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14 Dec 2024 08:45

Denmark offering €27,000 to Syrians willing to return to their homeland.

📎 AF Post

https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article254867630/Bericht-Daenemark-zahlt-jedem-erwachsenen-Syrien-Rueckkehrer-27-000-Euro-Praemie.html

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14 Dec 2024 07:18

🇷🇺🇱🇾 Facing loss of its Syrian naval base, Russia shifts focus to Libya

In March and April 2024, Russian landing ships frequently docked at Tobruk, the eastern Libyan port which hosts the Haftar-backed House of Representatives, unloading troops and thousands of tonnes of military equipment.

The shipments, which arrived from Tartus, contained towed artillery, armoured personnel carriers and rocket launchers.

The primary purpose of Russia's Tartus base was to service and replenish Russia’s naval assets and to provide logistical support for Russian operations in Libya and wider north Africa.

Aside from its Mediterranean Sea ports, Libya is already the base for Russian and Wagner activities in Niger, Chad, Central African Republic, and Sudan, making it of vital strategic importance.

https://www.euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar090e3289

https://archive.ph/UrGhQ

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14 Dec 2024 00:32

🇩🇪 Germany spent $1 Trillion for its energy revamp with following results:

1. It cannot assure constant energy supply to its industry and needs to import electricity

2. It causes several times more CO2 per kWh than France

$1T for ruining both its economy and environment. Legends

🔗 Michael Arouet

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13 Dec 2024 21:21

🇷🇺🇸🇾🇱🇾 Russia will likely turn to Libya to replace its Syrian bases or mitigate its reliance on its Syrian bases in the Mediterranean & Africa even if it retains its Syrian bases.

The Kremlin faces political obstacles that make Russia’s long-term position in Libya vulnerable.

Libya is crucially the only country with a significant Russian military presence in Africa that Russian cargo planes can directly reach from Russia without refueling. Heavier cargo planes can reach Libya only by flying over Turkish airspace.

The Kremlin already increased Libya’s role as an operational hub for its various Africa Corps deployments in sub-Saharan Africa throughout 2024. These newly upgraded military facilities in Libya could handle some Russian logistics traffic that previously went through Syria.

The Kremlin has also sought an agreement for permanent Russian docking rights at Tobruk since 2023. A Russian naval base at Tobruk would fill similar logistical and strategic roles as Russia's base at Tartus, Syria.

Russia’s position in Libya is dependent on Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar, who controls the eastern half of Libya in Libya's stalemated civil war. This fact makes any Russian basing in Libya vulnerable to the same jeopardy as its Syria bases if Haftar’s regime collapsed.

The United States has increased outreach to Haftar in recent years and pressed him to reduce his ties with Russia. US officials specifically warned Haftar against accepting a Russian naval base during these discussions.

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13 Dec 2024 21:12

🇹🇷❌🇮🇱 Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan:

We sent a message to Israel to abandon their dangerous strategy of provocative occupation of Golan Heights region in Syria.

🔗 Clash Report

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13 Dec 2024 21:07

🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 Israeli Troops to Remain on Mount Hermon over the Winter

Defense Minister Israel Katz's remarks indicated that the military intends to maintain control over the border area, which Israel claims was seized this week to establish a buffer zone between Israel and its neighbor since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria to militant rebels.

"Due to what is happening in Syria - there is enormous security importance to our holding on to the peak of Mount Hermon," a statement from Katz's office said on Friday.

Katz added that infrastructure would need to be built to support troops stationed there throughout the winter.

Mount Hermon, the 9,232 feet tall highest peak on the eastern Mediterranean coast offers a commanding vantage point over southern Syria's plains and places Israeli forces just 25 miles from Damascus. The mountain is split between Lebanon, Syria, and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights—a territory whose control by Israel is recognized only by the United States.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israeli troops would stay in the zone until a reliable force on the Syrian side of the border could ensure security.

🔗 https://www.newsweek.com/israel-syria-troops-remain-peak-over-winter-mount-hermon-2000394

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13 Dec 2024 18:49

🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 Israel expanded the "temporary buffer zone" from Mount Hermon and captured several Druze villages in the valleys below the mountain in Qatna province, well beyond the UNDOF 1974 disengagement line.

It is said Israeli units are less than 20 km away from Damascus itself, well within IDF's artillery range.

🔗 IWN

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13 Dec 2024 16:52

🇮🇱🇪🇬🇯🇴 Israel fears Assad's fall could embolden protesters in Egypt and Jordan

"On the one hand, the Muslim Brotherhood may try to exploit the problems in Syria to re-influence the situation in Egypt, and on the other hand, Iran may try to agitate the region, and try to take over Jordan or harm the Middle East."

He said that Israel was stepping up the construction of a security fence along its frontier with Jordan and was building a new army unit to deploy to the eastern border region.

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-fears-assads-fall-could-embolden-protesters-egypt-and-jordan

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13 Dec 2024 08:13

SpaceX submits letter to Judge Treviño asking to officially incorporate Starbase, Texas, as its own city.

📎 Jessica Kirsh

📝 Elon Musk on X:

"SpaceX HQ will now officially be in the city of Starbase, Texas!"

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13 Dec 2024 05:59

🇨🇳🇺🇦 China Is Cutting Off Drone Supplies Critical to Ukraine War Effort

China’s escalating conflict with the US over trade is now extending to the drones that have become a vital part of Ukraine’s defense.

Manufacturers in China recently began limiting sales to the US and Europe of key components used to build unmanned aerial vehicles, according to multiple people with knowledge of the developments, who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive information.

The moves are a prelude to broader export restrictions on drone parts that western officials expect Beijing to enforce in the new year, the people said. Those rules could take the form of license approvals based on the intended use of the components or softer requirements for Chinese companies to notify the government of their shipment plans, according to one of the people.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-09/china-is-cutting-off-drone-supplies-critical-to-ukraine-war-effort

https://archive.ph/BLSPM

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12 Dec 2024 23:48

🇷🇺🇸🇾 Russia Nears Deal With New Syria Leaders to Keep Army Bases

Russia is nearing an agreement with Syria’s new leadership to keep two vital military bases in the Middle East state, a key objective of the Kremlin after the fall of its ally Bashar al-Assad.

Talks are taking place for Russian forces to remain at the naval port in Tartus and the air base at Khmeimim, according to people with knowledge of the matter in Moscow, Europe and the Middle East, asking not to be identified because the issue is sensitive.

The Defense Ministry in Moscow believes it has an informal understanding with Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham, or HTS, the former al-Qaeda offshoot that led the offensive to oust Assad, that it can stay at the Syrian bases, the person in Russia said. The situation could still change amid the instability in Syria, the person cautioned.

Moscow has established contact with HTS in Damascus and hopes the group “will honor promises” to keep foreign diplomats safe, Russian state media cited Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov as saying. Russia plans to keep its bases in Syria as the fight against Islamic State, or ISIS, is not over, he said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-12/russia-nears-deal-with-new-syria-leaders-to-keep-military-bases

https://archive.ph/Ck87V

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12 Dec 2024 20:37

🇸🇰❌🏳️‍🌈 Slovakia cuts state aid to NGOs that promote LGBT ideology!

Slovakia's Culture Minister Martina Simkovicova has sparked uproar by dismissing several heads of major cultural institutions and halting projects steered by LGBT+ associations under the pretext of promoting "Slovak culture".

Simkovicova has slammed "LGBT+ ideology" for causing Europe to "die out".

🔗 https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/nationalist-minister-tests-slovak-culture-lgbt-limits/ar-AA1vIzFr

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12 Dec 2024 20:00

Donald Trump is TIME's 2024 Person of the Year

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12 Dec 2024 19:19

Now on The Unz Review

https://www.unz.com/article/where-do-the-children-play/

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12 Dec 2024 18:00

🇨🇦🇺🇸 "No one is even talking about the fact

that on top of 5,000,000 barrels of oil per day

Canada exports electricity to the USA

This could get REAL UGLY, REAL QUICK"

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14 Dec 2024 08:02

🇺🇸 The US military is now talking openly about going on the attack in space

ORLANDO, Florida—Earlier this year, officials at US Space Command released a list of priorities and needs, and among the routine recitation of things like cyber defense, communications, and surveillance was a relatively new term: "integrated space fires."

This is a new phrase in the esoteric terminology the military uses to describe its activities. Essentially, "fires" are offensive or defensive actions against an adversary. The Army defines fires as "the use of weapon systems to create specific lethal and nonlethal effects on a target."

The inclusion of this term in a Space Command planning document was another signal that Pentagon leaders, long hesitant to even mention the possibility of putting offensive weapons in space for fear of stirring up a cosmic arms race, see the taboo of talking about space warfare as a thing of the past.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/the-us-military-is-now-talking-openly-about-going-on-the-attack-in-space/

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14 Dec 2024 06:55

🇨🇦 Euthanasia now responsible for 1 in 20 Canadian deaths.

📎 AF Post

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13 Dec 2024 22:09

🇦🇷🤝🇮🇹
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni gave Italian nationality to Argentine president Javier Milei

The House of Savoy consolidates it's unbreakable personal union with the House of Argentum through Royal Conubium, we await conception of the future heir.

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13 Dec 2024 21:17

🇷🇺🇸🇾 Massive Russian convoy on the highway between Homs and Tartus.

Russia is withdrawing its assets and troops from Syria definitively.

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13 Dec 2024 21:11

🇸🇾❌🇮🇱 New Syrian government filed a formal complaint to the UN Security Council regarding Israel's violation of Syrian sovereignty and the 1974 Separation of Forces Agreement.

🔗 Clash Report

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13 Dec 2024 18:53

🇮🇱❌🇸🇾 Further to the south, the IDF occupied two more villages in the Qunaytra province.

The villages of Umm Batina and Ruwayhina are located outside the UNDOF buffer zone, and their occupation by Israel represents a clear invasion of Syrian territory.

Even further south, another incursion was made by the Israeli Army which captured the village of Kudna, it too beyond the 1974 UNDOF line.

🔗 IWN

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13 Dec 2024 17:48

🇪🇺🐣 EU births drop to new low as strains on younger generations mount

Births across the 27 member states in the bloc fell to 3,665,000 in 2023, according to figures updated last month, the lowest since comparable data was first collected in 1961.

The 2023 figure is lower than the 4mn EU births forecast last year in Eurostat’s long-term population projections.

Since reaching a peak of nearly 7mn births in the mid-1960s, birth rates in the nations that now make up the EU have declined sharply and are around the same level as in the US.

Demographic experts believe the long-standing trend of Europeans having fewer and fewer babies may have been exacerbated by concerns over climate change, the pandemic and the worst surge in inflation in a generation.

“Youngsters have greater difficulty than before to establish themselves in the labour market, in the housing market, and perhaps also in the dating market,” said Willem Adema, senior economist at the OECD. “That is one part of the story which is fairly clear.”

Adema said governments should prepare for a future of low fertility and consider steps to boost immigration, productivity and levels of labour force participation, particularly among women.

🔗 https://archive.ph/Y3SWR

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13 Dec 2024 15:48

🇪🇹🇸🇴 Somalia and Ethiopia agreed to work toward granting Ethiopia access to the Red Sea on December 11, which will likely lead Ethiopia to pause or withdraw from its controversial naval port agreement with Somaliland and decrease the possibility of a direct or proxy conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia.

Ethiopia and Somalia reached the deal after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held separate talks between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Ankara on December 11.

Ethiopia and Somalia have been in a political conflict since Ethiopia signed a naval port deal with Somaliland in January 2024. The agreement granted Ethiopia land in Somaliland for a naval base on the Red Sea in return for Ethiopia’s recognition of Somaliland’s independence

Ethiopia’s withdrawal from the Somaliland agreement would likely lead the Somali Federal Government (SFG) to reverse its decision to expel Ethiopian troops from Somalia and exclude Ethiopian troops from the new African Union mission in Somalia, which will begin in 2025.

Ethiopia and Somalia’s rapprochement may quicken the end of a dispute between the SFG and the Jubbaland state government in southern Somalia by leading Ethiopia to cut alleged military support for Jubbaland and freeing the SFG’s military and political bandwidth to address the dispute.

The SFG and Jubbaland may engage in further clashes in the following weeks, although the fighting will likely remain limited.

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13 Dec 2024 07:37

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- As part of Israel's 'temporary military operation', Jewish rabbis have visited the newly captured Syrian territories and discuss plans to build settlements on the land.

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13 Dec 2024 01:34

🇨🇳🇸🇾 China not shedding tears over Assad

• China-Assad econ ties never picked up: volatility, cronyism, sanctions
• Main concern: Uyghurs separatist, TIP
• Fighting with HTS
• Seen in north + Latakia
• Aaron Y. Zelin: China could resort to a Taliban model

📝 Yaroslav Trofimov:

"It would be interesting if Russia — aiming to keep its military bases — were to recognize Syria’s new HTS government while the U.S. continues to consider them terrorists. Moscow can do an about-turn very fast (remember that the Taliban are now its BFFs in Afghanistan.)"

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/12/syria-china-not-beholden-assad-alarmed-over-uyghur-links-hts

📎 Joyce Karam

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12 Dec 2024 21:55

DOD Dealing With Climate Change as a Security Concern for Africans

Combating climate change is a priority to the nations of Africa, and U.S. officials are listening and responding to those concerns, said Maureen Farrell, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for African affairs at the Defense Writers Group, yesterday.

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3997856/dod-dealing-with-climate-change-as-a-security-concern-for-africans/

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12 Dec 2024 20:29

🇨🇳🇹🇼 China's largest maritime deployment in decades 'pressure tests' Taiwan

TAIPEI -- China has launched what Taiwan officials say is its largest maritime deployment in recent memory, ratcheting up intimidation against Taipei and neighboring countries weeks before the U.S. presidential transition.

Beijing had dispatched more than 90 naval and coast guard ships to the region "aimed at all the parties in the first island chain," according to a Taiwanese national security memo seen by Nikkei Asia, referring to Taiwan, Japan's Okinawa prefecture and the Philippines. The memo calls it China's largest fleet deployment in regional waters in nearly three decades and estimates it took 70 days to prepare.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Taiwan-tensions/China-s-largest-maritime-deployment-in-decades-pressure-tests-Taiwan

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12 Dec 2024 19:42

🇷🇺🌐 Russia Tests Cutting Off Access to Global Web, and VPNs Can't Get Around It

Russia has reportedly cut some regions of the country off from the rest of the world's internet for a day, effectively siloing them, according to reports from European and Russian news outlets reshared by the US nonprofit Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and Western news outlets.

Russia's communications authority, Roskomnadzor, blocked residents in Dagestan, Chechnya, and Ingushetia, which have majority-Muslim populations, ISW says. The three regions are in southwest Russia near its borders with Georgia and Azerbaijan. People in those areas couldn't access Google, YouTube, Telegram, WhatsApp, or other foreign websites or apps—even if they used VPNs, according to a local Russian news site.

Russian digital rights NGO Roskomsvoboda told TechRadar that most VPNs didn't work during the shutdown, but some apparently did. It's unclear which ones or how many actually worked, though. Russia has been increasingly blocking VPNs more broadly, and Apple has helped the country's censorship efforts by taking down VPN apps on its Russian App Store. At least 197 VPNs are currently blocked in Russia, according to Russian news agency Interfax.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/russia-tests-cutting-off-access-to-global-web-and-vpns-cant-get-around

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12 Dec 2024 19:01

🇨🇺🔌 Cuba's Energy Crisis Sparks Unrest

🔺Cuba's energy crisis, characterized by frequent blackouts and fuel shortages, is causing significant economic hardship and social unrest.

🔺The crisis is attributed to aging infrastructure, lack of investment, and the US embargo, which hinders fuel imports and economic development.

🔺While the Cuban government is promoting renewable energy as a long-term solution, immediate challenges persist, and the population continues to face daily struggles.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Cubas-Energy-Crisis-Sparks-Unrest.amp.html

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12 Dec 2024 17:35

🇨🇦🇺🇸 Canadian official threatens to cut off energy to US if Trump imposes tariffs

After meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other top Canadian officials, Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario, threatened to cut off energy to parts of the United States if President-elect Donald Trump imposes sweeping tariffs on Canada.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/12/business/video/doug-ford-trump-tariffs-energy-digvid