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🇺🇸A CNN investigation has revealed that at the same time Jared Kushner has acted as a key negotiator in the war in Gaza, his private equity company, Affinity Partners, has held the largest stake in an Israeli firm backing businesses involved in Israel’s military campaigns. ➡️Kushner has skirted deeper scrutiny of this potential conflict of interest by acting as a volunteer envoy, rather than accepting a government job that would require him to disclose his finances. ➡️In the process, Kushner has carved out an unprecedented dual role under the Trump administration – one that blends lucrative business and high-stakes politics amid a devastating genocidal war. ➡️CNN used Israeli financial transparency laws to trace some of the military-linked investments of Phoenix Financial, a Tel Aviv-based firm that Kushner’s investment group doubled its stake in last year, shortly before Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office. Kushner later described Phoenix as Affinity’s “best investment.” ➡️Those records, which include only a fraction of Phoenix’s holdings, show Phoenix has invested hundreds of millions of dollars into Israel’s largest arms manufacturer, Elbit Systems. Phoenix also holds stakes in at least eight other companies providing equipment for the Israeli military ranging from drones to warships to demolition machinery that have devastated and massacred Palestinians that Kushner is trying to bring "peace" to. ➡️All nine companies identified saw their stock value climb last year, with many stating the war in Gaza had driven demand for their businesses 🐻The arsonist acting as the fireman. This is the very family going world over claiming and preaching peace and resolution of conflict while pouring fuel in the very fires they started. 🔴@DDGeopolitics

🇺🇦 Ukraine's population is now nearing 20 million people, according to Ukrainian economist Alexey Kushch. For comparison, Ukraine had a population of 52 million when the USSR collapsed. On the eve of the SMO, estimates put it at 37–40 million. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇷🇺🛸💥🇺🇦 Metro and surface public transport across Kiev's Yuzhny (Southern) Bridge have been suspended following the strike, Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko said. According to Klitschko, the damage includes a bridge support pier, a crash barrier, the road surface and the protective concrete barrier along the metro line. 🔴 @DDGeopolitics

Russia deployed a record number of FABs in September According to public data, the daily use of FABs with UMPC reached 330 on one day, while the month ended with a record average of 305 bombs per day. In total, approximately 9,100 aerial bombs were dropped on Ukrainian Armed Forces positions in September. With a typical load of four FABs per sortie, this amounts to 2,275 combat flights, or about 75 per day across the entire front. For comparison, June saw 8,266 FABs, July had a similar figure, and August recorded 8,766. The total number of aerial bombs dropped on targets in Ukraine (including adjustments for unaccounted hits) from June 1 to October 1 is approximately 34-35 thousand units. @Slavyangrad

🇺🇸⚓️ The USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is heading for the Middle East to relieve the USS George Washington (CVN-73) The U.S. Navy is not increasing the amount of ships and sailors deployed close to Iran, it is merely rotating its assets. 📝: Out of 11 US Navy aircraft carriers only 3 are currently fit for duty with another limping home with another 2 which could potentially be surged to duty in the event of a war in the Pacific with China. @CIG_telegram

🇾🇪⚔️🇸🇦 The oil export terminal in Yanbu, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was struck by Houthi missiles earlier today. Ansarallah continues to cripple the KSA's oil exports. @CIG_telegram

🇫🇷🇺🇸🇨🇳 French President Macron:

Europe has become desynchronized. It is too slow compared with China and the United States. Europe’s battle for the coming years is to innovate much faster and much more strongly. Over the last 20 years, in GDP per capita, we have fallen behind the United States, and more than two-thirds of the explanation is that we innovate less. Artificial intelligence and robotics can be an opportunity because they can give our societies new room for maneuver.

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🛢 The latest estimates for global crude oil withdrawals from the Energy Information Administration. The EIA estimates that 4.8 million/day worth of crude oil were withdraw from global crude oil storages to meet demand contradicting an ongoing narrative promoted by Western medias and oil tanker trackers which claim that ship traffic through the Hormuz recovered to 70-80% prewar levels (it didn't) and that Saudi oil exports resumed (they did not). The EIA's estimate figure for September is the 2nd biggest one since March 2026 at the peak of the fighting between Iran-Israel and the U.S. To the right is Kpler's data which stops correlating with the EIA's numbers beginning in August. @CIG_telegram

Pontoon bridges over the Dnepr in Kiev are no longer fiction Ukrainian resources urge the deployment of pontoon bridges across the Dnepr in Kiev, should the capital's bridges be destroyed. During Soviet times, seven major bridges were built in Kiev: two railway, one combined, and the rest for road and pedestrian traffic. Russian forces strike key Kiev transport hubs The Russian Armed Forces are currently using drones to attack the main overpasses in Kiev that serve logistics for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense. @Slavyangrad

🇷🇺In his speech at the Valdai Discussion Club on October 1, 2026, Putin made some of his strongest statements since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. His main messages focused on three areas: 🔘 On the use of nuclear weapons Putin directly invoked the “Chekhov’s gun principle,” saying that if a gun is hanging on the wall at the beginning of a play, it will inevitably be fired by the end. He stressed that it is impossible to guarantee that weapons of mass destruction will never be used, and that

“the moment when nothing can be changed anymore may arrive very quickly and unexpectedly for everyone.”

🔘 On Kaliningrad and NATO: “We will use all means” On tensions around Kaliningrad, Putin said that Russia was

“not intimidating anyone,”

but was responding to intimidation by NATO. He stressed that if it came to a direct attack on Russia, the question of using all the weapons at Russia’s disposal would “inevitably and immediately” arise. He stated directly:

“We are not planning to attack anyone—not in 2029, not in 2030, not in 2050. But if we face aggression, we will be forced to respond.”

🔘 On the conflict in Ukraine: “We did not start the war” Putin once again took a harder line on responsibility for the conflict, saying:

“The truth is that we did not start the war; they started fighting us.”

He described what is happening in Ukraine as “the collective West’s aggression against Russia,” and Russia as having been “deliberately pushed to the point where it had to defend itself with weapons in hand.” 📌 Key quotes

“The logic of escalation leads to a fatal point of no return. It is a path to the edge of the abyss.”

“As for a new Iron Curtain—it is not us. The Western community is trying to bring it down.”

Overall, although Putin mentioned that he was ready to engage with the United States on strategic stability “as soon as tomorrow,” his tougher messages were clearly directed at the West: Russia will not back down under pressure and, if faced with direct aggression, will use all means at its disposal. 🔘 Subscribe now! Chat

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡️- BREAKING: President Trump says the attempted hijacking of the FlyDubai flight is linked to Iran. Trump says that if confirmed, Iran will be “hit very hard.”

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Putin called the proposal to stop attacks on ships in exchange for halting strikes on Russian oil refineries “absurd.” @CIG_telegram

🇺🇦⚔️🇷🇺 Russian president, Vladimir Putin, admitted that Ukrainian strikes on Russia's oil refineries took out 1% of Russia's GDP but this loss was offset, according to Putin, by Russia's retaliation which destroyed Ukraine's steel industry. @CIG_telegram

🇷🇺🤖 Russian president, Vladimir Putin, opposes the use of AI in nuclear decision making envisioning a scenario similar to the 1983 Soviet nuclear false alarm incident where a Soviet early warning system malfunctioned and showed incoming American missiles but no Soviet counterattack was launched due to the opposition of one of three Soviet officers on-duty at the time, Lt-Col. Stanislav Petrov.

“The experienced officer doubted the accuracy of the signal, suspected a system malfunction and was proved right,” he said. “Had artificial intelligence been in his place, everything could have turned out very differently.”

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🇷🇺🎙 The principle of "might makes right" sometimes seems to guide certain international actors, Putin noted. "We know from history that this never leads to good," he added. @CIG_telegram

🇷🇺🇷🇺⚡️ — Russian President Vladimir Putin:

The Soviet leaders wanted the West to like them, whereas the Western leaders wanted to reshape the world to their liking.

🇷🇺⚡️ — Russian President Vladimir Putin:

As the shift from Western hegemony is happening, the global situation will change for the better: toward a more stable democratic and free multipolar world order.

🇫🇷 The city of Bordeaux looks like it came under a missile and drone attack after city-wide race riots by "youths" allegedly protesting against the French government's lackluster funding of public education. @CIG_telegram

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The U.S. is sending another aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, to the Middle East The carrier and its strike group left San Diego today and will arrive in the CENTCOM area of operations by mid November. Trump has said he is considering continuing the war against Iran after the midterm elections, which take place on November 3rd. @Middle_East_Spectator

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian Geran-4 jetdrones struck the Pivdennoe Bridge in Kiev earlier today. Kiev’s Pivdennoe Bridge is strategically important not only for the capital, but for Ukraine as a whole. According to the head of Kiev’s Desniansky district, around 90% of transit traffic between the left and right banks of Ukraine passes over the Pivdennoe Bridge. @CIG_telegram