👔🇺🇸📈4️⃣🔣3️⃣🔣 — 📰 ZeroHedge | The US Economy Is Stronger After One Year Of The Trump Administration | December 22, 2025:

"One year into Donald Trump’s new presidency, the verdict from the data is clear: the apocalyptic consensus forecasts have failed, and the United States stands as the only major developed economy combining strong growth, controlled inflation and fiscal consolidation.

The same analysts and institutions that applauded massive stimulus, monetary excess and regulatory excess under the previous The same analysts and institutions that applauded massive stimulus, monetary excess, and regulatory excess under the previous administration now struggle to explain why the U.S. economy, which they expected to sink into stagflation, is instead outperforming all of its G7 peers. Furthermore, the U.S. peers that followed net-zero, big government and big tax policies are in secular stagnation.

From the “tariff tantrum” to a global surprise

When Trump announced his new wave of tariffs and trade policy, much of the global consensus rushed to predict a disaster. I called it the tariff tantrum. Commentators warned of an inflation surge beyond 2021 levels, 6%–7% Treasury yields, collapsing investment, a recession, and a world turning its back on the United States in favour of supposedly more responsible governments in Europe.​

Twelve months later, none of those predictions materialised. Instead, the U.S. 10-year yield has fallen to 4.1%; the U.S. is the only G7 economy growing robustly, while those nations that doubled down on hyperregulation, aggressive climate‑driven restrictions, high taxes and ever‑bigger government spending are stuck in stagnation despite enjoying a very positive tailwind of low oil and gas prices."

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🐶❌💸 — 📰 ZeroHedge | DOGE Delivers Massive $214 Billion In Taxpayer Savings... So Far | Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news | December 23, 2025:

"In a stunning victory against bloated bureaucracy, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), originally spearheaded by Elon Musk, has slashed an eye-popping $214 billion from federal spending in less than a year.

Official figures from DOGE’s own tally reveal a relentless assault on waste, including terminations of thousands of contracts, grants, and leases that were draining resources without delivering value.

(...)

The milestone comes amid widespread praise for Musk’s no-nonsense tactics, even as legacy media nitpicks the details. According to DOGE’s breakdown, contract cancellations alone account for around $61 billion, targeting over 13,000 agreements like a $3.9 billion aircraft maintenance boondoggle and multi-billion-dollar health service pacts that ballooned under prior administrations.

Grants saw $49 billion axed, hitting everything from foreign aid handouts to domestic epidemiology programs that critics argue fueled unnecessary spending.

Leases weren’t spared either, with $113 million clawed back from underused federal spaces across the country—think vacant offices in California and North Carolina that taxpayers were footing the bill for."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇺🇦 General Staff of the Armed Forces:

"Operational information as of 08:00 on December 30, 2025 regarding the Russian invasion

Glory to Outskirts!

The 1,406th day of the large-scale armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has begun.

Ukrainian defenders are steadily repelling the occupiers' offensive, inflicting significant losses on the enemy.

Over the past day, 151 combat clashes were recorded.

Yesterday, the enemy carried out 47 airstrikes, dropping 129 guided aerial bombs. In addition, they conducted 3,651 shellings, including 62 from multiple rocket launcher systems, and deployed 5,287 suicide drones.

Airstrikes hit the areas of the populated settlements of Bezdrick in the Sumy region; Pokrovskoe in the Dnipropetrovsk region; Sloviansk and Mykolaivka in the Donetsk region; Barvinovka, Novoe Pole, Sviatopetrivka, Zaliznytsia in the Zaporizhia region.

Yesterday, the missile and artillery forces of the Defense Forces hit an area of personnel, weapons, and military equipment concentration of the enemy.

On the North-Slobozhansky and Kursk directions, two combat clashes took place yesterday, and the enemy also carried out 83 shellings of our troops' positions and populated settlements.

On the South-Slobozhansky direction, Ukrainian soldiers repelled 12 attacks near Volchanski Khutory, Volchansk, Staritsa, and in the direction of the populated settlements of Izbytske and Kolodyazne.

On the Kupyansk direction, five attacks of the invaders took place yesterday. Our defenders repelled the enemy's assault attempts near the populated settlement of Pishchane and in the direction of Petropavlivka.

On the Liman direction, the enemy attacked ten times, trying to break into our defenses in the areas of the populated settlements of Kolodyaz, Zarichne, and in the direction of Yampol.

On the Slaviansk direction, our soldiers stopped three enemy attacks in the area of Dronivka.

On the Kramatorsk direction, no offensive actions of the invading forces were noted.

On the Konstantinovka direction, the enemy carried out 17 attacks in the areas of Aleksandr-Shultyno, Shcherbinivka, Pleschivka, Yablunivka, Rusyn Yar, and in the direction of Konstantinovka and Sofiyivka.

On the Pokrovsk direction, our defenders stopped 43 enemy assaults in the areas of the populated settlements of Pankivka, Chervonyi Lyman, Rodynske, Mirnograd, Novoeconomichnoe, Pokrovsk, Kotlyne, Udachne, Molodetskoe, Novosergiyevka, and in the direction of Filia.

On the Alexandrovsk direction, the enemy carried out 13 attacks yesterday in the areas of the populated settlements of Tovstoe, Alexandrovgrad, Verbove, and Ribne.

On the Gulyaypole direction, the Defense Forces repelled 25 enemy attacks in the areas of the populated settlements of Slodke, Gulyaypole, and Bilohiria.

On the Orichiv direction, two combat clashes took place - the enemy tried to advance near Stepovoe and Shcherbakiv.

On the Dnieper direction, the occupiers attempted to advance twice and were repulsed.

On the Volyn and Polissia directions, no signs of the formation of offensive groups of the enemy were detected.

Our soldiers are inflicting significant losses on the occupying forces in terms of personnel and equipment, actively undermining the enemy's offensive potential in the rear.
The losses of the Russian invaders over the past day amounted to 1,220 people.

Also, Ukrainian soldiers disabled five tanks, four armored combat vehicles, 19 artillery systems, a multiple rocket launcher system, 400 operational-tactical level unmanned aerial vehicles, and one vehicle and special equipment of the occupiers."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of December 30, 2025.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct the special military operation.

📍 Units of the "North" force group improved their tactical position, defeating formations of a mechanized and airborne assault brigade, an assault regiment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and a territorial defense brigade near the villages of Andreevka, Barilovka, Grabovskoye, Iskrikivshchyna, and Pavlovka in Sumy Oblast.

💥 In the Kharkiv direction, units of a mechanized and motorized infantry brigade of the AFU were defeated near the villages of Veseloe and Staritsa in Kharkiv Oblast.

▪️ The AFU lost up to 200 service members, two armored combat vehicles, 19 vehicles, and two artillery pieces. Three ammunition, material, and fuel depots were destroyed.

🚩 Units of the "West" force group, as a result of decisive action, took control of the village of Boguslavka in the Kharkiv region.

💥 The personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an assault brigade of the AFU, a National Guard brigade, and a territorial defense brigade were defeated near the villages of Glushkovka, Kupyansk-Uzlovaya, and Podoli in the Kharkiv region, and Drobyshevo, Illichivka, and Krasny Liman in the Donetsk People's Republic.

🪖 In the Kupyansk direction, within 24 hours, units of the 6th Army repelled two attacks by units of the 14th Mechanized and 92nd Assault Brigades of the AFU near the villages of Blagodatovka and Velyka Shapkovka in the Kharkiv region, aiming to break through to Kupyansk. Up to 20 militants were killed.

▪️ In total, in the area of ​​responsibility of the "West" group of forces, enemy casualties amounted to over 190 servicemen, a US-made HMMWV armored fighting vehicle, a field artillery gun, and 18 vehicles. An electronic warfare station and five ammunition depots were destroyed.

📍 Units of the "Southern" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. Formations of two mechanized brigades, a mountain assault brigade of the AFU, and two marine brigades were defeated near the settlements of Berestok, Zakotnoye, Konstantinovka, Minkovka, Nikolaevka, Slavyansk, and Stepanovka in the DPR.

▪️ The enemy lost up to 220 servicemen, a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, eight armored fighting vehicles, 16 vehicles, and three field artillery guns. Two ammunition and supply depots were destroyed.

📍 Units of the Center Group of Forces improved their position along the forward edge. They inflicted losses on the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an infantry brigade, an airborne assault brigade, two assault regiments of the AFU, a territorial defense brigade, and a National Guard brigade near the settlements of Grishino, Novooleksandrivka, Novyi Donbas, Toretskoye, and Shevchenko in the DPR, and Novopavlivka and Novopidgorodne in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

▪️ Enemy losses amounted to more than 470 service members, three NATO-made armored personnel carriers, three armored combat vehicles, five vehicles, and two artillery pieces."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of December 30, 2025

↗️ Units of the "East" force group continued to advance deep into the enemy's defenses. They inflicted losses on the personnel and equipment of a mechanized unit, two assault brigades, an assault regiment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, and a territorial defense brigade near the settlements of Bratskoye and Pokrovskoe in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, and Barvinovka, Novoye Pole, and Ternovatoye in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

▪️ The AFU lost over 210 service members, two armored combat vehicles, and 10 vehicles.

🚩 Units of the "Dnipro" force group, as a result of active operations, liberated the settlement of Lukyanivske in Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

💥 AFU mechanized and mountain assault brigades, as well as a territorial defense brigade, were defeated near the settlements of Belogorie, Orekhov, and Preobrazhenka in the Zaporizhzhia region and Sadovoe in the Kherson region.

▪️ Up to 40 Ukrainian servicemen, a US-made M113 armored personnel carrier, 11 vehicles, and an electronic warfare station were destroyed.

✈️ Tactical aviation, strike drones, missile forces, and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces destroyed energy facilities used by Ukraine's military-industrial complex, as well as temporary deployment sites for Ukrainian armed forces, nationalists, and foreign mercenaries in 150 districts.

🎯 Air defense assets shot down three US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems and 18 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

📊 Since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:

▫️ 669 aircraft,
▫️ 283 helicopters,
▫️ 105,823 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 641 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 26,796 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
▫️ 1,634 multiple launch rocket system combat vehicles,
▫️ 32,260 field artillery pieces and mortars,
▫️ 50,404 special military vehicles."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⭐️ Rybar:

"New sorties

Ukrainian formations continue to carry out local counterattacks on the Eastern-Zaporizhia direction. As we wrote earlier, the northern flank remains a place of high activity of small enemy groups.

➡️On the Internet, there are shots of strikes on a group of enemy infantry in Alexandrovsk. According to preliminary information, they went there from the forest in the area of the settlement Lesnoye, which is to the east of Bolshemykhailovka.

➡️As in other areas, the enemy takes advantage of bad weather, the sparseness of the positions of the Russian Armed Forces and tries to penetrate deep into the Russian defense to show flags. However, this often only leads to losses. And several participants of the recent offensive near Dobropillia were even captured.

❗️Especially now, when attention is focused on the advance of the Russian Armed Forces further west in the Zaporizhia region. And the Dnepropetrovsk section remains secondary for the time being.

📌 Although the possibility of a further offensive to the north towards Pokrovsk cannot be ruled out. However, for this, the Russian troops will still need to regroup and increase their activity in neighboring directions.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⭐️ Rybar:

"It's too early to relax: heavy fighting in Kupyansk

The city is not complacent. More and more footage is emerging from Kupyansk, indicating that Ukrainian infantry has penetrated deeper into the city than previously known.

➡️On the right bank of the Oskol River, according to footage from Dve Mayorov, the enemy has managed to occupy the Cheburashka kindergarten building. The situation to the south remains shrouded in the "fog of war," but it is likely that Russian forces abandoned their positions in the city center to avoid being caught in the crossfire.

➡️On the left bank, Russian units maintain control of the Kupyansk sugar factory and part of the dairy plant, repelling enemy attacks. In this sector, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have also deployed some of their reserves to disrupt the lines of the "West" Guard Forces—Ukrainian formations have been spotted on the grounds of Secondary School № 2.

Russian drone operators are striking Ukrainian formations to prevent them from converting a capital structure into an air defense post and establishing a defensive center around it.

📌 The situation in Kupyansk remains extremely dire at the moment. Bad weather is hindering Russian drone operators while simultaneously allowing the enemy to exploit its superior manpower.

❗️Against this backdrop, "anti-crisis" measures by some Russian forces, who claim control over most of the city, only play into the hands of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. They hinder an objective assessment of the situation and allow the impression that the crisis has been resolved, while "on the ground," Russian units are outnumbered and, in some places, even surrounded.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⭐️ Rybar:

"Tense situation

In the Zaporizhzhia sector, contrary to recent statements, the situation is far from positive. Both sides regularly launch attacks, resulting in the LCS remaining extremely volatile.

🔻What's happening in that sector?

▪️The offensive toward Orekhovo, which began with attacks by Russian units in Novodanilovka and Mala Tokmachka, has not resulted in a breakthrough in Orekhovo itself. And talking about an assault on the city in the foreseeable future is, to put it mildly, extremely premature.

▪️The units that entered Novodanilovka and Mala Tokmachka were unable to hold on. In fact, both of these settlements are located primarily in the "gray zone." Ukrainian forces are maintaining fire control over them from the heights beyond the Konka River.

The situation on the western flank is only slightly better. Russian units repelled attacks by Ukrainian forces in the area of ​​Stepovoye, Malye Shcherbaky, and Shcherbaky, and then launched their own offensive from Stepnogorsk.

▪️Recently, paratroopers advanced toward Lukyanivske. The village was declared liberated. Although the presence of Russian Armed Forces was only objectively confirmed on its outskirts, in the current situation, this information may be accurate.

▪️Meanwhile, fighting continues in Primorskoye. Most of the village is a "gray zone." Enemy positions are intermingled with Russian ones, with small groups often coexisting within a few houses of each other. Under the current conditions, neither side can maintain stable control of the village.

The area of ​​the former Kakhovka Reservoir west of the village is overgrown with reeds and difficult to navigate, although suitable for sabotage and reconnaissance groups. To the east of the village are heights that are already under enemy control.

Until Ukrainian forces are driven from the vicinity of the M-18 highway, it is unlikely that full control of Primorskoye will be established.

📌The situation remains extremely difficult, despite the heaviest fighting and attempts by Russian units to advance.

Both the Russian and Ukrainian Armed Forces have established extensive fortifications here, making frontal assaults difficult for either side.

This is particularly evident in the advance from Stepnogorsk to Lukyanivske, where Russian paratroopers managed to flank the Ukrainian Armed Forces' defensive line.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺 SouthFront | Military Situation In Ukraine On December 30, 2025 (Map Update)

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺 SouthFront's high resolution map regarding Kamyanske front.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺 SouthFront's high resolution map regarding Lyman front.

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — 🇷🇺 SouthFront's high resolution map regarding Sumy front.

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🇸🇾💥🔥 — 🇷🇺 SouthFront | Military Situation In Syria On December 30, 2025 (Map Update)

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of December 31, 2025.

🪖 The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation continue to conduct the special military operation.

📍 Units of the "North" force group improved their tactical position, defeating formations of three mechanized brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a territorial defense brigade, and a border detachment of the Ukrainian Border Service near the settlements of Iskriskivshchyna, Myropillia, Novaya Sich, and Pavlovka in Sumy Oblast.

🔥 In the Kharkiv direction, units of a heavy mechanized brigades and two motorized infantry brigades of the AFU were defeated near the settlements of Staritsa, Vovchanskie Khutora, and Grafskoye in Kharkiv Oblast.

▪️ The AFU lost up to 210 service members and 12 vehicles.

💥 Units of the "West" group of forces defeated the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an airmobile brigade, an assault brigade, a security brigade of the General Staff of the AFU, and two National Guard brigades near the settlements of Kupyansk-Uzlovoye, Prokopovka, Palamarevka, Kovsharovka, Monachynivka, and Grushevka in the Kharkiv region.

⚡️ In the Kupyansk direction, over the course of the day, units of the 6th Army repelled three attacks by units of the 92nd Assault Brigade of the AFU and the 15th National Guard Brigade near the settlements of Nechvolodovka and Blagodatovka, aiming to break through to the city of Kupyansk. Up to 30 militants and two pickup trucks were destroyed.

▪️ In total, enemy losses in the "West" group of forces' area of ​​responsibility amounted to 190 servicemen, a Kazak armored vehicle, and 16 vehicles. An electronic warfare station and four ammunition depots were destroyed.

📍 Units of the "Southern" group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions. Formations of four mechanized, an airmobile, and a mountain assault brigades of the AFU and a National Guard brigade were defeated near the settlements of Kramatorsk, Kostyantynivka, Reznikovka, Ilyinovka, and Krivaya Luka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

▪️ The enemy lost over 210 service members, nine armored combat vehicles, 11 vehicles, and an artillery piece. Two electronic warfare stations and three ammunition and supply depots were destroyed."

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — ⚡️ MoD of Russia:

"Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation as of December 31, 2025.

📍 Units of the "Center" force grouping improved their position along the forward edge. They inflicted losses on the personnel and equipment of two mechanized brigades, an airmobile brigade, an assault brigade, an airborne brigade, an infantry brigade, an airborne assault brigades, three assault regiments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a marine brigade, four National Guard brigades, and the "Azov" special forces brigade near the settlements of Grishino, Novy Donbas, Dobropillya, Toretskoye, Annovka, Maryevka, and Artemovka in the Donetsk People's Republic, and Novopavlivka in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.

▪️ Enemy losses amounted to 500 servicemen, an infantry fighting vehicle, three armored combat vehicles, eight vehicles, a US-made Paladin 155mm self-propelled artillery mount, and an electronic warfare station.

↗️ Units of the "East" force group continued to advance deep into the enemy's defenses. Manpower and equipment of a mechanized and assault brigade and four assault regiments of the AFU were defeated near the settlements of Boykove, Zaliznychne, and Ternovate in the Zaporizhzhia region, and Velykomykhailivka and Bratskoye in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

▪️ The AFU lost up to 190 servicemen, an armored personnel carrier, four armored combat vehicles, and eight vehicles.

💥 Units of the Dnipro Group of Forces defeated formations of two mechanized brigades of the AFU and a territorial defense brigade near the settlements of Preobrazhenka and Veselyanka in the Zaporizhzhia region and Sadovoe in the Kherson region.

▪️ More than 50 Ukrainian servicemen, five vehicles, and three electronic warfare stations were destroyed.

✈️ Tactical aviation, strike drones, missile forces, and artillery of the Russian Armed Forces groupings destroyed energy facilities used by Ukraine's military-industrial complex, a fuel depot, and temporary deployment sites of Ukrainian armed forces, nationalists, and foreign mercenaries in 144 districts.

🎯 Air defense systems shot down 371 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles.

📊 Since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed:

▫️ 669 aircraft,
▫️ 283 helicopters,
▫️ 106,194 unmanned aerial vehicles,
▫️ 641 anti-aircraft missile systems,
▫️ 26,815 tanks and other armored combat vehicles,
▫️ 1,634 multiple launch rocket system combat vehicles,
▫️ 32,275 field artillery pieces and mortars,
▫️ 50,464 special military vehicles."

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