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title: Putin’s move: Why Ukraine fears the ceasefire deal it helped shape
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<p><strong>Kiev pushed for a deal — now it’s nervous about the outcome</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>A month of intense diplomacy has paid off. Russia and Ukraine, with US mediation, have reached their first formal agreement – so far limited to reducing hostilities. The deal outlines a 30-day ceasefire in the Black Sea and a moratorium on strikes against energy infrastructure. Superficially, this resembles the <em>“fake”</em> air and naval ceasefire once floated by France and Britain to box Russia into a strategic dilemma. But the result turned out very differently.</p>
<p>Notably, Western European players are absent. Discussions about a second phase involving peacekeepers from France and the UK have stalled. Despite the noise, there will be no EU personnel monitoring this ceasefire. Instead, Russia has used the talks to extract valuable concessions from the Trump administration – chief among them, help regaining access to global agricultural markets.</p>
<p>The US has now placed sanctions relief for Rosselkhozbank, Russian food and fertiliser exporters, and shipping access to international ports on the agenda. These were the very demands Moscow had raised during the original 2022 Black Sea Grain Initiative, but at the time it received only vague UN assurances. Now, Russia has firm traction.</p>
<p>The energy truce also tilted in Moscow’s favour. Ukraine had wanted it to apply to all critical infrastructure, but the final version – negotiated by Russia and the US – is much narrower. It restricts attacks only on energy-related targets: oil refineries, power plants, hydroelectric stations, pipelines, and so forth. This specificity robs Kiev of opportunities to claim Russian ceasefire violations.</p>

            
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<p>But there are caveats. The biggest: it remains unclear whether the ceasefire has actually come into force. All three parties have issued contradictory statements with conflicting terms. </p>
<p>On the Black Sea deal, for instance, the Kremlin says the ceasefire will not begin until sanctions are lifted. It also claims the agreement allows Russia to inspect all ships heading to Ukrainian ports for weapons. </p>
<p>However, the Ukrainian and US versions omit these conditions. Kiev even asserts that Russian naval vessels are barred from the western Black Sea and that the ceasefire started on 25 March.</p>
<p>Similarly, the timeline for the energy truce is disputed. Moscow insists it began on 18 March, the day of the Putin-Trump phone call. If so, Ukraine is already in breach: recent attacks on Russian infrastructure, such as the strike on the Sudzha gas station, occurred after that date. It’s no surprise then that Zelensky insists the ceasefire only began a week later.</p>
<p>In short, while a ceasefire has been announced, its fragility is obvious. There may not even be a unified written document. Its provisions are being interpreted differently by each party, and the sheer number of caveats allows any participant to declare the deal void at will. As a result, any real progress toward peace remains uncertain.</p>

            
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<p>Now comes the most delicate phase: the battle for narrative dominance. The next few weeks will be filled with technical talks, diplomatic testing, and mutual accusations. Kiev’s aim is to portray Russia as violating the deal, hoping Trump will respond by tightening sanctions and increasing military aid. Moscow, by contrast, seeks to depict Ukraine as the spoiler, thereby strengthening its position in Washington and perhaps even reviving discussions about Zelensky’s future.</p>
<p>Who will succeed in this information war? Russia enters with a clear advantage: the deep mistrust that now exists between the White House and Bankova. Moreover, Trump has broader ambitions, including dismantling the Russia-China partnership. That aim may guide his approach to Moscow far more than anything Zelensky says.</p>
<p>The next big test is the long-delayed agreement on Ukraine’s subsoil resources – a key American interest that Zelensky sabotaged with his recent Washington visit. A revised 40-page draft is reportedly in the works, and insiders suggest it will be more demanding than the original.</p>
<p>Will Zelensky hold his ground? Or fold under pressure? The answer could reshape the peace process. If the Ukrainian leader concedes, Trump may move closer to Russia. If not, relations could once again stall.</p>
<p>Whatever happens, the US-Russia-Ukraine triangle is entering a new, unpredictable chapter. But for now, it is Russia that appears to have gained the most from this uneasy ceasefire – not least by turning a Western pressure tactic into a platform for negotiation on its own terms.</p>
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<p><em>This article was first published by the online newspaper <a href="https://www.gazeta.ru/comments/column/articles/20771768.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gazeta.ru</a> and was translated and edited by the RT team</em></p>

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title: Trump has ‘gone too far’ – Danish defense minister
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<p><strong>The US president’s Greenland aspirations are “escalating tensions,” Troels Lund Poulsen has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>US President Donald Trump’s repeated promises to annex Greenland are not appropriate for a close ally and overall are <em>“escalating tensions,”</em> Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen has said.</p>
<p><em>“I think we’ll go as far as we have to go. We need Greenland, and the world needs us to have Greenland, including Denmark,”</em> Trump told reporters on Wednesday.</p>
<p><em>“We have to have the land because it’s not possible to properly defend a large section of this Earth – not just the US – without it. So we have to have it, and I think we will have it,”</em> he stated.</p>
<p>Speaking to Danish state broadcaster DR on Thursday, Poulsen condemned Trump’s recent remarks as escalatory and disrespectful. Trump’s rhetoric was becoming increasingly aggressive and amounted to a <em>“hidden threat”</em> against Denmark and its semi-autonomous territory.</p>
<p><em>“I think they are going too far – both in interfering in Greenland’s internal affairs and in showing a lack of respect for its people’s right to decide their future,”</em> Lund stated, responding to Trump’s latest remarks on the island.</p>
<p><em>“These very powerful statements about a close ally do not suit the US president,”</em> he added.</p>
<p>Over the past few months, Trump repeatedly invoked the topic of Greenland, insisting that Washington needed to take control of the island to enhance its <em>“national security.”</em></p>

            
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<p>The ramped-up rhetoric comes against the backdrop of a visit of a high-profile US delegation to the island led by Usha Vance, wife of US Vice President JD Vance, White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright. JD Vance is expected to join his wife on Friday.</p>
<p>The visit has been criticized by both Danish and Greenlandic authorities, with the semi-autonomous territory’s acting head of government, Mute Egede, who branded it a <em>“provocation”</em> and refused to meet the US delegation. Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has also condemned the trip, accusing the US of exerting <em>“unacceptable pressure.”</em></p>
<p><em>“I have to say that it is unacceptable pressure being placed on Greenland and Denmark in this situation. And it is pressure that we will resist,”</em> she told DR and TV2 broadcasters.</p>
<p>While the former Danish colony of some 57,000 has a strong pro-independence movement, a poll commissioned by the Sermitsiaq daily in late January suggested that 85% of Greenlanders opposed any incorporation into the US, while only 6% backed it.</p>

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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5697283
title: Le nouveau fascisme : Israël, modèle de Trump et de l’Europe contre les libertés
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<div>Le virus du fascisme n’a jamais disparu de l’Occident, malgré son apparente éradication au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale.</div>
<p>Partout, les premiers indicateurs montrent que le fascisme – une idéologie déterminant une hiérarchie raciste des valeurs humaines – qui …</p>

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title: COL. Douglas Macgregor : DNI, Gabbard - SecDef, Hegseth - CIA, Ratcliffe
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author: ;Michael Nevradakis
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Après que 3 enfants soient morts dans les 24 heures suivant des vaccins routiniers, des chercheurs japonais sonnent l’alarme

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Citant le décès de trois enfants japonais dans les 24 heures suivant leur vaccination infantile de routine, les auteurs d'une étude évaluée par des pairs ont appelé à une réévaluation des « risques et avantages des vaccins actuellement approuvés » et à une révision du calendrier des vaccinations infantiles.

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title: ICYMI: President Trump Outlines OSTP’s Goals and Priorities
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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>In case you missed it</strong>, President Trump signed a letter to Assistant to the President and OSTP Director Michael Kratsios outlining the road ahead to the Golden Age of American Innovation.<br> <br>The President outlined three main goals:</p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>How can the United States secure its position as the unrivaled world leader in critical and emerging technologies — such as artificial intelligence, quantum information science, and nuclear technology — maintaining our advantage over potential adversaries?</li>
</ul><ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>How can we revitalize America’s science and technology enterprise – pursuing truth, reducing administrative burdens, and empowering researchers to achieve groundbreaking discoveries?</li>
</ul><ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>How can we ensure that scientific progress and technological innovation fuel economic growth and better the lives of all Americans?</li>
</ul><p>President Trump writes, “now, after 4 long years of weakness and complacency, we must set our sights even higher. I am calling upon you to blaze a trail to the next frontiers of science. We have the opportunity to cement America’s global technological leadership and usher in the Golden Age of American Innovation. We are not just competing with other nations; we are seeking, striving, fighting to make America greater than ever before.”</p><p>APST and OSTP Director Kratsios <a href="https://webdevelopmentgroup.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6821469cd180710d53bfc94d1&amp;id=fb5dd4f881&amp;e=f395826b19" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">said that</a> “by accelerating U.S. tech leadership, restoring our scientific enterprise, and promoting opportunity for all Americans, we will usher in a Golden Age of innovation. When FDR gave his science advisor Vannevar Bush a mandate to chart a course for U.S. research and development, American boots soon left their mark on the moon. Today, with President Trump’s agenda for American science and technology, we will achieve future triumphs and explore new frontiers. “<br> <br>Read the full letter <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/03/a-letter-to-michael-kratsios-director-of-the-white-house-office-of-science-and-technology-policy/">HERE</a>.</p>

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title: Putin proposes that UN temporarily govern Ukraine
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<p><strong>The Russian president has reiterated that the current authorities in Kiev are illegitimate given the lack of elections</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested discussing the establishment of a temporary government in Ukraine, under the guidance of the UN and several countries. The aim would be to hold fair elections in the country, since Vladimir Zelensky’s presidential term officially expired in May 2024. </p>
<p>Moscow sees no clear way to sign any agreements with Kiev since <em>“other leaders might come tomorrow,”</em> Putin explained on Thursday night while addressing the sailors of the Arkhangelsk nuclear submarine.</p>
<p><em>“In such cases, international practice follows a well-known path within the framework of the United Nations peacekeeping activities; several instances have already demonstrated what is referred to as external management or temporary administration,”</em> he suggested.</p>
<p>External powers should facilitate elections in Ukraine to <em>“establish a capable government that has the trust of the people”</em>, Putin stressed. After that, the new authorities could begin negotiations with Moscow and sign a peace agreement <em>“that would be recognized around the world and will be reliable and stable.”</em></p>

            
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<p>However, Putin also stressed that temporary governance is only one possible option. <em>“In general, we support resolving conflicts peacefully, including this one, but not at our expense,”</em> he concluded.</p>
<p>The US recently brokered a limited ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, placing a moratorium on attacks on energy infrastructure. Zelensky has publicly supported the 30-day partial ceasefire, which is supposed to involve a reciprocal suspension of attacks by Kiev’s forces.</p>
<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense, however, has reported multiple Ukrainian violations of the agreement, which it described as aimed at undermining US President Donald Trump’s efforts to mediate between Moscow and Kiev.</p>

            
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<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that Moscow will honor its obligations despite Ukrainian actions, since the agreement represents positive diplomatic engagement with the Trump administration.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, US officials met separately with Russian and Ukrainian delegations in Saudi Arabia. Following the talks, Moscow said it was willing to revive the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an arrangement that was originally mediated by the UN and Türkiye and expired in 2023.</p>

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title: US has been plotting to annex Greenland since the 1860s – Putin
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<p><strong>The tensions around the island should not be dismissed as the “extravagant talk” of the US administration, according to Russia’s president</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Washington has long harbored plans to get its hands on Greenland, and the ongoing tensions around the world’s largest island should be taken seriously, Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned.</p>
<p>Speaking at the International Arctic Forum in Murmansk on Thursday, Putin touched upon the ongoing tensions around Greenland, a Danish semi-autonomous territory, and US President Donald Trump’s repeated promises to annex it.</p>
<p>Trump invoked the topic of Greenland once again on Wednesday, claiming that US ownership of the island is needed to <em>“properly defend a large section of this Earth”</em> and would be universally beneficial – including for Denmark.</p>
<p><em>“We have to have the land because it’s not possible to properly defend a large section of this Earth – not just the US – without it. So we have to have it, and I think we will have it,”</em> he said.</p>
<p>Trump’s statements should be taken seriously, Putin warned, pointing out that the US has been harboring plans to annex Greenland for over a century and a half already.</p>
<p><em>“Everyone knows about the US plans to annex Greenland. You know, this may surprise someone only at first glance. And it is a deep mistake to believe that this is some kind of extravagant talk of the new American administration,”</em> Putin warned.</p>

            
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<p>American plans to seize Greenland date back to 1860, but at the time they did not get Congressional support, the Russian president pointed out.</p>
<p><em>“Let me remind you that by 1868, the Alaska purchase was being ridiculed in American newspapers. It was called madness, an ‘ice box,’ and ‘the polar bear garden’ of Andrew Johnson, then-US president. And his Greenland proposals failed,”</em> Putin said.</p>
<p>The US, Germany, and Denmark also came close to signing a land-swap deal in 1910, which would have resulted in Greenland being ceded to America, Putin noted. However, the agreement ultimately fell through. </p>
<p>From the early 19th century until the 1950s, Greenland was under the full control of Denmark. During World War Two, it was occupied by the US after the Scandinavian country itself was captured by Nazi Germany. Currently, the island hosts an American military base and the infrastructure for an early warning system for ballistic missiles. </p>
<p>In recent decades, the island has grown increasingly autonomous; it was granted home rule in 1979, ultimately receiving the right in 2009 to declare independence if a referendum passes.</p>

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guid: yt:video:gOyTLFZnKrg
title: Could Espionage Charges Be on the Table?
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guid: https://karlof1.substack.com/p/maria-zakharova-western-media-still
title: Maria Zakharova: Western Media Still Pushing Well Known Lies
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<p><span>Reiterating this history becomes tiresome but it must be done since Western media refuses to stop publishing outright lies, which perhaps shouldn’t surprise us too much as it’s become their MO. This is one item Maria addressed during</span> <a href="https://mid.ru/ru/foreign_policy/news/2005860/" rel>her weekly briefing</a><span>. IMO, the continuing prevarication by Western media needs to be seen as a big red flag to Russians while negotiating with Americans as their media shares the same level of credibility or rather lack thereof. IMO and that of many others, the hurry to complete a deal with Russia must be seen as being connected to something else more nefarious, which was deeply</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3psU2nfuNo" rel>discussed today by Hudson and Wolff</a><span>. As reported in the</span> <a href="https://karlof1.substack.com/p/negotiations-report-by-lavrov-and" rel>Negotiation Update article</a><span>, numerous conditions that must be fulfilled were placed by Russia to get its consent for this new version of the Black Sea Agreement, conditions that President Putin recently told</span> <a href="https://karlof1.substack.com/p/34th-annual-congress-of-the-russian" rel>Industrialists and Entrepreneurs</a> <span>to expect to be unfulfilled—sanctions will continue forever in some form, meaning the duplicity of the West will never abate and that’s what needs to be considered in future planning:</span></p>
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<p><span>Vladimir Zelensky made a "fantastic" statement in an interview with a US TV channel. Commenting on his conversation with US President Donald Trump, he said: "If you can force Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war, that will be great, but you should know that he can deceive, he deceived me after the Minsk truce."</span> <em><strong>All this, as it is, began to be reprinted by the Western media, without reminding their own audience of other quotes from their leaders, such as Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, that it was they who deceived not only the citizens of Ukraine, but also the entire international community by not fulfilling the Minsk Agreements, because they knew from the beginning that they would not comply with them</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>In the course of our briefings and other public speeches, we regularly say that</span> <em><strong>it is the "collective West" that has always stood for the disruption of all peace initiatives on Ukraine, starting with the bloody coup d'état in February 2014 and then step by step.</strong></em></p>
<p>For a long time, the "guarantors" of the Minsk Agreements (primarily Germany and France, Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande) declared their commitment to peace. Time passed, February 2022 happened, the authorities in these countries changed and the former leaders ceased to be restrained at all.</p>
<p><span>On December 7, 2022, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was in power for more than 16 years (who likes to talk about democratic processes?), who directly participated in the meetings of the Normandy format and in the process</span> <a href="http://www.kremlin.ru/supplement/4804" rel>of drafting the Minsk Agreements,</a> <span>spoke very frankly in an interview with the German media. Let me remind you of the quote: "The Minsk agreements were an attempt to give time to Ukraine. They used this time to become stronger. Ukraine of the 2014-2015 model is not Ukraine today. I doubt that NATO countries would then have been able to do as much as they are doing now to help Ukraine. It was clear to all of us that this was a frozen conflict, that the problem had not been resolved. This is what gave Ukraine precious time."</span> <em><strong>Why did the Western media, quoting Vladimir Zelensky today that he was allegedly deceived, not say specifically who deceived him?</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Another guarantor, also a former one, but this time French President François Hollande supported Angela Merkel in the same way, saying: "The fuss around the Minsk agreements has led to the fact that since 2014 Ukraine has strengthened its military potential... It has become better...</span> <em><strong>The merit of the Minsk agreements is that Kiev got time to strengthen its army, because in 2014 NATO could not provide Kiev with weapons to the extent that it is doing now, and stopped the Russian offensive for a while.</strong></em><span>" The "fuss," as he said, is about the Security Council resolution, the Normandy format meetings, and the endless efforts of various representatives and special representatives to implement and monitor the implementation of the Minsk Agreements. And this was said by former French President Francois Hollande, the "guarantor" of the Minsk Agreements.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>These are not just revelations and memories, but an admission of guilt, a confession, but only without remorse.</strong></em> <span>Even then, in 2015, when they had many hours of conversations, they knew that they would never do anything like this and that they would pump the Kiev regime with weapons for further slaughter. They forget to mention one more important thing. They understood then and still understand that the Kiev regime is doomed. They have never felt sorry for anyone, neither women, nor children, nor the civilian population of Donbass, nor Ukraine as a whole. They just needed a conflict.</span></p>
<p><span>After these revelations, to say that Russia is allegedly to blame for something is an attempt to shift the blame from a sore head to a healthy one. After all, these are the same countries and the same leaders that were part of the Normandy format and manually led many political processes, including the change of power in Ukraine.</span> <em><strong>The main thing in these revelations is that, from the point of view of the West, all this was a falsification, flirting with the use of international law with the sole purpose of pumping the Kiev regime with weapons and politically preparing it to start hostilities, which we saw in early 2022, when the Kiev regime began to escalate in Donbass, multiplying the shelling of civilians.</strong></em> <span>Now they (these same Westerners) also need to "set fire" to the western part of Europe.</span></p>
<p><span>Then, with the Minsk Agreements, from their point of view, it was a distraction of the international community's attention from the real events on the territory of Ukraine, the humanitarian catastrophe and the endless killings that led to 2022.</span> <em><strong>Do you remember what Europe came to at the end of 2021? More than 13,000 victims on all sides. This is the result of Western manipulation of the Minsk Agreements.</strong></em> <span>This left no room for any other actions than those taken by the Russian Federation: first recognising these territories as sovereign and then accepting them into the Russian Federation so that they could be protected, to save the lives of citizens and preserve their dignity.</span></p>
<p><span>The main goal of this grandiose provocation was to create a hotbed of tension in this region, on the borders of the Russian Federation. Then came the illegal regime change, despite the fact that the people of Ukraine made the choices they needed.</span> <em><strong>The West swept away all legitimately elected presidents and brought to power its puppets: Viktor Yushchenko, Petr Poroshenko and, finally, the "bloody, bunker" Vladimir Zelensky. That's how they began to prepare for a big conflict.</strong></em></p>
<p>Let's remember what the third signatory of the Minsk Agreements, then President of Ukraine Petr Poroshenko, said? This former one also told the BBC in a documentary: "You know what the success of the Minsk Agreements is, despite the fact that Russia has not fulfilled any of their points, allegedly, naturally. This document gave Ukraine eight years to build an army, economy and a global pro-Ukrainian coalition."</p>
<p><em><strong>Do you think this is all a distant past and everyone has forgotten it? I assure you – no. Now all this is being actively promoted in the Western media, only from their point of view and logic, on the contrary.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>All these quotes are carefully pushed forward and Vladimir Zelensky and other representatives of Bankova or Western regimes come to the fore, who are starting to talk about the deception committed around the Minsk Agreements.</span> <em><strong>But in order to "put away" the confessions of Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande, they are beginning to blame Moscow for this.</strong></em></p>
<p>At the news conference "Ukraine. 2024", Vladimir Zelensky said that President of Russia Vladimir Putin "constantly raised the issue of a ceasefire" in Donbass during a personal meeting in 2019. And when Vladimir Zelensky was asked about the details of the meeting, he immediately replied that he did not remember them, that it was as if in another life. A great excuse, isn't it?</p>
<p>Let's go back a year earlier. In 2023, in an interview with the German newspaper Der Spiegel, Vladimir Zelensky was even more frank: "I did not see in the [Minsk] agreements a desire to preserve Ukraine's independence. I understand their [Western countries'] point of view: first of all, they wanted to quench Russia's appetites a little at the expense of Ukraine. Procrastination is completely normal in diplomacy. You never know when a decision-maker dies and everything suddenly becomes easier. &lt;... &gt; I told Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel that we cannot implement them [the Minsk agreements] this way... I jumped on this train, which, to be honest, was already rolling into the abyss. By "train" I mean these agreements in general. Each point is a wagon, and when you begin to disassemble it, you understand: everything is arranged in such a way that one side cannot fulfill something, and the other side freezes the conflict." There are a huge number of such statements.</p>
<p><span>I will cite another quote in support of what I was talking about:</span> <em><strong>"We do not need military people with foreign flags on our territory. We are not asking for this. Otherwise, there will be destabilization all over the world. We don't want to give Russia another reason to say that we have bases here and that they need to defend themselves.</strong></em><span>" Do you know who said that? Vladimir Zelensky, February 2022 Again, on the issue of peacekeeping, which is being discussed by the Westerners. [My Emphasis]</span></p>
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<p><span>The name prominently missing above is Donald Trump who was US president during four crucial years of the Minsk Agreements—International Law—non-enforcement. Instead, Trump pumped ever more weapons and monies into Ukraine in contravention of International Law, and he now tries to absolve himself of that crime. The latest attempt at</span> <a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/03/trumps-rewritten-deal-with-ukraine-is-imposed-indentured-servitude.html" rel>extortion of Ukraine</a> <span>by Trump was just made public that has many Ukrainians up in arms. Perhaps they will now remember what nation waged an aggressive war upon them in 2013-14 with the Maidan “color” revolt followed by an aggressive coup—the primary act of war—the empowerment of Nazis and detailing them to wage war on all Russian speakers and all things Russian, which began the reign of terror that is worse today than ever.</span></p>
<p>Russia all along has stated its willingness to talk provided it was treated respectfully. Trump, IMO, saw that as an opening and his ticket to return to power—he vowed he’d solve the war in 24 hours because he’d talk with Putin—that he would be a “peace president.” Since 20 January, we’ve seen just how peaceful he is—Abetting Genocide in Gaza and waging undeclared war on Yemen while allowing weapons and monies to continue flowing into Ukraine (yes, there was a hic-cup for a few days that didn’t make any difference). And now he’s directly threatened Iran with war if Iran doesn’t obey his diktat. Oh, and we mustn’t forget the Trade War he’s began against most of the world and his threat to steal Greenland. IMO, Putin was very cleaver to deflect the immediate demand of a ceasefire by detailing all the “nuances” involved in such an undertaking. Now the renewal of the Black Sea Grain deal but only upon the fulfillment of a detailed list of conditions, all of which are objected to by the Europeans and many in Congress. That makes two deals proposed and two deals failed. What will be the next failed deal? Today, Putin’s in Murmansk commissioning a nuclear submarine and addressing the plenary session of the VI International Arctic Forum 'The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue.’ Unlike Trump and his team, I doubt very much that Putin and his team gloat and laugh when they get battlefield results. And IMO that’s more than enough to tell us who are the Good Guys and who are the Bad.</p>
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title: MUST READ – What War With Iran Would Mean
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<p>March 27, 2025 (EIRNS)—Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a visit to the Far North on March 27, speaking at the VI International Forum “<a href="http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76554">Arctic—A Territory of Dialogue</a>.” In his 37-minute comments, it was clear that he saw the Arctic not as a regional question, but rather as a global question of importance for Russia. The functioning of the Northern Sea Route year-round has enhanced Russia’s position in world trade, as well as its position as a major maritime nation.</p>
<p>There is every intention by the Putin government to utilize its position in the Arctic to regain and enhance the role it has as a major power, encompassing the greatest landmass of any country in the world. He is also intent on reviving the collaboration with the other Arctic nations, particularly the United States, after the demise of the Arctic Council as a result of the West’s attempt to contain Russia. He went through the various plans that are under consideration for bringing the Arctic and its resources into the world economy: the construction of new ports, the creation of new rail lines in the Far North, the upgrading of shipbuilding, including icebreakers and other vessels for the maritime trade route, and the enhancement of the extensive system of rivers—the Ob, the Yenisei and the Lena Rivers, which flow into the Arctic Ocean.</p>
<p>The significance of the region for Russia was also clearly indicated in his extensive comments on President Trump’s proposal to annex Greenland: “Suffice it to say about the plans of the United States to annex Greenland, as everyone is aware. But you know, it can surprise someone only at first glance. It is a profound mistake to treat it as some preposterous talk by the new U.S. administration. Nothing of the sort.</p>
<p>“In fact, the United States had such plans as far back as 1860s. As early as that, the U.S. administration was considering possible annexation of Greenland and Iceland. However, the idea did not enjoy support in the Congress then. …</p>
<p>“Thus what is happening today is not really surprising, particularly since this story only began back then, and it went on and on. In 1910, for example, a trilateral land swap deal was negotiated between the United States, Germany and Denmark. As a result, Greenland would have gone to the United States but the deal fell through then.”</p>
<p>Putin also noted the establishment of American bases in Greenland to protect it from the Nazis, when even then, there were talks of the U.S. purchasing Greenland.</p>
<p>“As to Greenland, this is an issue that concerns two specific nations and has nothing to do with us,” he said. Then he went into what he considered the real problem—the crazy Scandinavians, who want war. “But at the same time, of course, we are concerned about the fact that NATO countries are increasingly often designating the Far North as a springboard for possible conflicts and are practicing the use of troops in these conditions, including by their ‘new recruits’—Finland and Sweden, with whom, incidentally, until recently we had no problems at all.”</p>

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<p><strong>The president has stated that Moscow will no longer tolerate diplomatic deception</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p data-start="313" data-end="483">President Vladimir Putin has emphasized that Moscow’s trust in Western Europe has been fundamentally broken, stating that while Russia remains open to working with the EU to resolve the Ukraine conflict, it will no longer do so on the basis of trust.</p>
<p data-start="746" data-end="989">The remarks came during Putin's meeting with Russian submarine crews following the launch of a new nuclear sub on Thursday, in the context of what he described as a <em>“sincere”</em> effort by US President Donald Trump to find a diplomatic resolution to the conflict.</p>
<p data-start="746" data-end="989">While expressing cautious optimism toward Washington, the Russian president made it clear that Europe is no longer regarded as a trustworthy interlocutor.</p>
<p data-start="991" data-end="1139"><em>“We are ready to work with Europe,” </em>Putin said.<em> “But they behave inconsistently and keep trying to string us along. That’s fine – we’re used to it now. I hope we won’t make any more mistakes based on trust in our so-called Western partners.”</em></p>
<p data-start="1386" data-end="1576">Putin accused Western leaders – particularly in France, Germany, and the UK – of manipulating previous peace efforts, especially the Minsk Agreements, as a tactic to buy time and rearm Ukraine.</p>

            
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<p data-start="1386" data-end="1576"><em>“Unfortunately, the former leaders of some Western countries... openly and without shame, have admitted that they only needed the Minsk Agreements to rearm the Ukrainian regime and prepare it for military action against us,”</em> Putin said.</p>
<p data-start="1902" data-end="1977"><em>“We tried to resolve these issues peacefully for eight years,”</em> even <em>“when the conflict entered a hot phase,” </em>Putin explained, accusing former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson of derailing the 2022 Istanbul peace talks. </p>
<p data-start="1902" data-end="1977"><em>“It is well known that Western handlers... arrived and persuaded the Ukrainian leadership to continue armed resistance to the end, essentially to the last Ukrainian, with the goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia,”</em> he said.</p>
<p data-start="2549" data-end="2755">Despite the past breaches of trust, Putin maintained that Russia is still open to dialogue – including with European nations – but stressed that future agreements must rest on firm, enforceable guarantees.</p>

            
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<p data-start="2757" data-end="3026">As part of this approach, he floated the idea of placing Ukraine under a temporary international administration. He suggested that a UN-led transitional authority could organize elections and establish a legitimate government capable of negotiating a lasting peace.</p>
<p data-start="2757" data-end="3026"><em>“Of course, it would be possible – under the UN’s auspices and together with the United States, European countries, and our partners – to discuss the introduction of a temporary administration in Ukraine,”</em> Putin said. <em>“In order to hold democratic elections and bring a capable, trusted government to power, with whom we could then sign legally binding agreements.”</em></p>
<p data-start="3394" data-end="3494">He concluded by reaffirming that any resolution must address Russia’s long-term strategic interests.</p>
<p data-start="3394" data-end="3494"><em>“We must, without question, ensure Russia’s security for the long historical perspective,”</em> he said.</p>

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<p>March 27, 2025 (EIRNS)—U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the declassification of all FBI files related to the agency’s investigation into his first election campaign’s alleged contacts with Russia. The FBI launched the “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation in July 2016, ostensibly to examine whether then presidential candidate Trump or members of his campaign were colluding or coordinating with Moscow to influence the election.</p>
<p>In a March 25 memorandum, Trump directed the Attorney General to make the materials available to the public “immediately.” And in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114224810565767895">video posted the same day on Truth Social</a>, Trump said, after signing the order: “This was total weaponization. It’s a disgrace … but now you’ll be able to see for yourselves.” Addressing journalists, he prefaced: “This gives the media the right to check it—you probably won’t bother, because you’re not going to like what you see.”</p>
<p>Previously, in January 2021, Trump had ordered a full declassification of Crossfire Hurricane, but the documents were never released. According to a 2023 CNN report, a binder containing highly classified information later went missing. Of note, the present head of the FBI, Kash Patel, back in 2017 was the lead investigator for Rep. Devin Nunes’ House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in which his “Nunes Memo” concluded that the FBI had abused their authority in the Russiagate operation. Patel is certainly acquainted with where some of the bodies are buried, and how some of the coverups were carried out.</p>
<p>“Crossfire Hurricane” was prompted by the infamous “Steele Dossier” of “former” MI6 agent Christopher Steele. His series of memos—basically unverified second-hand rumors and gossip on Trump—began in June 2016. Also at that time, the director of Britain’s GCHQ Robert Hannigan flew to Washington to brief CIA director John Brennan on the “Russiagate” project, one that London had been preparing months before.</p>
<p>On July 28, 2016, Brennan briefed President Barack Obama, VP Joe Biden, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, and former DNI James Clapper on the project. Brennan’s handwritten notes on that briefing were made public by John Ratcliffe, then Trump’s DNI, now the Director of the CIA. However, the CIA had heavily redacted that memo. The only two lines not redacted more than justify the full disclosure. They read: “Cite alleged approval by Hillary Clinton on 26 July on a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisors to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security services”; and, “Any evidence of collaboration between Trump campaign &amp; Russians.” (A prime candidate for the “foreign policy advisor” Brennan referenced might well be Jake Sullivan, a former State Department official, who was then Clinton’s senior advisor in her campaign.) The present order by Trump will not please the Russiagate circles of Hannigan, Steele, and Brennan.</p>
<p>Immediately after Brennan’s briefing, the CIA sent a Counterintelligence Operational Lead (CIOL) to then-FBI Director James Comey and then-Deputy Assistant Director of Counterintelligence Peter Strzok, with the subject line: “Crossfire Hurricane.” It stated: “The following information is provided for the exclusive use of your bureau for background investigative action or lead purposes as appropriate. Per FBI verbal request, CIA provides the below examples of information the CROSSFIRE HURRICANE fusion cell has gleaned to date. An exchange [REDACTED] discussing US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning US presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering US elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server.” The FBI’s “Crossfire Hurricane” was officially in gear by July 31, 2016.</p>
<p>Of some note: Britain’s former MI6 Chief Richard Dearlove, according to the Feb. 16, 2018 <em>Washington Post</em>, told Steele in London’s posh Garrick Club that Trump “reminded him of a predicament he had faced years earlier, when he [Dearlove] was chief of station for British intelligence in Washington [1991-93] and alerted U.S. authorities to British information that a vice presidential hopeful had once been in communication with the Kremlin.” Apparently, that was sufficient to do the job on the VP wannabe, but not so much with Donald Trump.</p>


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Fireside Chat Mar 27th – Dennis Speed + Diane Sare – Don’t Let the British Decapitate the Presidency!!!

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<img src="https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67656300005f1fc64c6dbede910be68591e4f7" width="300" height="300"><br><br>Some time soon, perhaps even by the time you read this, British Intelligence infiltrators in the Trump Administration may have forced the resignation of one of the senior officials of the Presidency. This is to be accomplished in the same way that Gen. Michael Flynn was dismissed as Trump’s National Security Advisor 22 days into the first Trump Administration. The immediate targets include Steve Witkoff, Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, and CIA Director Ratcliffe.That is what the “Signal-Gate” affair is all about: use the “leak” of the sensitive discussion (on a public app!!) about carrying out the ill-conceived bombing of Yemen, to disrupt the selected Trump team. That would, in turn, disrupt the ultra-sensitive negotiations going on between Russia and the United States. These negotiations are not about Ukraine, though that ongoing war is one of the features of those discussions. These talks are about the United States making a sovereign policy decision, and taking concrete action, to move the world away from thermonuclear war, and that in the short term, without “consulting” the British Empire.Today, a new Russian ambassador, Alexander Darchiev arrived in the United States. This is the first time that Russia officially returned to the U.S. since October 5 of last year. This comes about after hours of personal exchanges between Putin and Trump, and after the concrete work of the Saudi Arabia negotiations process. In this context, ask yourself: Just why would the same President Trump, who once said in a May, 2024 speech that “you can solve problems over a telephone, instead they start dropping bombs…Recently, they’re dropping bombs all over Yemen. You don’t have to do that” then engage in bombing Yemen?Former U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich, who is a long-time opponent of the endless wars waged in Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan, has intervened in a article on March 25 warning Trump against going to war with Iran: “It was not in America’s interest then, nor is it now, to go to war with Iran, a nation of 90 million people, a technologically advanced society, with nearly a million-person army. President Trump should not be misled. War with Iran would be the end of his presidency.” He then warns the disruption of the oil markets would translate into $7-$10 a gallon gasoline at the pumps in the US causing mass economic dislocation and financial shocks. This is the British Great Game in action.Are Americans just too dumb to understand what’s going on? Possibly. Organizers report that as many as 70% of Americans under 50 randomly polled in the street have no idea that 2025-26 is the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution , and that at least 25% have no idea that the United States fought the British to gain independence. King Charles is offering the United States to re-join the Commonwealth, a proposal originally made and authorized by his mother, Elizabeth in the first Trump Administration. Are Americans, is the Trump Administration, dumb enough to accept? That’s the way of perfidious Albion. You will find that is you bow to His/Her Majesty, whether in Gaza, Yemen, Iran or Ukraine, the next time you try to lift your head, it will fall into the royal lap.Speakers: Diane Sare and Dennis Speed<br><br><span>(Feed generated with <a href="https://fetchrss.com/" target="_blank">FetchRSS</a>)</span>


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<p><strong>The current authorities in Kiev have lost the legitimacy needed to sign any peace agreements, the president has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p data-start="228" data-end="296"><strong data-start="228" data-end="296"></strong><strong data-start="298" data-end="413"></strong> Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed placing Ukraine under a temporary international administration as one possible way of resolving the ongoing conflict. The idea, he said, draws on international precedent and would aim to restore legitimate governance before any peace deal could be finalized.</p>
<p data-start="731" data-end="972">During his meeting with Russian nuclear submarine officers on Thursday, President Putin described a <a href="https://www.rt.com/russia/614881-putin-proposes-un-govern-ukraine/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">possible international mechanism</a> for stabilizing Ukraine – placing it under temporary external administration coordinated by the United Nations.</p>
<p data-start="974" data-end="1021">Here are the key takeaways from Putin’s proposal:</p>
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<p data-start="1023" data-end="1066"><strong data-start="1023" data-end="1066">Problem: Collapse of legitimacy in Kiev</strong></p>
<p data-start="1023" data-end="1066">Putin argued that Ukraine’s constitutional legitimacy has broken down due to the expiration of Vladimir Zelensky’s presidential term last year and the lack of elections since – rendering all of his government’s claims to authority invalid.<br><br><em>“Presidential elections weren’t held... under the constitution, all officials are appointed by the president. If he himself is illegitimate, then so is everyone else.”</em></p>
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<p data-start="1485" data-end="2169"><strong data-start="1485" data-end="1533">Consequence: Power vacuum filled by radicals</strong></p>

            
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<p data-start="1485" data-end="2169">Putin has warned that groups with neo-Nazi views, such as the notorious Azov battalion – which receive Western weapons and actively recruit followers – could increasingly exert de facto control in Ukraine, potentially replacing formal civilian authorities.<br><br><em>“Amid the de facto illegitimacy… Neo-Nazi formations are receiving more weapons,”</em> and could take <em>“the actual power in their hands.”<br><br></em>Putin argued that this makes negotiating with Ukraine’s current government even more unreliable and unstable: <em>“It’s unclear who you’re even signing any documents with – tomorrow new people could come and say, ‘We don’t know who signed this – goodbye.’”</em></p>
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<p data-start="2171" data-end="2568"><strong data-start="2171" data-end="2227">Suggestion: UN-led temporary external administration</strong></p>
<p data-start="2171" data-end="2568">Putin proposed the use of a UN-led transitional authority, referencing prior international missions such as in East Timor, Papua New Guinea, and parts of former Yugoslavia.</p>

             
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<p data-start="2171" data-end="2568"><br><em>“In such cases, international practice often follows a known path – under UN peacekeeping, through what is called external governance, a temporary administration.”</em></p>
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<p data-start="2171" data-end="2568"><strong data-start="2570" data-end="2627">Purpose: Restoring constitutional order and setting a legal framework for stable peace</strong></p>

            
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<p data-start="2171" data-end="2568">The main goal, according to Putin, would be to organize democratic elections and install a functioning, legitimate government trusted by citizens and recognized globally. He stated that only such leaders could sign peace agreements that would be recognized worldwide and upheld over time.</p>
<p data-start="2171" data-end="2568"><em>“Why do this? In order to hold democratic elections, in order to bring to power a government that is capable and enjoys the trust of the people, and then begin negotiations with them on a peace treaty, sign legitimate documents that will be recognized worldwide and will be reliable and stable.”</em></p>
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<p data-start="3220" data-end="3581"><strong data-start="3220" data-end="3262">Not the only option – but a viable one</strong></p>
<p data-start="3220" data-end="3581">Putin emphasized that this idea is not the only possibility, but an example drawn from historical precedent.<br><br><em>“This is just one option... I’m not saying other options do not exist, but it is hard right now, or maybe even impossible, to lay everything out clearly because the situation is changing so fast,”</em> he said.</p>
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<p data-start="3220" data-end="3581"><strong data-start="3583" data-end="3627">Multilateral cooperation beyond the West</strong></p>

            
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<p data-start="3220" data-end="3581">Putin said such an initiative should involve not just the UN or the US, but a broader coalition, including BRICS nations and others Russia considers reliable.<br><br><em>“We will work with any partners – the US, China, India, Brazil, South Africa, BRICS countries… and, for example, North Korea.”<br><br></em>He also stressed that Russia remains open to working with the EU, even though Moscow’s trust in the Western European countries has been fundamentally undermined by their manipulation of peace efforts as a tactic to buy time and rearm Ukraine.</p>
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<p>The Kremlin tells us:</p>
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<p>The International Arctic Forum is a key platform for discussing topical issues of the integrated development of the Arctic territories, the development of effective mechanisms for the joint use and development of the rich resources of the Arctic region at different levels.</p>
<p>In 2025, the events of the forum are held in Murmansk on March 26–27 under the motto "To live in the North!"</p>
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<p><span>Prior to this event, Putin chaired</span> <a href="http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76553" rel>a meeting</a> <span>on the development of the Arctic zone and the Arctic transport corridor. Putin then stepped out into the night to go to Atomflot’s territory at Severodvinsk shipyard</span> <a href="http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76556" rel>to commission</a> <span>the newest Yasen-M nuclear submarine</span> <em>Perm</em> <span>with Putin noting “the</span> <em>Perm</em> <span>became the first multi-purpose submarine armed with Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles.”</span></p>
<p><span>Then it was back inside to conduct</span> <a href="http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76559" rel>the ceremony</a> <span>for starting the shipment of the first batch of coal from the Lavna transshipment complex. The Kremin tells us:</span></p>
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<p>The Lavna coal transshipment complex is located on the western shore of the Kola Bay within the boundaries of the port of Murmansk, and is an integral part of the Integrated Development of the Murmansk Transport Hub project.</p>
<p>Within its framework, the construction of a coal transshipment complex with a transshipment capacity of 18 million tons per year, a special railway line, the arrangement of the port water area.</p>
<p>The construction of the port "Lavna" will contribute to the growth of cargo turnover along the Northern Sea Route and the organization of year-round navigation.</p>
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<p>Putin said the following as part of the ceremony:</p>
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<p>The opening of the terminal will be a good contribution to increasing the capacity of our Arctic ports, in the creation of additional opportunities for the coal mining industry. I note, by the way, that coal was shipped from Kuzbass. The new capacities will allow to diversify the logistics of Kuzbass coal supplies to foreign markets.</p>
<p>Today, Russia is strengthening its sovereignty and creating new growth points for the economy and trade, forming effective transport corridors, including the active development of the Northern Sea Route, the entire global route from St. Petersburg through the Arctic to Vladivostok.</p>
<p><span>The port of Murmansk is one of the key points on this significant route. We will definitely continue to increase its capacity</span> <em><strong>at least three times</strong></em> <span>in the coming years, and in the future we need to reach large indicators. We will do this through the construction of new terminals, modern port infrastructure, and the expansion of short- and long-distance railway transport approaches. All these plans should be closely linked with the development of the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route, with ensuring the growth of transshipment not only of Russian, but also of foreign cargo, with the development of domestic Shipbuilding. [My Emphasis]</span></p>
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<p>Lots of effort is being made into making Murmansk buzz. It was the last city constructed during the Tsarist Era beginning in 1915 as a crucial ice-free port and that’s what’s made it into a strategic city. Today about a quater million live there with more constantly being attracted thanks to intense levels of investment. At the development meeting, all we’re provided with is Putin’s opening 5-minute address with the remainder being a closed session:</p>
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<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Dear colleagues, good afternoon!</span></p>
<p>We are meeting and working today in Murmansk, the largest city in the Arctic Circle, to discuss the development of the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route in a comprehensive manner.</p>
<p>I would like to note that both the city itself and the Murmansk Region set an example of dynamic and progressive development for all the Arctic regions. Large-scale, largely unique industrial and logistics projects are being implemented here, such as the Belokamenka center for the construction of large-capacity offshore structures, the development and modernization of the Murmansk transport hub, including the opening of new terminals and the expansion of railway approaches.</p>
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<p>The Belokamenka Yard outside Murmansk builds gravity-based structures for LNG production.</p>
<p><br><span>Of course, Murmansk is the home port of Russia's nuclear icebreaker fleet. As you know, it plays a decisive role in the development of Arctic shipping routes, the Arctic as a whole. And finally, on the Kola Peninsula our most powerful Northern Fleet is based, ensuring the security of the Arctic borders of Russia.</span></p>
<p>Today I met with some of my colleagues who told me about it, and yesterday I spoke about this with the leadership of the Defence Ministry, and the Chief of the General Staff [Valery Gerasimov] about how the sailors are fighting–-I would like to thank everyone once again for their service, for the courage that the Severomorsk sailors are showing during the special military operation.</p>
<p>Repeat: here, in the Arctic, in this strategic and significant for us region, we are facing large-scale and systemic tasks. They will strengthen transport and logistics infrastructure, expand the opportunities of the economy, business with the mandatory protection of sensitive Arctic ecosystems.</p>
<p><em><strong>It is necessary to consistently improve the urban environment, to improve the settlements of the Far North, in general, to improve the quality of life of people, so that they have interesting, well-paid jobs, modern education systems and healthcare, so that life in the Arctic is truly comfortable and attractive.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>It is obvious that all these tasks require a comprehensive approach, clear plans calculated for the long term, a combination of efforts of federal ministries and regional teams, business and scientific circles, and public associations.</strong></em></p>
<p>Such work is deployed in the Government, as well as within the framework of the Maritime Board. I know that on the eve of our meeting there were events and a specially created commission of the State Council. It is called "Northern Sea Route and the Arctic" and is headed by the Governor of the Murmansk region Andrey Vladimirovich Chibis.</p>
<p><em><strong>In all these formats, ideas for the strategic development of the Arctic are being discussed, and proposals are being prepared, which we will consider today</strong></em><span>. At the same time, I would like to draw the attention of the meeting participants: now,</span> <em><strong>after all the discussions, we need to make extremely specific financial, managerial, and legislative decisions.</strong></em></p>
<p>Let me remind you that we have already discussed with the Government the need to define in detail the model for the development of the Northern Sea Route, to provide its cargo flows with infrastructure and fleet. We agreed to work out all the organizational issues. Unfortunately, decisions on this issue have not yet been made, and the model has not been compiled. I would like to draw the attention of my colleagues to this.</p>
<p><span>Of course,</span> <em><strong>it is important to take into account today's objective problems, difficulties and limitations. But despite this, we should not delay the launch of development projects that are important for the Arctic and for the whole</strong></em> <span>of Russia. I ask you to build your reports today, dear colleagues, based on these considerations.</span></p>
<p>Let's start working. A word to Yuri Trutnev. I ask you to start. [My Emphasis]</p>
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<p>One of the few instances since I began closely following Russian development that groundwork planning is incomplete. Yet, the need to move forward is there because it’s too important not to. That’s likely the reason why the rest of the session is closed since many of the reports are likely ad hoc. Now we’ll move on to the bigger event, the plenary session of VI International Arctic Forum "The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue:"</p>
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<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Dear colleagues and friends, Ladies and gentlemen,</span></p>
<p>I would like to welcome the participants and guests of the VI International Forum "Arctic-Territory of Dialogue". For the first time, it is hosted by Murmansk, the capital of the Russian Arctic, a hero city that is developing dynamically today, like our other northern cities and regions of the Federation, and is launching landmark projects for the whole country.</p>
<p><span>Russia is the largest Arctic power. We have always supported equal cooperation in the region, including scientific research, biodiversity protection, climate issues, emergency response and, of course, economic and industrial development of the Arctic. Moreover, we are ready to work together not only with the Arctic states, but with all those who share the same responsibility for a stable, sustainable future of the planet, and</span> <em><strong>are able to make balanced decisions designed for decades to come.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Unfortunately, international cooperation in the northern latitudes is not going through the best of times right now. In previous years, many Western countries have taken a course of confrontation, severed economic ties with Russia, and cut off scientific, educational, and cultural contacts. The dialogue on the conservation of Arctic ecosystems has been curtailed.</span> <em><strong>In other words, politicians, party leaders, and the same "greens" in some Western countries tell their citizens and voters about the importance of the climate agenda and nature protection, but in reality, in their practical policies, they act quite differently.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Let me remind you that the Arctic Council was also established to cooperate in the environmental sphere, to prevent emergencies in the Arctic circle and jointly respond to them, but this mechanism is now degraded. Moreover, Russia did not refuse to communicate in this format–-it was the choice of our Western partners, Western states. As they say in such cases: if you don't want to, you don't need to.</span> <em><strong>We will work with those who want it.</strong></em></p>
<p>At the same time, it is obvious that the role and importance of the Arctic for both Russia and the whole world is growing. Unfortunately, geopolitical competition and the struggle for positions in this region are also intensifying.</p>
<p>Suffice it to say, everyone is well aware of this, of the plans of the United States of America to annex Greenland. But you know, this may surprise some only at first glance, and it is deeply erroneous to believe that these are some extravagant conversations of the new American administration. Nothing like that.</p>
<p><em><strong>In fact, such plans for the United States of America appeared in the 60s of the XIX century. Even then, the US administration considered annexing Greenland and Iceland, but this idea did not receive Congressional support at the time.</strong></em></p>
<p>By the way, let me remind you that by 1868, American newspapers were ridiculing the purchase of Alaska: it was called "madness", "ice box" and "Andrew Johnson's polar bear garden"—the then President of the United States. Therefore, the Greenland proposal failed.</p>
<p>But today, this acquisition, I mean the acquisition of Alaska, is probably evaluated very differently in the United States itself–-just like the activities of President Andrew Johnson.</p>
<p><span>Therefore, there is nothing surprising in what is happening today. Moreover, this story began only then, and it continued further.</span> <em><strong>In 1910, for example, a three-way deal was prepared for the exchange of territories between the United States, Germany and Denmark. As a result, Greenland would have gone to the United States, but the deal fell through.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>During World War II, the United States placed military bases in Greenland to protect it from Nazi occupation, and</span> <em><strong>after the war ended, the United States offered Denmark to buy the island—most recently by the standards of world history.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>In short, we are talking about serious plans on the American side regarding Greenland. These plans have long-standing historical roots, as I have just shown, and</span> <em><strong>it is obvious that the United States will continue to systematically promote its geostrategic, military-political and economic interests in the Arctic.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>As for Greenland, this is an issue that concerns two specific states and has nothing to do with us. But at the same time, of course, we are only concerned about the fact that the NATO countries as a whole are increasingly identifying the Far North as a springboard for possible conflicts, and they are working out the use of troops in these conditions, including by the forces of their "recruits"–-Finland and Sweden, with which, by the way, we did not have any relations until recently no problems at all. They create it themselves with their own hands for some reason. What for? Totally incomprehensible.</span> <em><strong>But nevertheless, we will proceed from what is there, and we will react to all this.</strong></em></p>
<p>I would like to emphasize that Russia has never threatened anyone in the Arctic. But we are closely monitoring the development of the situation, building an adequate response line, increasing the combat capabilities of the Armed Forces and modernizing military infrastructure facilities.</p>
<p>We will not allow encroachments on the sovereignty of our country, and we will reliably protect our national interests. By maintaining peace and stability in the Arctic, we will ensure long-term socio-economic development of the region, improving the quality of life of people and preserving the unique natural environment.</p>
<p><em><strong>And the stronger our positions are, the more significant the results achieved, the more opportunities we will have to launch global international projects in the Arctic</strong></em> <span>with the participation of friendly countries, friendly states, and possibly Western states, if they, of course, show interest in working together. I am sure that the time for such projects will also come.</span></p>
<p>Dear friends!</p>
<p><span>The Arctic zone accounts for more than a quarter of the territory of the Russian Federation. Almost two and a half million of our citizens live and work here, who make a significant contribution to the country's progress.</span> <em><strong>It is estimated that the Arctic accounts for seven percent of Russia's gross domestic product and about eleven percent of its exports.</strong></em> <span>At the same time, we see enormous prospects for further integrated development of the region.</span> <em><strong>The most important direction is to strengthen the transport and logistics contour of the Arctic.</strong></em></p>
<p>I would like to note that this year marks the 500th anniversary of the first mention in historical sources of the daring idea of Russian navigators, fishermen-Pomors, namely, a possible trade route through the northern seas to the east to China via the so-called North–Eastern Passage--the prototype of the Northern Sea Route.</p>
<p>Over the past ten years, cargo traffic on the Northern Sea Route--from the Kara Gate Strait to the Bering Strait--has grown by an order of magnitude. If in 2014, just recently, only four million tons [of cargo] were transported on it, then last year it was almost 38 million tons. This is five times more than the Soviet record. We think, yes, we are sure, that by 2030 it will be 70-100 million tons.</p>
<p><span>But our plans for the volume and geography of transportation, as well as for building up the Arctic fleet, are much more ambitious.</span> <em><strong>The Northern Sea Route should become a key part of the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor, which will run from St. Petersburg through Murmansk to Vladivostok.</strong></em> <span>It aims to connect the world's industrial, agricultural, energy centers and consumer markets in a shorter, safer, cost-effective route. They talk about it everywhere, write about it everywhere: both in the East and in the West. Experts are well aware of this.</span></p>
<p><span>The cargo base of the Trans-Arctic Corridor will grow due to the extraction and deep processing of resources in the Arctic, by increasing international transit and, I would like to emphasize,</span> <em><strong>linking the Trans-Arctic Corridor with our domestic railway network–-from the north-west to the Far East, to the BAM and Trans-Siberian Railway.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>By the way, even today the idea of building a Trans-Siberian Railway across the country to the Pacific Ocean serves as an example of our strategic vision of the future, when not only current needs and circumstances are taken into account,</span> <em><strong>but also the interests of the country for centuries to come.</strong></em> <span>This is the approach that we should follow when developing the Trans-Arctic Corridor.</span></p>
<p>What are the priority tasks here?</p>
<p>First. Russia already has the largest icebreaking fleet in the world. We need to strengthen these positions and put into operation new-generation icebreakers, including nuclear-powered ones, which only Russia currently has–-no one in the world has such a fleet.</p>
<p>Four of them--the latest 22220 series--are already performing tasks in the Arctic. Three more nuclear–powered vessels of this series are being built—Chukotka, Leningrad and Stalingrad, as well as the heavy-duty 120-megawatt icebreaker Rossiya, which will allow large-capacity vessels to be carried out more efficiently in high latitudes throughout the year, all year round.</p>
<p><span>I would like to emphasize that the cost of icebreaking vessels and, in general, the cost of cargo transportation along the Trans-Arctic Corridor</span> <em><strong>should be competitive and acceptable for the market.</strong></em> <span>This is the most important condition for ensuring that the route is loaded and attractive for business. We have just discussed these issues with our colleagues from the Government–-</span><em><strong>I cannot but agree that this should be primarily market-based work.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Second. Russia, as a sovereign power,</span> <em><strong>needs its own merchant fleet in the Arctic</strong></em><span>, including cargo and rescue vessels that will provide transportation both in the northern seas and</span> <em><strong>along the inland waterways of the Arctic regions.</strong></em> <span>We must admit that only</span> <em><strong>domestic shipbuilding capacities are currently insufficient for these purposes</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p>In this regard, we need to act in all directions: to purchase and order ready-made vessels, to establish cooperation with world manufacturers and, in general, to build the entire system of Russian shipbuilding, based on the strategic tasks that we face.</p>
<p><span>Of course, first of all, I would like to draw the Government's attention to this: we need to support our shipbuilding and ship repair enterprises, which are modernizing and expanding production, and building international production chains.</span> <em><strong>I also ask the Government to work out the construction of new shipyards and modern, complex, high-tech production facilities in Russia.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>The third. Russian shipping companies that transport oil products and liquefied natural gas are already successfully operating in the northern seas.</span> <em><strong>Now we need to create conditions for the growth of efficient domestic operators that will be engaged in the transportation of containers, coal, bulk and other goods through the Arctic.</strong></em> <span>We are also open to setting up joint ventures here. International logistics operators could profitably invest in such companies not only with capital and technology, but also with a part of their merchant ship fleet.</span></p>
<p>Fourth. We will increase the capacity and turnover of our northern ports at a faster pace, using modern, environmental solutions, including unmanned and automated cargo handling technologies. Thus, the capacity of the Murmansk transport hub due to the construction of new terminals, expansion of railway approaches should be increased at least three times in the coming years.</p>
<p>I would like to add that our partners from Belarus, China, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries are showing interest in this project and in the development of the Arctic transport infrastructure in general. This is also a very interesting job from the business point of view.</p>
<p><span>As key logistics centers of the Trans-Arctic Corridor,</span> <em><strong>we intend to create large multimodal hubs</strong></em><span>. It will not only form caravans of ships, handle Russian and foreign cargo,</span> <em><strong>but also create industrial sites for the production of industrial products.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>In order to increase the logistics sustainability of the Trans-Arctic Corridor, I ask the Government to determine</span> <em><strong>plans for expanding the capacity of existing seaports in the Arctic, as well as where and at what points on the Arctic coast new ports should appear and what pace should be gained in the development of adjacent infrastructure</strong></em><span>.</span> <em><strong>First of all, I mean connecting sea harbors with the country's railway network.</strong></em></p>
<p>In this regard–-the fifth. Similar to the Eastern Test Site, which includes the BAM and Trans-Siberian Railway, we will have to implement a project for the development of the Arctic Railway test site, including the modernization of the Northern Railway in the territory of the Komi Republic and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.</p>
<p><span>We know the current situation with the development of Russian Railways, we know what challenges the company faces–-everything is well known. But we need to think about this–-about what I have just said, about the development of the Northern Railway–-</span><em><strong>right now, today</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p><span>What opportunities does this offer? The regions of Siberia, the Urals, and the north-west of Russia will have direct access to the north, to Arctic ports, which will allow unloading the Trans-Siberian Railway and effectively using sea transportation.</span> <em><strong>In addition, new access points to the Arctic will appear along the North-South corridor, which connects us with the states of Central Asia and the Persian Gulf.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>And of course, for the development of the Trans-Arctic route,</span> <em><strong>it is necessary to unlock the potential of the Arctic's inland waterways, our great rivers: the Lena, Yenisei, and Ob, at a new technological level.</strong></em> <span>This will also strengthen the system of "northern delivery", so that the inhabitants of the Arctic will be reliably provided with food and other goods.</span></p>
<p>What do I want to emphasize separately? To implement these and other major initiatives, it is necessary to pool the resources of the state, regions, and businesses, including banks with both state participation and private ones. It is also necessary to use the opportunities of the domestic stock market to attract capital to the Arctic infrastructure.</p>
<p><em><strong>Yes, infrastructure projects are complex, costly, and have a long payback period. But it is they who provide a new level of real transport sovereignty for Russia.</strong></em> <span>And I am sure that if our foreign partners come to these projects, it will guarantee them investments for the long term and with a good return. Therefore, we should not postpone these projects until later–-</span><em><strong>we need to launch and implement them now, as quickly as possible.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Of course, it is important to show flexible approaches and attract both Russian and foreign investors, as I just said. In this regard,</span> <em><strong>I suggest that we think about creating a special project office under the auspices of our leading development institute VEB, which will support transport, logistics, infrastructure projects in the Arctic, as well as urban development projects in the region, and will become the structure where a potential investor can apply directly and get the necessary support</strong></em><span>. I ask the Government to prepare proposals in this regard.</span></p>
<p><span>In addition, I instruct the Government--with the participation of Rosatom, VEB, and the relevant State Council commission--</span><em><strong>to approve the financial, economic, and organizational model for the development of the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor by August 1 of this year</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p>Dear colleagues!</p>
<p>Today, oil and gas, metals, and other mineral deposits are being developed in the Russian Arctic. We will continue large-scale geological exploration here, primarily within the framework of the federal project "Geology: Revival of a Legend".</p>
<p>At the same time, the task is to use a powerful resource base to open enterprises with deep processing of raw materials in the Arctic regions. Preserving the unique nature of the Arctic, create high-value-added industries in the oil and gas chemistry, rare earth metals, and other industries related to mechanical engineering, the production of complex machinery and industrial equipment.</p>
<p>As an example, I will cite the Belokamenka Center for the Construction of Large-capacity Offshore Structures, where technologies for natural gas liquefaction are localized and the most modern, and proprietary, developments in this area are applied.</p>
<p>I would like to draw the attention of our colleagues from the Government and the regions: we need to not only offer, but also effectively adjust the tools to support investment and business activity in the Arctic, including tax incentives, administrative preferences, infrastructure preparation of land plots, and so on.</p>
<p>In particular, I remind my colleagues of the need to strictly implement the plans for gasification of the Murmansk region. It should be completed by 2030. I emphasize that this task is not removed.</p>
<p>And of course, we need to develop such a promising area as tourism. The North, the Arctic is a unique center of natural, historical, and spiritual monuments. It has a rich cultural palette. The Arctic is visited annually by more than a million tourists to explore its landscapes, see the Northern Lights, go Arctic fishing, go dog sledding, after all, or take a trip to the polar archipelagos.</p>
<p>The number of tourists is growing. Accordingly, there are new projects in this area, such as an Arctic tourism center with a ski destination in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District or an aquathermal resort and all-season hotel complex in Karelia. I ask you, both through the federal government and in the regions, to support such initiatives that open up new facets of the Arctic and work to increase interest in this region.</p>
<p>I also suggest that we consider including the development of the White Sea tourist infrastructure in the federal project "Five Seas and Lake Baikal".</p>
<p>To open up the Arctic to mass tourism, of course, the issue of transport accessibility is important: starting from the repair and construction of highways to the development of aviation communication.</p>
<p>Let me remind you that we have extended preferential fares for flights to Arctic cities. Last year, about eight hundred thousand passengers took advantage of this opportunity. This year, subsidized tickets can be purchased for more than seven dozen air routes.</p>
<p>At the same time, airports in the Far North, especially small ones, need to be updated. In the coming years, we will modernize 16 airfields in the Arctic zone, including those in Salekhard, Arkhangelsk, Naryan-Mar and Vorkuta, as part of a national project.</p>
<p><em><strong>In general, our goal is to maintain an extensive airport network in the Arctic: from large and medium-sized airfields to small landing sites. This is also necessary to ensure the year-round accessibility of settlements and the operation of air ambulance services.</strong></em></p>
<p>Dear friends!</p>
<p><span>The key, integral goal of our plans is to improve the quality of life of people in the Arctic, to create modern conditions for studying and working, for recreation and for raising children in this harsh region, which</span> <em><strong>has an amazing force of attraction.</strong></em> <span>I have talked to people more than once, and the northerners themselves–-both those who were born here and those who came here–-say that the North attracts, people "stick" with their soul to these latitudes, to this land.</span></p>
<p>As you know, master plans have already been prepared for the agglomerations of the Arctic zone. These are not just big cities like Arkhangelsk and Murmansk. The master plans cover Kirovsk, Apatity and Monchegorsk in the Murmansk Region, Karelian Kem and Belomorsk, Vorkuta in the Komi Republic, Bilibino, Pevek in Chukotka, Naryan-Mar in the Nenets Autonomous District, Salekhard, Labytnangi, Novy Urengoy and Noyabrsk in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, and Tiksi and Naiba in Yakutia. Norilsk, Igarka and Dikson in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.</p>
<p>I would like to thank the VEB Corporation in particular .RF" and "DOM. RF", which directly participated in the preparation of many of these master plans.</p>
<p><span>The master plan is a comprehensive document of strategic and territorial planning, a long-term program of socio-economic and spatial development of cities and towns.</span> <em><strong>The latest urban planning solutions will be applied here, while preserving the original appearance of settlements, and based on the proposals of residents themselves, public associations, including organizations of indigenous peoples of the North.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>I would like to draw the Government's attention to the need to speed up the adoption of the schedule for the implementation of the Arctic master plans, consider their financing, including, as I have already said,</span> <em><strong>we need to provide for separate Arctic sections in our national projects,</strong></em> <span>as well as launch a mechanism to involve businesses and strategic investors who work in the Arctic or want work.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>In addition, I ask you to consider creating special competence centers where municipal and regional employees will improve their skills in the field of urban development and learn the best methods of master planning.</strong></em></p>
<p>Further. We have launched an All-Russian competition for projects to create a comfortable urban environment. Winners receive budget support. I propose that the competition should provide for a separate additional limit from the federal budget–-we have just discussed it with our colleagues from the Government and the Ministry of Finance--but I won't mention the final figures, but this limit should be determined and support should be provided so that our colleagues who are engaged in solving the tasks I have just outlined will have more opportunities for embankments, pedestrian zones, and playgrounds, for setting up parks, squares, and so on.</p>
<p><span>Separately,</span> <em><strong>I ask the Government to extend the program of renovation of military camps, closed administrative-territorial formations in the Arctic, where our soldiers and officers and their families live. Such a renovation program should operate at least until 2030,</strong></em> <span>with an annual amount of financial support from the federal budget of at least ten billion rubles. I would like to emphasize that this is also due, of course, to the strengthening of our military component in this region–-the number of military personnel here will grow.</span></p>
<p>One of the tasks of the master plans and the renovation program is to determine where new industries and jobs will appear, including those linked to the Trans-Arctic Corridor, where schools and kindergartens will be built, polyclinics and hospitals, roads and networks, where residential buildings will be built. The Ministry of Defense, together with the Ministry of Construction, together with the regions, should work out all these issues on an object-by-object basis, so that it is clear what specific resources should be allocated in what time frame to support the solution of this problem.</p>
<p><span>The peculiarity of the Arctic is that construction is carried out in conditions of permafrost, and hence–-</span><em><strong>special requirements for the design, to the very structure of buildings and structures, their reliability.</strong></em> <span>At the same time, taking into account climate change, it is important to see the dynamics and take into account potential risks</span><em><strong>. I propose creating a special research center for monitoring permafrost and involving leading federal and regional institutes in this work.</strong></em> <span>Their research will provide a scientific basis for technologies for adapting the Arctic infrastructure to the processes of permafrost melting.</span></p>
<p>At the same time, I know that a register of best construction practices in the Arctic has already been created. It is important to scale up such regional experience. I hope that the idea of Arctic multifunctional centers, where social and administrative institutions, sports complexes, and service organizations are located "under a common roof" in one building, will also find its place in this series.</p>
<p><span>And of course, we must always rely on the opinion and requests of citizens, the Northerners themselves.</span> <em><strong>So, people directly say, for example, that in the Arctic cities and towns there is a lack of the so-called service economy, that is, leisure facilities, places for family recreation and children's entertainment, cultural and educational sites.</strong></em> <span>We need to develop this segment and encourage entrepreneurs ' initiatives.</span></p>
<p>We already have a special program to support small and medium-sized businesses in the Far North regions. It is important to increase its effectiveness. I ask the Government to adjust the parameters of this program, including expanding the list of industries that it extends to, and creating additional opportunities for small companies to attract soft loans.</p>
<p><em><strong>I will also mention healthcare separately. The availability of medical services in the North is objectively lower than in the middle zone, especially in remote localities. I ask the Government to prepare a special mechanism for financing medical care for them.</strong></em></p>
<p>Also, to save the health of residents of the North, it is necessary to use digital technologies, equip mobile paramedic stations with artificial intelligence tools that allow both remotely and directly on the spot to diagnose human health, identify certain diseases and make recommendations for their treatment.</p>
<p><em><strong>Further. Environmental well-being is a sensitive issue for the Arctic and its inhabitants. Let me remind you that at our first forum, which was initiated by the Russian Geographical Society, we announced the beginning of a "general cleaning" of the Arctic from scrap metal, fuel and lubricants and other debris.</strong></em></p>
<p>The project, launched by the Russian Geographical Society with the participation of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, brought together thousands of volunteers and public organizations. And we will definitely continue this work and ensure comprehensive environmental protection of the Russian Arctic zone, including solving such an acute problem as clearing water areas from sunken ships. Of course, money is needed for everything, so it is imperative that the relevant government departments work out all these issues, including the issues of financing by year.</p>
<p><em><strong>We will remove technological waste and carry out reclamation of territories with an emphasis on putting cities and towns in order, on the so-called revitalization of abandoned territories, buildings, and land, that is, their re-involvement in circulation in the interests of residents of Arctic cities.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>In fact, we are paying back the debt to the Arctic. But we cannot accumulate new debts to its unique nature. Considering the plans for economic development of the region, it is very important to ensure a balance between the use of natural resources and the preservation of the environment.</strong></em></p>
<p>To test new nature-saving technologies in the Polar Urals, it is planned to create a scientific and educational station "Snezhinka" in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District by the end of 2028. Here, an international team of scientists and researchers will work out "green" technologies for the Arctic, their application in the field of life support, telecommunications, medicine and the new materials industry.</p>
<p>Dear colleagues!</p>
<p>The Arctic is a territory of great opportunities for professionals of various professions, for entrepreneurs, for young people, for families who have lived here for generations or have only recently moved and are planning to settle, buy or build their own homes here.</p>
<p>We have already extended the Arctic mortgage program at a rate of two percent per annum until 2030, and eased conditions for borrowers. So, teachers and medical workers who would like to take out a loan for the purchase of housing are no longer subject to the requirements for work experience in the North. Participants of a special military operation and employees of the military-industrial complex can also use the Arctic mortgage.</p>
<p>A very acute problem for Northerners is emergency housing. I instruct the Government to work out a plan of concrete actions by September 1 of this year, and this plan-to solve this problem-should be designed for at least ten years.</p>
<p>Further. As you know, the "Affordable Rental Housing" program has been launched in the Far East. Young people who come to the Far Eastern regions or graduate from educational institutions there, get a job, can rent apartments at fairly low rates. In this case, the rent is subsidized from the regional and federal budgets.</p>
<p>I propose to extend this program to the main population centers of the Arctic, so that rental housing becomes more affordable for those who start their working career in the region, who want to live and work here. The program should start operating in the Arctic as early as 2026.</p>
<p>We also agreed to extend the Muravyov-Amursky-2030 management training program to the Arctic regions. This is already done. I am sure that such training will be a powerful start for many promising managers, which means that it will benefit both the Arctic and the whole country.</p>
<p>And more. The North has always attracted brave people, real leaders. One of these ascetics is an outstanding explorer, polar explorer, scientist Artur Nikolaevich Chilingarov. I propose to establish special grants in his memory and use them to support youth initiatives in the framework of environmental, educational and scientific projects in the Arctic.</p>
<p>Dear friends!</p>
<p>The development of the Russian North, overcoming the challenges of harsh nature, and reaching new frontiers for the state–these tasks inspired many generations of our ancestors: navigators and Novgorod merchants of the Middle Ages, Arctic pioneers of the XVI and XVII centuries, industrialists of the XVIII and XIX centuries, scientists, polar explorers, engineers, workers of the Soviet Union, and collectives of companies in modern Russia that gave start of large Arctic projects in the early 2000s.</p>
<p>And today, the northern vector of development is at the forefront, it is our sovereign, historical choice. This means that the tasks that we set and solve in the Arctic, the projects that we implement here, should be of an appropriate, historical scale, with a view to decades, maybe even centuries.</p>
<p><em><strong>We will do everything possible to strengthen Russia's global leadership in the Arctic, and despite all the current difficulties, we will ensure the comprehensive development of this region and create a solid foundation for future generations.</strong></em></p>
<p>Thank you very much for your attention. [My Emphasis]</p>
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<p>It doesn’t seem so long ago that Putin was conducting his tour of the Arctic at the initial stage of research into the master development plans for the places he mentioned in his speech. That was in the Fall of 2023. Parts of the above were presented to the Federal Assembly in Putin’s Leap Day Address that detailed his vision for Russia’s future to 2030 and beyond. It’s now starting to come together and become real. IMO, it’s very important to realize Putin is putting forth the demand that this massive developmental project be done responsibly, thoughtfully, in a way the Soviet attempts at Arctic development weren’t—that’s why clean-up is being done annually and will need to continue for perhaps another decade.</p>
<p>IMO, Putin did a good job of putting Russian minds at ease regarding Trump’s desire to obtain Greenland, which as he pointed out is nothing new and dates back to our post-Civil War Era. It should be noted that at the end of the 19th Century, there were thinkers in the USA and Russia advocating the construction of a railway across the Bering Strait, which even today would pose a very difficult technological, engineering task. Plus, many Russians are aware that the Outlaw US Empire lags far behind in Arctic development—to get to where Russia already is would take several trillion dollars in investment, money the Empire doesn’t have, and this is development in Alaska. Infrastructure is the key as Putin said. For many on the planet, Russia’s Arctic and Far East are the last remaining frontiers that offer great opportunity for those that are bold and strong. In the Gym’s archive are some articles on the Arctic for the curious, including Putin’s 2023 trips.</p>
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<p>These may have been the last words heard by Mueller, 42, as he lay dying and moaning in raw, agonizing pain.</p>
<p>These details and haunting scenes are captured on Mueller’s bodycam video and were revealed to the jury this week in the first-degree murder trial of Alain Bellefeuille. He’s on trial in L’Orignal for the deadly events on the morning of May 11, 2023, in the typically quiet village of Bourget, some 50 kilometres from downtown Ottawa.</p>
<p>That he killed Mueller and shot Constables Marc Lauzon and François Gamache-Asselin is not in question, nor contested. Bellefeuille thought it was a home invasion, and fired blindly through the walls of his bedroom at the shadowy figures with flashlights and one with a pistol drawn, the jury heard. His defence lawyer, Leo Russomanno, told the jury his client was defending himself and it was anything but an ambush for Bellefeuille never called the police to his home and didn’t know they were police when they came in through his unlocked front door after he fell into a deep sleep following a day of prepping a drywall job out in Orléans.</p>
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<p>On the horrifying bodycam of a dying Mueller, the prosecutor told the jury: “Mr. Bellefeuille will stare at you just as he stared directly at Sgt. Mueller as he laid bleeding to death in front of his very eyes. And you will see that gaze and hear those words because of this witness — this singular, irreplaceable witness — that stands as another testament to the carnage Mr. Bellefeuille perpetrated on Bourget.”</p>
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<p>Then, slowly, the nose of Bellefeuille’s rifle pokes out of his bedroom door, then disappears. The wounded Lauzon fires two rounds from his service pistol into the bedroom, then retreats from the house and collapses in the yard.</p>
<p>This is when Bellefeuille, long-haired and bearded with a black ballcap, leans over the dying officer and tells him he f—ed around with the wrong motherf—er, should have never broke into his home and then apologizes for shooting him.</p>
<p>It was at this point, right after leaning over the dying officer, on his back with a vest emblazoned with ‘POLICE’, Bellefeuille calls 911 for an ambulance.</p>
<p>At 2:37 a.m., Bellefeuille tells the 911 operator: “I shot a police, unfortunately he broke into my house.”</p>
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<p>His defence lawyer said it was anything but an ambush and the only call he made was to 911 for an ambulance after shooting someone he thought was an intruder.</p>
<p>Mueller’s bodycam audio captures the conversation between Bellefeuille and paramedics, who were on standby down the road waiting for the scene to be safe before rushing in to help.</p>
<p>He disarmed himself and didn’t leave the scene, rather invited paramedics into his home, “Officer down, officer’s down right here.” He told them to hurry and repeated “come in, come in, he’s breathing still, he’s still breathing.”</p>
<p>The paramedics rushed out Mueller, and performed CPR in vain on the way to hospital where the father and husband was pronounced dead.</p>
<p>The deadly events of May 11, 2023, were first set in motion when a neighbour called 911 just after 2:00 a.m. She was concerned after hearing loud music, screaming and what she thought was a gunshot. She feared her neighbour had harmed himself. Bellefeuille never fired a gun that night until police came in through his unlocked front door, the jury heard.</p>
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<p>The police called Bellefeuille, but it went straight to voicemail. Lauzon, captured by the bodycam of Mueller in tow, is seen getting out of his cruiser, and both responding officers circle around the back of the house with their shining flashlights.</p>
<p>Lauzon knocks repeatedly on the back door, which is close to Bellefeuille’s bedroom. You can hear Phoenix, a chocolate lab, bark inside. The police did not announce their presence at the back door. The officers then went to the front door, only this time they announced themselves after walking in for the police wellness check.</p>
<p>“Ah, Hello Alain — police. Hey there dog… Hello Alain, police!” Lauzon announces.</p>
<p>They had flashlights out, and Lauzon had his service pistol drawn. Mueller’s pistol never left his holster.</p>
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<p>Russomanno told the jury Bellefeuille has been waiting in jail for almost two years to testify as an innocent man who was concerned about crime and the morning he thought he was under attack in a home invasion. He can’t escape the images of it.</p>
<p>“He will tell you that he believed there was an intruder outside at the back of the house,” Russomanno told the jury.</p>
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<p>He noted that Bellefeuille had a valid firearms licence and retrieved his firearm because he was scared and feared for his life. He didn’t know they were police, wasn’t expecting them and certainly didn’t ambush them, which suggests he lured the officers to his home and lay in wait in a deadly surprise attack.</p>
<p>“The consequences of Alain (Bellefeuille)’s actions were devastating. He will tell you that it was the worst moment of his life and it haunts him to this day. He took the life of Sgt. Eric Mueller, and seriously injured two other officers. And it’s your job to determine whether the Crown can prove beyond a reasonable doubt, whether he is guilty of murder.”</p>
<p>He said his client is innocent, did not set out to kill police officers and was reacting, in real time, to what he thought was a home invasion. He asked the jury to keep an open mind and to anchor their decision in evidence, without sympathy or prejudice.</p>
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<p>After Mueller is downed in the first volley of nine rounds, Bellefeuille goes on to shoot outside, then from the mudroom, and the porch. His rounds hit cruisers. One officer who was struck never entered the home and was hit, either by a direct bullet, fragment or ricochet bullet, after taking cover behind a cruiser.</p>
<p>In all, Bellefeuille fired 17 rounds, killed one police officer and wounded two other officers.</p>
<p>Bellefeuille, on trial for first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder, has pleaded not guilty.</p>
<p>The trial resumed Friday.</p>
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<p><strong>The Ukrainian people must realize they were duped by the Western dream of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia, the president has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>President Vladimir Putin has declared that Russian forces are gaining momentum across the entire line of contact and could soon <em>“finish off”</em> Ukraine’s military, while commenting on attempts by Kiev’s European backers to derail a diplomatic resolution of the conflict.</p>
<p>The Russian president made the remarks on Thursday during a meeting with the crew of the Arkhangelsk nuclear submarine, which is equipped with Zircon hypersonic missiles. Putin reiterated that Moscow has always sought to resolve the conflict through diplomatic means but was met with deception and obstruction from the West – first with the failed Minsk Agreements and then during the 2022 Istanbul peace talks.</p>
<p><em>“Their European handlers… convinced the Ukrainian leadership that they had to continue armed resistance, essentially to the last Ukrainian, with the goal of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia,”</em> he said.</p>

            
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<p>Putin accused Western leaders – specifically former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson – of underestimating Russia’s resolve, and warned that the country’s military capabilities should not be taken lightly.</p>
<p><em>“He must have forgotten that there are people like you – and weapons like your submarine,”</em> Putin told the naval crew. <em>“Apparently, he forgot, or maybe they simply do not understand what the Russian people are made of.”</em></p>
<p>The Russian president said the conflict is reaching a turning point and expressed confidence in the outcome, noting that <em>“across the entire line of combat engagement, our troops hold the strategic initiative.”</em></p>
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<p><em>“We are in favor of resolving these issues by peaceful means… But the root causes must be eliminated. We must ensure Russia’s security for the long historical perspective,”</em> he said.</p>

            
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<p>Russia has repeatedly stated that it is open to peace talks, but insists that a true settlement of the conflict requires a permanent and legally-binding solution. Moscow opposes any NATO presence on Ukrainian soil and has demanded that Kiev demilitarize, denazify, adhere to a position of neutrality, and recognize the territorial <em>“realities on the ground.”</em></p>
<p>On March 18, the Russian military was ordered to refrain from attacking Ukrainian energy infrastructure under a deal agreed upon by President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump.</p>
<p>However, the Russian Ministry of Defense has since reported multiple Ukrainian violations, which it described as attempts to undermine Trump’s mediation efforts.</p>

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title: NATO Secretary to U.S., Europe: ‘Can&amp;#039;t We All Just Get Along?’
author: ;Carl Osgood
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<p>March 27, 2025 (EIRNS)—NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte admonished the United States and Europe on March 26 against any temptation to “go it alone” on security, amid increased tensions over the future of the transatlantic alliance and diverging views on Russia. “Let me be absolutely clear, this is not the time to go it alone. Not for Europe or North America,” Rutte said, in a speech at the Warsaw School of Economics, reported Reuters. “The global security challenges are too great for any of us to face on our own. When it comes to keeping Europe and North America safe, there is no alternative to NATO,” he added.</p>
<p>Asked whether allies can still have confidence in the U.S. after the controversy over the leaked Signal chat, in which both J.D. Vance and Peter Hegseth were disdainful of Europe, Rutte later told reporters: “Absolutely, can we trust the Americans, yes. They are our biggest partner, the biggest allies in NATO. Yes, Europe needs to know that Uncle Sam still has our back. But America also needs to know that its NATO allies will step up,” Rutte said, adding the June summit would provide an opportunity to build a “stronger, fairer and more lethal NATO.” “A fairer NATO means all allies doing their fair share,” the former Dutch prime minister added.</p>
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title: Former U.S. Congressman Claims Iran War Could End Trump Presidency
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<p>March 27, 2025 (EIRNS)—On March 25, as news of the potential deployment was beginning to circulate on social media. <a href="https://kucinichreport.substack.com/p/the-high-price-of-war-with-iran-10">Dennis Kucinich</a> posted an article warning Trump against going to war with Iran. “The Trump Administration, after the series of heady airstrikes against Yemen, is at this moment being beseeched by Netanyahu and his associates to prepare for a seemingly consequence-free nuclear strike against Iran, completing the trifecta of Netanyahu’s long-standing dream,” he writes.</p>
<p>Kucinich recounts a 2002 Congressional hearing, during which Netanyahu exhorted the U.S. to attack Iran, Iraq and Libya. “I spoke to Mr. Netanyahu outside the hearing room and asked him that, if he was so convinced those countries were a threat, why didn’t Israel commence the attacks?” ‘Oh no,’ he responded. ‘We need you to do it,’” he reports.</p>
<p>Kucinich continues: “Recently, President Trump said he would love a deal to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon, ‘I would love to make a deal with them without bombing them.’ At the same time, U.S. B-52 bombers, capable of delivering nuclear bunker-busting bombs, were engaged in joint exercises with the Israeli Air Force, in preparation for a potential strike at Iran’s underground nuclear sites.</p>
<p>“These joint maneuvers were reminiscent of the cooperation and interoperability exercises that took place between the U.K. and French forces in preparation for a real-world offensive against Libya in 2011.</p>
<p>“Ayatollah Khamenei replied ‘…threats will get them (the Americans) nowhere,’ and refused talks under such conditions as ‘deceptive.’ Iranian Brigadier General Kiumars Heidari added, for emphasis, ‘Iran is ready to crush its enemies if it makes mistakes.’”</p>
<p>“The dialectic of conflict is escalating.</p>
<p>“It was not in America’s interest then, nor is it now, to go to war with Iran, a nation of 90 million people, a technologically advanced society, with nearly a million-person army.</p>
<p>“President Trump should not be misled. War with Iran would be the end of his presidency.” Kucinich then warns the resultant disruption of the oil markets would translate into $7-$10 a gallon gasoline at the pumps in the U.S., causing mass economic dislocation and financial shocks.</p>
<p>“Now contemplate this concatenation: War with Iran, reciprocal high tariffs, massive cuts in the federal workforce and domestic federal spending and you have an economy in a tailspin, with high inflation, rising unemployment, falling consumer spending, leading to an economic contraction requiring a system of government intervention which is currently being dismantled. Then there is the permanent restructuring of the tax code to accelerate wealth upwards. These conditions create political combustibility.</p>
<p>“In the end, Iran will never crush Donald Trump. The U.S. will crush itself trying to wipe out Iran.”</p>
<p>“The economic effects of war with Iran could spell the end, not only of the viability of the Trump Presidency, but of the Republican House and Senate, a political turnaround the likes of which has not been seen in American politics since the 1932 sweep led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal,” Kucinich adds—though without noting that there is no FDR-like figure in the Democratic Party today.</p>
<p>Kucinich concludes hopefully: “One could imagine Trump, considering his own and America’s interests, could call Netanyahu and say, ‘Bibi, we are friends ‘til the end. This is the end.’”</p>


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title: Henry Makow on "Illuminati IV: Genocide and War", by Kevin Barrett
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<p wcount="4" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><a title="https://rumble.com/v6rchc6-henry-makow-on-illuminati-iv-genocide-and-war.html" href="https://rumble.com/v6rchc6-henry-makow-on-illuminati-iv-genocide-and-war.html" rel>Rumble link</a> <a title="https://old.bitchute.com/video/5eLzKI3h3gto/" href="https://old.bitchute.com/video/5eLzKI3h3gto/" rel>Bitchute link</a></span></p>

<p wcount="15" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><em>Alert: Henry had technical problems so he didn’t join the show till the 11:15 mark.</em></span></p>
<p wcount="58" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Henry Makow</strong>, author of <a title="https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B003TZZCG0?ccs_id=7c446e61-7697-4f35-9dd8-08b9423ce5d4" href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B003TZZCG0?ccs_id=7c446e61-7697-4f35-9dd8-08b9423ce5d4" rel>the</a> <em><a title="https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B003TZZCG0?ccs_id=7c446e61-7697-4f35-9dd8-08b9423ce5d4" href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B003TZZCG0?ccs_id=7c446e61-7697-4f35-9dd8-08b9423ce5d4" rel>Illuminati</a></em> <a title="https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B003TZZCG0?ccs_id=7c446e61-7697-4f35-9dd8-08b9423ce5d4" href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B003TZZCG0?ccs_id=7c446e61-7697-4f35-9dd8-08b9423ce5d4" rel>series</a>, is ethnically, but not ideologically, Jewish. (He writes: “Judaism is a satanic cult masquerading as a religion…They believe they are God and we must worship them.”) Note that the Illuminati conspiracy theory described by Nesta Webster is suprisingly well-supported by historical evidence, <a title="https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-political-conspiracies-and-the-french-revolution/" href="https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-political-conspiracies-and-the-french-revolution/" rel>as summarized in a recent Ron Unz article</a>.</span></p>
<p wcount="187" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Dr. Makow, a retired English Literature professor, returns to Truth Jihad Radio to discuss his new book <em><a title="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0991821157/" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0991821157/" rel>Illuminati IV: Genocide and War</a></em>. Excerpts from the book: “The reason Israelis have no compunction about shooting women and children is that non-Jews are considered animals.” “Genocide…starts with Palestinians. We are all Palestinians. ‘Greater Israel’ is the whole world.” “What Israel did to Gaza is what Organized Jewry (Chabad) would like to do to everyone who doesn’t worship them as God. The Scamdemic was a test of our compliance.” “According to the ‘holy’ Chabad Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the main requirement for the Antichrist to come to Earth is the genocide of Christians.” “Trump has admitted he is a Freemason who studied the Cabala. He is constantly making Masonic downward-prayer hand signs which no one, not even the Democrats, dare mention.” “On Oct 7, 2024, Trump signaled his membership in Chabad by commemorating the Hamas attack on Israel at Menachem Schneerson’s grave site.” “Weisberg says that the ‘final window’ for installing the Antichrist is the Hebrew Year lasting from Rosh Hashanah 2027 until Rosh Hashanah 2028, meaning from 2 Oct 2027 until 30 Sep 2028.”</span></p>
<p wcount="1" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Excerpt:</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="89" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Kevin Barrett: So you’ve written this Illuminati series. And I should mention that Ron Unz just wrote a really good introductory article to the Illuminati conspiracy theory that turned out to be one of the ones that Unz believes is credible. Nesta Webster is, of course, the famous author who told us about the Illuminati sponsoring the French Revolution. And that’s completely illegal and taboo haram to even talk about in mainstream circles. But as Unz mentions in his introduction, there’s surprisingly good evidence supporting it.</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="95" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Well, you’ve got there long before Ron Unz and even before me. And 20 years ago, Henry, when I met you or started reading your stuff, I agreed with a certain amount of it. I said, I don’t disagree with some of this, but some of it seems pretty far out. Today, it doesn’t seem as far out, and I have to say I agree with the majority of it. A lot of it sounds crazy, but unfortunately, obviously, a lot of it is true. So, congratulations on being ahead of your time.</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="110" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Thanks very much, Kevin. I want to start off by saying this fourth collection is kind of the culmination of my 20-plus years of research. I’ve been waiting like 10 years to put this collection together, until I had a new vision to present a new clarity. And essentially the clarity is that Judaism has been taken over by a cult called Chabad. They’re Kabbalists. They’re Satanists. And unfortunately, most of the central bankers belong to them. And unfortunately, the belief of the Kabbalists is that the world, in fact, the universe, was created for Jews. And essentially, the Goyim must worship Jews as God or be exterminated.</span></p>
<p wcount="73" data-sanitized-id="p_1_10" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I know this is ridiculous, and this is not the view of the vast majority of Jews, who are ignorant of this, but it’s what’s happened. Judaism and hence banking and hence the whole world has been subverted by this satanic cult, Chabad. And that’s my extreme finding that no one wants to acknowledge, and I don’t blame them. It’s pretty frightening. And I hope I’m wrong.</span></p>
<p wcount="7" data-sanitized-id="p_1_11" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><em>(Read the whole transcript at <a title="https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/" href="https://kevinbarrett.substack.com/" rel>my Substack</a>)</em></span></p>
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title: A Clown Called Chleo: Fetishism, Feminism and the Toxicity of TERFs, by Tobias Langdon
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<p wcount="69" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">A puzzled patriarch. That was me in March 2025. To be specific, I was puzzled by a pervert. I read a headline and it didn’t compute: “Woman jailed for recording hundreds of men using the toilet in Aldi.” <em>Huh?</em> I thought. <em>But women don’t do that kind of thing.</em> When I clicked on the link and read the story, all became clear. As clear as Chleo, in fact:</span></p>
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<p wcount="62" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">A sex offender who secretly took nearly 800 pictures of men using the toilets in Aldi has been jailed. Chleo Sunter, 37, was caught with 790 pictures and 15 videos of men inside toilet cubicles and standing at urinals. She took the photos in the men’s loos at an Aldi supermarket, a shopping centre in Middlesbrough, and at Darlington Train Station between January and November 2023.</span></p>
<p wcount="75" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Sunter, previously known as John Leslie Graham, admitted to two counts of voyeurism at Teesside Crown Court. She also admitted six breaches of a sexual harm prevention order after she was found to be in possession of extreme pornographic images in 2014 when Sunter was named John Leslie Graham. Sunter was caught with the material when her sex offender manager turned up at her home in Thornaby, to check she was complying with the court order.</span></p>
<p wcount="50" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Photos and videos of victims using public conveniences near Middlesbrough’s Captain Cook Square shopping centre, at a Middlesbrough Aldi; and at Darlington station, were stored on her phone. Paul Newcombe, prosecuting, told the court: “Some of the males were stood at the urinals. Some were recorded under the cubicles.”</span></p>
<p wcount="69" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">On a police visit in November 2023, Sunter wasn’t at home, but was found nearby. Police investigators found she had deleted 695 chats, 712 photos, and four videos from the gay dating app, Grindr, the court heard. Sunter has also been using her phone in incognito mode so that her internet history couldn’t be seen. She further breached the terms of the order by resetting her phone to factory settings.</span></p>
<p wcount="117" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Mitigating, John Nixon said Sunter has a history of alcohol abuse and “no longer has a phone or laptop with internet access.” Sunter’s barrister asked the judge to consider a court order instead of prison — as if imprisoned would mean she would lose her accommodation and face homelessness when released. Judge Geoffrey Marson said he was aware of Sunter’s mental health difficulties and “particular circumstances, but they have little, or no effect on the offences.” The judge jailed Sunter, of Avon Close, Thornaby, for 26 months, telling her that he accepted she is “emotionally vulnerable and custody will be difficult.” (“<a title="https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/22/woman-jailed-recording-hundreds-men-using-toilet-aldi-22773245/" href="https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/22/woman-jailed-recording-hundreds-men-using-toilet-aldi-22773245/">Woman jailed for recording hundreds of men using the toilet in Aldi</a>,” <em>Metro News</em>, 22nd March 2025)</span></p>
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<p><span data-sanitized-class="contents">A clown called Chleo: the entirely and obviously male pervert “Chleo Sunter,” a.k.a. John Leslie Graham</span></p>
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<p wcount="119" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The story wasn’t about a female fetishist, but about a male mini-clown, one of the multitude sprouting like mushrooms in the manure spread by the <a title="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/05/24/in-clown-they-trust-the-farce-and-foulness-of-clown-world/" href="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/05/24/in-clown-they-trust-the-farce-and-foulness-of-clown-world/">rulers of Clown World</a>. The manure consists of lies like “Transwomen are women” and “Non-Whites enrich the West.” Both those lies are about breaking boundaries and enabling invasion. Clown World wants male perverts to invade female territory and non-White savages to invade White territory. Anyone who objects to the invasions is a hate-filled bigot, because although leftism preaches equality, it practises hierarchy. If you’re higher in the leftist hierarchy, like Blacks or “transwomen,” you can <a title="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2019/10/13/borders-for-us-not-for-you-higher-status-in-the-leftist-grievance-hierarchy-means-you-can-invade-others-borders/" href="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2019/10/13/borders-for-us-not-for-you-higher-status-in-the-leftist-grievance-hierarchy-means-you-can-invade-others-borders/">invade the territory</a> of those who are lower in the leftist hierarchy, like Whites or real women. </span></p>
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<p wcount="178" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">As I pointed out in “<a title="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2019/03/06/power-to-the-perverts-cultural-marxism-jonathan-yaniv-and-the-lunacies-of-transgenderism/" href="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2019/03/06/power-to-the-perverts-cultural-marxism-jonathan-yaniv-and-the-lunacies-of-transgenderism/">Power to the Perverts</a>!,” this leftist principle of “<a title="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/08/27/preach-equality-practise-hierarchy-how-leftism-elevates-translunatics-above-women-and-trans-westerners-above-whites/" href="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2023/08/27/preach-equality-practise-hierarchy-how-leftism-elevates-translunatics-above-women-and-trans-westerners-above-whites/">Preach Equality, Practise Hierarchy</a>” has created an astonishing anomaly: some straight White men have risen far above a Black-Jewish lesbian in the eyes of Clown World. But it’s not an anomaly when you look at it right. Doing that, you’ll see that it’s in perfect accordance with the rules of Clown World and the principles of leftism. The Black-Jewish lesbian in question is called <a title="https://infogalactic.com/info/Linda_Bellos" href="https://infogalactic.com/info/Linda_Bellos">Linda Bellos</a> (born 1950) and she’s a TERF or Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist. In other words, she correctly denies that men can become women. That’s a very bad thing to do in the eyes of Clown World, which celebrates lies, not truth. As a Marxist feminist, Bellow has always promoted some leftist lies: that men and women are identical in their intellects and abilities; that women will benefit from having complete control over their own lives; that beautiful and useful words like “actress” and “poetess” are best abandoned in favor of uniforming unisex words like “actor” and “poet.”</span></p>
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<p wcount="192" data-sanitized-id="p_1_10" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">But she has refused to accept the giant leftist lie of “transgenderism.” And so her hybrid heritage and committed <a title="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=clam%20diving" href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=clam%20diving">clam-diving</a> now count for nothing when she enters a dispute with perverted White men who claim to be women and who habitually <a title="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/jk-rowling-opens-up-about-threats" href="https://www.ncregister.com/blog/jk-rowling-opens-up-about-threats">threaten real women</a> with rape, mutilation and murder. Suddenly, she’s <a title="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2019/03/06/power-to-the-perverts-cultural-marxism-jonathan-yaniv-and-the-lunacies-of-transgenderism/" href="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2019/03/06/power-to-the-perverts-cultural-marxism-jonathan-yaniv-and-the-lunacies-of-transgenderism/">the hater</a> and they’re <a title="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2019/03/06/power-to-the-perverts-cultural-marxism-jonathan-yaniv-and-the-lunacies-of-transgenderism/" href="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2019/03/06/power-to-the-perverts-cultural-marxism-jonathan-yaniv-and-the-lunacies-of-transgenderism/">the heroes</a>. How could this happen? Doesn’t leftism automatically grant power and privilege to Black women over White men? In fact, no, it doesn’t. Not automatically. Instead, leftism grants power and privilege according to context. The fixed principle of leftism is to champion the <a title="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/05/24/the-cult-of-ugly-leftist-lies-jewish-junk-and-the-malign-martyrdom-of-george-floyd/" href="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2021/05/24/the-cult-of-ugly-leftist-lies-jewish-junk-and-the-malign-martyrdom-of-george-floyd/">unnatural, abnormal and ugly</a>. And that’s why Bellos did so well for most of her life. In the 1980s, she rose to power and fame as the leader of a radical left-wing council in London. In the early 2000s, she began to <a title="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/15/gender.andrewanthony" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/15/gender.andrewanthony">shovel in the shekels</a>, telling the <em>Guardian</em> that “I get paid a lot of money giving advice” through “her own consultancy on equality and diversity.” The newspaper noted that “On matters such as rape, policing and diversity, opinion has come round to her way of thinking.”</span></p>
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<div data-sanitized-class="caption"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Hero of Clown World #2: a leftist male who wants to see “all Republican women” “gang-raped on national television” (<a title="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1900608232550236491" href="https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1900608232550236491">see video</a>)</span></div>
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<p wcount="140" data-sanitized-id="p_1_11" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The context in which Bellos did so well was that of opposition to the straight White majority and its interests. Her Blackness and lesbianism were suitably unnatural and abnormal in that context. But then the context shifted and Bellos came up against a group that was even more unnatural, abnormal and ugly than she was, namely, male perverts who claimed to be women. Naturally — or unnaturally — enough, leftism sided with the male perverts, not the Black lesbian. Indeed, Blackness is a perfectly natural category in the right context, that of Africa. It only becomes unnatural and abnormal outside Africa, which is precisely why Clown World wants Blacks to leave Africa and invade the West. That’s where the lower average intelligence and higher average criminality, which are natural to Blacks in Africa, can harm and subvert Whites and White society.</span></p>
<p wcount="123" data-sanitized-id="p_1_12" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Lesbianism too is in some sense natural. It only becomes unnatural and abnormal when it’s celebrated and when lesbians are allowed power or leadership among other women. That’s when they can act on their resentment of men and harm the interests of straight women, whose psychology and tastes they <a title="https://www.unz.com/isteve/why-lesbians-arent-gay/" href="https://www.unz.com/isteve/why-lesbians-arent-gay/">don’t share</a>. And something else about lesbians has contributed to leftism shifting its allegiance from muff-munchers to patriarchal perverts. As I pointed out in “<a title="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/03/11/dykes-are-dull-why-lesbians-lose-to-translunacy/" href="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2022/03/11/dykes-are-dull-why-lesbians-lose-to-translunacy/">Dykes Are Dull! Why Lesbians Lose to Translunacy</a>,” real lesbians are boring. And particularly so by comparison with “transwomen,” who continually quench the adolescent leftist thirst for stimulation and sensation. When has a lesbian ever hit the headlines as abnormally and entertainingly as that <a title="https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/22/woman-jailed-recording-hundreds-men-using-toilet-aldi-22773245/" href="https://metro.co.uk/2025/03/22/woman-jailed-recording-hundreds-men-using-toilet-aldi-22773245/">clown called Chleo</a>?</span></p>


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title: The Era of the Wuss, by Ted Rall
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<p wcount="70" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">American popular culture, ever promoting the myth that we live in the land of the free and the brave, wants us to believe that we stand up to bullying. Even if bravery is in short supply at times, like during McCarthyism, someone like attorney Joseph Welch ultimately comes to the rescue. Breaking the spell, the First Amendment hero stands strong: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?”</span></p>
<p wcount="13" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">It’s hard to imagine who would dare to exhibit such defiance today.</span></p>
<p wcount="40" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">These days, the assault on freedom comes not from an alcoholic senator but a teetotaling president. Donald Trump’s presidency isn’t even 10 weeks old, yet his threats have already prompted wealthy and powerful institutions to surrender their fundamental values.</span></p>
<p wcount="75" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">On March 8, Trump canceled $400 million in federal research grants to Columbia University for what he called “inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students” during last spring’s encampment protests against Israel’s war in Gaza. Though there’s still little to no evidence that pro-Palestinian demonstrators made antisemitic statements or committed antisemitic acts — every directly sourced claim of anti-Jewish speech turns out to be anti-Zionist instead — accusing Columbia of inaction is unfair.</span></p>
<p wcount="66" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In a notable set of setbacks for academic freedom even before Trump returned to the White House, Columbia forced out its president, banned two pro-Palestinian student groups (including one run by Jewish students), fired at least one professor and suspended, expelled or revoked the degrees of dozens of students. To prevent demonstrations, Columbia even commandeered a public street running through campus by indefinitely locking its gates.</span></p>
<p wcount="86" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Trump demanded more. So, choosing stability over principle, Columbia appeased him further. Though there’s no credible allegation against it, the school’s Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department will be neutered and discredited as it’s placed into a watered-down form of federal receivership. Columbia will create an anti-protester security squad. Protesters will no longer be allowed to wear masks, so it will be easier for pro-Israel groups to dox those remaining who haven’t yet been expelled, banned and cowed into silence.</span></p>
<p wcount="62" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Stability is proving elusive. Several Columbia students have been arrested by Trump’s immigration officers for participating in pro-Gaza events. One, Mahmoud Khalil, a recently graduated master’s alumnus, was dragged from his university-owned apartment and is now in a notorious for-profit Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Louisiana. Wary of Trump, Columbia officials have expressed nary a syllable of concern.</span></p>
<p wcount="30" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Not to be out-wussed, the University of Maine system reversed its policy and banned transwomen from women’s sports after Trump threatened to pull $30 million a year in research funding.</span></p>
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<p wcount="75" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Then Trump threatened to remove national security clearances from a major Democrat-aligned law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &amp; Garrison. So the firm agreed to dilute its DEI policies and donate $40 million in pro bono work to causes to be specified by the White House. A Washington, D.C., lawyer — speaking anonymously, naturally — told NBC News the firm’s decision to cut a deal was “as craven and despicable a decision as you will find.”</span></p>
<p wcount="45" data-sanitized-id="p_1_10" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Then there’s the media. ABC News will give $15 million to Trump’s future presidential library to settle a defamation case it would normally have fought and likely won. Meta will do the same, to the tune of $25 million. If it looks like a bribe …</span></p>
<p wcount="58" data-sanitized-id="p_1_11" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">It’s not so much whether or not they have abandoned laudable stances in favor of bad ones to curry favor with Trump. Anyone who reveres free speech should agree with the University of California’s abandonment of the woke requirement that faculty members sign “diversity statements” — another change prompted by a Trump threat to slash federal funding.</span></p>
<p wcount="24" data-sanitized-id="p_1_12" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Whether Trump is right or not is not the point. The problem is that he’s getting his way by thuggery rather than persuasion.</span></p>
<p wcount="53" data-sanitized-id="p_1_13" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">He is the president. He has the bully pulpit. The fact that he’s not leveraging his position to try to convince citizens of what’s wrong and how it should be fixed signals that he does not believe buy-in is necessary. This is not the way things work in a representative democracy.</span></p>
<p wcount="15" data-sanitized-id="p_1_14" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">It is Trump’s authoritarian style, more than his politics, that ought to animate resistance.</span></p>
<p wcount="7" data-sanitized-id="p_1_15" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">But who will stand up to him?</span></p>
<p wcount="74" data-sanitized-id="p_1_16" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">If a law firm with $2 billion in annual revenue (and a thousand lawyers) and an Ivy League university with a nearly $15 billion endowment won’t tell the president to pound sand, who will? Though Trump’s threats to Columbia and Paul, Weiss would have been a hit to their bottom line, neither would have been existential. They would have survived. They might even have thrived as liberal clients and alumni wrote checks in support.</span></p>
<p wcount="26" data-sanitized-id="p_1_17" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Perkins Coie, another firm in Trump’s crosshairs, is doing what it does best — it’s suing and has obtained a restraining order against the president.</span></p>
<p wcount="79" data-sanitized-id="p_1_18" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">If the story of Trump’s attempt to govern by individual fiat is to have the kind of happy ending we saw to McCarthyism in 1954, it will take longer and be harder to achieve after so many well-connected and deep-pocketed institutions that could have easily resisted caved in so quickly. If and when Trump’s wrath homes in on smaller targets with fewer resources, we will need people with more courage than we have seen in a long time.</span></p>
<p wcount="22" data-sanitized-id="p_1_19" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Ted Rall (Twitter: @tedrall), the political cartoonist, columnist and graphic novelist, co-hosts the left-vs-right DMZ America podcast with fellow cartoonist Scott Stantis.</span></p>


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title: &amp;#039;Adolescence&amp;#039; and the Invented Racial Enemy, by Gregory Hood
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<p wcount="77" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Everything is political under mass democracy. In a large, diverse democracy, perhaps everything becomes anti-white. This seems especially true in the media, and perhaps no country’s press is quite as hysterical as the United Kingdom’s. Currently, what right-wingers despairingly call the “<a title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtPwlBg6Dak" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtPwlBg6Dak">Yookay</a>” is undergoing a full-scale media, cultural, and political panic over a story they invented for the TV series <em>Adolescence</em>. At the same time, the political class ignores the actual problems they have imported.</span></p>
<p wcount="85" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">British “soft power” was once supported by its unparalleled cultural legacy, but much like the government’s public policy, it seems that even “apolitical” British culture has become openly anti-white. For example, <em>Doctor Who</em> is one of the most famous exports of British popular culture. Today, the show has a political mission. In 2016, white actor Steven Moffat <a title="https://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/moffat-on-diversity-in-doctor-who-we-must-do-better-80637.htm" href="https://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/moffat-on-diversity-in-doctor-who-we-must-do-better-80637.htm">said</a> the show needed more diversity, not just for outreach, but as a kind of social duty. This included putting black characters in historic settings where none existed.</span></p>
<p wcount="71" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The actor argued that this was a Noble Lie. “We’ve kind of got to tell a lie,” he said. “We’ll go back into history and there will be black people where, historically, there wouldn’t have been, and we won’t dwell on that. We’ll say, ‘To hell with it, this is the imaginary, better version of the world. By believing in it, we’ll summon it forth.’”</span></p>
<p wcount="56" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The modern UK does not seem “better” than what existed before, unless one has a truly powerful imagination. Yet this Tinkerbell version of public policy, where racial harmony is achieved if one just claps hard enough, has a powerful appeal in a mass democracy, especially one with a media-dominated culture like that of the United Kingdom.</span></p>
<p wcount="62" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Unlike young people in many European countries (and even in the United States), British youth <a title="https://unherd.com/newsroom/is-immigration-really-making-britons-more-left-wing/" href="https://unherd.com/newsroom/is-immigration-really-making-britons-more-left-wing/">are not turning to the Right</a>. It is more comforting to believe social problems can be solved by properly managing the media, rather than admitting some conflicts are existential and ineradicable. Even moderate liberals cannot admit racial realities without <a title="https://www.amren.com/commentary/2019/11/white-identity-is-not-perverse/" href="https://www.amren.com/commentary/2019/11/white-identity-is-not-perverse/">calling into question the entire postwar Western order</a>.</span></p>
<p wcount="70" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">It is therefore not surprising that enforcing narrative control is an important purpose of many “entertainment” programs today. The central premise of progressivism is that man is perfectible; it is just a matter of finding the right management techniques. In the information age, this has led to liberal democracies embracing censorship, deplatforming, and prosecutions to prevent “hate.” If the virtual world can be managed effectively, real-world problems will not occur.</span></p>
<p wcount="39" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">For example, if blacks do not perform well in school, the explanation is not genetic differences but “<a title="https://www.amren.com/news/2012/04/edmonton-anti-racism-centre-loses-500000-in-federal-funding/" href="https://www.amren.com/news/2012/04/edmonton-anti-racism-centre-loses-500000-in-federal-funding/">stereotyping</a>.” Therefore, if blacks get more positive portrayals in media, they will perform better. In the real world, such thinking is fanciful.</span></p>
<p wcount="58" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">However, those in power have not changed their minds. In a liberal democracy, the ultimate power is media power, because media shape public opinion. Social media and the internet have made it harder for elites to push a unified message on the masses. Naturally, elites want to stop this. Nothing can ever be truly “apolitical” in a democracy.</span></p>
<p wcount="12" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The German philosopher Carl Schmitt wrote in <em>The Concept of the Political</em> (1932):</span></p>
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<p wcount="95" data-sanitized-id="p_1_11" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In his excellent book <a title="https://www.amren.com/features/2024/05/the-american-right-grows-up/" href="https://www.amren.com/features/2024/05/the-american-right-grows-up/"><em>The Total State</em></a> (2024), political columnist Auron MacIntyre argues that this is precisely what is happening to the United States <em>.</em> However, it is not just a structural flaw of democracy. The racial diversity that those who rule the West have imported means that citizens have less in common. Most Western countries today do not even have a common culture. Our rulers implicitly admit this when, instead of using phrases such as “my fellow citizens,” they appeal to “our communities” — mutually exclusive tribes that must be carefully managed in a multicultural powder keg.</span></p>
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<p wcount="144" data-sanitized-id="p_1_12" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">New South Wales Premier Chris Minns recently admitted as much. “We live in the best country in the world, but people come to Australia from all different races and religions, different countries, different cultures, because they want to live together in peace and harmony,” he said at a <a title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFbvkBrRbCk" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFbvkBrRbCk">March 18 news conference</a>. “You have to take steps to protect that. There can’t just be a willy-nilly, race to the bottom where civic society turns a blind eye and says ‘freedom of speech, people can say what they want.’ That’s not the case in New South Wales. We don’t have the same freedom of speech laws that they have in the United States, and the reason is that we love the country that we’ve got here and we’re going to take steps to protect what’s been built up over decades.”</span></p>
<p wcount="117" data-sanitized-id="p_1_13" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">If the <a title="https://www.amren.com/features/2013/03/what-happened-to-white-australia/" href="https://www.amren.com/features/2013/03/what-happened-to-white-australia/">White Australia policy had been kept in place</a> to protect what had been built up over a <em>century</em>, Australians would still have what was once considered the most essential freedom of all. The same is true of the United Kingdom and Europe, where free speech has long since died. Vice President JD Vance <a title="https://www.amren.com/podcasts/2025/02/mr-vance-goes-to-europe/" href="https://www.amren.com/podcasts/2025/02/mr-vance-goes-to-europe/">pointed this out</a>. Yet even this understates the threat. Multiracial societies must be united by <em>something,</em> and the best way of uniting a group is through a common enemy, and it is the white man who finds himself Public Enemy Number One in his own country, with racism blamed for any conceivable social problems Non-whites, regardless of their shameful behavior, remain victims.</span></p>
<p wcount="107" data-sanitized-id="p_1_14" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Sam Francis memorably coined “<a title="https://www.amren.com/news/2004/12/anarchotyrannyw/" href="https://www.amren.com/news/2004/12/anarchotyrannyw/">anarcho-tyranny</a>” to describe the increasing state repression of the (mostly white) law-abiding citizens and indulgence of non-white criminals. Lawrence Auster on his <em>View from the Right</em> blog <a title="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/000933.html" href="http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/000933.html">defined</a> what he called the First Law of Majority-Minority Relations: “The worse any designated minority or alien group behaves in a liberal society, the bigger become the lies of Political Correctness in covering up for that group.” Auster also framed the “first corollary” of the First Law. “The more egregiously any non-Western or non-white group behaves, the more evil <em>whites</em> are made to appear for noticing and drawing rational conclusions about that group’s bad behavior.”</span></p>
<p wcount="45" data-sanitized-id="p_1_15" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">By ignoring actual social dysfunction and cracking down on the law-abiding, the political class increases its own power, creating more problems for intrusive government to manage. It also establishes its moral claim to leadership. Politicians pose as defenders of democracy against racists, extremists, and fascists.</span></p>
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<p wcount="103" data-sanitized-id="p_1_16" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The problem is that this denies reality and can be taken only so far. Even many non-whites do not want to live in crime-ridden squalor. Leftists in America are still reeling from the non-white shift toward Republicans in 2024. Yet white advocates should not assume that reality always wins in the end. Mass media allow elites to invent an alternate reality that is more emotionally compelling than the real thing. Even when people know at some level they are watching a television show or movie, the emotional responses are real, and can sometimes be <a title="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-018-0111-y" href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-018-0111-y">even more engrossing</a> than what they experience in real life.</span></p>
<p wcount="82" data-sanitized-id="p_1_17" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">If a show or film is of sufficient quality, and plays upon long-established assumptions of the audience (such as the perceived moral superiority of anti-racism), it can feel “real” to the audience. Films such as <em>Roots</em>, <em>Schindler’s List</em>, and <em>Glory</em> have shifted public debate about race in the United States toward the political Left. In an earlier era, <em>Birth of a Nation</em> had such a big impact that <a title="https://www.history.com/articles/kkk-birth-of-a-nation-film" href="https://www.history.com/articles/kkk-birth-of-a-nation-film">some credit it</a> with fueling the growth of the second-era Ku Klux Klan.</span></p>
<p wcount="102" data-sanitized-id="p_1_18" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yet these and other films at least covered events that were based in history, even if details are exaggerated for dramatic effect or skewed for political purposes. One cannot deny that black slavery was real, even if no slave was whipped for not calling himself “Toby.” However, could a regime <em>invent</em> a case and use it as “proof” to push repressive legislation? Could it even <em>reverse</em> who is considered the stereotypical victim and oppressor in the public mind? If democracies could do such a thing, it would mean they could essentially dictate policy outcomes from the top down, regardless of the facts.</span></p>
<p wcount="95" data-sanitized-id="p_1_19" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Such an experiment seems to be underway in the United Kingdom with the television series <em>Adolescence.</em> It focuses on a 13-year-old white boy from an intact family who kills a female classmate because he has been “radicalized” by the internet. The reaction from the British press and government is extraordinary, with reporters and politicians arguing quite seriously that the show must be integrated into school curricula and that social media must be even more heavily regulated to prevent “radicalization.” Such figures seem especially to hate Andrew Tate, who is attacked by name in the show.</span></p>
<p wcount="101" data-sanitized-id="p_1_20" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Progressives have long mocked religious conservatives who, in a moral panic, supposedly tell parents to prevent their children from indulging in entertainment such as Dungeons &amp; Dragons or violent rap. Yet the message of <em>Adolescence</em> is clear: Parents can never let their guard down, even for a moment. Though the protagonist has a loving family, pro-masculinity influencers corrupt him while he is in his room with the door closed. The same people who would laugh at conservative Christians demanding parents throw out their children’s rap albums seem deeply concerned their teenage boy could be watching the wrong clips on TikTok.</span></p>
<p wcount="80" data-sanitized-id="p_1_21" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The reaction from the press is nothing short of rapturous. State media BBC said it is being hailed as “<a title="https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/24/adolescence-and-the-moral-panic-about-working-class-boys/" href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/03/24/adolescence-and-the-moral-panic-about-working-class-boys/">flawless</a>” TV. Tom Peck at <em>The Times</em> said it was “<a title="https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/adolescence-netflix-michael-sheen-secret-million-pound-giveaway-review-3sp22nt9k" href="https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/adolescence-netflix-michael-sheen-secret-million-pound-giveaway-review-3sp22nt9k">perfect</a>.” Lucy Mangan at <em>The Guardian</em> was more restrained, calling it merely “<a title="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/13/adolescence-review-the-closest-thing-to-tv-perfection-in-decades" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/13/adolescence-review-the-closest-thing-to-tv-perfection-in-decades">close</a>” to perfection. Jake Kanter at <em>Deadline</em> calls it “<a title="https://twitter.com/Jake_Kanter/status/1901578928185082006" href="https://twitter.com/Jake_Kanter/status/1901578928185082006">flawless</a>.” Even Jeremy Clarkson, who has sometimes been put forward as a potential British populist champion because of his opposition to the Labour government’s agricultural policies, called it “<a title="https://twitter.com/JeremyClarkson/status/1901590345894203746" href="https://twitter.com/JeremyClarkson/status/1901590345894203746">masterful</a>.”</span></p>
<p wcount="108" data-sanitized-id="p_1_22" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">One might dismiss this as marketing, except government officials seem to be taking it as a kind of documentary and a call to action. Parliament reportedly <a title="https://news.sky.com/story/adolescence-writers-invited-to-parliament-to-discuss-shows-themes-with-mps-sky-news-understands-13332399" href="https://news.sky.com/story/adolescence-writers-invited-to-parliament-to-discuss-shows-themes-with-mps-sky-news-understands-13332399">invited</a> the writers to discuss the themes of the show with MPs. Prime Minister Keir Starmer <a title="https://news.sky.com/story/amp/starmer-backs-campaign-to-show-adolescence-in-schools-13331968" href="https://news.sky.com/story/amp/starmer-backs-campaign-to-show-adolescence-in-schools-13331968">wants</a> it shown in schools. A female member of parliament said it shows the danger of “online male radicalization” and asks for more government control over social media. Schools should seek to <a title="https://www.gbnews.com/news/schools-give-boys-lessons-misogyny-tackle-andrew-tate" href="https://www.gbnews.com/news/schools-give-boys-lessons-misogyny-tackle-andrew-tate">teach</a> young men about “healthy relationships,” supposedly to counter Andrew Tate’s influence. One wonders whether schools with non-white or Islamic student bodies will bother, or whether this will apply only to British children.</span></p>

<p wcount="40" data-sanitized-id="p_1_23" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">However, an objective analysis shows that more young women are being “radicalized” by social media than young men. This shift to extremist feminism and progressivism serves the interests of media, academia, and most governments. Therefore, it is not a threat.</span></p>

<p wcount="47" data-sanitized-id="p_1_24" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In fact, the moral panic over <em>Adolescence</em> suggests that critics are right that social media can brainwash people, but they are worried about the wrong people. It is the liberal elites and the Great and the Good who are having a hard time distinguishing fantasy from reality.</span></p>



<p wcount="90" data-sanitized-id="p_1_25" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The show itself displays the schizophrenia we often see in media with young white males. The main character is weak, self-loathing, and wets himself when he is arrested. His father (played by Stephen Graham) is meant to be the moral center of the film, but the show cannot help but take shots at him too, showing his wife to be sexually uninterested in him. White males, it seems, are violent monsters who could overthrow society at any moment, but they are also pathetic pushovers. Whites are both all-powerful and pitiable.</span></p>

<p wcount="76" data-sanitized-id="p_1_26" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Meanwhile, Stephen Graham, who has mostly built his career around playing “tough guy” characters, also wants censorship. He <a title="https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/2028819/adolescences-stephen-graham-faced-horrible-racist-abuse" href="https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/2028819/adolescences-stephen-graham-faced-horrible-racist-abuse">claims</a> he suffered “racist abuse” while growing up because he had a Jamaican grandfather, though this has not stopped him from being <a title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_England" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_England">cast as a skinhead</a> in the past. “What is happening to our young men these days and what are the pressures they face from their peers, from the internet and from social media?” he asks rhetorically.</span></p>
<p wcount="91" data-sanitized-id="p_1_27" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Mr. Graham has <a title="https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/netflix-adolescence-three-devastating-real-34872108" href="https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/netflix-adolescence-three-devastating-real-34872108">referred</a> to three cases that might have inspired the show. He <a title="https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/netflixs-adolescence-inspired-true-story-31201349" href="https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/netflixs-adolescence-inspired-true-story-31201349">cited</a> the case of Elianne Andam as an inspiration. She was a 15-year-old black girl stabbed to death by 17-year-old Hassan Sentamu, a native of Uganda. Mr. Sentamu was recently sentenced to life in prison for the crime. He <a title="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/teenager-jailed-for-life-for-elianne-andam-murder-over-teddy-bear-row/ar-AA1ARk26?ocid=BingNewsSerp" href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/teenager-jailed-for-life-for-elianne-andam-murder-over-teddy-bear-row/ar-AA1ARk26?ocid=BingNewsSerp">had a long history</a> of attacking girls and carrying weapons. Unlike in <em>Adolescence,</em> the murderer is exactly the kind of person you think would commit such a crime, with the killing preceded by less serious but ominous acts.</span></p>
<p wcount="105" data-sanitized-id="p_1_28" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Mr. Graham also cites a stabbing in Liverpool. In 2021, a young white girl, Ava White, was stabbed to death by an unnamed perpetrator (who cannot be identified for legal reasons). The victim’s mother, however, says the show is not based on her daughter’s death. Yet, in the same BBC interview, she <a title="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93k5dwl05vo" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93k5dwl05vo">praises</a> the show for going after “all the dangers on social media and the bad influencers like Andrew Tate.” Because the murderer has never been identified, his race cannot be determined. Though (blurred) <a title="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-62119537" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-62119537">video footage</a> suggests he is probably not black, it is impossible to tell if he is white or not.</span></p>
<p wcount="92" data-sanitized-id="p_1_29" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Finally, Mr. Graham cites the stabbing of “Brianna” Grey. Brianna Grey was killed by a boy and a girl, the latter of whom had reportedly become “<a title="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12796553/Teens-accused-murdering-Brianna-Ghey-talked-watching-torture-vids-buying-hunting-knife-weeks-transgender-schoolgirl-stabbed-28-times-murder-trial-hears.html" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12796553/Teens-accused-murdering-Brianna-Ghey-talked-watching-torture-vids-buying-hunting-knife-weeks-transgender-schoolgirl-stabbed-28-times-murder-trial-hears.html">obsessed</a>” with the victim. Yet Grey was not a young girl <a title="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/02/brianna-ghey-father-new-relationship-transgender-child/?msockid=3f158e27a6b6694907349ba0a7ea6823" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/02/brianna-ghey-father-new-relationship-transgender-child/?msockid=3f158e27a6b6694907349ba0a7ea6823">but a boy who had transitioned</a>. At any other time in history, we would call this the murder of a teenage boy by a co-ed team, not an act of anti-female violence. Though media coverage of the case focused on “transphobic” rhetoric, the two murderers had <a title="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-68145426" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-68145426">made</a> a “kill list” of other children to attack.</span></p>
<p wcount="84" data-sanitized-id="p_1_30" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Thus, of the three cases that reportedly inspired <em>Adolescence</em>, only the Ava White case even slightly resembles what is being portrayed. Moreover, because we do not know who the murderer in that case is, we cannot even say that much with any confidence. On social media, many are pointing this out. In response, co-scriptwriter Jack Thorne has <a title="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/adolescence-writer-blasts-false-claim-netflix-drama-is-based-on-true-story/ar-AA1BEaAJ?ocid=BingNewsSerp" href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/adolescence-writer-blasts-false-claim-netflix-drama-is-based-on-true-story/ar-AA1BEaAJ?ocid=BingNewsSerp">denied</a> that the series is based on fact. “There is no part of this that’s based on a true story, not one single part,” he wrote.</span></p>
<p wcount="43" data-sanitized-id="p_1_31" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Perhaps he is telling the truth. However, he wants real-life consequences to result from a show that he claims is totally fictional. He wants his preferred policy outcomes, but he does not want the responsibility of making a case based on factual information.</span></p>
<p wcount="128" data-sanitized-id="p_1_32" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Jack Thorne says we need more government control over speech. “We need government to do something because they need to control the conversation on this one,” he told the BBC <em>Breakfast</em> audience. “I hope that means we can use this moment to provoke this Government to consider quite serious change,” he <a title="https://twitter.com/i/bookmarks" href="https://twitter.com/i/bookmarks">said</a> on the BBC <em>Newsnight</em> program. However, now that people online are pointing out who is actually committing much of the violence in the United Kingdom, he is upset. He <a title="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14536193/Adolescence-creator-insists-absurd-say-crime-committed-black-boys-following-accusations-race-swapped-main-character.html" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14536193/Adolescence-creator-insists-absurd-say-crime-committed-black-boys-following-accusations-race-swapped-main-character.html">told <em>The News Agents</em> podcast</a>: “We are not making a point about race with this. We are making a point about masculinity. We’re trying to get inside a problem. We’re not saying this is one thing or another. We’re saying this is about boys <em>.</em>”</span></p>
<p wcount="67" data-sanitized-id="p_1_33" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Yet why should we accept his argument? “Representation matters,” we are often told, and the fact is that a white boy was identified as the face of violence against women in a show that the government is trying to use as the basis for action. Besides, why should we listen to the writer’s supposed point about masculinity when he simultaneously says the show is entirely fiction?</span></p>
<p wcount="100" data-sanitized-id="p_1_34" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Not surprisingly, Jack Thorne also wants more <a title="https://deadline.com/2025/03/adolescence-jack-thorne-netflix-drama-crisis-1236329821/" href="https://deadline.com/2025/03/adolescence-jack-thorne-netflix-drama-crisis-1236329821/">funding</a> from the British government for the arts. <a title="https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/meet-warp-films-the-uk-producer-behind-netflixs-single-take-drama-series-adolescence/ar-AA1AUyIA?ocid=BingNewsVerp" href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/news/meet-warp-films-the-uk-producer-behind-netflixs-single-take-drama-series-adolescence/ar-AA1AUyIA?ocid=BingNewsVerp">Warp Films</a>, which produced the show, <a title="https://www.screendaily.com/news/number-9-films-warp-films-good-chaos-secure-funding-from-uk-global-screen-fund/5166068.article" href="https://www.screendaily.com/news/number-9-films-warp-films-good-chaos-secure-funding-from-uk-global-screen-fund/5166068.article">received</a> money from the government-funded UK Global Screen Fund. We are thus in the absurd situation where actors and writers made up a story, made sure to make a white boy the enemy, and used their fantasy to lobby for more restrictions on free speech. Meanwhile, politicians and journalists are joining this totally imaginary “movement” to crack down on what was once the most essential freedom in a democracy. They made up an imaginary figure to get mad at.</span></p>
<p wcount="19" data-sanitized-id="p_1_35" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">What is real are the crimes that are happening now. Recently, Elm Park near London witnessed the following scene.</span></p>

<p wcount="34" data-sanitized-id="p_1_36" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Earlier this week, Mohammed Sohail Farooq was sentenced to life in prison for a plot to attack a hospital where he worked as a “trainee nurse.” He was reportedly <a title="https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/hospital-worker-sentenced-to-life-for-plot-to-attack-raf-menwith-hill-and-st-jamess-hospital/" href="https://www.counterterrorism.police.uk/hospital-worker-sentenced-to-life-for-plot-to-attack-raf-menwith-hill-and-st-jamess-hospital/">influenced</a> by the Islamic State.</span></p>
<p wcount="65" data-sanitized-id="p_1_37" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">According to the <em>Daily Express</em>, 99.5 percent of crimes in Great Britain result in <a title="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2027748/uk-crime-madness-prison-conviction-rates-jail" href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2027748/uk-crime-madness-prison-conviction-rates-jail">no one being jailed</a>. Habitual criminals are among those who benefit, with those who have received more than 50 convictions having been spared jail in more than 50,000 cases since 2017. The British state cracking down on speech while refusing to prosecute real crime, even by habitual offenders, is precisely what race realists would predict.</span></p>
<p wcount="29" data-sanitized-id="p_1_38" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Even the “Two Minutes Hate” against Andrew Tate makes little sense. The influencer is more popular among non-whites than whites, with more than 40 percent of blacks viewing him positively.</span></p>

<p wcount="91" data-sanitized-id="p_1_39" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Nonetheless, even the <a title="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07zyrjrkvro" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07zyrjrkvro">parents</a> of one of the victims of the Southport mass stabbing attack think part of the solution — in addition to more knife control — is to prevent people from seeing Andrew Tate’s content online. In reality, the Southport killer was Axel Rudakubana, a non-white with a long history of extremism known to the government. This did not stop Keir Starmer from <a title="https://www.amren.com/news/2025/01/starmer-reveals-when-he-learned-about-southport-killers-extremist-links-but-claims-there-was-no-cover-up/" href="https://www.amren.com/news/2025/01/starmer-reveals-when-he-learned-about-southport-killers-extremist-links-but-claims-there-was-no-cover-up/">blaming</a> “young men in their bedrooms” viewing extremist content. Though the suspect possessed an Al-Qaeda manual and reportedly made ricin, police <a title="https://www.amren.com/news/2024/10/southport-attacker-charged-with-having-al-qaeda-manual-and-making-ricin/" href="https://www.amren.com/news/2024/10/southport-attacker-charged-with-having-al-qaeda-manual-and-making-ricin/">claim</a> they had found “no motive.”</span></p>
<p wcount="55" data-sanitized-id="p_1_40" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In the aftermath of the crime, the British state ruthlessly suppressed unrest, imprisoning British people who <a title="https://www.amren.com/news/2025/03/call-for-ministers-to-overrule-two-tier-sentencing-changes/" href="https://www.amren.com/news/2025/03/call-for-ministers-to-overrule-two-tier-sentencing-changes/">tweeted about the case</a>. When one considers this reaction, it is difficult to believe the British government actually wants to stop crime and that it is not merely interested in silencing white men who could pose a political threat.</span></p>
<p wcount="100" data-sanitized-id="p_1_41" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The practice of changing the racial identity of characters for fictionalized crime dramas is long established. In the British film <em>Eden Lake</em> (2008), a working-class group of youths terrorizes a white middle-class couple. In one notable scene, the group’s leader (a white boy) “necklaces” a non-white child by <a title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9VxkkZaPbI" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9VxkkZaPbI">burning him alive</a>. Of course, not only have “anti-apartheid’ activists in South Africa practiced such things, but a white child named Kriss Donald was burned alive by Pakistanis in Scotland after being beaten and stabbed 13 times. The case, which occurred four years earlier than the movie’s release, received little media attention.</span></p>

<p wcount="130" data-sanitized-id="p_1_42" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">One of black actor Samuel L. Jackson’s most iconic roles was <em>A Time to Kill</em> (1996)<em>.</em> The film, as well as the novel on which it is based, is a vicious racial attack on whites. The movie opens when a young black girl is raped and nearly killed by two white men. When their ensuing trial appears ready to free the duo, the girl’s father — played by Mr. Jackson — guns them down, while also severely wounding a white deputy sheriff. In the father’s trial, while being cross-examined by the DA, the father shouts, “Yes, they deserved to die and I hope they burn in hell!” His heroic white lawyer confronts the prejudice of the white community and secures an acquittal, to the rage of the Ku Klux Klan.</span></p>
<p wcount="80" data-sanitized-id="p_1_43" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Of course, white-on-black rapes are vanishingly rare in real life. More importantly, the real case that inspired the novel, according to author John Grisham, was the July 11, 1984, rape of two <em>white</em> sisters, Julie (16) and Marcie (12) Scott, by William James Harris, <a title="https://law.justia.com/cases/mississippi/supreme-court/1989/57653-1.html" href="https://law.justia.com/cases/mississippi/supreme-court/1989/57653-1.html">a <em>black</em> man</a>. Presumably, the brutal rape of two white girls by a black man is not artistically compelling, so the races were reversed. This gave the audience an opportunity to celebrate a triumph against imaginary political and racial enemies.</span></p>

<p wcount="54" data-sanitized-id="p_1_44" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In 1981, Anthony Jacques Broussard, a black 16-year-old, <a title="https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/yesterday-s-crimes-what-really-happened-at-the-river-s-edge/article_29b4bcd9-e2a3-5277-a2ac-e5e12708ceb0.html" href="https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/yesterday-s-crimes-what-really-happened-at-the-river-s-edge/article_29b4bcd9-e2a3-5277-a2ac-e5e12708ceb0.html">killed</a> 14-year-old Marcy Renee Conrad, a white girl. He raped the corpse and bragged about his deed to classmates. This inspired the film <em>The River’s Edge</em> (1986)<em>,</em> which critics loved. That could partly be because the murderer was transformed into a white character, played by <a title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Roebuck" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Roebuck">Daniel Roebuck</a>.</span></p>
<p wcount="152" data-sanitized-id="p_1_45" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Even relatively trivial incidents can be race swapped. One of the earliest truly viral media phenomena was the 2010 case of “Epic Beard Man” in California. Thomas Bruso, an elderly but powerful white man, <a title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ztVL3Kb75c" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ztVL3Kb75c">beat up a black man</a> who had attacked him on a bus. A black woman who taped the fight racially abused Mr. Bruso during the confrontation, calling him “pinky” and switching quickly from urging her racial kinsmen to attack him to wanting to press charges. It is a fascinating vignette about the way race really works in America. The video went viral and inspired a movie, <a title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ztVL3Kb75c" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ztVL3Kb75c"><em>Bad Ass</em></a> (2012)<em>.</em> However, in the film, the hero is played by the Hispanic actor Danny Trejo, who wins fame by beating up two white skinheads on a bus. In the sequel, <em>Bad Asses</em> (2014)<em>,</em> he even gets a black sidekick who wishes he could have been the first black to play in the NHL.</span></p>
<p wcount="60" data-sanitized-id="p_1_46" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">There are many other cases in television and movies. Steve Sailer once observed that it is very likely there have been more white murderers featured on <em>Law &amp; Order</em> <a title="https://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/06/more-white-murderers-on-law-orders.html" href="https://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/06/more-white-murderers-on-law-orders.html">than there were actual white murderers in New York City</a>. Yet fiction can shape real-world beliefs. Unless one directly confronts racial reality, it is easy to live in a fantasy world.</span></p>
<p wcount="121" data-sanitized-id="p_1_47" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">This provides an opening for malicious people to manipulate others. With <em>Adolescence,</em> we see actors, politicians, and journalists joining forces to throttle speech in the name of fighting an imaginary enemy. Worse, these same people have done little to confront actual violence in once-great Britain, especially in the case of the white girls who were victims of grooming gangs. Using one’s own fictional fantasies as real-world rationalizations for state repression may be beyond anything even the USSR attempted. Yet for those who believe misleading media can impose a new reality, the anti-white ends justify the duplicitous means. It is difficult to believe those behind <em>Adolescence</em> do not know exactly what they are doing. There is nothing noble about this lie.</span></p>


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<p data-start="189" data-end="395">Dmitriev, who has taken on the role of chief economic envoy in recent US-Russia talks, first floated the idea of a joint mission to Mars in mid-March. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the International Arctic Forum on Thursday, Dmitriev said Moscow could provide various technological capabilities for long-duration missions to the Red Planet.</p>
<p data-start="189" data-end="395"><em>“Russia can offer a small-scale nuclear power station for the Mars mission, along with other advanced technologies,”</em> Dmitriev told RIA Novosti. <em>“We believe that Russia has a lot to offer the Mars mission, because we possess nuclear technologies that, I think, could be applicable.”</em></p>

            
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<p data-start="1279" data-end="1728">Dmitriev previously highlighted the potential role of the national nuclear energy giant Rosatom and the space agency Roscosmos in enhancing the safety and efficiency of deep space missions. He also noted that 2025 would be a symbolic year to announce such an initiative, as it marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project — the first crewed international space mission, jointly carried out by the US and the Soviet Union in July 1975.</p>
<p data-start="1279" data-end="1728">The SpaceX CEO has not yet publicly responded to the proposal, though Dmitriev reiterated that he was open to holding a videoconference with Musk to explore potential cooperation.</p>
<p data-start="1279" data-end="1728">The renewed outreach comes amid signs of improving relations between Moscow and Washington. Dmitriev was part of the Russian delegation at recent US-Russia talks in Saudi Arabia, which resulted in an agreement to begin restoring diplomatic and scientific cooperation across several sectors.</p>

             
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<p data-start="1279" data-end="1728">The Russian leader has voiced support for cooperation with Musk, signaling high-level backing for potential joint projects. Speaking at the Forum of Future Technologies in February, Putin said Russian companies should be ready to collaborate with Musk once he shifts his focus back to science from his current role advising on US government reform.</p>
<p data-start="1279" data-end="1728">Earlier this month, Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1900774290682683612" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reaffirmed</a> his goal to launch the first uncrewed Mars mission as early as 2026, with human landings possibly beginning in 2029. A prototype Starship carrying a Tesla-developed humanoid robot is expected to be part of the initial test phase.</p>

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<div><img src="https://www.unz.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/abraham-smuskiewicz.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p wcount="77" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">During my review of <a title="https://twitter.com/AJEccentric" href="https://twitter.com/AJEccentric">X posts</a> this morning, I noticed a post by a user named Ryan Dawson, who is apparently an author and television personality. (I never heard of him.) Dawson posted a quote that he attributed to the Shawnee chief Tecumseh (1768-1813), reading “When Jesus Christ came to Earth you killed him. The son of your own god. And only after he was dead did you worship him and start killing anyone who did not.”</span></p>
<p wcount="46" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><a title="https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter" href="https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter">Scott Ritter</a>, whom I follow on X, responded to this post by writing “Christianity in a nut shell. Hell, Islam in a nutshell. Judaism, too. What’s with this Abrahamic God that he wants to kill the very creatures he allegedly created in his own image?”</span></p>
<p wcount="60" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I agreed with Ritter’s sentiments, so I posted my own response: “I have long believed that the three Abrahamic religions are the cause of almost all of the world’s unhappiness and conflict. If they could somehow be eliminated, the world would be a much happier and more peaceful place. Religion should be nature-based, like Wicca or Amer Indian.”</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Catholic perverts</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="113" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I have no respect for Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. I suppose this lack of respect stems from my upbringing as a Catholic. Neither of my parents were particularly religious. In fact, my mom ended up becoming very anti-religion, like me. But I had to go to a Catholic elementary school and church as a kid during the ‘60s and early ‘70s. The nun teachers weren’t so bad, but everybody knew that a couple of the priests were sexual perverts, another priest eventually quit and ran off with one of the nuns (a good-looking blonde who used to wear miniskirts to class), and yet another priest was just a disgusting loudmouth Irish bullshitter.</span></p>
<p wcount="52" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Then there were my holy roller relatives—an aunt who was a lesbian nun and a cousin who was a gay brother. The aunt eventually quit to move in with her female lover, and the cousin eventually got caught in sex scandals and was repeatedly transferred to different parishes around the country.</span></p>
<p wcount="15" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">All that crap just revealed the bullshit and hypocrisy of the Catholic Church to me.</span></p>
<p wcount="4" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Ignorance, hatred, violence, war</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="46" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">But I later learned that this kind of hypocrisy is the least of the Church’s problems. More serious problems have to do with the ignorance, intolerance, hatred, divisiveness, conflict, violence, killing, and war that form the fundamental foundations and characteristics of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.</span></p>
<p wcount="78" data-sanitized-id="p_1_10" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The foundation stories of all three Abrahamic religions are very disturbing, as well as very stupid. Judaism was supposedly founded by a guy who was eager to kill his own son and by another guy who went up on a mountain and got commandments from god magically etched into two tablets of stone. Then the Jews went out to their “promised land” and proceeded to kill the people who already lived there. That sounds familiar, doesn’t it?</span></p>
<p wcount="109" data-sanitized-id="p_1_11" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Then we have Christianity, which has a foundation story that has always seemed extremely illogical and downright dumb to me. The “son of god” is born to a woman and man who have never had sex. This “son of god” is also supposedly god himself, even though he prays to his “father,” who (I guess) is the “real god.” Then this son of god lets himself be crucified and killed, at the instigation of the Jews, so that he can “die for our sins.” I have never understood that part of the story at all! What the hell is that supposed to mean—“die for our sins”? What nonsense!</span></p>
<p wcount="78" data-sanitized-id="p_1_12" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Next, this dead guy rises from the dead, which somehow proves that all our sins are forgiven—“sins” that haven’t even been committed yet, by people who haven’t even been born yet. Right! Finally, the dead-but-now-alive guy (a zombie?) vanishes into heaven to be with his “father,” the real god guy. So, these two god guys are now up there together in heaven, though the religion says they are actually the same single god guy. Whatever.</span></p>
<p wcount="127" data-sanitized-id="p_1_13" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Then we come to Islam, which has its own wacky story. A story about an illiterate guy who got visited by an angel in a cave. The angel gave him special “revelations from god” that only this one guy was told about. He started preaching these divine revelations, which his followers supposedly memorized and wrote down perfectly in a book—so that this book is the precise and perfect “word of god,” just like those other books claimed by the two other Abrahamic religions. The followers of this illiterate fellow became so excited and inspired by these words of god that they proceeded to march around the world with armies to forcefully convert everyone they could to their new religion—and kill anyone they couldn’t convince.</span></p>
<p wcount="31" data-sanitized-id="p_1_14" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Three very wacko and illogical stories, in my opinion. Yet millions of people around the world disagree with me and believe that these stories are “the gospel truth.” Emotion, not logic.</span></p>
<p wcount="2" data-sanitized-id="p_1_15" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Total war</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="92" data-sanitized-id="p_1_16" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In contrast to Judaism and Islam, which were violent right from the start, it seems that Christianity started off peacefully. Then that changed about 300 years later, when the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as its official religion. Power corrupts, as we all know and as we have seen time and time again in countless examples. (Just look how Tulsi Gabbard has already become a corrupted compromised lying prostitute for her pimp Trump.) So, once the empire started proclaiming the virtues of Christianity, Christianity quickly became the bloodiest, most violent, most warmongering religion ever.</span></p>
<p wcount="63" data-sanitized-id="p_1_17" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Wars throughout the centuries have been waged in the name of the Christian god. Millions of people have been tortured and slaughtered in the name of this Christian god. Millions of people have been kept in poverty and enslavement in the name of this Christian god. Barbaric genocidal depraved global <a title="https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/total_war_01.shtml" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/total_war_01.shtml">“total war”</a> was eventually invented by the European believers of this Christian god.</span></p>
<p wcount="45" data-sanitized-id="p_1_18" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In American history, Christianity was used to justify the enslavement of abducted Africans and their descendants—and the genocide of American Indians, along with the confiscation of the Indians’ lands. Those evil crimes against humanity are precisely how the United States of America was established.</span></p>
<p wcount="5" data-sanitized-id="p_1_19" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>Christian nationalists and Jewish neocons</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="91" data-sanitized-id="p_1_20" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Today, the evangelical Christian supporters of Trump are the most enthusiastic MAGA advocates for sending endless amounts of American money and weapons to the Jewish state of Israel, so that this Jewish state can continue its genocide against the Palestinian people and its confiscation of ever more of their lands. These crazy Christians (or “Christian nationalists”)—including many members of Trump’s government (such as Hegseth and Huckabee)—firmly believe that American support for Israel is necessary for Jesus to “come back” and for “the rapture” to happen. Fucking Zionist morons.</span></p>
<p wcount="119" data-sanitized-id="p_1_21" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The American Zionist “Jewish lobby”—AIPAC—has long been a huge force behind the many “endless wars” that the United States provokes or gets involved in all over the planet, not only in the Middle East. AIPAC had been a big pusher of U.S. support for <a title="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/aipac-support-the-ukraine-israel-aid-package/" href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/aipac-support-the-ukraine-israel-aid-package/">Ukraine</a>. It is in Israel’s interest to keep the U.S. in constant conflict against Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, and any other perceived enemy, because all these conflicts can be spun as geopolitical battles against “authoritarians” and wars for “democracy”—battles and wars for which Israel will always be on America’s side. After all, Israel is America’s “greatest ally” and “the only democracy in the Middle East.” Right?</span></p>
<p wcount="59" data-sanitized-id="p_1_22" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Moreover, the more America feels threatened by the dark “undemocratic” global forces of “authoritarianism” or “terrorism,” the more Americans will think they need Israel as a stable friend in an unstable world. Very effective bullshit, especially when it is backed up by bountiful amounts of cash from AIPAC to American politicians and by overwhelming Jewish influence over corporate media.</span></p>
<p wcount="92" data-sanitized-id="p_1_23" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Even if the Jewish neocon warmongers who constantly push the United States into foreign conflicts are not particularly religious themselves, they are surely still motivated by the tenets of Judaism. They have been taught that they are god’s “chosen people,” and they come from a culture characterized by extreme ambition and notions of superiority over other people. Combine those inherently Jewish characteristics with the mythology of “American exceptionalism” and you get the perfect recipe for the endless neocon wars of the American Empire. See Victoria Nuland and Anthony Blinken for examples.</span></p>
<p wcount="4" data-sanitized-id="p_1_24" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents"><strong>All three are guilty</strong></span></p>
<p wcount="129" data-sanitized-id="p_1_25" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Thus, it is clear that even in our modern so-called secular age, Judaism and Christianity remain powerful forces for hatred, violence, and war. But Islam is certainly no saint either. I understand that Hamas and other Islamic/Arab militant groups can claim honest justifications for their violent actions, given the fact the Israel and the United States have left them with few, if any, peaceful “legal” options. Nevertheless, Islamic terrorism against innocent civilians is a <a title="https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/ils/vol97/iss1/54/" href="https://digital-commons.usnwc.edu/ils/vol97/iss1/54/">real thing</a>, and it is based on the foundational principles of Islam, and there is no fucking way that it can all be justified as the righteous actions of oppressed people! Furthermore, there have been numerous examples of Muslims using their religion to wage wars against each other, such as the recurring <a title="https://www.cfr.org/article/sunni-shia-divide" href="https://www.cfr.org/article/sunni-shia-divide">Sunni-Shia conflicts</a>.</span></p>
<p wcount="17" data-sanitized-id="p_1_26" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">It is clear that there is plenty of blood on the hands of Jews, Christians, and Muslims.</span></p>
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<p wcount="83" data-sanitized-id="p_1_28" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">I imagine a world without Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. A world in which all three of these perverted religions, with all of their numerous offshoots and divisions, have been eliminated. I have no idea how this elimination could happen. But I know it has to start with regular people. People must get educated about the evil nature of these religions. Then they must reject all of these religions en masse. Education is the key. This essay is a tiny part of that effort.</span></p>
<p wcount="90" data-sanitized-id="p_1_29" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Alternative belief systems must be substituted for the Abrahamic religions. There are other, less violent, less intolerant religions, such as Buddhism and Hinduism. My personal preference are religions that are strongly attached to nature and that consider humans as equal to—not superior to—all other forms of life. Human unity with—not dominance over—nature. Examples are Wicca and many traditional American Indian belief systems. In most American Indian cultures, warfare was common but highly <a title="https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/military-history/history-heritage/popular-books/aboriginal-people-canadian-military/warfare-pre-columbian-north-america.html" href="https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/services/military-history/history-heritage/popular-books/aboriginal-people-canadian-military/warfare-pre-columbian-north-america.html">ritualistic</a> and designed to limit casualties. There was certainly no concept of “total war”!</span></p>
<p wcount="61" data-sanitized-id="p_1_30" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Regarding Wicca, I am unaware of any “Great Wiccan War.” There is a “Wiccan, or Witches’, Rede” that states “Live and let live. Fairly take and fairly give. … Eight words the Wiccan Rede fulfill: An ye harm none, do what ye will.” Okay, I don’t think we have to worry about Wiccans starting wars in the name of The Goddess.</span></p>
<p wcount="84" data-sanitized-id="p_1_31" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">But honestly, I don’t understand why any “religion” is necessary. I suppose some kind of personal spirituality is good, such as feelings of connections to nature. But there is no logical reason for that personal spirituality to be connected to some official organized religion. No reason at all. Just think whatever you want to think yourself, and be happy about it. You don’t need some official book to tell you what to do or what to think to glorify some mythological god.</span></p>
<p wcount="62" data-sanitized-id="p_1_32" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Science—sober observations followed by logical conclusions, in other word— offers the best alternative belief system. Logical, rational thinking combined with deep respect for nature, other living beings, and the planet Earth will naturally inspire respectful dialogue about differences, rather than arguing and fighting. Logical thinking will also lead to understanding and helping other people with problems, rather than subjugation and discrimination.</span></p>
<p wcount="31" data-sanitized-id="p_1_33" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Unfortunately, human societies will not be able to achieve this necessary level of logic until they fully sever their ties to the illogical, emotional, divisive beliefs of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.</span></p>
<p wcount="57" data-sanitized-id="p_1_34" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Earth is a very beautiful planet, whether it is seen as a blue-and-white orb from the distant perspective of space or it is seen close-up in the living lushness of a rain forest or coral reef. Earth could also be happy and peaceful place for all humans. But we first have to eliminate all three Abrahamic religions.</span></p>


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<p wcount="39" data-sanitized-id="p_1_1" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower</span></p>
<p wcount="44" data-sanitized-id="p_1_2" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In the 1960s and 1970s when the US actually had an enemy, though possibly one of our own making, there was a peace movement. It might well have come from left-wing professors in the universities who did not think racist America was worth defending.</span></p>
<p wcount="34" data-sanitized-id="p_1_3" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In the first quarter of the 21st century, a period of many American wars of choice, there is no peace movement. In her book ( <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-trillion-dollar-silencer-joan-roelofs/1141001899?ean=9781949762624" title="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-trillion-dollar-silencer-joan-roelofs/1141001899?ean=9781949762624">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-trillion-dollar-silencer-joan-roelofs/1141001899?ean=9781949762624</a> ) Joan Roelofs asks:</span></p>
<p wcount="83" data-sanitized-id="p_1_4" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">“Why is there so much acceptance of and so little protest against our government’s illegal and immoral wars and other military operations? Why is there mostly silence about the death and destruction that wars and even the preparation for war inflict on people, including the troops, and on the environment? Why is there so little concern about the potential for the extinction of human and other life posed by nuclear war, now seen as an ‘option’ by the US and other militaries?”</span></p>
<p wcount="43" data-sanitized-id="p_1_5" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Her answer is in her title: <em>The Trillion Dollar Silencer.</em> You might think that the money goes for weapons, but much of it is used to purchase universities and faculties, think tanks, nonprofit organizations, state and local governments, media, contractors, and foreign governments.</span></p>
<p wcount="22" data-sanitized-id="p_1_6" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">The Department of Defense tentacles reach everywhere. With so many so dependent on DOD handouts, there is no one left to protest.</span></p>
<p wcount="58" data-sanitized-id="p_1_7" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">Roelofs’ research is exhaustive. She packs an amazing amount of detail including names and monetary amounts in 200 pages. For example, Roelofs explains how the CIA salts money around. The CIA creates dummy foundations and makes grants to them. The dummy foundations then make grants to legitimate foundations, and the foundations pass the money on to the CIA-designated groups.</span></p>
<p wcount="79" data-sanitized-id="p_1_8" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">President Eisenhower warned about the growing power of the military/security complex. Nothing was done about it. The power has grown so great that the Department of Defense cannot pass an audit, and several trillion dollars are unaccounted for. You might remember that whatever it was that hit the Pentagon on 9/11 managed to hit and destroy the offices housing the documents and experts who were searching for where the money had gone, thus bringing the investigation to an end.</span></p>
<p wcount="77" data-sanitized-id="p_1_9" data-sanitized-class="container"><span data-sanitized-class="contents">In the final chapter Roelofs asks “what can be done?” Her suggestions lack effectiveness. Her book was written prior to the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency. My suggestion is for someone who can to get the book into DOGE hands. <em>The Trillion Dollar Silencer</em> traces the money flows through so many hands and places that it will save the DOGE staff much work and leave them astonished by the many non-defense uses of defense funds.</span></p>
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<p>Vladimir Putin spoke with the crew members of the nuclear submarine Arkhangelsk</p>
<p><span>President Putin had a very full day n Murmansk. This event almost snuck by as</span> <a href="http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76557" rel>the transcript</a> <span>wasn’t posted when I first visited the page. The picture caption says it all. Putin uses the occasion to give a talk about Russian defense and the SMO in his dialogue in answer to questions posed by the crew. The video is about 40 minutes, so the transcript isn’t too long, and the chat reads fast":</span></p>
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<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Dear comrades, good evening!</span></p>
<p>I am glad to welcome you all. It's nice to once again visit such a rocket carrier as yours, in principle, a rocket carrier. I've never been to one like yours before. I was on other submarines, as you probably know, and I took part in exercises. But as far as your ship is concerned, it's a special thing–-it's the newest ship.</p>
<p>Look, we laid it down in 2015, launched it in 2023, and in 2024 it was commissioned into the Armed Forces and Navy. For such complex products, let's just say that this is a very good time frame, and everything is at the most modern level.</p>
<p>Today, another such boat, also seen, was launched. It is basically the same, but there are also "Zircons", which is especially nice. Because "Zircons" to a certain extent can already be attributed to weapons of strategic importance. How much range does the Zircon have? 1200, right?</p>
<p><strong>Remark:</strong> <span>There are two options, and there are a little more.</span></p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Yes, I understand. But still, given the power of this weapon, accuracy and speed of movement to the target, of course, it can be attributed to such systems that perform strategic tasks.</span></p>
<p>The role of the Navy is generally known. Russia has been a powerful maritime power for centuries, and we will do everything to maintain this status, build new surface and submarine ships, and improve their performance. They must meet the requirements of today and must, of course, be combat-ready and effective in the short–term–-in the full sense of the word—historical perspective, because these weapons, which should serve the country for many decades, form the basis of our strategic security.</p>
<p>We will do everything for this, just as we will do everything to train specialists like you. These are individual people, sorry for the expression. This requires a special character, readiness to perform any tasks to ensure the country's security. That's what you are, I have no doubt about it.</p>
<p>The traditions of the Navy have been laid down in our country for a long time, and they are being observed. And the brotherhood of naval officers, especially submariners, has a special quality, a special character.</p>
<p><span>In principle, I would like to congratulate you on joining the service at such a facility-–the most modern, most equipped, and capable of performing a wide variety of tasks. You know this better than anyone, but this is a very, very important question. Work on surface targets, underwater targets, and stationary ground targets. In general, it is probably difficult to list or name such tasks that missile carriers and ships of this kind cannot perform-–everyone can. And we will continue to improve all this. We have just spoken to the commander and your commanders.</span> <em><strong>Everything must meet the requirements of today and tomorrow. We need to look to the future.</strong></em></p>
<p>I'm glad to see you. I congratulate you on being here. And I congratulate you, as I just said at the top, I congratulate all the military seamen on today's event–-on the launch of a new submarine, this is already a class, "Perm".</p>
<p>If there is anything you would like to ask, I will be happy to answer any of your questions. You are welcome.</p>
<p><strong>Alexey Moiseyev [Commander-in-Chief of the Navy]:</strong> <span>Comrade Supreme Commander, allow me to give the floor to the commander.</span></p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Yes, of course.</span></p>
<p><strong>Alexander Gladkov:</strong> <span>I would like to say a little about our exhibition, so to speak: four submarines, all called "Arkhangelsk".</span></p>
<p>The first battleship "Arkhangelsk "on reparations, it was transferred to the Soviet Navy in 1944 and from 1944 to 1949 served under the name "Arkhangelsk".</p>
<p>The next ship with the name "Arkhangelsk" was K-525. This is the lead submarine of Project 949, which until 1996 served, respectively, in our Navy. After that, the name " Arkhangelsk "passed to the heavy nuclear-powered strategic missile cruiser TK-17"Arkhangelsk". You know him. And, accordingly, we became the fourth--the ship of the 885 project "Yasen".</p>
<p><strong>Igor Lakomkin:</strong> <span>Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich,</span></p>
<p>Commander of the survivability division, Lieutenant Commander Lakomkin. The crew is proud to belong to the glorious Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. Currently, the crew is undergoing combat training and preparing to perform important tasks at sea. Everything is going according to plan, and I am confident that the crew and our cruiser will be able to perform the assigned tasks at the appointed time.</p>
<p>The cruiser of this generation is our pride due to the fact that not many countries in the world are able to create such a serious and formidable weapon.</p>
<p>Please tell me what are the future prospects and plans for the development of the Navy of our country?</p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Don't worry, I have already said that we believe that the Navy is one of the main guarantees of state security and strategic stability in the world as a whole, because we have a certain strategic balance with the United States, and we will treat this very carefully and do everything in a timely manner.</span></p>
<p><span>Of course, there have always been many questions and problems at all times.</span> <em><strong>Russia is like a land power, a huge territory, but it is no coincidence that since the time of Peter I, the traditions of shipbuilding and the Navy have been laid down</strong></em><span>. In principle, they were there before, but Peter just put it on a completely new base, on a completely new basis.</span> <em><strong>And we will do everything possible not only to preserve this component of the Russian Armed Forces, but also to strengthen it.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>Just now we witnessed the launch of the fifth cruiser Yasen-M. It is planned to build five more such ships, plus three more Borey-A ships.</span> <em><strong>But all our plans for building the Armed Forces and Navy are not limited to this. There are plans to build surface ships and strategic missile carriers.</strong></em></p>
<p>I won't go into details now. We have different views, different approaches about what and how we need to do here. But all this, all these disputes between scientists, designers, the Armed Forces, between various enterprises–-this is all a positive process, which is aimed at choosing the best, optimal options for the development of the fleet. So we will do it.</p>
<p><span>I won't go into the details right now, although I will be immersed in these details. The commander knows that we don't meet so often, we should do it more often, but we still meet regularly, all these disputes are going on, but the decisions are also final. We are not just engaged in lapping up positions, but in the course of these discussions, decisions are made on the development of the fleet. They are long-term, for the future, for decades to come–-</span><em><strong>until 2050 and beyond</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p>Now, on my instructions, a strategy for the development of the Naval Forces, the Navy and a program for the construction of surface and submarine ships until 2050 are being prepared, so we will work together with you.</p>
<p>I speak without irony. Why? Because how the operation goes–-in this case, boats—also depends on making decisions on future development plans. So I very much hope that when you serve here, if you notice something, think about something, please, we will only be happy to hear your practical comments.</p>
<p><strong>Igor Lakomkin:</strong> <span>Thank you.</span></p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Please.</span></p>
<p><strong>Alexander Frolov:</strong> <span>Comrade Supreme Commander-in-Chief!</span></p>
<p>Commander of the combat communications unit, Captain of the third rank Frolov.</p>
<p>The tasks that we submariners perform are important for the security of the state. But we also understand that the main task now, as for all of us, the country as a whole, is to achieve the goals of a special military operation.</p>
<p>Could you give your assessment of current events and the progress of the special military operation?</p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Of course.</span></p>
<p>I'll tell you briefly: we are gradually, not as quickly as some would like, but nevertheless, persistently and confidently moving towards achieving all the goals stated at the beginning of the operation. But I'd like to start somewhere else.</p>
<p><em><strong>I would like to say that we were not the authors and initiators of the outbreak of hostilities. They began after the coup d'etat in Ukraine in 2014, which was supported by Western countries. And after that, fighting actually began in the south-east of Ukraine.</strong></em></p>
<p>We have been trying for eight years to resolve these issues and problems by peaceful means. We were forced to protect Crimea and the Crimean residents of Sevastopol, and for a very long time and persistently sought to resolve issues related to the Donbass and Luhansk by peaceful means.</p>
<p><span>As it turned out later, everyone knows this very well now, both the Ukrainian authorities and Western curators,</span> <em><strong>they, in fact, led us by the nose, unfortunately</strong></em><span>. Former leaders who then led some of the leading Western countries, in particular, former French President Hollande and Mrs. Merkel, the former German Chancellor, directly stated, publicly said without hesitation that they needed these Minsk agreements only in order to rearm the Ukrainian regime and prepare for military operations with us.</span> <em><strong>But for eight years, people who lived in the territory of Donbass, Luhansk and Donetsk were simply subjected to genocide in the truest sense of the word.</strong></em> <span>The Western curators of the Ukrainian regime preferred not to notice this. This forced us to make an attempt to end the war that was started in 2014 with already armed means. We didn't start it.</span></p>
<p>Even, by the way, when the armed conflict entered such a hot phase in 2022, we still offered to resolve all issues peacefully. Moreover, I have already said this many times, and we reached an agreement with Ukraine when the talks were held in Istanbul. By the way, we have also agreed on issues that are very often asked and interpreted as impossible to resolve-–denasification and demilitarization. We have agreed on these issues as well, in fact. Everything was spelled out there–-in the draft of this document. An excerpt from this document was initialed by the head of the negotiation group on the part of Ukraine. Initialed, signed, so everything was fine.</p>
<p>Then–-it is also known-their curators came from Europe, in particular, from the UK, former Prime Minister Mr. Johnson, convinced the Ukrainian leadership that it was necessary to continue the armed struggle to the last, in fact, Ukrainian, in order to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.</p>
<p><span>So</span> <em><strong>he probably forgot that there are such collectives as yours, such means as your submarine. Apparently, he has forgotten or they do not really understand what the Russian people are, what our people have in their hearts and souls when it comes to the security of the Fatherland.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>What is happening today, in principle, is also clear. Along the entire line of contact, our troops have a strategic initiative.</span> <em><strong>I just recently said "we will finish them off"</strong></em><span>, there are reasons to believe that we will finish them off. I only think that the Ukrainian people should realize what is happening.</span></p>
<p>The fact that our Armed Forces are gaining momentum, acting more and more effectively. A direct participant in the hostilities, Major General Mikhail Gudkov, can also tell about this.</p>
<p>He commands the 155th Marine Brigade, Pacific Fleet. The brigade is one of the best, in my opinion, in the Armed Forces. According to the Minister of Defense, the Chief of the General Staff, what Major General Gudkov achieved should be replicated to other units of the Armed Forces and, above all, of course, units of the Marine Corps, which generally fights well. Great, I can tell. You see, without any exaggeration, it refers to the elite of the Armed Forces in the same way as paratroopers, as well as special forces.</p>
<p>Although I should note that today, just before coming here, I listened to the regular report of the Chief of the General Staff, and other units of the Armed Forces have gained very good momentum.</p>
<p>As for the Marines, as I said, they fight very well. And since the Minister and the Chief of the General Staff believe that your experience should be replicated to other units, I have decided to transfer you to another position and increase the level of your responsibility. You are appointed Deputy Commander of the Naval Forces of the Russian Federation.</p>
<p><strong>Mikhail Gudkov:</strong> <span>Yes, Comrade Supreme Commander.</span></p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Please sit down.</span></p>
<p>Your area of responsibility will include commanding the entire Marine Corps of the Navy and all missile and artillery coastal troops.</p>
<p>The task is simple, although large-scale: despite the fact that all Marines show themselves in the best possible way, but all these units need to be brought to the level of combat readiness and efficiency to which you brought the 155th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet.</p>
<p>In addition, the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense has approved a program for reorganizing the Marine Corps, these units, and we will gradually create marine divisions from brigades. This year two divisions, including the 155th Brigade, next year two more divisions and in a year we will create another division.</p>
<p>This is a lot of work, which will be primarily related to the organization of combat training, taking into account your experience in combat operations during the command and leadership of the 155th Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet. We need to think about organizational changes, as brigades are being transformed into divisions. We need to think about weapons, communications, and so on and so forth. That is, in principle, a lot of work.</p>
<p>I'll tell you a little later what you need to do in the next few days. The commander supported this proposal, so I hope that everything will work out for you, and I don't even doubt it. I wish you the best of luck.</p>
<p>As for the situation on the line of contact. Once again, I would like to emphasize that the entire strategic initiative on the front line is entirely in the hands of the Russian Armed Forces.</p>
<p>The Luhansk People's Republic is 99 percent liberated, its territory, and Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporozhye – over 70 percent. Our troops, our guys are moving forward and liberating one territory after another, one settlement after another every day.</p>
<p><strong>Igor Domnin:</strong> <span>Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich,</span></p>
<p><span>Foreman of the second article Domnin. Today, the world's attention is focused on the negotiations between Russia and the United States.</span> <em><strong>Suddenly, we started to have a dialogue and get closer to our main rival</strong></em><span>. If possible, I would like to know firsthand the progress of the negotiations and, possibly, their results.</span></p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>You don't pay attention to it, just do your duty, do your duty. (Laughter.)</span></p>
<p>In general, this is a joke. I understand that everyone in the world and in our country, all people are watching this closely. In this regard, I would like to say first that, in my opinion, the newly elected President of the United States sincerely wants to end this conflict for a number of reasons – I won't even list them now, there are many of them. But, in my opinion, this is a sincere desire.</p>
<p><span>It is clear that the conflict to which I have referred and to which I have just given a brief description of what has happened in the recent past</span> <em><strong>is still complex and requires careful discussion and approach.</strong></em></p>
<p>We are in favor of resolving all these issues by peaceful means, and I have just said that we have taken one, two, and three steps from the very beginning.</p>
<p><span>Therefore, we are in favor of resolving these issues by peaceful means,</span> <em><strong>but while eliminating the root causes that led to the current situation.</strong></em> <span>We need, of course, to ensure Russia's long-term historical security.</span> <em><strong>Any step aimed at solving this problem will be welcome, and we will work with any partners who are willing to do so. This is not only the United States, but also the People's Republic of China, India, Brazil, South Africa, all the BRICS countries and many others</strong></em><span>, for example, including the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, with which we have signed an agreement, there is article four, and much has been said about how and what we should do and support each other. We are also working with this country in the military-technical and military spheres.</span></p>
<p><span>By the way, we are also ready to work with Europe, but they just behave inconsistently, constantly trying to lead us by the nose. But never mind, we're already used to it.</span> <em><strong>I hope that we will not make any mistakes based on excessive trust in our so-called partners.</strong></em></p>
<p><span>But in general, there is a problem that they seem to talk about, but only in passing, and I myself also talk about it. What is it?</span> <em><strong>It is that the so–called Nazis, as they are called in Ukraine itself, nationalists—people of neo-Nazi views—have a very large influence in the country, in Ukraine, from the very beginning after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Curiously, very few people remember this either now.</strong></em></p>
<p>Back in 2017, in the same United States Congress, an amendment was made to a law that prohibited funding, supporting and having any relations with such a unit as Azov, and directly an American lawmaker called this paramilitary organization terrorist and anti-Semitic.</p>
<p><span>Moreover, although the Senate did not support it at that time, but a year later, in my opinion, two years later, the initiators of this law, and among them was the oldest member of the US Congress, still supported this law, and it was passed by Congress.</span> <em><strong>The US Congress called this organization terrorist, anti-Semitic, neo-Nazi</strong></em><span>.</span></p>
<p><em><strong>But nothing has changed since then. They were just like that, and they still are. What is there, in fact, something has changed? No. What happened? And in 2022, the State Department, with reference to the fact that this formation, "Azov", entered the armed forces of Ukraine, decided that–apparently, the law there was built accordingly–-it is possible to assist them. Because it was integrated into the armed forces of Ukraine, nothing, in fact, has changed. Their views, their actions are still the same as they were in the beginning.</strong></em></p>
<p>And now even more than that, now they are planning to strengthen these units, including Azov ,and create divisions from them, too. This means that such people acquire more weapons, more supporters, and put others under the gun, forcing their views on them.</p>
<p><em><strong>What does this lead to? This leads to the fact that the civil authorities, they are now actually in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine are not legal. Elections were not held for the president there, and the constitution is designed so that everyone is appointed by the president, including regional authorities, governors are appointed, and so on. If he is illegitimate, then so is everyone else.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>So, in the conditions of this de facto illegitimacy, neo-Nazi formations receive additional weapons and recruit new people to their ranks. What does this lead to, or can it lead to? That the actual power is in their hands. And this means, in turn, that it is not clear with whom to sign what documents, and it is not clear what power they have, because tomorrow other leaders will come, who will go through the elections and say: "Who signed there-we don't know, goodbye."</strong></em></p>
<p><span>It's not even that, but the fact is that</span> <em><strong>these neo-Nazi formations-–such as "Azov", and there are others there--they are actually beginning to lead the country. And the question arises: what about how to negotiate with them?</strong></em></p>
<p><span>However, in such cases, international practice follows a well-known path within the framework of United Nations peacekeeping activities,</span> <em><strong>what is called external management, temporary administration</strong></em><span>, has already been established several times. This was the case in East Timor, in my opinion, in 1999, this was the case in some parts of the former Yugoslavia, this was the case in New Guinea.</span> <em><strong>In general, this practice exists.</strong></em></p>
<p><em><strong>And in principle, of course, it would be possible to discuss the possibility of introducing a temporary administration in Ukraine under the auspices of the United Nations, even with European countries, of course, with our partners and friends. And for what purpose? In order to hold democratic elections, in order to bring to power a government that is capable and enjoys the confidence of the people, and then start negotiations with them on a peace treaty, sign legitimate documents that will be recognized worldwide and will be reliable and stable.</strong></em></p>
<p>This is just one of the options, I'm not saying that others don't exist. No, they exist. Now there is simply no way to put everything on the shelves, and it may even be impossible to put everything on the shelves, because the situation is changing quickly, but this is one of the options. There is such a practice in the work of the United Nations, and I have already mentioned some examples.</p>
<p><span>But in general, we welcome the resolution of any conflict, including this one, by peaceful means.</span> <em><strong>Not at our expense.</strong></em></p>
<p>Something else? Don't be shy.</p>
<p><strong>Alexander Belyaev:</strong> <span>We, the crew, spend most of our time at sea away from our families. While we are at sea, our families are waiting for us, living in cities that are far removed from the regional center, from large cities.</span></p>
<p>I would like to thank you for taking care of the welfare of our families and ask you to tell us what is planned for the development of infrastructure in closed cities.</p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>We discussed it today, the commander was present and saw it.</span></p>
<p>You know, as a whole, thank God, the economy and finances of the state are, to put it mildly, in a satisfactory state and everything is stable–-both in the sphere of public finances and in the sphere of the economy as a whole.</p>
<p>But there is always not enough money. There is no such thing, I do not remember in all the years of my work that someone who manages finance and economics said that "everyone, we don't know where to put the money"-–this does not happen. However, when oil prices were high and so on, we had funds that we set aside in reserves, they were called differently–-well, it doesn't matter.</p>
<p>But in general, even when we were saving for reserves, they were still not enough. Let me explain: if you do not save money in reserves, then there will be macroeconomic problems, including inflation. All the same, we need to postpone something, and from what is left, build programs related to the expenditure part of the budget.</p>
<p><span>So, and now the same situation.</span> <em><strong>Everything is stable and normal here. 4.1 percent growth of the country's economy,</strong></em> <span>Russia is the fourth country in the world in terms of economy size, according to purchasing power parity. In the first place is China, then the United States, then India, then Russia. And all the others, including Japan, Germany, and so on, are all lower.</span></p>
<p>I'm not even talking about the UK, they all jump on us, they behave aggressively, but their economy is, in my opinion, in the ninth or tenth place in the world. Hence the armed forces, how many are there, 170 or 180 thousand [people]? This is all the armed forces of Great Britain.</p>
<p><span>But what was I talking about just now? That something is always missing. Here is the commander [of the Navy] sitting today, also attended the</span> <a href="https://translated.turbopages.org/proxy_u/ru-en.en.fb42e480-67e62bca-6da5f4c7-74722d776562/kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76553" rel>meeting</a><span>, took part in it. As for the development of military camps, last year, in my opinion, we allocated more than 39 billion rubles for these purposes, for the development, for putting these towns in order over two or three years.</span></p>
<p><strong>A. Moiseev:</strong> <span>2024, 2025, 2026.</span></p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>But I also listened to the commander today, because the commander reported on the prospects for the development of these ZATS, taking into account the increase in the number of Armed Forces here and the size of the fleet, the increase in land forces, and so on.</span></p>
<p>That is why I gave instructions to the Government and the Ministry of Finance today, and they, of course, accepted them for execution – we will allocate the same amount of funds for the coming years, at least 10 billion rubles each.</p>
<p>I hope that what has already been done is noticeable. This is money for kindergartens, schools, for putting the housing and communal services system in order, for streets, courtyards, yard space, and so on. I hope you're watching this.</p>
<p><strong>A. Moiseev:</strong> <span>Undoubtedly so.</span></p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Yes?</span></p>
<p><strong>Alexey Moiseyev:</strong> <span>Yes, I assure you that it is true.</span></p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>But they [the sailors] don't say anything. (Laughter.)</span></p>
<p><strong>A. Moiseev:</strong> <span>It's simple and modest.</span></p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>It's clear. So here's what we'll do. This program exists, and money will be allocated.</span></p>
<p><strong>Alexey Moiseyev:</strong> <span>Comrade Supreme Commander, allow me to thank you. thank you.</span></p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Putin:</strong> <span>Thank you. [My Emphasis]</span></p>
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<p>What a surprise peace solution to the problem of Nazis. A big trial balloon. The Russian Navy’s in great shape. I hope no coffee was spilled over that surprise since most will be reading this is the morning. Good Night.</p>
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<p><strong>European countries must work with Washington to achieve peace between Moscow and Kiev, Giorgia Meloni has said</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has ruled out the participation of her country’s troops in a military force that the UK and France want to be deployed to Ukraine in the event that a peace deal with Russia is reached.</p>
<p>In early March, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron said that their nations were ready to lead a <em>“coalition of the willing”</em> pro-Ukrainian European countries to support Kiev with troops and aircraft. The announcement followed the launch of bilateral talks between Moscow and Washington to settle the ongoing conflict, to which the EU and UK were not invited.</p>
<p>After a summit of Kiev’s backers in Paris on Thursday, which was attended by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, Meloni reiterated that <em>“no national participation in a possible military force on the ground is planned”</em> by the authorities in Rome.</p>
<p>According to a statement published by the Italian prime minister’s office, she also <em>“stressed the importance of continuing to work with the US to stop the conflict and achieve peace”</em> between Moscow and Kiev. She <em>“hoped for the involvement of an American delegation at the next coordination meeting”</em> of Ukraine’s European allies, the statement read.</p>

            
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<p>In her interview with the Financial Times on Friday, Meloni stressed that it is <em>“childish”</em> to make Italy choose between the US and the EU.</p>
<p>Instead of deploying what London and Paris now call a <em>“reassurance force”</em> to aid Kiev, she proposed extending NATO’s mutual defense clause to Ukraine without actually making the country a member of the US-led bloc. Doing so would be <em>“easier and more effective than the other ideas that are on the table,”</em> she insisted.</p>
<p>Croatian President Zoran Milanovic also said on Thursday that his country <em>“will not be involved in Ukraine in any form.”</em> Zagreb will not join the peacekeeping force because <em>“the necessary conditions are simply not met – there is no peace agreement, nor the consent of the other side, which in this case is Russia,”</em> he explained.</p>

             
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<p>Russia has categorically ruled out the possibility of NATO-aligned European troops deploying to the conflict zone. It accused France and Britain of hatching plans for <em>“military intervention in Ukraine,”</em> which could lead to a direct military clash between Russia and the bloc. Moscow also suggested that London and Paris are deliberately escalating tensions in order to undermine efforts by the US and Russia to resolve the conflict.</p>

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<p data-async>Recent federal elections have prompted somewhere between 61 and 69 <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "per cent of eligible voters", "target_url": "https://electionsanddemocracy.ca/elections-numbers-0/graph-voter-turnout-federal-elections", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://electionsanddemocracy.ca/elections-numbers-0/graph-voter-turnout-federal-elections">per cent of eligible voters</a> to cast a ballot nationally. But as a <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "letter to the editor", "target_url": "https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/letters-support-canada-sovereignty-by-voting", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/letters-support-canada-sovereignty-by-voting">letter to the editor</a> of the Citizen recently declared: “That is not good enough. We must aim for a voter turnout in excess of 90 per cent to demonstrate that we care about our country and that, no matter what party we support, we will do whatever it takes to uphold Canada’s sovereignty.”</p>
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<p data-async>Ninety per cent? Not likely. No Canadian election has ever reached that level of public enthusiasm; the highest participation was 79.4 per cent in 1958. In <a data-evt-val='{"control_fields": {"mparticle": {"keys": {"click_source_type": "click_source_type", "anchor_text": "anchor_text", "target_url": "target_url", "layout_section": "layout_section"}, "mp_event_type": "Navigation", "extra_keys": ["click_vertical_position_percentage", "click_vertical_position_pixels"]}}, "click_source_type": "in-page link", "anchor_text": "the 2021 election", "target_url": "https://electionsanddemocracy.ca/elections-numbers-0/graph-voter-turnout-federal-elections", "layout_section": "in-page-link"}' data-evt="click" data-evt-typ="click" href="https://electionsanddemocracy.ca/elections-numbers-0/graph-voter-turnout-federal-elections">the 2021 election</a>, just 62.6 of electors voted nationally. All Ottawa ridings exceeded the national average that year, a tribute to how much this city cares about the country. Still, the letter writer’s challenge is worth mulling: a federal election is a powerful, collective method of showing we care about democracy.</p>
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<p>In the face of threats to turn Canada into the 51st state, voting this time feels like an act of soverignty. WE will determine our future. WE care enough to pay attention to the candidates. WE will exercise our franchise.</p>
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<p>Even without Donald Trump, voting would be important in this election since the outcome will be a different prime minster from the one who led the country from 2015 to 2025. Having Trump to contend with means it’s even more vital that you think about who should lead us.</p>
<p>To that end, get involved now. Start researching the candidates in your riding and paying attention to their pronouncements. Think about how their promises could affect your life and your family both locally and nationally — but also think about whether they are realistic. Assess potential MPs, not just leaders, over the next five weeks: for character, integrity and backbone. Are they the type who will hold government to account (even if their own party is in power)? Will they fight, intelligently, for Canada? Do they have a solid plan for YOUR community?</p>
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<p>At the Ottawa Citizen, our reporters are conscious of the need to relay facts and context without spin. Their cumulative experience, coupled with the fact their names are on their work, holds us to account. They don’t traffic in rumour or gossip. That’s a key difference from the information we often encounter on social media, which isn’t held to a robust editorial process. Assertions made there often are not checked for factual accuracy. Personal attacks slip in. Misinformation abounds. Be conscious of which sources you consult to learn about this (or any) election.</p>
<p>But wait — the Citizen runs opinion too, doesn’t it? Yes; this editorial is an opinion piece, aimed at persuading you to be an active participant in your democracy. But you’ll also see the Citizen publish opinions from informed people who hold a wide variety of political views. We hope a broad spectrum of argument will help you clarify your own thinking about the election. We’ll also ask the main Ottawa candidates themselves if they’d like to contribute to the debate with an op-ed article online. If they participate, you can see in their own words what they plan for your riding.</p>
<p>We want you to vote in this election, and to be informed when you do. We want you to defend the independence of Canada by marking your ballot. You have the power to send a message that you care about the country. And we’ll do whatever we can to help make it happen.</p>
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]A magnitude-7.9 earthquake struck Myanmar at 2:20 p.m. Friday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). Join CGTN for more.

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<p><strong>A skyscraper under construction has collapsed in Bangkok, killing one worker and wounding 50 others, according to the rescuers</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>A powerful earthquake has hit Myanmar, with tremors causing destruction across the country and in neighboring Thailand.</p>
<p>A skyscraper under construction collapsed in the Thai capital, Bangkok, due to the quake on Friday, killing one worker and injuring 50 other, the emergencies services have said. Some people remain trapped under the rubble, but their exact number is unknown, according to the authorities.</p>
<p>According to the US Geological Survey, a 7.7-magnitude quake struck northwest of the city of Sagaing in central Myanmar at a shallow depth of 10km. A 6.4-magnitude aftershock hit the same area shortly afterwards.</p>
<p>Witnesses in the city of Mandalay in Myanmar told Reuters that they have seen several buildings collapse because of the tremors.</p>

            <blockquote data-media-max-width="560" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Here is some of the aftermath footage near Mandalay. <br><br>There was also such similar scale earthquake happened 100 yo ago in the same area, where famous ruin of Mingun Pahtotawgyi and Bell remains. My experts been predicting in past year another strong one is imminent. <a href="https://t.co/Kg5enrsRdV">https://t.co/Kg5enrsRdV</a> <a href="https://t.co/RyE9RPeBR6">pic.twitter.com/RyE9RPeBR6</a></p>— ˙ʞ ๅǝᴉɹqɐꓨ 🇲🇲🏳️‍🌈 (@kokomdy) <a href="https://twitter.com/kokomdy/status/1905515831683158326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p>An AFP journalist in Naypyidaw, located south of Sagaing, reported cracks appearing on the roads and chunks of ceilings falling from buildings.</p>

            <blockquote data-media-max-width="560" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Video from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Mandalay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Mandalay</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Myanmar?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Myanmar</a>, shows people screaming and crying after a powerful earthquake of 7.3 and 7.7 magnitude struck <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/earthquake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#earthquake</a> <a href="https://t.co/5Z4jQ6KcpL">pic.twitter.com/5Z4jQ6KcpL</a></p>— sudhakar (@naidusudhakar) <a href="https://twitter.com/naidusudhakar/status/1905536830336106786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p>In the Thai capital Bangkok, skyscrapers were shaken by the tremors, causing locals and tourists to rush outside in panic.</p>

            <blockquote data-media-max-width="560" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">❗️Crane PLUMMETS From The Sky In Bangkok Following <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Earthquake?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Earthquake</a> Which Hit Myanmar, Thailand &amp; Bhutan <br><br>📹 <a href="https://twitter.com/Aspa_ZunNaNu?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Aspa_ZunNaNu</a> <a href="https://t.co/2JYOUsrdIW">https://t.co/2JYOUsrdIW</a> <a href="https://t.co/ewh8ErDE7b">pic.twitter.com/ewh8ErDE7b</a></p>— RT_India (@RT_India_news) <a href="https://twitter.com/RT_India_news/status/1905537049379438603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p>A 30-story building under construction collapsed in the capital’s Chatuchak Park area, with damage reported in other parts of the city.</p>

            <blockquote data-media-max-width="560" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">NEW VIDEO: Skyscraper under construction collapses as massive earthquake hits Bangkok. No word on casualties <a href="https://t.co/QhoLEEnd7b">pic.twitter.com/QhoLEEnd7b</a></p>— BNO News (@BNONews) <a href="https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/1905515474122637378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p>Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra has declared Bangkok <em>“an emergency zone”</em> and instructed the local authorities in other provinces to treat the earthquake as <em>“a national emergency.”</em></p>

            <blockquote data-media-max-width="560" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">❗️At Least 43 Workers Trapped Following Skyscraper Collapse In Bangkok Triggered By Massive 7.7M Earthquake - AFP <a href="https://t.co/2JYOUsqFTo">https://t.co/2JYOUsqFTo</a> <a href="https://t.co/porDHp9Ltm">pic.twitter.com/porDHp9Ltm</a></p>— RT_India (@RT_India_news) <a href="https://twitter.com/RT_India_news/status/1905531110437568531?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 28, 2025</a></blockquote> 
    

<p>Tremors were also felt in China’s southwest Yunnan province, according to the China Earthquake Administration (CEA).</p>
<p>Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said New Delhi <em>“stands ready to offer all possible assistance”</em> to Naypyidaw and Bangkok. <em>“Concerned by the situation in the wake of the earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand,”</em> Modi wrote on X.</p>

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<p><strong>American-designed HIMARS artillery was used in one of the three latest attacks on infrastructure, according to the Defense Ministry</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The Ukrainian military has attacked Russia’s energy infrastructure in three separate regions, again violating a US-mediated moratorium on such strikes, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has claimed.</p>
<p>The incidents, recorded over the past 24 hours, took place in Belgorod, Kursk and Saratov Regions of Russia, the Friday statement said. On Thursday, Ukrainian artillery struck an element of the Russian power grid in Belgorod Region, disrupting the power supply in Shchebekino near the international border, the report said.</p>
<p>A separate incident involved HIMARS artillery strikes on the Sudzha gas metering station in Kursk Region, where <em>“the energy site was de facto destroyed.”</em> The ministry had previously accused Kiev of damaging the facility with planted explosive charges as its forces were retreating from the area.</p>

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<p>The ministry concluded that <em>“all previous public statements of the Kiev regime about its purported intention to suspend attacks against Russian civilian energy infrastructure are just a smokescreen.”</em> It believes that Ukraine wants to recover its military compatibility with the help of European backers while the US pushes for a complete truce with Russia.</p>
<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered that attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure stop on March 18, following a phone call with his US counterpart Donald Trump. The Kremlin says it intends to maintain the 30-day partial ceasefire as a gesture of goodwill to Washington, even if Kiev fails to honor it. However, the Russian Foreign Ministry has warned that Moscow reserves the right to withdraw from the agreement.</p>

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<p><strong>The government of Comoros says the move will create new prospects for bilateral cooperation</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Comoros has agreed to the establishment of a Russian diplomatic mission in its capital, Moroni, local media reported on Thursday, citing a document from the African island nation’s Foreign Ministry.</p>
<p>The Comorian government has welcomed the move as an opportunity to strengthen bilateral relations with Moscow, according to a letter addressed to the Russian mission in neighboring Madagascar and published by the news agency Comores-infos.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“The government of the Union of the Comoros accepts the request of the authorities of the Russian Federation to establish an embassy in the Union of the Comoros,”</em> the ministry stated.<br><em></em></p>
<p><em>“The establishment of this embassy in Moroni will bring the Union of the Comoros and the Russian Federation, which have maintained bilateral relations for several years, closer together and open up new prospects for cooperation between the two countries,”</em> it added.</p>
<p>The move comes at a time when Moscow has declared that developing ties with African states is among its top foreign policy priorities. Plans to open an embassy in Comoros and several other countries, including the Gambia, Liberia, and Togo, in the <em>“near future”</em> were first announced last month by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Currently, the diplomatic representation for Comoros is managed through Russia’s embassy in Madagascar.</p>

             
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<p>Earlier this year, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that Moscow is set to expand its diplomatic presence in Africa with the establishment of embassies in Sierra Leone and South Sudan – the continent’s newest country. She said the relevant government decrees had been issued at the end of December, with the official opening of the missions scheduled for the <em>“near future.”</em></p>

            
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<p>Russia also intends to reopen its mission in Niger, which had, along with the Sahel state’s embassy in Moscow, ceased operations in the 1990s due to budgetary challenges.</p>
<p>In December 2023, Moscow’s embassy in Burkina Faso officially resumed operations after being shut for more than three decades. The mission in Equatorial Guinea also opened last year, according to Lavrov.</p>

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title: East Africa’s Economic Future with BRICS
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title: Is a Multipolar Nationalism Possible? ft. Anton Chaitkin
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<p><strong>A giant mobile crane sank in a bog during military exercises near Belarus</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>The Lithuanian military has called for specialized equipment to lift a sunken US military vehicle, whose four crew members have been classified as missing, following a training incident in a swamp near the country’s border with Belarus on Tuesday.</p>
<p>The M88 Hercules armored vehicle, designed for recovering other military assets and weighing over 60 tons, was located on Wednesday in a bog near Pabrade, where the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division was participating in a joint NATO exercise, according to US Army Europe and Africa command.</p>
<p>Recovery efforts have proven unsuccessful. Rescuers have yet to access the submerged vehicle due to the challenging terrain. The Lithuanian Defense Ministry announced on Friday morning that the country’s most powerful dredger is en route to the site.</p>
<p><em>”We just need to stop the flow of water from the lake into the swamp so that the mud can be pumped out of the swamp,”</em> Lieutenant Colonel Ausrius Buikus, who is leading the rescue operation, told media on Thursday afternoon.</p>

             
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<p>On Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte extended condolences to the families of the missing US soldiers, who are still declared ‘missing’. His office later issued an apology for <em>“confusion”</em> arising from his implication the crew was deceased.</p>
<p>The US has approximately 1,000 troops in Lithuania. Washington has increased exercises in the Baltic states amid rising tensions with Russia, particularly since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, touting the drills as a NATO confidence-building measure.</p>

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<p><strong>The president has urged sustainable development of the region and addressed the global implications of the US claim to Greenland</strong></p>
            
                        
            <p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has detailed the country’s priorities for the future development of the Arctic region.</p>
<p>Moscow sees huge potential for resource extraction and transportation, which requires major infrastructure investments and careful consideration for the environment, Putin said on Thursday in a speech at the International Arctic Forum in Murmansk. He also addressed the military aspects of Russian plans and US President Donald Trump’s bid to acquire Greenland from Denmark.</p>
<p>Here is Putin’s speech in full:</p>
<p>The International Arctic Forum is a key platform to discuss current issues regarding the comprehensive development of Arctic territories, establishing effective mechanisms for the joint use and exploration of the Arctic region’s abundant resources at various levels.</p>
<p><strong></strong>In 2025, the forum’s events are being held in Murmansk on March 26–27 under the motto <em>“To Live in the North!”</em></p>
<p><strong></strong>* * *</p>
<p><strong></strong>President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Colleagues, friends, ladies and gentlemen.</p>
<p><strong></strong>I welcome the participants and guests of the 6th International Forum, The Arctic: Territory of Dialogue. For the first time, it is being hosted by Murmansk – the capital of the Russian Arctic, a Hero City, which is developing dynamically today, as are our other northern cities and regions, while launching landmark projects for the entire country.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Russia is the largest Arctic power. We have consistently advocated for equitable cooperation in the region, encompassing scientific research, biodiversity protection, climate issues, emergencies response, and, of course, the economic and industrial development of the Arctic. We are prepared to collaborate not only with Arctic states but with all who, like us, share responsibility for ensuring a stable and sustainable future for the planet and are capable of adopting balanced decisions for decades to come.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Regrettably, international cooperation in northern latitudes is currently facing significant challenges. In the past few years, numerous Western nations have opted for confrontation, cutting off economic connections with Russia and ceasing scientific, educational, and cultural exchanges. Discussions on safeguarding Arctic ecosystems have come to a standstill. Politicians, party leaders, and even the so-called greens in some Western countries address their citizens and electorates about the significance of the climate agenda and environmental conservation, yet in practice, their policies are entirely contradictory.</p>
<p><strong></strong>As a reminder, the Arctic Council was set up to cooperate in addressing environmental issues, to prevent emergencies above the Arctic Circle and to jointly respond to them if they emerge. However, this tool has degraded by now. Meanwhile, Russia did not refuse to communicate in this format – it was the choice of our Western partners, Western nations. As they say in such situations: Don’t do it if you don’t want it. We will work with those who want it.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Meanwhile, the role and importance of the Arctic for Russia and for the entire world are obviously growing. Regrettably, the geopolitical competition and fighting for positions in this region are also escalating.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Suffice it to say about the plans of the United States to annex Greenland, as everyone is aware. But you know, it can surprise someone only at first glance. It is a profound mistake to treat it as some preposterous talk by the new US administration. Nothing of the sort.</p>
<p><strong></strong>In fact, the United States had such plans as far back as the 1860s. As early as that, the US administration was considering possible annexation of Greenland and Iceland. However, the idea did not enjoy support in Congress then.</p>

            
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<p><strong></strong>Let me remind you, by the way, that by 1868, the purchase of Alaska from Russia was ridiculed in the American press – it was called <em>“madness,”</em> <em>“an ice box”</em> and <em>“President Andrew Johnson’s polar bear garden.”</em> Therefore, the Greenland proposal failed.</p>
<p><strong></strong>But that acquisition, I mean the purchase of Alaska, is probably viewed very differently in the United States today, just as President Andrew Johnson’s actions are.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Thus what is happening today is not really surprising, particularly since this story only began back then, and it went on and on. In 1910, for example, a trilateral land swap deal was negotiated between the United States, Germany and Denmark. As a result, Greenland would have gone to the United States but the deal fell through then.</p>
<p><strong></strong>During World War II, the United States stationed military bases in Greenland to protect it from Nazi takeover. After the war, the United States suggested Denmark should sell the island. This was quite recently in terms of world history.</p>
<p><strong></strong>In short, the United States has serious plans regarding Greenland. These plans have long historical roots, as I have just mentioned, and it is obvious that the United States will continue to consistently advance its geo-strategic, military-political and economic interests in the Arctic.</p>
<p><strong></strong>As to Greenland, this is an issue that concerns two specific nations and has nothing to do with us. But at the same time, of course, we are concerned about the fact that NATO countries are increasingly often designating the Far North as a springboard for possible conflicts and are practicing the use of troops in these conditions, including by their <em>“new recruits”</em> – Finland and Sweden, with whom, incidentally, until recently we had no problems at all. They are creating problems with their own hands for some reason. Why? It is impossible to understand. But nevertheless, we will proceed from current realities and will respond to all this.</p>
<p><strong></strong>I must emphasise: Russia has never threatened anyone in the Arctic. However, we are closely monitoring developments in the region, formulating an appropriate response strategy, enhancing the combat capabilities of the Armed Forces, and modernising military infrastructure facilities.</p>
<p><strong></strong>We will not tolerate any encroachments on our country’s sovereignty and will steadfastly safeguard our national interests. By upholding peace and stability in the Arctic region, we will ensure its long-term socio-economic development, improve the quality of life for its residents, and preserve its unique natural environment.</p>
<p><strong></strong>The stronger our positions and the more substantial our achievements, the greater our opportunities will be to launch global international projects in the Arctic involving partner nations, friendly states, and perhaps even Western countries – provided, however, that they demonstrate a genuine interest in cooperative efforts. I am confident that the time for such projects will undoubtedly come.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Friends,</p>
<p><strong></strong>The Arctic Zone accounts for over a quarter of the Russian Federation’s territory. Nearly two and a half million our citizens live and work here, making a significant contribution to the nation’s progress. Current estimates indicate that the Arctic generates 7% of Russia’s gross domestic product and approximately 11% of our exports. At the same time, we see enormous potential for the region’s further comprehensive development. A critical priority is strengthening the Arctic’s transport and logistical framework.</p>

            
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<p><strong></strong>Let me note that this year marks the 500th anniversary of the first historical records mentioning the daring concept proposed by Russian seafarers and Pomor trappers: a prospective trade route through the northern seas to the East, reaching China via the so-called Northeast Passage – the precursor to the Northern Sea Route.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Over the past decade, cargo traffic along the Northern Sea Route – spanning from the Kara Gates Strait to the Bering Strait – has substantially increased. In 2014, a mere four million tonnes of cargo were transported via this corridor. By last year, that figure had risen to nearly 38 million tonnes – five times the Soviet-era record. We anticipate, with confidence, that volumes will reach 70–100 million tonnes by 2030.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Yet our plans – in terms of cargo volumes, geographical reach, and expansion of the Arctic fleet – are far more ambitious. The Northern Sea Route is poised to become a pivotal segment of the Transarctic Transport Corridor, stretching from St Petersburg through Murmansk to Vladivostok. This corridor is designed to connect global industrial, agricultural, and energy hubs with consumer markets via a shorter, safer, and more economically viable route. This is widely acknowledged – experts across the East and West recognise its significance.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Cargo shipments along the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor are set to increase on the back of growing minerals production and the advanced processing of these resources right here in the Arctic, and due to rising international transits. I would like to stress the importance of linking this Trans-Arctic corridor with our domestic railway network everywhere from the northwest to Russia’s Far East, reaching all the way to the Baikal-Amur Mainline and the Trans-Siberian Railway.</p>
<p><strong></strong>By the way, even today the concept of building the Trans-Siberian Railway, which stretches across the entire country to the Pacific, exemplifies a strategic, forward-looking vision for us. It addressed not only the country’s immediate needs and circumstances but also took into account our national interests within a horizon of several centuries. We must be guided by this approach as we develop the Trans-Arctic corridor.</p>
<p><strong></strong>What are the priority objectives in this regard?</p>
<p><strong></strong>First, Russia already operates the world’s biggest icebreaker fleet. We must consolidate our leadership in this sector by building new-generation icebreakers, including nuclear icebreakers. Today, only Russia has them – no other country has a nuclear icebreaker fleet.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Four of these icebreakers belong to the latest Project 22220, and are already operating in the Arctic. Three more nuclear icebreakers from the same series – Chukotka, Leningrad and Stalingrad – are currently under construction. There is also the mighty 120 Mw icebreaker Rossiya. It will allow for more efficient year-round icebreaker support to large-tonnage ships in high latitudes.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Let me emphasise that icebreaker support costs and shipping costs for the Trans-Arctic Corridor in general must be competitive and acceptable to the market. This is a major prerequisite for guaranteeing that this route is relevant for businesses and creates added value for them. My colleagues from the Government and I have recently discussed these matters, and I fully agree that this offering must be competitive on the market.</p>

            
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<p><strong></strong>Second, Russia is a sovereign nation, and as such it needs a merchant fleet of its own in the Arctic, including cargo, search and rescue ships for operating shipments in northern seas, as well as within our internal waters in the Arctic. We must recognise that for now we cannot rely exclusively on our domestic shipbuilding capabilities.</p>
<p><strong></strong>In this connection, we must work on all fronts by building and ordering ships that have already been built, working with manufacturers around the world and developing the domestic shipbuilding industry based on the strategic objectives we have.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Of course, this message is primarily intended for the Government: we must support our shipbuilding corporations and shipyards in their efforts to upgrade and expand their capabilities and build international manufacturing chains. I also ask the Government to review opportunities for building new, cutting-edge, advanced, high-technology shipyards in Russia.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Third, Russian shipping companies that transport petroleum products and liquefied natural gas are already successfully operating in the northern seas. Now we need to create enabling conditions for effective domestic operators who will be shipping containers, coal, bulk and other goods across the Arctic. We are also open to create joint ventures in this segment. International logistics operators could make profitable investments in such companies. Moreover, in addition to capital and technology, they could contribute part of their merchant fleet to such projects.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Fourth, plans are in place to increase the capacity and turnover of our northern ports through the introduction of innovative and environmentally friendly solutions, including unmanned and automated cargo handling equipment. This will happen soon enough. For example, the capacity of the Murmansk transport hub should be amplified at least three times over in the next few years due to the construction of new terminals and the expansion of railway links.</p>
<p><strong></strong>I would like to add that our partners from Belarus, China, the United Arab Emirates and other countries are showing keen interest in this project and in the development of the Arctic transport infrastructure in general. It is a very interesting undertaking from a business point of view.</p>
<p><strong></strong>We plan to create large multimodal hubs to operate as key logistics centres of the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor. Not only will these hubs serve as ports where convoys of ships are formed or Russian and foreign cargos are handled; they will include industrial facilities for the production of manufactured goods.</p>
<p><strong></strong>To improve the logistical stability of the Trans-Arctic Corridor, I ask the Government to draft plans to expand the capacity of existing seaports in the Arctic, and decide where on the Arctic coast new ports should be built, and how soon the adjacent infrastructure needs to be developed. I am primarily referring to the links between the sea harbours and the national railway network.</p>
<p><strong></strong>In this regard, fifth, we will need to develop the Arctic Operating Domain – similar to the Eastern Operating Domain, which includes the Baikal-Amur Mainline and the Trans-Siberian Railway. The project must include the modernisation of the Northern Railway in the Komi Republic and the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area.</p>
<p><strong></strong>We are aware of the situation at Russian Railways today; we know what challenges the company is facing. However, we need to think about what I just said, about the development of the Northern Railway – and we need to start today.</p>
<p><strong></strong>What opportunities will this open? The regions of Siberia, the Urals, and Russia’s North-West will receive direct access to the North, to the Arctic ports, which will lessen the load on the Trans-Siberian Railway and promote effective use of sea transport. In addition, there will be new points of access to the Arctic from the North-South corridor, which connects us with Central Asia and the Gulf states.</p>
<p><strong></strong>And of course, the potential of the Arctic’s inland waterways, our great rivers – the Lena, Yenisei, and Ob – must be unlocked at a new technological level to develop the Trans-Arctic route. This will help, among other things, to enhance the Northern Supply Haul system so as to ensure a reliable supply of foodstuffs and other goods for Arctic residents.</p>
<p><strong></strong>I want to stress specially that the resources of the state, regions, and businesses, including both state-owned and private banks, must be combined to pursue these and other major initiatives. The capabilities of the domestic stock market must also be utilised to attract capital to the Arctic infrastructure.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Infrastructure projects are indeed complex, costly and have a long pay-back period. But it is these projects that provide Russia’s real transport sovereignty at a new level. And I am confident that if our foreign partners join these projects, it will guarantee them long-term investments with good returns. Therefore, we cannot put off these projects for later, we must launch and start pursuing them now, as soon as possible.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Apparently, it is important to resort to flexible approaches here, to attract both Russian and foreign investors, as I have just mentioned. In this regard, I propose that we consider creating a special project office under the auspices of our leading development institution, VEB, which will provide support for transport, logistics, and infrastructure projects in the Arctic, as well as urban development projects in the region. It will also become an entity where potential investors can address directly and receive support they need. I ask the Government to prepare respective proposals.</p>
<p><strong></strong>In addition, I instruct the Government to join hands with Rosatom, VEB and the State Council’s dedicated commission to endorse the financial, economic and organisational model for the development of the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor by August 1 of this year.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Colleagues,</p>
<p><strong></strong>Currently, deposits of oil and gas, metals and other minerals are being developed in the Russian Arctic. We will continue massive geological exploration there, primarily within the framework of the Geology: Revival of the Legend federal project.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Concurrently, the task is to launch enterprises of deep processing of raw materials in the Arctic regions using the powerful resource base there; to create high value-added production facilities in petrochemistry, natural gas conversion, rare earth metals, and other industries related to machine building, production of sophisticated machinery and industrial equipment, while preserving the unique nature of the Arctic.</p>
<p><strong></strong>By way of example, I would like to mention the Centre for the Construction of Large-Capacity Offshore Structures in Belokamenka, where technologies for natural gas liquefaction are being localised and the most up-to-date domestic solutions are being utilised.</p>
<p><strong></strong>I’d like to draw the attention of colleagues in the Government and regional authorities to the following: it is essential not only to propose but also to effectively refine tools for supporting investment and business activity in the Arctic. This includes tax incentives, administrative privileges, infrastructure preparation of land plots, and other measures.</p>
<p><strong></strong>In particular, I remind colleagues of the need to strictly fulfil plans for the gas infrastructure coverage of the Murmansk Region. This must be completed by 2030. I emphasise: this objective remains in force.</p>

            
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<p><strong></strong>Of course, we should also develop promising areas such as tourism. The North and the Arctic are unique concentrations of natural, historical, and spiritual landmarks. The region boasts an extraordinarily rich cultural mosaic. Over a million tourists visit the Arctic annually to explore its landscapes, witness the northern lights, engage in Arctic fishing, ride dog sleds, or journey to polar archipelagos.</p>
<p><strong></strong>The number of tourists is growing. Consequently, new initiatives in this sphere are emerging, such as an Arctic tourism centre with a ski resort component in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area or an aqua-thermal spa and year-round hotel complex in Karelia. I request that both the federal Government and regional authorities support such initiatives, which reveal new facets of the Arctic and help heighten interest in the region.</p>
<p><strong></strong>I also propose considering the inclusion of White Sea tourism infrastructure development in the Five Seas and Lake Baikal federal project.</p>
<p><strong></strong>To make the Arctic accessible for mass tourism, transport connectivity is crucial – from the repair and construction of roads to the development of air travel.</p>
<p><strong></strong>I reiterate that we have extended subsidised airfare rates for flights to Arctic cities. Last year, approximately 800,000 passengers utilised this opportunity. This year, subsidised tickets are available for over 70 air routes.</p>
<p><strong></strong>At the same time, Far Northern airports, particularly smaller ones, require modernisation. In the coming years, under the relevant national project, we will upgrade 16 airfields in the Arctic Zone, including those in Salekhard, Arkhangelsk, Naryan-Mar, and Vorkuta.</p>
<p><strong></strong>Overall, our objective is to maintain an extensive airport network in the Arctic – from large and medium-sized airfields to small landing strips. This is also vital to ensure year-round accessibility of residential areas and the operation of air ambulance services.</p>
<p>Friends,</p>
<p>The key and overarching goal of Russia’s efforts is to improve the quality of life for people living in the Arctic, to ensure modern conditions for study and work, leisure, and the upbringing of children in this harsh region that still lures people with amazing force. I have talked to these people many times. Those who were born in the north, as well as those who have come here, have all said that the north is like a magnet since people develop a sense of belonging to these latitudes, and to this land.</p>
<p>As you know, we have already drafted master plans for the Arctic urban centres, which include not only major cities like Arkhangelsk or Murmansk, but also cover towns like Kirovsk, Apatity and Monchegorsk in the Murmansk Region, Kem and Belomorsk in Karelia, Vorkuta in the Komi Republic, Bilibino and Pevek in Chukotka, Naryan-Mar in the Nenets Autonomous Area, Salekhard, Labytnangi, Novy Urengoi and Noyabrsk in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, as well as Tiksi and Naiba in Yakutia, and Norilsk, Igarka and Dikson in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.</p>
<p>On a separate note, I would like to thank the VEB.RF and DOM.RF corporations for their involvement and contribution to drafting these master plans.</p>
<p>A master plan is a comprehensive strategic and territorial planning document that sets forth long-term socioeconomic and spatial development visions for cities, towns and villages. They provide for the introduction of the latest urban planning solutions while also ensuring that these settlements retain their unique cityscapes based on suggestions and proposals from local residents and civil society organisations, including associations of Northern ethnic minorities.</p>
<p>I would like to draw the Government’s attention to the need to be more responsive in its efforts to approve a timeline for carrying out these Arctic master plans and ensuring that they receive the funding they need. As I have already mentioned, this includes, among other things, introducing the Arctic agenda as a separate item into our national projects, while also launching mechanisms for engaging businesses and strategic investors working in the Arctic or those who are willing to work here in carrying out these master plans.</p>
<p>In addition, I ask the Government to think about setting up dedicated competence centres for providing urban planning and development training to municipal and regional officials and teaching them best practices in urban planning.</p>
<p>Moving on, we launched a national contest for creating people-friendly urban spaces. Winners will receive budget funding for their projects. I suggest allocating an additional sum from the federal budget as part of this contest. My colleagues from the Government and the Finance Ministry and I have just discussed this matter. I will not give you any final figures, but we need to earmark this disbursement and provide this kind of assistance so that colleagues working on the objectives I have just mentioned have more opportunities for improving embankments, pedestrian areas and playgrounds, building parks, gardens, and so on.</p>
<p>On a separate note, I would like to ask the Government to extend the programme of renovating military settlements, the closed administrative territorial units in the Arctic where our military personnel live with their families. This renovation programme should continue at least until 2030, with the annual federal budget support of at least 10 billion rubles. I would like to emphasise that this is connected with the strengthening of our military presence in the region, where the number of our military personnel will be increased.</p>

            
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<p>One of the tasks of our master plans and the renovation programme is to determine where new enterprises and jobs should be created, including those linked to the Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor, and where schools and kindergartens, outpatient clinics and hospitals, roads and communications, as well as housing are to be built. The defence and construction ministries are to work together with the regional authorities to coordinate plans for each facility, so as to determine the amount of resources needed for implementing this task and the allocation deadlines.</p>
<p>It is a specific Arctic feature that structures are built in conditions of perpetually frozen ground or permafrost, which explains the special requirements for building designs, structure and reliability. At the same time, we should take the dynamics of climate change into account to forecast potential risks. I propose establishing a special research centre to monitor perpetually frozen ground with contribution from the leading federal and regional institutes. Their research projects will provide the scientific basis for the technology of adjusting Arctic infrastructure to the melting of permafrost.</p>
<p>I know that a register of best Arctic construction practices has been compiled. This regional experience should be expanded. I hope that it will incorporate the idea of multipurpose Arctic centres, where social and administrative offices, sports centres and service facilities are located under one roof, in the same building.</p>
<p>Of course, we must always take the opinions and requests of those who live in the North into account. For example, people openly complain about the shortage of the so-called service economy in Arctic cities and towns, meaning recreation facilities, including those for families and children, as well as cultural and educational venues. We must develop this segment and encourage the relevant business initiatives.</p>
<p>We have a special support programme for small and medium-sized enterprises in the Extreme North. Its efficiency must be upgraded. I would like to ask the Government to adjust the parameters of this programme, in particular, to expand the list of sectors with access to this programme and to create additional subsidised loan opportunities for these companies.</p>
<p>I would like to say a few words about healthcare. The accessibility of medical services in the North is objectively limited compared to central Russia; the situation is even worse in remote communities. I ask the Government to prepare a special mechanism for financing medical care in these areas.</p>
<p>In addition, healthcare in the northern regions must be enhanced with the introduction of digital technologies. The residents of these regions must be served by mobile paramedic stations equipped with artificial intelligence tools, which can conduct physical check-ups both remotely and at the scene, diagnose certain diseases and provide recommendations for treatment.</p>
<p>Next, the environment remains a sensitive issue for the Arctic and its residents. Let me remind you that at our first forum, which was initiated by the Russian Geographical Society, we announced the launch of a <em>“general clean-up”</em> of the Arctic, to remove scrap metal, remnants of fuel and lubricants and other waste.</p>
<p>The project, launched by the Russian Geographical Society and supported by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, brought together thousands of volunteers and public organisations. We will certainly continue this effort. We will also ensure comprehensive environmental protection of Russia’s Arctic zone, in particular by clearing Arctic waters of sunken ships, which is a pressing problem that needs to be addressed. Predictably, everything requires funding, so the relevant government agencies will need to work on all these issues, including to earmark the necessary funds year by year.</p>
<p>We will remove technological waste and reclaim land, focusing on bringing Arctic cities and towns up to standard. We will carry out the so-called revitalisation of abandoned areas, buildings and lands, to return them to circulation to serve the interests of local residents.</p>
<p>In fact, we are repaying our debt to the Arctic. We cannot afford to accumulate more debt to its unique nature. With all the plans in place for the region’s economic development, it is essential to maintain a balance between the use of its natural resources and nature conservation.</p>
<p>A new polar station will be built in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area, in the Polar Urals, to test new environmentally friendly technologies. The new scientific research and educational station, Snowflake, will be established by the end of 2028. An international team of researchers will use it to test green technologies being developed for the Arctic, with applications ranging from essential services, telecommunications, and medicine to new materials.</p>
<p>Colleagues,</p>
<p>The Arctic is a territory of great opportunities for specialists in various fields, for entrepreneurs, for young people, and for families who have lived here for generations or have only recently moved and are planning to settle, buy or build a home here.</p>
<p>We have already extended the Arctic mortgage programme until 2030. It offers an annual interest rate of two percent and lowers the requirements for borrowers. This includes cancelling the requirement for teachers and medical workers to have an employment history in the North before applying for a housing loan. Participants in the special military operation can also benefit from these Arctic mortgages along with people working for defence manufacturers.</p>
<p>Substandard and hazardous housing has become an extremely urgent issue for people in the North. I instruct the Government to draft a targeted action plan by September 1, 2025. It must address this issue and cover at least a ten-year period.</p>

            
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<p>Moving on, the Accessible Rentals programme has been launched in Russia’s Far East, as you know. It offers affordable rentals to young people coming to the Far Eastern regions, graduating there or taking a job there. This programme consists of using regional and federal funds to subsidise rental payments.</p>
<p>I suggest that we expand this programme to include the key Arctic communities. This way, we will make rentals more accessible for people starting their careers in this region, as well as those who want to live and work there. This programme must cover the Arctic in 2026.</p>
<p>We have agreed to extend the Muravyov-Amursky 2030 training programme in public administration to cover the Arctic regions. We have already done this. I am certain that this kind of training will help many talented administrators jump-start their careers and would benefit the Arctic and the country in general.</p>
<p>There is one more thing I would like to mention. The North has always attracted brave people and true leaders. Outstanding researcher, polar explorer and scientist Artur Chilingarov was one of them. I suggest that in his memory we establish a special grant programme for supporting youth initiatives as part of environmental, educational and research projects in the Arctic.</p>
<p>Friends,</p>
<p>Efforts to explore and develop the Russian North and to overcome the challenges related to its harsh climate while enabling the state to reach new promising horizons – all these objectives have inspired many generations of our ancestors, including medieval sailors and Novgorod merchants, those who pioneered Arctic exploration in the 16th and 17th centuries, industrial leaders of the 18th and 19th centuries, researchers, polar explorers, engineers, Soviet workers, and companies in present-day Russia which launched major Arctic projects in the early 2000s.</p>
<p>Today, the North has become central to our development efforts. This is a sovereign and historical choice for us. This means that the objectives we set for and address in the Arctic, and the projects we undertake here must match this historical scale and have a horizon spanning decades, if not centuries.</p>
<p>We will do everything to consolidate Russia’s leadership in the Arctic despite all the challenges and travails we face today. We will provide for the region’s comprehensive development and create a solid foundation for future generations.</p>
<p>Thank you for your attention.</p>
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<p>At least six Russian citizens have died in Egypt following the sinking of a tourist submarine, Russian officials have confirmed.</p>
<p>The tragedy unfolded on Thursday morning in the resort city of Hurghada when a submersible owned by a local hotel and manned by five crew members was taking 45 predominantly Russian tourists for a sightseeing trip at a coral reef. The emergency occurred approximately 1km from the shore.</p>
<p>Among the six victims identified by the Russian consulate general in Hurghada, two were minors. Several individuals remain unaccounted for, Consul Viktor Vorpaev informed journalists. Egyptian media reports indicate that the total death toll may be as high as nine. Seven survivors required hospital treatment in the aftermath of the incident.</p>
<p>The cause of the sinking remains unclear. Witnesses suggested that the submersible began its descent before all passengers had boarded from a pontoon moored near the reef, leading to widespread panic. A video shared by Russian media captured the chaos as people screamed while the vessel’s top hatch remained open.</p>

            
    

<p>Red Sea Governor Amr Hanafi, who visited the survivors, stated that the submersible’s license and documentation were in order and promised full transparency in the investigation. He said citizens from India, Norway, and Sweden were also among the passengers.</p>
<p>Most tourists were reportedly accommodated at three hotels: the submersible’s owner, Sindbad Club, along with Mercure Hurghada and Titanic Beach. The watercraft was ten years old, according to the company that organized the excursion.</p>

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            <p>Pretoria’s diplomatic tensions with Washington have worsened following the nomination of a new ambassador by US President Donald Trump, a South African legislator has said.</p>
<p>Speaking to RT, Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party commissar Nqobile Mhlongo stated that the timing of Trump’s nomination of Leo Brent Bozell III – just days after South African ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was expelled from Washington – signals a strategic attempt to pressure Pretoria into compliance. </p>
<p><em>“He’s doing it to provoke South Africa, but also to assert his authority,”</em> she said.</p>

             
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<p>In December 2023, Pretoria filed a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, citing decades of occupation, a maritime blockade, and systemic human rights violations in Gaza. Mhlongo argued that Trump’s move was a direct response to South Africa’s pro-Palestinian stance.  </p>

            
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<p><em>“He [Trump] wants to assert his authority, but also he wants to use the new ambassador, Bozell, to come to our soil and use the platform given to him as an ambassador to undermine the stance of South Africa when it comes to genocidal Israel,”</em> the South African politician stated.</p>
<p>According to Mhlongo, tensions escalated when Trump issued executive orders demanding that South Africa reverse key domestic policies, including <em>“the appellate bill, which is the basic education bill, ... the national health insurance bill, [and] the expropriation bill, which seeks to address injustices of the past in terms of land dispossession that happened during apartheid and colonialism in South Africa.”</em></p>
<p>She added that the US expects South Africa to surrender its sovereign policy decisions to Washington’s influence – something the EFF rejects outright. <em>“We are not a satellite state of the US,”</em> Mhlongo said. <em>“South Africa is a sovereign state.”</em>  </p>

             
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<p>The US president recently halted all federal funding to South Africa over a controversial expropriation law, which Pretoria claims is intended to address historical racial disparities in land ownership. Trump has accused the government of seizing agricultural property belonging to white South Africans. People of European descent still own the majority of the country’s farmland, despite constituting only about 7% of the population.</p>

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