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Mar 31

🧵 Russia's Rare Earths: Untapped Riches and New Partnerships 💎🌍

Russia is sitting on a treasure trove of rare earth minerals.

Here's where they’re located, what they’re used for and what's being discussed with the US regarding their potential extraction. (1/8)

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Endowed with up to 28.7 mln tons of rare earths crucial to high-tech, renewables and defense, Russia’s stocks account for 20% or more of the world’s rare earths stockpile, and are scattered at major deposits across the country, from the Arctic and Siberia to the Donbass.

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Discussions are already underway with the US on potential rare earths cooperation, as Russian officials look to unlock these largely untapped and undeveloped by highly valuable resources, presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev has revealed.

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Mar 31

🧵NATO’s EPIC swamp FAIL 💥💦

It took almost a week, but on Monday morning, rescue crews finally managed to extract a 60-ton US M88 Hercules armored vehicle from a Lithuanian swamp.

Here’s how a "routine" training exercise took a dramatic turn (1/8)👇

(2/8) 🪖 Four US soldiers from the First Brigade, Third Infantry Division were sent to a drill near the Pabrade training ground, close to the Belarus border.

(3/8) Their mission? Drive a 60-ton recovery vehicle into a swamp to pull out another stuck US Army vehicle. What could possibly go wrong? 🤦‍♂️

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Mar 31

🚨ARE US AND IRAN REALLY ON THE BRINK OF WAR?⚔️

President Trump says if Iran doesn’t “make a deal” on a new nuclear agreement, “there will be bombing…the likes of which they have never seen before.” Here’s what the US has done to provoke Iran, and Tehran’s response🧵1/6

🪖 US MILITARY MANEUVERING:

🔸Deployment of B-2 bombers at Diego Garcia, in range of Iran and Yemen, Tehran’s Axis of Resistance ally

🔸Intense US bombardment of Yemen at Israel and Europe’s behest

🔸Deployment of a second US carrier strike group to the region

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💲Economic coercion, including Trump’s threats of “secondary tariffs” and what Trump ally Congresswoman Elise Stefanik said would be the “absolute, abysmal obliteration” of Iran’s economy through the president’s patented “maximum pressure” campaign

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Mar 29

🥶RUSSIA VS US: WHO HOLDS THE ICE IN THE ARCTIC FLEET RACE?

US Vice President JD Vance recently stated the US needs to lead in the Arctic to outperform Russia. But is this realistic given the state of the US Arctic fleet compared to Russia’s?

Let’s break it down. 🧵1/8

🇷🇺RUSSIA'S ARCTIC FLEET

Russia’s Arctic icebreaker fleet is the world’s largest, with 42 vehicles, including 8 nuclear-powered and 34 diesel-electric icebreakers.

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Powerful Russian icebreakers

Russia’s fleet boasts five heavy nuclear icebreakers with 60 MW capacity, including the Arktika, Ural, and Sibir. They also operate the world’s most powerful non-nuclear icebreaker, Viktor Chernomyrdin (25 MW).

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Mar 29

💬VETERAN REVEALS HOW USSR ‘KICKED THE US IN THE TEETH’ IN VIETNAM

On US Vietnam War Veterans Day (Mar 29), Nikolay Kolesnik, a Russian Vietnam War vet, shares his insights on how the USSR covertly supported North Vietnam.

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Kolesnik, a senior lieutenant in reserve, tells Sputnik that his crew’s initial mission in 1964 was to train Vietnam People's Army soldiers to use Soviet S-75 missile systems to tackle US air raids.

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He said that everything changed when the Americans started bombing North Vietnam “day and night”, which turned the training into a tricky task, prodding the Soviet anti-aircraft missile regiment to retaliate.

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Mar 28

[GRAPHIC CONTENT 18+] MOUNTAINS OF CORPSES: What Ukrainian commanders leave behind when fleeing battlefields

Russian soldiers have to deal with bodies that Ukrainian troops left behind in the Kursk region without bothering to retrieve or bury them. 👇🏻 (1/7)

(2/7) ABANDONED AND FORGOTTEN

A Russian Akhmat special ops soldier showed Sputnik what Ukrainian troops left in Cherkasskoye Porechnoye village in the Kursk region, leaving there vehicles and militants' corpses.

(3/7) AFTER THE ASSAULT

After the Russian marines advanced on Ukrainian positions while liberating the Kursk region, a Ukrainian unit left many corpses behind without any evacuation.

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