Update

Number of AfD candidates deaths rises to seven.
Another death among the AfD candidates for the NRW local elections.

After each death ballot papers must be reprinted, and absentee voters must cast their ballots again.

This EU elections playbook "keep voting until the 'right' candidate wins" taking sinister turn in Germany

#Russia Senator Aleksey Pushkov:

"President Trump suddenly accused the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea of allegedly 'conspiring against the United States of America' while in Beijing.

Whether he said this ironically or not, Donald Trump — of all people — should know very well:

Every conspiracy against the U.S. as a nation, and against him personally, has always been — and still is — hatched inside America itself.

This is exactly what he admitted in his speech yesterday.

The real conspirators against America and its people are there, within the United States.

That is where they must be sought."

##UrsulavonderLeyen has released irrefutable evidence that Russia tried to interfere with her flights to Bulgaria.

Putin, closing out his China trip, says gas through Power of Siberia 2 will be sold at market rates... with no “friendship discounts” for Beijing, despite what Western media keeps claiming.
Other main points from the presser:
Putin remarks that the pipeline talks have dragged on for years and that Russia expects to send over 100 bcm of gas a year to China in the future.
He says that while Eurozone economies are stuck in recession, the global economy still moving; calls the visit’s results “positive;” says the idea of global governance is timely and remarks that SCO unity shows confidence the bloc can meet its goals.

Trump instructs Pentagon to prepare US armed forces for deterring Russia, China.

Donald Trump has tasked the Pentagon with preparations for deterring Russia and China, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said in an interview with Fox News.

"Unfortunately, the weakness of the previous administration has driven Russia and China closer together. That was a terrible development of a lack of the American leadership and a lack of American strength.
But that’s why President Trump has charged us at the Defense Department to be prepared, to rebuild our military in historic ways, to restore the warrior ethos and re-establish deterrence"

SCO summit in China rattled the "Global West" 😎
Now they're panicking, particularly Europe
🤡🤡🤡

Finland’s President Alex Stubb:

“If Europe and America don’t have a more cooperative foreign policy towards the Global South and India, then we will lose. The SCO meeting in China is a reminder to the West about what is at stake”.

Daddy Trump, please, please, don't abandon us! 🤣

#Russia President Putin:

“Everyone has equal rights in this multipolar world”

'There are economic giants like India or China...but it doesn't mean that anyone should dominate global politics or security. We don't believe there should be some domination, everyone must be equal”.

#India trims US Treasury holdings from ~$242B to ~$227B, while adding ~39 tonnes of gold to its reserves.

The RBI shrank its US Treasury bill holdings to $227bn in June 2025, down from $242bn a year earlier. Conversely, India added 39.22 metric tonnes of gold to its reserves

Instead of Finlandisation of Ukraine, Finland is being Ukrainianised:

Zelensky and Finnish President Stubb flew to Paris for tomorrow's meeting with European leaders.

#Russia Dmitry Medvedev:

The United Kingdom has sent Ukraine $1.3 billion received as profit from the use of Russia’s frozen assets. This was stated by the English idiot Lammy.

Well, this means one thing: the British thieves have handed Russian money over to the neo-Nazis. The consequences? Britain has trampled all over international law, and Russia has, as lawyers say, the right to file a claim against it and the current Banderite Ukraine. But given that, for obvious reasons, it is impossible to receive restitution through legal proceedings, our country has only one way to receive compensation for its stolen assets: to recover what was seized in kind. That is, in the form of ‘Ukrainian land,’ as well as other real estate and movable property located on it. (I am, of course, not talking about the lands of the new regions of Russia; they are ours already.)

So, any unlawful seizure of arrested Russian funds or income generated from them must be converted into additional territory and other property of country 404. Or by seizing the valuables of the British Crown. There are still enough of those in different places, including in Russia.

European 'leaders' seem obsessed with pushing for World War III and nuclear Armageddon

🤡 Rutte:

NATO is ready to give Ukraine 'security guarantees,' even troop deployments — but not ready to stretch resources too far.

Fact is that EU & NATO can't do anything without US support, money and input.

"If China, Russia, and India join forces — economically and even militarily — the US won’t be able to compete in the 21st century"

China, Russia and India are uniting because the West insists on treating them as enemies. And it's the US who done everything to push 🇨🇳 🇷🇺 🇮🇳 together

Update

#Germany
A string of "sudden" deaths of AfD candidates

If you can't fight your opponents democratically - ban them!

WELT:

The Greens have invited the parliamentary group leaders of the SPD, the CDU/CSU, and the Left Party to a meeting about a possible ban on the AfD.

#KajaKallas "Russia" derangement syndrome.

Kaja Kallas' revisionism makes sense when considering the role of her great-grandfather in founding Kaitseliit, the anti-Soviet militia that formed into the Nazi collaborationist Forest Brothers, who helped Germany exterminate Estonia's Jews and communists during World War II.

She questioned Moscow and Beijing's claims of a decisive role in defeating Nazism in World War II.

"Russia turned to China and said: 'Russia and China fought in World War II, we won World War II, we defeated Nazism' and I thought: 'Okay, that's something new'. If you know history, it raises a lot of questions. Nowadays, people don't read much and don't remember history. It's clear that they believe these narratives"

#NATO is going in circles. They rejected Russia's security concerns which led to war in #Ukraine

Rutte called Putin the governor of Texas and stated that he does not care about Russia's opinion on NATO troops in Ukraine.

"Why should we care what Russia thinks about troops in Ukraine? That is not for Russia to decide. Honestly, I am amazed. I'm not criticising you, but I often hear this question. Thank you for asking it, but I am really surprised. Russia has nothing to do with this at all.

It's the same as if Finland had to get 'permission' from Russia to join NATO. Of course not. And Sweden too — no. When we created NATO in the past, we were sovereign countries. Ukraine is a sovereign country.

If Ukraine wants to have forces to ensure security on its territory to support peace — that is its decision. No one else can decide on that.

And I think we really need to stop making Putin too powerful. He is like the governor of Texas, no more. So we shouldn't take it too seriously."

Trump's Assistant Senior Advisor and US Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, escaped the meeting of the "coalition of the yearning and the distressed" almost after 20 minutes after it began, according to the statement from the Elysian Palace.

@bneeditor

#Ukraine cope 🤣

🇺🇦MFA Deputy at UN:

Russia is not winning. Russia doesn't have any strategic advances anywhere.

China response to the EU imbecile #KajaKallas:

“Lack of common sense on history”

Bloomberg correspondent Oliver Krook:

Zelensky will come to Moscow if Trump orders him.

#Germany wants fight Russia to the last Ukrainian 'peace' in #Ukraine

BILD:
Germany significantly increases military aid to Ukraine
Germany will once again significantly increase its military aid to Ukraine: "We have promised a significant increase, especially with regard to weapons systems and air defense," German government circles said on Thursday with a view to the Ukraine Supporters' Conference in Paris.
The German government also wants to support Kyiv's offensive capabilities, for example, by helping with the construction of Ukrainian long-range missiles. The aim is generally to support weapons production in Ukraine, "precision weapons such as cruise missiles and so on," said a person familiar with the commitments.
According to government sources, Germany's military support for Ukraine currently stands at €40 billion, making it the largest supporter in Europe.

FAFO moment

Trump is bitter but has no-one to blame but himself