The global trend of substituting the US dollar with local currencies in the trade of goods and transactions has been on the rise, with countries hoping to reduce their dependence on Washington and prevent it from further exploiting its power and weaponizing its global dollar dominance.

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Translated from Ukrainian propaganda channel:

During Ukrainian president's visit to Poland, Duda presented Zelensky with the Order of the White Eagle, Poland's highest award.

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There will be no borders between Ukrainians and Poles in the future, — Zelensky during a visit to Poland

“In the future, there will be no borders between our peoples: political, economic and, what is very important, historical. But for this we still need to win. For this we need to go side by side a little more,” the President said.

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It looks, that the White Eagle was given for a good purpose. If there would not be border between Ukraine and Poland, then would it be Poland or Ukraine (what could be left of it?). Only knowing the history of Polish-Russia-Ukraine relationships one can understand how contradictive and certainly not beneficial to Ukraine that chimeric alliance might be.

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Refugees or displaced persons?
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On February 24, 2022, Poles rushed to our south-eastern border. The human, often Christian-motivated, compassion impulse pushed thousands of my compatriots to spontaneous gestures of help towards people whom they considered to be refugees from the war and the immediate threat to their lives.

In a fit of heart, we remained blind not only to demographics, but also to geography, some of them travelled hundreds of kilometres to collect "refugees" advertised on the Internet, almost no one paid attention to the fact that most of them come from areas that have not been affected by warfare at any time and to this day. Nobody remembered that Ukraine, being a country larger than Poland within its current borders, has huge territorial reserves that allow for free internal migrations of the population. Only a slight propaganda stimulus was enough, intensified by the very fact of war in a country directly bordering Poland — and hearts opened along with the borders. Repentance came over time, to a very limited extent, and of course, when it was already too late, and the Polish-Ukrainian border was crossed by 10 million 400 thousand Ukrainians within 13 months.

Population shock
Of course, a significant part of them goes further to the West, to European Union countries with a more extensive system of social benefits than Poland, while some register only in Poland for benefits, receive financial and material assistance, and return to Ukraine. However, even taking this into account and adding a more or less constant number of Ukrainian guest workers from before February 2022, it turns out that at least 4.8 million Ukrainians, i.e. about 14% of the pre-war population, moved to Poland. For a country that, as a result of border changes after World War II and demographic changes, both voluntary and forced, has become almost ethnically homogeneous — this is a shock without precedent in its history. Let us repeat: in just one year, Poland received eight times more immigrants than all European countries received in the memorable year 2015, hailed as the year of the European migration crisis.
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Refugees or displaced persons?
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Invitation for mafia and terrorism
For Poles who have been assured for years that migration problems do not concern us, this is certainly a shock and a fundamental, existential change, ultimately questioning the exclusiveness of one nation to decide on matters of its own nation state. In fact, however, as a journalist and war correspondent for many years, I am able to easily point to a similar example of a provoked migration wave, justified by a fundamentally false and artificially created "war and humanitarian threat". Such a moment was the war in Kosovo and the NATO invasion of Yugoslavia in 1999. I perfectly remember these moral blackmails, open borders (especially of Austria, Germany, Italy) and the run, the run of Kosovo Albanians. Not an escape, but a run to a better life, because if they themselves ask, encourage, make it easier, then only a fool would not take advantage of it. No one who remembers the ensuing years needs reminding of the genesis of the Kosovo mafia, which, while still operating under the protection of American and British secret services, almost monopolized drug trafficking and human trafficking, further enhanced by car theft and minor crime. It was also one of the sources of funding for international terrorism, of which the training camps run by the People's Mujahideen organized by NATO in Albania are known centres. Well, on the borders of Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Moldova with Ukraine, exactly the same thing is happening, only on an even larger scale. Under the guise of "humanitarian aid", we have allowed over a dozen million newcomers and displaced people into the Schengen area, practically without any control, and among them, without the slightest doubt, also thousands of gangsters, criminals, terrorists, including those who have direct contact with Islamic State cells in the Caucasus. This is an act hostile to Europe, it is another invasion carried out at the behest and on the hand of our Anglo-Saxon occupiers.

What about those fleeing to Russia?
Of course, however, also listening and reading about the so-called Ukrainian migration crisis, we are only learning part of the truth. What we do not learn is that Russia remains one of the countries permanently receiving the largest number of immigrants from Ukraine. Nearly 2.5 million refugees from the eastern, Russian-speaking areas of Ukraine found their way to Russia in the last year alone, and this number does not include the thousands of families evacuated from the Donbass mercilessly bombed by the Kiev regime. This number increased significantly as the war dragged on, especially as a result of last year's Ukrainian counter-offensives and repressions against the local population in areas reoccupied by the troops of the Kiev junta. These refugees are not covered by international aid, just like ordinary Russians, they are forced to endure the burdens of economic war and sanctions that the West applies toto the peoples of the Russian Federation. And yet Russia bears the cost of the imposed war without complaining or whining for clemency.
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21st century Nazism
Another aspect is cultural and civilization issues. It is with real sadness that we see our Slavic brothers in the Ukrainians, and we observe the effects of many years of Nazi indoctrination among the newcomers. The state cult of Stepan Bandera, Roman Shukhevych and other Nazi collaborators has left a lasting mark on subsequent generations of Ukrainians. A terrible harm has been done to these people by raising them to hate their neighbours, ethnic and religious minorities and all non-cult criminals. Ukraine is an area where de-Nazification is absolutely necessary, and while it is regrettable that it is currently taking place in the form of a fratricidal war, this should not blind us to the openly neo-Nazi character of the current Ukrainian state and its authorities. When we talk about the crimes of the Ukrainian Nazis, we do not mean only the Volhynian Massacre, when in the few summer months of 1943 the Banderites murdered almost 200,000 of their Polish, Jewish, Czech, Armenian and even Ukrainian neighbours. The crime of Nazi genocide was both the burnt offering in the Odessa House of Trade Unions on May 2, 2014, the attack by Ukrainian troops on defenceless demonstrators in Donetsk, demanding language rights, on May 26, 2014, and the crimes of Azov and other Ukrainian Nazi-Special Battalions in the Donbass in 2014-2022, and finally, the murders of prisoners and civilians perpetrated every day by the troops of the Kiev junta during the current war. These are Nazi criminals, and their recruitment camps are masses of Ukrainian immigrants to Europe. No one from the outside controls what content Ukrainian youth is indoctrinated with, just like in Poland, all mentions of the crimes of the Ukrainian Nazis were removed from school curricula "because you shouldn't annoy the guests". So, 78 years after the end of World War II, we have a Nazi state in the middle of Europe and we ourselves pay for the upbringing and training of its militarized cadres, and at the same time when the governments of our countries persecute their own citizens for even the slightest sign of patriotism, self-defense or a sense of national dignity .

Invasion against Europe
As Europeans, as patriots of our countries and nations, we face an existential threat. The mass migrations of the Ukrainian population to the territory of the European Union threaten to destabilize at least on a macro-regional scale, involve the disorganization of our economies and confront us with an enemy wrongly considered defeated: Nazism. And it is Nazism additionally accumulated through its alliance with Anglo-Saxon imperialism and the interests of international finance. The question is: can we defend ourselves against this threat?

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A Few Dollars More: Welcome to a Eurasian World
Western actions have driven the rest of the world to embrace the idea of commodity-backed currencies. For the U.S. dollar, built upon debt and confidence, this could mean certain doom.

The war in Ukraine has seen outside money taking back some of the inside money of the Davos oligarchs. It is Russia clawing back the real world of commodities, of realpolitik.

The dollar is still the reserve currency. This seismic change will not happen overnight. But the seeds are sown. The present banking crisis, at Credit Suisse, at Deutsche Bank, and at others, are symptomatic of the weakness of the fiat system. During pressures, the banks are less inclined to risk the inside money game; the currencies are not backed by commodities. However, with outside money, the currencies are supported by hard commodities. This is the allure of the new system. In times of banking pressures, the central banks are forced to step in and print new money; hence the currency is further weakened. This is now playing out in the West; the gradual death of fiat currencies.

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Claire Daley MEP for Ireland:
"By imposing sanctions on Russia, Europe thereby shot itself in both legs. The EU understands that the same measures against China would lead to a complete collapse of the economy. However, we are seeing hostile rhetoric in Europe towards China due to the fact that it has been influenced by the United States. Europe has found itself at the tail end of American politics. I still think that it is in our own interests for China to be on good terms with us, so that it continues to promote a multipolar world."

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Macron: no one should place nuclear weapons on foreign soil
Emmanuel Macron urged not to deploy nuclear weapons outside the countries with them

PARIS, April 6 — RIA Novosti. No country can deploy nuclear weapons on foreign soil, French President Emmanuel Macron said at a joint press conference with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

"France believes that nuclear weapons should be completely excluded from the conflict in Ukraine. In no case can nuclear weapons be placed outside the territory of a nuclear power, especially in Europe," the head of state said.

Russia's decision to deploy tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) in Belarus "is incomparable with its obligations under international law," the French leader argues.
"China and France, as permanent members of the UN Security Council and nuclear powers, given their history of love and commitment to independence, should work together to maintain an international order that can meet the challenges of the times," Macron added.

At the end of March, Vladimir Putin announced that Moscow and Minsk had agreed to deploy tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) in Belarus. The President stressed that this does not violate any international obligations, since there is no talk of transferring weapons. As the press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov noted, the reaction of the West will not affect Moscow's plans. The construction of the storage facility will be completed by July 1.
Russia will do what the US has been doing for decades by deploying its tactical nuclear weapons in Europe, Putin pointed out. So, the States keep one hundred tactical nuclear weapons in the countries of the Old World. Charges with a capacity of 0.3 to 50 kilotons for the B61-3 and B61-4 bombs are stored at six bases in five NATO countries — Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey.
Western critics of the Russian initiative do not mention the problem of storing American nuclear weapons in Germany. The German authorities do not comment on this topic. Leading international experts estimate the number of nuclear bombs in the country at several dozen units, and German opposition parties have been demanding the withdrawal of this type of weapons from the territory of the state for many years.
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Macron: "What is allowed to the master — the US, is not allowed to Russia."

Quod licet Iovi (Jovi), non licet bovi (from Latin - “What is permitted to Jupiter, is not allowed to a bull”) is a winged Latin expression, the meaning of which is that if something is allowed to a person or group of people, it is absolutely not necessarily allowed to everyone else.

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Macron fails to move Xi Jinping over Russia’s war on Ukraine
French leader also commits diplomatic faux pas at Beijing press conference.

BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping showed no sign of changing his position over Russia’s war on Ukraine after talks Thursday with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.

On the second day of Macron’s state visit to China, Xi took his long-standing line on Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine — saying that “all sides” have “reasonable security concerns” — and gave no hint he would use his influence to help end the conflict.

“China is willing to jointly appeal with France to the international community to remain rational and calm,” was as far as the Chinese leader would go during a press conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.

“Peace talks should be resumed as soon as possible, taking into account the reasonable security concerns of all sides with reference to the U.N. Charter … seeking political resolution and constructing a balanced, effective and sustainable European security framework,” he added, sitting next to Macron.

The French president arrived in China on Wednesday in the hope of pushing China to use its leverage with Russia to end the conflict, and to get Beijing to speak out against the Kremlin’s threat to host nuclear missiles in Belarus.

During his private meeting with Xi, Macron raised Western concerns that Beijing will deliver weapons to China, according to a French diplomat with knowledge of the talks. But the French leader didn’t seem to get far.

“The president urged Xi not to make deliveries to Russia that would help its war against Ukraine. Xi said this war is not his,” the diplomat said, speaking anonymously to describe the private session.

Xi and Macron then stepped in for their joint appearance, billed as a “press conference with Communist characteristics” — essentially meaning no press questions allowed.

The two leaders’ contrasting styles were immediately apparent. Xi read his carefully noscripted remarks while staring straight ahead before ceding to Macron. The French leader then proceeded to speak for roughly twice as long as his host — a protocol faux pas that members of Xi’s Chinese entourage noticed.

Xi himself at times looked impatient and annoyed as Macron continued speaking. The Chinese leader heaved several deep sighs and appeared uncomfortable as Macron addressed him directly while apparently ad-libbing on the Ukraine war and their joint responsibility to uphold peace.

Macron also appealed to Xi to explicitly condemn Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

“Speaking about peace and stability means talking about the war waged by Russia against Ukraine. You’ve made some important comments,” the French leader said. “This is a war that involves all of us because a member of the Security Council has decided to violate the U.N. charter. We cannot accept that.”
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Xi didn’t explicitly mention Russia in his remarks, though. And in a move likely to irk U.S. officials, Xi also said that China and France should “resume exchanges between the legislative bodies and militaries.” He then included France in a common refrain that Chinese officials use to criticize the U.S.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry urges NATO to take responsibility for Ukraine

BEIJING, April 6 — RIA Novosti. The US and NATO must take responsibility for the Ukrainian issue, the alliance has no right to criticize China or put pressure on it, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said at a briefing on Thursday.
"China has always taken an objective and fair position on the issue of the Ukrainian crisis, Beijing is the initiator of a political settlement of the crisis, a supporter of promoting reconciliation and negotiations, and enjoys the support of most countries in the international community," Mao Ning said. She noted that the document outlining China's position on a political solution to the Ukrainian crisis comprehensively reflects the corresponding position, and history will ultimately show who really stands on the side of justice.

“As for the responsibility on the Ukrainian issue, I think that the United States and military blocs such as NATO should take responsibility, NATO has no right to criticize China or put pressure on it,” the diplomat said.
Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance is monitoring the strengthening of cooperation between Russia and China, against this background, it intends to increase interaction with partners in the Indo-Pacific region. He stressed that "China refused to condemn the Russian aggression, supports the Russian economy and propaganda." At the same time, Stoltenberg warned China against supplying weapons to Russia, arguing that this would be a "historical mistake" and "would have significant consequences."
At the end of February, the Chinese Foreign Ministry published a 12-point statement containing a position on the political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis. Among the main points are the need to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries, the resumption of direct dialogue between Moscow and Kiev, and a call to prevent further escalation. China also opposed the abuse of unilateral sanctions in the context of the Ukrainian conflict, as they do not help resolve the crisis.
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The media published the details of the NATO talks on Ukraine
FT: US, Germany and Hungary opposed Poland's proposals for Ukraine to join NATO

MOSCOW, April 6 — RIA Novosti. NATO countries could not come to a common position on Ukraine's entry into the alliance, writes the Financial Times, citing sources.

The US, Germany, Hungary are resisting efforts by countries such as Poland, as well as the Baltic countries, to offer Kiev deeper ties to NATO and convey clear statements of support for its future membership.
The interlocutors of the newspaper specified that this week the foreign ministers of the member countries of the bloc discussed what could be offered to Kyiv. During the discussion, considerable disagreement arose over whether to offer Ukraine a "road map" for membership in the alliance at the July summit in Vilnius.
"The United States, at the same time, opposed this proposal," the sources quoted the publication as saying.

Washington, according to the FT, calls for a focus on military, financial and humanitarian assistance to Kyiv.
On Thursday, the Lithuanian Seimas adopted a resolution on inviting Ukraine to NATO at a summit in Vilnius. At the same time, on the eve of the head of the country's Foreign Ministry, Gabrielius Landsbergis, said that no one expects the Ukrainian side to be accepted into the alliance by the start of the summit meeting.

At the end of September last year, Kyiv applied to join NATO on an accelerated basis. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg then once again pointed to the "open door policy" and the right of each country to self-determination, but recalled that in order to accept a new member, the consent of all countries participating in the alliance is needed.
Moscow stressed that they are closely monitoring the situation and remember that it was Ukraine's orientation towards joining NATO that became one of the reasons for the start of the special operation.
The NATO summit in the Lithuanian capital will be held on July 11-12.

"We don't blackmail." Lukashenko and Putin spoke about the future

MOSCOW, April 6 — RIA Novosti. The Presidents of Russia and Belarus held two-day talks in Moscow. At a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State (SG), the implementation of the agreement on the creation of the SG and joint work on 28 sectoral programs were discussed. Before that, the leaders met in private.

Nuclear waltz
The day before, head of the Foreign Intelligence Service Sergei Naryshkin visited Minsk. He declared full trust between the special services of the two countries. And Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Belarus had already received the Iskander-M missile system, capable of delivering nuclear strikes. In addition, some aircraft of the Belarusian Air Force were reequipped for special ammunition. Warhead storage will be built by July.

Lukashenko was inspired by the opening prospects. "It will be necessary — Putin and I will decide and introduce strategic nuclear weapons here. And they must understand this — scoundrels who are abroad today are trying to blow us up from inside and outside. We will stop at nothing, protecting our countries, our states and their peoples," he stressed in his message to Belarusian citizens.
The news about the deployment of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus excited the West. Russian Ambassador to the Republic Boris Gryzlov noted: “Finally, they are paying attention to the fact that there should be a certain parity. If we are talking about the deployment of American nuclear weapons in European countries — these are Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and Turkey — then actions must be taken to which will increase the security of our Union State".

The first day
Russia and Belarus have been integrating into the Union State for more than 20 years. According to Lukashenka, 28 allied "road maps" have been implemented by about 80 percent. The economies of both countries will not fall apart under the pressure of Western sanctions, because together they resist them, the Belarusian leader assured. Problems can be overcome even in microelectronics.

“It turns out that they have found opportunities to work here too: missiles fly, and military equipment moves around here and here,” Lukashenko explained. “Everyone was frightened by hunger and cold. So what? the harvest is huge. It will be the same in industry.”
Putin also mentioned that a lot has already been done within the framework of joint work.

Second day
In the public part of the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State, Lukashenko spoke more. According to him, the day before he held "fundamental talks" with Putin, largely devoted to security issues and the development of the military-industrial complex. “If necessary, we will use everything we have to protect our states and our peoples,” he repeated. “We are not blackmailing anyone, it will be so.”

However, the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus was not discussed at the meeting, said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Instead, they decided to develop a draft unified Security Concept. This will help the sustainable economic development of the Union State, Putin said. The document will reflect the fundamental tasks in the area of growing tension and the unleashed sanctions and information war. At the same time, Lukashenka stressed that the Union State is the leader among integration projects in the post-Soviet space. “We move freely, we can work… We have no problems in this regard,” he assured.
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Western sanctions do not bother him either: foreign microcircuits are needed only to assemble the iPhone, and they are not suitable for conquering space. There are no critical difficulties in other areas either. Ukraine delivers certain troubles, continued Moscow's main ally. According to him, the Belarusian-Ukrainian border is tightly closed, but the same cannot be said about the Russian-Ukrainian one. True, the FSB and the KGB are effectively combating emerging threats through joint efforts.
In turn, Putin thanked Lukashenka for his readiness to include assistance to students in the DPR and LPR in the humanitarian agenda of the Union State. "If these are not humanitarian issues, then what can be attributed to them? Education, assistance to children, young people — this, probably, should always be in the focus of our attention," Putin said.

Results
Political scientist Andrei Suzdaltsev noted that every time Lukashenko comes to meet with Putin, he seeks to strengthen economic ties with Moscow.
“As for the deployment of nuclear weapons, this is also mutually beneficial. Russia will strengthen its security, and Lukashenko will position himself as the main guarantor of Russian missiles on his territory. That is, Moscow will have to protect him,” the expert argues.
Vladimir Zharikhin, deputy head of the Institute of CIS Countries, stressed that economic and security issues are the most important for both sides today. Moreover, there are no contradictions between them, since everyone understands that there is no time.
“With hard work, we managed to agree on 28 road maps. The countries continue their rapprochement in order to cope with Western pressure, but, apparently, they are not going to create supranational bodies. On the other hand, the current opportunities are quite enough to deepen cooperation in other areas ", — Zharikhin believes.
It is obvious that Lukashenka's visit to Russia is far from the last one. At the same time, contacts will develop not only along the lines of the Union State — Moscow and Minsk also bring the EAEU and the CSTO closer.