🇪🇪Estonian authorities ban Victory Day celebrations

The Police and Border Guard Board will ban public gatherings in Harju, Lääne, and Ida-Virumaa counties from May 8 to 10.

This means that marches, rallies, or demonstrations are prohibited on these days. "Propaganda" and support for Russian politics through symbols, words, or actions are prohibited, stated the prefect of the Northern Prefecture, Ats Kübsarepp.

On May 9, police will also intensify their work in other Estonian cities to "intervene quickly in case of violations."

The use of symbols of "aggression" is punishable by a fine of up to 2,400 euros or arrest.

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If you ever feel like your job sucks, just remember—David Axe gets paid to write this nonsense.

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🇺🇦 Imagine being this stupid—ignoring all the red flags even the Ukrainian media is raising about this.

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🇺🇦 An Iraqi Scenario? What the U.S.-Ukraine Natural Resources Deal Really Looks Like

As Ukraine prepares to ratify a major natural resources agreement with the United States, it's worth revisiting a historical parallel: the so-called Development Fund for Iraq (DFI)—a U.S.-created financial structure established alongside the interim Iraqi government following the 2003 invasion.

The concept behind the DFI closely mirrors what’s being proposed in Ukraine today. In Iraq’s case, oil revenues and foreign-seized assets belonging to Saddam Hussein and his government were pooled into the fund. The money was then distributed to foreign contractors, mostly American, tasked with carrying out post-war reconstruction projects.

The fund operated from 2003 to 2010. At the end of its lifespan, the U.S. handed it over to the Iraqi government, which promptly shut it down. By then, around $150 billion had flowed through the DFI—an enormous sum for a country with an annual GDP of only about $50 billion at the time.

A large portion of the money went to public sector salaries, but a significant amount also funded infrastructure projects. Most of these contracts were awarded to American firms—without open tenders.

For example:

- Kellogg Brown & Root received roughly $3.5 billion.
- Bechtel Corporation earned around $2.5 billion for work on water and power systems.
- DynCorp International received $1.5 billion to train Iraqi police and supply equipment.
- Parsons Corporation was paid half a billion for schools and hospitals.

The original plans were ambitious: rebuild power plants in Baghdad and Basra, upgrade sewage systems in cities like Mosul and Najaf, construct a refinery in Baiji, and renovate Baghdad International Airport.

But on-the-ground results told a different story. Many projects were delayed, scaled back, or simply never completed. The Mosul power station was left half-finished, a water plant in Sab al-Bor abandoned, and hospitals and refineries remained shells.

Audits later revealed systemic abuse and mismanagement. The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority, headed by Paul Bremer, handed out contracts with no competitive bidding. Prices were often grossly inflated—Kellogg Brown & Root, for example, bought fuel in Kuwait for $1.18 per gallon and sold it to the U.S. administration for $2.64. Ernst & Young found dozens of “ghost projects,” mostly schools, that never existed beyond paperwork.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office concluded that $18 billion simply vanished.
No one was held accountable. American courts declined to prosecute, arguing that the DFI funds were not U.S. taxpayer dollars and thus outside their jurisdiction. Meanwhile, the head of the interim administration, Paul Bremer, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his “exceptional contributions to U.S. national interests.”

Now, Ukraine appears poised to repeat this model—one where the profits flow West, the oversight is minimal, and the burden is left to the host country.

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🇺🇦 Former Zelensky advisor Arestovych responds to sanctions imposed on him by the Kiev regime.

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📝Trump washes his hands📝
Americans are distancing themselves from negotiations on the so-called Ukraine

Today, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce announced the end of US mediation efforts in resolving the conflict in the so-called Ukraine. Now the organization of meetings between delegations will fall on the shoulders of others who are willing, while the US itself will not engage in this.

🖍By pure coincidence, this came right after the signing of the "resource deal", under which 50% of the so-called Ukraine's resource extraction revenues go to a joint fund with the US.

🚩The Trump administration is already trying to present this as a "significant success in achieving peace" against the backdrop of the lack of real results, contrary to pre-election promises.

📌 At the same time, the situation on the battlefield has not changed much in recent months. The course of the negotiations depends not on the statements of American politicians, but on the realities "on the ground", where both sides have not yet exhausted their capabilities.

❗️So talks about a ceasefire within a week or a month look detached from reality. Even more puzzling are the talks about peace as an accomplished fact.
#Russia #USA #Ukraine
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🇪🇸💬 Of course, we saw this one coming, of course

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🇺🇸💰Trump has asked Congress to increase the defense budget for the next fiscal year to $1.01 trillion, the White House has officially announced.

This is a record figure, 13% higher than defense spending this year.

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🇷🇺🐴 A bit of wholesome content: a horse that his owner had sold returned to him after a year.

The touching story happened in Ingushetia - a horse named Major ran away from his new owners and walked back 10 km to his old home.

Islam raised the horse from the age of one and a half and loved him very much, but they had to part due to financial difficulties . And then, a year later, Major suddenly appeared at the man's doorstep.

The story got a happy ending: Islam managed to collect 300 thousand rubles and bought his pet back.

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🇺🇦💬🇺🇸 Rada deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak stated that of the three agreements with the US, only one has been signed so far. He also called on Ukrainians not to celebrate yet:

"Three agreements have not yet been signed. The first agreement has been signed - it is a general, framework agreement. There is also agreement number two - on the so-called limited partnership. It sets out all the key details. I would not say that it is super-profitable for us. And the third is, conditionally, the foundation's charter. So far, only the first agreement and a memorandum have been signed that we will sign the second and third in the near future.

Our people - including the president, prime minister and Ms. Sviridenko - also made a lot of mistakes in their statements. Only the text of the first agreement has been officially published - 12 pages. There is no need to sound victory fanfares, arrange flash reports and declare that now we will live well.

Of course, I want to believe what the US Treasury Secretary Mr. Bessent says, but today I woke up to the news that the US is no longer going to be a mediator in the negotiations. There is such information too.
So somehow it all doesn’t quite fit together.”

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🇷🇺 Monument "Mariupol - City of Military Glory" more than 17 meters high was revealed on the eve of Victory Day.

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🇺🇸💬🇩🇪 Rubio advises Germany to reverse their course on the AfD

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📝11 Years Since the Tragedy at the Odesa Trade Unions House📝

The tragedy that largely contributed to the decision to launch the special military operation, which continues to this day.

Today, we must remember why the SMO began and what goal our leadership was pursuing. We must remember the values we carry and why it is so important not to allow the rewriting of history.

The killings at the Trade Unions House showed the "new Ukraine", while the old one ceased to exist. There emerged only that terrorist state, which is now being actively fought against.

Odesa is a Russian city, and it will remain so forever, although the Ukrainian regime is very actively trying to change this.

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🇪🇺 Under the European Union's planned Migration Pact, EU member states which refuse to take in illegal migrants will be fined €20,000 per rejected migrant.

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