107828
Read the news they hide from you. 💬 You can always reach us via @GeopoliticsLive_bot Cross-promotion: @prgeopoliticslive @geopoliticslivepr
🚤India successfully tests AUTONOMOUS submarine
Trials of the indigenous High Endurance Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (HEAUV) were carried out in both surface and submerged conditions in a lake.
🔍Developed by India's Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), the sub:
🔴Operates autonomously for up to 15 days, per Indian Defense News;
🔴Can operate at depths of up to 300 meters;
🔴Is integrated with sonar, Electro Optical Systems, and electronic intelligence (ELINT) systems for underwater data collection;
🔴Can be used for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), Mine Counter Measures (MCM) and to map the seabed.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
💬 'Money for UKRAINE, money for OLYMPICS, money for RENEWABLES but we can’t even keep a national highway open.' - Sen. Gerard Rennick
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
⚔️Missiles across Iran ready for launch in case of escalation by United States
Missiles across Iran are loaded into launchers in all cities with underground bases and ready to be launched, the Tehran Times reported.
Earlier, Donald Trump threatened "bombing the likes of which they have never seen before" in an interview with NBC News if the US and Iran did not reach an agreement.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that Iran had refused the US direct negotiations on the nuclear program, adding the talks could be held only with the mediation of third countries.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
🛢 Trump touts secondary tariffs on countries purchasing Venezuelan oil
🗣 "If you disobey our ORDERS, you cannot do business in the United States of America," Trump declared.
🥴 Trump ‘WASN’T HAPPY’ that Putin considers Zelensky ‘NOT CREDIBLE’
💬 “I think he's going to BE GOOD. And I certainly wouldn't want to put secondary tariffs on Russia. But if they were put on, it would not be very good for them,” US President Donald Trump claimed.
🧐 Are they hoping he’ll die from cringe? Anti-Musk protesters caught using SUPER LAME scripted chants 🤦♂️
DOGE administrator and Tesla owner Elon Musk has retweeted an “interesting” image featuring a list of chants for protesters to shout as they protest him and his car company.
🗣️“Hey hey, ho ho, President Musk has got to go,” says one chant, a play on an old classic probably repurposed hundreds of times since the 60s, when it was actually associated with something positive (opposition to the Vietnam War).
🗣️“The people united, Will never be defeated,” another chant, originating in Chile in the 1970s in opposition to the Pinochet coup, says. This relates to Musk how, exactly?
The existence of a ‘simplified chant sheet’ highlights what Musk and his supporters allege to be centralized coordination of the anti-Tesla campaign, with an investigation publicized last week revealing that George Soros had invested over $7.5 million into groups targeting the Trump ally’s car company.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
☢️ New US nukes in Europe violate nonproliferation commitments amid phony Trump-Europe divorce
No amount of dramatic performance art by Europe’s NATO allies about “distancing themselves” from the Washington will convince Russia that the US is going to fold up its nuclear umbrella, Russian military experts say.
In reality, the Europeans would be quite happy if the US continues to hold its nuclear umbrella over their heads, with Trump’s demands coming down to European allies paying significantly more into defense in a situation where the US currently pays 85% and the Europeans 15%.
The recent arrival of B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs in Europe starting in January, signals US and NATO’s willingness to continue adherence to their nuclear alliance, and to ignoring their respective commitments under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
According to experts, this deployment represents a clear violation of those obligations.
The US has deployed its B61s at six bases across five countries (Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Turkiye), has trained pilots from these countries to use the bombs, outfitted their planes with equipment for using these bombs, and facilitated their operation from Baltic bases right next door to Russia.
The NPT, meanwhile, declares that nuclear powers may not, directly or indirectly, under any pretext, familiarize other countries that do not possess nuclear weapons with the operation, storage or production of nuclear weapons.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
Krasnolimansky direction. Drone poachers of the 144th motorized rifle division discovered a pair of wild pigs that had made a cozy nest for themselves right under a power line support.
Due to the fact that the population of this species has grown significantly in recent years, local authorities have issued a permit to shoot these creatures that damage state property.
@vysokygovorit
⚡️ Two Majors
❗️Trump says he’s ‘NOT JOKING’ about possibility of a third term, says ‘there are methods’ for doing it.
“A lot of people want me to do it. But I mean, I basically tell them we have a long way to go, you know, it’s very early in the administration,” Trump told NBC News Sunday.
🔍 What to know about USIP, yet another USAID-style soft power tool dismantled by DOGE
Most of the US Institute of Peace’s 300 staff got pink slip emails Friday following drama involving DOGE and FBI agents and police storming the think tank’s extravagant $111M DC HQ after the White House accused “rogue bureaucrats” of trying to “hold agencies hostage.”
📍Haven for NEOCONS and REGIME CHANGE operators
🔴 Set up in 1984 and lavished with a $55M taxpayer-funded annual budget, USIP has been a haven for neocons, from War on Terror and Iraq architects Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle to Elliott Abrams and Robert Kagan, since its inception.
🔴 After the 2018 death of Gene Sharp, who collaborated with the USIP, USIP praised the veteran regime change operator - whose work helped destabilize entire regions, as “a pioneer of people power.”
📍Meddling in Russia and Ukraine
🔴 In the 90s, USIP funded “training and capacity building” for political actors, media, NGOs and ‘civil society leaders’ in Russia, Ukraine and across Eastern Europe, and offered “policy guidance” to US diplomats in these countries.
🔴 Forced to curtail its activities in Russia in the 2000s, USIP focused its work on Ukraine in the runup to the 2005 and 2014 coups.
🔴 Once the conflict in the Donbass got underway in 2014, then-USIP chief Stephen Hadley urged the US to ramp up arms deliveries to Ukraine and send Russian troops home in “body bags.”
📍SOFT POWER operations and post-invasion nationbuilding
🔴 Besides Eastern Europe, USIP has run its soft power programs in countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East following the Arab Spring (Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen and Syria).
🔴 In countries like Afghanistan and Iraq, the USIP’s activities have included nationbuilding in the wake of the US invasions, from civil society grants to training of the US-backed puppet governments’ officials.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
🏃Ukrainian special operations forces master the art of ‘retreat’
In a stunning display of ‘strategic planning’, the elite 6th Regiment of Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SDF) has reportedly ESCAPED from the Guyevo settlement in Russia's Kursk region, leaving infantry units to fend for themselves.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces command has now perfected the art of pulling back their ELITE UNITS, carefully avoiding direct confrontation with the advancing Russian army.
That is another chapter in the ONGOING SAGA of Ukrainian forces "withdrawing" their top-tier units from the front lines—leaving less experienced troops to bear the brunt.
In December 2024 nearly a thousand soldiers from the Ukrainian 155th Mechanized Brigade reportedly DESERTED as soon as they arrived at their combat positions. More recently, in February of this year, the Ukrainian Armed Forces withdrew an elite Marine battalion from the Sudzha district of Kursk region after it lost more than half its troops.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
📑Pentagon’s playbook: Leaked memo names NEW POTENTIAL THREATS
A nine-page document outlines priorities for senior Pentagon officials and a vision for achieving them, according to The Washington Post. The Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance closely mirrors the Trump administration's conservative "Project 2025" from the Heritage Foundation.
Besides homeland defense, Pete Hegseth’s guidance:
🔴Reorients the US military architecture toward the Indo-Pacific region.
🔴Singles out China as the “sole pacing threat.”
🔴Offers an animated scenario of reaction to a potential invasion of Taiwan by China.
🔴Leaves containing the alleged “Russia threat” as well as perceived threats from North Korea and Iran largely to European allies.
🔴Assumes “risk in other theaters” in Europe and the “near abroad,” including Greenland and the Panama Canal.
🔴Deprioritizes militant threats in the Middle East and Africa, with shifted focus to counterterrorism missions against groups with the capability and intent to strike the US.
Hegseth’s interim guidance added that NATO must take on “far greater” burden sharing now that the US will be reorienting its priorities.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
German Spectrum rocket’s debut test launch from Norway ends in disaster
Isar Aerospace, a German startup space company, attempted the first test launch of its new Spectrum launch vehicle from Norway’s Andoya spaceport. The launch was set to be the first-ever commercial orbital mission from continental Europe (excluding Russia's Plesetsk Cosmodrome).
Just moments after takeoff, the rocket veered off course, lost orientation, and exploded.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
Devastating Myanmar earthquake death toll surges to 1,700
3,400 more injured and 300 still missing, China's Xinhua news agency reports.
The disaster, which shook Myanmar and was felt across Bangladesh, India, Laos, China and Thailand, has prompted countries like Russia and Belarus to send rescue teams to assist in relief efforts.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
✅US-made $500,000 Oshkosh armored vehicle DESTROYED by Russian $500 drones
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
🥇Gold blasts past $3,100 for the FIRST TIME EVER amid trade war jitters
Concerns that Donald Trump’s April 2 reciprocal tariffs could trigger further economic turmoil sent investors rushing to the ultimate safe-haven asset.
Spot gold hit a record high of $3,111.3 an ounce after being up 18% this year alone. ↗️
Goldman Sachs analysts predict another high of $3,300 by year’s end.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
⛔️Mission failed: UK and US helped orchestrate Ukraine’s 2024 Crimean Bridge attack
🔴Western-supplied ATACMS were supposed to “weaken vulnerable points” on the deck of the Crimea Bridge, while maritime drones would then “blow up next to its stanchions,” a New York Times investigation revealed.
🔴The UK helped Ukraine work out a blueprint to “bring the bridge down” together with the US and the CIA.
🔴But while the drones were being readied, the Russians hardened their defenses around the stanchions, wrote the outlet.
🔴The British military had considerable clout in Ukraine, “unlike the Americans, they had placed small teams of officers in the country” shortly after the conflict escalated in 2022.
🔴The US had first pushed back at Ukraine’s plan to strike with missiles alone, but eventually backed down.
🔴On the night of August 16, Russian air defense systems successfully repelled the entire volley of enemy ATACMS missiles.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
💊 Throwback: Bill Gates & WHO were allegedly SECRETLY STERILIZING WOMEN in Africa – Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
💬 "They spent 20 years studying the inclusion of human gonadotropic hormones in tetanus vaccines as a way to STERILIZE WOMEN. Then they included HGH in a tetanus vaccine program that they gave to a MILLION WOMEN without telling them," RFK Jr. revealed.
🚨🤡 Trump invents a ‘PSYCHOLOGICAL DEADLINE’ FOR PUTIN to agree to a ceasefire
🗣 “If I think they're tapping us along, I will not be happy about it,” Trump declared.
Top Trump ally says president is working to ‘obliterate’ Iran’s economy
💬 “President Trump is going to ensure that his maximum pressure campaign on Iran continues to absolutely, abysmally obliterate the Iranian economy and put peace first, peace in the Middle East first,” Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has announced.
💬 “We don’t avoid talks; it’s the breach of promises that has caused issues for us so far,” Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday. “They must prove that they can build trust.”
🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦‼️🚨 Trump threatens secondary tariffs of 25% on all Russian oil!
That means he’s would put tariffs on all of the global south, India, China, South Africa and more … which I think is crazy
"I was very angry, pissed off, when Putin started questioning Zelensky’s credibility and discussing new leadership in Ukraine”
🎥 Never-before-seen video of Putin boarding Russia’s newest nuclear sub
The footage, showing the Russian president and his press secretary Dmitry Peskov boarding the fourth-generation nuclear-powered submarine cruiser Arkhangelsk, was shared by journalist Pavel Zarubin.
To get on board, they had to descend several vertical ladders, with one ladder measuring 5 meters and another 3 meters.
Despite the challenge, President Putin effortlessly made his way in and out of the submarine.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
US HAND in West’s proxy war in Ukraine REVEALED
The depth of US involvement in the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine has been laid bare by a New York Times investigation.
The report found:
1️⃣Secret US Ops in Germany:
🔴 As part of an operation called Task Force Dragon, the US army garrison at Germany’s Wiesbaden military base fed Ukraine targeting coordinates on Russian units, equipment and infrastructure for strikes.
🔴 US and NATO intelligence officers used satellite imagery, radio transmissions and intercepted communications to locate Russian positions.
2️⃣Task Force Dragon vetted and oversaw practically every HIMARS strike by Ukraine.
3️⃣Shifting Red Lines
🔴 The Biden administration ordederd a dozen US military advisers to Kiev, later expanding it to about three dozen.
🔴 Military advisers were then sent to Ukrainian command posts.
🔴 The US Navy was ordered to share targeting information for Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian warships near Crimea in 2022.
🔴 The CIA joined the covert operations to help Ukrainian drones strike Russian vessels in the port of Sevastopol.
🔴 US and Ukrainian military officers jointly planned ‘Operation Lunar Hail’ to launch attacks across Russian Crimea using Western-supplied drones in January 2024.
Bonus: Counteroffensive flop
Political rows within Ukraine, rivalries between Zelensky, then-armed forces chief, General Valery Zaluzhny and Colonel General Oleksandr Syrsky in part fueled the 2023 failed counteroffensive.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
🗳 Zelensky plans SURPRISE election to outmaneuver rivals — report
A Ukrainian presidential election could happen in July, following a full ceasefire which the US believes could be achieved by the end of April, according to British magazine The Economist.
A Ukrainian government source said Volodymyr Zelensky plans to catch his rivals OFF-GUARD by calling a SNAP ELECTION, in the hope that the short time-frame will stop them organizing an effective campaign.
The timing will depend on a vote in the Verkhovna Rada parliament – set for May 8 – on lifting martial law, the first step toward holding elections. Ukrainian law mandates a 60-day election campaign, meaning the earliest possible ballot would be in July.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
US Army vs. Lithuanian swamp: 63-ton tank still winning
Attempts to retrieve four stranded US soldiers and a 63-ton M88A2 Hercules armored recovery vehicle from the Pabrade swamp near the Belarusian border have so far been unsuccessful.
After US Navy divers couldn’t even hook the massive armored vehicle, even the most powerful dredger in Lithuania also got stuck in the muck.
The 63-ton beast is not only sunk but thoroughly stuck in a swampy quagmire.
Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene said a huge patch of sod recently fell on the area, but there's hope – because at least sod is easier to remove. As for the vehicle's exact position? Well, that's still a mystery — they know where it is, just not how deep it’s buried in the mud.
Despite high-tech US military gear like sonar echolocation, they still can’t pinpoint the vehicle’s precise position. It’s like trying to find a needle in a haystack — only the needle weighs 63 tons and is sinking deeper by the minute.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
China sounds ALARM over US Blackrock’s TAKEOVER bid of key Panama ports
The deal by the American conglomerate to buy the facilities from a Hong Kong company CK Hutchison will be reviewed, Chinese antitrust regulator SAMR stated on its website.
Chinese state media has already labelled the potential deal a THREAT to national security.
The planned sale is part of a $22.8 billion deal whereby CK Hutchison had agreed to sell its 80% stake in subsidiaries managing 43 ports across 23 countries to a consortium led by BlackRock and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), the FT reported.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
❗️Trump threatens to BOMB Iran if it doesn't agree to a nuclear deal
💬 "If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing — and it will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before," he said, as cited by NBC.
US cuts funding – WHO cuts staff
The World Health Organization (WHO) is cutting its budget by over 20%, leading to staff reductions and a smaller scope of work, following the US withdrawal of funding, which previously made up 18% of its budget under President Trump’s administration.
The US was the largest financial backer of the global health agency, contributing 18% of its funding. This withdrawal has worsened the WHO’s financial situation, which is already under strain due to reductions in official development assistance by other countries.
The WHO has long faced criticism for its slow and ineffective response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its close ties with certain governments, leading to accusations of a lack of accountability and transparency.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
🔍22nd amendment ‘hack’: Report claims Trump might serve beyond 2029
US President Donald Trump might just stick around until he's 90, thanks to a convenient “loophole” in the US Constitution, according to the Daily Mail.
The 22nd Amendment (1951) says you can’t be president for more than two terms, except – surprise – it doesn’t actually say anything about holding the office multiple times in the event the incumbent president resigns or kicks the bucket.
The publication speculates that the White House is allegedly considering the idea of Vice President J.D. Vance running for president, then stepping down to allow Trump to waltz right back in.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live
✅WATCH: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth checks the physical fitness of American troops in Japan to make sure they're ready to 'counter Chinese aggression'
Hegseth arrived in Japan, his second stop after the Philippines on his first Asian trip.
He announced plans to upgrade the US military command in Japan, a country he described as indispensable in combating "Chinese aggression."
He also stressed the need for both countries to strengthening their military capabilities in the face of China's assertive military actions in the region.
👍 Boost us | Chat | Stickers |@geopolitics_live