🇻🇪🇺🇸 Modified map of potential military targets in Venezuela with an overlay of U.S. flight operations in the region

- 7x "bomber attack demos" from CONUS (4x B-1B, 10x B-52H)
- 14x F/A-18, 2x E-2D from CVN 78 briefly turned transponders on
- RC-135 off the east coast

🔗 Ian Ellis

🇺🇸🇦🇫 The suspect in today’s shooting attack targeting two members of the National Guard in Downtown Washington, D.C., has been identified as 29-year-old Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, who entered the United States in 2021.

Lakanwal reportedly entered the United States on a U.S. Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) as part of Operation Allies Refuge during the American withdraw from Afghanistan in 2021.

🔗 OSINTdefender

🇩🇪❌🇷🇺 German ministry of foreign affairs on X/Twitter:

Putin eyes the EU and NATO. Our intelligence services are issuing urgent warnings: at the very least, Russia is creating the option for itself to wage war against NATO by 2029. We have to deter further Russian aggression, together with our partners and allies.

📝RWA Podcast: The big problem with all this stuff is that Russia sees, "Germany wants to be ready for NATO war against Russia in 2029", then Russia thinks "hm, we have no plans whatsoever of attacking NATO. That means NATO wants to attack us in 2029" and proceeds from there.

Even if just Germany is drawing plans to attack Russia with no other country planning to join this war, Russia will act as if the entirety of NATO is preparing for this possibility, simply because the West doesn’t give it a choice.

🔗 Auswärtiges Amt

🇩🇰❌🔒 Denmark has been Chat Control’s most ardent promoter.

The ruling Danish Social Democrats retired early one of their most senior politicians who supported Chat Control, after he was found guilty of storing child sexual abuse material on his electronic devices.

🔗 https://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/politik/danskpolitik/gevinst-til-sass-faar-foertidspension-fra-folketinget/11001822

🇫🇷 A new presidential election poll in France shows the rightwing Jordan Bardella winning the presidential elections no matter who his opponent is.

Centrist and leftist candidates all fall flat against Bardella.

The liberal-leftist firewall against rightwing candidates in France ended up strangling those that created it. Other European countries will follow the same path soon.

@CIG_telegram

🇪🇺⚔️🇷🇺 POLITICO: Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia

Countries are looking at joint offensive cyber operations and surprise military drills as Moscow steps up its campaign to destabilize NATO allies.

Ideas range from joint offensive cyber operations against Russia, and faster and more coordinated attribution of hybrid attacks by quickly pointing the finger at Moscow, to surprise NATO-led military exercises, according to two senior European government officials and three EU diplomats

“The Russians are constantly testing the limits — what is the response, how far can we go?” Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže noted in an interview. A more “proactive response is needed,” she told POLITICO. “And it’s not talking that sends a signal — it’s doing.”

“Overall, Europe and the alliance must ask themselves how long we are willing to tolerate this type of hybrid warfare ... [and] whether we should consider becoming more active ourselves in this area,” German State Secretary for Defense Florian Hahn said last week.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-thinks-the-unthinkable-retaliating-against-russia-nato-cyber-hybrid/

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian troops are burning out anti-drone nets using a UAV-mounted flamethrower

🔗 MD

🇺🇸 Trump says one of the two West Virginia National Guard members shot by Afghan national has died

As part of a Thanksgiving call with U.S. troops, Trump announced that he had just learned that Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, 20, had died, while Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, was “fighting for his life.”

“She’s just passed away,” Trump said. “She’s no longer with us. She’s looking down at us right now. Her parents are with her.”

The president called Beckstrom an “incredible person, outstanding in every single way.” The White House said he spoke to her parents after his remarks.

Trump used the announcement to say the shooting was a “terrorist attack” and criticized the Biden administration for enabling Afghans who worked with U.S. forces during the Afghanistan War to enter the U.S. The president has deployed National Guard members in part to assist in his administration’s mass deportation efforts.

https://apnews.com/article/national-guard-shooting-white-house-afghan-national-138fbe6872d7ac30b20973783b39002c

🇺🇸🇳🇬 According to a private source familiar with the military deal between the US and Nigeria, the US will be allowed to conduct UAV airstrikes against terrorist targets inside Nigeria, the scope only include unmanned aircrafts (UAVs), not fighter jets or bombers.

The American counterpart will mainly fill the ISR gaps of the Nigerian army with manned and/or unmanned aircrafts, and will likely (still unconfirmed) use the Kainji Air Base in Niger State as a launchpad.

🔗 Brant Philip

🇬🇧🇪🇺 Emigration by British and EU citizens is flat (or even slightly down); the large rise in emigration is entirely driven by non-EU citizens leaving.

🔗 Sam Bowman

🇫🇷 France is introducing voluntary military service for 18 and 19-year-olds.

President Emmanuel Macron wants young people to be "ready to stand up" amid concerns over Russian threats towards Europe.

Service would last for 10 months and volunteers would only be deployed in France.

🔗 Channel 4 News (@Channel4News)