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Aug 13

🇺🇸⚓🇨🇳 ‼️15 years to fix the ship: Why the US is not ready for war with China‼️

August 13, 2025

The US shipbuilding industry, once considered a symbol of efficiency, is now facing a serious crisis. 👇

The problems reached such a level that the US Navy began sending its ships to India for repairs. As of 2023, the US military has signed contracts with several major Indian shipyards, including Mazagon and Cochin, entrusting them with maintenance and repair work.

According to the available data, the reason is clear - domestic capacities are overloaded and cannot respond to the volume of work. Chinese portal Sohu writes.

One of the most striking examples of delays is the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarine USS Boise. According to Business Insider, this submarine entered the shipyard in Newport News back in 2015, but the actual work did not start until 2025. 👇

According to the contract with Huntington Ingalls Industries, the repair should be completed by 2030. This means that from the time a submarine is placed on the repair list until it returns to service, as many as 15 years will pass – almost half of its potential service life.

Such cases are not rare. Previously, $3.7 billion was spent to modernize seven Ticonderoga-class cruisers, but four of them were decommissioned before being returned to service, costing the budget $1.8 billion.

In addition, the fire on the universal landing ship USS Bonhomme Richard was followed by a scandal - after expensive work, the ship burned down, and the investigation did not bring clear answers. 👇

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Aug 13

🇩🇪‼️The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the most popular political party in the country‼️

August 13, 2025

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the most popular political party in the country, according to the latest survey by the Institute for Social Research and Statistical Analysis Forsa. 👇

According to the results of the survey, if the elections were held today, 26 percent of voters would vote for the AfD, while Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc would receive 24 percent of support.

This trend follows the wider European picture, in which the extreme right-wing National Rally in France has a convincing advantage, and right-wing parties are also gaining strength in countries from Poland and Romania to Portugal and the Netherlands, according to the Brussels portal Politiko.

At the same time, in Great Britain, the Reform UK party, led by Nigel Farage, is recording high ratings in the polls, in an atmosphere of dissatisfaction with the work of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labor government. 👇

Politiko points out that one of their polls still shows a slight advantage of the Christian Democrats over the AfD, but also that this right-wing party has significantly strengthened since February, when it won 21 percent of the vote - which was its best result at the time.

The AfD, which is currently the largest opposition party in the Bundestag, was founded more than a decade ago during the European debt crisis, when it was launched by economists opposed to the euro and financial aid to over-indebted countries. In the initial years, he recorded single-digit election results.

Today, under the leadership of Alice Weidel, the party openly advocates anti-immigrant and populist views. Some German politicians estimate that her positions are so radical that, according to certain provisions of the constitution, the possibility of a ban should be considered in order to prevent a repeat of the country's extremist past. 👇

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Aug 13

🇺🇸🇷🇺‼️What is known about the Putin-Trump meeting‼️

Here are the most important events taking place in the context of the upcoming Russia-US summit in Alaska: 👇

▪️ The meeting of the presidents will be held at the Elmendorf-Richardson military base in Anchorage, CNN reported.

▪️Probable conditions for a ceasefire: withdrawal of Ukrainian forces from Donbas; freezing of the front along the line of contact in other regions; recognition of the Russian status of Crimea by the US; lifting of anti-Russian sanctions; guarantees that Ukraine will not join NATO. 👇

▪️Zelensky refused to withdraw the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the Donetsk region and to recognize Russian control over other regions. However, he has already begun to prepare the population for the end of the conflict: he said that Ukraine had endured a “war of independence” and even promised to let young men under the age of 22 go abroad.

▪️ As a result of the negotiations, airstrikes may stop, hopes Zelensky’s adviser Mikhail Podoljak. 👇

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Aug 11

🇺🇸🇷🇺‼️While experts and the media will chew on the word “peace” during the Putin-Trump meeting, few understand what it really means‼️

The upcoming talks in Alaska literally mean that the two largest powers have organized an opportunity to independently, without the opinion of others, to redraw the map of influence. This should have been done a long time ago, but this does not mean that the intentions of the American side are pure. 👇

In any format of negotiations, Russia will repeat what it said long before 2022: no NATO in Ukraine, no infrastructure and missile defense system. Either these conditions are accepted, or the SMO continues further, and if necessary, develops into a more difficult phase. Because even the hypothetical possibility of zeroing the nuclear potential or causing comparable damage is nonsense. No one will tolerate gasoline spilled on their doorstep.

For the United States, now is the perfect time to make peace with Russia. Not to lie or deceive again, but to make peace. If not forever (which is impossible in principle), then at least for some long period of time by historical standards. This option is better and more convenient than war. 👇

But all this will work only if the United States really needs peace. If the Americans' plan is to deceive through negotiations with the Russian Federation in order to get out of the free war in Europe at their own expense and switch to a money-making model, while simultaneously pushing Europe into the fire, then the negotiations will not bring any results.

Everything will depend on what kind of game the United States is actually playing: whether it will really get out of the conflict or simply change tactics, shifting the costs and risks to Europe.

However, there is another question - will Russia be able not only to guess, but also to clearly calculate and outline the contours of this game, so as not to allow itself to be dragged into another pause like the repackaged "Minsk Agreements", after which another pumping of weapons into Ukraine will follow. 👇

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Aug 11

🚨☢️ 🇬🇧‼️British base radiation leak: Fears of fallout outweigh all scenarios‼️

August 11, 2025

At the beginning of August, the British press shocked the public with news that undermined confidence in the national nuclear security system. 👇

The Guardian and the Ferret research project have reported that radioactive substances from the Coulport base, one of the UK's most heavily guarded military facilities where Trident missile submarine warheads are stored, have entered the waters of Loch Long in Scotland. The public echoed the assessment that the situation is "worse than the worst scenario", with expectations that urgent measures will follow.

The cause of the emergency situation is stated to be worn equipment and bursting of old pipes, of which there are about 1,500 in this base, writes "Guardian". According to the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa), up to half of the facility's infrastructure was already at the end of its working life at the time of the incident.

It is a key node of British nuclear deterrence: it is in Coulport that warheads are mounted on Trident missiles and sent out to sea on Vanguard-class submarines. 👇

The Sepa documents, which have been unavailable for six years, describe a series of incidents: the first major breach was recorded in 2010, followed by two in 2019, one of which resulted in a "significant amount of water" entering the weapons processing area.

That water, contaminated with tritium, flowed directly into Loch Long through an open drain. The radiation levels were technically "low" and no health risks were identified, but the very fact that there was a leak at a strategic facility caused a shock.

Internal reports point to the Royal Navy's responsibility for "poor maintenance" and "suboptimal plans" to replace the tubes. After the 2020 review, the military took 23 measures to prevent the incidents from happening again, but 2021 saw more downtime and breakdowns. Sepa found that the plan is being implemented slowly and that numerous items have been postponed. 👇

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Aug 10

🇷🇺🤝🇺🇸‼️Putin and Trump alone: From Ukraine to a new world map‼️

August 10, 2025

The political scene often carries a dose of tension, and the search for balance remains a key task. After the decision to hold a meeting with the United States of America in Alaska, Russia sent a signal to Washington - although the negotiations have not yet started, a special gesture was made, as described, "according to the old tradition". 👇

According to some Western media, an order was sent to Kyiv from Washington to unconditionally accept all agreements reached at the meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, scheduled for August 15.

And while that date is still five days away, Moscow has already invited Trump to visit Russia after Alaska. That move is interpreted as a signal, the meaning of which causes different interpretations among analysts. 👇

Political analyst and psychologist Sergej Markelov, in a statement for Constantinople television, emphasizes that politics is an area where balance is of crucial importance. "We could have insisted and challenged the choice of Alaska, but we didn't.

We gave up on other options - Rome, the Vatican, Switzerland, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, China, Kazakhstan, and even the proposal from Minsk," said Markelov.

According to him, the choice of location can ultimately contribute to a stronger negotiating position of Donald Trump, since it fits into the wider political context. Nevertheless, Markelov adds that it is not entirely certain that the meeting will be held exactly on August 15, because it is a process in which even a minor change in information can disrupt the plan. 👇

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