🇨🇴🏳️‍🌈📝 — The Minister of Women and Equality of Colombia is (or used to be until September 15) Juan Carlos Florián Silva, a Gay Porn Actor, HIV-positive whom formerly worked at Save the Children and Doctors Without Borders NGOs

With His resignation, another man, Charlotte Schneider, is set to asume his post

🇹🇭❌🇨🇳👺 — On October 6, during a major operation, Thai cyber police raided a Chinese apartment in Bangkok and seized illegal communication equipment used for fraud, including devices that emit fake mobile signals.

➡️ According to Thai Royal Government, the apartment tenant was a 36-year-old Chinese national named Zhang, who rented the place but did not actually live there.

➡️ Police discovered over 50 mini computers in operation inside the apartment, equipped with mobile phone SIM cards, suspected of being used to illegally set up cellular signal networks and communication systems, potentially intercepting network data or fabricating servers and routers to evade detection.

➡️ A total of 137 items were seized and have been sent for technical appraisal.

🔗 李老师不是你老师 (@whyyoutouzhele)

🇨🇳❌🇹🇼 — ⭐️ Rybar Asia:

"Operation "Decapitation": how are the Chinese preparing for a conflict over Taiwan?

As the potential conflict date in the Taiwan Strait approaches, more and more alarms are being raised in the information space about it. Most often, this is done by Taiwanese media, but now the Japanese media are joining in.

The publication "Sankei Shimbun" published a satellite image from the well-known training ground in China. It shows models of Taiwanese government buildings.

The last time satellite images were published was in 2020. Over the past five years, the Chinese have not been idle — the section of the training ground with Taiwanese buildings has increased threefold.

🖍At the military base, models of the Taiwanese parliament and one of the Ministry of Defense buildings have appeared, and the construction of a mock-up of the local Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been completed. There are also a couple of new structures, including an underground tunnel connecting the model of the presidential palace with the parliament.

🚩The buildings are needed to practice operations of "decapitation", that is, the elimination of the island's military-political leadership during a potential conflict. They are also ideal for psychological impact — especially when footage of exercises at the training ground gets into the public domain, as it did in 2015.

❗️Of course, conducting such exercises does not yet mean that a conflict in the Taiwan Strait is inevitable. But the Chinese are actively preparing for it, paying special attention to immersing servicemen in the realities of combat operations. This means that engineering work will not end with the already built models.

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🗣🗯🇵🇱❌🕊🙋‍♂️🤚 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Clarifying Putin's Comments About Poland's Pre-World War II Policy | Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack | October 6, 2025:

"Putin commented on Poland’s pre-World War II policy during the Q&A session that followed his speech at the Valdai Club’s latest annual meeting.

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“Poland made many mistakes before World War II. After all, Germany offered them a peaceful resolution to the Danzig and Danzig Corridor issue, but the Polish leadership of the time categorically refused and ultimately fell first victim to Nazi aggression.

And Poland completely rejected something else—but historians probably know this—at that time, Poland refused the Soviet Union’s aid to Czechoslovakia. The Soviet Union was prepared to do so; we have documents in our archives, I’ve read them all myself. When the notes were written to Poland, Poland said it would under no circumstances allow Russian troops to aid Czechoslovakia, and if Soviet planes flew, Poland would shoot them down—and ultimately, it fell first victim to Nazi aggression.

If today’s top political family in Poland also remembers, understanding all the complexities and twists and turns of historical eras of various kinds, and it keeps these mistakes in mind when consulting with Pilsudski, then this would actually be a good thing.”

He’s arguably making two historical points that he then hopes his new Polish counterpart will generalize and consequently apply in the present. They’re that World War II might have been avoided had Poland allowed the Soviets to come to Czechoslovakia’s aid against Nazi Germany or then later peacefully resolved their own dispute without resisting and officially embroiling its formal British and French mutual defense allies in what ultimately became a continental tragedy. This is the Russian position.

As for the Polish one, they feared that the first scenario would lead to the Red Army seizing the Polish-controlled parts of Western Belarus and Ukraine that they partitioned after the Polish-Bolshevik War, thus coercing Poland into becoming a Soviet client state after the Nazis’ defeat. Regarding the second scenario, they feared that ceding Danzig would lead to more cessions of formerly Prussian-partitioned Poland, thus coercing Poland into becoming a Nazi client state."

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🇺🇸🇺🇸❌🏴 — United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announces it conducted strikes against Al-Qaeda Affiliates in Syria:

On Oct. 2, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) forces conducted a strike in Syria that resulted in the death of a senior Al-Qaeda affiliated attack planner.

Muhammad ‘Abd-al-Wahhab al-Ahmad was a member of Ansar al-Islam, an Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist group.

“U.S. forces in the Middle East remain postured to disrupt and defeat efforts by terrorists to plan, organize, and conduct attacks,” said Adm. Brad Cooper, CENTCOM commander. “We will continue to defend our homeland, warfighters, allies and partners throughout the region and beyond.”

🔗 U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM)

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Frontline realities of 2025

Small squads are fighting a huge war. A "strongpoint" can be held by a handful — two, three, or four people. The line of contact has been completely transformed. In 2023 our mission was to get a company into a village with ten BMP-3s. That was already difficult back then.

Now the vehicles sit tens of kilometers from the LOC. If in 2023 those same BMP-3s could play the role of little tanks, today they’re unlikely to reach a firing position. Not because the vehicles are "obsolete" — it’s that, for whatever reason, they can’t be systematically protected or covered from the main threat: kamikaze drones.

Here’s what “getting there” looks like for a regular infantryman. It’s a full march now. With all your kit — roughly 30 kilos — you get dropped 10–15 kilometers from the point where you will actually fight. Some approaches run up to 30 kilometers. Other routes, under forest cover, let you leap to within a few kilometers of the LOC. Beyond that, resupply and movement rely on ATVs, dirt bikes, and whatever sort of sketchy electric scooters people are improvising. The rear area now begins some 50 kilometers from the LOC.

The hardest part is getting there. Routes and lines of communication are being mined — via drones. Improvised mines and booby traps are shoved into medkits, casings are smeared with glue and covered with grass, scores of small bomblets are scattered on trails, and where you can see a wheel track there are large magnetic mines. If you don’t know how all these mines look, you will step on one.

The route is the single most dangerous segment. Small Mavics constantly watch movement and can instantly pass coordinates to an FPV strike team or an artillery battery. On the LOC itself — in a dugout — it can be less dangerous than on the way to it. The common pattern now: guys sit holed up for a month or two and pull through with no losses, then get into trouble on the exit.

There is no organized mechanized resupply. Everything moves on foot. The best you can hope for is a gutsy motorcyclist who’ll dash in and get out. At night the nastiness wakes up. Large drones with thermal sensors drop mortar rounds. If you haven't found your fighting position before sunset — you die.

That leads to the core problem. You can’t amass forces or sustain large numbers on the LOC anymore. That’s true for both sides. To fix this and start winning systematically you need unit-authorized ATVs, large logistics drones, small evacuation buggies, and drone interceptors. Right now all of those are off the books — bought privately or cobbled together through aid channels.

Micro-teams must do everything. There are no dedicated combat engineers, signalers, or medics in many units. You have to know it all yourself. First — navigation and working with mobile maps; second — radio and signal procedures; third — explosive ordnance recognition and basic EOD tradecraft. Without those skills you’ll get physically lost, lose contact with those who could help, and step on a little woolly thing in no-man’s land that will end you.

The gray zone is now about 2–3 kilometers. In that "no-man’s territory" there’s nothing but abandoned 200s and mines. It’s crushing for fighters’ morale. The enemy will often break and run after taking their first losses during an assault. The quality of their troops — you can see the forced draft and degradation for yourself. Even their special units have lost their old edge. Still, the bottom line is we can barely reach them.

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