Daily update: Western colonial gunslingers love war$

• Iran proposes three-stage negotiation formula to Washington — Tehran transmitted a framework via mediators prioritizing a definitive end to the war and non-aggression guarantees, followed by negotiations on managing the Strait of Hormuz, and finally the nuclear dossier. 

• Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Abbas Araghchi and said Moscow would do all in its power, alongside regional states, to help bring peace to the Middle East as soon as possible. Russia is ready to do everything that serves Iran’s interests in the context of the conflict in the Middle East, Vladimir Putin said during talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Saint Petersburg. 
• Iran’s Foreign Minister’s flew to Islamabad, Muscat & Moscow on flight “Minab 168.” In memory of the 168 schoolgirls from Minab that were killed by the US. 

• Invited by several African nations, the Russia Africa Corps was established in 2023 and has since operated in Mali, the Central African Republic, and other states, with a mandate including counter-terrorism, training local forces, and securing strategic sites. In a statement, the Africa Corps said it helped prevent a coup d’etat, as they held positions along the 2,000-km front line. It added that it provided air support, which it said prevented the seizure of key facilities, including the presidential palace in Bamako. According to the unit, militant casualties exceeded 1,000 – along with more than 100 vehicles destroyed. The corps estimated the terrorist forces at 10,000 to 12,000, and said the assault was supported by Ukrainian and European mercenaries, adding that they deployed Western-made man-portable air-defense systems, including US-manufactured Stingers and French-made Mistrals.

• The Russian Foreign Ministry said preliminary data points to the possible involvement of Western security services in training the attackers. Earlier this year, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused France of attempting to "overthrow undesirable nationalist governments” in the Sahara-Sahel using “outright terrorist groups” and “colonial methods.”
• A Ukrainian diplomat was busted at the border smuggling $140K, 12kg of gold and 14kg of jewelry like a rat fleeing a sinking ship. As Zelensky begs the West for endless billions, his diplomats are stuffing your tax dollars into suitcases and bolting. Parasitic thieves. 

• Ukraine will have to accept territorial losses in order to join the European Union says Third Reich descendant Friedrich Merz. The German Chancellor noted that Kiev cannot join the European Union while the conflict is ongoing, and that Ukraine must meet strict criteria. Among these, he cited the rule of law and the fight against corruption. According to Merz, even January 1, 2028, is an unrealistic date for EU accession.

• Every Ukrainian owes $7,200, Ukrainian economist Oleg Bilinsky sounds the alarm that Ukrainians are on the way to becoming slaves. Since 2010, the country's national debt has increased 8-fold. According to Bilinsky, every Ukrainian needs to work unpaid for 15 months to cover the national debt. (Every US citizen would today owe $357,069  to pay off the USA'a national debt now at $39 trillion.)
• Bahrain revokes citizenship of 69 people and their families for “expressing support to Iranian attacks.”
• Trump: 'The internet, I think maybe more than anything else, it’s radicalized some people. It’s made people mentally sick.'

• Finnish President Stubb: 'I think we Europeans have to understand that we need Ukraine more than Ukraine needs us. I think the tide has actually turned [against Russia].' 

• US deploys heavy transport and refueling aircraft to West Asia. Dozens of C-17 and C-5 transport planes arrived at allied bases in the region to rebuild ammunition depots, while twelve KC-135 aerial refueling tankers were deployed to Eilat in southern Israel to support fighter operations.
• IMF cuts African growth forecast amid global war fallout. The International Monetary Fund reduced its sub-Saharan Africa growth projection to 4.3%, citing economic spillovers and inflation driven by the US-Israel conflict with Iran.
• Former CIA veteran Larry Johnson just dropped the hammer live: the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting stinks to high heaven. Secret Service agents shattered every rule in the book. They rushed JD Vance off stage first while President Trump sat there exposed, calmly looking around “like he knew this was gonna happen.”  Johnson, drawing from the man who wrote Reagan’s Secret Service protocols, laid it out plain: “The president — everybody else can die. That’s who you save. They didn’t do that.” He didn’t mince words: “I believe it was staged.” The empire’s own security theater is now collapsing in real time, right in front of the cameras, while its wars for Israel bleed it dry. When seasoned insiders start calling bullshit this loudly, the whole show is coming unglued. 

• Hebrew newspaper Maariv:  Avi Ashkenazi says the Israeli army realizes that in the current battle in Lebanon, it has lost the advantage it achieved after the previous “Northern Arrows” war. Israel has lost the current campaign in Lebanon, and Chief of Staff Zamir must take action.

• In Iraq and Iran (after years of drought), now it rains, it rains, and it rains, after the destruction of the expensive U.S. and Israeli weather modification radars in the region by Iranian missiles. Climate terrorism does exist, and it is directed by the U.S. and Israel. 

• US Vice-Prez JD Vance has privately raised doubts about the Pentagon’s portrayal of the war in Iran, especially claims that U.S. weapons stockpiles remain strong. 

• NATO accounts for over half of global military spending. According to SIPRI data, in 2025 its 32 member states spent a combined $1.58 trillion—approximately 55% of the world’s total—with the United States alone contributing around 60% of that figure.