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According to a recent POLITICO news report, during the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos, then US President Donald Trump told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in a private meeting, the following: “you need to understand that if Europe is under attack we will never come to help you and to support you, and by the way NATO is dead, and we will leave, we will quit NATO.” Trump said so according to Europe’s Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, who was also there, with von der Leyen and former European Commissioner for Trade Phil Hogan. Breton is quoted...

LIST OF FAILS FOR THE WEST DUE TO THE UKRAINE PROXY WAR 🇺🇦👉🤦‍♂️ The minute that the US stole Russia’s 300 billion dollars in foreign reserves and demanded that every nation pay homage to mini-Führer Zelenskyy and hate Vladimir Putin, a chain reaction began:•The US surrendered its death grip on possessing the world’s reserve currency which it has enjoyed since 1945.•The US surrendered its Petrodollar agreement with Saudi Arabia and the GCC which it has enjoyed since 1971.•Nations sold off their USD reserves and US Treasury bonds at a breakneck pace due to high US domestic inflation and interest rates.•Nations...

This time, the TOS-1A thermobaric MLRS was among its prey. Unofficial sources in the Kremlin confirmed that it is now heading in the direction of the Russian warship. KyivPost/videos/667083597721230

Maria, A journalist who resigned from the Russian RT network to-@mayarachlin: "The shelling of Kharkiv and Kiev caused me to resign - these are war crimes. People in Russia think they are fighting Hitler" • On Bennett and Putin meeting: Anyone who tries to persuade the Russian president to stop is brave, congratulates Israel"#ערבערב pic.twitter.com/mMnvHV8KFf— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) March 6, 2022

A Russian attack helicopter makes a menacing low pass over a rural village in Ukraine, its gunship fully equipped with missiles and machine guns. But, unknown to the crew of the state-of-the-art Mi-24 Hind aircraft, Ukrainian soldiers are waiting unseen in the line of trees below. -snip- Their deaths came on a day when Russian aerial forces lost as many as eight aircraft, as well as multi-role, strike and close air support aircraft and a drone. Their losses, claimed by Ukrainian military sources, provide further evidence of Russia's failure to gain air superiority – a tactical advantage that Vladimir Putin...

According to a Norwegian International Affairs researcher, the images people in Russia are being shown by the official media are far from the brutal reality of the Ukraine war. Russian president Vladimir Putin is reportedly painting a completely different picture of his ongoing invasion of neighbouring Ukraine. For people only consuming Russian media, it comes across as there being an ongoing "special military operation" in Ukraine, which has the aim of protecting the people of East Ukraine against the so-called nationalistic government in Kyiv. Russian state television aired a short statement by Putin last week, where he described Ukrainian president...