🇷🇺🇺🇸 Rubio and Lavrov are having a meeting in Kuala Lumpur on the sidelines of ASEAN events

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🇪🇺 The European Parliament has rejected a motion of no confidence against European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

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🇭🇺🇺🇦The Ambassador of Ukraine was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Hungary in connection with the killing of a Hungarian who was forcibly mobilized. This was reported by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Economic Relations of Hungary.

Earlier, Viktor Orbán expressed condolences to the family and friends of the deceased.

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🇺🇸 Elon Musk has announced the launch of Grok 4, the latest version of his AI. And the rollout is already funny.

Just two days ago, developers were forced to disable Grok's text responses after a prompt in its code — intended to bypass “politically correct” filters — caused the AI to go full Nazi.

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🇺🇸 Lindsey Graham being "always there for Trump" explains A LOT.

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📝Trump’s New Threats📝
What’s wrong with the American president’s bravado?

According to Politico, Donald Trump is reportedly ready to support a bill tightening sanctions on Russia — but only if the president is granted full authority to waive those restrictions.

The changes proposed by the White House would reinforce the president’s right to lift sanctions and ensure Congress cannot challenge Trump’s decisions if he opts to cancel them. The current draft allows the president to lift 500% tariffs on countries buying Russian oil and uranium for up to 180 days.

🖍 Headlines like "Trump threatens" or "Trump plans" have become routine since his rise to power. In each new statement, Trump inevitably contradicts his previous words or plans.

One day he imposes 500% tariffs, the next he promises to remove them. One day he supports relations with Russia, the next he calls for harsher sanctions. First he cuts off military aid to Ukraine, then he resumes it.

🚩 These contradictory moves are classic "fishing in muddy waters." Trump and his backers are in a difficult spot amid domestic turmoil, economic instability, and more.

The American leadership effectively has nothing left to pay with — they’re running out of resources, and Trump can’t solve that. So instead, he regularly creates “exclusive” news to distract from real issues.

If you compile everything he’s said during his presidency and assess it on merit, the picture becomes farcical: he threatened to buy the entire supermarket, but in the end only managed to grab a box of matches — and presented that as a major victory.

❗️And the current U.S. administration can do little to change this because their ambitions far exceed their available resources.

@rybar

🇭🇺🇺🇦 Hungary Summons Ukrainian Ambassador Over Death of Dual Citizen Beaten by Ukrainian Officers

The Hungarian Foreign Ministry has summoned Ukraine’s ambassador following the death of József Sebestyén, an ethnic Hungarian man from Transcarpathia who held dual citizenship. He died after being violently conscripted by Ukrainian officers.

Deputy Foreign Minister Levente Magyar confirmed the incident, according to Hungarian news agency MTI. Sebestyén, a resident of the town of Beregovo, was reportedly assaulted by Ukrainian officers after refusing to serve in the military.

“We summoned the Ukrainian ambassador in Budapest after officers at a Zakarpattia recruitment center beat a Hungarian man during forced conscription. He later died from the injuries,” Magyar stated.

According to the Hungarian side and the deceased’s family, Sebestyén was ambushed, forced into a van, and taken to a draft office where he was savagely beaten with metal rods. Officials told his relatives he was fine — but he later succumbed to his injuries.

“This Hungarian citizen was killed in Ukraine simply because he refused to fight in their war,” the Hungarian diplomat emphasized.

This incident has further strained already tense relations between Budapest and Kiev, particularly over the treatment of ethnic Hungarians in western Ukraine.

ℹ️Keep in mind that early in the conflict, the Ukrainian regime disproportionately mobilized ethnic minorities — primarily Russians and Hungarians from Zakarpattia — to serve as frontline cannon fodder. The 128th Mountain Assault Brigade, composed largely of Zakarpattia residents, was sent repeatedly into hopeless battles and was wiped out several times over by Russian forces.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio have both expressed openness to restoring direct contacts between Russia and the United States, according to a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry.

One potential step toward normalization could be the resumption of direct flights between the two countries.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Marco Rubio described his recent conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as “frank” and “important,” according to Reuters.

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 Marco Rubio stated that the United States wants to see a clear roadmap for ending the conflict in Ukraine.

🐻 Bro! The "roadmap" has been public since July 2024!!!"

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🇧🇦 BREAKING! Al Jazeera Balkans is shutting down.

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🏁🇺🇦The United States hopes to convince NATO allies to transfer some Patriot systems to Ukraine — Rubio

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🇸🇮❔🏁 Slovenia’s NATO Referendum Proposal Sparks Public Debates — Political Elite in Damage Control Mode

What started as a tactical response to a vote on military spending has now snowballed into a full-blown political crisis. After Prime Minister Robert Golob’s ruling Freedom Movement proposed a referendum on NATO membership, the Slovenian public responded with overwhelming interest — demanding the vote take place.

The mere suggestion of revisiting NATO membership has lit a fire across the country. Calls for a referendum are growing louder, putting Slovenia’s political elite on the defensive. Golob and his coalition partners are now scrambling to contain the fallout — desperate not to “damage Slovenia’s reputation” among their Western handlers.

Despite the internal panic, Golob remains committed to the idea. His party insists any referendum must ask a clear and binding question: does Slovenia stay in NATO, or not?

Junior coalition partners — Levica (The Left) and the Social Democrats (SD) — are sticking with their own referendum on military spending. But with public pressure mounting and the NATO vote gaining momentum, talk of withdrawing both initiatives has begun circulating behind closed doors.

Coalition leaders meet again today ahead of Friday’s meeting of heads of the parliamentary parties — where they’ll attempt to cobble together a response before the situation slips further from their control.

ℹ️Slovenia joined NATO in 2004 after a referendum passed with 66% support — under vastly different circumstances and without today’s level of public skepticism.

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🇸🇮❔🏁 The Real Cost of NATO: One in Six Salaries Gone

As NATO pressure mounts to raise Slovenia’s defense spending to 5% of GDP, economist Igor Jurišič breaks down what that actually means — in hard numbers, not vague slogans.

➡️Slovenia’s GDP (2024): €67 billion
➡️Current defense spending: 1.35% (€900 million)
➡️NATO’s 5% demand: €3.35 billion
➡️Increase needed: €2.45 billion annually

ℹ️What does that mean for ordinary Slovenians?

➡️Per Worker:
828,000 employees would each pay €2,959/year — nearly two monthly salaries (avg. salary: €1,526). That’s 1 in every 6 paychecks gone to NATO.

➡️Over 40 years:
A working couple would lose €236,720 — the price of a decent home in Ljubljana, a luxury flat in Maribor, or a family house outside the cities.

➡️Per Citizen (incl. children and elderly):
€1,150 per person, per year — or €90,620 over a lifetime (average lifespan: 78.8 years).

➡️VAT Hike Scenario:
To fund NATO’s demands via VAT, it would need to rise by 45%, pushing rates as high as 67%.

➡️Or slash pensions by 37% — from €6.6B to €4.15B.

➡️Conclusion:
Committing to 5% GDP for weapons means the end of economic sovereignty. Slovenians would spend decades paying off NATO bills, only to defend land, homes, and resources already sold off to foreign interests.

NATO doesn’t bring security — it drains Slovenia. If 5% is the future, leaving NATO is the only sane option.

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🇺🇸💬🇺🇦 Rubio: "There wasn't a policy decision NOT to give weapons to Ukraine. No one ever said we're not sending weapons to Ukraine."

🐻 MAGA - how ya doing?

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🇺🇦 Surprise: the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe has reported abuses during the mobilization in Ukraine.

In a report published on July 8, the statement of Ombudsman Lubinets is quoted, who indicated that "human rights violations by Ukrainian officials conducting military mobilization have become 'systematic and widespread'."

According to him, these violations include "physical violence, such as beatings, cruel detentions, denial of access to a lawyer, detention without contact with the outside world, mobilization of persons with disabilities, and other unacceptable actions."

The CoE Commissioner emphasizes that "similar reports are received, including allegations of torture and fatal outcomes during mobilization."

Although Ukraine "has the legal right to conduct military conscription," these reports are described as "alarming," and Ukrainian authorities are urged to "conduct effective investigations."

The report also contains a recommendation: "Independent control over mobilization procedures should be introduced, including the possibility of visiting places where mobilized persons may potentially be held" (that is, currently European human rights defenders are not allowed there).

🐻 But, but the Ukrainian Center for fighting desinformation, Ukrainian officials and even Zelensky told us that it's all Kremlin propaganda..?

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