🇻🇪🇻🇪 — A colonel of the Chavista militia told Nicolás Maduro that “as soon as the enemy reaches La Guaira” the communal militia will be activated with men trained in “revolutionary tactics.”

🇻🇪🇺🇸❌🇻🇪 — In an interview with Fox News, María Corina Machado warned that “Nicolás Maduro’s days are numbered” and promised that Venezuela will go from being a criminal hub to becoming the United States’ greatest energy ally.

🇦🇶⚠️❗️ — An 8 magnitude earthquake has STRUCK off the Drake Passage!

🇦🇶⚠️❗️ — USGS seismologists declared a tsunami threat after an 8.0 magnitude earthquake in the Drake Passage

🇮🇹🇺🇦Italian media publish photos of Ukrainian Sergey Kuznetsov, arrested in Italy in connection with the sabotage of the "Nord Streams".

Earlier, it was reported that he is a former captain of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪 New details on U.S. Navy deployments to Southern Command

- 3 destroyers will reportedly arrive off the coast of Venezuela within 24 hours (USS Gravely + USS Jason Dunham left Mayport last week, USS Sampson is near the Panama Canal)

- Littoral combat ship USS Minneapolis-St. Paul is already on station and in the vicinity of Curacao

- The Iwo Jima amphibious ready group (ARG) is back in Norfolk to wait out the hurricane

📝: Trump is positioning the U.S. Navy for an attack on Venezuela.

🔗 Ian Ellis

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 An American-European-Ukrainian Commission has reportedly been formed, led by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with national security and military advisers from Ukraine and Europe, in order to draft a proposal for security guarantees, similar to those provided by NATO’s Article 5, for Ukraine, with hopes that a framework will be established by Friday.

📝: “We can’t bring Ukraine in NATO so we bring NATO to Ukraine”.

🔗 OSINT Defender

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪 Q: "US warships are being sent to Venezuela. There's 4,000 Marines onboard. Are you looking at boots on the ground there?"

PRESS SEC: "President Trump has been very clear and consistent, he's prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country."

"Maduro is not a legitimate President."

🔗 Breaking911

🇻🇪❌🇺🇸 Nicolas Maduro has decreed in a security meeting yesterday that the Venezuelan government will mobilize “4 million” personnel from militias to “protect the nation” from foreign intervention, referring to the U.S. Navy’s deployments.

🔗 SA Defensa

🇮🇱❌🇪🇬 A few weeks ago, the IDF held exercises on the Jordanian-Israeli [right red rectangle] southern borders simulating a sudden large scale multi-front invasion into Israel.

➡️ The IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir ordered a surprise inspection of the military’s top headquarters to test their readiness.

➡️ Several Egyptian pages raised concerns about the drills, suggesting that they might have been conducted with Egypt in mind, given the similar terrain and border length [left red rectangle].

🔗 Geopolitics Watch

🇨🇳🇹🇼 A group of Chinese PLA-affiliated civil-military ferries deviated from regular routes in the Yellow Sea and arrived in the Taiwan Strait this week, likely prepositioning for upcoming amphibious exercises.

🔗 Ian Ellis

🇨🇳🇹🇼 UPDATE: Following a brief stop near several ports in the Quanzhou area, the group of ferries which departed the Bohai Sea several days ago is on the move again.

🔗 Taiwan Security Monitor