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Europe is drilling for World War III

Alex Krainer
i-System TrendCompass
Thu, 01 May 2025 19:13 UTC
​Russia's military victory over Ukraine has been a near-certainty for months now. Ukraine's total defeat is only a matter of time, but as that time approaches, European powers have been increasingly determined not to let the war die and are now actively preparing to take it up where Ukraine stumbles. Our liberal democracies are as precious as they are fragile and every precaution must be taken to defend them from the Asiatic hordes gathering in the east.
Europe for WWIII
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While our valiant bankers are arranging to allocate trillions of euros of our children's and grandchildren's wealth for defense spending, our militaries are diligently exercising and preparing for war, hidden from ordinary Europeans who aren't exactly enthused about World War 3. But the Russians have noticed: presidential aide and former National Security Adviser Nikolai Patrushev recently stated that, for a second consecutive year, NATO has been
"conducting exercises at our borders at a scale unseen in decades. ... They are training for conducting a broad offensive from Vilnius to Odessa, seizing Kaliningrad region, imposing a naval blockade in the Baltic and the Black Seas and executing preventive strikes on the staging locations of Russian nuclear deterrence forces."
If Mr. Patrushev is correct, it would appear that London, Paris, Berlin and Brussels are actively preparing for war against Russia. But his statement that the exercises are "at a scale unseen in decades," needs to be put in context.
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Attention

Wake up, Europe! Before it's too late

Phil Butler
New Eastern Outlook
Thu, 01 May 2025 18:50 UTC
As Russia prepares to commemorate Victory Day on May 9th, tensions mount as European leaders, led by EU officials like Kaja Kallas, pressure others to boycott the event amid broader geopolitical hostilities.
Dumb Blond
© New Eastern Outlook
On May 9th, the remembrance of sacrifices in the Great Patriotic War of World War II will once again be held all across Russia. Sadly, alarmingly, the leadership of Europe have dedicated themselves to a redux of history. It's been 80 years since tens of millions of Soviet and Russian people perished, defeating the Axis powers in 1945. And the world is being forced to forget.

EU Arm Twisters

A few days ago, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and his people were threatened by the EU if he followed through with his intention of attending the events in Moscow. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas is attempting to blackmail the EU leaders to stay away from Moscow on May 9th. EU President Ursula von der Leyen's second in command issued the following statement:
"Any participation in the 9 May parades or celebrations in Moscow will not be taken lightly on the European side, considering that Russia is really waging a full-scale war in Europe."
The former Estonian prime minister and EU Security Policy boss not only has a checkered family history, but she's by far one of the worst Russophobes on the planet. Kallas and other EU liberal order puppets have also threatened Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and his people with a ban on that country being accepted into the EU "family" if he attends.

Kallas, who someone has elected as judge and executioner of the EU, has also threatened China for any support given to Russia in the Ukraine conflict. She has also warned the Georgian government against suppressing EU, UK, and US State Department-funded protests against Georgia's postponement of EU accession talks. It's no small wonder U.S. Secretary of State Mark Rubio stood up the EU ice princess when she travelled to Washington recently. Kallas has also implied that the "free world" needs a new leader after Ukraine's Zelensky tried to hardline Donald Trump at the White House.
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US Navy loses Super Hornet during Houthi attack, claims aircraft carrier's 'hard turn' is to blame

Jeff Schogol
Task & Purpose
Mon, 28 Apr 2025 13:59 UTC
F/A-18E Super Hornet Strike Fighter Squadron USS Harry S. Truman
© Petty Officer 2nd Class Logan McguireAn F/A-18E Super Hornet, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 136, launches from the flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman.
A Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet and a tow tractor fell off the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman on Monday while it was at sea, the service announced. All personnel are accounted for, and one sailor sustained what was described as a "minor injury," in a Navy news release.

A U.S. official told Task & Purpose that initial reports indicate the mishap occurred as the Truman was making a hard turn amid a Houthi attack. No information about the nature of the threat was immediately available.

Both the Truman and a second aircraft carrier, USS Carl Vinson, are deployed to the Red Sea as part of ongoing operations against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen. Since March 15, U.S. forces have attacked more than 800 Houthi targets.

Comment: Did the Super Hornet really just spill off of the carrier? Even the Defense Department is skeptical:
A hard turn by an aircraft carrier isn't enough on its own to cause a $67 million Navy fighter jet to slide off a ship, a Defense Department official said as investigators determine how a plane fell into the Red Sea on Monday. The notion that a maneuver by USS Harry S. Truman was a factor in the loss is "speculative," said the official, who spoke to Stars and Stripes on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly by name.
A more plausible explanation is that it was taken out by the Houthis but the US is too embarrassed to admit it.

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Bad Guys

West stepping up efforts to impose naval blockade - Putin aide


RT
Thu, 01 May 2025 18:06 UTC
Nikolay Patrushev
© Viktor Tolochko/RIA NovostiRussian President Vladimir Putin's national security adviser Nikolay Patrushev.
Acts of sabotage are part of a wider campaign to eliminate Russian sea shipping, according to Nikolay Patrushev

Western countries are targeting Russian vessels with more and more acts of sabotage and terrorism as part of a wider push to impose a maritime blockade on the country, President Vladimir Putin's national security adviser Nikolay Patrushev has said.

The presidential aide, who chairs Russia's Maritime Board, made the statement during the body's meeting on Sunday.

"There is a consistent increase in NATO's military activity in the Baltic and North Seas, in the North Atlantic and the Asia-Pacific region," Patrushev said.
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Bullseye

Trump fires Kamala Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff from Holocaust Museum board

Victor Nava
New York Post
Thu, 01 May 2025 17:51 UTC
emhoff fired holocaust board museum
© Ron Sachs – CNP for NY PostDoug Emhoff was appointed to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, in January and was expected to serve a five-year term.
The Trump administration on Tuesday fired former second gentleman Doug Emhoff from the board that oversees the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, as the president aims to install more "steadfast" Israel supporters at the institution.

Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris, was among several Biden administration appointees to the board removed by President Trump.

"Today, I was informed of my removal from the United States Holocaust Memorial Council," Emhoff said in a statement posted on X. "Let me be clear: Holocaust remembrance and education should never be politicized. To turn one of the worst atrocities in history into a wedge issue is dangerous — and it dishonors the memory of six million Jews murdered by Nazis that this museum was created to preserve."

Comment: A good day's housecleaning. Why should such destructive Obama cronies be rewarded with a cushy sinecure? But how Trump will find "stronger supporters of Israel" is baffling. This bunch was Israel-first all the way.

Separately, the news may complicate Kamala Harris' attempt to return as the Democrat candidate for 2028. The Daily Mail reports:
Trump's action comes as Harris wants to propel herself back into the national political conversation with an upcoming major speech criticizing Trump.

The failed presidential candidate will deliver the keynote speech at the Emerge 20th anniversary gala at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco on Wednesday at 10 p.m. ET.

The speech will be live-streamed, according to the organizer Emerge, a Democratic group that recruits and trains women to run for public office.

It's a major fundraiser as tickets cost up to $50,000 for a sponsor. But the group is also charging $25 per virtual watch.
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News of Harris' return to the national stage drew mockery from critics.

'When you fire a head coach the last person you want to hear from is a fired head coach,' wrote Mike Lester on X.

'Can't wait to hear more about the duality of Democracy in this moment,' wrote Steve Mur on X, mocking some of her empty messaging lines from the presidential campaign.

'Oh, this should be really good! Good in terms of comedy. Her speech writers are busy right now putting cackles and word salad together and some gibberish about her being middle class and Trump being a dictator,' wrote Tom Johnson on X.

'Everyone already knows she will fail at the speech given she slurs, makes up stories and gets lost in the middle of the stories,' wrote X user Bret Weingart


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Footprints

Mike Waltz, other National Security Council staffers canned in latest Trump purge following Signal chat leak

Emma Colton and Jacqui Heinrich
Fox News
Thu, 01 May 2025 16:49 UTC
Mike waltz trump
© ReutersTrump administration National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, left, and other staffers are out at the National Security Council, sources confirmed to Fox News.
Fox News confirmed Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, left the office Thursday

Trump administration National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and other staffers are out at the National Security Council, sources confirmed to Fox News.

Fox News confirmed Waltz and his deputy, Alex Wong, were ousted Thursday. Sources said additional staffers removed from the office will likely be announced, and President Donald Trump is expected to speak publicly about the matter.

Waltz, who previously served as a Florida congressman and as a decorated combat Green Beret, has come under fire from Democrats and critics since March, when the Atlantic magazine's Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg published a firsthand account of getting added to a Signal group chat with top national security leaders, including Waltz, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, while they discussed strikes against Yemen terrorists.

Comment: Sure looks like a turf war from here. Hegseth and Waltz also have diametrically opposing views on the Ukraine war. Hegseth is a military realist who wants it settled as much as Trump does, before that country is completely crushed, while Waltz and General Kellogg want to see it go on, in the vain hope it will "weaken Russia".

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Cult

EU engaging in 'perversion of history' - Oliver Stone


RT
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:10 UTC
Oscar-winning American movie director Oliver Stone
© Global Look Press / Rocco SpazianiOscar-winning American movie director Oliver Stone
The bloc's attempts to belittle the Soviet role in the victory over Nazism are a "disgrace," the filmmaker has told RT.

Attempts by EU elites to diminish the significance of the USSR's contribution to the victory over Nazism are a "perversion of history," Oscar-winning American movie director Oliver Stone has told RT ahead of World War II Victory Day celebrations in Russia.

The bloc's "elitist leadership" has distorted the message that World War II provides to humanity, the filmmaker has said.
"I'm shocked by it, by [what] is happening," he stated, calling it "a shame" and "a disgrace that we forgot or pretend to [have forgotten]" about the sacrifices the Soviet Union made during the war. Stone also said he did not believe people in Europe "buy this at all."
"I think the people don't agree with the government," Stone maintained, going on to say that "the futility of this campaign against Russia by the EU" is obvious to "anybody, who reads history [books] and is intelligent." The director of 'Platoon' and 'JFK' expressed his doubts that "fascism is popular" nowadays and stated instead that European elites had lost their way because of their "worship of the EU."
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Dollar

US Treasury unexpectedly reports sharp drop in debt borrowing needs, rates slide

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:11 UTC
US Treasury
© Stefani Reynolds/BloombergUS Treasury Department Building • Washington, DC
In our preview of today's Treasury borrowing estimate release, we said that we expect the Treasury to announce $507bn in Q2 borrowing, a "figure much higher than Treasury's estimate of $123bn in February" and entirely due to a lower starting cash balance, which as regular readers know, has collapsed due to the debt ceiling impasse that has forced the Treasury to draw down on its TGA (cash) balance as well as use various extraordinary measures.
us debt borrowing estimates 2025
© U.S. Treasury, Deutsche Bank
We were off by a tiny $7 billion, $507BN vs $514BN as per the table below:
treasury debt borrowing
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Star of David

Netanyahu's wife caught on hot mic: 'Fewer' than 24 hostages still alive in Gaza

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:45 UTC
Sarah Netanyahu
© EFEIsrael's Prime Minister's wife Sara Netanyahu
It appears that Israel has intelligence which strongly suggests the majority of 59 hostages remaining in Gaza are dead. It has long been acknowledged that at least some of the captives are deceased, but the Israeli government has kept a tight lid on information it has on the numbers.

And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara has unleashed new controversy, heightening tensions and outrage from victims' families. She was heard on a hot mic at an event on Monday saying that "fewer" than 24 hostages are still alive in Gaza.
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Cruise Missle

Beyond reach: Why America's 'Golden Dome' may be powerless against Russia's doomsday missile


RT
Tue, 29 Apr 2025 17:00 UTC
Trump Rocket
US President Donald Trump • US missile defense system
A nuclear-powered cruise missile with unlimited range could outmaneuver even the most ambitious US missile defenses.

Earlier this year, US President Donald Trump launched the ambitious "Golden Dome" initiative - a sweeping plan to build a national missile defense system capable of shielding America from modern threats: ballistic missiles, hypersonic weapons, and advanced cruise missiles. Designed as a next-generation shield, the Golden Dome aspires to close gaps in the nation's defenses and guarantee security against a broad range of airborne dangers.

But even the most sophisticated defense can face a threat it wasn't designed to stop. As Washington doubles down on its plans for a new shield, Russia is preparing a weapon unlike anything currently in existence - a nuclear-powered cruise missile with unlimited range. And it's a threat the Golden Dome may struggle to counter.
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