❌ US FAILS to bully India – Modi stands tall

In recent weeks, the US threw everything at New Delhi — tariffs, threats, and pressure over Russian oil. But PM Modi stood firm. Ties with Russia and China played a decisive role.

The US slammed unprecedented tariffs on India. Yet Russian crude still made up a third of India’s imports in early August. No orders to refiners to stop. The message was clear: India’s sovereignty is non-negotiable.

According to German media, Modi even declined four calls from Trump. Meanwhile, Indian refiners may actually increase Russian oil purchases in September.

New Delhi is also deepening its BRICS diplomacy: Modi’s top aides visited Moscow twice in two weeks, Chinese FM Wang Yi came to Delhi, and now Modi is preparing a rare trip to China — where he will also meet Putin at the SCO summit. As China’s ambassador put it: “China firmly stands with India.”

❓ So what are the tariffs really about?

Officially, “Russian oil.” In reality, Americans can’t stomach a strong, independent India. The goal is to bring it to its knees.

Who pays the price? US consumers themselves. As one observer put it: “India's high tariffs cost us jobs and factories and income and higher wages.” Meanwhile, Zelensky keeps begging for more cash.

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🇮🇳🤝🇷🇺 India looks east: free trade with EAEU in play

📌 What is the EAEU?
Formed in 2015, the bloc unites Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. With a population of around 185 million, it functions as a single market for goods, services, capital, and labor — similar in concept to the EU.

💸 Trillion-dollar bloc
The EAEU’s GDP has grown from $1.6T to $2.6T, with steady expansion in trade, investment, and industry. Projections suggest ~6% average growth between 2025–2030.

💵 Beyond the dollar
Internal trade within the EAEU is largely de-dollarized, freeing members from U.S. financial controls.

📈 Rising hub
🔹 The union is pushing ahead with:

🔹 A growing common market

🔹 Import substitution & innovation

🔹 Expanding digital platforms & e-commerce

🇮🇳 India’s edge
For New Delhi, an FTA with the EAEU could bring access to new markets — pharma, machinery, electronics & more — while bypassing U.S. tariffs and strengthening sovereignty through de-dollarisation.

🤝 Deal on the table
India and the EAEU have already signed Terms of Reference to launch FTA negotiations. For India, this could be the strategic opening to secure trade with a fast-growing bloc of 185M people, outside of Washington’s grip.

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⚠️ West eyes NATO’s return to Afghanistan – Shoigu

Western powers are preparing to restore NATO’s military infrastructure in the Afghan region, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu wrote for a Russain newspaper, according to Russian media.

💬 “Despite declarative statements about having no intention to recognize the Taliban, London, Berlin and Washington are showing readiness to engage with Afghanistan’s leadership. It’s no coincidence their envoys have been visiting Kabul more frequently,” Shoigu noted.

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🇷🇺 🤝 🇨🇳​​ Russia-China trade hits new highs amid pivot away from West

Over the past three years, trade between Russia and China has grown by 67%, Russian Ambassador to China Igor Morgulov told Sputnik.

👉 According to the diplomat, after a number of Western companies exited the Russian market, Chinese businesses were quick to step in, supplying necessary goods in sufficient volumes.

Likewise, Russian exporters managed to effectively redirect trade flows toward China, further strengthening their positions in the local market.

📈 Data from China’s General Administration of Customs backs this up: In 2024, bilateral trade rose by 1.9% compared to the previous year, reaching a record $244.8 billion.

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📊 Russia rolls out engine offer ahead of SCO summit in China

Russian President Vladimir Putin will bring a “gift” to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in China—an agreement to supply Russian aircraft engines, Chinese outlet Sohu reports.

🗣 The “gift” refers to a statement by Rostec head Sergey Chemezov, who last week said Russia was ready to supply China with PD-14, PD-8, and the next-generation PD-35 aircraft engines if such a request is made.

This seemingly “routine” announcement was no coincidence, the outlet notes—it directly touches on issues surrounding China’s C919 passenger jet.

📉 Back in May, the New York Post reported that in response to China’s export restrictions, the US had suspended sales of critical American technologies to the Asian giant, including those tied to the C919’s development.

China’s homegrown C919 airliner is anticipated to be a strong new competitor to the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320, two of the world’s best-selling passenger jet aircraft.

🕐 The SCO summit in Tianjin, China, scheduled for August 31–September 1, will be the largest since the organization’s founding.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will travel to China for the summit from August 31 to September 3.

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🇧🇷 Brazil strikes back: Lula to impose retaliatory measures against US

President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has launched formal consultations to apply the Economic Reciprocity Law after the US imposed a 50% tariff hike on Brazilian exports.

👀 The process, which could take seven months, allows Brazil to retaliate with tariffs, trade restrictions, and IP measures if negotiations fail.

🗣 Lula emphasized that the US had ignored Brazilian ministers in prior talks, signaling that Brazil will defend its interests firmly—while still keeping the door open for negotiations.

💵 On July 30, Donald Trump signed a decree that increased duties on Brazilian products to 50%, but at the same time introduced a list of 700 exceptions in strategic sectors such as aircraft manufacturing, energy, and some agriculture.

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◻️ US tariffs on India: Why they were imposed and what they accomplish

◻️ 'Europe is NO LONGER an important factor in anything' – Milorad Dodik

◻️ US FAILS to bully India – Modi stands tall

◻️ Russia-China trade hits new highs amid pivot away from West

◻️ Brazil strikes back: Lula to impose retaliatory measures against US

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🇲🇩​​ Romania’s president eying Moldova annexation strategy?

Not only was Nicusor Dan a conspicuous no-show at Moldova’s Independence Day on August 27, but he abstained from sending a congratulatory message, G4media reports.

📑 The letter from Dan to Moldovan President Maia Sandu had reportedly been prepared, but was never sent.

💬 “There’s no reason to celebrate the independence of a state that Romania is meant to absorb,” the publication says, citing insiders.

Instead, Dan will visit Chisinau to participate in the observance of Romanian Language Day, the outlet added, as part of a “strategy” coordinated with Sandu’s pro-Western leadership.

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🇷🇺🤝🇮🇷​​ RUSSIA STRONGLY CONDEMNS EU ‘SNAPBACK’ SANCTIONS ON IRAN

💬 “We call on the international community to reject [sanctions]. Such falsifications cannot entail any obligations for other States. In fact, we have encountered an unceremonious attempt by European countries participating in the JCPOA to manipulate the provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 2231,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.

📊 The statement stressed that there are no legal grounds or procedural mechanisms for such sanctions. Russia has shared a detailed analysis with the UN exposing the invalidity of the European claims, with China providing similar arguments.

The ministry emphasized that avoiding a new escalation around Iran’s nuclear program is a priority, and that constructive dialogue among all parties is essential to prevent further confrontation.

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🇪🇺 ‘Insane aggression & illegal moves’ – French politician slams EU’s Ukraine playbook

👉 The EU aims for perpetual war to drag Europe into total chaos—Ursula von der Leyen’s threats make it obvious, French Patriots party leader Florian Philippot says on X.

These war hawks want to “make peace utterly impossible,” he warns.

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🚨 IDF DECLARES ALL OF GAZA CITY A 'COMBAT ZONE'

The Israeli military has officially ended daily humanitarian pauses in Gaza—previously observed from 10:00 to 20:00 MSK—and declared the entire city a continuous active combat zone.

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🚨 Putin does not rule out possibility of meeting with Zelensky – Kremlin

The Russian president believes any high-level meeting must be carefully prepared, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Peskov added that “work at the expert level is not yet in full swing,” but Russia remains interested in it.

More statements by the Kremlin spokesman:

💬 Full details of the Putin–Trump conversation in Alaska are being deliberately withheld in the interest of reaching a settlement

💬 The Kremlin expects a Chinese media interview with Putin ahead of his visit to China to be published tonight

💬 Russia and China value their privileged strategic partnership, the scale of which is difficult to overestimate

💬 Russia and China agree that the potential of the two countries’ relationship is still far from fully realized

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🗣 Providing security guarantees to Ukraine should be RESULT, not condition, of peaceful settlement – Russian MFA

💬 "The guarantees of so-called security that are being discussed in Europe, based on the rudiments of colonial thinking, are not what they seem to be. They lead to the degradation of strategic stability at the regional and global levels," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

📍 Zakharova added that providing security guarantees should be the result of a peaceful settlement "based on eliminating the root causes of the crisis in Ukraine," which will in turn guarantee the security of Russia.

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🚨🔭WHAT COULD SOROS BE JAILED FOR?

The Trump administration is turning up the heat on George Soros’ soft power empire amid revelations of his Open Society Foundations’ close-knit links to and alleged profiteering off USAID.

Is there a case for convicting the 94-year-old benefactor and beneficiary of the US imperial project?

💰 Financial crimes

🔸 Soros was convicted of insider trading in France in 2002 for profiting off state-owned privatizations in the 80s. Despite an appeal, his conviction was upheld by both France’s Supreme Court and the European Court of Human Rights, resulting in a €2.2 million fine.

🔸 In 1992, Soros earned $1 billion by speculating against the British pound, an action that cost the British economy billions. Dubbed “The Man who broke the Bank of England,” he was never charged.

🔸 Ex-Malaysian PM Mahathir Mohamad accused Soros of triggering the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis by orchestrating a currency collapse, but he was never prosecuted despite strict Malaysian criminal liability for market manipulation.

🗳 Electoral violations

🔹 Soros has been accused of meddling in politics and fueling color revolutions worldwide, from Eastern Europe to Africa, Latin America and Asia. He’s also been linked to interfering in Western politics, including the anti-Brexit movement in the UK and US elections since 2016.

🔹 Despite hundreds of Trump allies facing election-related charges, including a social media influencer recently jailed for influencing the 2016 vote, Soros, who has not only meddled, but funded prosecutors targeting Trump, has faced no charges. He’s also been accused of funding groups like Black Lives Matter fueling civil unrest in the US.

🗽 Defrauding the US government?

Soros’ Open Society Foundations are tied to hundreds of millions in USAID spending aimed at fomenting unrest globally. The US Criminal Code threatens up to 10 years for those conspiring to defraud the government, yet Soros has never faced charges.

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

◻️ Six settlements liberated during the past week

◻️ The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Ukrainian Navy's Simferopol reconnaissance ship and shot down a Su-27 jet over the past week

◻️ Russian troops launched 7 group strikes, hitting storage facilities for Sapsan missiles, a Neptune missile system, as well as an oil depot supplying fuel to Ukrainian militants this week

◻️ Ukrainian losses: 8,490 soldiers

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💥 Russian Iskander strike WIPES OUT Ukrainian Neptune missile system

Russian forces have eliminated a Ukrainian Neptune missile system along with its crew of 10 servicemen in Zaporozhye, Russia's Defense Ministry says.

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💸USAID: SOROS' SECRET CASH COW

US conservative think tank the Heritage Foundation claimed in 2017 that George Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF) had been made "the main implementer of USAID’s aid" since at least 2009.

But the Soros-USAID collaboration began much earlier.

🔶 A 1993 USAID document shows the agency signed an agreement with the Soros Foundations’ Management Training Program to train 30 "professionals" from Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

🔶 In the late 1990s and early 2000s, a series of color revolutions shook Eastern Europe, with George Soros' network of NGOs playing a central role in the unrest.

🔶 In 2003–2004, Soros’ International Renaissance Foundation partnered with USAID to support Ukraine's ‘Orange Revolution’. Prior to that, the US spent $54.7 million in 2003 and $34.11 million in 2004 on "democracy programs" in Ukraine through various agencies, including USAID

🔶 The US legal watchdog Judicial Watch revealed in April 2018 that USAID sponsored Soros’ globalist agenda in Guatemala. In total, OSF reportedly spent around $100 million fomenting unrest in Latin America between 2015 and 2018.

🔶 In October 2018, the watchdog obtained documents indicating that USAID partnered with Soros to fund radical left-wing activists in Albania. In 2016, USAID reportedly allocated $9 million to a campaign overseen by Soros’ East West Management Institute.

To illustrate the scale of funds managed by Soros-linked initiatives, in 2024, then-President Joe Biden requested nearly $30 billion for USAID in FY2025.

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🇸🇰 Fico: Fascism and Nazism still present, not defeated

💬 “I state with full responsibility that fascism and Nazism were neither suppressed nor punished. They simply managed to hide during the Cold War,” Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said, speaking at the 81st anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising.

Fico underlined that the results of WWII are being questioned, while Slovakia remembers who liberated it and the heavy price paid by the peoples of the former Soviet Union.

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⚡️🇮🇳🇷🇺 PUTIN TO VISIT INDIA IN DECEMBER - KREMLIN AIDE

PM Modi is expected to hold meeting with the Russian President on 1 September, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday.

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🚨🇷🇺🇨🇳 PUTIN’S UPCOMING VISIT TO CHINA: Key points from aide Ushakov

🔶 Aug 31 – Sept 3: Putin will visit China, attend the SCO summit in Tianjin & events in Beijing marking 80 years since WWII’s end.

🔶 Putin to meet China’s Xi, India’s Modi, Iran’s Pezeshkian, Serbia’s Vučić, Turkiye’s Erdogan & others

🔶 Russia–China talks in both broad & narrow formats “over tea” — agenda includes US ties & Ukraine. First Deputy PM Belousov will join the closed talks.

🔶 A possible Putin–Kim Jong Un meeting in China being worked out

🔶 No scheduled talks between Putin & Azerbaijan’s Aliyev, but both will attend anniversary events

🔶 Trump is not among the invited guests for Beijing’s WWII commemoration

🔶 A Russia–China–Mongolia trilateral summit scheduled

🔶 Russia’s delegation: 3 deputy PMs, 10+ ministers, heads of state corporations & major businesses.

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🇭🇺 Szijjarto: Ukraine endangers Hungary’s energy security

👉 Hungary must be prepared for even severe provocations from Ukraine following repeated attacks on the Druzhba oil pipeline, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto warns.

“We must be ready for even harsher provocations from Ukraine than ever before, aimed at dragging us into their war.”

🟠 He stressed that Ukraine’s state of conflict does not give it the right to endanger Hungary’s energy security.

“In my view, it is a huge lie that EU or NATO member states should fear an attack from Russia. I do not see any real security threat today. The Ukrainians are not fighting for us, we have not been attacked, this is not our war,” Szijjarto underlined.

🟠 On August 22, he reported that oil supplies through the pipeline to Hungary were halted for the third time due to Ukrainian strikes. Both Slovakia and Hungary filed complaints with the European Commission over the disruptions and requested guarantees of supply security.

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