#RussianElections - Vladimir Putin's landslide victory exceeds what pre-election surveys had anticipated - they had put Vladimir Putin at around 80%, he has won over 87%. ▪️What conclusions can be drawn? When Russia is under attack, Russians put aside political differences and rally around their leader. ▪️This is exactly the opposite of what happens in the West, where crises undermine popular trust in the incumbent government, already low to begin with, and exacerbate social and political divisions. In Russia, those who had voted for the other major parties in 2018, such as the Communist Party or the Liberal Democratic Party, decided to back Putin in 2024. The reasons are diverse. For the most part, voters support the choices made by their president, difficult choices of historic significance, and intended to show unity in the pursuit of the goals of the SMO in Ukraine. ▪️Russians understand that the course taken by their government in both domestic and foreign policy is the correct one and Putin has already demonstrated the leadership qualities Russians expect from the head of their government. ▪️The West may not like it, but Russians now care little or nothing what the West thinks of them, and they proved it by going to the polls (highest turnout since 1991!) and voting for Putin. @LauraRuHK

"There were no elections in Russia"🤣Favourite coping strategy in the Baltics: denial of reality! They got the memo from Washington. Remember a few days ago when Yulia Navalnaya called on the West not to recognize the results of the presidential election in Russia? But why stop there? Let's pretend that Russia doesn't exist, never existed, that millions of Russians are just a figment of the imagination. Say abracadabra, and Putin, Russia and Russians will magically disappear. See? Easy. Problem solved. https://t.me/LauraRuHK/7899

Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a congratulatory message to Vladimir Putin, said that his re-election as President of the Russian Federation fully reflects the support of the people of the country, reports China Central Television.

"In recent years, the Russian people have united, overcome challenges and made steady progress on the path of national development and rejuvenation," the Chinese leader said. (Source: RIA Novosti) @LauraRuHK

Freedom of speech in the United States is one for domestic politicians and interest groups, and another for ordinary people. The United States issued a report to baselessly smear and accuse other countries of spreading "disinformation," but the United States is the source of disinformation and the command post of "cognitive warfare" throughout the world. Today's world is not at a time when a lie repeated thousands of times can become the truth, or smearing others can whitewash oneself. The eyes of the people of the world are bright. No matter how the United States propagates its freedom of speech, and how it spares no effort to blame other countries for spreading"false information", it cannot change the fact that more and more people are seeing through the ugly practices of the United States: how it relies on lies to weave "the emperor's new clothes," and how it smears others to maintain its hegemony. (Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs) @LauraRuHK Read more here https://www.mfa.gov.cn/eng/wjbxw/202403/t20240314_11260689.html

BREAKING: Israeli army arrests the entire Al Jazeera crew and destroys the broadcasting vehicles in the yard of the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, according to local sources.

Secondo un rapporto del Ministero della Difesa russo le forze armate russe hanno eliminato 5 .962 mercenari stranieri sui 13.287 arrivati in Ucraina.

Tra i mercenari si contano 90 italiani e 33 di essi avrebbero trovato la morte in Ucraina. Ma questa notizia non viene commentata né da parte del ministero degli Esteri, né degli Interni, né della Difesa. https://contropiano.org/news/politica-news/2024/03/18/in-ucraina-uccisi-33-mercenari-italiani-silenzio-da-parte-del-governo-0170484

Avete presente i "Disturbatori" visti davanti al consolato russo di Milano che provocavano le signore in fila per votare? Quel tizio che "VOLEVA" entrare per vedere gli scrutinatori e sapere i risultati perché non si fidava dei comunicati ufficiali?- video: https://youtu.be/Hxani0_-9hw?si=bL9yERYsVzKhbu2n Il caso ha voluto che quel provocatore con il cappotto color cammello sia stato eletto nel 2017 Presidente dell'Associazione Milanese Amici Di Israele. (Fonte: @Bayanov74 via X/Twitter)

Maria Zakharova, Russian MFA's spokeperson:

The German Foreign Ministry stated that it would not indicate Putin’s position in official documents and would limit it to his last name. A representative of the German Foreign Ministry said that he “does not remember” that the ministry had recently put any designations before the name.

Remember, as Rudyard Kipling said: “Bagheera called fire the Red Flower because not a single animal in the jungle would call fire by its true name. All animals are mortally afraid of fire and come up with hundreds of names just to avoid calling it directly.”

Call doctors at Werderscher Markt, 1 - memory loss and acute phobias

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All the leaders of sovereign, independent countries congratulated Vladimir Putin on his re-election as president. The leaders of vassal, captured states didn't.
Isn't it an easy way to separate the wheat from the chaff? 😏 @LauraRuHK

Russia and Iran followed at 26 per cent and 9 per cent, respectively. While the figure for Russia dwindled from 32 per cent in 2023, that of Iran jumped from 2 per cent a year earlier. ▪️While most Americans have not visited China, they have been heavily propagandized, that is exposed to negative coverage of China on a daily basis and psyops aimed, among other things, at changing their perception of China.

Evidence of such an influence is reflected in opinion polls that tracked changes in Americans’ perception of China during the past five decades. Polls show that Americans’ views of China were relatively stable and positive for almost three decades, but then dropped precipitously from 53% of Americans who held favorable views of China in 2018 to only 20% who held such views in 2022. This significant drop was likely due to fake news about Hong Kong riots (2019-20) and the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. @LauraRuHK

Ukraine’s losses in its confrontation with the Russian Armed Forces should be counted in the millions, rather than in hundreds of thousands, a high-ranking Polish general said.

Former Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces Rajmund Andrzejczak said in an interview with the Polsat TV channel: "I believe that [Ukraine’s actual] losses should be counted in the millions, not the hundreds of thousands." "There are no resources in this country, no one left to fight," the general added.

"The Ukrainians are losing this war," he said, describing the situation as "very, very dramatic."

Commenting on the strategic situation on the battlefield under new Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Alexander Syrsky, who recently replaced the former commander, General Valery Zaluzhny, Andrzejczak said that the top brass reshuffle had not changed anything. "General Syrsky is facing the same dilemmas as General Zaluzhny. It turns out that he had to withdraw the troops and tidy up the frontline. All the problems that Zaluzhny had still remain," he maintained.

When asked to comment on reports saying that Ukrainian forces may run out of air defense missiles by the end of March, the general opined that this means "further effective strikes [on Ukraine], more victims, and more elements of the [Ukrainian] state’s infrastructure destroyed."
(Source: TASS) @LauraRuHK

US-funded NGOs and lobbyists are going ballistic and calling for....sanctions, of course! ▪️The Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) has just passed the safeguarding national security bill, a milestone by the HKSAR in fulfilling its constitutional duty as stipulated under Article 23 of the HKSAR Basic Law. ▪️Hong Kong has finally plugged all the legal loopholes that allowed foreign forces and fifth columnists to sow chaos and eventually turn the city into a battleground in 2019-20. They exploited legitimate grievances to deepen rifts in society, spread hatred and lies in order to achieve the sort of hysterical polarization they hoped would make Hong Kong ungovernable. @LauraRuHK

"It’s no longer so much about recruiting new soldiers as it is about persuading existing troops not to quit.

This week, French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu presented a talent retention plan to incentivize military personnel to remain in uniform.

That comes a few days after an annual report submitted to the German parliament showed that in 2023, some 1,537 soldiers left the Bundeswehr, reducing it to 181,514 personnel. The Bundestag’s special commissioner for the armed forces, Eva Högl, has said that reinstating some form of conscription is one way to turn things around, but targeting women is a more obvious move to arrest the decline since potential there is far from exhausted, the lawmaker wrote." ▪️I guess the prospect of dying for Uncle Sam and his European lapdogs isn't very appealing. Regardless of your gender. @LauraRuHK

Mauricio Metri: " The energy that feeds the United States machine of violence in different parts of the world (such as the militarization in the South China Sea, the hot war in Ukraine, or even the genocide in Gaza) comes from a leading source of supply: the disproportionate financing and spending capacity of the United States, derived from the position of its currency in the global monetary hierarchy and the way the international economic system has been in operation since the end of the Cold War. In this way, the world, by continuing to absorb, without apparent limit, American public debt bonds, finances the violence perpetrated by Washington, however contradictory that may seem.

Therefore, the de-dollarization of the international system has become a “silver bullet” to dismantle an essential part of this war machine without military confrontation. For this reason, de-dollarization is urgent not only as a first-order geopolitical objective for the so-called Global South but also as an ethical and humanitarian imperative against the barbaric invasions of the West." https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/03/20/silver-bullet-against-barbarian-invasions-of-west-de-dollarization-of-international-system/