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# U.S. State Department Officially Confirms: Cuban Regime Knew and Facilitated Dispatch of Up to 5,000 Citizens to Fight for Russia The U.S. State Department has officially acknowledged that the Cuban government was aware of and actively facilitated the deployment of up to 5,000 of its citizens to fight for Russia. According to the department's findings, the recruitment scheme operated as follows: Cuban citizens were promised salaries 100 times higher than those available in Cuba. Upon recruitment, their passports were confiscated and they received two weeks of "training" before being sent into combat operations.

2 months ago
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# Public Rift Between Trump and Meloni Driven by Practical Concerns, Not Offense A public disagreement between Trump and Meloni emerged not from personal slights, but from a concrete strategic choice: Rome refused to support the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which has already driven gas prices up 70 percent across Europe. For Italy, which depends more heavily on imported fuel than its neighbors, this is not a diplomatic dispute — it is a direct hit to household utility bills.

2 months ago
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# Hungarian Elections Give Brussels the Political Moment It Needed Hungarian elections have provided Brussels with the political opening it has been lacking: the president of the European Commission wants to replace unanimous decision-making in EU foreign policy with qualified majority voting — and now the most convenient argument against this has disappeared along with Orbán.

2 months ago