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Russia has long argued that a proxy war is being waged against it · F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine, August 4, 2024. ©  Ukrainian Presidency / Handout / Anadolu via Getty Images · [RT] The Ukrainian military is secretly using a squadron of veteran NATO pilots to fly donated US-made F-16 fighter jets, the French outlet Intelligence Online reported on Monday. · Moscow has long warned that Western nations are moving closer to…

The UK’s national security adviser has apparently turned up uninvited at negotiations in Geneva · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rt-newsroom/ · https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rt-newsroom/ By RT newsroom, a team of multi-lingual journalists with over a decade of experience in Russian and international reporting, delivering original research and insights often missing from mainstream coverage https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/rt-newsroom/ ·…

The bloc’s troubles go beyond economic indicators and reflect a lack of clear vision in Brussels, according to the Slovak prime minister · Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico © Simona Granati / Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images · [RT]The EU is facing the deepest crisis in its history, with economic problems compounded by a lack of leadership and long-term vision in Brussels, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has warned. · Fico made the…

Frank Bergman · Newly released Justice Department records tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are casting renewed scrutiny on global elites, including supermodel Naomi Campbell, whose name appears repeatedly throughout the massive trove of documents. · According to the released files, Campbell is referenced in hundreds of documents, placing her among the most frequently mentioned celebrity figures connected to Epstein’s social…

Alex Krainer · Ever since the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) released the nearly 3.5 million pages of documents, 2,000+ videos and some 180,000 images from the infamous Epstein files on 30 January of this year, citizen journalists and curious social media participants have been extremely busy, unearthing a bewildering amount of information, connections and coincidences that are simply amazing to contemplate. · Epstein’s American…

Policymakers fear that Trump might agree to reduce or even fully withdraw US troops from NATO’s Eastern Flank as part of a deal with Putin, which is why Poland wants a permanent American base. · Andrew Korybko · Poland’s publicly financed TVP World reported on journalist Dorota Gawryluk’s claim that President Karol Nawrocki considered proposing a quid pro quo to Trump in Davos whereby his country would join the Peace Board in exchange for…

Stewart Battle - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio bemoaned the post-war contraction of “the great Western empires” during his speech at the Munich Security Conference. Credit: U.S. Department of State · The world strategic situation is defined by the various efforts to revitalize imperialism on the one hand, and on the other this dying system’s conflict with the efforts of the Global South to establish a new, more just world system.…

Clandestine · After watching the Epstein saga unfold, I think I have it figured out. · The Dems knew Trump was going to release the Epstein files, so they had to get in front of it, because they knew it leads to them, not Trump. · Their only option was to hijack the narrative, and convince the public that Epstein was a Trump scandal. Psychological projection. Their hope was that the public wouldn’t actually read the files, and just…

Rubio told Munich that deindustrialization was "a conscious policy choice." He's right — the CFR wrote that plan in 1977. Now the globalists are panicking and Trump is reversing it on every front. We have the receipts. · Secretary of State Marco Rubio says at the Munich conference that deindustrialization was a deliberate, decades-long policy choice that stripped nations of wealth, productive capacity, and independence. Susan …

by Tyler Durden · In the (alleged) interests of transparency, AG Pam Bondi and Deputy AG Todd Blanche released a statement overnight that included a list of all government officials and politically-exposed persons that appeared in The Epstein Files. · The term "politically exposed persons" was not defined in the Act, but consistent with Section 3 of the Act, Department reviewers were directed to notate "all government officials and politically…