🇻🇪❌🇨🇴 — Venezuelan locals report to us that the Chavista Regime started to deploy troops and paramilitary units across the Colombian-Venezuelan border in Táchira State, the most mountainous and distant area from Caracas within Venezuela, effectively moving to militarize the area

🇨🇺🇻🇪🛫 — Chavista Regime-affiliated Boeing 737-4S3, which departed from Havana, Communist Cuba is approaching Venezuelan Air Space

🇨🇺🇻🇪🇻🇪 — Internal sources confirm that Cuban regime officials will leave Venezuela due to possible imminent US military attacks, fearing arrest.

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪🇨🇴 — US Navy Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet (# - RHINO62) flying in circles near La Guajira Peninsula and Maracaibo bay's entry, both places being strategic for Colombia's ELN and Maduro's Bolivarian National Guard-controlled drug smuggling networks

🇺🇸❌🇷🇺🇻🇪 — CNN Brazil journalist, Lourival Sant'Anna, says, quoting sources on US State Department, that US Navy Destroyer blocked and stopped a Russian Tanker destined for Venezuela at the Southern Caribbean

🇵🇹❗️🇻🇪 — Portugal has activated emergency channels to assist its citizens in Venezuela in urgent situations

“In the context of its ongoing mission to provide permanent support to the Portuguese community residing in Venezuela, the Consulates General of Portugal in Caracas and Valencia are making available channels intended for urgent situations, reinforcing the Portuguese State’s commitment to the protection and assistance of its citizens,” explained the statement addressed to the Portuguese community living in that Latin American country.

According to the same informational note, the use of these contacts “is intended exclusively for situations of proven urgency, in order to ensure an effective and timely response from consular services.”

“For other matters, such as requests for information or service appointments, the usual consular service channels should be used (...). It is recommended that Portuguese nationals residing in Venezuela keep their contact information up to date, so as to ensure effective and timely communication with Portuguese consular services whenever necessary,” the text specified.

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🇻🇪🇺🇸 Modified map of potential military targets in Venezuela with an overlay of U.S. flight operations in the region

- 7x "bomber attack demos" from CONUS (4x B-1B, 10x B-52H)
- 14x F/A-18, 2x E-2D from CVN 78 briefly turned transponders on
- RC-135 off the east coast

🔗 Ian Ellis

🇩🇰❌🔒 Denmark has been Chat Control’s most ardent promoter.

The ruling Danish Social Democrats retired early one of their most senior politicians who supported Chat Control, after he was found guilty of storing child sexual abuse material on his electronic devices.

🔗 https://ekstrabladet.dk/nyheder/politik/danskpolitik/gevinst-til-sass-faar-foertidspension-fra-folketinget/11001822

🇪🇺⚔️🇷🇺 POLITICO: Europe thinks the unthinkable: Retaliating against Russia

Countries are looking at joint offensive cyber operations and surprise military drills as Moscow steps up its campaign to destabilize NATO allies.

Ideas range from joint offensive cyber operations against Russia, and faster and more coordinated attribution of hybrid attacks by quickly pointing the finger at Moscow, to surprise NATO-led military exercises, according to two senior European government officials and three EU diplomats

“The Russians are constantly testing the limits — what is the response, how far can we go?” Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže noted in an interview. A more “proactive response is needed,” she told POLITICO. “And it’s not talking that sends a signal — it’s doing.”

“Overall, Europe and the alliance must ask themselves how long we are willing to tolerate this type of hybrid warfare ... [and] whether we should consider becoming more active ourselves in this area,” German State Secretary for Defense Florian Hahn said last week.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-thinks-the-unthinkable-retaliating-against-russia-nato-cyber-hybrid/

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian troops are burning out anti-drone nets using a UAV-mounted flamethrower

🔗 MD

🇫🇷 France is introducing voluntary military service for 18 and 19-year-olds.

President Emmanuel Macron wants young people to be "ready to stand up" amid concerns over Russian threats towards Europe.

Service would last for 10 months and volunteers would only be deployed in France.

🔗 Channel 4 News (@Channel4News)

🇪🇺🇺🇦 EU countries seek urgent plan B to fund Ukraine

Officials are looking at an EU bridging loan to help Kyiv stay afloat if they can’t agree on using Moscow’s frozen state assets in time.

European countries are working on an emergency plan B to stop Ukraine running out of money early next year in case they cannot reach a deal on raiding Russia’s frozen assets to fund Kyiv’s war effort.

At a summit a month ago European Union leaders hoped to agree on a proposal to use Moscow’s immobilized reserves for a €140 billion “reparations loan” to Ukraine but the idea ran into fierce opposition from Bart De Wever, the prime minister of Belgium, where the money is held.

Now, with peace talks intensifying, and Kyiv running short of cash, the question of what to do with the Russian assets has taken on a new urgency. “If we don’t move, others will move before us,” said one EU official, granted anonymity like others cited here, to speak freely.

European officials suggested Donald Trump’s new peace drive could help solidify support for the plan to use the frozen funds for a reparations loan. The cash would only become repayable to Moscow in the unlikely future scenario that Russia agrees to pay war damages, under the plan.

EU diplomats expect European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to order her officials to present a draft legal text on the reparations loan within days as momentum grows for a solution. “The next step is now that the Commission is ready to present a legal text,” von der Leyen told lawmakers in Strasbourg on Wednesday, without specifying when the document would be put forward.

But despite intensive talks between Belgium and Commission in recent weeks, De Wever still has concerns about legal liabilities and the risk of retaliation from Moscow if the Russian funds were used for the loan.

One option gaining support is for a “bridging” loan, financed by EU borrowing, to keep Ukraine afloat during the first months of 2026, according to four officials. That would allow more time to set up the full reparations loan using the Russian assets in a way that Belgium can live with, to provide a longer term solution.

Two diplomats said Ukraine could be asked to repay the initial bridging loan to the EU, once it has received funding from the long-term reparations loan. Another possibility would be a long-term solution involving a combination of the reparation loan and joint EU borrowing.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-plan-b-europe-ukraine-kyiv-war-effort-summit-loans/

🇺🇦 Zelensky corruption scandal: key figures Myndych and Tsukerman flee to Israel; ministers dismissed, Chernyshov jailed. Servant of People demands govt dissolution, Yermak at risk. Zelensky's power visibly shaken for first time.

🔗 Rybar