🇪🇬🇸🇩🇸🇸 Egyptian economic interests like this operating in Sudan is not a surprise given the close relationship between President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and especially the two main Sudanese military leaders Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan "Hemetti" Dagalo. However for this to happen in South Sudan with the huge appreciation of the Juba authorities... That's an intriguing development.

There's three either conflicts or brewing conflicts in the region many get mixed up.

🇪🇹 The civil war between the TPLF and the Federal Government. When it began the Sudanese did shut down the border as Abiy Ahmed wanted them to but Khartoum consolidated control in Al Fashaga.

🇪🇹🇸🇩 Sudan and Ethiopia have been long at odds over Al Fashaga an extremely fertile area of Sudan on the border that Ethiopia claims as its own. During colonial and pre colonial times it was mixed between Sudanese Arabs and Ethiopian Amharas.

🇪🇬🇸🇩🇪🇹 Egypt and Sudan are at odds with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam. Egypt fears it will slash their water supply, Sudan fears issues in it's irrigation, and Ethiopia needs the dam for electricity.

🇩🇪🇱🇹🇪🇺🚂🇷🇺 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday sought to cool tensions in the Baltic region by urging Lithuania and the EU to lift restrictions on freight transport from Russia to its Kaliningrad exclave, arguing that EU sanctions against Moscow should not apply there.

🇪🇸 Protesters stage anti-Nato rally after Spain banned protest in Madrid

they are trialing a social credit system in bologna and what is shocking is the extreme lack of outrage, according to a local.
So this is definitely going to be installed and no doubt expanded across the board.

"Italy Announces Rollout of Dystopian Social Credit System; Compliant Citizens Will Be Rewarded For “Good Behaviour” – The Expose" https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/04/27/italy-dystopian-social-credit-system/

Heartbreaking

This Marine Sergeant and WW2 veteran Carl Dekel is 100 years old today, and laments that we are losing what cost his generation so much to preserve.

⭕ Well, well. There it is. This is a serious developement with sweeping historical and geopolitical ramifications.

It will be interesting to see what Turkey's price was. The payoff had to have been significant indeed. 🤔

Nothing that big or alarming. First, it's just an announcement, it will be really long before it all unfolds, Turkey can change its mind. Second, like Russia says, anyone can join anything, who cares? If actual military infrastructure is moved to Russia's border, that's something else, and Russia won't wait long to respond to that. ..

🇨🇦🆔 In an unsurprising turn of events, comments made by Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino suggested that ArriveCAN, a controversial app required at points of entry into Canada, could become permanent. Some changes made on its website and app also suggest the same.

🆔🇨🇦 Canada’s government tracked citizens through a federal weather app
#SurveillanceSociety

#SurveillanceSociety 🆔