
Ukraine said Thursday that it had signed the basis of a minerals deal with the U.S., although the details of the agreement are yet to be announced.

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Ukraine says it has signed the outline of a minerals deal with the U.S. "Substantially the same extortive conditions originally demanded"
Ukraine said Thursday that it had signed the basis of a minerals deal with the U.S., although the details of the agreement are yet to be announced.
Germany reviving Hitler’s great power politics and are again waging war against Russia. - banning participation in ww2 commemoration ceremonies.
The German government and Analena Baerbock’s Foreign Ministry are excluding Russia from the commemoration because they are reviving Hitler’s great power politics and waging war on Russia.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has announced that he will travel to Moscow to attend Russia’s Victory Day parade, defying a warning from the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas. Fico criticised the former Estonian prime minister’s statement, asserting that Slovakia is a sovereign country and w...
Cem Gurdeniz, the strategist behind Turkiye’s Blue Homeland doctrine, warns that NATO is collapsing and the EU is seeking to exploit Turkiye’s strategic position as it faces internal decline and military irrelevance. He calls for a sovereign, Eurasian-aligned future – on Turkiye’s terms.
Deal struck with government there falls short of reinstalling American bases, however
Hegseth: China could sink all US carriers in 20 minutes
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warns China’s hypersonic missiles could destroy all US aircraft carriers in 20 minutes.
US evil projection in world depends on its aircraft carriers.
The Trump administration believes into the unconditional primacy of the US and so are their actions.
There is a contrast between reddit/lemmy reactions to Trump and X. Where X has many repeats the affirmation of unconditional primacy that is beyond attack. This is a major test of the delusion, but the walkbacks are signs that the US will decline, and world will pounce on the failed delusion.
NATO/US Supreme Commander for Europe: Russia replacing equiment at unprecedented pace.
According to Cavoli’s estimantes, the Russian Armed Forces are "today larger than it was at the beginning" of the special military operation
One of the bigger problems of relying on Urkainian nazi propaganda for how successful the war has been for its anti-Russia sponsors is that people internalize their (manufactured) hatred as successful when it is not, and self-collapsing.
Some stupid shit happening in Panama. More US threats, more bending over backwards to submit to US
On Tuesday, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth visited Panama to deliver a message: he pledged that the United States will "take back" the Panamanian...
The big giant threat China was making to Panama was to build a railroad across the country to expand trade volume that Panama can ship through its nation to massive benefit to Panama. Global warming/droughts threaten canal viability/throughput.
Escalating an Unwinnable War (Yemen and its recent history) | The Libertarian Institute
President Donald Trump is set to repeat one of the worst mistakes of his first administration: fighting an unwinnable war in Yemen. This time, it could be far worse as Trump has sent two aircraft carrier strike groups to the Red Sea, meaning Americans will be doing the fighting, not…
Telegraph: The United States may put Kiev in front of an ultimatum: Accept Russia's view of peace
EADaily, April 7th, 2025. The United States may put Kiev in front of an ultimatum, providing either peace on Russia's terms, or complete deprivation of intelligence and logistical support from the Americans, writes the British newspaper The Telegraph.
This is great news that can bring Ukraine back into its natural security/trade relationship with Russia.
Trump seesawed again with an alleged rant to NBC about how “pissed off” he was at Putin for not hopping to the US’ undercooked ceasefire offers.
only big misread, is US priority to pivot to Iran instead of China.
It may be that the US-Russia and US-Ukraine negotiations are going off the rails. Meanwhile the US is anxious for Europe to take over responsibility for
NYT: US had full operational control over Ukraine war
Giving a foreign power full decisions over military operations is certain to kill all of your troops if any damage can be hoped. To the last Ukrainian.
Zelensky, Trump and Putin may all have done a U-turn on elections in Ukraine
The Zelensky U turn is the most significant. Russia has demanded UN receivership of Ukraine in order to conduct elections. Zelensky is mostly interested in a snap election where his CIA selected opponents can be too slow, or UN allowed peace (labelled pro Russia by Europe/CIA) candidates can't get a foothold.