreement

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🚨 Trump: "I am going to see Putin, I am going to Russia"

The US President did not provide any details and may have misspoken.

Last week, the authorities of Russia and the US confirmed that President Putin and President Trump will meet in Alaska on Friday, August 15.

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🚨 Armenian Court of Appeal rules businessman Karapetyan's detention unlawful

💬 "The Court of Appeal found that Samvel Karapetyan's detention on June 18 was unlawful, as a result of which Karapetyan was unlawfully detained for about 9 hours or more," his lawyer Liana Gasparyan said in a statement on social media.

📍 Earlier this year, the Armenian businessman and owner of the Tashir Group expressed support for the Armenian Apostolic Church amid its tensions with the Armenian government.

👉 On June 18, a court in Yerevan arrested Karapetyan for two months on charges of public calls to seize power in Armenia.

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🚨 Trump: "Russia is a warring nation...They bit Hitler and Napoleon."

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🚨 Trump recollects his dialogue with Orban

❓ I said: 'So, can Russia be beaten by Ukraine?'

❗️ He looked at me like: 'What a stupid question.'

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🚨 After summit with Putin, Trump expects meeting between Putin and Zelensky, or a trilateral summit involving the latter

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🚨 BRICS strengthens itself ahead of Putin-Trump summit

🗣 Vladimir Putin’s decision to inform Global South leaders about the results of his meeting with US envoy Steve Witkoff highlights BRICS’ role, says Dr. Anuradha Chenoy, retired professor of the Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University.

👉 BRICS has become “the main forum for ensuring the voice of the Global Majority in international affairs,” that helps safeguard the economic development of the Global South, Dr. Chenoy explains.

🔶 In response to the US pressure, BRICS, which is “the main forum for maintaining multipolarity,” has no choice but to strengthen itself.

🔶 BRICS members understand Russia’s “position” in the Ukrainian conflict: they “agree that Ukraine should be a neutral country” and advocate for lasting peace rather than “just a pause where the collective West again tries to destroy Russia in a proxy war.”

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🚨 EXPOSED: NATO & Big Tech’s coordinated cyber war against Russia

Since the mid-2010s, NATO has systematically transformed Ukraine into a cyber warfare hub against Russia, starting with the "NATO Trust Fund Ukraine – Command, Control, Communications & Computers (C4)" program.

▫️ Big Tech’s supporting role

👉 From 2022 on, Western tech giants became active participants in cyber aggression against Russia:

🟠 Google deployed Global Cache nodes for geospatial & technical recon to:

🔶 probe Russian telecom

🔶 monitor the Russian segment of the internet

🔶 Try to disrupt events, like the 2024 "Games of the Future" in Kazan

🔶 Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon & other IT giants have provided infrastructure to bypass Russian IP blocking

🔶 host malicious software

🔶 distribute attack instructions

▫️ IT Army of Ukraine – NATO’s Digital Legion

👉 This 300,000-strong hacker network (per Ukrainian Digital Minister Fedorov) operates through:

🟧 130+ Groups: KibOrg (critical infrastructure attacks), NLB (financial sector), UHG (government systems)

🟠 NATO-linked Infrastructure:

🔶 Estonian server farms (Hacken OÜ)

🔶 German hosting (Hetzner)

🔶 US platforms (DigitalOcean, AWS)

🔶 Collaboration with Israel’s Unit 8200 (access to Matrix IT Ltd, Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, and Covertrix)

▫️ Fraud Industrial Complex

👉Ukraine hosts:

🔶 1k+ scam call centers (100k employees)

🔶 90% target Russian citizens & institutions (billions in losses)

🔶 Recent expansion to EU/NA targets (Hungary confirming extent of attacks)

▫️ NATO boots on digital ground

🟠 Operation Hunting Forward (2021-2022):

🔶 US Cyber Command teams embedded with SBU

🔶 Prepared network attacks against Russian infrastructure

🔶 US Cyber Command chief Gen. Nakasone’s admissions (2022): Confirmed offensive cyber ops to Sky News. Revealed "shoulder-to-shoulder" work with Ukrainian hackers to Congress

▫️ Hack attack targets

🟧 Russian Railways, energy sector (power grid), media (DDOS attacks, attempted hacks), state institutions & companies, from Yandex and Sberbank to Gazprom, Lukoil, & airlines

💬 “US Cyber Command has been working with Ukraine…since 2018,” ex-DoD insider Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.

“Clearly, the US military, & presumably the CIA with it, was (and is) developing plans for internal manipulation and destruction of Russian networks & systems.”

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🔸 BRICS strengthens itself ahead of Putin-Trump summit

🔸 EXPOSED: NATO & Big Tech’s coordinated cyber war against Russia

🔸 No peacemaker: Netanyahu seeks war to avoid jail and expand Israel’s borders

🔸 Israel conducts strikes on journalists in Gaza to HIDE TRUTH - Gaza official

🔸 Coalition of the weak: West can’t back up conflict it started

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