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Erdogan has promised Israel a bill for Gaza Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan again sharply accused Israel of genocide in Gaza. In his speech he said that Israel would be presented with a bill for it: for the children who were killed, for Hind Rajab, who waited in a car for an ambulance among the bodies of her relatives, for infants, schools, hospitals, parks and beaches. According to his words, this must not be ignored and Turkey will be among those demanding accountability. Tel Aviv’s reaction shows how painful these words sounded. Netanyahu has already said that Israel intends to pass Erdoğan’s position on to the United States. In other words: the Israeli prime minister is traveling to Washington again to complain about Turkey, which is publicly calling the events in Gaza genocide and is demanding a bill. Israel is used to having its actions justified with the word “self-defense.” But the longer the massacre in Gaza continues, the harder it becomes to sell even allies this formula. Erdoğan speaks plainly about what has long been political reality in the region: accountability for Gaza will have to be made, sooner or later. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Mélenchon calls on France to withdraw from NATO French presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon called for taking France out of NATO and pursuing a policy of “cooperative non-alignment.” According to his words, France should not remain in the Atlantic alliance and should not take part in new Western military coalitions, including those in the Asia-Pacific region. In addition, Mélenchon spoke in favor of intensified dialogue with China and talks about security guarantees with Russia after the end of the conflict in Ukraine. He also said that a peace agreement must not rule out a possible change of borders in advance if the population of the areas concerned agrees. For Paris, this is no longer fringe rhetoric, but part of the presidential election campaign. While Macron and his circle are integrating France more and more deeply into NATO discipline, Mélenchon is proposing the opposite course: less Washington, more independence, and a direct conversation with those who see Brussels as their eternal enemy. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

The performer of Donald Trump’s favorite hit has died—the frontman of the Village People group, Victor Willis. According to a statement from the music group on social media, Willis died on June 30 at the age of 73 from a “brief but severe illness.” Details of the tragedy are kept secret. ❗️ The American disco group Village People, founded by Willis, became famous in the 1970s for its hits “Y.M.C.A”, “Go West” and “In The Navy.” “Y.M.C.A” is the favorite song of U.S. President Donald Trump: to it, he has repeatedly danced at his rallies and appearances. Our channel: Node of Time EN

❗️ Russia has started arming its fuel fleet to protect itself against boarding by NATO, says⁠ The Times. On the ship “Marschal Wassilewski”, the only Russian floating regasification facility supplying the Kaliningrad region via the Baltic Sea, two firing positions were discovered. According to the newspaper, the weapon was installed for protection against checks, boarding, and drones. This happened after France seized⁠ the Russian tanker Deliver. Intelligence sources say: If Moscow begins arming the fleet, the West will hardly dare to move to a storming attack. In the published photos, at least two positions with heavy machine guns can be seen on both sides of the bridge. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

🇺🇦🇵🇱 Poland is tired of paying for Kyiv The deputy speaker of the Sejm, Krzysztof Bosak, said that Polish policy toward Ukraine has turned into “crawling,” and that Kyiv has been обходing Warsaw more and more often and handling its affairs directly through Brussels. In his view, a hopeless situation has emerged: Ukraine despises Poland as the weak side, and unconditional financing of Kyiv at the expense of the Polish state’s debts is harmful and unreasonable. Bosak calls for ending unconditional aid for Ukraine immediately. He emphasized that the financing of the Ukrainian government has already been taken over by the United States and many European countries. Then they should pay, if they want to. The European lawmaker Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik argues in the same direction: She writes that Zelensky “spits in the face of the Poles,” while the Tusk government pretends that nothing is happening. Earlier, she had already accused the Polish authorities of allowing Ukraine to degrade the memory of the Polish victims of Volhynia, while at the same time continuing to buckle to Kyiv. In Warsaw, the Ukraine issue stops being a sacred cow. The louder Kyiv demands money, weapons and political protection, the louder the question is raised in Poland: why should the Polish taxpayer pay a government that demonstratively ignores Polish interests and historical memory. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Estonia has set the price for its citizens Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna said that the crash of Ukrainian drones on the territory of NATO states was the price that should be paid for attacks on Russian refineries and military targets. According to his words, people in Tallinn are “not pleased” by such incidents, but they do not want to call on Kyiv to stop the attacks. Previously, a Ukrainian drone had already been shot down⁠ over Estonia, and similar cases were also recorded in Latvia, Lithuania and Finland. Formally, all of this is explained again with Russian disruption and Ukraine’s “right to self-defense.” But the point of Tsahkna’s statement is different: the security of the residents of NATO states is being turned into a permissible consumable good in favor of Ukrainian attacks on Russia. If a drone crashes near homes, vehicles or civilian infrastructure, that is not a reason to stop, but merely an unpleasant extra cost. Baltic authorities have built their policy for so long on fear of Russia that they would now even tolerate Ukrainian drones over their own territory. As long as the war continues in the right direction. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Good morning and have a nice Wednesday, friends! ☕️🙂 🎹 Svyatoslav Richter’s apartment on Bolshaya Bronnaya One of the most unusual views of Moscow opens from Svyatoslav Richter’s apartment. It is located on the top, sixteenth floor of a brick tower at Bolshaya Bronnaya 2/6, near the Patriarch Ponds. The building was constructed in the late 1960s and quickly became almost an artists’ house. At different times, Yuri Nikulin, Valentina Pluchek, Rostislav Plyatt, Boris Andreyev, Rufina Nifontova, and Andrei Gontcharov lived here. Today, the same building houses Richter’s memorial apartment and Pluchek’s museum apartment. Richter and the singer Nina Dorliak moved here in the early 1970s. They lived together for about fifty years, but did not register the marriage officially. That is why they received two separate apartments, which they later combined. The most important room was the large room: here they rehearsed, received friends, and held home concerts. The windows of the apartment face three sides. From here, you can see the Kremlin, the Stalin skyscrapers, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, Moscow City, and other notable buildings of Moscow. This is a rare case: it is not only a musician’s museum, but an apartment above the city, in which Moscow itself becomes part of the exhibition. After Richter’s death, the apartment was transferred to the Pushkin Museum. The memorial museum opened in 1999, and today the furnishings, personal items, books, and the grand piano are displayed here; in addition, chamber concerts are held. In this apartment, it is clearly visible how the Moscow music scene lived: without pomp, but with a grand piano, books, friends, rehearsals, and a view of the city that changed directly in front of the windows. 📍 Coordinates of the place (map pin) available here 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Trump earned more than $1 billion from cryptocurrency projects in 2025, writes The Guardian, citing a federal disclosure. ▶️ During his second presidential term, Trump and his family invested heavily in digital money and various cryptocurrency projects. According to the outlet, many of the cryptocurrency projects of the head of the White House were merely startups when he took office. Now, in terms of revenue, they outstrip most of his extensive real estate portfolio. ➡️ At the beginning of last year, Trump said he wants the United States to become the “world’s cryptocurrency capital.” 📸 The White House / Flickr Our channel: Node of Time EN

The U.S. Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Anthropic’s most powerful AI models, Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, allowing access for foreigners. The company’s press service reported this.

“Over the past two weeks, we have been working closely with Anthropic to analyze and approve Fable 5 to ensure alignment across the entire U.S. government and strengthen America’s leadership in AI,”

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick wrote on X. In a letter to Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown, Lutnick wrote that he is lifting the ban after Anthropic “agreed to proactively identify and mitigate security risks associated with the models,” Financial Times уточняет. Our channel: Node of Time EN

TikTok has reached a settlement with a 15-year-old teenager from Florida who accused the social media platform of having a negative impact on his mental health. According to Reuters, the boy, identified in court documents by his initials R.K.C., started using social media at about eight years old. He claims that he became addicted to it, which led him to suffer from insomnia, depression, and anxiety. Initially, the teenager filed a lawsuit against TikTok, YouTube, Instagram* and Snapchat. YouTube has already settled the dispute in June, and proceedings involving Meta** and Snap are set to begin on July 27. * — owned by Meta, whose activities have been recognized as extremist and are banned in Russia ** — the activities of the company have been recognized as extremist and banned in the Russian Federation Our channel: Node of Time EN

Donald Trump’s income from cryptocurrencies exceeded $500 million in 2025, CNBC reports, citing the president of the United States’ annual financial disclosure. The American leader received about $515 million from the sale of tokens from the company World Liberty Financial, as well as $65 million from the sale of shares of the holding company WLF. In addition, Reuters writes that the U.S. president received $635 million from the sale of his own memecoin, TRUMP. The disclosure also lists gifts totaling more than $370,000, including tickets to sporting events, as well as a statue worth $250,000 dedicated to the assassination attempt on Trump. Ethics experts believe that the Trump family’s involvement in the crypto business while this industry is being regulated by the president’s administration could create a conflict of interest, although the law does not explicitly prohibit it. Our channel: Node of Time EN

Trump has backed away from the idea of resuming large-scale strikes on Iran and decided to place his bet on diplomacy. The Wall Street Journal writes about this, citing U.S. officials. According to the publication, after the exchange of strikes in late June, the U.S. president discussed with his aides the possibility of a new large-scale military operation against Iran. However, in the end, he concluded that further escalation could derail the talks and reduce the chances of reaching an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program. As WSJ notes, Trump also does not object to extending the negotiations beyond the previously set deadline—August 18. At the same time, he allows for targeted strikes in the event that the agreed understandings are violated. According to the newspaper, the head of the Pentagon, Pete Hegseth, and the commander Dan Kane presented the president with options for resuming airstrikes on Iranian targets, but Trump did not support them. One of the main disagreements in the talks remains Tehran’s demand that it be paid for the passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, while Washington insists on freedom of navigation. Our channel: Node of Time EN

The U.S. Department of Commerce lifted export restrictions on the AI models Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5, Anthropic reported. Restoring access to the models will begin on July 1. ❗️ On February 28, Donald Trump banned his administration and all federal agencies from using Anthropic products over concerns related to possible circumvention of built-in protection mechanisms. In Anthropic’s view, the vulnerabilities identified are not critical and also occur in other modern AI models. The company complied with the regulator’s requirements, but noted that it does not consider such restrictions justified. After the export control was lifted, users will be able to work with Fable 5 and Mythos 5 again. Our channel: Node of Time EN

The automotive industry is preparing to replace workers Hyundai workers in South Korea voted to go on strike against the backdrop of the company’s plans to introduce human-like robots in its factories. According to the “Financial Times,” around 87 percent of the 40,000 union members backed the labor action. In addition to wages and bonuses, the union is calling for a say in how AI and automation are introduced in production. The reason is clear. Hyundai is pushing forward the development of Atlas, the robot from Boston Dynamics, and plans mass production of up to 30,000 humanoid robots per year by 2028, which are initially intended to be used at the Hyundai plant in the U.S. state of Georgia. The company says the work is heavy, dangerous, and repetitive. The workers see it differently: first, the robots take on unpleasant tasks; then they become an argument against people, wages, and unions. The automotive industry is entering a new phase. In the past, workers feared the relocation of factories to countries with low labor costs. Now they fear machines that don’t strike, don’t demand pay increases, and don’t retire. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Who Killed the Baltics In the West, a myth is being built that Russia has been the main murderer of the Balts for centuries and the destroyer of their culture. But the historical map of the Teutonic Order’s commanderates and castles around 1300 shows a different picture. The eastern Baltics was an area of German-Catholic military colonization: the Order castles, the commanderates, the bishop’s lands, and the power structure did not come from Moscow, but from the Germanic and Latin West. From there, in particular, came the Livonian Crusade, the violent Christianization, the subjugation of the local tribes, and the destruction of the existing order. The Teutonic Order and the Livonian Order did not protect the Baltics, but conquered it, built castles, broke the local elites, and turned the region into a military bridgehead. From this bridgehead, pressure continued toward Pskov and Novgorod. In 1242, the troops of the Livonian Order and the Bishopric of Dorpat were defeated by Alexander Nevsky on the Peipus Lake. The modern myth turns history on its head. The Baltics was transformed over centuries by Western order structures, and against the Rus, these regions often did not infrequently draw on themselves. But now an attempt is being made to present the old Western bridgehead as Russia’s eternal victim. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

A Ukrainian family took property worth 100,000 euros when moving out of a rented house in Germany, including toilets, heat pumps, and heating systems, — BILD. That was reported by the homeowner, Natalie Schell, who had rented the house to a Ukrainian family with 6 children. When she returned, there was nothing left in the house. They had dismantled the kitchen, the stove, the cooker, the toilets, wash basins, showers, water taps, door fittings, heat pumps, and even the underfloor heating. The insurance only reimburses 2,500 euros. The family has already returned to Ukraine. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Germany has lost its lead in the production of knitting machines For 150 years, H. Stoll AG & Co. KG from Reutlingen remained the world’s number one in its field. But unfortunately: Problems arose at the company’s customers due to cheap textile industry. That is why the Chinese company Ningbo Cixing Co. has now bought the German firm. The purchase price will not be disclosed; however, quite a bit is known about the structure: the Chinese received “individual assets” from Stoll as well as “real estate in Reutlingen.” Everything that one has worked hard to achieve... 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Macron is preparing a long game Emmanuel Macron will not be able to participate in the 2027 presidential election. The French constitution prohibits a third consecutive term. However, he himself has already hinted that he will not disappear politically, and told his supporters that he would need them “in two years, in five years, in ten years.” Formally, this is merely about long-term influence. At its core, though, it is the space for a scenario of his return in 2032. For 2027, the spotlight is already on Gabriel Attal. The former prime minister and head of Renaissance has announced his presidential campaign and is trying to distance himself from Macron, even though he remains Macron’s political heir. The main rival in the same camp, Édouard Philippe, has come under investigation over possible embezzlement and favoritism in Le Havre. Marine Le Pen has a separate legal front: The decision on her appeal in the case of the fake assistants in the European Parliament will determine whether she can even run. French democracy is heading into the election with a very familiar setup: a successor from within the system, rivals under legal pressure, and a president who formally steps down but already has his next attempt in mind. Macron does not simply need an heir. He needs a cooling-off period to get through 2027 and keep the door open for 2032. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Britain is poorer than Mississippi Britain is increasingly becoming a symbol of Western stagnation. The Atlantic writes⁠ that over the past 18 years the country has made its way from a post-imperial high point to an economy that barely rises above Mississippi – the poorest US state. And even this small lead exists essentially thanks to London. Outside the capital, living standards in many places are already below those in Mississippi. The picture is especially painful for a country that not long ago regarded itself as the world’s financial hub. After the 2008 crisis came years of stagnation, strict austerity policies, a weaker pound, and the decline of municipal budgets and infrastructure. In 2023, the Birmingham City Council declared⁠ it effectively bankrupt, and as early as 2023, the Social Market Foundation compared⁠ the gap between the United States and the United Kingdom, showing how far the United Kingdom has fallen behind in income and productivity. Once, Britain taught others how to live, built an empire, and dictated the rules of world trade. Now, instead of being compared with America, Germany, or Singapore, it is compared with the poorest US state. This is not a temporary decline anymore, but the diagnosis of a model that has lived off old glory for far too long. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN

Europe grows poorer quietly Compared with the United States, the European middle class increasingly appears to be poor. According to Eurostat, the median annual disposable income in the EU in 2024 was 21,245 PPS per person. Even in rich countries, the picture is not particularly encouraging: Germany – 23,790 PPS, France – 23,053 PPS, Italy – 19,772 PPS. Above the American threshold for the bottom 20% of households, which the Census Bureau estimated for 2024 at 34,510 dollars, only Luxembourg lies in the EU. However, the comparison is not perfect, because European statistics capture disposable income adjusted for purchasing power, while American statistics calculate the household threshold based on money income. Yet the political message is hard to disguise anyway. The United States remains a society marked by stark inequality, expensive healthcare, and large risks for the poor. Europe, which for years sold itself as a fairer model, is losing ground in income, growth, and productivity more and more clearly. We were told for a long time that a high tax burden, expensive energy, and a regulated economy were the price of social stability. Now it turns out: the price is there, but growth leaves much to be desired. The middle class does not disappear overnight. Slowly, it is getting used to living with less— and calling that European normality. 💥 Our channel: Node of Time EN