#Myanmar earthquake: China and others step into aid gap left by Trump cuts. “As aid from #China, #Russia, #India and the #UK begins to flow into Myanmar, there is a conspicuous gap in global support from the world’s richest country: the #US.’ | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/31/myanmar-earthquake-us-slow-to-act-as-other-countries-step-in #USAID

'Friends forever, never enemies', Chinese foreign minister tells Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/russian-us-steps-normalise-ties-bring-optimism-chinas-foreign-minister-says-2025-03-31/

China and Russia are "friends forever, never enemies," Chinese's Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in remarks published on Tuesday during a visit to Moscow in which he also welcomed signs of normalising ties between Washington and Moscow.

The Kremlin said on Monday that Putin would receive Wang...

#Russia #China #press

#MarkSleboda | Trump's Menancing Threat To #Zelensky After Rejection Of Mineral Deal, #EU Defies #Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1hzkZKq62g

#JamarlThomas #Russia #Ukraine #Iran #Yemen #Geopolitics #War #Imperialism #Israel #Gaza

There is an absolutely superb summary produced by Beltran, Davis, & Taylor, of the Russian war against Ukraine, in the New York Times.

It's a long read, unsurprisingly, as it is a long war, but I cannot recommend it strongly enough for those that wish a deeper understanding of the conflict up to the point of Trump's second term.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html

It makes me want to raise funds for attritable air platforms to carry Wide Area Motion Imaging payloads for the Ukranians, so they might (EM spectrum permitting) be assured of what lies in the ground ahead of them, and keep moving swiftly (for to remain still or move slowly in battle - or indeed any conflict - is usually a terrible idea).

I am astonished that attempts to demolish the Kerch Strait bridge were forbidden by the US in 2022, and much later, that ban was lifted. Strategically, I'm gobsmacked at the way both sides prioritise politically desirable targets over winning the conflict definitively. Perhaps I am naive.

I am sad that the most excellent authors of the piece did not point out Ukraine's population demographics (worth looking up to understand why they abhor sending under-25yos to fight).

I am sure others reading this account will view it from a different aspect and be surprised by different things. I'd be curious to know what they are (as well as any hashtags I missed) if anyone cares to post here!

#war #warfare #ukraine #russia #journalism #NYTimes #military #USA #Canada #UK #Poland #Turkey #Germany #Belgium #Lithuania #Latvia #Estonia

Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico said that during a phone call on tariffs with Ursula von der Leyen, she called him "a complete idiot."

"She absolutely tore into me: 'Robert, what have you done? Why on earth did you negotiate with Trump like that? Are you OK?' She berated me for half an hour, [saying] that I am a complete idiot for being there, for talking to Musk, and for not putting it out there for the world to see," he said.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia

Oh boy.

#InternationalPolitics really is a game of poker between the big 4 now.

- #Russia has forced itself at the table
- #China trusts no one
- the #USA is going all in
- and the #EU hasn't even picked up its cards to dare a look

🌍🌎🌏

"The potential for #US - #Russia'n cooperation on #RareEarth projects is emerging against a complex backdrop of international relations and ongoing conflicts. This development represents a pragmatic approach to resource security that potentially transcends political differences."

https://discoveryalert.com.au/news-article/us-interest-russian-rare-earth-projects-2025/

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"#Chinese #ForeignMinister #WangYi traveled to #Moscow on Monday for talks with his counterpart, #SergeiLavrov, as #Russia and #Ukraine discuss U.S. President Donald #Trump’s proposal to end the 3-year-old #war."

https://apnews.com/article/china-russia-ukraine-war-trump-europe-dcec45198b64234f3a71c8ce805c0065

.

#Russia trying to regain initiative w #Trump by declaring that it has begun talks w US on rare earth minerals deal

Head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, Kirill Dmitriev, “Rare earth metals are important area of cooperation"

rump trashed #Zelensky on Sunday over #Ukraine not accepting US demands

You need #trade for #tariffs to work at all.

This is why everyone has been utilizing #sanctions instead of tariffs to pressure #Russia.

Besides, the #Trump tariffs aren't even working towards "friendly" countries anymore.

#UkraineWar, Day 1,132: Would #Trump Impose Tariffs on #Russia Over #Putin ’s Demands?

#Ukraine #TrumpRussia

https://eaworldview.com/2025/03/ukraine-war-trump-tariffs-on-russia-over-putin-demands/

”…Vance opposes helping Ukraine, spreads Russian propaganda…, and is best known for yelling at Ukraine’s president in the Oval Office. …the response of Musk-Trump has been to ignore this larger reality completely while allowing Biden-era aid to Ukraine to come to an end. Denmark meanwhile has given more than four times as much aid to Ukraine, per capita, as does the United States.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
#musk #trump #vance #usa #russia #ukraine

”It takes some patience to unwind all of the nonsense… When Vance says that Denmark is not protecting Greenland…, he is wishing away generations of cooperation, as well as the NATO alliance itself. … The threat in the Arctic…is Russia… But right now the United States is supporting Russia… No one is doing more to contain the Russian threat than Ukraine.”
—Timothy Snyder, The Imperialism Has no Clothes
https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenland
#vance #usa #denmark #greenland #nato #russia #ukraine

Trump Is A Twat!
Putin Playing Trump Like A $5 Fiddle!

Russia says it reserves the right to resume striking Ukrainian energy targets if Kyiv flouts moratorium
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/russia-says-reserves-resume-striking-115344618.html

Daylight Saving Time starts in #Europe, the Middle East and #Greenland.

Therefore part of the US will switch to DST while the mainland in the West and South will stay on ST ?

#Canada and #Greenland are among the earth's wealthiest lands in clean drinking water, that is drinkable water without a high energy cost to clean it. Being only second to #Russia, Trump's imperialism has some logic to it (if you can consider the old W.European logic of take what you want by force)

In case you read about those 'evil #russia-ns bombing a restaurant in #Ukraine':

"⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦 As a result of the strike in the Dnepropetrovsk region, ten #NATO officers were eliminated (🥳), said Lebedev, coordinator of the pro-Russian Nikolaev resistance.

The attack targeted the Bartolomeo restaurant, where a celebration was taking place with the participation of NATO officers, as well as the Ukrainian SBU and GUR."

Pravda telegram https://t.me/worldpravda/21593

Nikolaev resistance https://eadaily.com/en/news/2024/08/29/kiev-will-be-shocked-if-it-finds-out-the-names-of-people-from-resistance-underground-worker-lebedev

Those are the orders Zelensky received from Washington, don't blame him for placing neo-nazi lives above regular soldiers

@actapopuli

#Ukraine was a failed test by #NATO to assess the defense power of #Russia

Excellent economic perspective on Russia's pre-ceasefire demands:

> "Russia’s demands [...] are unfulfillable, and difficult to understand. It’s either a tactic to frustrate negotiations, or a symptom of incoherence in Russia’s negotiating strategy."
https://en.thebell.io/russias-odd-ceasefire-demands/

Part of the question is if Russia's negotating team believes the US can deliver on those demands/can strongarm EU into complying. Russia is either assuming or testing if this is the case. #Russia

🇬🇧 China, Russia, and Other International Rescue Teams Arrive in Myanmar. By MPA
🇮🇹 Cina, Russia e altre squadre internazionali di soccorso in arrivo in Myanmar Di MPA
Fonte---> https://t.me/MyanmarUprisingMedia/86
#Myanmar #earthquake #china #russia #india

Quid pro quo…
#putin dangles a carrot to #musk. What will Putin get in return? #ukraine still relies on Musk’s #starlink. What would happen if he just turned it off or shared intel with Putin?
#oligarchy #fascism #antifa #eattherich #europe #russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-envoy-says-russia-could-supply-small-nuclear-power-plant-musks-mars-2025-03-27/

"A Harvard scientist who fled Russia because she opposed the war in Ukraine is facing deportation back to the land of Vladimir Putin, her friends claim.

Kseniia Petrova, a bioinformatician at the Kirschner Lab at Harvard Medical School, was detained at the U.S. border on February 16 while returning from France and had her visa revoked, according to her friend Cora Anderson."

~ Io Dodds

#Trump #ICE #immigrants #fascism #deportations #Russia
/6

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/harvard-scientist-russia-deportation-antiwar-b2723063.html

Why Mearsheimer is wrong about Russia and the war in Ukraine. Five arguments from Alexander Stubb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlB-pRqdyBg

#Putin #NATO #Revisionism #Georgia #Ukraine #Russia #WarOfAggression #Imperialism #ReligiousExtremism #Obama #Crimea #PoliticalRealism #SpheresOfInfluence #SelfDetermination #Tolerance #SuperpowerNostalgia

Russia buying butter from several countries after a record price hike.

Rosselkhoznadzor reported that:

by March 21, Argentina had supplied 2,000 tons of butter, 5.6 times the figure for the same period in 2024 (371 tons);

Uruguay doubled its supplies with 1 thousand tons since the beginning of the year, up from 525 tons a year earlier;

Iran supplied 2 thousand tons of oil so far. There were no imports from this country in 2024.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia #Putin

Hmmmm... Why am I having #DejaVu?

From 2022: "Vladimir #Putin has mentioned 'gender freedoms' more than once to justify #Russia’s war against #Ukraine and simultaneously crack down on its own citizens.

"Most directly, he alleged that Russian citizens who seek '#GenderFreedoms' (alongside foie gras and oysters) are part of the anti-Russian 'fifth column.'

"Gender and sexuality freedoms — or rights, as they are more typically called — are about #BodilyAutonomy, #diversity and #inclusivity. #Feminist and #LGBTQ+ activists assert that every human being deserves respect, recognition and equal rights regardless of their gender or sexuality.

"What’s the connection between Putin’s animosity toward Ukraine and toward #gender and #sexuality rights in Russia and around the world?

Gender and Putin’s regime

"Putin’s regime has increasingly relied on very conventional gender and sexual norms.

"When he first ascended to the presidency, image-makers used Putin’s #KGB background and penchant for physical fitness to frame him as a #macho #strongman who could reverse Russia’s waning power and 'remasculinize' the country after a decade of supposed geopolitical flaccidity in the wake of the #Soviet collapse.

"In other words, an inflexible and clearly #patriarchal notion of masculinity has been central to the Putin regime’s legitimacy.

"Russia’s foreign policy has relied on rigid gender norms as well. When Ukraine underwent its first pro-democracy revolution in 2004, Russian media questioned its leaders’ masculinity.

"Putin likewise used homophobic terms to dismiss #Georgia’s #RoseRevolution in 2003, responding to a reporter’s question by saying: 'A rose revolution — next they’ll come up with a light blue one.' In Russian, 'light blue' or goluboi is slang for “gay male.”

Gender and appealing to constituencies

"Putin has often been represented as the unquestioned leader of the pack ruling Russia — a masculinity-driven image.

"However, even as the leader of a personalist #dictatorship — a regime in which there are few institutional limits on the leader’s power — Putin must balance competing interests among significant elites and maintain at least the appearance of public support in order to be considered a legitimate ruler.

"Until 2020, Putin was using gendered language in his speeches to signal his alignment with a variety of elites and public constituencies that supported him. He was sending mixed signals to both relatively progressive Russians who value women’s roles in the workplace and to #conservatives wishing for a return to '#TraditionalFamilyValues,' in order to keep everyone in his camp.

"But after July 2021, when he published an essay contending Ukrainians and Russians are a single people, Putin no longer shied away from making sexist and LGBTQ+-phobic comments in prominent settings.

"At an October 2021 meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club — a Moscow-based think tank and discussion forum that Putin is closely associated with — he said teaching children about #GenderFluidity was 'truly monstrous' and 'verging on a crime against humanity.'"

Read more:
https://theconversation.com/vladimir-putin-the-czar-of-macho-politics-is-threatened-by-gender-and-sexuality-rights-180473
#USPol #TrumpIsPutinsPuppet #GBLTQRights #HumanRights #WomensRights #ToxicMasculinity #GenderFascists

“Not the time to lift Russian sanctions, say Zelensky, Starmer and Scholz at summit” #Russia

https://thereport.be/article/?app=breaking&u=https%3A%2F%2Fbbc.in%2F41NTAu0

Putin says US 'serious' about Greenland at Arctic conference

> "We are talking about serious plans on the American side with regard to #Greenland. These plans have long-standing historical roots," Putin said on Thursday at the International Arctic Forum in Murmansk.

> "It is obvious that the #US will continue to systematically force its geopolitical, military and economic interests on the #Arctic," he added.
https://www.dw.com/en/putin-says-us-serious-about-greenland-at-arctic-conference/a-72064324 #Russia

"Our coalition of willing and able partners is already working – both politically and militarily. I am grateful to France, the UK and all those involved for their sincere commitment to helping us build long-term security. And now, in this meeting, in the upcoming military talks and in all our discussions here in Europe and with other partners, including the US, we need to answer some very specific questions:
-President Zelensky
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You know who this evasion and gaslighting reminds me off?
Boris Fucking Johnson.

As for the 'Coalition of the Willing', only one in five voted for Starmer to be our PM, his poll ratings have never been in the plus since he took office and he's supposed to be getting 30 other countries to sign up to a military alliance is he?

#Starmer #Ukraine #Russia #UKPOL #UKpolitics #CoalitonOfTheWilling

EU said its sanctions regime will stay in place until the "unconditional withdrawal" of Moscow's troops from Ukraine

"The end of the Russian unprovoked and unjustified aggression in Ukraine and unconditional withdrawal of all Russian military forces from the entire territory of Ukraine would be one of the main preconditions to amend or lift sanctions," Anitta Hipper, European Commission spokesperson for foreign affairs, said.
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The withdrawal of all Russian forces from Ukraine would be one of the main conditions to lift or amend EU sanctions, the European Commission said on Wednesday.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-says-unconditional-withdrawal-russia-ukraine-is-precondition-amend-sanctions-2025-03-26/

#Ukraine #Russia #EU

BBC is reporting "Four US soldiers missing for two days in #Lithuania" an hour ago. They were reportedly found dead, with no details forthcoming, this morning. Then it was reported their vehicle was discovered submerged in water but the soldiers weren't in it, and the bullshit is up to the knees now. Next up they'll use the disappeared bodies to say #belarus, #Russia's ally, kidnapped them. The incident has already allowed #NATO TROOPS to be probing along belarus' border.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpv49r9me01o

My favourite economist Michael Hudson in conversation with Glenn Diesen.

"Prof. Michael Hudson: Economic Collapse in Europe"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bCqxWDbSvw
#hudson #michaelhudson #diesen #economy #russia #europe #eu #futuresgroup #nordstream #usa #germany #gaza

Kočani: Greece stands with North Macedonia / Greece / Areas / Homepage https://www.byteseu.com/865919/ #Abkhazia #Albania #Armenia #Azerbaijan #BALKANS #BosniaAndHerzegovina #Bulgaria #Caucasus #Chechnya #Croatia #Cyprus #Daghestan #Georgia #Greece #Ingushetia #journalism #Kosovo #Macedonia #Moldova #Montenegro #NagornoKarabakh #News #NorthMacedonia #NorthOssetia #Romania #Russia #Serbia #Slovenia #SouthOssetia #Transeuropa #Transnistria #Turkey

Austria says it has uncovered a Russian-steered campaign to spread disinformation about Ukraine

https://apnews.com/article/austria-russia-ukraine-disinformation-spying-2fd4e91a306ab672a0224ba3d177cb51

#Russia #propaganda #Ukraine #Austria #press

But not #Kursk #Russia, #Donetsk and #Luhansk!

Note the disclaimer: "The views expressed by authors on Responsible Statecraft do not necessarily reflect those of the Quincy Institute or its associates."

"Bombardments making #Ukraine, #Gaza (perhaps the only legitimate comparison of the two follows👉) toxic for generations"
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/fallujah-report-on-civilian-harm/

"DOGE’s approach to the #Pentagon is unlikely to produce significant savings long-term. Those require a pivot away from the US grand strategy of global military dominance and the #hubris that comes with it. President #Trump seems to have some understanding that the Pentagon budget is overkill. Only a month ago he expressed interest in arms control agreements with #China and #Russia...

But then..."

"#DOGE wants to cut the Pentagon — by 0.07%" 🤣🤭🤡

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/doge-pentagon-2671396652/ #diplomacy #

Two members of a Russian mob hired by Iran to assassinate a prominent critic of the Iranian regime in Brooklyn have been found guilty. @CBSNews has the full story.
https://flip.it/ONmMGO
#Iran #NewYork #Brooklyn #Russia #Crime #Mob #Gang

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