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16 Apr 2025 12:01

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇸🇾 US tells Israel it will begin withdrawal from Syria within 2 months

The Trump administration has informed Israel that it will begin a phased withdrawal of US troops from Syria within two months, the Ynet news outlet reports.

A senior Israeli official tells the outlet that Jerusalem believes the move will result only in a partial withdrawal but is still working with American counterparts to convince them to keep troops in Syria.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-us-tells-israel-it-will-begin-withdrawal-from-syria-within-2-months/

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16 Apr 2025 10:01

🇸🇩🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷🇦🇪 External meddling in Sudan shows no signs of stopping amid the country’s now two-year civil war.

US partners such as the UAE, as well as US adversaries such as Iran and Russia, threaten US interests in the Red Sea by fueling the war.

Iran and Russia seek to secure Red Sea naval bases through partnerships with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).

Iran would use a base to support Yemeni Houthi attacks in the Red Sea.

Russia aims to project power into the Red Sea and bolster its logistics network in Africa

These aims directly threaten US aims to secure maritime routes for global trade in the Red Sea and boost regional security.

The UAE has provided weapons, including drones, to the Sudanese rebels known as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which the United States has accused of committing genocide in Sudan.

International leaders are meeting in London to work toward establishing peace in Sudan, but external support for the RSF and its rival the SAF will hinder efforts toward a ceasefire.

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16 Apr 2025 09:02

📉🇺🇸🇪🇺 The S&P 500 turns negative as the EU says tariffs will remain with little progress made in tariff talks.

🔗 The Kobeissi Letter

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16 Apr 2025 08:02

🇷🇺🇮🇩 Russia looks to base strategic assets in Indonesia

Reports are now surfacing that Russia has requested basing for long-range strategic bombers in Indonesia

The Russian request for such a deal, which Australian officials say has yet to be decided on, would put Russian strike assets, and presumably Chinese as well, within range of key U.S. and partner nation installations.

While the move is alarming to both U.S. and regional decision-makers, it could be said that it isn’t an unexpected development. Indonesia is abreast of a key maritime choke point and is in close proximity to Australia, who has deepened military-to-military cooperation with the U.S., drawing protests from both China and Russia.

Sino-Russian military-to-military cooperation has increased exponentially since the start of the war in Ukraine. Nowhere has this been more clear than in the Western Pacific, where Russia has made notable strides toward not only enlarging but also modernizing its long-neglected Pacific Fleet.

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16 Apr 2025 07:08

✝️🇫🇷 The French Catholic Church will welcome a record-breaking 17,800 converts for baptism this Easter, including 10,384 adults and over 7,400 young people aged 11 to 17.

Baptisms are up 45% from 2024.

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15 Apr 2025 19:19

Grok estimates that by the end of the century many White nations will cease to have White majority populations.

Establishment figures have long called “White Replacement” a conspiracy theory.

🔗 AF Post

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15 Apr 2025 16:05

🇨🇳🇻🇳 China, Vietnam Sign 45 Deals as Xi Seeks Closer Regional Ties

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-14/china-vietnam-sign-45-deals-as-xi-seeks-closer-regional-ties

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15 Apr 2025 11:37

🇺🇸 What Is Kristi Noem Doing?

REAL ID is Tyrannical ... Authored By The Same Author of The Patriot Act!

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15 Apr 2025 09:38

🇺🇸🚢 Port of Los Angeles Braces for Cargo Decline as Trade War Intensifies

The Port of Los Angeles, despite posting strong first-quarter numbers in 2025, is preparing for a significant downturn in cargo volumes as new tariffs threaten to reshape global maritime trade patterns.

In March, the nation’s busiest container port processed 778,406 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs), showing a 4.7% increase compared to the previous year. The first quarter ended with an impressive 2,504,049 TEUs, maintaining a 5.2% lead over last year’s performance and marking the third busiest first quarter on record for the port.

“Our volume remained strong throughout the first quarter, and we’ve now seen year-over year growth in 18 of the last 20 months,” Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka reported during his monthly media briefing.

However, significant headwinds are on the horizon. March 2025 data revealed concerning trends, as loaded exports dropped 15% from 2024 levels to 122,975 TEUs. This marks the fourth consecutive month of year-over-year decline in exports at the Port of Los Angeles.

https://gcaptain.com/port-of-los-angeles-braces-for-cargo-decline-as-trade-war-intensifies/

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15 Apr 2025 08:26

🇺🇸🇾🇪🇾🇪 It appears that US strikes on the Houthis have shifted from strictly degrading launch capabilities to targeting leadership and now Houthi defensive positions at the base of the Western Highlands along the front between the Houthis and Yemeni National Army.

US may be starting a strike campaign to shape the battle space for an offensive by the Yemeni National Army to break through the front and make a push towards reclaiming the capital Sanaa.

https://fxtwitter.com/Schizointel/status/1911887819720499357

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15 Apr 2025 06:39

🇺🇸🇮🇷 White House Special Envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff confirms that the Trump Administration is no longer pushing for the total denuclearization of Iran or the destruction of its nuclear program.

The Trump admin wishes to impose limits on Iran’s enrichment of uranium and the weaponization of its nuclear program, very similar to the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal.

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15 Apr 2025 01:58

🇺🇸📝 EndGame Macro: This chart signals a freight shock unfolding at near-Depression velocity. A 49% drop in global container bookings and 64% collapse in U.S. imports within one week mirrors the kind of disruption seen after the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act except what took months to manifest in the Great Depression is now happening in real-time.

The synchronized plunge in U.S.–China trade lanes (imports down 64%, exports down 36%) confirms that the retaliatory tariff war is already constricting cross-border logistics, with downstream consequences for inventories, inflation prints, and FX liquidity. Credit to zerohedge for spotlighting this pivotal chart

471TO has brilliantly framed it: this is a 1930 redux except faster, more synchronized, and more intentional. He’s been ahead of this entire unfolding macro regime, from credit tightening to trade war timing to dollar reflexivity. If you aren’t already following him, correct that now. This isn’t just noise this is the start of a global trade breakdown.

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14 Apr 2025 21:47

🇪🇨🪖 President who declared war on Ecuador’s drug gangs is reelected

Daniel Noboa, the millennial president who in a truncated first term declared war on the gangs that turned once-peaceful Ecuador into a major cocaine trafficking hub, won reelection Sunday, electoral authorities reported, giving him four more years to try to stem the country’s rising violence.

He will be responsible for resolving a deepening security crisis in a country that has become both a booming cocaine transit point and a battleground for drug gangs: Violent deaths have shot up again this year, after a lull in 2024. February was the deadliest month in recent years, with 736 homicides, 90 percent more than in the same month last year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/04/13/ecuador-election-daniel-noboa/

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14 Apr 2025 17:53

🇦🇪🇸🇴🇮🇱⚡- Puntland military journalists confirm that the UAE has quietly moved an Israeli-made ELM-2084 radar system to the Puntland Maritime Headquarters, adjacent to UAE's Bosaso Air Base.

The purpose of the advanced radar system isn't clear, as the Houthis are outside of its range, and there is no enemy the UAE (or Israel) is currently fighting in the Horn of Africa that is as sophisticated to require such a system.

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14 Apr 2025 15:42

🇺🇸🔶Trump admin makes new move to bring South African refugees to US as president blasts nation's rulers again

The State Department told Fox News Digital about new moves it is making. At the same time, the Afrikaner Orania Movement, an Afrikaner settlement, has stated its desire to be treated by the U.S. as a state within a state in South Africa.

There’s also been a flurry of flights across the Atlantic to Washington by groups looking to get the White House’s, and ultimately the president’s, attention.

The Orania delegation went to Washington, Strydom said, due to "the fact that President Donald Trump gave us recognition as a people, the Afrikaners. (It) made it very important for us to hasten our already-planned U.S. liaison tour to liaise with Afrikaner and American supporters of the Orania idea in the U.S.

"We had meetings with officials upon invitation and discussed substantive matters in depth, which, for the sake of an ongoing conversation and our honor towards newfound contacts, we will only specify publicly later."

"Help us Here," is the slogan Orania CEO Joost Strydom declared to Washington insiders.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/trump-admin-makes-new-move-bring-south-african-refugees-us-president-blasts-nations-rulers-again

📝 Joost Strydom: Orania on FOX News!

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16 Apr 2025 11:06

🇨🇳🇹🇼 China’s new bridge-forming barges offer new options for Taiwan invasion

If anyone was wondering what Chinese troops and armored vehicles disembarking onto Taiwan’s shores could potentially look like, then footage of drills in China’s southern Guangdong province showing barges equipped with interconnected landing bridges might provide a clue.

Posted briefly last month on the Chinese microblogging site Weibo, the images show how three specially designed Shuiqiao-class barges can be linked up one behind the other to form a long, relocatable pier that extends from deeper waters nearly a kilometer out at sea onto a beach.

The trials, held near the city of Zhanjiang, suggest Beijing is not only working on new tools to ramp up its amphibious sealift capacity, but also devising ways to overcome the limited number of suitable locations for amphibious landing operations in Taiwan, as the barges could enable Chinese troops to disembark at a wider range of locations across the self-ruled island.

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/15/asia-pacific/china-bridge-barges-taiwan/

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16 Apr 2025 09:34

🇺🇸🇮🇷 White House Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff has now walked back his comments last night on Fox News that described a conceptual Iran proposal eerily reminiscent of the failed Obama-era JCPOA (Iran Deal) framework.

About an hour ago, Ambassador Witkoff returned to the Trump administration’s previous sentiments on the process, saying that “Iran must stop and eliminate its nuclear enrichment and weaponization program.”

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16 Apr 2025 08:33

🇸🇩🪖 Today marks the second anniversary of the start of the war in Sudan, and after two years of fighting the frontlines are anything but frozen. in recent weeks:

- SAF captured Khartoum, Bahri and is in the process of clearing Omdurman.

- RSF launched a new offensive in northern Darfur, seizing towns and tightening the siege on el-Fasher

- A new alliance of RSF and SPLM-N launched joint attacks in south Kordofan and Blue Nile states.

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16 Apr 2025 07:36

🇬🇱🇨🇳/🇺🇸 Greenland Courts China in Snub to Trump

Greenland's foreign minister has said it is seeking deeper cooperation with China and potentially a free trade agreement, according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua.

https://www.newsweek.com/greenland-china-united-states-free-trade-agreement-independence-denmark-security-2059484

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15 Apr 2025 21:33

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Standing at the Edge of the Iran War Cliff

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15 Apr 2025 17:40

✈️ While the majority of flights transferring air-defense assets from U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) to the Middle East appear to have ceased and both the United States as well as Iran claim that nuclear talks are going well; the large-scale airlift of military equipment to the region by the U.S. Air Force’s Air Mobility Command (AMC) continues with no end in sight. Since March 22nd, over 300 C-17s, C-5s, C-130s, KC-135s, and KC-46s linked to AMC have arrived at air bases across the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) area-of-responsibility, likely prepositioning air-defense systems, equipment, and other defensive assets in the region for the continued possibility of a conflict with Iran.

The most interesting flights over the last week have been the arrival of 6+ C-17s from Fort Bliss, Texas at Nevatim Airbase in Southern Israel, likely transporting equipment for MIM-104 “Patriot” Surface-to-Air Missile Batteries and/or the reported second Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Battery. Additionally, a number of C-5s and C-17s have arrived at Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, likely carrying munitions for the 6 B-2 “Spirit” Long-Range Strategic Stealth Bombers deployed to the island back in March.

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15 Apr 2025 14:40

⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - Following the release of satellite images, the extent of the progress in the establishment of the "Morag" Corridor can be confirmed, following IDF claims yesterday.

The IDF's "36th" Division advanced from the east, through the "Sufa" Crossing, meanwhile the "188th (Iron Tracks)" Armored Brigade advanced from northern Rafah, both then joining in from the "Othman Bin Affan" street.

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15 Apr 2025 10:44

🇺🇸 President Trump says he's open to deporting U.S. citizens who commit violent crimes.

🔗 CSPAN

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15 Apr 2025 09:37

🇺🇸🚢 Are Ships Turning Around and Heading Back to Asia? | What is happening with Rates & Blank Sailings

https://youtu.be/VAf3UX-B7kI

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15 Apr 2025 07:30

🇾🇪🇾🇪 Yemeni militias are planning a ground offensive against the Houthis, Yemeni and U.S. officials say

The Yemeni factions are sensing an opportunity to oust the Houthis from at least parts of the Red Sea coast they have controlled in the decade since they took power over much of the country’s northwest, the officials said.

Private American security contractors provided advice to the Yemeni factions on a potential ground operation, people involved in the planning said. The United Arab Emirates, which supports these factions, raised the plan with American officials in recent weeks, the U.S. and Yemeni officials said.

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/yemen-houthis-operation-us-support-975febe6

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15 Apr 2025 04:22

Karmelo Anthony allowed to walk free on $250K bond, under house arrest after brutal stabbing of Austin Metcalf.
🔗New York Post

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14 Apr 2025 23:23

Somaliland Offers U.S. Strategic Foothold Amid China Tensions: A Letter to President Trump

In the blistering sun of the Gulf of Aden, two key maritime facilities—the port and airstrip in Berbera—stand at the center of Somaliland’s ambitious diplomatic play. After regaining its independence in 1991, Somaliland is now offering the United States a bold deal: lease these strategic sites in exchange for long-sought international recognition.

The pitch comes at a time of heightened global tensions and shifting U.S. interests in East Africa. With attacks from Houthi rebels disrupting Red Sea trade and China expanding its presence on the continent, Somaliland believes its pro-Western stance, strategic geography, and decades of governance make it a valuable partner.

https://www.horndiplomat.com/2025/04/somaliland-offers-u-s-strategic-foothold-amid-china-tensions-a-letter-to-president-trump/

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14 Apr 2025 19:20

🇺🇸 A United States miliary build up is currently occurring in the Middle East as tensions with Iran rise.

Moving additional cargo, munitions, air defense systems and equipment, USAF activity in the region has soared. Here's a look at what flew and where.

🔗 Faytuks Network

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14 Apr 2025 16:51

🇺🇸🇾🇪 Trump issues stark warning to Houthis terrorists.

"Just got rid of Joe Biden’s dangerous red tape, and empowered our Warfighters, once again."

"We will support the Somali People to end terrorism and bring prosperity to their Country."

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14 Apr 2025 14:47

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China Halts Critical Exports as Trade War Intensifies

China has suspended exports of a wide range of critical minerals and magnets, threatening to choke off supplies of components central to automakers, aerospace manufacturers, semiconductor companies and military contractors around the world.

Shipments of the magnets, essential for assembling everything from cars and drones to robots and missiles, have been halted at many Chinese ports while the Chinese government drafts a new regulatory system. Once in place, the new system could permanently prevent supplies from reaching certain companies, including American military contractors.

The official crackdown is part of China’s retaliation for President Trump’s sharp increase in tariffs that started on April 2.

On April 4, the Chinese government ordered restrictions on the export of six heavy rare earth metals, which are refined entirely in China, as well as rare earth magnets, 90 percent of which are produced in China. The metals, and special magnets made with them, can now be shipped out of China only with special export licenses.

But China has barely started setting up a system for issuing the licenses. That has caused consternation among industry executives that the process could drag on and that current supplies of minerals and products outside of China could run low.

If factories in Detroit and elsewhere run out of powerful rare earth magnets, that could prevent them from assembling cars and other products with electric motors that require these magnets. Companies vary widely in the size of their emergency stockpiles for such contingencies, so the timing of production disruptions is hard to predict.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/business/china-rare-earths-exports.html