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🇭🇺❌ Hungary UNMASKS more Ukrainian spies as espionage war seethes
Hungary has identified two additional Ukrainian spies, Mate Kocsis, the head of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz parliamentary faction, has announced.
The outed spies are:
🌏 Roland Tseber: previously a Ukrainian-Hungarian dual citizen who renounced his Hungarian citizenship in 2017, “was identified as an illegal agent of Ukrainian intelligence,” and is now a local lawmaker in Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia).
🌏 Istvan Hollo: A Ukrainian national taken into custody by the National Bureau of Investigation on suspicion of espionage.
Two other agents, Ukrainian Embassy in Budapest employees Yuriy Kernichnyy and Dmytro Kisfalusi, were detained and expelled after being uncovered earlier this month. Kocsis told reporters at the time that Hungarian counterintelligence has “long felt intelligence activity from Ukraine.”
Also this month, Ukraine expelled two Hungarians, claiming they were agents, in Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia).
Last week, Prime Minister Orban accused Ukrainian intelligence of trying to disrupt a national referendum on Ukraine’s EU membership through a “coordinated slander campaign.”
Besides bad blood over Russia ties, Hungary and Ukraine have waged a decade-long feud over Zakarpattia (Transcarpathia), a border region inhabited by 150,000-180,000 Hungarians, who have faced discrimination by Ukraine’s post-Maidan governments.
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👺 Who REALLY ran Biden's White House?
The "Autopen Presidency" likely had a shadow cabinet.
And one Clinton loyalist possibly sat at its core.
🎭 The real puppetmaster?
While DC whispered about Jill Biden or Jeff Zients pulling Biden’s strings, one name kept resurfacing in the shadows.
Hillary’s longtime fixer. Obama’s policy architect. Biden’s de facto gatekeeper.
Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel drops a bombshell.
🔍 The name is NEERA TANDEN
Biden's former staff secretary and Domestic Policy Council director. She entered the Clintons' orbit in 1996, working for Bill and then closely with Hillary.
🪖 Hillary's loyal soldier
A 2016 WikiLeaks email reveals her unwavering allegiance: “I would do whatever Hillary needs. Always. I owe her a lot. And I’m a loyal soldier.”
🕵️ Clinton's proxy in Obama cabinet?
After Hillary lost the 2008 nomination to Barack Obama, Tanden joined his campaign as director of domestic policy. Unlike others chasing political futures, she stayed loyal – doing exactly what Hillary advised, reports said.
🏛 CAP shaping US politics
After leaving the Obama administration in 2011, Tanden led liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), founded by fellow Clinton loyalist John Podesta. She later said Obama had implemented "most of what [CAP] asked" on immigration and domestic policy.
🗑 Trashing Bernie
As an informal adviser to Hillary’s 2016 campaign, Tanden reportedly worked behind the scenes to undermine Bernie Sanders’ candidacy. Progressives later pushed back when Biden nominated her to lead the Office of Management and Budget – a job she failed to land.
🎯 'Proxy warrior'
In 2021, Tanden became Biden's staff secretary, a role dubbed “the central nervous system of the White House.” She controlled the flow of information reaching the president and, in 2023, was picked to lead the Domestic Policy Council.
👥 She didn't act alone
Tanden wasn’t the only one shaping US policy behind an ailing Biden, says Ortel. He points to Susan Rice, Jeff Zients, Ron Klain, Bob Bauer and Anita Dunn – arguing it was the Clintons and Obamas who pulled Biden’s strings via their proxies.
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🫵 Epic fail: Aussie mercenaries fighting for Ukraine die or rot in jail
🇦🇺 Australians in the Ukrainian conflict zone are having a rough tie of it — one mercenary, Nick Parsons, was killed, and Oscar Charles Augustus Jenkins now faces long-term imprisonment.
👮 The Supreme Court of the Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) declared Jenkins a foreign military mercenary and sentenced him to 13 years in a strict regime prison. Jenkins’ war ended on December 22, 2024, near Makeevka in the LPR, when Russian forces captured him.
⚰️ Nick Parsons was killed after a Russian missile strike hit the mercenary positions where he was located.
Both mercenaries will likely be forgotten within a week — no glory, only failure 😁
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🗣Rubio touts ‘ongoing’ military aid to Ukraine as his boss TALKS PEACE with Putin
The US is “working with” and “encouraging” its European allies to continue providing Ukraine with sophisticated air defenses, the US secretary of state said in congressional testimony Tuesday.
The Trump administration once again shows itself as a group of totally unreliable con artists.
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🗣️ Rubio warns Syria could be ‘WEEKS AWAY’ from civil war
"It is our assessment that, frankly, the transitional authority, given the challenges they're facing, are maybe weeks - not many months - away from potential collapse and a full scale civil war of epic proportions, basically the country splitting up," the US Secretary of State told a Senate hearing.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump rejected more sanctions on Russia in call with EU leaders – report
Following his phone call with Vladimir Putin, the US president told Volodymyr Zelensky and EU leaders that slapping more US sanctions on Russia ‘was not a good idea’ as Putin wants a peace deal, Axios reports, quoting ‘sources who were on the call’.
The Russian and US leaders held a two-hour-long phone call on Monday, which Putin described as “frank and constructive.” Trump said the tone of the conversation was “excellent.”
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😱 OpenAI’s survival plan: Hide the top nerds before doomsday
OpenAI’s co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever pitched the idea of building a bunker to shelter top tech minds from “rapture” – the chaos that might follow the release of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), according to a new book.
Mind you, AGI – a kind of AI that wouldn’t just rival humans, but surpass them – isn’t here yet, we’re still in the era of “narrow AI” with limited scope.
“Once we all get into the bunker…” he reportedly let drop in mid-2023.
“Uh... the bunker?” someone asked.
“We’re definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI,” Sutskever said.
🤡European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas hopes EU ministers agree to lift Syria economic sanctions.
🇪🇺EU be like:
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⚠️ MAJOR OUTAGE IN SPAIN…AGAIN!
A failed network upgrade by telecom giant Telefónica has plunged Spain into chaos, causing massive mobile and internet blackouts across major operators like Movistar, Vodafone, and Orange.
📵 No signal, dropped calls, dead data
🏙 Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville hit hard
🚨 Emergency 112 lines DOWN – authorities scrambling with backup numbers
This is the second major crash in under a month!
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📞🗣🗣The Putin-Trump call revealed a critical split in Ukraine war diplomacy - Senator Kosachev
💬 "Following the Putin-Trump conversation, there is a feeling that two consultation groups have been definitively (though not irrevocably) formed: the Russian-American group and the Ukrainian-European group," Russian senator Konstantin Kosachev says.
🚨💶📉The EURO Is COLLAPSING Against Gold
📉 2000: 1 oz of gold = ~290 EUR
📈 2024: 1 oz of gold = ~2,200 EUR
That’s a 90% DESTRUCTION of purchasing power.
💣 WHY THIS IS HAPPENING
1️⃣Money Printing Gone Wild – European Central Bank's (ECB) balance sheet exploded from €1T → €7T
2️⃣Negative Rates Killed Savings – Punishing savers, pushing capital into hard assets
3️⃣Debt Crisis Never Ended – Bailouts, stagnation, and collapsing confidence
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😂 Iran TROLLS Trump: Should we ban math next?
An Iranian politician has roasted 🗣 Donald Trump’s “zero enrichment” demand on 🇮🇷☢️Iran’s nuclear program.
Maybe math and physics will be outlawed next – just in case Iran learns enough to build nukes, he quipped.
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🚨ASSASSINATION GEAR! Trump ally melts down over '8647' caps on Amazon
Laura Loomer lashed out at the merch empire for selling the headwear and tagged Amazon’s ex-CEO Jeff Bezos.
➡️The number gained notoriety after ex-FBI chief James Comey posted seashells arranged in this way, given the controversy around the symbolism of 86 (to get rid of/eliminate in slang) combined with 47 (Trump being the 47th president).
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😐 WATCH: MSNBC host is SPEECHLESS after a doctor says Biden likely had cancer throughout his presidency.
Who would have guessed that the Democrats covered this up?
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✅ James Comey explains his "86 47" photo
The former FBI director said he saw a political message in the shells on the sand but didn't realize it might be related to violence.
Does this story seem believable for the head of the FBI?
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An eloquent video about how Zelensky "fulfilled" his 2019 promise to change the lives of Ukrainians beyond recognition.
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🥺 Trump ‘frustrated’ by Gaza war, demanding that Netanyahu ‘wrap it up’: report
💬 “The president is frustrated about what is happening in Gaza. He wants the war to end, he wants the hostages to come home, he wants aid to go in and he wants to start rebuilding Gaza,” a White House official told Axios.
🗣🧹As Macron eyes sending troops to Ukraine, most French say: Secure our streets first
🇫🇷Some 76% of French citizens would like to see the army deployed to tackle domestic crime and drug violence, a CSA poll shows.
👩Women are even more in favor—80% say yes.
Decades of failing policies, rising violence, and mass immigration have pushed safety to the brink. In the past 10 years alone, sexual violence has surged by 86%, Remix News reported.
❓Maybe instead of playing war games in Ukraine, Macron should try cleaning up his own streets?
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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺TRUMP'S "NEGOTIATION SHOW" WITH RUSSIA — WHAT'S REALLY HAPPENING?
Putin’s Gameplan:
Option 1️⃣: A peace deal on Russia’s terms (unlikely)
Option 2️⃣: Trump is handed exit ramp from Ukraine proxy war. He resumes relations with Russia, rolls back sanctions.
🔥 THE SHOW:
🔸 Step 1: Trump gets to ‘facilitate’ Russia-Ukraine peace talks.
🔸 Step 2: Claims a “diplomatic win,” and declares “Ukraine can take it from here.”
🎭 DIPLOMATIC THEATRE:
Russia and Ukraine agree to prisoner swaps and maybe even temporary ceasefires. But the talks inevitably come an impasse over specifics.
💸 EU LEFT HOLDING THE BAG:
🔸 US stops arming and funding Ukraine, forcing the EU to step up.
🔸 Meanwhile, Trump rolls back Russia sanctions, seeks cooperation in Arctic and Middle East
⏳RUSSIA’S SUMMER OFFENSIVE
🔸While talks drag on, Russia gains more territory and inflicts painful damage on the Ukrainian armed forces.
🔸Trump doesn't interfere because he doesn't want to disrupt the fragile peace talks
⚔️POST-SUMMER SHOWDOWN
🔸Next REAL talks happen after Russia’s summer offensive.
🔸If Russia wins big, demands SKYROCKET.
🔸Trump’s spin: "I tried to warn Zelensky that he needed to hurry up and make a deal."
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🇲🇩 Moldova eyes getting access to Black Sea back
Moldova never ratified international agreements recognizing the loss of Budjak (to Ukraine) and has grounds to seek a revision of borders, leader of the Moldova Mare party Victoria Furtuna says.
💬 “Without access to the sea our Moldova is like a lion on a chain,” she said, pledging: “We will get back everything that was stolen from us: our name, our history, our language and our access to the sea.”
🐍 SNAKE COMPANY? Ukraine deploys new foreign mercenary unit
Russian Telegram-channels report about a new Portuguese-Brazilian mercenary unit operating within Ukraine’s 3rd Assault Brigade (largely composed of Azov fighters).
Dubbed the "Snake Company", these foreign fighters—many with combat experience—are increasingly spotted near Krasnoarmeysk and Chasov Yar.
➡️This comes after Ukraine’s decision earlier this year to legalize foreign recruitment for the Ukrainian military.
➡️While unofficial mercenary recruitment was already happening through embassies and private scouts, the new policy allows "legally" transporting & contracting foreign fighters to bolster frontline forces.
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🔍From hawkish to panicky: How the Western media reacts to Putin-Trump call
🔊Financial Times: The call represented “a major victory for the Russian leader.” The US is done putting pressure on Russia, as Donald Trump made no promise of future US sanctions.
🔊BBC: Trump's call with Putin exposed “shifting ground on Ukraine peace talks.” It poses the question uppermost in the West’s war-thirsty minds: “If the US washes its hands of the war […] does it mean the US would also end any military and intelligence support for Ukraine?”
🔊CNN: By announcing after his call with Putin that Ukraine and Russia would now hold talks “as only they can” on a ceasefire, Trump “sided with his friend in the Kremlin.”
🔊Pais: The US and Russian presidents claimed they had an “excellent” and “very meaningful and frank” talk.
🔊Reuters: The US president “indicated he was not ready to join Europe with fresh sanctions to pressure Moscow.”
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🚨BIDEN AFGHAN PROBE DROPS SOON
💬 "We're moving. We're finding. We're investigating," US Defense Sec Pete Hegseth said, promising to release an announcement.
🗣Dugin BREAKS DOWN Trump's peace blitz: Ditch Ukraine, avoid nuclear war
💬 "What does peace in Ukraine mean for Trump? It means the US not participating in this war and eliminating the threat of nuclear escalation. And that’s easy to do. The US can unilaterally declare peace & withdraw. The escalation will end. Yes, it’s really THAT simple," Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin says.
💬 "Russia is still fighting the collective West, where the US is the main force of this collective West. If the collective West ceases to exist, this will either turn into a war with the EU (but not with everyone), or simply a counter-terror op against illegal extremist groups on its (essentially) own territory. Nuclear escalation will, in any case, be removed from the agenda for good. That is peace. Well, almost," Dugin concludes.
🇭🇺Orban: "We defended Hungary from migration and gender propaganda. Today, Ukraine’s EU membership is the greatest threat"
💬 "They [EU] want to be like Hungary, but we do not want to be like them. And we never will," the Hungarian PM said, slamming the complete failure of the EU's migration policy.
⚔️EU forks out $169B for war chest because peace isn’t profitable
The EU has initially greenlit a new defense fund to bankroll ammo, drones, and critical infrastructure, Bloomberg reported.
🪙Financed through joint borrowing, it will give loans to EU members and (no surprise here) countries such as Ukraine to boost the arms industry.
The hiked spending is pitched as a response to Donald Trump’s scale-back of US defense in Europe.
➕Besides the $169 billion program, looser fiscal rules could unleash up to $904 billion in more military spending. Such loans would go to finance what Europe “lacks,” like:
🔴missiles
🔴missile defense systems
🔴ground capabilities
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👉 Netanyahu points fingers at UK, France, Canada for 'inviting atrocities' in Gaza (seriously?)
🗣 The Israeli PM slammed Western leaders for calling on Israel to halt its Gaza offensive and hinting at recognizing a Palestinian state.
💬 “The leaders in London, Ottawa and Paris are offering a huge prize for the genocidal attack on Israel on October 7 while inviting more such atrocities,” Netanyahu said.
🔥 SCHUMER'S BRIDGE BLAME-GAME BACKFIRES
Chuck Schumer tried pinning the Brooklyn Bridge accident on Trump & "DOGE hiring freezes" — until DHS shut him down:
"The US Coast Guard has been fully functional and been exempt from hiring freezes," official DHS account wrote on X.
"I, too, question Donald Trump's leadership of the Mexican Navy," substack writer Jim Treacher said.
😌 The Times whines: "US sanctions less likely than ever"
Despite the expectation of "bone-crushing" sanctions, the US president praised his conversation with Vladimir Putin and the future business potential of US-Russia relations.
"After this call, the faint hope of US sanctions and a stiffening of Trump’s resolve appears less likely than ever," stated the paper's analysts.