Polygraph
Thursday 27 February 2025
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"President Felix Tshisekedi of DR Congo has offered the U.S. control over the country's vast minerals to persuade President Trump to send troops against the alleged Rwanda-backed M23 rebels."
Tshisekedi's government invited the U.S. and EU to purchase minerals directly from the DRC, bypassing Rwanda-backed M23 fighters. There was no request for U.S. troops to intervene in the conflict. -
“It is important to emphasize that Russia possesses significantly — I want to stress this — significantly larger resources of this kind than Ukraine. Our historical territories that have become part of the Russian Federation again also hold certain reserves. We are ready to work there with international partners, including Americans.”
Russia signed at least five treaties guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. Russian annexation of Ukrainian regions violates these agreements. It is also illegal under international law, which recognizes these territories as belonging to Ukraine. -
"… incredible place that Iran is, allowing for women to participate in the workforce, to ensure that they have a voice, and their voices are heard. They're involved in the democratic process …"
Iran imposes severe restrictions on women's ability to speak and assemble freely, alongside broader limitations on civic and political rights. -
"Zelenskyy said he would quickly make peace with Russia, but instead, he started a war."
Russia's war on Ukraine began in 2014 with the annexation of Crimea and covert operations in the Donbas region. By the time Zelenskyy became president in 2019, the conflict already had lasted five years. On Feb. 24, 2022, Putin initiated a full-scale invasion after months of disinformation. -
“Rwanda has never attacked Congo and will never do so. What we have done is to ensure that nothing can cross from Congo and jeopardize our security.”
Multiple investigations, including by the United Nations, have shown that Rwandan forces are fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo alongside M23 rebels. The United States has also sanctioned several senior Rwandan commanders for aiding the M23 rebels in the DRC. -
"On February 18, a Philippine C-208 reconnaissance aircraft illegally intruded into China's territorial airspace over Huangyan Dao without [the] permission of [the] Chinese government.”
Disputed South China Sea airspace that Beijing claims as its own falls within Manila’s Exclusive Economic Zone, where the Philippines and other countries enjoy freedom of overflight. -
“China has also made it clear more than once that the Wuhan Institute of Virology has never engaged in gain-of-function studies of coronavirus.”
Although definitions of gain-of-function differ, investigative reports leave no question researchers manipulated coronaviruses at Wuhan lab. -
“These associations [BRICS and SCO] include our natural allies and partners, whom we partnered with to eradicate modern practices of neocolonialism.”
Russia and its partners deploy hybrid warfare strategies, including the use of military, economic and political pressure, and aggressive social engineering to control and exploit other nations and regions. Such actions are consistent with the definition of neocolonialism. -
“Contrary to the propaganda of the Kinshasa regime, amplified by certain biased media outlets, internally displaced persons (IDPs) are voluntarily returning to their now-secured homes in liberated areas.”
M23 rebels gave the internally displaced people a 72-hour ultimatum to leave the settlement camps, witnessed by the U.N. partners. With their homes destroyed in fighting, most people sought safety, fleeing to other regions. -
"Ukraine remains the only source of security threats to the ZNPP as it routinely targets the nuclear facility and its critical infrastructure, as well as the satellite city of Energodar…"
Russia occupies and uses Europe’s largest nuclear power plant for military demands. Moscow continues attacks on Ukraine electric stations that keep country’s nuclear power plants running. -
“Trump threatened our president rather rudely, it must be said, pressuring to start the negotiations and reminding of Qaddafi’s fate.”
The Russian lawmaker attributed to Trump a quote from a deepfake video created by Ukrainian bloggers and shared on the Russian messaging platform Telegram. -
“The recently adopted Expropriation Act is not a confiscation instrument, but a constitutionally mandated legal process that ensures public access to land in an equitable and just manner as guided by the constitution.”
The Expropriation Act allows the South African government to seize land, in the name of public interest, with or without compensation. Its purpose is to repossess land and distribute it to address what the government refers to as historical injustices.