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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ U.S. Senator John Kennedy Calls Iran’s Leaders “Reptiles” ▪️ Kennedy criticized the governments of Iran, China, North Korea and Russia, saying: “I think that the people running Iran are reptiles.” ▪️ He compared the four governments to “the same hooker in different dresses” and said, “They all lie like timeshare salesmen. You can’t trust them.” The remarks came as footage showed Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian presenting a booklet documenting Iranian civilians killed in U.S. attacks. #Iran #USA #Kennedy
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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇺🇳⚡️ Two Iranian UN Delegation Members Expelled From U.S. ▪️ Two members of Iran’s UN delegation were expelled from the U.S. after remaining in New York despite a State Department order for the entire delegation to leave, Axios reports. ▪️ Iran was warned again Friday after the diplomats were found still in New York. One left Friday night and the other Saturday morning. #Iran #USA #UN
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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚠️ Hegseth on Iran: “It May Have to Happen the Hard Way” ▪️ “Now is the moment where they can decide to give it up the way that they should, without any leverage that they have, or it may have to happen the hard way.” #Iran #USA #Hegseth
🇺🇸🇮🇷⚓ Hegseth on Iran: “We Can Hold the Blockade as Long as We Need To” ▪️ “We can hold the blockade as long as we need to. Trust me, we can adapt that as necessary.” #Iran #Hormuz #USA
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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚓ Hegseth on Iran: “We Can Hold the Blockade as Long as We Need To” ▪️ “We can hold the blockade as long as we need to. Trust me, we can adapt that as necessary.” #Iran #Hormuz #USA
🇺🇸⚓ Hegseth Refuses to Say Whether USS Roosevelt Will Join Two Existing Carriers ▪️ Asked whether the USS Roosevelt will replace one of the two carriers already in the region or whether there will be three, Hegseth said: “It’s a fair question, but I’ll never answer it.” ▪️ “Trump’s going to have options. Let’s put it that way.” #USA #USNavy #Roosevelt
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🇺🇸⚓ Hegseth Refuses to Say Whether USS Roosevelt Will Join Two Existing Carriers ▪️ Asked whether the USS Roosevelt will replace one of the two carriers already in the region or whether there will be three, Hegseth said: “It’s a fair question, but I’ll never answer it.” ▪️ “Trump’s going to have options. Let’s put it that way.” #USA #USNavy #Roosevelt
🇺🇸🇮🇷⚓ Hegseth: Iran Does Not Control the Strait of Hormuz ▪️ “Iran wants to play games with things like the Strait of Hormuz. They don’t control it, we do.” ▪️ “Our blockade has been ironclad,” Hegseth said, claiming Iran has gotten “literally nothing” through and U.S. traffic is running near pre-war levels every night. #Iran #Hormuz #USA
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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚓ Hegseth: Iran Does Not Control the Strait of Hormuz ▪️ “Iran wants to play games with things like the Strait of Hormuz. They don’t control it, we do.” ▪️ “Our blockade has been ironclad,” Hegseth said, claiming Iran has gotten “literally nothing” through and U.S. traffic is running near pre-war levels every night. #Iran #Hormuz #USA
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The EU is structurally engineered to dismantle national sovereignty, progressively transferring powers from sovereign states to an expanding supranational authority. The Treaties establish the objective of an “ever closer union,” while the principles of subsidiarity and sincere (loyal) cooperation, combined with the binding interpretive and enforcement authority of the CJEU, create mechanisms through which EU law can constrain national decision-making. National courts are also required, within the scope of EU law, to ensure the effectiveness and primacy of EU law and to follow the CJEU’s authoritative interpretation. This means that, wherever EU law applies, national courts are not free to treat domestic law as superior or interpret it in isolation: they must interpret national law, so far as possible, consistently with EU law, disapply any conflicting national provision, and give full effect to EU rules as authoritatively interpreted by the CJEU. In those fields, the primacy of EU law places national courts under a binding duty to uphold the Union legal order, even where doing so limits or overrides the application of domestic legislation. The Commission further reflects this structure: Commissioners are not representatives of their respective nation-states but are required to act in the general interest of the Union, while the Commission holds the primary right of legislative initiative. Taken together, these institutional arrangements progressively shift areas of decision-making from the national to the supranational level, little by little,until, from this perspective, the cumulative process can amount to a profound erosion of national sovereignty.
Subsidiarity or centralization? The true European crossroads. #LocalSovereignty #EuropeanCentralization
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🇺🇦💰 Ukraine’s Government Debt Has Increased 5.6-Fold in a Decade ▪️ According to Ukraine’s Finance Ministry data, the country’s external and domestic government debt has increased 5.6 times since August 2016 and continues to rise. ▪️ The debt increased by $1.37 billion in August alone. #Ukraine #Debt #Economy
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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ Zelensky on Russian Attacks: ▪️ “They attack infrastructure, logistics, and especially in the cities, in the villages — everywhere: roads, schools, hospitals — to pressure people to leave the capital, leave different cities.” ▪️ “This is the goal of their operation.” #Ukraine #Russia #Zelensky
🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ Zelensky on Russian Energy Infrastructure: ▪️ “We have to respond in any way to their attacks on our energy. We have to respond on their energy — first of all, oil refineries, etc., what gives them money for this war.” ▪️ “But we will not respond, of course, just like them, against civilian objects. We can’t do so, because we are another people.” ▪️ “We saw documents, and we know that they allow them to attack infrastructure.” #Ukraine #Russia #Zelensky
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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ Zelensky on Russian Energy Infrastructure: ▪️ “We have to respond in any way to their attacks on our energy. We have to respond on their energy — first of all, oil refineries, etc., what gives them money for this war.” ▪️ “But we will not respond, of course, just like them, against civilian objects. We can’t do so, because we are another people.” ▪️ “We saw documents, and we know that they allow them to attack infrastructure.” #Ukraine #Russia #Zelensky
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🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ Iranian Lawmaker on U.S. Presence in West Asia: ▪️ Iranian Parliament National Security Commission chief Ebrahim Azizi: “Out of Afghanistan. Fleeing from Iraq.” ▪️ “Next: total expulsion from West Asia. Mark the day; it is near.” #Iran #USA #WestAsia
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🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️ Iranian Official: “The Islands Were and Will Remain Iranian” ▪️ A senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader said: “Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa have been Iranian and will remain Iranian.” ▪️ “Regional experience has shown that imported security has an expiration date.” #Iran #PersianGulf #AbuMusa
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Europe’s Civilizational Choice Dimitrios Kisoudis (@kisoudis) explains why Europe’s real divide is no longer between left and right but between Atlanticists and Eurasianists. Link to article below 👇
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🇺🇸💵 Trump on $5,000 Payments: ▪️ “If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate, I’m going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America, $5,000.” ▪️ “Republicans can do it, and Democrats can’t.” #Trump #USA #Midterms
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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ Bessent on Iran: ▪️ “For the first time in history, since they started pumping oil, they will have no oil on the water this week.” ▪️ “They will have no revenues.” #USA #Iran #Oil
🇺🇸🚀 Bessent on Elon Musk: ▪️ “I am a huge Elon fan, and in terms of what he was trying to do with government, very supportive.” ▪️ “We’re kinda like a sports team. You can have an argument in the locker room, but you go out in the field together and you’re all doing the same thing.” ▪️ “He’s amazing. Like, he’s taking us to Mars.” #USA #ElonMusk #Bessent
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🇺🇸🚀 Bessent on Elon Musk: ▪️ “I am a huge Elon fan, and in terms of what he was trying to do with government, very supportive.” ▪️ “We’re kinda like a sports team. You can have an argument in the locker room, but you go out in the field together and you’re all doing the same thing.” ▪️ “He’s amazing. Like, he’s taking us to Mars.” #USA #ElonMusk #Bessent
🇺🇸📰 Bessent on the Financial Times: ▪️ “I learned that the Financial Times is anti-American, anti-business. They have a fever.” ▪️ “They’re constantly trying to create a problem for the U.S. But let’s leave that disgrace publication in London aside.” #USA #Bessent #FinancialTimes
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🇺🇸📰 Bessent on the Financial Times: ▪️ “I learned that the Financial Times is anti-American, anti-business. They have a fever.” ▪️ “They’re constantly trying to create a problem for the U.S. But let’s leave that disgrace publication in London aside.” #USA #Bessent #FinancialTimes
🇺🇸🤖 Bessent on AI Regulation: ▪️ Q: “CEOs are basically screaming for regulation, warning of losing control of AI.” ▪️ Bessent: “Well, then they should slow down. I mean, it’s kind of like Hannibal Lecter: stop me before I kill again.” #USA #AI #Bessent
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🇺🇸🤖 Bessent on AI Regulation: ▪️ Q: “CEOs are basically screaming for regulation, warning of losing control of AI.” ▪️ Bessent: “Well, then they should slow down. I mean, it’s kind of like Hannibal Lecter: stop me before I kill again.” #USA #AI #Bessent
🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ Bessent on Chinese AI: ▪️ “One of their very powerful models is Kimi. Kimi thinks she is Claude. Kimi will tell you she is Claude sometimes.” ▪️ “Kimi sent back some PLA weapons plans to Anthropic. So I think things like that have made the Chinese realize that this is a very powerful technology.”
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🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ Bessent on Chinese AI: ▪️ “One of their very powerful models is Kimi. Kimi thinks she is Claude. Kimi will tell you she is Claude sometimes.” ▪️ “Kimi sent back some PLA weapons plans to Anthropic. So I think things like that have made the Chinese realize that this is a very powerful technology.”
🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ Bessent on China: ▪️ “I do think that they have — over the past 60 days — woken up to… I think that they didn’t realize how powerful their open source models are.” ▪️ “So the open source models, they do industrial distillation, which is a nice word for stealing from the U.S. models.” Source: Axios #USA #China #AI
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🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ Bessent on China: ▪️ “I do think that they have — over the past 60 days — woken up to… I think that they didn’t realize how powerful their open source models are.” ▪️ “So the open source models, they do industrial distillation, which is a nice word for stealing from the U.S. models.” Source: Axios #USA #China #AI
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