Speaking at the 79th UN General Assembly, Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Yván Gil condemned a “large-scale recolonization plan” against Venezuela.
He stated that unilateral sanctions have caused $642 billion in economic losses, and revealed the involvement of foreign nationals, including a US Navy SEAL, in a recent assassination plot against high-ranking officials.
Read the full report here 👉🏼https://shorturl.at/cKAhy
#UnitedNations#Sanctions
The US has sanctioned 21 Venezuelan officials, including military commanders, intelligence heads, and ministers, freezing their US-based assets and restricting visas.
Caracas condemned the measures, calling them part of a 'failed regime change policy.' The sanctions come after Washington supported the opposition's disputed election claims.
Learn more here: https://shorturl.at/ggDjj
#JoeBiden#OFAC#sanctions
📰 NEWS | Chinese Supertankers Turn Back as US Moves Ahead to Extort Venezuelan Crude
With Washington stepping up its naval blockade, two Chinese-flagged supertankers turned back when headed to load Venezuelan crude.
Commodities traders Vitol and Trafigura have begun to move Venezuelan oil. Trump officials insist that the sales proceeds will be deposited in US accounts.
Read our report: https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/chinese-supertankers-turn-back-as-us-moves-ahead-to-extort-venezuelan-crude/
#OilIndustry#Sanctions#China#TrumpAdministration
UN rapporteur: Israel will not stop ‘this madness’ until we make it stop
Francesca #Albanese, the #UN’s special #rapporteur on #Palestine on Saturday urged member states to impose sanctions on #Israel along with an arms embargo until it stops “this madness,”
“Let’s be clear. As the #ICJ orders Israel to stop its offensive in #Rafah, #Israel instead intensifies its attacks on it,”
The International Court of Justice (#ICJ) in its latest ruling ordered Israel to immediately halt its military offensive in #Rafah, a city in southern Gaza where more than 1.5 million displaced Palestinians had sought refuge.
“The news I am receiving from the people trapped therein are terrifying,
Be sure: Israel will not stop this madness until WE make it stop,”
Albanese urged all UN member states to impose #sanctions, arms #embargo and suspend diplomatic and political relations with Israel until it ceases its #genocidal assault.
📰 Zelensky says U.S. is readying huge economic deals with Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claims to have intelligence that the United States and Russia are preparing a slate of economic agreements worth around $12 trillion — some of which could affect Ukrainian territory, resources, and sovereignty.
Speaking in Kyiv, Zelensky said he had seen documents outlining a U.S.–Russian economic framework that he called the “Dmitriev package,” named after Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a close ally of Vladimir Putin.
The $12 trillion shadow deal
Zelensky did not say he knew every detail of the talks, but he insisted that signals in the media and in intelligence point to one thing: Washington and Moscow are planning a massive economic reset that could reshape Ukraine from the outside.
America’s argument, he suggested, is simple: lift sanctions, unleash investment, and use the promise of a postwar economic boom as leverage to force Kyiv into a deal that might still leave Russia in control of large parts of eastern Ukraine.
“Peace by June,” with elections in the backseat
The Ukrainian president said Washington has proposed bringing the war in Ukraine to a close by June, and that U.S. officials are signaling heavy pressure on all sides to meet that timeline.
“The elections are, for them, definitely more important,”
Zelensky remarked.
“Let’s not be naïve. They say they want to achieve everything by June, and they will do everything possible to ensure the war ends that way.”
Reports suggest that U.S. and Ukrainian officials have privately discussed a goal of reaching a peace deal by March, with national elections and a referendum in May — a schedule that fits neatly with the American political calendar, not Kyiv’s security needs.
Zelensky’s red line: “Not over our heads”
Zelensky insisted that any such potential agreements involving “Ukraine’s sovereignty or security” must be made with Ukraine, not without it.
“We are not aware of all their bilateral economic or business agreements, but we are receiving some information on the matter,” he said. “Ukraine will not support any such potential agreements about us that are made without us.”
At the same time, Russia launched another massive attack on Ukraine’s power grid, plunging large parts of the country into darkness and leaving many without power and heat. The strike hit energy infrastructure that feeds into the nation’s nuclear power plants, sending a clear message: even as diplomats talk billions, bombs still speak louder.
The real deal on the table
The Dmitriev‑Witkoff‑Kushner peace plan, circulated in Abu Dhabi, calls for gradual sanctions relief, new economic corridors, and joint Russian–Ukrainian projects — but only after Russia gets what it wants on the ground.
To Zelensky, that looks less like a peace framework and more like a hostile takeover of Ukraine’s postwar economy.
So the question is not whether the U.S. can “end the war.”
It’s whether America would rather sell a truce to Moscow in exchange for a deal worth trillions — and leave Ukraine paying the security bill.
#Ukraine#Russia#US#Zelensky#Trump2026#Sanctions#Economy#Dmitriev#War#Kyiv
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#EnglishLawReport#EWHCComm
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#Enforcement
🔈PODCAST | Venezuela’s Fight Against Trump’s Illegal Sanctions and Tariffs
What can we make of Trump's "secondary tariff" threats against Venezuela? Is Chevron staying or leaving? And allies like Russia and China, what role do they play? All this and more in this edition of the VA podcast.
Click to subscribe and listen: https://www.patreon.com/posts/128711786
#Sanctions#Tariffs#Venezuela#GlobalSouth
#HistoryOfDiplomacy
8️⃣0️⃣ years ago, on February 4, 1945, the Yalta (Crimea) Conference of the Allied leaders — Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D.Roosevelt officially opened.
#YaltaConference of the Anti-Hitler coalition leaders went down in history as one of the most significant and key international meetings of the 'Big Three' during #WWII. The Yalta talks became a symbol of successful cooperation between the Soviet Union, the US and the UK in the fight against the common enemy — Nazism.
The decisions taken at the Conference outlined the frame of the post-war #YaltaPotsdam international relations system, with the #UNCharter becoming its international legal basis.
***
By late 1944 — early 1945, the Red Army expelled the enemy from all the territory of the Soviet Union and proceeded with the operations aimed at liberating Europe from the Nazis.
🌟 In the first days of February 1945, the forces of the Red Army's 1st Byelorussian and the 1st Ukrainian Fronts successfully completed the Vistula-Oder Offensive, overcoming over 500 kilometres in less than a month (!), liberated Poland and then reached the border with Germany. Berlin was just 60 kilometres away. The collapse of the Third Reich was just a matter of time.
As the long-awaited common Allies' #Victory over Nazi Germany was as close as never, the future post-war world order-related issues needed to be discussed by the victorious great powers. While the Soviet forces were rapidly advancing in Eastern Europe in January, the preparations for the big negotiations to shape the future of the world were in full swing. Yalta, a Crimean city, was picked as the venue for that historic meeting (February 4-11, 1945).
The fate of post-war Germany was the key focus of the Yalta Conference. The Allies reaffirmed their commitment to eliminating German militarism and Nazism, and creating guarantees that “Germany would never be able again to disturb peace of the world.”
At the Yalta talks, the 'Big Three' managed to reach agreement on Poland’s post-war borders. The Soviet delegation consistently promoted the idea of ensuring the interests of the Poles and their fundamental right to independence and sovereignty. Winston Churchill, addressing the House of Commons upon his return from Yalta, on February 27, said: "If not for the prodigious exertions and sacrifices of Russia, Poland was doomed to utter destruction at the hands of the Germans. Not only Poland as a state and as a nation, but the Poles as a race were doomed by Hitler to be destroyed or reduced to a servile station".
The Yalta Conference resulted also in adopting of 'the Declaration of Free Europe' and other crucial international legal documents on the fundamental principles of the #UnitedNations, laying down the foundation of the Yalta-Potsdam international system.
☝️ The rapidly strengthening international posture and influence of the Soviet Union, bolstered by the outstanding achievements of the Red Army in the battlefields, had a significant impact on the course and the outcomes of the negotiations. By the time Europe was almost freed from the shackles of hitlerism, the Soviet soldier enjoyed the fame of liberator whose noble feat was well-known all across the continent.
The decisions of the Yalta Conference strengthened the anti-fascist coalition in the final stages of WWII and contributed to the Victory over Germany.
🎙 From a briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Saransk, January 31, 2025):
💬 "The participants in the Yalta Conference managed to overcome their differences, and, acting in the spirit of true solidarity, mutual respect and trust, abandoned their fleeting interests for the sake of defeating the common enemy and achieving a common victory, peace and freedom for all countries and peoples.
Unfortunately, much has changed since then. Now, multiple proponents of historical revisionism tend to falsify historical reality and associate the Yalta agreements with the split of Europe and the bloc confrontation of the post-war period."
#WeWereAllies
#HistoryOfDiplomacy
8️⃣0️⃣ years ago, on February 4, 1945, the Yalta (Crimea) Conference of the Allied leaders — Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D.Roosevelt officially opened.
#YaltaConference of the Anti-Hitler coalition leaders went down in history as one of the most significant and key international meetings of the 'Big Three' during #WWII. The Yalta talks became a symbol of successful cooperation between the Soviet Union, the US and the UK in the fight against the common enemy — Nazism.
The decisions taken at the Conference outlined the frame of the post-war #YaltaPotsdam international relations system, with the #UNCharter becoming its international legal basis.
***
By late 1944 — early 1945, the Red Army expelled the enemy from all the territory of the Soviet Union and proceeded with the operations aimed at liberating Europe from the Nazis.
🌟 In the first days of February 1945, the forces of the Red Army's 1st Byelorussian and the 1st Ukrainian Fronts successfully completed the Vistula-Oder Offensive, overcoming over 500 kilometres in less than a month (!), liberated Poland and then reached the border with Germany. Berlin was just 60 kilometres away. The collapse of the Third Reich was just a matter of time.
As the long-awaited common Allies' #Victory over Nazi Germany was as close as never, the future post-war world order-related issues needed to be discussed by the victorious great powers. While the Soviet forces were rapidly advancing in Eastern Europe in January, the preparations for the big negotiations to shape the future of the world were in full swing. Yalta, a Crimean city, was picked as the venue for that historic meeting (February 4-11, 1945).
The fate of post-war Germany was the key focus of the Yalta Conference. The Allies reaffirmed their commitment to eliminating German militarism and Nazism, and creating guarantees that “Germany would never be able again to disturb peace of the world.”
At the Yalta talks, the 'Big Three' managed to reach agreement on Poland’s post-war borders. The Soviet delegation consistently promoted the idea of ensuring the interests of the Poles and their fundamental right to independence and sovereignty. Winston Churchill, addressing the House of Commons upon his return from Yalta, on February 27, said: "If not for the prodigious exertions and sacrifices of Russia, Poland was doomed to utter destruction at the hands of the Germans. Not only Poland as a state and as a nation, but the Poles as a race were doomed by Hitler to be destroyed or reduced to a servile station".
The Yalta Conference resulted also in adopting of 'the Declaration of Free Europe' and other crucial international legal documents on the fundamental principles of the #UnitedNations, laying down the foundation of the Yalta-Potsdam international system.
☝️ The rapidly strengthening international posture and influence of the Soviet Union, bolstered by the outstanding achievements of the Red Army in the battlefields, had a significant impact on the course and the outcomes of the negotiations. By the time Europe was almost freed from the shackles of hitlerism, the Soviet soldier enjoyed the fame of liberator whose noble feat was well-known all across the continent.
The decisions of the Yalta Conference strengthened the anti-fascist coalition in the final stages of WWII and contributed to the Victory over Germany.
🎙 From a briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Saransk, January 31, 2025):
💬 "The participants in the Yalta Conference managed to overcome their differences, and, acting in the spirit of true solidarity, mutual respect and trust, abandoned their fleeting interests for the sake of defeating the common enemy and achieving a common victory, peace and freedom for all countries and peoples.
Unfortunately, much has changed since then. Now, multiple proponents of historical revisionism tend to falsify historical reality and associate the Yalta agreements with the split of Europe and the bloc confrontation of the post-war period."
#WeWereAllies
📊 INFOGRAPHICS | The Neocolonial Plunder of Venezuelan Resources
The Trump administration’s January 3 military strikes opened a new era of US imperialism in Venezuela built on the plunder of the country’s resources. This interactive infographic explains Venezuela’s recent pro-business reforms, US neocolonial impositions through licenses, and the conglomerates that have already taken advantage to strike agreements.
🔎 Follow this link to view the full infographic: https://venezuelanalysis.com/infographics/the-neocolonial-plunder-of-venezuelan-resources/
#2026OilReform#mining#PDVSA#Sanctions#USVenezuelaRelations
Caracas blasted Washington’s “total disdain for international law” in the wake of the latest targeted sanctions. The Venezuelan government likewise warned Spain against meddling actions as the relation between the two countries strains.
Read the report: https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/venezuelan-govt-condemns-renewed-us-aggression-reviews-spain-relations/
#Venezuela#UnitedStates#Spain#Sanctions
🖊 COLUMN | Sanctions, Migrants, Racism and the Human Toll of US Imperialism
VA writer Andreína Chávez explains how US sanctions shaped Venezuelan migration and the racial bias behind Trump’s deportation policies.
Since 2017, millions fled Venezuela’s collapsing economy due to US sanctions. In 2025, Trump’s administration escalated deportations targeting Venezuelans with Temporary Protected Status and parole, exposing systemic racial discrimination.
🔗 Read the full VA column here: https://shorturl.at/QggSn
#Migration#Racism#Sanctions#USImperialism
Why negotiations between #Iran and the #US are struggling
Iran’s strategic confidence despite #economic pressure
The importance of the Strait of #Hormuz in global #oil security
#Missile power, #drones, and asymmetric warfare #strategies
The role of #sanctions and economic warfare
video link:https://youtu.be/oMadN9qHN4w?si=huMEEJvWhdAARF6M