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Aug 20

🇪🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺‼️Europe is looking for new tactic: Trump's assessment of Putin's moves is awaited‼️

August 20, 2025

European officials are increasingly openly expressing doubts that Vladimir Putin really wants to reach a peace agreement, which is why they have devised a new strategy, writes Politico. 👇

According to the portal, they decided to please and praise Donald Trump for the time being, until he too comes to the conclusion that it is necessary to take a tougher stance towards the Kremlin.

In Brussels, they believe that this approach is a winning combination. They say that they would be satisfied if they were proven wrong and if the American president managed to ensure an end to the conflict with firm security guarantees.

However, the basic plan is based on exposing the Russian leader and lobbying for tougher sanctions. French President Emmanuel Macron, who previously made great efforts to prevent conflict through diplomacy, now says that Putin is not sincere about peace. 👇

"Do I think President Putin wants peace? The answer is no. If you want my deepest conviction: No. Do I think President Trump wants peace? Yes," Macron said ahead of his trip to Washington. According to him, Putin does not want an agreement, but the capitulation of Ukraine.

Politico reminds that instead of a compromise, Moscow is asking Kiev for additional territories, including key defense positions. In addition, it expressly rejects the presence of NATO forces as security guarantees, which Kiev sees as a necessary condition.

While the idea of a Russia-Ukraine summit is being considered, European officials have held a series of meetings to coordinate a joint response and share intelligence after consultations at the White House. 👇

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Aug 18

🇰🇵🇷🇺‼️North Korea made an unexpected move: weapons that have been rumored for a long time are arriving to the Russians‼️

August 18, 2025

North Korea has delivered several types of missile systems to Russia, including those of the highest caliber, Ukrainian media reports citing data from the Main Intelligence Management Center (GUR) of Ukraine. 👇

According to these statements, it is about reactive systems of caliber 600 millimeters, and it is assumed that their use could significantly affect the situation on the front.

According to the GUR, Russia took over a total of two 600 mm caliber systems, then 120 240 mm caliber systems and up to 170 107 mm caliber systems. In addition, it is pointed out that other types of military and dual purpose products were allegedly handed over.

Particular attention is drawn to the information about the 600 mm caliber, since only one such platform is known in North Korea - the KN-25 system. This rocket artillery installation is often described in professional literature as a "600-millimeter MLRS". 👇

According to the explanation, KN-25 in practice looks more like an operational-tactical missile system than a classic multi-barrel rocket launcher.

Missiles of this type can hit targets at a distance of up to 380 kilometers, which according to analysts is a significant range. There are different versions of this system - tracked with six rockets and wheeled with four or six rockets.

It was noted that the shortest time interval between two launches from the same platform is only 40 seconds. When several launchers are used simultaneously, we can talk about an additional salvo of 8 to 12 missiles of the operational-tactical type, the sources note. 👇

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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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