🇺🇸 Real US goal in Venezuela is oil — former Argentinian diplomat

American strategy in Latin America involves bringing pro-US right-wing governments to advance its own political and economic interests, block trade development and sever the region’s ties with China, former Argentine diplomat Alicia Castro tells Sputnik.

The US "closing" Venezuelan air space is part of efforts to blackmail airlines and an attempt to wage psychological warfare similar to that applied by America before attacking Libya, the expert noted.

This scenario includes:

🟠 Demonizing the leader of a target nation

🟠 Arming internal opposition and creating a parallel government

🟠 Fabricating claims of a massacre of civilians to start talking about the "necessity of protection"

But as in the case of Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, the true goal of the US in Venezuela is resources, as the country has the largest oil reserves in the world, Castro explains, adding if America decides to go to war, it will not be an easy one.

💬 "As [former Venezuelan President] Hugo Chavez said, Venezuela is a peaceful revolution, but not a disarmed one; the people fully understand how important it is to defend their sovereignty and natural resources," the diplomat concludes.

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🚨 Russian special presidential envoy for economic cooperation Kirill Dmitriev, US special envoy Steve Witkoff, and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner took a walk through Red Square ahead of their meeting with President Vladimir Putin.

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🚨 Putin: Global turbulence stems from the non-competitive tactics of certain Western countries seeking to eliminate rivals and preserve their fading monopoly.

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🚨 Putin: The West is failing to control the global economy through sanctions.

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🚨 Putin: Russia’s public debt remains among the lowest in the world

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🚨 Putin: Russia remains open for cooperation with foreign businesses

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🚨🇷🇺 Putin: Russia strengthens partnerships and defies Western economic pressure

Russia will continue to pursue a sovereign economic policy, President Vladimir Putin said at the VTB Investment Forum “Russia Calling!”. He outlined a series of positions on global turbulence, international cooperation, and the resilience of the Russian economy.

Key statements:

🔶Global turbulence is driven by the non-competitive tactics of certain Western countries.

🔶Western states are trying to eliminate competitors and preserve their fading privileges and monopoly.

🔶Despite external pressure, Russia’s economy is successfully coping with the challenges.

🔶The West is failing to control the global economy through sanctions.

🔶The vast majority of countries take a pragmatic approach, and Russia will continue to work with them.

🔶Russia, China, and India are united by decades of strategic partnership.

🔶Moscow aims to bring cooperation with China and India to a new level by strengthening the technological component.

🔶Putin will discuss increasing imports of Indian goods to the Russian market with PM Narendra Modi.

🔶Russia’s public finances remain stable.

🔶Russia guarantees reliable conditions for foreign investors.

🔶The budget deficit remains moderate.

🔶Russia’s public debt continues to be among the lowest in the world.

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🚨🇷🇺Putin on Pokrovsk: A key stronghold and an open invitation to doubters

🔶Krasnoarmeysk (Pokrovsk) has always been a top priority for the Ukrainian side, Russian President Vladimir Putin told journalists

🔶The city holds special strategic importance — a strong foothold for achieving all objectives of the special operation

🔶Putin recalled that Russia repeatedly invited those who doubted control over the city to visit Krasnoarmeysk themselves

🔶While certain risks remain, Russian journalists continue to work on the ground

🔶Russia is ready to take journalists — including from Western media — through every district of Krasnoarmeysk, Putin said

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🚨 Putin: Ukraine’s leadership is focused on anything but the battlefield — it’s as if they’re living in a different reality.

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🚨 Putin: Europeans weren’t pushed out of Russia — they walked away themselves, chasing illusions of “Russia's strategic defeat”

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🚨 Putin on Europe’s role in the Ukraine сrisis

🔶 Europe has pushed itself out of the Ukrainian settlement process, Russian President Vladimir Putin told journalists at the VTB Investment Forum “Russia Calling!”.

🔶 Instead of contributing to peace, European states are obstructing the US administration’s attempts to reach an agreement.

🔶 Europe offers no peace agenda on Ukraine — it has chosen the side of war, Putin said.

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🚨 Putin: Russia has no intention of fighting Europe — but if Europe starts a conflict, we are ready right now.

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🇷🇺💥 Meet Russia's cutting-edge Forpost-RE drone

Designed by Ural Works of Civil Aviation, it can conduct reconnaissance against ground or surface naval targets and strike them.

Specs:

🟠Range: Medium

🟠Weapons: guided/unguided aerial bombs and rockets up to 40 kg

🟠Temperatures range from -40°C to +50°C

🟠Features: auto takeoff and landing, can work without global satellite navigation signals

🟠Special equipment: relay system for radio communication with aviation command post

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🔥 EDEX 2025 exhibition: Day 2

Egypt’s fourth military exhibition continues its work in Cairo with more than 450 companies from 86 countries present.

Russian equipment on display: Su-57E jet fighter, Ka-52 helicopter, Antei-4000 anti-aircraft missile system, Forpost-RE recon and strike drone, and more.

The event takes place on December 1-4.

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸Putin has begun talks with US envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of President Donald Trump, at the Kremlin

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov and presidential special envoy Kirill Dmitriev are also taking part in the Putin–Witkoff talks.

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🎥🎥 Putin Hosts US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff at the Kremlin

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸 Putin told Witkoff he was glad to see him, while Witkoff called Moscow a magnificent city and said his walk through the capital was beautiful.

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🛢🇷🇺 West’s sanctions ‘failed miserably’ against Russia’s oil trade

📍 Russia has deep experience in selling its oil “even under the most atrocious Western sanctions,” Dr Mamdouh G. Salameh, an international oil economist and a global energy expert, tells Sputnik.

🟠 He agrees with Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, who told a briefing for Indian media organized by Sputnik India ahead of President Vladimir Putin’s official visit to India that Russia is successfully ensuring that its buyers have access to reliable supplies of energy products.

🟠 Western sanctions have “failed miserably to make even a small dent on both Russia’s economy and its oil and gas exports,” Dr Salameh says.

🇺🇸 US tariffs against India will be powerless to affect its energy partnership with Russia, he believes, since India’s decisions prioritize its national interests.

💬 “The India-Russian partnership is underpinned by trust, mutual benefits and huge gratitude by India towards Russia which has always stood solidly behind India and aided its struggle for independence since the days of the USSR,” the expert notes.

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🚨🇺🇸 Trump said the US is no longer bankrolling the Ukraine conflict — and slammed Biden for “handing out money like candy.”

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