🇧🇷 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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🚨BIG ONE: Seating at Beijing’s military parade revealed

🇷🇺 Putin will sit to 🇨🇳 Xi Jinping’s right — the place of honor.

To Xi’s left: 🇰🇵Kim Jong Un.

A symbolic lineup

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🕊 Soros free despite SOWING WHIRLWIND in the US

Donald Trump’s bid to prosecute George and Alex Soros won’t be easy.

The liberal billionaires are cunning and the Deep State is ready to protect its own, according to Dr George Szamuely of the Global Policy Institute.

🔶 George Soros’ organizations are the biggest donors to the Democratic Party, and powerful Dems return the favor by shielding him

🔶 Soros has funded the election of many attorneys general, mayors and district attorneys who push to decriminalize crimes, empty jails and let many suspects go free—yet he remains in the shadows during elections

🔶 Soros’ organizations operate under the cover of First Amendment rights, claiming they aren’t responsible for violence across the US

💬 "It doesn't look likely to me that any kind of criminal prosecution of Soros will succeed unless they can find some evidence that the Soros foundations knew that an organization would engage in violence and nonetheless continue to fund such an organization or even collaborate in violence," Szamuely tells Sputnik.

🔶 Trump says the Soroses could be prosecuted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for violent protests “and much more”

🔶 Netizens suggest Trump’s mention of RICO is no coincidence—he may be building a case with new evidence potentially to be revealed soon

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🇷🇺 Russia rejects US threats, lends solidarity to Venezuela – Foreign Ministry

🗣 Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Russia “does not accept threats of the use of force against sovereign states as a tool of foreign policy and expresses solidarity with the people and government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” after the US deployed warships off the Venezuelan coast.

💬 “Practices of military intervention must remain in the past,” she stressed.

🔹 In an August 22 phone call with Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, reaffirmed Russia’s support for the Venezuelan government in defending national sovereignty and ensuring institutional stability.

🔹 Russia maintains close contact with Caracas in the spirit of strategic partnership—and insists that Latin America must be allowed to develop peacefully and independently, without conflicts or foreign intervention.

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🚨 Jail time looming? Time is ripe to charge Soros and associates

Racketeering charges for George Soros and his son Alex should just be the beginning, political commentator and Newsmax columnist Michael Shannon tells Sputnik.

Donald Trump has said they should be charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), normally used to target mafia and other criminal enterprises.

💬 "Soros’ money either directly or indirectly has financed riots, civic destruction and the two–tier system of justice that lets Marxists and minorities off with a slap on the wrist and subjects conservatives and whites to the full, exaggerated force of the law," says Shannon, stressing that the billionaire and his son "should have had a RICO indictment years ago."

Could Soros be jailed?

🔶 Whether Soros can be convicted and jailed depends on where Trump seeks the indictment. In Washington DC, where a grand jury is too liberal, it's doomed, but in Florida, Oklahoma or Texas it could work

🔶 The legal insulation Soros’ wealth provided in the past is wearing off, and the Trump government is ready to go after him

🔶 All the NGOs that helped Soros finance and implement the illegal immigrant invasion of the US should be RICOed and the executives jailed

💬 "It would be rewarding to see George Soros behind bars where he can meet some of the many criminals the district attorneys he’s helped elect over the years have let go," Shannon says.

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⚔️ Soros vs. Trump – two visions of US global role

🔊 Brazilian analyst Williams Gonçalves, professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro, told Sputnik that the clash between George Soros and Donald Trump reflects opposing strategies for US power.

📍 He noted that Soros funds organizations worldwide which interfere in domestic politics “under the banner of defending democracy,” adding that “spontaneous street movements do not exist — there is always someone behind logistics and finance.”

🔶 Since WWII, US foundations have influenced internal politics globally, especially in Latin America. According to Gonçalves, Soros represents interventionist globalism, while Trump rejects globalization as harmful to US interests.

🔶 He said Ukraine was central to the globalist agenda, with Soros’ son Alex fully supporting Volodymyr Zelensky.

💬 “The US gave Ukraine loans, Ukraine bought US weapons, fed the military industry and went into debt,” Gonçalves said. “Zelensky tried to maintain this deal — Trump disrupted that plan.”

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