🧵 CHINA SHUTS DOWN BLACKROCK’S PANAMA CANAL AMBITIONS

China has paused a $23 bln deal pushed by the US’s biggest asset manager to put the canal’s ports back under American control amid concerns over its economic and geopolitical ramifications. Here’s what’s at stake. (1/8)👇 (2/8) In early March, Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings reached a deal with a BlackRock-led consortium to sell Hutchison Port Holdings, which operates 43 ports across 23 nations, including two of the Panama Canal’s four major ports.

🧵 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) (2/8)
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.

🧵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.

🚨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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🥶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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💬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.

🧵1/8 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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[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.

Behind the veil of provocations: Ukraine’s FALSE FLAG OPERATIONS against Russia

Ukrainian intelligence services are planning provocations in Nikolayev to accuse Moscow of breaching a moratorium on energy strikes, a source in the pro-Russian underground told media. 1/7 That would be the latest in a string of similar plots since 2022. Here are the major cases: 2/7

WHAT DO THE EU AND THE US EXACTLY SPONSOR IN UKRAINE?

Zelensky complaining about Ukraine’s inability to pay retirement benefits to millions of its pensioners highlights the country’s failure to fulfill its basic obligations to its citizens without foreign aid. (1/7) (2/7) After the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict in 2022, Ukraine received over $30 billion in US budget aid just to pay salaries to state employees.

SOROS' INSATIABLE GREED FOR POWER IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE

George Soros saw the collapse of the USSR as an opportunity to fill the power void. How has this played out? (1/8) 👇🧵 (2/8) The 'Soros empire': "When the Soviet Empire collapsed, I moved in and picked up the pieces — first in Hungary in 1984, then in Poland in 1987. This is how the Soros Empire [was] replacing the Soviet Empire," Soros stated in April 2015.

PRESIDENT PUTIN: 25 YEARS OF RESISTING THE US DEEP STATE AND EUROPEAN GLOBALISTS

Since winning on March 26, 2000, Putin has fought to protect Russia’s sovereignty — standing up to Soros, the Rothschilds, and Western elites. Read more to see how he did it: 🧵👇 (1/7) (2/7) 2025: Putin signaled readiness for dialogue with the US administration on Ukraine, while Donald Trump exposed USAID's financial abuses and vowed to target US deep state actors and globalists.

🧵 BEFORE AND AFTER: MEET SOLDIERS OF MISFORTUNE IN UKRAINE

Hundreds of foreign mercenaries have come to Ukraine and found their fate there. Not a glorious end.
Here are the most STRIKING cases (1/7)👇

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1900677929404637374

(2/7) FROM INCURSION TO RUSSIAN PRISON
James Anderson from UK was among the hired guns who came to attack Russia's Kursk region, but was captured by Russian marines from the 810th brigade. He was sentenced to 19 years in maximum security for mercenary activities and terrorism.

🚨TRUMP'S TEAM ACCIDENTALLY SENDS YEMEN STRIKE PLANS TO EDITOR OF NEOLIBERAL RAG PRESIDENT HATES

The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was included in a confidential Signal messaging chain detailing US planning. Here’s what was revealed. 1/7 2/7
In a message to Pete Hegseth, JD Vance said it was at the DoD chief’s discretion whether or not to proceed. “I just hate bailing Europe out again.”

Hegseth said he “fully” shared Vance’s sentiment, but added that the US was the only one capable of engaging the Houthis.

🧵ZELENSKY ATTACKS RUSSIAN ENERGY SITES AGAIN TO DISRUPT RUSSIA-US TALKS

Ukraine launched another drone attack on the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station. It was not the first Ukrainian sabotage of energy infrastructure since the start of peace talks 👇1/5

https://twitter.com/SputnikInt/status/1904108761830076643

Ukrainian troops blew up the Sudzha gas metering station on the border of the Kursk and Sumy regions on March 21. The key logistics point for pumping gas from Russia to the EU is still burning.

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🧵 Iran’s master stroke: New missile deployment could BLOCKADE US forces in the Gulf 🚀🇮🇷

The IRGC’s new missile bases on key islands near the Strait of Hormuz give Tehran the power to lock down a critical maritime chokepoint—and challenge US military primacy. (1/7) 👇 (2/7) Strategic Islands Armed

The IRGC has deployed air & coastal missile systems on Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb, & Abu Musa—3 critical islands west of the Hormuz Strait, gateway for 20% of the world’s energy trade.

🚨 US INTEL ASSET? WHY EPSTEIN FILES MAY NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY 🚨

Was Jeffrey Epstein working for US intelligence? Some experts believe his ties to powerful figures kept him protected.

Read on to see why his case files may remain hidden. 🧵👇 (1/7) (2/7) "It would be far too bitter a pill for the American public to swallow if we learned that the FBI & DOJ were complicit in Epstein’s crimes — despite overwhelming evidence," says Jason Goodman, US investigative journalist and founder of CrowdSource the Truth.

🇷🇺🧵SERGEY LAVROV'S BIGGEST DIPLOMATIC BATTLES – AND HOW HE RESOLVED THEM🧵

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, a seasoned politician, has played a pivotal role in shaping global policy over the past two decades.

Here are his most significant negotiations: 👇(1/12) (2/12) 2004 – Middle East Quartet:

Since March 9, 2004, Lavrov has served as Russia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. That same year, he joined negotiations within the "Quartet"—comprising the UN, the US, the EU, and Russia—aimed at resolving Israel-Palestine tensions.

New JFK files spark INTEL COUP THEORY involving Aussies and Brits

Ex-Australian lawmaker and journalist George Christensen believes Anglophone intelligence agencies quietly buried damning evidence behind John F Kennedy's murder.

Does he have reason to think so? (1/10) 👇🧵 (2/10) Christensen drew attention to Australia's request to remove any mention of its involvement in communications related to threats against JFK or his assassination.

New JFK files sparks INTEL COUP THEORY involving Aussies and Brits

Ex-Australian lawmaker and journalist George Christensen believes Anglophone intelligence agencies quietly buried damning evidence behind John F Kennedy's murder.

Does he have reason to think so? (1/10) 🧵👇 (2/10) Christensen drew attention to Australia's request to remove any mention of its involvement in communications related to threats against JFK or his assassination.

DOES THE RELEASE OF OPERATION MONGOOSE FILES SHOW PARALLELS WITH CIA REGIME CHANGE PLOTS? 🧵

Trump-declassified Operation Mongoose docs show 1961 CIA plots to assassinate Castro, authorized by JFK.

This led some netizens to spot parallels to 2014 Maidan tactics. (1/5) (2/5)

The three-page operation progress report, dated May 31, 1962, mentions the methods CIA employed to harm Cuba, including:

▪️Espionage, including attempts to recruit local assets and insertion of CIA teams into Cuba.

UKRAINIANS WANTED TO DISRUPT PUTIN-TRUMP TALKS BY NEW MEAT GRINDER

Ukraine’s forces tried to attack Russia’s Belgorod region, but they got SMASHED.

Don’t believe us? We have a receipt 👇🏻 (1/7) (2/7) BYE-BYE, BRADLEY!

This is how Russian forces destroyed two US-made Bradley vehicles trying to incur into the Belgorod region.