🇷🇺⚡️ — Russian President Vladimir Putin:

Without a future, the past loses its meaning. No matter how great the achievements of our predecessors may have been, we must not turn into a museum of former greatness.

The true greatness of a state is impossible without the ability to keep pace with the times — and ideally ahead of them.

🇷🇺⚡️ — Russian President Vladimir Putin:

Right now, the leading countries of the world have weapons that can destroy all life or at least push the earth to catastrophic consequences.

Can we be certain these weapons will never be used? Unfortunately, we cannot be sure.

🇷🇺🎙 The principle of "might makes right" sometimes seems to guide certain international actors, Putin noted.

"We know from history that this never leads to good," he added.

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🇷🇺❌🇪🇺🪖 — Russian President Vladimir Putin:

If it comes to a direct attack on Russia, in this case on Kaliningrad, the question of using all the weapons we have will immediately be on the agenda.

🇷🇺🇪🇺⚡️ — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Europe:

We don’t intend to attack anyone in 2029, in 2030, or 2050, but if face an aggression, we will have to respond.

Citizens of the European countries should be fully aware of that.

🇷🇺🎙 True greatness of a state is impossible without the ability to keep pace with the times, and ideally, to be ahead of them, Putin stated.

"Of course, without the past, there is no future. The legacy of our ancestors, who built this unique country, must be preserved and strengthened. No society can exist without a historical foundation and respect for traditions. But, of course, the reverse is also true. Without a future, the past loses its meaning. No matter how grand the achievements of our predecessors, we cannot turn into a museum of past greatness," he said.

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🇷🇺⚔️🌐 The warning letters sent to NATO countries this week are “not intimidation,” Putin says, but “a response to attempts to intimidate us,” citing talk by Western European politicians of preparations for war with Russia in 2029–30, military exercises in the Baltic and “attempts to detain our ships and vessels.” said Putin.

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🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Russian president, Vladimir Putin, admitted that Ukrainian strikes on Russia's oil refineries took out 1% of Russia's GDP but this loss was offset, according to Putin, by Russia's retaliation which destroyed Ukraine's steel industry.

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🇷🇺 Russian president, Vladimir Putin, stated that Russian leaders wanted to become a part of the "civilised family" [Western world] but they were rejected and humiliated time and time again by their Western counterparts who never wanted a strong and independent Russia in their club and always fought to balkanize it.

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🇪🇹⚔️🇪🇹 Ethiopia MAP UPDATE: the situation in northern Ethiopia (Tigray, Amhara, Afar), on 01/10/2026. Week 2 of the war:

-TPLF has lost southern Tigray; Alamata and Korem have been taken)

-ANURF took some ground in Afar, but lost Erebti again today.

-ENDF advanced from Soqota and reached the Tigray border.

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🇸🇦❌🇾🇪 — The Houthis (Ansarallah) say Saudi Arabia carried out 47 air and missile strikes across Yemen over the past 24 hours, targeting communications networks, schools and other sites in the governorates of Taiz, Saada and Al-Jawf.

They say F-15 and Typhoon fighters operating from Khamis Mushait and Taif carried out the airstrikes, while missile attacks were launched from Jizan.

🌹 🇺🇸 ✡️ Democrat activist Hasan Piker faces serious backlash for defending NYC Mayor Mamdani and his recent endorsement of extremist Jewish religious texts in the midst of a global campaign of Zionist terrorism.

Piker also went on to defend crackdowns on free speech under the guise of combatting supposed “anti-semitism.”

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🇺🇸🚙 The U.S. car market is growing thanks to the richest of Americans buying new cars

The average selling price for new cars topped $50,000 in August, while average monthly payments likely rose to $821 last month, a record for September, according to researcher JD Power.

Companies such as Toyota and Hyundai are getting a boost thanks to lineups with multiple models that start at less than $30,000 and hybrid offerings. That’s given them an advantage over their Detroit rivals, which don’t have many offerings in those in-demand categories.

“Consumers are dealing with a lot of cost pressure,” said Randy Parker, chief executive officer of Hyundai’s North America business. “They’re trying to figure out how to stretch their dollars. Thank God we never gave up on passenger cars.”

The annualized rate of US auto sales likely slipped 2.1% to 16.3 million vehicles in the third quarter and is on pace to finish the year slightly down from 2025, according to researcher Cox Automotive Inc. Still, the performance is better than previously expected, forecasters said, highlighting a degree of resiliency as demand for pricier vehicles helps mask the effects of inflation and high interest rates.

Before the pandemic, the average new vehicle sold for less than $40,000. Automakers also offered hefty discounts and a larger number of compact vehicles priced below $25,000. That helped keep US vehicle sales above 17 million a year for much of the last decade.

Market researchers expect overall US auto sales to finish this year at around 16 million vehicles. That puts carmakers in the position of deciding whether to hold the line on prices to protect profit margins, or dole out more incentives to boost sales.

So far, automakers continue to avoid the steep discounts that were commonplace before the pandemic. But they are starting to budge, spending an average of nearly $3,600 per vehicle, up 7.3% from a year ago, according to JD Power. As a percentage of a vehicle’s sticker price, September incentives likely rose slightly to 6.9%.

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