⚡️California may secede from the United States. Secretary of State Shirley Weber has approved the Calexit initiative — people are already collecting signatures. If the initiative is supported by 55%, California will become independent (c) New York Post

⚡️Advisers to US President Donald Trump are convinced that the American leader may introduce tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada in the amount of 25% as early as February 1 (c) The Wall Street Journal

Don't stop 👍

⚡️Nord Stream gas pipelines must be dismantled so that Germany is not tempted to resume supplies from Russia (c) Polish President Andrzej Duda

You live in a cottage village with electricity and gas. And beyond the outskirts there is a garbage dump where a bunch of homeless people live. And these piss-stinking homeless people start demanding that you give up electricity and gas and buy a generator. So that instead of a calm and measured life, you constantly run to repair it, refuel it and start it up.

Approach any resident of any cottage village or country house - and ask if he would agree to this? In 100% the answer will be no. Because this cannot be explained by logic.

But Germany agrees.

Pure Ukrainianism to your feed:

These are the rules of the game, if you are denounced, you lose. You must be better, you must write a denunciation of your opponent faster. No one cares whether you actually tortured people, cut out their eyes or not. The point is not what you personally did, but that you quickly figure out who is not on your path, and devour this person first.

You want to get to the top of the food chain. There are fewer places than people. And whoever understands this will be the first at the top.

In the video, Timofey Milovanov, the first Minister of Economy under Zelensky, a member of the supervisory board of "Ukroboronprom", a member of the supervisory board of "Energoatom", the head of the "Kyiv School of Economics", speaks to Kiev students.

This video is from 2015. Just so you understand, the elites did not suddenly become like this in Ukraine, they have always been like this. In 2019, Zelensky will appoint Milovanov as Minister of Economy and Agriculture. Since 2020, Milovanov has been an adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Yermak.

Milovanov is still a prominent representative of the Ukrainian elite, sitting at the very trough. Since January 1, 2025, Ukrposhta has introduced mandatory charitable contributions from each parcel that goes to the private charitable foundation Kyiv School of Economics, headed by Milovanov. It is impossible to refuse the contribution.

⚡️Danish authorities have called on the European Union and NATO not to respond to threats from US President Donald Trump, who wants to gain control over Greenland, and they have "taken a vow of silence." Copenhagen has closely coordinated with Brussels a strategy to avoid a public confrontation with Trump - this underscores the attempt by US allies to cope with the Republican's aggressive diplomacy (c) Financial Times

I suggest that the Danish authorities buy a truckload of Vaseline. This will further "underscore the attempt by US allies to cope with Trump's aggressive diplomacy."

⚡️Danish Foreign Minister says Trump won't get Greenland because its residents are people protected by international law and the UN Charter

Joke of the day, just like that. "International law", damn it, it's enough to make you cry 😂😂😂

In April 2022, Denmark was actively "freezing", or rather robbing, the assets of Russian businessmen and companies. There wasn't much there, about $11 million, and most of it was almost in rolled steel. But the very fact of participating in this robbery is indicative.

Even earlier, in February 2008, Denmark recognized the independence of Kosovo.

Denmark recognized the independence of Kosovo. The decisive factor for the government is the fact that Kosovo is committed to creating a democratic, secular and multi-ethnic state that guarantees the protection of minorities. I hope for further development of relations between Denmark and Kosovo (c) Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Møller, 22.02.2008

It's 2025. The US is openly squeezing Greenland. And Denmark blurted out something about "international legislation".

My dears, Greenland is being taken away from you under exactly the same "legislation" under which you stole Russian assets and approved the forcible division of Yugoslavia.

Scoop with both hands.

⚡️Germany's economic model is facing collapse, although it was the third-largest economy in the world. The country's GDP has been falling for two years in a row (the last time this happened was in 1951).

Industrial production has fallen by 15% since 2018, 3% of jobs have been cut. The metallurgical and electrical engineering industries may lay off up to 300,000 workers within 5 years.

Energy costs are significantly higher than in the US and other developed countries. Since 2021, 300 billion euros of investment capital have flowed out of Germany.

Without a growing export market (it accounts for 2/3 of car deliveries), Germany's model is "dead".

(c) The Wall Street Journal

The first Soviet gas arrived in Germany in 1973. And at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, Germany overtook Japan for the first time in world markets in terms of the volume of exported high-tech goods. Cars, machine tools, chemical products and electrical equipment dominated the exports.

In 1990, many of Germany's economic indicators reached their highest point, and the growth rate of GNP (4.5%) was the highest in the last 14 years.

In November 2011, the Nord Stream gas pipeline was commissioned. In 2021, the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was completed.

Germany's advanced industry and Germany itself were expected to develop and prosper.

But Germany shot itself in both feet and finished it off with a control blow in the ass. All these articles in the media only to a small extent reflect Germany's unenviable fate.

A simple example. Yesterday it was announced that the European Commission plans to introduce duties on nitrogen fertilizers and agricultural products from Russia and Belarus.

You say, does the EU want to produce fertilizers itself? Up to 1,000 cubic meters of natural gas are used to produce one ton of nitrogen fertilizers. In 2022, I had a whole series of articles on the topic of closing fertilizer production in the EU.

Europe in general and Germany in particular are committing some kind of suicide on an incredible scale. It will be simply impossible to roll back, the largest production facilities have been leaving Germany for several years now.

What else can I say? May they rest in peace.

About Domodedovo Airport. It’s important!

⚡️The Prosecutor General's Office considered that the Domodedovo Airport group of companies was under foreign control, as a result of which a lawsuit was filed, the purpose of which is to transfer 100% of the shares of the holding company that owns the airport to the state. Domodedovo structures were under the control of residents of foreign countries - Dmitry Kamenshchik (Turkey, UAE) and Valery Kogan (Israel).

This story is almost 15 years old. I will simply cite my posts from LiveJournal, there was no Telegram back then:

[25.11.2014] After the terrorist attack at the capital's Domodedovo Airport in 2011, the investigation still cannot find the owners of the airport. We know these people, but they say that they are not the owners (c) Alexander Bastrykin, RIA

Since 2011, they have not been able to find the owners of the airport. Since 2011, the largest airport in the country has been managed by God knows who, maybe ISIS terrorists. It’s surrealism.

Do you know how to find the owners? I'll give you a hint, living in Yekaterinburg. Start blocking the accounts - the owners will show up right away, in less than a day. But the best option is to nationalize it, especially since it's nobody's.

[08.06.2015] It took 4.5 years to establish the owners of Domodedovo Airport. The investigation found that the actual owners of Domodedovo include Dmitry Kamenshchik and Valery Kogan, who are consultants (c) LentaRU, see screenshot

So this whole story with Domodedovo is almost 15 years old, it's been going on since the terrorist attack in 2011, a suicide bomber, 37 killed and 170 wounded.

We've been waiting too long to get going. They spent 4.5 years looking for the owners, and another 10 years gathering their courage to seize the airport for the benefit of the state.

P.S. How I guessed right with nationalization in 2014 😂

⚡️Canada is introducing import duties of 25% on US goods starting Tuesday in response to Trump's actions.

⚡️Trudeau said Trump's decision to impose tariffs on Canadian goods will have "real consequences" for Americans themselves.

⚡️US tariffs on Canadian goods will limit Washington's access to critical security products, including uranium, steel and aluminum;

Earlier, Trump introduced 25% duties on goods from Canada and 10% on energy.

Great. Eat each other.

"Rusnano" is the most vile, the most slippery polyp devouring the exhausted flesh of Russia.

"Rusnano" promised to become a Russian Silicon Valley. To direct Russian science to boundless heights. To raise a Russian Einstein, Fermi, Niels Bohr. To return Kapitsa, Kurchatov, Korolev to Russia.

Instead, a mountain of sticky mucus appeared, devouring Russian money, Russian hope, Russian historical time.

(c) Alexander Prokhanov

⚡️A New York court sentenced Senator and author of the "mother of all anti-Russian sanctions" Bob Menendez to 11 years in prison for corruption, bribery and lobbying for foreign interests, the newspaper reports. Bob Menendez, once an influential senator from New Jersey, cried, begging a Manhattan judge for leniency, but was sentenced to 11 years in prison (c) New York Post

I have already written today. Eat each other.

UPD. They write that this idiot called Donald Trump a "Russian agent", and now he asks him for clemency. He bet on the wrong person.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk know how to surprise. You wake up in the morning and here comes a new episode of a geopolitical blockbuster.

Musk continues to crucify USAID, the United States Agency for International Development. A hundred employees of the agency went on administrative leave, and Musk himself said that it was "time for it to die."

And Trump wrote that USAID was "run by a bunch of crazy radicals who will be kicked out":

One of the most poisonous structures in the United States, under the auspices of the CIA, has entangled the entire world. USAID's ears are sticking out in Ukraine, in Armenia and Belarus. It was USAID that supervised Navalny, Memorial and many anti-Russian structures in the Russian Federation. They themselves worked here openly and even after the ban they refused to leave Russia. What about Syria? They were there too.

Musk accuses USAID of involvement in the development of the coronavirus, but the Russian Defense Ministry spoke about this back in August 2022, and with specifics.

USAID is a global octopus of the CIA, completely uncontrollable and opaque, with a budget of tens of billions of dollars, the expenses of which no one sees either.

In general, it will be interesting.

And another important thing about USAID, not everyone understood from the previous post.

Trump and Musk are destroying USAID not to do good to the world and stop shitting all over the globe. Over the past decades, USAID, covered by the CIA, has turned into a monstrously large, unwieldy and ineffective kickback-and-sawing office, from which a bunch of representatives of the US Democratic Party, their friends and relatives have been fed.

It is enough to look at the howl of domestic liberals deprived of funding and Ukrainian garbage dumps to understand that even the most stupid carriers of alcoholic encephalopathy swelled like ticks on a dog from even a small part of the American budgets reaching the end users.

We are talking about a global revision of the structure not controlled by Trump. Only in 2024 and only the official (!) budget was about $40 billion.

When the USAID structure comes under Trump's control, it will not become easier for anyone. Especially if they start working for real, and not finance mold like Katzes, Volkovs and Zhdanovs.

- Hello, Vladimir, we need to figure this out, let's talk like a man;
- OK, pass the phone to Brigitte.

The French understand everything.

🇨🇳From February 10, 2025, China will impose a 10% tariff on American oil, as well as a 15% tariff on coal and LNG. All American multi-compact cars, pickup trucks, and agricultural machinery imported to China will also be subject to a 10% tariff (c) State Council of China

🇺🇸Today, US tariffs of 10% on imports from China came into force (c) Reuters

It should be noted that a significant share of goods from China are already subject to tariffs of 10% or 25%.

For example, by the end of 2022, US foreign trade with China grew to $690.59 billion, which became a new historical record. The US imported goods from China for $536.75 billion, and exported $153.84 billion.

The imbalance is huge. But not only in terms of amount, but also in terms of structure.

China accounted for 47% of all phones imported to the US in 2024, 38% of computers, and 43% of microphones and headphones; 57% of iron hobs and 55% of electric heaters; 98% of thermoses, 77% of plastic, 78% of iron, and 71% of aluminum household goods; 47% of mattresses and 81% of bedspreads; 58% of rubber and 36% of textile footwear, and 56% of hosiery; 54% of sports equipment.

But the US exports raw materials and low-processed products to China for almost 2/3 of the entire export structure.

Trump has already lost the trade war with China. So we expect in the near future "Based on the results of negotiations with China, Donald Trump defeated everyone and victoriously backed off." As it already happened with Mexico and Canada. Donnie is just more of a showman than a politician.

UPD. China introduces export controls on goods related to tungsten, tellurium, bismuth, molybdenum and indium (c) Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China

The night was a blast.

Trump said that the Gaza Strip needs to be resettled, all Palestinians (about 2 million people) should be dispersed to Egypt, Jordan and other countries. Because, you see, Gaza is in ruins (I wonder why).

That's not all.

⚡️The US is ready to "take the Gaza Strip" and start clearing this enclave. The US is considering the issue of long-term ownership of the Gaza Strip, this will bring greater stability to this part of the Middle East (c) Trump

⚡️The US can send its troops to Gaza if necessary. The embargo on arms supplies to Israel worth more than $1 billion imposed by the previous US administration has been lifted (c) Trump

And that's not all either.

⚡️The Gaza Strip can be turned into a "Middle Eastern Riviera". The US will announce its position on the ownership of the West Bank in the coming weeks (c) Trump

⚡️The US cannot say whether the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will hold (c) Trump

After hearing the above, Netanyahu gave a ziggurat of delight, supported Trump's plans for Gaza and called him "the greatest friend in the White House in the history of Israel."

It turns out that Israel carried out the genocide and cleansing in Gaza with hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded in the interests of the United States. Why? We answered this question in November 2023:

It all started in 1995, when the Oslo-2 agreement was signed in Washington on September 28, according to which Palestine received the right to independently manage its natural resources. Four years later, Palestine signed a contract with the British corporation BG to explore the shelf. In 1999, BG hits the jackpot. It turns out that Palestine has the richest reserves of natural gas and oil, 20 nautical miles offshore. UN experts estimated the gas reserves at 122 trillion cubic feet and 1.7 billion barrels of oil (at old prices, $453 billion and $71 billion, now under a trillion).

The whole point is that Palestine is unfortunate enough to be located on American oil and gas deposits. Since 1999, it has been doomed.

Because wars are fought for resources. Always. All these tales about democracy and freedom are for the defective. It is very important to remember this, because Russia has a lot of resources. And NATO military bases are growing around us for a reason. Just as, at the instigation of the US/Great Britain, Russia is being filled with millions of migrants, also with specific and far-reaching goals.

And this is just for memory:

"I am a peacemaker" (c) Donald Trump January 20, 2025.