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Kiev Big Defeats; Siversk Falls Huliaipole Falling; Zelensky West In Denial; Moscow Donbass Is Ours

Kiev Big Defeats; Siversk Falls Huliaipole Falling; Zelensky West In Denial; Moscow Donbass Is Ours
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RUTTE, prepare for war. Ursula power grab. Zelensky wants referendum. Bulgaria GOV collapse

RUTTE, prepare for war. Ursula power grab. Zelensky wants referendum. Bulgaria GOV collapse
Topic 1904

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EU crosses RUBICON, permanent asset FREEZE. Falls into Russia's trap

EU crosses RUBICON, permanent asset FREEZE. Falls into Russia's trap
The Duran: Episode 2411

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Venezuela: Trump Administration Ramps Up Oil Sanctions, Targets Tankers

Caracas will be forced to levy bigger discounts to place crude in international markets as it navigates escalating attacks from Washington.

Ricardo Vaz
December 12, 2025

Caracas, December 12, 2025 (venezuelanalysis.com) – The US Treasury Department levied new sanctions against the Venezuelan oil industry as the Trump White House looks to strangle the Caribbean nation’s most important revenue source.

On Thursday, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) blacklisted six shipping companies for allegedly transporting Venezuelan crude. OFAC likewise identified six tankers, one from each sanctioned firm, as blocked property.

“Today’s action also targets Venezuela’s oil sector, which continues to fund Maduro’s illegitimate regime,” the US Treasury stated in a press release.

The Trump administration’s latest coercive measures mark an escalation in its efforts to target Venezuela’s oil industry. During ...

Reform Surge.

This is a month old but I didn’t know it was going on. Our media and social media sites don’t push this out there. Pretty big march. Maybe that’s why Trump is threatening the Colombian President as well. https://x.com/peoplesdispatch/status/1980377715157954706?s=61

June 17, 2024
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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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September 29, 2023
Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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