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22 Sep 2025 21:52

🇨🇳🇭🇰 As a preemptive measure to protect from the Ragasa Super Typhoon, authorities in Hong Kong have decided to stop receiving flights for 36 hours starting on Tuesday.

This is the longest shutdown of Hong Kong's International Airport in history, surpassing the 20 hour shutdown during the 2023 Saola Typhoon, also a category 5 storm.

Elsewhere, Chinese authorities in Shenzen are preparing for tsunamis and flooding. Residents in coastal cities flocked to stock up on food, water & other essential items leaving stores empty.

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22 Sep 2025 21:39

🌪 Category 5 Super Typhoon Ragasa (NandoPH) has just hit a new peak intensity of 180 MPH sustained winds and a minimum central pressure of 905 MBAR.

This intensity is approaching the upper limits of what Earth is capable of producing.

🔗 Backpirch Weather (@BackpirchCrew)

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22 Sep 2025 21:37

📌 An absolutely insane conversation happened during today’s Annual Summit in New York City

🇺🇸🇸🇾 Ret. Gen. David H. Petraeus, the Former Commander of CENTCOM and Director of the CIA, talked about counterterrorism operations with Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa (Jolani), who was captured in Iraq around 2006 by U.S. Forces under Gen. Petraeus himself

al-Sharaa as an active member of Al-Qaeda at the time and was imprisoned from 2006-2011

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22 Sep 2025 21:32

🇫🇷🤝🇵🇸 France has recognised Palestine as a state.

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22 Sep 2025 20:32

🇮🇷⚡- Abolfazl Zohrevand, member of Iran's National Security Commission, has claimed Tehran has received a new batch of Russian-made MiG-29s.

Zohrevand also claims they have recently received the Russian-made S400 defense missile system, with its first tests carried out in late July 2025.

Additionally, Zohrevand states Iran will soon receive the Chinese-made HQ-9, and the Russian-made Su-35 jets, that Tehran requested over a half decade ago.

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22 Sep 2025 18:38

🇺🇸❌🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 Some American officials are complaining about the aggressive attitude of the EU's foreign policy in regards to Russia, the newspaper, FT writes.

Just beneath the surface, there is real tension between the Trump administration and its Baltic allies. In Washington, I have heard complaints about the “Estonianisation” of European foreign policy — a reference to the fact that Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, is Estonia’s former prime minister.

In parts of the Trump administration, the Balts are regarded as dangerously aggressive in their attitude to Putin. At a recent high-level Pentagon meeting, Baltic officials were accused of being “ideological” in their opposition to Russia.

The suspicion between the Balts and the US is mutual. In the corridors of the Estonian foreign ministry last week — just outside the offices of the most senior officials — I saw a large reproduction of the vote tally from last February’s UN debate on Ukraine, in which the US voted with the Russians. The message seemed clear. Don’t assume that Trump’s America is on our side.

The largest European countries are much more consistent than the Trump administration in their insistence on the need to counter Russian aggression. But they are also very nervous about the idea of fighting Russia without the US alongside them — witness the agonising about whether a European “reassurance force” could ever be deployed to Ukraine without an American “backstop” behind it.

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22 Sep 2025 18:26

🇮🇳 There are 50+ million excess indian men who mathematically cannot find a wife.

That's more than the entire population of Scandinavia plus Greece plus Portugal in incel Indian men.

It is underrated how bad this is. Bad for these men, bad for the women many of them will likely harrass, and bad for the instability and emigration pressure this causes.

📝: In India, female babies often get aborted because they are seen "less valuable" than males

🔗 Jonathan Pallessen

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22 Sep 2025 13:01

🇳🇱 This past Saturday, Voorpost attended the much-discussed demonstration at Malieveld.

📢 We delivered a clear message: #remigration

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22 Sep 2025 10:22

🇺🇸🇻🇪 Analysis of Sentinel 2 imagery from September 20, 2025, shows a vessel with a highly unique fore and aft superstructure almost identical to the MV Ocean Trader, a US Special Operations Command vessel operating SW of St. Kitts.

The MV Ocean Trader is a fascinating asset. Converted from a commercial Ro-Ro ship, she serves as a clandestine forward operating base, capable of launching small craft and supporting special forces teams while blending in with commercial shipping traffic.

This sighting, if confirmed, represents a significant move.

📝 Carolina Lion on X: So about 15% of all operational US Navy at sea are currently off Venezuela coast - including the USS Iwo Jima Amphibious Assault Group - it also looks like the Special Warfare Support vessel MV Ocean Trader is operating in the area.

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22 Sep 2025 09:35

🇺🇸 Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial: "On that terrible day — 9/10/2025 — our greatest evangelist for American liberty became immortal. He's a martyr now for American freedom. I know I speak for everyone here today when I say that none of us will ever forget Charlie Kirk, and neither now will history."

🔗 Rapid Response 47

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21 Sep 2025 21:41

NOW - Charlie Kirk's memorial service in Arizona, USA.

Trump to speak soon.

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21 Sep 2025 15:29

🇦🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧🤝🇵🇸 — Australia, Canada, and the UK have formally recognized the State of Palestine, joining a wave of nations expected to do so at tomorrow’s high-level UN General Assembly session.

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21 Sep 2025 13:02

🇳🇱🔥 Anti-Immigration Protests in The Netherlands

On Saturday, about 3000 patriots attended an authorized anti-immigration rally organized by the nationalist social media influencer Els Rechts at Malieveld in The Hague. Protesters waved Dutch flags and the orange-white-blue Prinsenvlag to oppose uncontrolled immigration.

The event escalated when a group broke away, stormed the A12 highway, and blocked traffic. Clashes erupted as they attacked police with stones, bottles, fireworks, and flares. Authorities used tear gas to clear the highway and Malieveld, where officials shut down the rally. Burned police vehicles were reported, and some protesters advanced toward the city center.

Protesters set fires and smashed the windows of the D66 party office (Democrats 66 HQ, which is a liberal-centrist political party in the Netherlands). Protesters are chanting "Get rid of asylum centres".

Multiple officers were injured, but no serious protester casualties occurred. At least 20 arrests were made for public violence and unlawful assembly, with investigations continuing into the coordinated disruption.

Uncontrolled immigration has been linked to rising violence and crime in the Netherlands, particularly against women. A 2025 report by the Dutch Ministry of Justice's Research and Documentation Centre noted migrants' overrepresentation in violent crimes by a factor of 2.22 and in sexual offenses by 1.48, despite comprising only 27% of the population.

Source: JLT Media

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21 Sep 2025 12:41

🇮🇱🇺🇸🇪🇬 NEW: Netanyahu asked the US to pressure Egypt over a military build-up in Sinai, claiming it violates the 1979 peace treaty.

Israel says Egypt expanded air bases, built underground facilities, and increased troops near Gaza without explanation.

Tensions are rising as Egypt fears Israel might push Gaza’s population into Sinai, while Israel accuses Egypt of blocking refugees.

Direct talks failed, prompting Israel to seek US help, but Egypt denies any violations.

Source: Axios

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21 Sep 2025 12:22

📊🇪🇺 "A right-wing wave is sweeping across Europe."

▪️Marine Le Pen's National Rally is number 1 in France 🇫🇷

▪️Georgia Meloni Brothers of Italy is number 1 in Italy 🇮🇹

▪️Right-wing Freedom Party is number 1 in Austria 🇦🇹

▪️The right-wing AfD party is number 1 in Germany 🇩🇪

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22 Sep 2025 21:43

🌩 View from space of the Ragasa Category 5 Super Typhoon.

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22 Sep 2025 21:37

🇺🇸🇸🇾 al-Sharaa shakes hands with Marco Rubio in New York City ahead of the United Nations General Assembly

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22 Sep 2025 21:35

🇵🇱🇷🇺🇺🇳⚡- "I have only one request to the Russian government. If another missile or aircraft enters our airspace without permission, deliberately or by mistake, and gets shot down and the wreckage falls on NATO territory, please don't come here to whine about it. You have been warned. Thank you," - Radoslaw Sikorski, Foreign Minister of Poland, at the UNGA in New York.

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22 Sep 2025 21:24

🇷🇺 The Russian Ministry of Defense retired Colonel-General Alexander Lapin the former commander of the Leningrad Military District and the Army Group "North" in Ukraine.

Lapin, who is 61 years old, is now an aide to the President of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov.

Lapin was regarded by Russian milbloggers and Western observers as "incompetent". Lapin had been since 2017 the commander of the Central Military District and the Russian effort to capture the Ukrainian capital from the east in the first months of the Russo-Ukrainian war, with the Russian army failing to even enter the city of Kiev, being stopped on the outskirts of Brovary.

After the withdrawal of the Russian army from the Chernigov and Sumy oblasts, Lapin was assigned to the front in the Kharkov direction where in September 2022, Ukraine counterattacked, taking Russian troops completely by surprise and forcing them to withdraw back into Russian territory. At the time, the president of the Republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, publicly insulted Col-Gen. Lapin and said that if he had been his superior, he would have demoted him to the rank of private and taken away his medals.

The Ukrainian counteroffensive led to Lapin being replaced as the commander of the Central Military District. In January 2023, he was assigned as Chief of Staff of the Headquarters of the Russian Ground Forces. In May 2023, Lapin led the counterattack against the incursion into the Belgorod Oblast by Russian paramilitary units with Ukrainian support.

After Finland's entry into NATO in February 2024, Vladimir Putin recreated the Leningrad Military District and assigned Alexander Lapin to this post and made Col-Gen. Yevgeny Nikiforov the new Chief of Staff of the HQ of the Russian Ground Forces. In May 2024, Lapin was assigned to the Army Group "North" defending Kursk oblast, Lapin was said to have dismantled a border guard council which defended the town of Sudzha and may have aided the Ukrainian offensive in that area unknowingly.

Lapin led Russian troops in the Kursk campaign but his career was practically over. In August 2025, news surfaced that Lapin had been removed as the commander of the Leningrad Military District. Two weeks later, the Russian MoD had officially confirmed this decision and announced that Colonel-General Yevgeny Nikiforov would be replacing Lapin.

Nikiforov followed Alexander Lapin since January 2023 when he replaced him as the Commander of the Western Military District. Since the promotion of Nikiforov last August, the Leningrad Military District has seen a surge in activity.

In the span of a couple of days, 19 Russian drones entered Polish airspace, some through Belarus, two Russian MiG-31 fighter jets flew through Estonian airspace and another aircraft flew close to a Polish oil rig in the Baltic Sea.

On September 21st, NATO radars detected an unidentified aircraft in international airspace over the Baltic Sea. When two German jets were scrambled, they identified the aircraft as a Russian IL-20M reconnaissance plane.

Yevgeny Nikiforov has already shown that he is far more proactive than his predecessor. These incidents cannot be dismissed as "random". This is a change of strategy, Russia is testing the NATO's defenses and response time. What ever Nikiforov has planned for NATO remains a mystery but Lapin's departure should worry NATO generals.

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22 Sep 2025 19:06

#BREAKING | Türkiye and Egypt Announce First Joint Naval Drills in 13 Years

Türkiye and Egypt will conduct joint naval and air exercises dubbed "Friendship Sea" (Bahr El Sadaka) in the eastern Mediterranean from September 22-26, marking a significant thaw in bilateral ties after over a decade of strains.

The drills, involving Turkish frigates, submarines, and F-16 jets alongside Egyptian naval units, aim to enhance interoperability and regional security cooperation. A Distinguished Visitors Day is set for September 25, attended by both nations' naval commanders. This comes amid warming Ankara-Cairo relations following diplomatic resets on issues like Libya and energy disputes.

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22 Sep 2025 18:33

🇪🇺🤝🌍 President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, pledges to invest 150 billion Euros in Africa.

von der Leyen wants to create jobs and clean energy on the African continent.

It is unclear what the EU gets in return from this investment nor how will the EU balance this investment with support for Ukraine, the ReArm Europe defense plan and the Green Deal.

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22 Sep 2025 14:57

American electorate undergoing a tidal shift. Up to 1.4-1.7M Silent Generation voters & 1.0-1.2M Boomer voters die each year. At the same time up to 2.6M Gen Z voters are joining voter rolls annually. Neither Democrats or Republicans have a hold on Gen Z. Interesting times.

Today Boomers are ~26.5% of the electorate, down from 30%+ in 2016 & 28%+ in 2020=>22% 2030. Silent Generation (the most Conservative, traditional American variant, voting generation) will fall from ~9% today to ~5% of the electorate by 2030.

Gen X will see their share of voter roll fall from ~24% today to 22.5% in 2030. Millennials & Gen Z will take over the electorate by 2030 making up ~60% of voters by that time. Millennials will have increased ~27.5% to 35% by 2030. Zoomer voters will double from ~12.5% to 25%.

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22 Sep 2025 11:18

🇵🇹🇵🇸 Portugal formally recognises Palestinian state, foreign minister says

https://www.euronews.com/2025/09/21/portugal-officially-recognises-palestinian-state-hours-after-uk-australia-and-canada

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22 Sep 2025 10:16

🇺🇸🌎 The U.S. has moved a fourth guided-missile destroyer into the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility. With the arrival of USS Stockdale (DDG 106) in Panama yesterday, at least 10 U.S. Navy warships (approx. 13% of ships currently deployed) are now on station in the region.

🔗 Ian Ellis

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22 Sep 2025 09:01

🇸🇾🇺🇸🇺🇳 Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa arrived in New York to take part in the United Nations General Assembly, the first appearance by a Syrian head of state since 1967, accompanied by an official delegation that includes ministers and senior officials.

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21 Sep 2025 18:48

🇫🇷🤝🇵🇸 — French President Emmanuel Macron to CBS News' Face the Nation:

Israel's security strategy against Hamas has failed.

They killed all the key leaders. This is a success.
But at the beginning of this war, you had more or less 25,000 Hamas fighters. The Israeli army killed probably half, but Hamas managed to recruit the equivalent.

You have as many fighters as at the very beginning, which is the best evidence that if we want to dismantle Hamas, the total war is not the answer because it's just killing the credibility of Israel.

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21 Sep 2025 13:07

🇪🇺❌🇺🇸 The EU won’t tariff China and India to please Trump. But it is working on a counteroffer.

Several measures in the European Union’s (EU’s) nineteenth sanctions package against Russia, which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Friday, appear tailored to please US President Donald Trump. Yet perhaps the most important signal Brussels aimed to send was that the EU remains committed to phasing out the little that remains of Russian energy imports to the bloc.

Last week, Trump reportedly dialed in unannounced to a meeting between a delegation of EU sanctions experts and US officials, during which he called for the EU to enact steep tariffs on India and China. Then over the weekend, the US president posted on social media that NATO countries should place “50% to 100% TARIFFS ON CHINA, to be fully withdrawn after the WAR with Russia and Ukraine is ended.”

The most common take on Trump’s post is that he is asking for NATO (most of which are also part of the European Union) to do impossible things as a delaying tactic in order not to have to impose sanctions himself.

It is true that this administration takes a dim view of sanctions, which it sees as one of the reasons why countries are looking for alternatives to the dollar. It is also undeniable that Trump is reluctant to impose additional sanctions on Russia. His administration has explained that imposing additional sanctions would risk breaking the already thin ice on which negotiations rest.

On Friday, von der Leyen also spoke about the EU taking tougher stances on China and even India by targeting cryptocurrencies, banking, and energy firms that are helping Russia circumvent sanctions.

Given that Trump has set the bar so high, the risk is that he accepts nothing short of tariffs and even returns to musing about dismantling the current sanctions regime against Russia. But the Europeans should try to engage on what they know Trump really wants: reducing Russia’s energy exports to Europe while keeping global oil prices low.

The EU’s offer to Trump therefore should involve more crackdowns on price-cap evasion, including tougher policing by EU member states such as Denmark of shipments through their waters. Instead of tariffs, the Europeans could also suggest threatening a joint secondary-sanctions regime with the United States, which might be daunting enough for Beijing and New Delhi to consider reducing their purchases of Russian oil and natural gas. Such an outcome could have a significant effect on the global oil market.

🔗 https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/the-eu-wont-tariff-china-and-india-to-please-trump-but-it-is-working-on-a-counteroffer/

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21 Sep 2025 12:55

🇨🇳🇪🇺 China takes the Arctic Route: First ship set to arrive in Europe via the Northeast Passage

The Europe Arctic Express and could revolutionize European trade, shortening the distance between China and Europe by ten days (it takes 18 days via the Arctic, compared to about 30 using the Suez Canal).

The ship will set sail with 5,000 containers from the port of Qingdao, opposite North Korea, and then dock in Europe at the ports of Felixstowe in Great Britain, Rotterdam, Hamburg, and Gdansk. A stable flow of ships through this new route would render the ports of the Mediterranean marginal.

This revolution was made possible by climate change. The shrinking of the polar ice cap is significantly accelerating the melting of the ice, which in those latitudes is occurring at a rate of 12 percent every ten years. It is only “thanks” to this that one can today speak of a “Northwest Passage.” In recent years, Russian and Chinese container ships have mainly navigated the Arctic route.

According to Norway’s Centre for High North Logistics (CHNL), between the beginning of June and the end of August, approximately 52 Russian or Chinese ships transited through this route, mainly loaded with Russian oil for export.

🔗 https://www.eunews.it/en/2025/09/18/china-takes-the-arctic-route-first-ship-set-to-arrive-in-europe-via-the-northern-passage/

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21 Sep 2025 12:32

🇺🇸❌🇦🇫 Trump is prone to historical mistakes. Claiming the US credit for the Soviet Union's role in building the Bagram airbase is one of them, said Americanist Boris Mezhuyev to the VZGLYAD newspaper.

Earlier, Donald Trump threatened Kabul with "terrible things" if the Bagram airbase is not returned to its founders.

The political scientist reminded that the airbase was built by the Soviet Union back at the dawn of the Cold War – in the 1950s. Later, this site became the most important center of Moscow's military presence in the region during the Afghan war. Soviet troops left this place only at the end of the 1980s due to failures during that campaign.

"Why is Trump even interested in Afghanistan? Most likely, the American leader is dissatisfied with the current level of relations between Kabul and Washington. Moreover, the Taliban are still perceived as a force that managed to defeat the US army," the expert explained.

In his opinion, Trump is trying to intimidate Afghanistan to regain at least a part of the lost influence.

🔗 /channel/vzglyad_ru/128135

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21 Sep 2025 12:01

🇪🇹🇪🇷 Patricia Marins on X: While attention is focused on Ukraine and Venezuela, one of the world's largest nations is suffering from separatism: Ethiopia.

Currently, about five regions with armed groups inspired by Eritrea's independence and backed by neighboring countries are opening fronts of combat against the government and other ethnic regions. All of this is happening while a new war between Ethiopia and Eritrea is rapidly taking shape.

https://cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/conflict-ethiopia

🔗 Patricia Marins