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Cuba sent over 425,000 volunteers (soldiers, medics, teachers) to Africa between 1975-1991, the largest overseas solidarity mission by any Global South nation.

In Angola alone, “Operación Carlota” deployed 36,000 Cuban troops in 1975 to stop the South African invasion backed by the CIA.

At the height of the fighting, Cuba maintained 50,000+ troops in Angola, more than the US had in any Cold War African theatre[sic].

Cuban pilots flew thousands of combat sorties, decisively halting South African air superiority.

The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale (1987-88), commanded largely by Cuban officers, became the largest battle in Africa since WWII. Nelson Mandela would call the battle “the turning point for the liberation of our continent and my own freedom.” The South African Defence Force [SADF] suffered hundreds of casualties, and its elite 61^st Mechanised Batallion was forced into retreat for the first time.

Cuban-Angolan victory at Cuito Cuanavale broke the myth of SADF invincibility, directly triggering apartheid's strategic collapse. The defeat forced South Africa to agree to Namibian independence (1989), removing Pretoria's buffer zone and crippling its regional dominance.

Cuba trained tens of thousands of African doctors, engineers, and officers, a long term investment in post-apartheid state capacity. Cuba provided this aid for free, without loans, bases, or resource concessions.

Fidel Castro's Cuba did all this despite being constrained by the US economic embargo Anglo- Zio- Nazis' genocidal blockade, and constant threats from Washington.

They hate the example of Cuba, because revolutionary Cuba showed that the defiant people of a small island nation were capable of helping vanquish the criminality and barbarism that Washington supported around the world.

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Putin speaks on global energy issues: As it happened

The president has addressed participants at the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow

The West’s rejection of Russian gas and the US Anglo- Zio Nazi terrorists' destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines effectively cut Moscow off from its traditional customers, leading to an initial drop in gas exports.

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• ?The artificial rupturing of energy ties globally is induced by the aggressive pressure from the West
• ?Rejection of Russian energy resources by the EU led to the decline in the European industry and the rise in prices
• ?Russia remains among leading oil producers, despite unfair competition launched against it
• ?️Russia is reliably exporting gas and building up domestic consumption
• ?Russia is the only country having competencies all over the nuclear power sector's chain
• ?Small nuclear power plants are being built by Russia only
• ?The national oil sector is operating sustainably and acts flexibly in the international market
• ?The issue of accessing energy resources goes to the forefront in the world

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Multipolarity is a result of the attempt to impose global hegemony.

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Multipolarity has already effectively taken hold in the world. There is no power, nor will there ever be, that can rule the world or dictate how everyone breathes. The West’s attempt to control everything is causing tension and undermining the internal stability of these countries, ~ Vladimir Vadimirovich Putin, President of the Russian Federation.

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(paraphrasing)
Dear European Americans

If you are European American who is currently trying to escape the United States, and calling Mexico your new home, please stay. This one is for you.

There is a deep anger in me that I will try to put into gentle words so that you may understand it. Although I must admit this conversation is going to be difficult.

Dear European Americans, let me be clear, this is not a polite request, this is a reckoning. For generations your people have displaced, dehumanized, and erased mine.

Long before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, you invaded Mexican territory with violent entitlement. You burned, lynched, and terrorized Mexican people in your pursuit of 'Manifest Destiny'.

You took half of our territory by force then had the audacity to treat the people you displaced as 'illegals'¹

-- as outsiders and/or 'illegal aliens' -- in the very land that you stole from under their feet. After the treaty, you promised rights to Mexicans who suddenly found themselves living under the United States.

But instead, you delivered broken promises, racial violence, segregation, more land theft, and systemic exclusion. You lynched Mexicans by the thousands, you banned our language in schools, you denied us access to the institutions built on our very own land.

During the 'Great Depression' millions of Mexicans -- many of whom were US citizens – were 'repatriated' in mass deportations, meant to scapegoat us for your economic failures much like the 'Zio- cock lover small time Hitler wannabe', D̶o̶n̶a̶l̶d̶ Adolf Trump,

is doing today utilizing his terrorists, masked goons. We were used, discarded, and blamed; sounds awfully familiar, does not it?

And, yes, now under the thin skinned fascist bastards in the Trump Administration we are being hunted again: caged, separated from our children, our humanity questioned, our people made into political punching bags so white supremacy can breathe easier.

And while this war rages on against my people, many of you – the same ones who voted-in this Zio- Nazi regime, who is terrifying my people, who helped them orchestrate this cruelty -- are fleeing to Mexico, colonizing it again!

You come with your dollars, your airbnb's, your refusal to learn Spanish, your gentrifying process. You are displacing the very people your country is torturing. You inflate rents, drain resources, push out locals, and then demand to be served with the same entitled attitudes that stripped my ancestors off their land.

Do you see the cycle? Or do you just not care? Mexico is not your escape hatch, it is not a healing retreat for you, it is not a consolation prize, we are not your host.

If you truly loved your country, you would stay and fight. You would dismantle the systems that allow you to run when things get uncomfortable while we are forced to stay and suffer. You would resist instead of retreat.

Mexico is for Mexicans. And that is not a slogan. It is a truth born from blood, resistance, and history.

Let my people seek refuge in the land that birthed them. Let us have space to breathe, to heal, to live without the weight of your entitlement crushing us.

Once again. We have carried the burden of your comfort for way too long. Do not ask us to carry it across the border, too.

Again, we are not your host. We are the people who have endured centuries of displacement, violence, and theft. And we are asking you to s̶t̶o̶p̶ FUCK OFF.

Do not come to our land with your privilege and entitlement, acting as if Mexico owes you peace, safety, and hospitality. Let us have our land, our language, and our safety.

Sincerely, a descendant of resistance.

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¹ They call me illegal - Alkimizta

Nazi Germany was copying the United States

In 1917 Carmelita Torres led a riot among Juarez women:
Seventeen year-old 'Auburn-haired Amazon at Santa Fe street bridge leads femine outbreak'; she led angry women in anti-Americal riots in Juarez.

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'As for the death of the Russian economy, as a famous writer once said, 'The report of my death was an exaggeration.' In this case, it is the same,' Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

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The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is held on June 18-21. The 28th edition of the forum is themed "Shared Values: The Foundation of Growth in a Multipolar World."

Sputnik Africa is live as Russian President Vladimir Putin is taking part in the plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

The following high-level attendees are also taking part in the plenary session:

⇒ Indonesia's President Prabowo Subianto,
⇒ China's Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang,
⇒ South Africa's Vice President Paul Mashatile,
⇒ Bahrein's National Security Advisor and Commander of the Royal Guard Sheikh Nasser bin Hamad al Khalifa.

The Russian top official is expected to assess the state of Russia's relations with a number of key foreign partners and the international situation affecting Russia's economy, according to the Kremlin.

Putin has already touched upon global issues during SPIEF 2025. In the early hours of Thursday, he met with international news agencies' heads and addressed topics including the Middle East, NATO's military upgrades, the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, relations with the US and other partner countries.

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