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11 Jan 2025 13:46

☢️ Evolution of the global nuclear warhead stockpiles since WWII

U.S. and Russia still hold 88% of world’s nuclear weapons.

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11 Jan 2025 11:30

🇷🇼🇨🇩 Rwandan-backed M23 rebels captured Masisi, a district capital in eastern DRC, as part of an ongoing offensive that risks expanding the conflict between the DRC and Rwanda.

A new UN report notes that Rwanda has deployed 3,000 to 4,000 troops to the eastern DRC to fight alongside M23 and that these Rwandan forces “de facto control” and direct M23 operations and provide advanced military equipment.

The United States condemned Rwanda for providing artillery, reinforcements, and resupply convoys to support the latest M23 offensive.

M23’s capture of Masisi risks expanding the conflict in the eastern DRC. Masisi is the gateway to Walikale town, the westernmost district capital in the North Kivu region that serves as the gateway to the interior of the DRC.

M23’s advances will give it increased access to valuable minerals such as coltan, gold, and tin ores that will help fund its war machine. The UN estimates that M23 already generates around $800,000 in monthly taxes on coltan production.

S-based tech company Apple told its suppliers to stop purchasing gold, tantalum (extracted from coltan), and tin from both the DRC & Rwanda on December 17 following a criminal complaint by the Congolese government that accused Apple of using conflict minerals.

M23’s advances coincide with the collapse of Angolan-mediated peace talks between the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda in December due to a discrepancy over potential negotiations between the DRC and M23.

The EU, UN, United States, and other members of the international community have expressed concern at the M23’s recent advances and increased pressure on M23 and Rwanda to uphold an August ceasefire and resume peace talks.

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11 Jan 2025 08:50

🇨🇳 🚤 🇹🇼 China Suddenly Building Fleet Of Special Barges Suitable For Taiwan Landings

China is building at least five new special purpose barges which appear tailor made for amphibious assault. The barges may provide the PRC (People's Republic of China) with a unique way to offload large numbers of tanks directly onto Taiwanese roads.

A number of special and unusual barges, at least 3 but likely 5 or more, have been observed in Guangzhou Shipyard in southern China. These have unusually long road bridges extending from their bows. This configuration makes them particularly relevant to any future landing of PRC (People’s Republic of China) forces on Taiwanese islands.

Each barge has a very long road span which is extended out from the front. At over 120 meters (393 ft) this can be used to reach a coastal road or hard surface beyond a beach. At the aft end is an open platform which allows other ships to dock and unload. Some of the barges have ‘jack up’ pillars which can be lowered to provide a stable platform even in poor weather. In operation the barge would act as a pier to allow the unloading of trucks and tanks from cargo ships.

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11 Jan 2025 04:54

⚡️🇺🇸Delta Air Lines flight 2668, a Boeing 757-351, suffered an engine failure on takeoff at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, Pilots reported smoke and flames coming from an engine. The aircraft rejected takeoff and passengers evacuated the aircraft via emergency slides.

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11 Jan 2025 04:26

TELEGRAM BLOCKED IN VENEZUELA

The block applies to the operators CANTV, Movistar, Digitel, Inter, Supercable, Airtek and G-Network

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11 Jan 2025 04:24

🇺🇸🇲🇽 — US authorities discovered secret tunnel running along US-Mexico border

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11 Jan 2025 04:23

🇬🇱🧑🏻‍💼🆗💬🇺🇸 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Greenland 'Ready To Talk' With Trump As 'Status Quo No Longer An Option' | January 10, 2025:

"Greenland Prime Minister, Múte Egede, said on Friday that he has not spoken with Donald Trump regarding the President-elect's recent interest in buying the Danish-controlled territory, but that he's 'ready to talk,' as the 'status quo is no longer an option.'

Speaking next to Danish PM Mette Frederiksen at a joint press conference, Egede emphasized the need for investment in resource development as well as diversified industries in order to reduce dependence on Danish subsidies. That said, Egede also said that "Greenland is for the Greenlanders. We don’t want to be Danes. We don’t want to be Americans. We obviously want to be Greenlanders."

Frederiksen, meanwhile, says she has asked to speak with Trump.

"We have suggested a conversation [with Trump] and I expect it will take place," she told reporters Thursday night after meeting with other senior Danish officials about the situation - adding that she doesn't expect any dialogue until after Trump's Jan. 20 inauguration.

Her comments came just 48 hours after Trump declined to rule out military or economic force to gain control of Greenland, however Frederiksen says there is "no reason to believe" that Trump plans to invade Greenland."

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11 Jan 2025 04:23

🇺🇸 👤 🛰 🤝 🇱🇷 — Starlink comes online in former US colony Liberia

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10 Jan 2025 19:41

🇺🇸 - O'Keefe Media Group brings forth Bureau of Prisons insider who exposes documents inside the Department of Justice proposing policy that downgraded child exploitation from a "High Severity" to a "Low Severity" offence.

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10 Jan 2025 19:38

🇷🇴🪧⚡️ Most of the protesters went home after 3 PM.

However, some 1000 people still continued their manifestation but left the area around the Parliament and moved over to Victory Square in front of the seat of the Romanian government.

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10 Jan 2025 16:01

🪖🌐 Top conflicts to watch in 2025 - Council on Foreign Relations

“The possibility that the U.S. could find itself in wars with not one but two major, nuclear-armed powers simultaneously is very real. The stakes today... cannot be overstated.”

“The level of armed conflict around the world has steadily grown in recent years, which in turn has increased the risk of costly U.S. military intervention. This is particularly the case in the Middle East, which continues to be wracked by deadly violence across multiple countries. This violence has clear potential to intensify and spread. The horrific war in Ukraine that by some estimates has already claimed a million casualties also shows no sign of abating. This conflict could likewise escalate in ways that threaten vital U.S. interests and necessitate much deeper and more costly involvement. While the situation in the Indo-Pacific region is comparatively peaceful, numerous flashpoints exist, not least across the Taiwan Strait and in the South China Sea, that could suddenly ignite and rapidly draw in the U.S.”

“There have never been so many contingencies rated as high likelihood/high impact events (five) since the PPS began in 2008. Put differently, the level of anxiety that survey respondents feel about the risk of violent conflict over the coming twelve months has never been greater. Of the thirty contingencies surveyed, twenty-eight are judged to be either highly or moderately likely to occur in the next twelve months. Eighteen of those, moreover, would have a high or moderate impact on U.S. interests.”

1. A further deterioration of ongoing conflicts in the Middle East in 2025 represents the leading concern of survey respondents. This includes a continuation of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, an increase in clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in the West Bank, an escalation of hostilities between Iran and Israel, and, finally, persistent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants and state collapse in Lebanon.

2. Second only to the Middle East as a source of Tier I concerns are those conflicts that stem from the aggressive behavior of Russia (toward Ukraine and in other parts of eastern Europe) and China (toward Taiwan and in the South China Sea). However, whereas Russia-related contingencies are considered highly likely to occur in 2025, those that are China-related are judged as moderately likely.

“The Trump administration should not only be clear sighted about the risks of an increasingly turbulent world but also craft policies designed to deliberately lessen the dangers ahead. Otherwise, it could become overwhelmed by multiple concurrent crises with calamitous consequences for the United States. But where to focus finite U.S. resources, not to mention the limited attention spans of busy policymakers? Besides the conflict risks listed above, there are other ongoing or potential conflicts, especially in Africa, that may not have the same strategic importance but nonetheless represent major humanitarian imperatives. In addition, emerging risks closer to home in the Western Hemisphere cannot be ignored, nor can domestic threats to political stability.”

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10 Jan 2025 13:48

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Video of an assault by Russia's 33rd Motorized Rifle Regiment in the Kurakhove direction with BMPs with roof screens. They use FPVs and a kamikaze UGV on dug outs.

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10 Jan 2025 11:33

🏴/🇸🇾/🌍 The Islamic State has evolved and expanded globally since ISIS' territorial defeat in 2019, enabling it to orchestrate and inspire attacks on the West.

IS may further strengthen by exploiting security vacuums in Syria and Africa.

IS retains a global network of affiliates despite its loss of its statelet in Iraq and Syria. Its decentralized system helps coordinate between the group’s personnel in local theaters, the global IS network, and central IS leadership.

In Syria, ISIS is now resurging, though it can’t yet hold territory. ISIS gradually rebuilt its capabilities since 2022 in the central Syrian desert and is likely already exploiting the post-Assad situation, for example by seizing weapons caches.

IS has taken advantage of weak states and poor governance in Africa to establish growing affiliates that contribute to external attack plots. Africa has also become a haven for high-ranking IS leadership and a bridge between Africa and the Middle East.

IS media uses its high rate of African activity to demonstrate its persisting strength around the globe even though it no longer controls a territorial caliphate in the Middle East. This propaganda activity is critical to the Islamic State’s legitimacy as a governing power and serves to inspire and radicalize lone-wolf attackers.

IS’s growing strength could pose a major threat to the US homeland, the West, and US partners around the world and may force tough trade-offs for policymakers. Washington may face trade-offs between addressing core US national security challenges—like countering Russia and China—or devoting more resources to counter a growing IS threat.

IS will certainly continue its rate of activity in Africa and will attempt to marshal the resources to seize ground and launch major campaigns in Syria unless it is prevented from doing so.

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10 Jan 2025 08:58

🇷🇺🇸🇾 New satellite imagery shows Russian military vehicles and equipment are still awaiting evacuation in Tartus, Syria.

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10 Jan 2025 07:23

🇺🇸🇵🇦 Rep. Dusty Johnson introduces a bill to purchase the Panama Canal.

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11 Jan 2025 12:38

🇺🇸🇵🇦🇨🇳 Trump and the Panama Canal: Why He Should Invoke the Monroe Doctrine

According to the US Southern Command, Chinese companies have been constructing at least 40 ports on both sides of the Canal in places such as Ensenada, Manzanilla, Lázaro Cardenas, and Veracruz in Mexico. Such ports might eventually be used to host Chinese warships.

In Panama, a Chinese company operates the two main ports adjacent to the Canal: Balboa on the Pacific coast and Cristóbal on the Caribbean (Atlantic) side. (The contract, originally made in 1997, was extended for 25 years in 2021.)

Nor does China’s penetration of Panama stop with those two strategically sensitive ports. According to one , “[b]eginning with the control of the main Pacific port since the 1990s, the port of Balboa, the PRC has managed to establish its presence in Panama by subsequently awarding a Chinese consortium the project of a fourth bridge over the Canal, the construction by a Chinese company of the country’s leading convention center, and the construction of a cruise terminal, all in that symbolic area [surrounding the Canal] of Panamanian territory.”

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11 Jan 2025 10:17

NEW - Former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton fantasizes about a possible annulment of the upcoming elections in Germany: "We did it in Romania, and we will obviously have to do it, if necessary, in Germany."

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11 Jan 2025 04:59

🇨🇳 🚤 🇹🇼 — Satellite imagery shows possible new amphibious support vessels at Guangzhou shipyard

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11 Jan 2025 04:45

🇪🇹 📈 — Latest BRICS member gets Securities Exchange

Ethiopia, the second largest country in Africa by population and recently-anointed BRICS member is now the last member of the emerging market bloc to have its own stock exchange.

Just one company, Wegagen Bank, was initially listed on the Ethiopian Security Exchange (ESX), although a ESX chief executive said he expected 90 companies to eventually join over the next 10 years as a part of Ethiopia's economic liberalization drive through privatization of state-owned assets and eliminating capital controls.

Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous country with around 130 million people, had a securities exchange in the 1960s and 70s, but it was abolished by the socialist military government that overthrew the monarchy in 1974.

This comes at a time of increased geopolitical competition by Turkey, the UAE, and others in the region.

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11 Jan 2025 04:26

🇻🇪⚡️📉 — Energy shortages all over Venezuela following the Chavista Regime's inauguration of Maduro as its leader

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11 Jan 2025 04:23

🇺🇸🇬🇱❗️🇩🇰 — B Bloomberg | Greenland Eyes Benefits in Trump’s Proposed Land Grab | January 10, 2025:

"(...) Located in the far north between the US and Europe, the island is home to an American military base that monitors space and detects missile threats, and it holds large reserves of gold, diamonds, uranium and rare earth metals used in electronic devices. It is also expected to be a key part of global shipping routes in the coming decades.

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The forthcoming election offers Greenland an opportunity to reevaluate these ties, with independence likely to be in focus. Under the territory’s current governance structure, adopted in 2009, Greenland controls domestic issues including education, health care and the judiciary, while ceding matters of foreign, monetary, security and constitutional policy to Denmark. Premier Mute B. Egede, who is running for reelection, urged Greenland to remove “the shackles of the colonial era” in a speech on New Year’s day, expressing a widely held view on the island.

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Denmark’s King Frederik X also changed the country’s royal coat of arms to feature Greenland more prominently, and the government has taken steps to further integrate the territory into the commonwealth union. Greenlandic interpreters have also been brought into the Danish parliament to improve communication during lawmaking and debates.

Denmark is also giving Greenland a bigger say in foreign policy and made it clear that Greenlanders are free to choose their own way. “It is their country,” Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told local broadcasters this week, “and only Greenland can determine and define Greenland’s future.”

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11 Jan 2025 04:23

🇸🇾💥🔥 — 🇷🇺 SouthFront | Military Situation In Syria On January 10, 2025 (Map Update)

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10 Jan 2025 23:51

Greenland is only the tip of the iceberg

A senior Trump aide confirmed that the Greenland gamble is about broader geopolitical dynamics, with the U.S. seeing an increasingly belligerent Russia as a rival for Arctic hegemony.

"This is not just about Greenland. This is about the Arctic. There is a Russia that is trying to be king ... It's about oil and gas. This is about our national security. This is about critical minerals," said Mike Waltz.

Greenland and Svalbard, a Norwegian island, are strategically located. Svalbard is important to Russia because the Northern Fleet must pass through its sea route to reach the Atlantic.

In 2022, when Norway began blocking Russian ships bound for Barentsburg to comply with economic sanctions against Moscow, the Kremlin freaked out and accused Norway of human rights violations.

In 2024, Russia provocatively planted Soviet flags in the Russian-populated towns of Barentsburg and Pyramiden and announced the opening of a new scientific center for polar research.

The biggest danger with Trump’s fixation on taking over Greenland is the potential inspiration it could give to rival powers to start acting in the same imperialist vein, Arctic watchers have warned.

Source: Politico

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10 Jan 2025 19:41

🇺🇸 - Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta is ending major DEI programs effective immediately for hiring, training, and picking suppliers.

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10 Jan 2025 19:37

🇷🇴🪧⚡️ Pro-Călin Georgescu protesters gathered outside the seat of the Constitutional Court.

The crowd is huge, multiple streets are blocked around the Parliament in Bucharest.

Up to 10k people present per eyewitness accounts.

Edit: the protesters demand the continuation of the previous presidential elections with Călin Georgescu and Elena Lasconi in the 2nd round, and they demand that Klaus Johannis step down.

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10 Jan 2025 14:52

🇺🇦🇺🇸 American ENVG-B Technology Boosts Precision and Safety of Ukrainian Special Operations Forces

The Special Operations Forces recently showcased the capabilities of the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B) system. This technology combines wireless connectivity with the Family of Weapon Sight-Individual (FWS-I), enabling soldiers to display the weapon sight reticle directly in their goggles. This innovation allows for precise targeting without the need to shoulder the weapon, drastically reducing a soldier’s exposure to enemy fire.

Weighing less than 2.5 pounds (threshold) or as little as 1.5 pounds (objective), the ENVG-B system is lightweight yet durable. Additionally, its operational battery life exceeds 7.5 hours, with an objective goal of 15 hours, ensuring reliability during prolonged missions.

https://en.defence-ua.com/news/american_envg_b_technology_boosts_precision_and_safety_of_ukrainian_special_operations_forces_photo-13141.html

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10 Jan 2025 12:24

🇪🇬🇰🇷 Egypt will be the first of the 10 countries that operate K9 artillery to have anti-ship capability as a coastal defense purpose.

📝 Mason: "Hanwha Aerospace said it exported 51 K11 fire direction control vehicles and 216 K9A1 SPHs to Egypt, and the K11 was modified for an anti-ship mission. It appears that the K9 has unimaginable potential as I expected. It would be great if Egypt had K239 long-range rocket artillery and K9A2 or K9A3 long-range SPH.

(K9 proved its anti-ship capabilities in Egypt before the contract)
South Korea, Turkey, Poland, Norway, Estonia, Finland, India, Australia, Egypt, and Romania are the current K9 family users."

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10 Jan 2025 10:13

🌇 Art Deco style is popular again, a century after its heyday

A century after it was formally introduced at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, in Paris, Art Deco is enjoying a resurgence in decor, fashion and more. A new generation is appreciating the style’s unapologetically glamorous roots and translating it into something new.

Emerging after World War I, the original Art Deco era embodied a spirit of creativity, freedom and innovation. With modernity and exuberance on full display, the 1920s and early ’30s became one of the most design-influential periods in history.

https://apnews.com/article/art-deco-style-returns-fashion-decor-8a2fbf29fd725d3b08550e086648e7f5

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10 Jan 2025 08:55

🇷🇺🇸🇾 Russian Evacuation From Tartus Naval Base Appears Stalled

After the recent regime change in Syria, the Russian military has concentrated its trucks and heavy equipment at its naval base in Tartus for a likely evacuation - but so far, it has yet to send any of its auxiliary ships in to take on cargo. Recent satellite imagery shows that the piers at the base are empty, even though a military auxiliary ship is just offshore and evacuation flights are in full swing at nearby Hmeimim Airbase.

The Sparta is a sanctioned Russian military cargo ship, and it made the long journey from the Baltic to Syria last month, arriving in early January. It was once a familiar sight on routes from Russia and Crimea to Syria: though it was blacklisted years ago by the U.S. Treasury for its role in supporting Russian involvement in the Syrian Civil War, it was always welcome in Tartus. As of Monday, it was in a holding pattern outside the port, being watched by a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.

https://maritime-executive.com/article/russian-evacuation-from-tartus-naval-base-appears-stalled

📝 Oliver Alexander: The Sparta has now been sailing 5NM west of Tartus for over 28 hours without permission from the Syrian government to dock and pick up Russia equipment from the base as part of their evacuation.

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10 Jan 2025 06:15

🇺🇸 Los Angeles wildfires already the costliest blaze in U.S. history

The wildfires devouring neighborhoods in the greater Los Angeles area are on track to be the costliest blazes in U.S. history, according to analysts, who estimate total economic losses of as much as $150 billion.

That far exceeds the $30 billion toll inflicted by the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, along with others that raged in the summer and fall of 2018. It had been the state’s costliest wildfire before the Los Angeles outbreak, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information. The new estimates also dwarf the $5.7 billion tally of the Hawaii firestorm in August 2023.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/09/los-angeles-wildfire-economic-losses/