🇪🇸🗳❗️ — The Center-Right, Pro-Israel Spanish People's Party (PP) would win the general elections in Spain with 36.1% of the votes and a 10-point lead over the ruling leftist Pro-Palestine Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), according to the DYM survey

🇺🇸🇺🇸🤝🇧🇷😎 — U.S. President Donald Trump once again expressed support for former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro (PL), stating that Bolsonaro has fought many times for his country, “even against me, to defend them [the Brazilian people].”

“President Bolsonaro is a good man. I’ve met many prime ministers, presidents, and kings and queens. And I know him, and I’m very good at this. President Bolsonaro is not a dishonest man. He loves the people of Brazil. He fought hard for the people of Brazil. He negotiated trade deals against me for the people of Brazil, and he was very tough. And he was tough because he wanted to get a good deal for his country. He was not a dishonest man. And I believe this is a witch hunt, and it should not be happening.

It’s not just because he’s a friend of mine, but because he’s someone I know. He represents millions of Brazilians — wonderful people. He loves Brazil and fought hard for those people. Now they want to imprison him. That looks like a witch hunt to me, and I think it’s very unfortunate.”

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🇺🇸🇺🇸🤝🇧🇷😎 — U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed that the decision to impose tariffs of up to 50% on imports from Brazil is politically motivated, in response to the legal proceedings against former president Jair Bolsonaro.

“The [tariff] letter says you’re going to pay 30%, 35%, 25%, 20%... in one case, 50% for Brazil, because of what they’re doing to their former president [Bolsonaro]. It’s shameful.

I know the former president. He fought hard for the people of Brazil, that I can say. I believe he is an honest man. I think what they’re doing to him is terrible.”

🇧🇷🤡❌🇺🇸🇺🇸 — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) told CNN International that if Donald Trump were Brazilian, he would also be on trial — and possibly even imprisoned:

"I would like to say something to the American people. If Trump were Brazilian, and if he had done what happened at the Capitol, he would also be on trial in Brazil and possibly... He would have violated the Constitution and, according to the justice system, he could also be imprisoned... If all of that had happened in Brazil."

➡️ It’s important to note that there is a monitor in the White House Press Secretary’s room that constantly displays several news networks, including CNN. As a result, Lula’s statement could be interpreted by Trump’s team as a signal of the Brazilian president’s intent to imprison former president Jair Bolsonaro.

💲📈❗️ — Ethereum ($ETH) reaches $3,600 USD/coin

🇺🇸❌🇧🇷 — Laughing, U.S. President Donald Trump calls BRICS a “little group” and says: “[BRICS] is disappearing quickly; they held a meeting and almost no one showed up!”

💬 “We can never let anyone mess with us. That’s why, when we heard about this BRICS group — basically SIX countries — I hit them very hard. We have this little group called BRICS, which is disappearing quickly. But BRICS wanted to challenge the dollar, the dollar’s dominance, the dollar standard.

And I said: anyone in the BRICS bloc, we’ll slap a 10% tariff on you. They had a meeting the next day, and almost no one showed up. They didn’t want to be tariffed — it’s incredible,” Trump said.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia is thought to be days or weeks away from surging into a heightened summer offensive, perhaps using the 160,000 troops Ukrainian officials have said are amassing near their front lines, according to CNN.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/17/europe/ukraine-russia-frontline-summer-offensive-intl

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🇺🇸❌🇪🇺 Donald Trump pushes for 15%-20% minimum tariff on all EU goods

Donald Trump has escalated his demands in trade negotiations with the EU, pushing for a minimum tariff of 15 per cent to 20 per cent in any deal with the bloc, according to three people briefed on the talks.

The US president’s hardened stance aims to test the EU’s pain threshold after weeks of talks on a framework agreement that would have maintained a baseline tariff of 10 per cent on most goods.

Trump has also been unmoved by the latest EU offer to reduce car tariffs, and would be happy to keep duties on the sector at 25 per cent as planned, said people familiar with the negotiations.

Maroš Šefčovič, EU trade commissioner, gave a downbeat assessment of his recent talks in Washington to the bloc’s ambassadors on Friday, said two people briefed on the meeting.

If Trump insists on permanent reciprocal duties of 15 per cent to 20 per cent they would be as high as they were when trade talks began in April, and could push Brussels towards retaliation, said the senior EU diplomat. The US has also imposed sectoral tariffs of 50 per cent on EU steel and aluminium.

“We don’t want a trade war, but we don’t know if the US will leave us a choice,” they said.
A second EU diplomat added “the mood has clearly changed” in favour of retaliation. “We are not going to settle at 15 per cent,” they said.

📝: European industry, what wasn’t killed by Brussels’ stupid regulations and its dumb energy policies, relies on exports to the U.S. to make a profit. Without those exports, European industry either goes bankrupt or moves to other countries.

Trump’s intention is clear: force European industry to move to the U.S. which he will likely succeed in doing even if a 15% tariff is imposed, let alone a 20-25% or the original 30-35% tariffs announced.

Due to high energy prices, strict environmental regulations and workers’ rights European manufacturing is expensive. It cannot compete with Asian manufacturing, Chinese, Japanese, South Korean or Indian as all of the aforementioned countries produce more and far cheaper.

While stealing Europe’s industry may be beneficial on the short term for Trump as it will create new jobs for the U.S. economy, in the long run, it will make Europe weaker and even more reliant on the U.S. for defense which is not what Trump wanted.

Trump’s tariffs will crush Ursula von der Leyen’s plans of reestablishing European dominance on the world stage and set Europe on a path of political instability and unrest.

🔗 https://archive.ph/2025.07.18-172133/https://www.ft.com/content/43c98c4b-8772-4279-ad55-e46bd22409de

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Nationwide Air Raid Alarm in all of Ukraine following the departure of 2x Mig-31K Frontline bombers

🇨🇳🇻🇳 China, Vietnam Plan First Joint Army Drill Amid US Tariffs

China and Vietnam plan to hold their first joint army training exercise this month, a sign of deepening military ties as the two countries grapple with US tariff policies.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-20/china-vietnam-plan-first-joint-army-drill-amid-us-tariffs

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🇨🇳 Arnaud Bertrand on X: It's done: China just launched the construction of the Yarlung Tsangpo dam project

It'll be by far the world’s largest hydroelectric facility, generating 3 times more electricity than the Three Gorges dam, 300 billion kilowatt-hours.

This dam project alone could power almost a quarter (21.6%) of all US households, since the average U.S. household consumes about 10,500 kilowatthours (kWh) of electricity per year and there are 132 million households in the US.

It could also power the entirety of France and Italy COMBINED, since the average electricity consumption in France is 2 223 kWh per person per year, the scale is almost too unfathomable to believe.

Fascinatingly, part of the plan, as per China's “Eastern Data, Western Computing” initiative, might be AI

It's not only that the dam project will generate immense amounts of electricity that can be used for computing, but also the fact that it's located in naturally cold Tibet with close to freezing water temperature - perfect to cool down data centers for free.

As Keji Mao - who worked as a Research Fellow at the powerful NDRC (the top organization for China's economic planning and policymaking) - puts it: "China will transform industrial capacity into electricity, electricity into computational power, and computational power into ever higher levels of advanced productivity."

🧵https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1946854532043899326

🇷🇺 Russia reveals drone production facility in Alabuga — hundreds of Shaheds being prepped for attacks

For the first time, Russia has shown the inside of its drone assembly plant in Alabuga, where Iranian-made Shahed-136 (known in Russia as “Geran-2”) drones are assembled and upgraded.

Photos and videos show dozens of drones in various stages of production. These are the same UAVs used to bomb Ukrainian cities.

🏭 The Alabuga plant is considered one of Russia’s key defense industry sites and has already been targeted multiple times by Ukrainian drone strikes. Despite the damage, production continues — and is reportedly expanding.

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🇹🇭❌🇰🇭❗️ — Ongoing Armed clashes at Thai-Cambodian Border!

🇹🇭❌🇰🇭❗️ — Thai media Khaosod News reports clashes between the Royal Thai Army and the Royal Cambodian Army are taking place near the Ta Muen Thom Buddhist Sanctuary

Cambodian soldiers opened fire opposite the Moopa base, 200 meters east of Ta Muen Thom Sanctuary. Thai soldiers retaliated, clashing ensued.

On July 24, 2568, reports indicate that after Lieutenant General Boonsin Padklang, Commander of the Second Army Region, signed Order No. 213/2568 of the Second Army Region (Special) regarding the closure of border crossings along the Thai-Cambodian border and tourist attractions in the responsible area, banning both Thai and foreign tourists, and 3. suspending visits to Ta Muen and Ta Kwai Sanctuaries by tourists for security system improvement.
This is to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Thailand, ensure the safety of lives and property of Thai citizens from further incidents of this nature, and express disapproval of the use of anti-personnel landmines, which violates sovereignty and contradicts the Ottawa Convention.

Most recently, at 07:35 AM on Thursday , in the area of Ta Muen Thom Sanctuary, the Suranaree Task Force (Second Unit) sent a border coordination team to inform Cambodia that Thailand was closing Ta Muen Thom Sanctuary to tourism. The discussion failed, as Cambodia did not agree.

Subsequently, Thai officials installed concertina wire to enclose the path up to and around Ta Muen Thom Sanctuary. Cambodian soldiers then set up firearms facing the path up to Ta Muen Thom Sanctuary, and the sound of a Cambodian drone flying reconnaissance around Ta Muen Thom Sanctuary was heard.

Six Cambodian soldiers, fully armed (with RPGs), approached the barbed wire fence placed by the Thai military and shouted for negotiation, but the Thai military confirmed that initial discussions had already taken place.

Then, at 08:20 AM, Cambodian soldiers opened fire opposite the Moopa base, 200 meters east of Ta Muen Thom Sanctuary. Thai soldiers retaliated in self-defense.

https://x.com/KhaosodEnglish/status/1948201905001505167