🇰🇷❌🇨🇳 — In South Korea, protesters ripped apart a Communist China flag bearing Xi Jinping’s face — a bold stand against Beijing’s meddling in their country.

Since the weeks before the December 2024 Martial Law incident and the rise of Lee Jae Myung, Anti-Chinese feelings in South Korea have been rising, specially among young male nationalists

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🇺🇸🤝🇪🇺🇺🇦 — United States President Donald Trump says he discussed with EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen about the Status of the "Massive Worldwide problem of missing children"

This seems to be regarding the question over the Ukrainian kids forced into adoption in Russia which his wife Melania Trump sent a letter about to Russian President Vladimir Putin

Ursula von der Leyen, the distinguished and Highly Respected President of the European Commission, and I have been discussing the massive Worldwide problem of missing children. This is, likewise, a big subject with my wife, Melania. It is a subject at the top of all lists, and the World will work together to solve it, hopefully bringing them home to their families!

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Ukrainian media reports that Ukraine's Kremenchuk is also under a massive attack by Shaheds

➡️ There will be several waves, up to 30 drones in total! The energy infrastructure is under attack.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/voynareal/120535

🇻🇪🇻🇪🪖❗️ — Venezuelan Dictator Nicolás Maduro announces the deployment of 4.5 million armed members of People's Militias - the criminal gangs aligned with the PSUV - to "protect the nation" and "defend the Bolivarian Revolution"

🦜 The Chavista tyrant goes so far as to say that even macaws are part of his "troops"

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🇺🇸❌🇻🇪💊 — US deploys warships near Venezuela to combat drug threats, sources say to Reuters

➡️ Three U.S. Aegis guided-missile destroyers will arrive off the coast of Venezuela in the next 36 hours as part of an effort to address threats from Latin American drug cartels, two sources briefed on the matter said on Monday.

➡️President Donald Trump has wanted to use the military to go after Latin American drug gangs that have been designated as global terrorist organizations.

📝 The sources said the ships are the USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham and the USS Sampson.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪💊 — A separate U.S. official told Reuters that in total, about 4,000 sailors and Marines are expected to be committed to the Trump administration's efforts in the southern Caribbean region.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪💊 — That U.S. official, who was speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the additional commitment of military assets in the broader region would include several P-8 spy planes, warships and at least one attack submarine.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪💊 — US official said to Reuters the process would be ongoing for several months and the plan was for them to operate in international airspace and international waters.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪💊 ❗️ — The US naval assets can be used to not just carry out intelligence and surveillance operations, but also as a launching pad for targeted strikes if a decision is made, the official added to Reuters

🌐🇷🇺🇺🇦Weapons supplies from the USA to Ukraine will continue through NATO countries, said NATO Secretary General Rutte.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺❗️The question of the possibility of sending European and American troops to Ukraine "was not discussed at all" during meetings with Trump at the White House — NATO Secretary General Rutte

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Fox News:

The only leader in the world that can talk to both [Putin and Zelensky] and bring them both to a meeting is Donald J. Trump.

We should be proud that we have a President that's made peace a priority.

@TabZLIVE

🪖🤝🇺🇸 — NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte:

"Without President Trump, this deadlock with Putin would not have been broken. He is the only one who could do this."

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