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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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May 10

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Stephen Miller: The Extremist Hiding in Plain Sight
The unelected architect behind Trump’s most brutal and racially driven policies.
Don Knight

Stephen Miller has shaped some of the most inhumane U.S. policies in modern history, quietly operating behind the scenes to avoid backlash.

This article explores the history, mindset, and methods of the unelected extremist subtly pulling the strings inside Trump’s inner circle.

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Most Americans don’t know much about Miller, and that’s exactly how he likes it.

But make no mistake: he’s one of the most dangerous and influential figures in modern #American politics, and the ideological engine behind some of the cruelest, most destructive policies to ever come out of the White House.

And if you want to understand who he really is, you have to start at the beginning—before the suits, before the power, when his obsession with cruelty first took root.

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Long before he was deporting children with cancer in the middle of the night or crafting Muslim bans from inside the White House, Stephen Miller was a middle schooler in Santa Monica, obsessively reading Guns & Ammo magazine and treating Wayne LaPierre’s book.

- Guns, Crime, and Freedom like gospel—a manifesto that painted America as a nation under siege by immigrants, criminals, and liberal elites.

Those close to him say it had a profound effect. It planted the seeds of a worldview rooted in paranoia, division, and authoritarian control.

That early exposure didn’t just shape his thinking—it laid the ideological groundwork for the cruelty he would later unleash through national policy.

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Lew Anno Support#Israel #Ukraine 24/2-22

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May 8

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Slovak Prime Minister Fico force to fly around the houses on his way to Moscow

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was forced to take the long way round on his trip to Moscow to attend Russia’s Victory Parade on Red Square on May 9.

His plans to accept Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invitation to attend the annual parade that this year commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of WWII got the kybosh after #Lithuania, #Latvia, and #Poland all closed their airspace to his official aircraft, ignoring an agreement that should have given him automatic permission to cross their airspace.

Flying over #Ukraine, another shorter route, is also not possible as it has closed its airspace since 2022 due to Russia's invasion

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Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago, the EU banned all EU members from attending any public events in #Russia.

Fico has chosen to ignore the boycott as Slovakia remains dependent on Russian gas and Fico is a vocal critic of Brussels support of Ukraine and its plans to allow it to join the EU.

Fico’s plane took off in the afternoon of May 8 and will fly over Turkey and Azerbaijan before entering the Russian Federation via the southern republic of Dagestan, before flying north to Moscow where it is expected to arrive at 9:30pm local time.

A visibly furious Fico released a videoed public statement complaining the Baltics and Poland’s decision to cancel Slovakia’s overflight rights had screwed up his schedule and meant that he would make it on time for a slew of official meetings that had been prearranged. "This is exceptionally complicating our schedule...,"he said. The decisions were a "strange demonstration of sovereignty," he added

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Speaking to Slovak broadcaster RTVS, he said: “They closed the airspace above the Baltic countries and Poland for the governmental special plane. I take that as a strange demonstration of sovereignty, but if someone thinks they will deter me with such steps, they are very wrong.”

Fico is one of only two European leaders who will attend the event. Serbian President Aleksander Vucic arrived in Moscow on May 6 and posted a video of himself on Red Square early in the morning of May 7. Serbia is not an EU member, but is a candidate state, but following Vucic’s decision to defy the EU boycott of Russian events the candidature is now in danger, say experts.

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May 7

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Germany has transferred a new package of military aid to Ukraine: what will the Armed Forces of Ukraine receive?
obozrevatel.com/ukr/novosti-mi…

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Germany continues to provide Ukraine with weapons and equipment from its own reserves and through financing industrial supplies.

In total, approximately 28 billion euros in military assistance has already been allocated or is plannedobozrevatel.com/ukr/location/g…

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The new package includes both the transfer of equipment from the Bundeswehr arsenals and payment for supplies from manufacturers from the state budget, the German Chancellor's website reported
bundeskanzler.de/bk-de/aktuelle…

The new German aid package will include:

1. Armored combat vehicles:

• 66 mine and ambush-protected MRAP vehicles;

• ammunition for LEOPARD 2 main battle tanks.

2. Air defense:

• four kinetic defense vehicles (Diehl Defense);

• 38,000 units of GEPARD anti-aircraft ammunition;

• IRIS-T SLM missile.
3. Artillery and other weapons:

• three Zuzana 2 wheeled howitzers (the project is jointly funded by Denmark and Norway);

• 27,000 rounds of 155mm artillery ammunition;

• 1,000 rounds of 122mm artillery ammunition;

• 3,769 G3 assault rifles;

• 800 MK 556 assault rifles.

4. Drones and drone protection:

• 70 VECTOR reconnaissance drones with spare parts;

• 150 armed HF-1 drones;

• 10 ground drones.

5. Pioneer skills:

• 26 Bergepanzer 2 with spare parts;

• four WISENT 1 demining machines with spare parts;

• two trawls for mine clearance.

6. Protective and special equipment:

• 41 ground surveillance radars;

.•187 laser rangefinders;

• 92 infrared binoculars;

• 55 diving scooters;

• three border vehicles;

• 150,000 harnesses;

• 534 sleeping bags

• For security reasons, the federal government has refrained from providing further details, especially regarding the terms and timing of deliveries, until the transfer takes place.

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May 6

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"We didn't just shoot down a plane - we opened a new niche": aviation expert Khrapchinsky explained the destruction of enemy Su-30s

war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/mi-ne-pros…

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The Main Intelligence Directorate destroyed two #Russian Su-30 fighters in the Black Sea at once .
war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/tse-istori…

In fact, the destruction of enemy aircraft is nothing new. Last year alone, #Ukrainian defenders "minused" more than 80 #Russian planes and helicopters.

But the uniqueness of this situation is that naval drones were used for the strike, which served as a platform for American AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles.

- And this is where #Ukrainian know-how lies, because naval drones are a priori designed to strike ships, not aircraft

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This opens up new opportunities for Ukraine, in particular, it allows creating mobile air defense not from systems costing hundreds of millions of dollars, but from drones.

The next technological step may be the creation of ground-based mobile anti-aircraft drones.obozrevatel.com/ukr/entity/pvo/

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May 1

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Ukraine and the US signed an agreement on minerals: what is known

Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko showed a photo of the signing of the Agreement on the Establishment of the US-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund.

The agreement still needs to be ratified by the Verkhovna Rada - without this, the agreement will not be implemented

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Ukraine and the United States have signed an agreement on minerals .
obozrevatel.com/ukr/entity/red…

It provides for the creation of a joint investment fund, which will be replenished from the development of Ukrainian subsoil.

According to the updated text of the agreement, Ukraine retains ownership of all subsoil and does not have to repay old "debts" .

The agreement complies with the Ukrainian Constitution and does not change the European integration course.
- However, the document still needs to be ratified by the Verkhovna Rada - without this, the agreement will not be implemented

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The signing of the historic document was announced by the First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Svyrydenko.

She signed the document on the Ukrainian side. On the US side, the document was signed by Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.facebook.com/yulia.svyryden…

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Apr 30

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"Tanks or pensions": The Economist wrote about Putin's dilemma that could change the course of the war

Russia's economy , which until recently showed signs of stability, is rapidly losing ground under the influence of internal and external factors.

- The Goldman Sachs High-Frequency Index shows a sharp slowdown in Russia's annual economic growth from about 5% at the end of last year to almost zero
economist.com/finance-and-ec…

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The Russian government, despite the caution of official statements, acknowledges the existence of problems . In early April, the central bank stated that recently "a number of sectors have recorded a decline in production due to a sharp drop in demand."

According to the publication, after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, economists predicted a drop in Russia's annual GDP of up to 15%. In fact, that year there was a decrease of 1.4%, and in the following years there was a growth of 4.1% in 2023 and 4.3% in 2024.

Journalists identified three main reasons for the slowdown in annual economic growth in Russia

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The first of these is related to the "structural transformation" of the economy, as the Russian Central Bank calls it.

Before the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the Russian economy was oriented towards the West and allowed private entrepreneurship, but after 2022 it acquired the features of a military economy with an eastern orientation.

This restructuring required significant financial investments

The second factor influencing economic growth is monetary policy, experts say .

It is noted that inflation in Russia has exceeded the central bank's target of 4% annually for several months in a row, reaching over 10% in February and March.

One of the reasons for this is significant military spending, as well as a labor shortage caused by mobilization and emigration of qualified specialists

Nominal wages rose by 18% last year, leading companies to raise prices. In response, the central bank tightened monetary policy.
- On April 25, it decided to leave the key interest rate at 21%, the highest level since the early 2000s.

The third reason for the slowdown in economic growth, journalists say, -

- is the deterioration of the external economic situation amid the trade war with the United States , which led to a sharp drop in oil prices.

It is noted that with a decrease in export revenues, the drop in oil prices directly affects the real sector of the economy

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