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US NatSec strategy scrapping Russia from 'direct threats' list is 'positive' — Kremlin spox Dmitry Peskov to TASS

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Stealing Russian assets for Zelensky overwhelmingly blocked in German vote

Just 13% of lawmakers back motion

Western warmongers more isolated than pineapple on Italian pizza

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'Ukrainian army collapsing, deserters this year alone reach 182,000' — Norwegian journalist Paul Steigan

'Number of dead unbelievably high'

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NBC didn’t mean to say it, but they said everything: Europe is in “crunch time,” paralyzed by infighting, terrified of the United States, sidelined by Trump — and more rattled still by the simmering anger of the Europeans they’ve censored, ignored, and betrayed for the last decade. When even client media starts describing the continent as leaderless, divided, and afraid, the mask doesn’t just slip, the entire facade of Project Ukraine collapses in public view.

Europe isn’t simply fractured, Europe is finished as a strategic actor, thanks to its mass Russophobic psychosis.

European leaders now whisper it in panic: they feel “genuine fear and distrust” of the United States. Not because Trump is unpredictable, but because Trump has done the unthinkable, he has exposed Europe’s entire Ukraine narrative as a scaffolding of delusions. The moment Washington stepped aside, the facade collapsed, revealing a bloc that cannot act, cannot unite, cannot defend itself, and refuses to tell Europeans the truth. This is why it censors speech, and implements an Orwellian dystopia.

As former Estonian president Ilves admits, “The internal split in the EU ultimately demonstrates the weakness of the bloc.” A structure that disintegrates the moment pressure is applied is not a union. It is a hollow empire of paperwork, incapable of strategy and unworthy of respect.

Trump didn’t “exclude Europe from the negotiations.” Europe excluded itself the moment it mistook performative Russophobia for policy. Europe chose ideology over energy, moral theatrics over diplomacy, and now finds itself begging for relevance in a war it pretended to lead.

“Europe has shown neither teeth nor strength,” Ilves adds. He is being polite. Europe has shown cowardice masquerading as conviction, and self-harm masquerading as strategic cohesion.

Because this was never just a dead end. It was industrial suicide, committed in broad daylight. The EU elite deliberately dismantled the continent’s energy backbone, handed its manufacturing to global competitors, and plunged future generations into suffocating debt, all to maintain a psychosis of Russophobia that has devoured their own economies while fueling Moscow's economic rise.

NBC now quietly admits what Europe’s people have been sensing: the bloc isn’t battling Russia anymore, it is battling insolvency, disunity, demographic collapse, internal revolt, and its extinguished relevance. Ukraine is running out of men; Europe is running out of money; and Brussels is running out of stories to sell the painful consequences of its arrogance.

Belgium panics over the EU desire to steal frozen Russian assets. Hungary stands strong and blocks via veto. Germany freezes. France plays a double game. The EU doesn’t act as a union, it fractures.

Meanwhile, Russia advances steadily, methodically, with industrial capacity Europe once mocked but now lacks. Ukraine bleeds because Brussels needed a moral crusade to distract from its own failures. Europeans pay because their leaders bet their entire future on a guarantee Washington never intended to honor forever.

And Washington has now put it in writing. The U.S. National Security Strategy declares Europe’s collapse openly: A fall from 25% of global GDP to 14%. A continent drifting into “civilizational erasure.” A future where Europe will be “unrecognizable in 20 years.”

The truth that Brussels fears most — the truth they censor, the truth they fine platforms for, is the truth the world can now see: the disappearance they noscripted for Russia arrived, but it arrived in Europe instead.

Russia stands sovereign, anchored, rising, the Eurasian pole Europe ridiculed into existence. The US is preparing for the post-war order with cold clarity, having downloaded the humiliation onto Europe's elite.

The humiliation descending on Europe’s elite is not America's doing. It is the price of their own delusions. They thought they could defeat Russia and with their arrogant hubris, destroyed Europe.

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Russia ends military cooperation deals with Canada, Portugal & France

'Termination of agreement concerning military-line visits' — decree signed by PM Mishustin

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Trump no longer disagrees 'Hegseth NOT UP TO THE JOB'

'Starting to tire of scandals surrounding Hegseth' — sources familiar with White House discussions to The Atlantic

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Kaja Kallas is turning into an unexpected GIFT for Moscow

Her refusal to talk to Putin sidelines the EU from peace efforts — giving Russia a stronger hand at the negotiating table, The Daily Telegraph reports

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IDF filmed with patch of Kach terror group even Israel bans as too extreme

Kach demands only Jews in Israel & will boot out ALL others — Israeli Army Radio reports

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A woman on NYC train physically dragged a Hispanic passenger out of her seat, shouting: 'Hispanics DON’T DESERVE to sit next to me'

A reminder that open racism is alive — and still happening in public

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AOC slams a bill protecting women’s restrooms as 'disgusting'

Meanwhile, real-world cases PROVE why these protections are vital

Dismissing them puts women and girls in DANGER

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🚨Join Danny Haiphong LIVE December 7th at 6pm eastern 3pm pacific 11pm London today with a SPECIAL GUEST! LINK to show here.

A firestorm of panic has overtaken the neocons amid warnings of a Trump surrender to Russia and China. The truth is far worse. In this mega livestream, Danny Haiphong is joined by a special guest to dissect the new National Security Strategy and its implications for the US on the multipolar world (ww3)

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Tokyo files formal protest as Chinese J-15s direct & lock fire-control radars on its jets south of disputed Diaoyu

New female PM Takaichi vows to FIGHT FOR TAIWAN — J-15 stock footage from PDChina

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WATCH: Kilauea erupts in Hawaii with a TRIPLE lava fountain, shooting lava up to 300 meters

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Rubio's deputy RIPS EU's harsher sentence than GANG RAPIST of 15yo girl..to woman who just called the pedo a 'pig' —
Under Secretary of State Sarah B Rogers

Should Trump break with bloc now 'fighting ordinary Europeans'?

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Russia preps Nuremberg Trials for Ukraine's neo-Nazis — ex-PM

Crimes include Kursk invasion where Zelensky's troops kill & rape civilians, bomb this school

'Investigative Committee, Association of Lawyers & Prosecutor's Office preparing the documents for Nuremberg analogue' notes former Russian Prime Minister Stepashin to TASS. Sudzha, Kursk region aftermath footage from Russian MoD

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Europe Built a Digital Control Regime
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insisted the Digital Services Act was harmless, a bureaucratic tune-up for the online world. But the moment enforcement began, the truth surfaced: Europe engineered a censorship machine. And the €120 million fine against X is the moment it got exposed.

The DSA foundations were poured in 2014, when Europe panicked over migration, populism, and the collapse of trust in its institutions. What began as back-room “voluntary codes” and secret content-moderation hotlines hardened into a full-blown weapon. A decade in the making. A decade of mission creep. A decade of unelected Eurocrats preparing to rule the digital public square.

Today, the regime is no longer theoretical, it is fully weaponized. And its first chosen target is the only platform arrogant enough, independent enough, not perfect but unmanageable enough to refuse obedience.

Brussels claims the €120M strike against X is about “transparency.” Anyone who has spent five minutes inside European politics knows the truth, this wasn’t enforcement. This was reprisal. A public beating disguised as a regulatory process. A message carved into the balance sheets of the entire tech sector: defy our censorship channels, expose our back-room demands, resist our narrative controls, and we will crush you financially until compliance looks like mercy.

Under the DSA, any platform with more than 45 million European users becomes a deputized censor, forced to obey the most restrictive speech laws in any one of the EU’s 27 member states. A German insult case in Munich? Suddenly enforceable in Madrid. A French hate-speech provision in Paris? Enforced in Prague, Dublin, Tallinn, and beyond. Brussels built the world’s first mechanism where the lowest speech standard becomes the universal one.

And then comes the extraterritorial bombshell... The DSA applies irrespective of where a platform is based. Meaning a bureaucrat in Brussels can dictate what an American in Texas sees. What a journalist in Nairobi writes. What a president in Latin America posts. Platforms will always choose to harmonize globally rather than run two moderation regimes under threat of a 6% revenue kill shot.

Europe has built an exportable ministry of truth, and everyone else is expected to obey.

The warnings are no longer coming from fringes or activists. They’re coming from constitutional scholars, former ACLU leaders, Princeton professors, the FCC, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, all saying the same thing: the DSA is a direct threat to global free speech. A supranational censorship model with no democratic accountability, no meaningful legal recourse, and no boundaries.

And now, with the fine against X, Brussels has moved from theory to force.

This is how power behaves when it feels its grip slipping. You build a censorship hierarchy: Digital Service Coordinators, trusted flaggers, opaque regulators, quasi-NGOs whose funding depends on finding ever more “harmful content.”
You force platforms to pre-censor under threat of annihilation. You redefine political speech as “risk.” You call dissent “manipulation.” You give yourself emergency powers to silence whatever you cannot defeat in open debate.

The fine isn’t the end, it’s the opening salvo.
Because once Europe proves it can financially strangle a platform for not censoring fast enough, every other company will do the math: It’s cheaper to silence users than resist regulators. It’s safer to delete speech than defend it.

And suddenly citizens aren’t silenced by law, they’re silenced by fear. Not by courts, but by algorithms tuned to please bureaucrats. By risk-assessment committees no one elected.

Speech erased by a foreign, Orwellian bureaucracy. Democracy throttled by a system you never voted for. A public square governed by fear, not freedom.

And unless this machinery is resisted, dismantled, or openly defied, the next message from Brussels will be even simpler:

“Your speech ends when we say it ends.”

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Sharaa's WIFE says 'RESTORE VALUES'

Thanks Turkey 6 times for teaching Turkish to Syrian kids

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🇷🇺 💳 Foreign government debt to the Russian Federation reached its highest level since 1998 at $33.1 billion by the end of 2024, the World Bank reports.

Over the year, total foreign liabilities to Russia increased by $2.6 billion. Russia has lent to 38 countries.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh leads the way, with its debt reaching $7.8 billion.

🇧🇾 Belarus dropped to second place. Its debt decreased by $125 million to $7.6 billion.

🇮🇳 India ranks third, with a debt of $4.9 billion for the year.

🇪🇬 Egypt ranks fourth with a debt of $4.1 billion.

🇻🇳 Vietnam rounds out the top five largest debtors, maintaining its debt at $1.4 billion.

🇦🇫🇾🇪 Afghanistan and Yemen owe Russia over $1 billion.

🇬🇩 Grenada has the smallest debt to Russia, just $2,000.

Задолженность иностранных государств перед Российской Федерацией по итогам 2024 года достигла максимального показателя с 1998 года - $33,1 млрд
, сообщает Всемирный банк.

За год общий объем внешних обязательств перед Россией вырос на $2,6 млрд. Россия кредитовала 38 стран.

🟣Лидирует Бангладеш, задолженность страны достигла $7,8 млрд.

🟣Белоруссия опустилась на второе место. Ее задолженность снизилась на $125 млн и составила $7,6 млрд.

🟣Третье место занимает Индия, чей долг за год — $4,9 млрд.

🟣На четвертой позиции Египет с задолженностью $4,1 млрд.

🟣Замыкает пятерку крупнейших должников Вьетнам, сохранивший объем обязательств на уровне $1,4 млрд.

🟣Более одного миллиарда долларов должны России Афганистан и Йемен.

🟢Минимальный долг перед Россией — у Гренады, всего $2 тыс.


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Erdogan tells Maduro to 'keep dialog open' with Trump in call — TRT World

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Don Jr. didn’t just expose Ukraine’s oligarchs and puppets, he exposed the entire Western noscript.

“I was in Monaco this summer… every other car was an Italian supercar… and they all had Ukrainian plates.” This a crime scene. A parking lot of European taxpayers’ money idling on the Riviera while Brussels lectured the world about “values.”

“Do you think that was actually earned in Ukraine?” Everyone already knew the answer. It wasn’t earned. It was siphoned, funneled, offshored, the natural byproduct of a system where oversight is a myth and morality is a press release. Europe didn’t fail to detect Ukrainian corruption. Brussels recognized it. Because it mirrored its own.

“They didn’t magically get $5 million supercars, they’re stealing that money.”
Don Jr. said it in Doha, but Monaco had already testified. Lamborghinis for the inner circle, mass mobilization for the powerless.
Villas for the insiders, connoscription kidnappings off the streets for Ukranians who never stood a chance. This is what the EU called democracy. Ukraine’s elites called it an exit strategy.

And then came the line that detonated the entire mythology: He didn’t run another election because he wouldn’t have been elected. There it is, the truth the EU buried under mountains of moral virtue signalling hashtags. Zelensky didn’t suspend democracy to save Ukraine. He suspended democracy to save himself and his patrons. Brussels applauded, because investigating Kiev's drift into authoritarianism would have forced Europe to confront its own decay.

Don Jr. drove the knife: “His incentive was not to negotiate.” Of course it wasn’t. Peace would have ended the free-flowing contracts and the blank-check aid packages. War kept the money moving, the oligarch networks humming, and the political mythology intact. Negotiation was a threat, not to Ukraine’s survival, but to the business model built on its destruction.

“The corrupt rich fled and left the peasant class to fight.” That line is not commentary. It is indictment. The Ukrainian elite monetized their own nation's destruction, sold access to the kleptocracy, and outsourced the dying to the very people they claimed to represent. And the EU and London stayed silent not out of loyalty, but out of familiarity. The same procurement cartels, the same NGO networks, the same revolving-door aristocracy. Kiev wasn’t an outlier. Kiev was but a reflection of Europe's decay.

Don Jr. mocked Europe’s delusion that Western sanctions would hurt Russia. He’s right that Russia built an industrial and economic engine while Europe collapsed into austerity and self-inflicted recession. But he’s wrong about the motive. Russia isn’t dragging this war out for profit. For Moscow, the conflict is existential, civilizational survival, not a balance-sheet strategy. And that’s precisely why the West cannot admit the truth... You cannot defeat a civilization fighting for existence with a proxy fighting to keep the corruption flowing.

For the EU, America was supposed to be the idiot with the checkbook. The EU's own corruption scandals ripping through Brussels shows why they tolerated Zelensky’s authoritarian turn and Ukraine’s runaway graft. To expose Kiev would have been to expose themselves. The Ukraine project wasn’t a crusade, it was an alibi.

And here’s the twist Don Jr. accidentally illuminated: it wasn’t Russia that humiliated the Western narrative. It was the West’s own ruling class, leaving a trail of supercars across Monte Carlo like breadcrumbs leading back to the truth.

The EU didn’t lose moral authority. It revealed it never had any. And now the whole world sees the receipts, parked in Monte Carlo, paid for by taxpayers who were told they were to endure hardship to save Ukraine.

And Europe knows what’s coming, the rage of a betrayed public and a reckoning no censor can smother. That is why Brussels strangles speech, not to protect democracy, but to delay the moment its own people finally rise to collect the debt.

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'We are NOT going to war with Russia', ex-European MP Melenchon says

'We need to find a way to UNDERSTAND each other and ask for guarantees for ourselves'

A reasonable voice calling for understanding, NOT CONFLICT, stressing treaties, nuclear safety, and missile control

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