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05 Apr 2025 20:03

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China has announced that a 34% retaliatory tariff on all goods entering the country from the United States beginning April 10th, in response to U.S. President Trump’s new wave of tariffs against China.

Additionally, China’s Ministry of Commerce said it was adding 11 American companies to its list of unreliable entities, essentially barring them from doing business in China or with Chinese companies.

🔗 OSINTdefender

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05 Apr 2025 17:57

🇺🇸🪖 Army Planners Are Weighing Force Reductions of Up to 90,000 Active-Duty Soldiers

The Army is quietly considering a sweeping reduction of up to 90,000 active-duty troops, a move that underscores mounting fiscal pressures at the Pentagon and a broader shift in military strategy away from Europe and counterterrorism, according to three defense officials familiar with the deliberations.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/03/army-mulling-dramatic-reduction-of-tens-of-thousands-of-troops.html

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05 Apr 2025 16:28

🇩🇪🇺🇸 According to The Telegraph, a number of senior officials in the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Party of Germany, who are set to lead the next German Government in the Bundestag, are considering the removal of all remaining 1,200 tons of its massive gold reserve, the second largest in the world behind the United States, from an underground vault at the U.S. Federal Reserve in New York City.

Both current and former Officials with the CDU have stated considerations are ongoing about the removal of the gold from the U.S. Federal Reserve, which is believed to be worth about €113 billion and accounts for 30% of the country’s gold reserves worldwide, due to concerns that Washington is “no longer a reliable partner” to Germany.

🔗 OSINTdefender

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05 Apr 2025 14:29

🇬🇧 Exclusive: British police are making more than 30 arrests a day over offensive posts on social media and other platforms

Thousands of people are being detained and questioned for sending messages that cause “annoyance”, “inconvenience” or “anxiety”

Custody data obtained by The Times shows that officers are making about 12,000 arrests a year under section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988

The acts make it illegal to cause distress by sending “grossly offensive” messages or sharing content of an “indecent, obscene or menacing character” via the internet, telephone or post

Officers from 37 police forces made 12,183 arrests in 2023, the equivalent of about 33 per day. This marks an almost 58 per cent rise in arrests since before the pandemic. In 2019, forces logged 7,734 detentions

The statistics have provoked criticism from civil liberties groups The Free Speech Union and Big Brother Watch
that the authorities are over-policing the internet and threatening free speech using “vague” communications laws

https://www.thetimes.com/article/e4fce705-2a56-4e4a-aa04-0b55effb5bc0?shareToken=5ebc5dac67ef2d251e3da2fe4781f3ac

🔗 Charlie Parker

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05 Apr 2025 13:01

🇪🇬⚔️🇮🇱 Egypt and Israel: A Hypothetical War Between Arch Enemies

In recent weeks, the far-right media in Israel, alongside the Israeli government, has been alluding to the inevitability of a military clash with Egypt, suggesting that Israel must prepare for it, or even launch a first strike.

https://interbellumnews.com/opinion/egypt-and-israel-a-hypothetical-war-scenario

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05 Apr 2025 11:21

🇹🇷🌍🇰🇪 Turkish Spy Chief Ibrahim Kalin attends top African intelligence conference in Kenya.

Kalin sits with Kenyan President and other senior officials.

More than 60 intelligence and security agencies joined the 2nd Mashariki Cooperation Conference in Naivasha, Kenya

🔗 ragipsoylu

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05 Apr 2025 10:01

🇺🇸🇨🇳 A secret memo from SecDef Pete Hegseth tells the military: get ready for war with China over Taiwan. Everything else [Russia, Iran, terror groups] is secondary.

The memo copies parts of a 2024 Heritage Foundation report—almost word for word. That report’s co-author now runs Pentagon policy. Heritage's playbook is now Pentagon guidance.

U.S. forces are ordered to focus on Indo-Pacific firepower—subs, bombers, bunker-busting bombs. Taiwan told to spend 10% of GDP on defense.

NATO is told to step up. If Russia attacks, Europe may be on its own. U.S. troops stay home unless it’s China or direct homeland threat.

Military units will now take on border control, deportations, and drug busts—tasks handled by DHS [Department of Homeland Security] until now. The Pentagon is being pulled into domestic enforcement.

The memo names three new hotspots: Greenland, Panama Canal, Cape Horn. U.S. forces must be ready to fight in the Western Hemisphere.

rump’s Pentagon is betting it all on one scenario: stop China from taking Taiwan. The rest [Middle East, Africa, Europe] is risked.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/29/secret-pentagon-memo-hegseth-heritage-foundation-china/

🔗 Mylovanov

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05 Apr 2025 08:09

🇺🇸🇬🇱 Praxis is a Thiel-backed “network state” project that aims to build its own “nation”. In Nov, Praxis founder Dryden Brown wrote about wanting Greenland for Praxis. In Dec, Trump named Thiel partner Ken Howery as Denmark ambassador & said the US should buy Greenland.

🧵https://fxtwitter.com/jennycohn1/status/1877052010559844478

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04 Apr 2025 18:09

4.5%

That's the number of Black males in America who will commit murder in their lifetime

That's approximately 1 in 22 Black men, vs. only 1 in 425 White men


X 🔗

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04 Apr 2025 16:01

🇲🇾🇨🇳 How Malaysia’s data centres became the engine powering China’s AI ambitions

For Chinese firms, Malaysia offers an enticing mix of advantages, including stable relations with China, low electricity costs, and greater access to cutting-edge semiconductors.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3304927/how-malaysias-data-centres-became-engine-powering-chinas-ai-ambitions

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04 Apr 2025 15:03

🇪🇬🇮🇱 Israel first violated the 1979 peace treaty by seizing Rafah & the Philadelphi Corridor—now it accuses Egypt of breaching the deal by deploying more troops in Sinai. Here, satellite images show Merkava Mk4s & Namer IFVs near Egypt’s border, violating the treaty’s security annex.

🔗 EGYOSINT

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04 Apr 2025 13:03

🇨🇦🇺🇸 Carney: The global economy is fundamentally different today than it was yesterday. The system of global trade anchored on the United States.. is over. Our old relationship of steadily deepening integration with the United States is over. The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of economic leadership… is over. While this is a tragedy, it is also the new reality

🔗 Acyn

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04 Apr 2025 09:52

🇷🇺🇺🇦 “The Russian military plans to increase its grouping in Ukraine by 150,000 soldiers in 2025, equivalent to around 15 motorized rifle divisions, Presidential Office Deputy Head Pavlo Palisa said on April 3, Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne reported.

‘Their formation is ongoing. The Russians have no problems with recruiting personnel now. However, it should be understood that all these formations cannot be put into action at the same time,’" Palisa said.

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-plans-to-increase-grouping-in-ukraine-by-150-000-soldiers-in-2025-ukraines-official-says/

🔗 Rob Lee

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04 Apr 2025 07:12

🇰🇷 South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office over declaration of martial law

South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday, ending his tumultuous presidency and setting up an election to find a new leader, four months after he threw South Korean politics into turmoil with an ill-fated declaration of martial law.

https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-martial-law-yoon-constitutional-court-8cdcf4944c2e3cd9edf723bc29ba51ff

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03 Apr 2025 19:14

📉💸 The S&P 500 erases -$1.7 trillion in market cap at the open.

🔗 The Kobeissi Letter

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05 Apr 2025 19:01

🌪🌎 Every Atlantic hurricane landfall on record

Source: Michael Ferragamo

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05 Apr 2025 17:21

🇺🇸🇾🇪 Gregory Brew on X:

Privately, DOD admits they have had limited success against the Houthis, despite strikes being larger than what was done under Biden, "and much bigger than what [DOD] has publicly described." Costs are $200 million so far and could exceed $1 billion by next week.

https://fxtwitter.com/gbrew24/status/1908143848934584618

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05 Apr 2025 15:31

🇺🇸🇾🇪 U.S. defense officials confirm B-2 stealth bombers conducting strike operations against the Houthi (CNN)

- HSTCSG strikes Houthi for 3 weeks straight
- VINCSG transits Singapore Strait (5-7 days from CENTCOM)
- Destroyer reinforces air defense capabilities at Diego Garcia
- B-2 active weapons loading spotted on satellite

https://fxtwitter.com/ianellisjones/status/1908286120074301680

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05 Apr 2025 13:34

🇺🇸🇾🇪 Defense officials appear to confirm that the US is now using JASSM stealth air-launched cruise missiles and B-2 stealth bombers to strike Houthi targets in Yemen..

🔗 OSINTtechnical

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05 Apr 2025 11:57

🇺🇸 Officials at US Indo-Pacific Command have complained in recent days and weeks about the large number of long-range weapons being expended by CENTCOM against the Houthis, CNN reports.

Military planners at INDOPACOM are concerned that the operation could have a negative impact on US military readiness in the Pacific.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/cost-us-military-houthis-limited-impact/index.html

🔗 Apex

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05 Apr 2025 10:35

🇹🇷🇸🇾 NEW: Türkiye Inspects Syrian Airbases Under Defense Deal

Türkiye reviewed at least three Syrian airbases, including T4, Palmyra, and Hama, for possible deployment under a defense agreement.

• Israel later struck these bases, destroying runways, towers, hangars, and aircraft. A March 25 visit to T4 and Palmyra was canceled hours before the strikes.

• A Syrian source close to Turkey said, “T4 is completely unusable.” Turkish teams assessed the current state of infrastructure during their visits.

• FM Hakan Fidan assured U.S. officials that Syrian President Ahmad Shara poses no threat to neighboring countries.

• Turkish officials say they’re moving cautiously with Syria to avoid triggering U.S. backlash.

• An AK Party official warned: “If Syria destabilizes, it’s not Israel but Türkiye that pays the price through refugees and security threats.”

Source: Reuters

🔗 Clash Report

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05 Apr 2025 09:01

👶🍼 My short talk on why family policy and demographic issues will destroy the “fusionist” compromise in the Western conservative movement at the Danube Institute family policy conference. Social conservatism + economic liberalism = no longer viable. Fundamental changes coming!

🔗 Philip Pilkington

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04 Apr 2025 22:58

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump shares a message on Truth Social as the stock market continues to collapse.

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04 Apr 2025 17:07

🇷🇺🇧🇫🇲🇱🇳🇪 The Kremlin is strengthening its strategic relationship with the Alliance of Sahel States (AES)—Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger.

The AES helps the Kremlin supplant Western influence, pose as a great power, and create opportunities to threaten NATO's southern flank.

The three foreign ministers from the AES states traveled to Moscow to meet with Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergei Lavrov on April 3 and 4 as part of the first sessions of “AES-Russia consultations.”

The AES is a strategic project for Russia that advances its goals to supplant Western influence in Africa and assert itself as a revitalized great power.

The AES functions as a pro-Russian economic, military, and political bloc.

The AES juntas have helped Russia supplant Western influence by replacing thousands of Western & UN troops in the Sahel with Russian troops.

The AES juntas have also pressured Western mining companies while laying the groundwork for greater economic cooperation with Russia.

The AES serves as a conduit for Russia’s efforts to supplant the West elsewhere on the continent, including Chad, Sudan, and Togo.

The AES states have also undermined neutral or Western-backed regional political and security institutions, such as ECOWAS and the MNJTF.

Russia’s entrenched presence in the Sahel and Libya is an opportunity to bolster its campaign to manufacture migration crises to destabilize Europe.

There is no evidence that Russia plans to base drones in the Sahel, but doing so would threaten NATO in the Mediterranean.

🔗 Critical Threats

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04 Apr 2025 15:05

🇪🇬🇮🇱 Geolocating Israeli military deployments along the Egypt-Gaza border after the invasion of Rafah. This area falls within Zone D of the Camp David Accords' security annex, which limits Israeli forces to four infantry battalions only and bans heavy armor, tanks, and artillery.

🔗 EGYOSINT

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04 Apr 2025 14:02

🇺🇸🚢 Hyundai Heavy Industries said that it can build five Aegis destroyers for the US per year and is ready to expand. It also said that it can provide one ship per year to the US using its current spare dock, and that it has more room and cost-effectiveness than its competitors (Hanwha Ocean, Japan), and that it has over 250 veteran elite engineers required to integrate Aegis destroyers and combat systems.

It also said that a total of 12 domestic and foreign surface ships are currently under construction by Hyundai shipyards.

Take note that HHI is already rebuilding the navies of Peru and the Philippines.
Hanwha Ocean agreed to focus on submarines, while Hyundai Heavy Industries agreed to focus on surface ships.

Both companies are involved in the US Navy's massive MRO program.

🔗 Mason

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04 Apr 2025 11:50

🌪 We had 728 severe and tornado warnings combined, making yesterday the most active day of warnings since April 2011.

🔗 MaxVelocity

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04 Apr 2025 08:20

🇺🇸Anduril Industries: We must fortify the autonomous subsea dominance of the U.S. and its allies.

Introducing Seabed Sentry. Our new AI-enabled, mobile undersea sensor node network designed for persistent monitoring and real-time comms.

📝 Palmer Luckey: We can finally talk about Seabed Sentry, the underwater equivalent of Anduril's first product, the Sentry Tower.

Want to track robotics and biologics across vast expanses of seascape? Need to coordinate and relay in service of underwater actions offensive and otherwise? Buy!

🔗 Palmer Luckey

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03 Apr 2025 21:59

🇺🇸🇳🇴⚡- Norway's Foreign Ministry says Trump's tariffs may have breached NATO Article 2.

Article 2 (also known as The Washington Treaty) stipulates that "international relations between member states should be conducted peacefully and with mutual respect ... and promotes the elimination of opposition factors about international economic policies."

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03 Apr 2025 16:01

🇺🇸📝Smug Doomposting: It's honestly near impossible to explain the looooong term view/explanation on "why a senior WH official saying the post-WWII order is over is yuge" in only 25 or so tweets, but I'll try to do so. Short and simple.

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/Smug_editing/status/1907625663370002535