🇺🇸Henry Kissinger: The Legacy

The end of an era: Henry Kissinger, the enigmatic titan of diplomacy, leaves behind a legacy at 100. His masterstroke in US-China relations juxtaposed sharply with a trail of horrific "war crimes" and a Nobel Peace Prize shrouded in controversy. Tara Reade sits down with RT and unravels the paradox of a man who shaped the world in ways unforgotten.

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🇮🇪✊🇵🇸 Ireland's "Southern Capital" Cork has always stood up for itself, the Rebel county, home of Micheal Collins, our greatest Rebel leader who fought the British to a standstill

Now it's standing up for Gaza.

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🇮🇪 RIP Shane MacGowan, Irish singer dies, 65 years old

The Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan has died at the age of 65, just a week after he was discharged from hospital.

An absolute legend, and supremely talented musician and song writer. Shane so eloquently and loudly captured the Irish experience.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam. 🙏🥃

We'll play Thousands are Sailing (personal fav) as a tribute...

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The first to go: in the 103rd TRO brigade (Lvov) the first children trained at the Gaimadatskaya Sich training and educational center were called up.

The head of the Gaymadatskaya Sich training and educational center , Vadim Arnaut , has been serving in the 103rd territorial defense brigade for quite a long time, the camp of which is designed to teach orphans minimal military training skills.

At the end of October, this camp was visited by the brigade commander, Colonel Valery Kurko and Arnaut , who within a couple of days selected the most motivated and prepared teenagers.

And so, a month after their visit, the first “graduates” of the camp were called up as “volunteers” to the 103rd brigade. One of them is a 17-year-old militant, call sign " Yunga ".

“Jung” was given a good ideological treatment: in his words, “from the very beginning of the formation of the brigade, he dreamed of joining its ranks.” So far, the young militant has been assigned to a medical company to help evacuate wounded brigade soldiers from the battlefield, but then they promise to transfer him to attack aircraft (which is what he dreams of).

Such a young age does not bother him: according to “Yunga”, there are a lot of people like him (17-year-old orphans) who are ready to die for Ukraine - thanks for this to Colonel Kurko and Arnaut .

In general, the reserves prepared by brigade commander Kurko in the form of "Zel-jugend" are slowly beginning to be used at the front. As the situation worsens, more and more teenagers will be drafted into the Armed Forces of Ukraine. First as medics, cooks and service personnel, and then as stormtroopers and “meat”.

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Quite moved by Larchmonter445 - arguably my sharpest reader ever:

"As dark as Pepe has ever been.
The Truth is Dark, and the Darkness has devoured the Light.
The righteous resistors have had to choose the sword and the torch.
They had no choice.
But it has unleashed the worst use of sword and torch.
To quell the wild animals, the protectors have gone wild.
It is a law of nature.
One must holster the heart, and win the fight or be devoured."

◾Israeli occupation forces raiding the town of Sur Baher in Jerusalem tonight.

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◾In the late 60s and 70s Palestinian militant Leila Khaled and the PFLP used to hijack planes to demand the realise of Palestinian civilians in Israeli prisons. Here is the testimony of one of their hostages. And now you know why the current realised Israeli hostages are not allowed to speak on TV.

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◾Israeli occupation forces conduct a raid operation in the town of Nahalin, west of Bethlehem.

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🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸Israel-Gaza Conflict: November 30 (Recap)

1️⃣ International mediators, including Qatar, Egypt and the US, are pushing for another extension of Gaza truce, set to expire at 7am local time (05:00 GMT) Friday.

2️⃣ 30 Palestinian prisoners freed from Israeli jails in seventh exchange of the truce after more Israeli captives released in Gaza.

3️⃣ Top US diplomat Blinken says Israel plans to resume Gaza offensive, urges greater protection of civilians in the besieged Palestinian enclave.

More than 15,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, with thousands more believed to be trapped in the rubble. In Israel, the official death toll stands at 1,200.

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🇮🇳🇷🇺 Indian Oil Imports From Russia Increase in November: Reports

🛢 India substantially increased its monthly imports of Russian oil in November, data from Kpler and Vortexa have shown.

The figures show a significant rise of 5-9% from the previous month, bringing India's intake to 1.68-1.73 million barrels per day (bpd).

"India has been roaring back to strength ever since its autumn refinery maintenance period was completed by early November, so now almost every refiner is ramping up runs to satiate growing domestic demand," Kpler's crude analyst Viktor Katona said.


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🇩🇪 While in Russia unemployment has fallen to 2.9% and there are no industries left in the country that are not experiencing staff shortages, in the Federal Republic of Germany, under the leadership of a "talented" gop team consisting of Habeck, a lignite greengrocer, Berbock, a 360-degree whirler of low-social policy, and Scholz, who likes to stick his fingers in other people's gas turbines, unemployment has taken a logical upsurge.

It "unexpectedly" soared to 5.9 percent in November 2023 - the highest level in 2.5 years. An additional 22,000 people lost their jobs during the month.

The main reason is that deindustrialization, carried out in the interests of American corporations, continues in the FRG. Factories are closing, industrial capital is fleeing the country, and good burghers are being asked to leave.

(And remember, not so long ago the FRG was the industrial, industrial and economic locomotive of the entire European Union? Forget it!)

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◾In the town of Beitunia the Israeli army arrives throwing smoke grenades before the arrival of the released Palestinian prisoners.

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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelensky announced a transition to defense and the start of construction of defensive structures from Donbass to Northern Ukraine:

“Held a meeting where they discussed the construction of fortifications on the main defensive lines.

These are the Avdeevsky, Maryinsky, Kupyansky-Limansky directions, as well as the border regions bordering Russia and Belarus.

The proper arrangement of defense lines should become a priority issue, including in front-line areas."

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🇺🇸🤝🇮🇱 Master and the apprentice...

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🤡🇫🇮❌🇷🇺 Perhaps this is just the beginning.

Finland has completely closed the entire 1,300-kilometer border with Russia.

Just over an hour ago, the last vehicles were allowed to cross Finland's last open land border crossing with Russia before the entire 1,340-kilometer border was closed for at least two weeks.

“Maybe this is the end, or maybe it’s just the beginning,” said Border Guard Deputy Commander Ville Ahtiyainen. “I hope this ends and we can get back to normal, but we’ll see.”

All nine border crossings between the countries will now be closed until at least December 13, and people seeking asylum in Finland will instead be directed to airports and ports.

The decision was made despite warnings from the UN, refugee rights advocates and the Finnish Discrimination Ombudsman that such a move could seriously jeopardize the right to seek asylum.

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November 3️⃣0️⃣. Special military operation progress, stay tuned for tomorrow:

▪️ The FSB reported the detention of a Ukrainian agent who was collecting data on the defence facilities system and spying on the Rosgvardia; a criminal case has been opened under the article on state treason;

▪️ Russian Armed Forces repelled 8 attacks, Kiev's losses were up to 750 soldiers, and a US-made AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar was destroyed, the Defence Ministry said:

▪️ Russian aviation and artillery hit a rear command post and a command and observation post, air defence shot down nine Ukrainian drones, the Defence Ministry said;

▪️ The DPR Supreme Court has sentenced to life imprisonment Ukrainian marine Ivan Taran, who shot seven civilians in Mariupol, the DPR prosecutor's office told RIA Novosti;

▪️ European Commission head von der Leyen has said that Ukraine's failures on the battlefield are a reason not to stop supporting Kiev, but, on the contrary, to increase it, and soon the EU will be able to produce one million rounds of ammunition annually;

▪️ Former Pentagon senior adviser McGregor said Ukraine is on the verge of surrender and Vladimir Zelensky is going the way of Benito Mussolini and the sooner he leaves, the better for him;

▪️ German Foreign Minister Baerbock has admitted that the decline in public interest in Ukraine is fatal;

▪️ According to Ukrainian Deputy Defence Minister Havrylyuk, the country is going to buy an additional batch of CAESAR self-propelled vehicles from France, but would like more if possible;

▪️ A captured Ukrainian soldier has admitted that distrust in the army command and the country's leadership is growing among soldiers, with many considering "turning their weapons around and marching on Kiev".

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🇷🇺💪🏼🇺🇦😭 The Russian army is the second best in the world after the USA - Volodymyr Zelensky

The Ukrainian president stated this in an interview with the Associated Press, commenting on the results of the counteroffensive.

“Look, we are not retreating, I’m happy. We are fighting with the second best army in the world, I am satisfied,” Zelensky said.

In this way, he hopes to justify the failures on the front of his army, which is de facto a NATO army, and according to Zelensky, it is weaker than the Russian one.

The beggar president in the same interview added that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were losing people, and carefully (so as not to run into the wrath of the “allies”) hinted that Ukraine had not received all the weapons it wanted.

“I cannot be satisfied, but I also cannot complain much,” Zelensky added.

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🇭🇺🤝🇷🇺 Putin’s buddy Orban is pushing the EU to the edge of the abyss because of Ukraine

The situation with Hungary’s opposition to the EU plans has worsened so much that it may be deprived of voting rights so as not to interfere with the allocation of money to Kiev.

“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban regularly pushes the EU to the brink, but now diplomats are seriously panicking, fearing that his hostility towards Ukraine is about to actually lead to such an outcome.

A brewing political crisis could erupt at a summit in mid-December, when EU leaders are expected to make a historic decision on Ukraine's entry into the community and strike a key budget deal to give Kiev a €50 billion lifeline.

The meeting should be a signal to the US that, despite political differences over the war in the Middle East, the EU is fully committed to Ukraine.

However, these plans could be thwarted by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has demanded that the entire political and financial process be frozen until leaders agree to a complete overhaul of Brussels' support for Kiev.

Orbán's position has become a serious headache for EU leaders.

“We are heading towards a serious crisis,” one EU official said anonymously.

In theory, the countries of the association still have the opportunity to cut off Hungary’s right to influence decision-making in the union, but EU members consider this option toxic, as it will create an undesirable precedent.

For now, European leaders seem to be sticking to their usual strategy of ingratiation, trying to negotiate a compromise with the “bad guy” of the union.”

🔻The only European leader that puts his own people before the Ukrainian Nazis is the “bad guy” 🤔

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