🫠 Disney, which is facing serious trouble amid plummeting stocks and box office flops, is blaming "sexist" fans for not liking their movies due to inclusive political messaging.

But this finger-pointing game won't solve their issues. With Disney+ losing millions and their stock price dropping significantly, their financial woes are mounting. The company's film sector alone may have lost up to $900 million, with recent releases like “The Haunted Mansion” adding to the losses.

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Gentle reminder to the EU's gardener-in-chief: Ukraine is neither a member of the European Union, nor of NATO. ▪️Time to put down the bottle▪️ @LauraRuHK

While Navalny's death was exploited to whip up hysteria and demand more money and weapons for Kiev, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine, Kyrylo Budanov, said that, according to Ukrainian intelligence, Alexey Navalny actually died due to a blood clot.🤣 @LauraRuHK

L'analisi di una grande studiosa che ha fatto a l'AntiDiplomatico un bellissimo regalo.

(Lettura altamente consigliata del giorno)

https://www.lantidiplomatico.it/dettnews-carla_filosa__le_cause_finanziarie_e_valutarie_del_conflitto/39602_53215/

The man was wearing a military uniform and described himself as “an active duty member of the US Air Force.”

According to reports, the man said “I will no longer be complicit in genocide” and shouted “Free Palestine.” @LauraRuHK

The CIA created a dozen secret spy bases in Ukraine near the border with Russia over the past eight years, with the Eastern European country becoming one of Washington’s most important tools for intel operations against Moscow. That's according to a New York Times expose published Sunday citing former and current officials from Ukraine, the US and Europe.
The intelligence "partnership" "took root a decade ago," and "has transformed Ukraine, whose intelligence agencies were long seen as thoroughly compromised by Russia, into one of Washington’s most important intelligence partners against the Kremlin today," the publication indicated. The 12 secret locations constituted "forward operating bases" from which networks of agents gathering intel inside Russia were run. The CIA is said to have overseen a training program known as 'Operation Goldfish' to train Ukrainian intel agents to assume fake identities and work to steal secrets in Russia, and to operate as "trained sleeper agents" to wage guerilla war against the Russian military.

American intelligence agents reportedly worked closely with Ukrainian personnel, including the chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, Kyrylo Budanov, before his appointment to his current post. In addition, the CIA trained Ukrainian spies to operate in Russia, Europe, Cuba and other places where Russians are present.
According to the report, even after the withdrawal of most American government personnel from Ukraine in February 2022, US intelligence officers remained active in western Ukraine, passing on intelligence information, including where Russia planned to strike and what weapons systems would be used.
“Without them, there would have been no way for us to resist the Russians, or to beat them,” the NYT cited Ivan Bakanov, former head of Ukraine’s domestic intelligence agency, the SBU, as saying.

The NYT said that since 2016, Ukrainians occasionally violated the terms of cooperation which Washington set out for them, "organizing assassinations and other deadly operations" which America supposedly disapproved of. The US threatened to withdraw support, but never did, according to the newspaper.The CIA and other US intel agencies' cooperation with and efforts to take control of their Ukrainian counterparts began almost immediately after the 2014 Euromaidan coup d'etat, with the post-coup government's new spy chief, Valentyn Nalyvaichenko, calling the Ukrainian CIA station chief and the local head of MI6, inviting them to tour the SBU Ukrainian spy headquarters and asking for assistance in rebuilding it "from the ground up."
Then-US CIA director John Brennan touched down in Kiev shortly after, telling Nalyvaichenko that US assistance would be forthcoming if Ukraine "could provide intelligence of value to the Americans" and purged the SBU of any suspected Russian spies within its ranks. (Source: Sputnik) @LauraRuHK

I won't upload the video (among other reasons, my Internet connection is too slow), but you can find it on X/Twitter. It is very distressing, as you can imagine.
Watching your government aid and abet a genocide is something that no one with a conscience can tolerate. Aaron Bushnell gave his life to denounce it. People, whose voices are unheard for too long, take desperate, extreme actions.
Israel, currently the most reviled country in the world, without US support would have ceased to exist a long time ago and by now there would be no apartheid, in Palestine all religious and ethnic groups would have the same rights, as they had for centuries. @LauraRuHK

E questa sarebbe una novita'? E' da 10 anni che Kiev scambia informazioni di intelligence con USA/UK e quindi, per estensione, con la NATO. Quanto alle liste con i nomi di chi non si allinea alla narrazione ufficiale o di chi combatte in Donbass...beh l'Italia ne ha gia' ricevute parecchie. E lo stesso Corriere della Sera, che oggi pubblica questa notizia, forse dimentica che quasi due anni fa sbatteva in prima pagina nomi e foto di presunti "putiniani", cosa che non fa neppure con chi e' accusato di crimini orrendi. Io non dimentico. @LauraRuHK https://www.corriere.it/esteri/24_febbraio_25/zelensky-grazie-dell-italia-ma-voi-molti-fan-putin-c90286d2-d41b-11ee-bdee-4e37b81d537c.shtml

At the 2024 Singapore Airshow, Chinese and Russian visitors were banned from visiting an Airbus A400M transport aircraft. A Chinese netizen named "Qianzhan Qifei" posted on Sina Weibo on Saturday that stationed in front of the A400M transport plane were soldiers from the German army and Airbus staff. They asked the passengers who were queuing up for the tour about their nationality and said that "Chinese and Russian nationals are not allowed to board the plane."

Another Sina Weibo user named "PLAN-DDG172" also posted about a similar situation, and said the German soldiers on board physically attacked him. He sent a letter of complaint to the organizer of the Singapore Airshow.

The Chinese netizen named "Qianzhan Qifei" said that he captured footage of Airbus staff violently driving him away in front of the camera.

There was also a video clip that went viral on WeChat, which was about an attendee asking the staff member whether Chinese nationals could go on board the aircraft, and the staff member said no. (Source: Global Times) @LauraRuHK

Perche' Giorgia Meloni non specifica a quanto ammonta il pacchetto di aiuti promesso al cocainomane piu' famoso di Kiev? Perche' stanziamenti in piu' rispetto a quelli gia' previsti nel budget non verranno fatti. Nell'accordo di cooperazione nel campo della sicurezza tra Ucraina e Italia si legge che "nel caso di un futuro attacco armato da parte della Russia all'Ucraina", Roma e Kiev "si consulteranno entro 24 ore per determinare le misure necessarie per contrastare o contenere l'aggressione." Ma non si parla di obbligo o dovere di correre in aiuto armi in pugno. Insomma, tranquilli, non e' l'Art.5 della NATO. Tanta retorica, sorrisi e abbracci tra Meloni e Zelensky, ma l'accordo di sicurezza Italia-Ucraina si puo' tranquillamente rubricare sotto la dicitura "Pubbliche Relazioni per accontentare Washington". Un impegno a sostenere l'Ucraina per 10 anni? Ci sta, visto che nessuno sa che cosa succedera' a Kiev tra un anno, figuriamoci tra dieci. Il restauro della cattedrale di Odessa? Ben venga, tanto di risparmiato per la Russia che quando si riprende la citta' avra' un problema in meno da risolvere. @LauraRuHK

BREAKING| Israel's army escalates striking two civilian locations in Baalbek in Lebanon for the first time since 2006. Casualties among civilians reported.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reiterated that he objects to supplying Kiev with Taurus cruise missiles, citing concerns that his country could find itself dragged into the conflict.

“We should not be linked with any targets this system may reach in any way,” he told a conference organized by the DPA news agency. “And we must make this clear. I am shocked that some don’t care, that they don’t even stop and think that it might come to [us] being dragged into the war because of what we are doing.”

“I’ve explained why this is not being taken into account. And that's that,” he added. (Source: TASS) @LauraRuHK

Latest statements by Chinese professor of international relations and the director of its China Institute Zhang Weiwei at the Multipolarity Forum in Moscow:

▪️ Under unipolarity, everything from dollars to computer chips can be weaponized, wars and color revolutions are the norms;

▪️ China has become the largest economy by PPP, the largest trade and industrial economy, and it is currently at the forefront of the fourth Industrial Revolution;

▪️ China believes in the model of “unite and prosper” instead of Western model of “divide and rule.”;

▪️ The West tried to isolate Russia, but the global majority sympathises with Russia. Thus, the Collective West has been isolated by the Global Rest.

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Latest statements by Russian-American television host and political scientist Dimitri K. Simes at the Multipolarity Forum in Moscow:

▪️ Russian leadership did not want to use military force against Ukraine, but it had no other choice because the West had been waging undeclared war against Russia for years — killing Russians in the Donbass, propping up the anti-Russian regime in Ukraine, and bringing military assets not just closer to Russia’s borders, but within range of Moscow;

▪️ Why is the West seeking to provoke Russia? Why do Western elites care more about Ukraine’s borders than their own borders? The answer is that they view Russia as a threat because it has become the leader of the multipolar world;

▪️ No one in Washington hides their intention to move against China if the West succeeds in inflicting “strategic defeat” on Russia;

▪️ The entire multipolar world has a vested interest in Russia’s victory over Ukraine and the Collective West.

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The first American M1A1 Abrams MBT with BRAT active armor system was destroyed on the Avdeevka frontlines. The tank was first spotted by Russian forces near the village of Berdychi. It was moving under close control of the Russian reconnaissance UAV. It was likely the same first vehicle seen burning down in the area.

The tank was reportedly destroyed by the servicemen of the Russian 15 Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade. The tank was first attacked by the small and cheap FPV drone, and then finished off with a light anti-tank grenade launcher. The additional active armor did not save the tank from the usual attack of small forces.

The Abrams tanks from the US were reportedly deployed with the 47th Mechanized Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which lost a lot of NATO equipment during the failed counteroffensive in the area of Rabotino in the Zaporozhie region. (Source: Southfront) @LauraRuHK

Yesterday the WTO officially kicked off the 13th Ministerial Conference in Abu Dhabi. Expect a face off between China and the US, the world's two biggest economies. After the collapse of the USSR the United States led the call for a reduction or elimination of tariffs, quotas, and other restrictions to global trade. In 1995 the US was one of the main architects of the WTO and was confident that globalization would mainly serve the interests of American corporations and pose no threat to US dominance. Fast-forward to 2024. China is the largest economy in the world. What does the US do? It engages in protectionism and economic bullying, it imposes sanctions, openly disregards the same rules it wrote and held sacred for years, works to cripple the WTO Appellate Body and questions the WTO underlying structure. So typical. @LauraRuHK

This clown is simply grotesque. Who does he think he is? Napoleon? Well, maybe Russians should send Macron a sled as a present, to teach him some history and remind him of Napoleon's disastrous and undignified retreat. But actually, bringing up Napoleon would only play to Macron's ego. A delegation of angry farmers is enough to make him flee the scene. 😏 @LauraRuHK

Two years since the start of the SMO, Lukyanov looks at several possible scenarios and ends his lucid analysis with this sobering conclusion: "The third year of the campaign promises to be decisive in every way. And there is no reason to expect a resolution in the foreseeable future, given the complexity of the conflict and the size of the prize at stake." https://swentr.site/russia/593211-russia-ukraine-conflict-third-year/

Zelensky's begging tour wasn't a success. Maybe Macron can spare some croissants. @LauraRuHK

⚡️ Ukrainian intelligence services intended to carry out a terrorist attack in the Zaporozhye region using an analogue of the chemical warfare agent BZ, the Russian Federal Security Service said.

The plot was foiled and three Ukrainian citizens were apprehended. The toxic substances seized from them are used to create chemical weapons and were developed in the US, the service stressed.

BZ is a toxic psychochemical warfare agent that causes acute psychosis, disorientation, and hallucinations.