Putin's contempt for Macron
The Duran: Episode 2270

Putin Tells US Russia Won't Back Down; Wang Yi Tells EU China Won't Let Russia Lose; Kiev Hit, Reels
Topic 1598

Putin, Russia will not back down. Trump unhappy with call. Wang Yi, Realpolitik lesson to Kallas
Topic 1743

The Duran: Episode 961
France's Marine Le Pen Acquitted in Case Over Violating Hate Speech Laws
https://sputniknews.com/europe/202105041082797685-frances-marine-le-pen-acquitted-in-case-over-violating-hate-speech-laws/

Re. Alex's topic 1743, Russia Recognizes Taliban (Realpolitik)

The reason is patently obvious:
It is a reaction to the West recognition of Al Jolani's ISIS (Mossad) running Syria and plotting lethal incursions, sabotages and regime changes in the Caucasus and Turkic crescent; Murky-Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, all the way into China's Xinjiang (Uighur) space, in other words, the breakup of the BRICS Road & Belt project.
Taliban's Pashtun alliance is well qualified to block that encroachment on its turf.
Who knows, maybe Putin starts seeding some sympathetic growth among the Kurds as well as a payback to Erdogan's sleaze.
The thorniest issue is how to get rid of Armenian traitor who prefers being in bed with Azerbaijan to working for his own nation.

Not sure how it will all play out in the end, must ask Kaja Kallas for clarity on the issue.

The professor here gives some important points relating to the West, it has been said before but worth repeating...

Dozens of Israeli Soldiers Killed or Maimed in Gaza Ambush

July, 05, 2025 - 10:15

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior commander of Saraya al-Quds resistance group, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, announced that nearly 40 Israeli occupation troops were killed or wounded in a coordinated resistance operation in eastern Gaza.

The commander overseeing the Shujaiya operation stated that resistance fighters carried out a meticulously prepared ambush targeting Israeli soldiers east of Shujaiya.

He said the enemy forces completely lost their capacity to respond or maneuver, resorting only to chaotic retreat and shouting without returning fire at the fighters.

The commander reported that the resistance observed the burned remains of Israeli officers and soldiers at the scene, stressing that, as usual, the occupying regime was fabricating narratives and concealing its true losses.

He confirmed that approximately 40 soldiers and officers of the Zionist entity were struck ...