Hundreds Of Wounded Russian Soldiers Are Being Treated In North Korean Hospitals
The Russian government has confirmed that hundreds of its wounded soldiers have been taken from the battlefield in Ukraine and Kursk and are being treated in North Korean hospitals.
Russia’s ambassador in Pyongyang Alexander Matsegora said in an interview published Sunday, “The treatment, the care, the food – everything related to staying in North Korea was absolutely free.”
“When we offered to compensate our [North Korean] friends for at least part of their expenses, they were genuinely offended and asked us never to do it again,” Matsegora added.
This is yet another sign of deepened cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang following Putin and Kim Jong Un signing a defense pact last summer, which has seen North Korea reportedly send some 10,000 of its troops to assist in helping Russia regain its southern Kursk territory.
The two countries actually share a tiny border in the far east, comprising about 11 miles of terrestrial border and 12 nautical miles of maritime border. Oil, guns, artillery, and missiles have been exchanged by rail – a trend which has greatly alarmed Washington and the West.
Last month Ukraine claimed that North Korean troops had been withdrawn or “disappeared” from the front lines in Kursk, but on Friday President Zelensky described the Russian army had “brought back in North Korean soldiers” who were carrying out “new assaults” in the region. Ukraine has partially occupied Kursk for over six months, since last August.
Zelensky claimed in the address that “hundreds of Russian and North Korean military” personnel had been “destroyed”. Western intelligence officials have claimed that at least 1,000 DPRK troops had been killed since being introduced on the battlefield.
Reports in The Guardian and other Western outlets have offered some anecdotal and eyewitness evidence of significant amounts of North Koreans being treated for injuries in Kursk:
At dusk one afternoon last week, two dozen wounded North Korean soldiers were brought to one of the main hospitals in the Russian city of Kursk.
They were ushered into a specially designated floor, guarded by police, with access limited to translators and medical personnel.
“We were told in the morning to prepare for a special type of patient,” said one of the medical staff at the hospital who treated North Koreans.
“We’d heard rumours that North Koreans were fighting there, but I didn’t believe it. No one had actually seen them before,” the medic said. “I thought it was all fake news until they arrived,” the medic said, adding that most of them had shrapnel injuries.
A second medic at the scene said communication with the North Koreans was “impossible” without translators. They added that some North Koreans looked “frightened and nervous”.
On the battlefield itself, Russian units have complained about lack of easy communication with their North Korean allies, which has led to confusion and inefficiency.
North Korea uses Ukraine as a testing ground for its missiles,”
South Korea’s representative to the UN said……😂 pic.twitter.com/dXsjISP5uI
It’s expected that Russia and North Korea will continue cooperating on multiple levels. For example, regional media recalls the following:
Matsegora also said that orphans of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine were hosted at the Songdowon International Children’s Camp in North Korea last summer. Russian President Vladimir Putin personally thanked “comrade” Kim Jong Un for organizing the children’s stay during his visit to Pyongyang in June.
Both countries are of course nuclear-armed, as well as highly sanctioned by the West. President Trump has lately said he’s committed to seeing de-nuclearization on the Korean peninsula, but there’s yet to be any real diplomatic breakthrough on the level of the face-to-face meetings with Kim during his first term in office.
Pyongyang’s role in the Ukraine conflict has certainly complicated the potential for renewing dialogue with Trump, but the pressure could lessen if Trump-sponsored peace talks between Moscow and Kiev actually get off the ground.
In two speeches given less than 24 hours apart in the French city of Toulouse, Jean-Luc Mélenchon delivered some of the most shocking yet brutally honest words from a European politician, openly calling for the older French to be replaced by a “Creole” generation of mixed races and cultures.
The leader of France’s far-left LFI is calling outright for replacement of White French people, conjuring up the Great Replacement term that has been demonized as a conspiracy theory by the left for years.
“In our country, one person in four has a foreign grandparent. 40% of the population speaks at least two languages. We are destined to be a Creole nation and so much the better! May the young generation be the great replacement for the old generation,” said Mélenchon.
According to the dictionary, Creole is defined as a “a person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean.”
He also goes on to make a number of further statements, saying the new immigrants need “to heal France from the wounds of racism.” According to Euronews, France is among the five European countries with the least discrimination. Furthermore, he makes inflammatory statements, calling for “torch-bearers” to bring about change, which has revolutionary undertones, although he stops short of any calls for direct violence.
🇫🇷🚨 French far-left leader calls for the Great Replacement
Jean-Luc Mélenchon: “France is destined to be a Creole (mixed Black and French) nation and so much the better! Let the young generation do the replacement of the old… Each generation is a new people!” pic.twitter.com/uLgOMlMXs5
In a column for Le Journal du Dimanche, Arnaud Benedetti writes that Mélenchon “has probably never been so explicit in his words and his vision, even though he never really tried to mask it. But this time, the objective is revealed without obscurantism, with the clarity of an arrow. He points to his horizon and aims at his enemy. His horizon? Creolization, a euphemism in place of the ‘great replacement.”
“His enemy? Tradition, the past, the France of yesterday and still today, which he denounces as an old rag to be thrown away because it no longer exists,” he continued.
In another speech last week, Mélenchon reiterated his point: “Yes, Mr. Zemmour, there is a great replacement,” exclaimed the leader of La France Insoumise last Friday, in front of an enthusiastic audience. Mélenchon said this “great replacement” “that “of a generation that comes after the other and that will never resemble the previous one.” He emphasized “the importance of this creolization that creates something new.”
Mélenchon also defended the settlement of foreigners into the French countryside, and it all appears to be part of a strategy by him to fuel his political support, both from France’s growing immigrant population but also Whites who believe the old White France is a tired and racist cliché voting for National Rally, and one that must give way to a new people.
“And yet, even isolated, Jean-Luc Mélenchon continues his strategy of radicalization, notably by going even further on immigration,” writes Benedetti
Appearing on the Europe 1 television network, Frank Allisio, the National Rally (RN) MP for Bouches-du-Rhône, said Mélenchon’s intervention is “both a provocation, a way of speaking again and again to his voters, but also a basis of doctrine, a basis of conviction for Jean-Luc Mélenchon.” Allisio said he believes that Jean-Luc Mélenchon not only backs the thesis of the great replacement, “but in addition, he wants to achieve it.”
The EU would do well to indefinitely suspend Ukrainians’ visa-free access to the bloc after martial law ends.
Outgoing Polish President Andrzej Duda told the Financial Times that a crime wave could sweep across Europe after the Ukrainian Conflict ends if that country’s PTSD-afflicted troops spill into the bloc and engage in organized crime like their Soviet predecessors from the 1980s Afghan War did after 1991. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry swiftly reacted by denying that they could pose any such threat, pointing to how they didn’t between 2014-2022, and claiming that they’re actually a security asset for Europe.
Their three points are superficial though since traumatized troops anywhere in the world are much more prone to deviant behavior, the latest phase of the conflict has objectively been much more traumatizing than the prior one, and this therefore makes its veterans a security liability for Europe at the very least. Compounding the aforementioned risks is the fact that the US failed to track billions of dollars’ worth of weapons sent to Ukraine according to Reuters so some of these likely ended up on the black market.
The threat that Duda just drew attention to is thus a very credible and urgent one that should be taken seriously by all European stakeholders. This doesn’t mean that they need to foot part of the bill for Ukraine’s security and development like he strongly implied in his interview, but just that they should at the minimum indefinitely suspend its citizens’ visa-free access to the bloc otherwise traumatized veterans armed with illegally obtained US weapons might turn his warning into a prophecy.
The floodgates will open if the US succeeds in brokering a ceasefire like it’s arguably aiming to do for the purpose of prompting Ukraine into lifting marital law and therefore legally setting the stage for the next elections. Military-age Ukrainian males will then be able to freely leave to the EU unless the bloc indefinitely suspends their visa-free access. The arguments in favor of these restrictions far outweigh those against them from the perspective of European and Ukrainian national interests.
Europe already received several million low-wage laborers so it doesn’t need to risk the credible security consequences of accepting traumatized Ukrainian veterans just to obtain some more, while Ukraine needs as many of its refugees to return as possible after the conflict ends in order to rebuild. It goes without saying that Ukraine also can’t afford another large-scale exodus and thus has an interest in requesting that the EU indefinitely suspends their visa-free access to the bloc if it won’t do so on its own.
Keeping the border open to them would be a recipe for mutual disaster. There’s also the possibility that Poland takes the lead in unilaterally refusing to admit military-aged Ukrainian males after their country’s martial law is lifted just like it unilaterally decided to suspend asylum rights for some migrants last year.
That could trigger a legal crisis within the bloc, especially if others like Hungary and Slovakia follow suit, which would be a worst-case political scenario at the time when the EU would need unity on Ukraine.
Poland’s ruling liberal-globalists, who are closely aligned with EU-leader Germany, might not have the political will to do that though but Hungary might and it could justify this based on Duda’s warning. Even if no member state makes such a dramatic move, some of their citizens might angrily agitate for this if their compatriots fall victim to PTSD-afflicted Ukrainian veteran criminal gangs. The issue deserves to be closely monitored since it’s a credible security risk that could have outsized consequences for the bloc.
Global Affairs Canada Contributed $1.6 Million In Taxpayer Funds To BBC Charity Pushing DEI In Africa
How soon before we have the Canadian version of DOGE?
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) contributed $1,623,711 in taxpayer funds to BBC Media Action, the charitable arm of the BBC, in 2023–2024, primarily for DEI initiatives in Africa, according to a new report by True North Wire.
Despite this, GAC’s website listed only one BBC Media Action project for that year, costing just over $1.5 million.
The report notes that GAC allocated most of its $1.5 million contribution to a gender equality initiative in Tanzania, “Broadcasting for Change: Empowering Young Women Through Media.”
Although $2.12 million was budgeted for 2023–2024, only $1,536,981 was transferred. The program funded the youth radio show Niambie, aimed at shifting attitudes toward gender equality and promoting young women’s social, economic, and political rights. When asked about the nearly $100,000 in unaccounted funds, GAC requested an indefinite extension to respond.
GAC praised the program’s impact, citing radio content on women’s rights, DEI training for media professionals, and reports that 91% of listeners showed gender equality awareness, with 42% using counseling services. This aligns with Canada’s Feminist International Assistance Policy, which cost $15.5 billion in 2022–2023 alone.
Critics over at True North questioned the spending. “Canadians shouldn’t be forced to pay for our own state broadcaster, and we definitely shouldn’t have our tax dollars going anywhere near another country’s state broadcaster,” said Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, calling GAC “one of the worst waste offenders in the entire government.”
He added, “With the government more than $1 trillion in debt, we need to open up the books and cut wasteful spending in every department, and that definitely includes Global Affairs Canada.”
GAC has a history of similar spending. From 2016 to 2020, it provided $4.8 million to BBC Media Action for “Her Voice, Her Rights,” a gender equality media training initiative in Afghanistan.
In October 2024, True North reported GAC spent over $3 million on alcohol, with GAC declining to respond before publication. Other reported expenses included an $8,800 sex toy show in Germany, a $12,500 talk show featuring seniors discussing sex in Taiwan, Austria, and Australia, and a $51,000 monthly bar tab.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview on Friday that he was interested in President Trump’s proposal for a deal that would involve the US getting access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals in exchange for continued military aid.
“If we are talking about a deal, then let’s do a deal, we are only for it,” Zelensky told Reuters. The Ukrainian leader insisted the deal wouldn’t involve “giving away” Ukraine’s resources but framed it as a partnership.
“The Americans helped the most, and therefore, the Americans should earn the most. And they should have this priority, and they will. I would also like to talk about this with President Trump,” he said.
When Trump made the comments about a rare earth deal, he said he wanted a “guarantee” that the US would have access to the minerals because the US was giving Ukraine money “hand over fist.”
While Trump still says he wants to end the war in Ukraine, the idea of a deal for continued US military aid suggests he thinks the US will continue supplying weapons, something Russia would likely not accept as part of a potential future peace deal.
“This war is about money. People don’t talk much about it. But you know, the richest country in all of Europe for rare earth minerals is Ukraine. Two to seven trillion dollars’ worth of minerals that are rare earth minerals, very relevant to the 21st century,” Graham said in November.
Just one not so small problem: most of those resources Zelensky wants to offer are currently under Russian control in Eastern Ukraine, or the four annexed territories which have been declared part of the Russian Federation…
JUST IN: 🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukrainian President Zelensky offers the US access to Ukraine’s rare earth and mineral deposits in exchange for a security deal from President Trump.
“Ukraine’s ready to do a deal with us, not the Russians. So it’s in our interest to make sure that Russia doesn’t take over the place,” the senator had said. This is a far cry from the mainstream media narrative of ‘protecting democracy’ in Ukraine, however.
DHS Asks For Deputized IRS Agents To Help Physically Boot Illegals, Bust Human-Traffickers
The Department of Homeland Security has asked to ‘borrow’ a few thousand deputized IRS agents to help arrest, detain, and transport illegal immigrants out of the United States.
In a Feb. 7 memo from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Noem said that her department needs additional personnel to implement President Trump’s executive order to ‘secure the Southern border and enforce the immigration laws.’
“It is D.H.S.’s understanding that the Department of the Treasury has qualified law enforcement personnel available to assist with immigration enforcement, especially in light of recent increases to the Internal Revenue Service’s work force and budget,” Noem wrote.
The IRS has 2,290 trained law enforcement officers in its criminal-investigation division (IRS-CI) who can investigate violations of tax law and other financial crimes (and has been buying tons of weapons and ammo for years). The agency’s criminal investigators also work undercover to combat drug trafficking, money-laundering and corruption.
According to Noem, agents could also help audit employers believed to have hired illegals, and investigate human trafficking.
IRS-CI agents typically carry firearms, and are different from the agency’s agents and revenue officers. They typically investigate criminal tax evasion and other financial crimes, and often work with the FBI and other agencies. Part of their work involves tracking financial flows, including fentanyl networks and fraud involving government programs.
While Trump FBI Director nominee Kash Patel patiently waits for his turn to kick down the doors at the FBI,the ‘old guard’ has suddenly uncovered around 2,400 ‘secret JFK assassination records,’ and then promptly leaked that ‘fact’ to spooky Axios without shedding any light on the contents of said records.
The move comes after President Trump’s Jan. 23 executive order demanding the release of all records pertaining to the JFK assassination, where ‘a deluded gunman’ killed the 35th President of the United States in Dallas, Texas 61 years ago.
The allegedly newfound records – which the FBI told the White House about on Friday, when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence submitted its plan to disclose the assassination records – were never provided to a board tasked with reviewing and disclosing the documents, according to the report.
Axios, citing three sources (who said they hadn’t actually seen the documents), said that the newly found records are ‘closely held secrets,’ and are ‘likely to raise questions about the procedures for vetting and releasing information across the entire government.’
“This is huge. It shows the FBI is taking this seriously,” said Jefferson Morley, an expert on the assassination and vice president of the nonpartisan Mary Ferrell Foundation, the nation’s largest source of online records of Kennedy’s killing, Axios continues. “The FBI is finally saying, ‘Let’s respond to the president’s order,’ instead of keeping the secrecy going,” Morley continued, without a so much as a hint of scrutiny over whether this could be complete bullshit from the very government that has kept the JFK assassination a closely guarded secret.
Axios then hedges, suggesting that the new records are “unlikely” to definitively prove the official story – that Lee Harvey Oswald, was a lone-wolf assassin, or was part of a broader conspiracy.
And as far as “unlikely” goes, we’d venture to guess there’s virtually no chance they’ll validate various theories that our own government killed Kennedy for various reasons (please discuss in the comments).
In 2017, President Trump delayed the release of the JFK files on the advice of the CIA, while President Biden ordered a limited release of records related to the assassination. Deep state defenders have said that full disclosure could compromise ‘sources and methods,’ the same thing they hid behind during the Russiagate hoax hearings.
According to the report, Trump has regretted not releasing all of the JFK records during his first term – however his January executive order calls for the release of all JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King Jr. assassination records by March 9.
More via Axios:
What’s next: Despite Trump’s order, sources say, the various intelligence agencies with records of the assassination are still recommending redactions.
“When POTUS hears about this stonewalling, he’s gonna hit the roof,” a White House official told Axios.
“This is total Deep State bulls**t,” said another.
“Don’t be surprised if all these records just suddenly wind up online,” a Trump adviser said. “He wants to move on and call this a promise kept.”
The intrigue: The newly discovered FBI files could have relevance in the ongoing federal lawsuit filed by the Mary Ferrell Foundation against the Biden administration in 2022. It alleges federal agencies had more documents related to the assassination that they weren’t turning over to the National Archives. They include:
Jailhouse recordings of mobster Carlos Marcello, who claimed he was involved in the assassination.
CIA files of George Joannides. He was the chief of covert action at the CIA station in Miami and was a case officer for a New Orleans-based CIA-funded exile group that had a series of encounters with Oswald before the shooting. Joannides also was accused of misleading a House committee investigating the assassination by failing to disclose his ties to Oswald. “The Joannides file sounds exactly like the newly discovered FBI files,” Morley said. “It’s something assassination-related that was never turned over to the Archives.”
US Convinces Palestinian Authority To End “Pay For Slay”
Palestinian Authority (PA) president Mahmoud Abbas on Monday formally revoked a system which provides payments to families of Palestinians who were killed or wounded during attacks on Israelis. The system also extends for Palestinians thrown in Israeli prisons for assaults or terroristic attacks on Israelis as well.
The first Trump administration as well as the Israelis referred to the practice as “pay for slay” – and Washington has long sought to force the PA the end the practice, and it has remained a major source of disagreement over many years.
The Biden administration had reportedly spent two years attempting to negotiate an end to the system. The Palestinian side calls it a “martyr’s fund”.
According to regional source Al-Monitor, “The Palestinian Authority paid out $176.8 million under the program in 2023, according to a January report from the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, an Israeli think tank.”
Israel, the US, and some European leaders have long complained that it incentivizes violence against Israelis. Since the time of Trump’s first administration, a US law has prohibited Washington from providing direct financial assistance to the PA so long as “pay for slay” is still in effect.
This means US aid to the West Bank and PA might flow more freely, and clearly this is what was on offer from the US side.
President Abbas’ Monday decree revokes laws “related to the system of paying financial allowances to the families of prisoners, martyrs and the wounded,” the PA’s WAFA news agency reported.
Israel remains skeptical, however, with the Israeli Foreign Ministry questioning on Monday whether the payments would actually end: “This is a new fraudulent trick by the Palestinian Authority, which intends to continue making payments to terrorists and their families through other payment channels,” a statement said.
Over the last half-decade, tens of millions of dollars in pledged US aid has been held up:
Republican Sen. Jim Risch of Idaho held up tens of millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian Authority in 2021 over its policy.
US President Donald Trump has been critical of the authority over the issue. In 2018, he signed into law the Taylor Force Act, which prohibited economic aid to the authority over the payments. The act was named after a US military veteran who was killed by a Palestinian assailant in Tel Aviv in 2016.
Later that year, the Trump administration cut more than $200 million in funding to Ramallah, saying the money would be redirected to “high priority projects elsewhere.” The aid was later restored by US President Joe Biden in 2021.
But money is unlikely to start flowing again anytime soon, given Trump’s ongoing campaign to drastically slash all foreign aid. The West Bank is likely to be a very low priority in terms of assistance regardless.
The more dependent you are, the less free you are. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article about how our system is designed to beat us down and make us weak and dependent, because when we are weak and dependent we are easier to control. Most of us don’t even realize why the majority of the population is so sick, exhausted, depressed and confused much of the time. Our bodies, our minds and our spirits are constantly being poisoned by the system, and those that are in control of the system know exactly what they are doing. If you do not choose to break free, you could end up under the oppression of their system for your entire life.
Of course for many people inertia seems like the easiest option. It is just so easy to keep doing what you have always done, and that is especially true once you get older.
But what are you going to do once the system that you have become so dependent upon starts to crumble all around you?
Over the past several years, our world has been getting increasingly unstable. Major wars have erupted, the cost of living has become very painful, pestilences have been raging all over the globe, and historic natural disasters have been hitting us one after another.
The chaos that we are experiencing now is just going to intensify in the months ahead.
So what will most people do when the system that they depend on for their survival is shaken to the core?
The following are 12 simple things that you can start doing right now to become more independent of the system…
#1 Become Less Dependent On Your Job
For most people, having a job essentially means living in a state of “just over broke”. The truth is that it is incredibly difficult to become financially independent working for someone else. Of course most Americans would not be able to survive without a job, but you don’t want to settle for just surviving. I know that it can be exceedingly difficult to find the energy for a “side hustle” while you are working a full-time job, but a “side hustle” can eventually evolve into a full-time income. If you want to live free, it is so important to explore alternate sources of income and different ways to build wealth. And the truth is that any jobs we have now could easily disappear when economic conditions take a turn for the worse. But if you have put in the effort to build up a “side hustle”, at least you will still have that.
#2 Get Out Of Debt
The borrower is the servant of the lender. If you want to live free, get out of debt. No matter how far you try to run, your debts are going to continue to hang over you wherever you go. Getting out of debt can be completely and totally liberating. It will give you much more freedom and will make you far less dependent on your job. In fact, many Americans are already moving in this direction. Why not join them? When things start really falling apart and it is difficult for anyone to find a good job, the last thing you will want is a huge amount of debt hanging over your head.
#3 Reduce Expenses
For decades, most Americans have been living far beyond their means. In the future, times are going to be really tough and we are all going to have to learn to tighten our belts. Do you and your family waste money right now? If you can eliminate that, you can live on a smaller income and you will have more money to invest in the things that are really going to matter.
#4 Purchase Land
Real estate is a lot more expensive than it once was, but the truth is that you don’t want to wait forever to get your hands on a piece of land. When the system completely crumbles, you don’t want to be stuck in a heavily populated area with no place to go. You always want to have somewhere that you can “bug out” to if things hit the fan. In addition, owning real estate is a great way to build wealth. In some of the most desirable areas of the country that are not heavily populated, real estate prices have doubled or even tripled in recent years.
#5 Learn To Grow Your Own Food
Another reason why you want to purchase some land is so that you will have somewhere to grow your own food if that becomes necessary. 100 years ago, almost everyone knew how to grow their own food, and most people also knew how to raise farm animals. Today, relatively few Americans have those skills. A great way to begin is by starting your own “survival garden”. If you are not already doing this, why not start this upcoming spring?
#6 Find A Reliable Source Of Clean Water
Do you know what they are putting into your water? In many parts of the country, tap water is absolutely teeming with all sorts of nasty stuff. Drinking pure water is an easy change that anyone can make, and it can have a dramatic impact on your health. In addition, water is going to become a very, very valuable resource in the years to come. It will be absolutely key for you and your family to have a dependable source of clean drinking water. If you do not have water, you will not be able to survive for long.
#7 Explore Alternative Energy Sources
Have you noticed that your power bill just keeps going up? In some states, people are being hit with power bills that exceed $1,000 a month. Of course you may not be able to depend upon the power company at all once things get bad enough. The truth is that there are very good reasons why so many Americans have been trying to go “off the grid”. Without power, life gets really difficult very quickly. But if you are generating your own power then you won’t have to worry about that.
#8 Store Supplies
Every time there is a major disaster or emergency, store shelves get empty really fast. If an extended national emergency results in supply chains being disrupted on a long-term basis, you may have to get by on what you already have in your home. So do you and your family have enough food and supplies to survive for an extended period of time? If you don’t know where to start, there are guides that can help get you started. In America today, there are millions of “preppers”, and the “prepping” industry has been thriving. But of course most of the population just assumes that they will always be able to depend upon the system for what they need, and someday those people will be in for a very rude awakening.
#9 Protect Your Assets With Gold And Silver
Our leaders have been flooding the system with money for many years, and so it was only a matter of time before we experienced rampant inflation. The cost of living has been absolutely soaring, and that isn’t going to change any time soon. One way to protect yourself is by getting some gold and silver. In the future, your paper money may not buy much for you at all, but if you have some gold and silver coins you can always exchange them for the things that you are going to need.
#10 Learn Self-Defense
Do you remember the riots that happened all over the country just a few years ago? Well, the truth is that what we will see in the future will be far worse than that. When people get desperate enough, they will literally do just about anything to survive. Just think about it. What do you think is going to happen once people living in densely-populated areas have been without food for two or three days? Now is the time to think about how you will defend your home and your property from crazed looters. It is not a fun thing to think about, but unfortunately we are heading into times that will not always be pretty.
#11 Keep Yourself In Good Physical Condition
As Americans, we live such “cushy” lives. But when times get hard, things will not be so cushy. In fact, the years ahead are likely to demand quite a bit of physical activity. So keep yourself in good physical condition now. In the future, you will be quite glad that you did.
#12 Make Deep Connections
It is really, really hard to “survive” all by yourself. Those that will thrive the most in the future will be those that have a community that they can depend upon. The truth is that we are always at our best when we work together. It is time to build deep connections with family and friends, it is time to make new connections, and it is time to focus on what is truly important. In the times ahead the world will be a very cold place, and a little love and teamwork will go a long way.
US Must Recognize ‘New Realities’ If Serious About Peace In Ukraine, Kremlin Tells Trump
Over the weekend President Trump said he has spoken directly to Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine, something the Kremlin neither confirmed nor denied, only saying that communications with the US administration are currently being conducted through various channels.
“I do believe we’re making progress,” Trump had told reporters, adding that he expects there to be more communications to come. “We want to stop the Ukraine-Russia war.”
But as of Monday the Kremlin still says it has yet to be presented with any concrete offer that it would be enticed by. Moscow has received nothing to get it to the negotiating table with Ukraine, at a moment it has the clear battlefield momentum.
Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin expressed this to RIA state news agency
“It is important that words be backed up by practical steps that take into account Russia’s legitimate interests, demonstrating a readiness to eradicate the root causes of the crisis and recognize the new realities.”
“Concrete proposals of this nature have not yet been received,” he emphasized.
As for the alleged Putin-Trump phone call, Kremlin spokesman Peskov said exactly the following: “in this case, I can neither confirm nor deny it” – in response to an inquiry by TASS:
But even as the White House signals progress and positive contacts with Moscow, a very different message is coming out of Russian state media on Monday. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov at a news conference has said Moscow-Washington relations are on the brink of complete rupture. Here’s a summary of the remarks in TASS:
Relations between Moscow and Washington are balancing on the verge of rupture.
The administration of former US President Joe Biden “focused on hybrid warfare, introduced into its documents and imposed on allies in various alliances and configurations the idea of the possibility of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.” As a result, the “antagonistic content” of Russian-US relations intensified and has become “very critical” today.
Washington’s attempts to give Moscow demands or to demonstrate the alleged doing “a great favor” in exchange for unacceptable US demands are bound to failure in the dialogue with Russia.
Specifically Russia sees an unwillingness to deal seriously and fairly on the nuclear front, after in the last half-decade several post-Cold War era treaties have collapsed:
The policy pursued by Washington “poses a significant challenge to global nuclear non-proliferation” and control over nuclear weapons is deteriorating.
Russia has not yet seen any manifestations of common sense or political will on the part of the West to overcome the crisis in the arms control system.
The situation around Russia-US dialogue on strategic stability, including the post-New START Treaty period, does not look optimistic.
Such dramatic statements suggesting a total break in formal relations from the Russian side could just be more diplomatic maneuvering and posturing to maintain leverage at the future negotiating table.
Still, it’s obvious to all that the Ukraine situation remains extremely dangerous, as arms from Washington have continued to flow, after what was perhaps a very brief halt last week. Trump himself has long acknowledged this, warning that if peace is not achieved, the situation could spiral toward WW3.
