https://fortune.com/2023/04/03/leonardo-dicaprio-money-laundering-jho-low-obama-pras-fugees-trial/

China issues warning to US and NATO over Ukraine

The West has ‘unmistakable responsibilities’ regarding the conflict, a foreign ministry spokesperson said

NATO, not China, is responsible for the crisis in Ukraine and has no moral standing from which to criticize Beijing, foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said during a press conference on Thursday.

“The US and the military bloc of NATO shoulder unshirkable responsibilities on the Ukraine crisis,” Mao continued, arguing that NATO “is in no position to criticize or pressure China” to take its side.

“On the Ukraine crisis, China upholds an objective and just position. We have been advocating a political settlement of the crisis and working for talks for peace,” she explained, claiming that this was a strategy “supported by the vast majority of countries in the world.”

History will tell who is truly standing on the right side upholding justice.

On Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned China to curtail its “growing alignment” with Moscow, accusing Beijing of “prop[ping] up Russia’s economy” and “refus[ing] to condemn Russia’s aggression.”

Supplying weapons to NATO’s arch-nemesis, Stoltenberg added, “would be a historic mistake, with profound implications.”

Beijing has repeatedly denied having any plans to provide lethal aid to Russia, which has likewise denied reports that it has requested military equipment from the Chinese.

The two nations have grown closer over the past year, vowing to “further deepen mutual military trust” after last month’s meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping at the Kremlin.

However, Putin more recently clarified that there was no “military alliance with China” on the horizon, merely “cooperation in the sphere of military-technical interaction.” The West, he argued, was merely projecting its fantasy of a new axis similar to the fascist enemy of World War II onto its chief geopolitical rivals.

The US has nevertheless sanctioned several Chinese companies for allegedly supplying parts used in Iranian drones, which Washington claims are being used by Russia in Ukraine.

The US Treasury announced new sanctions on five Chinese companies and one individual said to be “responsible for the sale and shipment of thousands of aerospace components” to Iran, including parts that could be used to make drones. Iran, too, has denied providing weapons to Russia for use in the Ukrainian conflict.

https://www.rt.com/news/574320-china-blames-nato-ukraine-conflict/

China-EU relations: Xi and Macron call for de-escalation in Ukraine war as French leader says ‘I know I can count on you to bring Russia to its senses’

EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, who travelled to Beijing with the French president, says the conflict is ‘crucial’ to the bloc’s relations with China

The Chinese leader also urged Europe to maintain its strategic autonomy amid a debate among its leaders over whether to follow the hardline US stance on Beijing

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3216247/china-eu-relations-xi-jinping-and-emmanuel-macron-call-de-escalation-ukraine-war-french-leader-says

Hollande makes shock admission in call with Russian pranksters

The former French president confirmed that France and the EU are “participants” in the Ukraine conflict

Francois Hollande has confirmed that the European Union and France are directly participating in the armed conflict in Ukraine, despite Paris officially denying such claims.

The former French president unwittingly spoke at length about the situation in Ukraine with Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, who were pretending to be former Ukrainian president Pyotr Poroshenko.

During the conversation, Hollande declared that he was on Kiev’s side and “fully supports Ukraine,” adding that “wherever I can speak, I always ask to provide Ukraine with the weapons it needs.”

He admitted to ‘Poroshenko’ that the EU and France are “participants” in the conflict but explained that they don’t want to openly declare their involvement, fearing that Russia could retaliate.

“They don’t want to become a warring side in the sense that Russia could use their support as an excuse to take action against a neighboring European country and drag the world into a war that will go beyond Ukraine,” Hollande said.

The former president predicted that the outcome of the Ukrainian conflict would shape the new world power balance and that “if Ukraine wins, which is something I wholeheartedly want, then it would serve as a rebuff to authoritarian regimes” such as China, Iran and Turkey.

Hollande insisted that there could be no negotiations at the moment and that European leaders should avoid even mentioning the idea until Ukraine pushes Russian forces out of the territories Kiev claims as its own and so long as the Ukrainian people still wish to fight to the last.

He also commented on the Minsk accords, which were signed in 2014 by Russia, France and Germany as a roadmap to establishing peace in Ukraine after tensions erupted in the country following the armed Maidan coup that ousted President Viktor Yanukovich. Hollande admitted that the real purpose of the accords was to buy time to arm and train Ukraine’s forces.

The former French leader also noted Poroshenko’s “key role” in ousting Yanukovich and pushing Ukraine towards the EU. He said that, if Poroshenko hadn’t come to Paris in 2013, there “wouldn’t have been a Maidan and you wouldn’t have achieved your victory.”

Hollande is the latest Western official to have been duped by the Russian pranksters, admitting things they avoid saying publicly. Last month, the pair had a conversation with former UK foreign secretary William Hague, who stated that the West’s “ideal” scenario was a military coup in Russia that would oust Putin.

https://www.rt.com/news/574312-hollande-prank-vovan-lexus/

Iron dome is shit - 34 rockets fired

Netanyahu convenes security cabinet after rocket barrage on Israel

Netanyahu set to convene security cabinet on Thursday evening • IDF examining potential Iranian involvement in barrage attributed to Hamas

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/live-updates-738609

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-says-israel-has-right-to-defend-itself-after-lebanon-rockets-un-urges-restraint/

DoD Official Testifies That The Military Must Be A 'Safe Space' For The Non-Binary

Recently, a top Department of Defense official offered testimony to Congress that doubled down on the video’s underlying message: the armed services must be a "safe space" in which each and every member feels validated and affirmed on his and/or her journey of self-discovery.

https://youtu.be/aZdeh5eQjOE

Video of content - disturbing af

https://youtu.be/2YCQq5rboOk

Video: ABC News Blurs Out Trump Donation Number

Election interference

https://summit.news/2023/04/06/video-abc-news-blurs-out-trump-donation-number-allows-biden-donation-number/