While the shock from Trump’s «diesel deal» with Putin and the American president’s statement that Ukraine needs a different president instead of Zelensky has not yet passed, I will try to explain from the standpoint of dispassionate economics why what happened is bad first and foremost for the United States itself.

#Analytics #VladimirZelensky #VladimirPutin #WarinUkraine #diesel #dollar #DonaldTrump #MunichAgreement #Russia #sanctions #USA #exportofpetroleumproducts

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The administration of US President Donald Trump, according to the British newspaper Financial Times, is threatening to block weapons deliveries to Kyiv through the PURL mechanism if Ukrainian strikes on Russia’s energy facilities continue. The publication’s sources also claim that Washington may stop providing intelligence data to Kyiv.

#FainenshlTaims #PURL #DonaldTrump #NATO #USA #Ukraine

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Russian national Idris Makhmudov, one of the organizers of the hunger strike at the immigration prison in Folkston, Georgia, has been deported from the US. According to his representative, Makhmudov is currently in Morocco and waiting for a flight to Russia.

#ice #Georgia #IdrisMahmudov #Immigrants #USA #Prisons #Folkestone

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The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Naivi Pillay, called the US sanctions against the court «unprecedented» and unacceptable. She said this on Saturday at an event at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo after receiving the peace prize on Friday for efforts to promote peace and international law.

#DonaldTrump #MarkoRubio #ICC #NaiviPillei #NobelPeacePrize #USA

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According to the Financial Times, American representatives warned Kyiv that the U.S. could end intelligence sharing if Ukraine does not stop drone strikes on Russian oil refineries. After the meeting in Miami, the Ukrainian delegation cut short its visit and отказалась from a second round of talks.

#DzharedKushner #DonaldTrump #KirillBudanov #StivUitkoff #USA #Ukraine

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The Donald Trump administration has begun offering migrant children, including five-year-olds, $3000 for voluntary departure from the US. According to Bloomberg, such offers, as lawyers and human rights advocates claim, come from ICE officers and immigration judges and may be accompanied by a demand to give up an asylum application.

#CBP #ice #BrookingsInstitution #DonaldTrump #immigrationcourts #USA

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Bloomberg, citing informed officials, writes that Iran has retained factories producing ballistic missiles and attack drones despite U.S. and Israeli bombing. According to Western countries’ assessment, this allows Tehran to replenish its arsenals and keep a reserve for a retaliatory strike.

#bloomberg #Ballisticmissiles #DonaldTrump #Israel #Iran #USA

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U.S. authorities have suspended eight major IT companies from a program that allows green cards for foreign employees. The U.S. Department of Labor will not accept new applications or review those already submitted.

#H1B #microsoft #greencard #DzheyDiVens #DonaldTrump #USA

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Russian authorities asked the US to lift sanctions during negotiations on an «energy ceasefire», The Kyiv Independent writes, citing Ukrainian and American sources. According to them, Moscow is also trying to tie sanctions relief to a ceasefire in the Black Sea.

#DonaldTrump #Russia #sanctions #USA #Ukraine #EnergetikaUkrainy

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The Donald Trump administration has imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC). The new restrictions already apply to the court itself and may affect companies that provide services to it.

#Afghanistan #BinjaminNetanjahu #MarkoRubio #InternationalCriminalCourt #NobelPeacePrize #USA

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained former Khabarovsk journalist Alexander Simontsev in Arkansas. According to his wife Marina, he was stopped while delivering cargo and taken to a temporary detention center.

#CBPOne #ice #AlexandrSimoncev #Arkansas #Mediazona #USA

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Donald Trump said on Truth Social that after a phone conversation with Vladimir Putin he agreed to the immediate start of diesel fuel supplies from Russia to the United States and global markets. According to him, Russia will immediately send more than 300,000 tons, then 500,000 tons in November, and another 1 million tons later.

#reuters #USTreasuryDepartment #Putin #Russia #USA #Trump

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US President Donald Trump said that the United States will not strike Iran until the November 3 congressional elections. He wrote on the social network Truth Social that productive talks are taking place between Washington and Tehran.

#TheNewYorkTimes #DonaldTrump #Iran #pentagon #USA

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced the public execution of Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of murdering 13 fellow service members at Fort Hood in Texas. According to CBS News, the American military plans to broadcast it live; the execution is scheduled for December 3 and will be the first execution of an American service member by firing squad since World War II.

#Armiesoftheworld #NidalHasan #PeteHegset #Deathpenalty #USA

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US prosecutors announced new charges against former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. They are accused of conspiracy to commit torture; this adds to the already filed drug trafficking and weapons cases against them, which they deny.

#Venezuela #NikolasMaduro #politicalprisoners #torture #SiliaFlores #USA

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Democratic and Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate — the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, Jeanne Shaheen, and the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, Roger Wicker — urged Donald Trump’s administration to impose sanctions on Russia more quickly. They sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

#WarinUkraine #Democrats #DonaldTrump #Republicans #Russia #sanctions #USA

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50-year-old Christa Pike, who survived two failed lethal injection attempts in Tennessee, has regained consciousness and can speak. She is currently continuing treatment in the hospital, where she is being held in handcuffs.

#KristaPaik #deathpenalty #USA #Tennessee #justice

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The U.S. Embassy in Russia advised American citizens not to travel to the country and to leave it immediately if they are already there. The warning is linked to reports of the spread of pneumonic plague in Irkutsk Oblast and a quarantine after a person's death.

#disease #Irkutskregion #Rospotrebnadzor #Russia #USA #plague #Shelekhov

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In Okinawa, Japan, after the killing of a 39-year-old Naha resident, a curfew was imposed on American military personnel. During the «operational pause», they were forbidden from leaving base grounds in their free time and from consuming alcohol.

#Armiesoftheworld #USMarineCorps #Okinawa #Incidents #USA #Japan

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In the US, 30-year-old James Cody Bryant, a resident of the western part of Washington state, was detained on charges of conspiracy to kill people in another country. The US Department of Justice considers him an alleged accomplice of Jesse Van Rutselaar, who is accused in Canada of killing eight people, including six children.

#Omegle #openai #Canada #USDepartmentofJustice #USA #FBI

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