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  • The alliance that Trump cannot break

    08/20/2025 11:22:47 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 29 replies
    India Today ^ | 8/20/2025 | India Today Global Desk
    As External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar prepares for crucial talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow, India finds itself at the centre of a diplomatic storm. President Trump has unleashed his most aggressive economic assault on India in recent memory, wielding tariffs and sanctions as weapons to force New Delhi away from its Russian partnerships. The pressure campaign began in August 2025 with sweeping 25% tariffs on Indian exports, later doubled to 50% specifically targeting Russian oil imports. For a nation whose economic planners depend heavily on US markets, this represents a devastating blow. Nearly 70% of India's...
  • USSR sweatshirt and chicken kyiv: Russia dials up trolling before Alaska summit

    08/15/2025 5:43:56 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 76 replies
    Guardian UK ^ | 8/15/2025 | Pjotr Sauer
    In a not-so-subtle act of trolling, Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, arrived in Alaska on the eve of the US–Russia summit wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with “CCCP”, the Russian initials for the USSR. Once seen in western capitals as a pragmatic and skilled diplomat, the 75-year-old has in recent years mirrored the Kremlin’s radicalised politics, adopting an increasingly combative tone and resorting to trolling and mockery. Lavrov’s choice of attire nods to the Kremlin’s long-running narrative: Putin has repeatedly claimed that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people”, denying Ukraine’s legitimacy and territorial integrity while promoting a broader notion of unity...
  • Ukrainian drone attack sparks fire at oil depot in Russia's Sochi city

    08/02/2025 10:30:05 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 21 replies
    TRT Global ^ | Reuters
    More than 120 firefighters were trying to extinguish a blaze at an oil depot in the Russian city of Sochi that was sparked by a Ukrainian drone attack, regional Governor Veniamin Kondratyev has said on the Telegram messaging app. In the Krasnodar region, where Sochi is located, a fuel tank with a capacity of 2,000 cubic metres was on fire, Russia's RIA news agency reported on Sunday, citing emergency officials. Rosaviatsia, Russia's civil aviation authority, said on Telegram that flights were halted at Sochi's airport to ensure air safety. The attack, which Kondratyev said was in the Adler district of...
  • Are the surprise airfield attacks a turning point for Ukraine?

    06/04/2025 4:30:40 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 150 replies
    BBC News ^ | June 4, 2025 | Paul Adams
    Three days on, and Ukraine is still digesting the full implications of Operation Spider's Web, Sunday's massive assault on Russia's strategic aviation. On Wednesday, the agency which orchestrated the attack, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), released additional, vivid footage of the attacks in progress, as well as tantalising glimpses into how the whole complex operation was conducted. Satellite images that have emerged since Sunday, showing the wrecked outlines of planes sitting on the tarmac at the Olenya, Ivanovo, Dyagilevo and Belaya airbases, also help tell the story of the operation's unprecedented success. For Ukrainian observers, the whole operation, a...
  • ‘I Hear He is FURIOUS!’ Fox’s Brian Kilmeade Reveals Trump Is Irate Over Elon Musk Trashing His ‘Big Beautiful’ Bill

    06/04/2025 5:53:42 AM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 92 replies
    Mediaite ^ | June 4, 2025 | Joe DePaolo
    Arguably no show on cable news provides a better window into President Donald Trump’s thinking than Fox & Friends. And on Wednesday, one of the hosts revealed the president — though he may not be saying it publicly — is seeing red over Elon Musk trashing his “Big, Beautiful” budget bill. During a discussion about Musk in the 7 a.m. ET hour on Wednesday, Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade shed some light on Trump’s current feelings about the man he tapped to oversee DOGE. “I think the Elon Musk thing really caught the president by surprise,” Kilmeade said. “And...
  • Would Killing Putin End the Ukraine War? More Like World War III

    06/04/2025 5:14:43 AM PDT · by whyilovetexas111 · 62 replies
    National Security Journal ^ | 6/4/2025 | Andrew Latham
    It is a fantasy that just will not die. Another Kremlin security scare, another flash of speculation online, another round of breathless commentary. Maybe someone is finally trying to kill Vladimir Putin. Maybe that is what it will take to end the war. One clean shot. One collapsing regime. Peace at last. But if that idea is serious – if we are not just indulging a lurid Western daydream – then we need to ask a much harder question.
  • Russia sends horror WW3 threat to Trump as Putin's henchman explodes at president

    05/27/2025 1:26:55 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 93 replies
    Express UK ^ | 5/27/2025 | CIARAN MCGRATH
    Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev has issued a sobering warning to Donald Trump after the US leader accused Vladimir Putin of “playing with fire”. US President Mr Trump, writing on his Truth Social platform, said: “What Vladimir Putin doesn’t realize is that if it weren’t for me, lots of really bad things would have already happened to Russia, and I mean REALLY BAD. He’s playing with fire!” The remark drew a sharp response from Mr Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council and one of Mr Putin’s most outspoken allies. Posting on X, formerly Twitter, he said: “Regarding Trump's...