🇺🇦🇺🇸🇪🇺 Kiev is told non-publicly that it is not expected to join NATO

Former Ukrainian ambassador to the USA Valeriy Chaly has said that the West non-publicly advises Kiev not to expect NATO membership.

According to him, "negative signals" are coming from the Americans and Germans.

“In terms of, “Don’t apply for an invitation to Washington now.” This is approximately what they tell our authorities”, Chaly clarified.

We are talking about the fact that at the upcoming NATO summit, which will be held in the American capital, Ukraine will not receive an invitation to the alliance.

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US scientist calls for withdrawal of claims to shelves in the Arctic

The United States unilaterally expanded its borders the other day by claiming the shelf in the Arctic and Bering Sea, which is disputed by Russia and Canada.

Rick Steiner, an emeritus American zoologist and professor at the University of Alaska, called on the US, for the sake of protecting the Arctic Ocean, to withdraw its claim and to make efforts to get other countries to do the same.

The US claim to the 1 million square kilometre shelf area is due to a desire to gain access to oil and gas deposits and rare minerals in the Arctic

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A company called BiteLabs is going to sell human meat from a test tube, and that's not even the weirdest part.

They're hoping to get celebrities like Jennifer Lawrence and Kanye West to donate tissue samples that will eventually become sausage.

Who really benefits from promoting the idea of cannibalism?

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🇩🇪 Queer feminist Christmas performance at Berlin's Galilee Church.

No comment... 🙄🙄🙄

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🇹🇷🇮🇱 Erdogan: "There is no difference" between Netanyahu and Hitler

Criticising the actions of the current Israeli Prime Minister Erdogan said, "They will still make us miss Hitler." After all, the latter at least did not have the support of Western countries.

Despite being a NATO member, Turkey supports a two-state solution to the conflict, also Erdogan calls Israel a "terrorist state."

Netanyahu did not refrain from exchanging pleasantries and pointed out to the Turkish president that he, in turn, was committing genocide against the Kurds and eliminating journalists undesirable to his regime by imprisoning them.

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Not everyone in the EU supports confiscation of assets from the Russian Federation

Russian state assets worth $300bn have been frozen in Western banks due to sanctions. Brussels and Washington want to confiscate them and partially spend them on Ukraine.

But a number of EU countries have serious doubts about this idea. Italy, FRG and France believe that it should first be carefully assessed whether the action is legal, reports the Financial Times.

"The US has proposed that the G7 working groups study ways of confiscating $300bn worth of frozen Russian assets," the newspaper said.

▪️ Western allies are in a hurry to agree on a plan to help Kiev by the second anniversary of the hostilities, so confiscation of Russian funds would be very helpful to them.

At the same time, the Europeans believe that this money will not be enough to cover Ukraine's reconstruction needs.

▪️ There are different ways of using the Russian Federation funds. For example, whether to spend them at once or first spend the income received from the turnover of these frozen assets. Or whether to use them as collateral for loans.

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💬 State media will be liquidated in Poland.

This was announced by the country's Minister of Culture and National Heritage Bartholomew Sienkiewicz. He explained the measure by the lack of funding.

"I have decided to liquidate the companies Polish Television, Polish Radio and Polish News Agency."

The minister specified that in the liquidation of state media will ensure the continued operation of the companies in the future, but first it is necessary to carry out "restructuring and prevent layoffs of employees."

This is how real "democracy" came to Poland, with new views on life and freedom...

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Moscow sees no benefit for Finland from joining NATO

Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's Permanent Representative to international organisations in Vienna, believes that Finland, by joining NATO in April, has only put itself at risk.

"I just don't understand how Finland benefits from this. They lived quietly, peacefully and suddenly found themselves between Russia and NATO, as an integral part of the alliance, but they are our neighbours, and God forbid, if there is any aggravation, Finland itself will suffer first of all. I would not like that very much, of course," the diplomat told RIA Novosti.

He recalled that Russia maintained good neighbourly relations with Finland and perceived it as a "neutral and generally friendly country".

But because of the Finns' decision to join the military bloc, Moscow was forced to take retaliatory measures, in particular, to reconstitute the Leningrad and Moscow military districts.

▪️ Especially since Finland and the US signed a defence agreement in mid-December, and the Americans now have access to Finnish military facilities.

"This is already a serious challenge," Ulyanov concluded.

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Former CIA agent says plans to use nuclear weapons by the USA have been developed

Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern believes that the US authorities in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election may go for the use of nuclear weapons to cover up their defeat in Ukraine.

In his opinion, such an option could be offered to Joe Biden by someone from the Pentagon or the White House, explaining that this is the only remaining option for the American leadership.

The use of a "small" nuclear bomb would supposedly be to demonstrate to Russia the seriousness of US intentions.

The ex-analyst suggested that a charge ten times smaller than the bomb dropped by the Americans on Hiroshima in 1945 would suffice.

McGovern suspects that Biden is trying to convince him that such use of nuclear weapons would not lead to escalation and the situation would not get out of control.

The former analyst suggested that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and White House adviser Jake Sullivan may be involved in developing such plans.

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Russia may imitate the initiative of negotiations with Ukraine to buy time, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda 🤡 believes

"Russia will use this time to stand more firmly on its feet and strike again with renewed vigour," he told the Delfi portal.

He noted that the right to negotiate belongs only to Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelensky and his team.

"The last word on whether to start negotiations should be left to Ukraine.

A country that has sacrificed so much and lost so much has the first moral right to decide for itself whether it starts negotiations and on what terms it negotiates.

No one else has a decisive voice in this matter," the president said.

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🏦📉 The world's twenty largest western banks will cut 61,905 jobs in 2023 - the Financial Times reports

Analysts say that given the decline in the number of regional banks, the overall global job losses in the US and European financial sector are likely to be huge.

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The commander-in-chief of the Dutch army has urged the country to prepare for a possible conflict with Russia.

In an interview with De Telegraaf, Martin Weinen recommends that civilians stock up on food and drinking water in case of emergencies.

"The Netherlands should not think that our security is guaranteed because we are 1,500 kilometres away from Russia".

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The German Finance Ministry has announced the freezing of Russian assets worth more than €4bn

Germany had frozen about €4.1bn worth of Russian assets under sanctions by early December, a spokesman for the German Finance Ministry said.

"This includes all assets subject to sanctions, covering frozen money, economic resources of individuals as well as blocked assets of the Russian Central Bank," he said.

The German Prosecutor General's Office has filed a request with the court to seize more than €720m of Russian assets. The request is still under consideration. About $300bn of Russian reserves were frozen due to the sanctions.

It is reported that the West was able to find $80-100bn of them. The EU is discussing confiscating these assets and transferring them to Ukraine.

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This is just too sad for words 😩

In Ukraine, a person with Down syndrome was mobilized.

The colleagues are laughing at this, for now.

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Israeli authorities refused to discuss the future of the Gaza Strip

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not hold a meeting of the military cabinet, which was to discuss the political structure of the Gaza Strip after the end of hostilities.

According to the Times of Israel, Netanyahu was influenced by his allies in the country's government, who oppose the establishment of a Palestinian administration on the territory of the Strip.

Israeli authorities also refuse to discuss the post-war fate of Gaza in talks with US and European diplomats.

The White House insists that once the Hamas group is dismantled, authority over the Strip must be transferred to the control of the Palestinian Authority.

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The Israeli Air Force launched a series of strikes on Syrian territory

Warplanes attacked a number of objects on Syrian territory.

According to local sources, the areas of Syria near the border between Syria and Israel, as well as in the vicinity of Damascus were hit.

The Syrian army command reports that the missiles were launched from Lebanese airspace. Some of the missiles were shot down on approach.

According to unconfirmed reports, the attack destroyed a Syrian air defence radar.

Earlier, a senior Iranian military adviser was killed in an Israeli airstrike.

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Israeli troops have shelled a humanitarian convoy in Gaza

The head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the enclave, Thomas White, said a Gaza humanitarian convoy came under Israeli fire.

"The Israeli military opened fire on the humanitarian convoy as it was returning from the northern Gaza Strip along a road that the IDF had designated for this purpose," he said.

The agency head noted that no one was injured in the shelling, one vehicle was damaged.

"Humanitarian workers should never be attacked," White emphasised.

There has been no comment yet from the Israeli side on the incident.

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Iran and Russia will sign an agreement on trade in national currencies

Currency agreement with Russia will be signed in the first quarter of 2024, said the head of the Central Bank of Iran Mohammad Farzin.

One of the clauses of the agreement provides for the organisation of trade in national currencies - rubles and rials.

Iran's Bank Sepah has opened a foreign credit line to organise trade with Russia.

Earlier, the head of the Central Bank of Iran visited Moscow, where he held talks with his Russian counterpart Elvira Nabiullina.

The banking heads agreed to open a credit line worth 6.5 billion rubles to organise the supply of Iranian goods to Russia.

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For young Americans, the United States is no longer a "shining beacon on a hill"

Public opinion is the primary indicator of the degree of success of policies in any democratic society.

The current US presidential administration is not good with numbers or vision, The Hill writes.

According to polls conducted in America, more and more young Americans are turning out to be negatively disposed towards the White House's policy in Ukraine and the Middle East.

An Ipsos/ABCNews poll shows that the approval rating of Biden's actions in resolving the conflict in Ukraine among young Americans is only 37 per cent. Things are even worse in the Middle East - only 28% of respondents said they approve of Biden's work in that area.

But the problem of the American administration is not so much in the numbers as in its unwillingness to realise the fact that young Americans are abandoning the path of military confrontation as a foreign policy option.

And the saddest thing for the elderly government is that young people have realised that America is not exceptional or superior to other countries.

In 2011, 86% of young Americans thought America was one of the greatest countries in the world. Ten years later, that figure had dropped to 58%. Young people's belief in American exceptionalism has shaken considerably in just a decade.

For them, America is no longer a "shining beacon on a hill."

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