🧵1/4 - Ukrainian negotiators reportedly floated naming a contested sliver of Donbas "Donnyland", a blend of "Donbas" and "Donald", as a rather transparent gambit to appeal to Trump's vanity and secure Washington's backing against Moscow's territorial claims.....
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2/4 - It fits an established pattern: Poland once pitched "Fort Trump", Armenia-Azerbaijan christened a corridor the "Trump Route". Kiev's calculation? That branding a compromise zone as Trump's personal diplomatic trophy might tilt the scales.....
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The territory in question, some 50 by 40 miles of depopulated, shell-pocked steppe near the current front line, remains the core deadlock. Ukraine insists it can hold the line with AFU defence deployments; Moscow demands full juridical control over Donbas.....
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Talks have stalled. One Ukrainian delegate even drafted a green-and-gold banner and a ChatGPT-generated hymn for "Donnyland"..... Whether the American side ever bothered to look remains unclear. For now, the moniker lingers as a curious footnote in an unresolved conflict.🔚
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🧵1/4 🇧🇪🇷🇺🇪🇺 - Belgium wishes for the EU to sit down at the table with Russia to discuss peace in Ukraine. This is reported by De Morgen based on statements by Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot (Les Engagés) earlier this week at a European summit.
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2/ "In order to reach a future, sustainable arrangement for peace and stability in Ukraine and Europe, it is necessary to enter into dialogue with Moscow," said Maxime Prévot (Les Engagés) on Tuesday at the meeting of European foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
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3/ "Europe must not leave it solely to the Americans to negotiate the future European security architecture."
Prévot is not alone in breaking the European taboo on speaking with Russia. In an interview with L'Écho,
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"Expert" at the 'Tony Blair Institute for Global Change', run by the globally renowned peace-broker: Tony Blair, who was also appointed to a senior role on Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" to oversee post-war Gaza governance and reconstruction. Ahhhhh...🫠
And the 'International Task Force on Security and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine' set up by embezzling former Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, and Former PM of Denmark and Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen. president.gov.ua/en/news/andrij…
🧵1/3 - The US Treasury has completed the integration of the digital serial number tracking system.
Experts say that with the proper development of technology, the US will be able to establish banknote monitoring and remotely "shut off" liquidity.
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2/ Banknotes that are noticed in suspicious transactions or have not been verified by official banks within 90 days may be added to stop lists. For the global financial system, they become "useless paper" -
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3/ they cannot be deposited or exchanged. Over time, the US may even declare a default on black money - if your money is of the wrong type and has the wrong serial numbers.🔚
🧵1/3 🇧🇪 It turns out that the reports of Russian drones over Belgium were a fabrication by Defense Minister Theo Francken to justify budget spending. Francken personally showed journalists a video of a "huge drone", which turned out to be a recording of a police helicopter. ⬇️⬇️
2/ The video was later deleted.
Amid the exaggerated panic, the minister initiated an accelerated purchase of anti-drone systems for 50 million euros without a tender, which led to over-payments and opaque contracts.
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3/ of the "drones" were ordinary airplanes or light sources, and the errors were caused by geopolitical tensions.
The parliament demanded a check on the legality of the spending. Francken admitted to passing on the fake video, but denied the illegality of the purchases.🔚
🧵1/3 🇱🇧/🇮🇱‼️ The Zionist regime is committing a massacre of the Lebanese people!
🔹Continuing its aggression against Lebanon, the IOF have again launched heavy airstrikes on Lebanon. Visual evidence shows that over the past hours, the IOF have carried out more than 100
2/ airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Beqaa region, and southern Lebanon.
‼️ These attacks have been described as the heaviest Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon since the 2000 war, resulting in a large number of Lebanese civilians martyred or wounded. Many people are
3/ still missing, and rescue workers and civilians are trying to pull them out. In the town of Shamshtar, they even showed no mercy to a cemetery, bombing the funeral procession of one of the martyrs.
🧵1/4 - This interesting piece about the elections in Moldova and the EU interference appeared in the 🇩🇪Berliner Zeitung.
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Moldova: How the EU Influences Elections and Coerces Eurosceptic Countries
Following Romania, Brussels is now interfering in Moldova’s elections. How the EU manipulates electoral outcomes and uses taxpayer money to pressure Eurosceptic nations—a commentary.
“The Moldovan people have the right to decide their own future without external interference,” declared EU High Representative Kaja Kallas a month ago during a press conference of the EU-Moldova Association Council. Yet, in the name of safeguarding this right, the EU has massively interfered in Moldova’s recent elections. Is this still democracy?
At Sunday’s parliamentary election, Maia Sandu’s pro-European Party of Action and Solidarity (PAS) secured 50.1% of the vote after nearly all ballots were counted. The pro-Russian Patriotic Bloc received 24.2%. Just days before the vote, numerous raids and court rulings led to the exclusion of two Kremlin-aligned parties. Allegations of “Russian interference” are swirling—could Moldova become the next “Romania 2.0”?
“Russian disinformation” as the holy weapon against electoral defeat?
In Romania too, the pro-Russian candidate Călin Georgescu won the first round of the presidential election last November. However, shortly before the runoff, Romania’s Constitutional Court annulled the results due to alleged irregularities in campaign financing. The accusation: Russia had meddled in the electoral process—yet to this day, no concrete evidence has been presented. Ultimately, the pro-European candidate Nicușor Dan emerged victorious and became Romania’s president.
A similar pattern unfolded in Moldova. The pro-Russian parties “Heart of Moldova” and “Moldova Mare,” along with the “Alternative” electoral bloc, were excluded from the ballot just two days before election day by the Central Electoral Commission, the Ministry of Justice, and the courts. Authorities cited alleged multi-million-euro illegal Russian funding, voter bribery, ties to the banned Șor Party, and “disinformation campaigns” on social media as justification. Numerous arrests preceded the vote.
The trigger for these measures was a report by the Moldovan news outlet Nordnews, which claimed that a correspondent from the news organization Evrazzia had infiltrated a network distributing election-related content on social media. He was allegedly paid around €2,500 for this activity. According to authorities, similar operations are linked to Russia—though no concrete evidence has been made public to date.