🇻🇪📞🇺🇸🇨🇺🇨🇴 — In a video statement, under a very desperate mood, following the start of the US military pressure against the Venezuelan Regime, Chavista dictator of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro calls on all "People's Movements and Rebel Peoples" in USA, European Union and Latin America to mobilize in defense of "Venezuelan Right for Sovereignty and Self-Determination", as well calling on the "National Unity" between Venezuelans

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🇨🇳🚀🇲🇽 China launches Kinetica 1 rocket, in partnership with Mexico, to deploy Chinese and Mexican Earth-observation and radar satellites.

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🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 White House Press Secretary Leavitt does not rule out deploying U.S. Airmen and aircraft to Ukraine, deferring to Trump's comments on supporting Ukraine "with things by air."

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🇺🇸🇨🇳 The US Navy is Building a Drone Fleet to Take on China. It’s Not Going Well.

U.S. military leaders, seeing the outsized impact of maritime drones in the Ukraine war, have repeatedly said they need autonomous swarms of aerial and maritime drones to hinder a potential advance by China across the Taiwan Strait. Taiwan itself has begun acquiring its own maritime drones.

The drones being developed in Ukraine, which often look like speedboats without seats, and are capable of carrying weapons, explosives and surveillance equipment, are primarily remote-controlled and cost close to $250,000 – making them optimal for kamikaze missions that have effectively neutralized Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.

The U.S., meanwhile, is aiming to build an autonomous naval fleet that can move in swarms and without human command – a more ambitious task at a higher price point; as much as a few million dollars per speedboat.

The recent test failures highlight the challenges facing the Navy’s effort to deploy the nascent technologies, said Bryan Clark, an autonomous warfare expert at the Hudson Institute. It will need to adapt its “tactics as it better understands what the systems can do and what they can’t do.”

But the Navy’s problems go beyond getting the boats to work: its autonomous maritime drone acquisition unit has also been rocked by the firing of its top admiral, and a top Pentagon official voiced concerns about the program in a candid meeting with Navy brass last month, Reuters found.

Since the most recent incident, the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), which had acquired technology for the tests, has indefinitely paused a contract – valued close to $20 million – with L3Harris LHX.N, one of the companies providing autonomous software used to control some of the vessels, according to two people familiar with the matter.

https://gcaptain.com/the-us-navy-is-building-a-drone-fleet-to-take-on-china-its-not-going-well/

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸 — Long-serving Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rebukes Trump-EU talks:

Russia supports the principles of security guarantees agreed upon in Istanbul in 2022. Everything else is a futile undertaking.

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🇪🇺❌🇷🇺❗️ — Lavrov's refusal to provide security guarantees for Ukraine effectively broke off Russia's talks with the US, European official tells Bloomberg

🇺🇸🇺🇦❌🇷🇺❗️ — US President Donald Trump accuses Joe Biden of backstabbing Ukraine by forcing it to play only in self-defensive role and blocking Ukrainian offensive actions against Russian Federation, claiming that interesting days are ahead

It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaders country.

It’s like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offense.
There is no chance of winning! It is like that with Ukraine and Russia. Crooked and grossly incompetent Joe Biden would not let Ukraine FIGHT BACK, only DEFEND. How did that work out?

Regardless, this is a war that would have NEVER happened if I were President - ZERO CHANCE.
Interesting times ahead!!! President DJT

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪🇨🇴🇨🇴 — The DEA director Terry Cole labeled Venezuela as a narco-terrorist state, accusing the Maduro's Regime of collaborating with the Colombia's FARC and ELN to traffic cocaine and facilitate the record flow of fentanyl and methamphetamines into the U.S.

📝 It is known that Venezuelan military intelligence, SEBIN, has long-standing ties to the FARC and ELN, even after the 2008 ceasefire agreement, with SEBIN arming the FARC's Segunda Marquetalia Front with advanced weaponry, including MANPADs and ATGMs, in exchange for the groups' cocaine production.

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🇨🇴🇨🇴❌🇨🇴 — Over the past hours, it has been reported that two Colombian National Police helicopters have been attacked by FPVs, with one of them being downed

The governor of Antioquia, Andrés Julián Rendón, confirmed that the helicopter that crashed in a rural area of Amalfi was shot down by armed groups.

“The police officers were attacked by a drone. The number of victims is still uncertain,” he stated.

➡️ Venezuelan-backed Communist terror groups & drug gangs are active in the area

🇻🇪🇻🇪💬🇨🇳 — According to reports, Nicolas Maduro is currently at the Chinese embassy in Venezuela asking for support against US attacks on the country. He wants access to several land-to-sea defense systems, as he already has Iranian land-to-air defenses.