1/ New data from the Russian government shows that Russia's middle class is increasingly being hollowed out by taxes imposed to pay for the war in Ukraine and can no longer to afford to buy new cars. At the same time, wealth is increasingly being concentrated at the top. ⬇️
Putin was not granted permission from Zelenskyy on flying fighter jets, now they got flattened
A Russian Su-33, a MiG-29 and an “Orion” have been grounded
China’s illicit shadow economy now generates nearly $1 trillion every year, matching the entire annual GDP of Switzerland.
While the regime projects total control over its financial system, state authorities quietly tolerate a massive criminal network spanning global money laundering, drug trafficking, and cyber fraud.
Strict capital controls cap how much money domestic citizens can legally move abroad. This artificial limit fueled the growth of a massive underground banking system that international cartels and illicit brokers now rely on to wash dirty cash.
At the same time, domestic industrial overcapacity has flooded Southeast Asia with cheap electronics and surplus building materials. These low-cost supplies dramatically reduce the operating expenses for industrial-scale scam compounds holding hundreds of thousands of people in forced labor.
Instead of dismantling this shadow economy, Beijing selectively enforces the law. Illegal financial flows are routinely ignored whenever they advance state interests, like securing sanctioned energy imports or sustaining trade networks.
When a government permits a trillion-dollar criminal empire to flourish because it serves state strategy, how can the international community effectively combat global organized crime?
TODAY is a bad day for russian aviation.
Ukraine destroyed a Su-33 and a MiG-29.
Two russian warplanes. Gone.
Every one of these strikes saves Ukrainian lives.
Russia struck an American Mondelez plant in Ukraine’s Sumy region
A missile hit a production building at the chocolate factory in Trostianets. The facility produces products under brands including Korona, Milka, Oreo, Lux and others.
The plant is a civilian facility and has been operating in Ukraine since the 1990s.
This is what the shopping center in Kryvyi Rih looks like after the Russian attack.
16 dead and over 100 injured.
51 injured people are still being treated in the hospital. 14 of them are children.
A world without Russia would be a much better world.
🔥 Партизаны ударили по логистике 🇷🇺🔥рф в самом сердце россии: под Петербургом пожар охватил 80 тысяч «квадратов»
В Пушкинском районе Санкт-Петербурга масштабный пожар охватил складской комплекс «Ответственное хранение „Логистера“» площадью около 79 200 м². К тушению привлечены около 200 пожарных и десятки единиц техники.
И все это происходит в Санкт-Петербурге — родном городе путина, где он родился, вырос и начал свою карьеру диктатора
Теперь ротсийская логистика оказывается под ударом не только украинских БПЛА, но и изнутри самой рф.
💪🇺🇦Слава ЗСУ! а путинцам гореть в АД🇷🇺🔥