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🇨🇳 🇹🇼 🚢 As of yesterday, Reuters reports that 90+ Chinese ships are operating in the region - down from 100+ earlier this week - surpassing China's "mass naval deployment in December last year" in the "largest maritime show of force to date."
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As of yesterday, Reuters reports that 90+ Chinese ships are operating in the region - down from 100+ earlier this week - surpassing China's "mass naval deployment in December last year" in the "largest maritime show of force to date."
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🇺🇸 ❌️ 🇻🇪 Coast Guard helicopter sniper takes out narco-boat in the Eastern Pacific in footage obtained by Fox News.
"New video footage shared with Fox News Digital depicts Coast Guard forces, including a sniper from the service’s Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron (HITRON) based in Jacksonville, Florida, utilizing disabling fire against a go-fast vessel as it completes a drug interdiction mission for Operation Pacific Viper."
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"New video footage shared with Fox News Digital depicts Coast Guard forces, including a sniper from the service’s Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron (HITRON) based in Jacksonville, Florida, utilizing disabling fire against a go-fast vessel as it completes a drug interdiction mission for Operation Pacific Viper."
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The European Commission has revealed what it has planned for the December 18th Summit in regards to continued funding for Ukraine:
🔶 Seizing the Russian assets stuck in Belgian banks and issuing the reparation loan
🔶 Issue additional loans from the EU budget
Even though there are no legal means for the Commission to seize the Russian assets, Ursula VDL wants to create those legal means through a binding act (Regulation). In addition, she also wants to ban member states from allowing the return of other assets owned by the Russian Central Bank back to Russia and some unspecified safeguards to defend member states from future litigation.
So, not only is the EU Commission going forward with the asset scheme, they are also going forward with emptying more of the EU's budget which will require member states to raise new taxes.
The criticisms iterated previously by Belgium and others were ignored. Nothing UVDL has proposed today addresses what was said before but the European Commission is more than ready to sacrifice the economies of its member states and the wellbeing of its citizens to continue destroying Ukraine.
UVDL stated that this is necessary to cover Ukraine's funding needs but a closer look at Ukraine's expenses and presuming that Ukrainian politicians don't embezzle the funds, the seizure of all Russian assets stuck in European banks estimated to be worth around ~212 billion$ would last Ukraine at most, two years.
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Commission unveils two solutions to support Ukraine\'s financing needs in 2026-2027
To bolster Ukraine\'s financial resilience amidst the ongoing Russian war of aggression, the European Commission today proposes two solutions to address Ukraine\'s financing needs for 2026-2027: EU borrowing and a Reparations Loan.
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✈️ 🇨🇳 🇮🇳 China is rapidly expanding military footprint in ambitious military buildup on border with India - WSJ investigation
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🇺🇸 🇨🇳 ⛏️ US reliance on China’s rare earths is set to decline:
⚡️ However, Western economies will still rely on China for 91% of heavy rare earths processing through 2030, down from 99% in 2024, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.
🔶️ The US is now on track to meet ~94% of its rare earth demand from domestic sources by 2030.
🔶️ This percentage is expected to more than quadruple from the 20% seen in 2024.
🔶️ By comparison, the rest of the world will only meet 38% of demand locally by 2030, up from 18% last year.
🔶️ Overall, China is expected to supply ~60% of the world’s rare earth elements used to produce high-performance magnets by 2030.
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⚡️ However, Western economies will still rely on China for 91% of heavy rare earths processing through 2030, down from 99% in 2024, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence.
🔶️ The US is now on track to meet ~94% of its rare earth demand from domestic sources by 2030.
🔶️ This percentage is expected to more than quadruple from the 20% seen in 2024.
🔶️ By comparison, the rest of the world will only meet 38% of demand locally by 2030, up from 18% last year.
🔶️ Overall, China is expected to supply ~60% of the world’s rare earth elements used to produce high-performance magnets by 2030.
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🇺🇸🇨🇺 US maintains contacts with elements of the Cuban regime about a future without Maduro, according to Reuters
Reuters reported that members of the Cuban government have initiated direct talks with US officials to explore political scenarios in the region without Nicolás Maduro. The sources, under anonymity, did not specify who is leading these approaches, which contrast with Havana's public discourse against US pressure.
The contacts occur while Washington increases its military deployment in the Caribbean and hardens actions against Chavismo, including attacks on vessels and new designations. Analysts point out that Cuba could be evaluating alternatives in the face of a possible collapse of its main strategic ally.
Reuters reported that members of the Cuban government have initiated direct talks with US officials to explore political scenarios in the region without Nicolás Maduro. The sources, under anonymity, did not specify who is leading these approaches, which contrast with Havana's public discourse against US pressure.
The contacts occur while Washington increases its military deployment in the Caribbean and hardens actions against Chavismo, including attacks on vessels and new designations. Analysts point out that Cuba could be evaluating alternatives in the face of a possible collapse of its main strategic ally.
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In a phone conversation, Erdoğan and Maduro agreed to restore the Istanbul-Caracas route of Turkish Airlines
https://news.1rj.ru/str/worldconflicts/51733
https://news.1rj.ru/str/worldconflicts/51733
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⚡️🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺U.S. President Trump reposted an opinion piece arguing that his aggression towards Venezuela is part of a campaign to remove Russian influence from the Americas.
Commentators online speculate U.S. President Trump is hinting towards wider geopolitical goals by reposting this piece.
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Commentators online speculate U.S. President Trump is hinting towards wider geopolitical goals by reposting this piece.
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⚠️🇵🇪🇺🇸 The Congress of Peru approved that United States military members can enter the country with war weapons.
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⚡️🇺🇸🇻🇪🇨🇴U.S. Secretary of War Hegseth described U.S. strikes actions against suspected narcotics vessels in the Caribbean and Pacific as similar to the U.S.‘s actions against Al-Qaeda.
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"The days in which these narco terrorists, designated terror organizations operate freely in our hemisphere are over.
These narco terrorists are the Al Qaeda of our hemisphere and we are hunting them with the same sophistication and precision that we hunted Al Qaeda.
We are tracking them, we are killing them, and we will keep killing them so long as they are poisoning our people with narcotics so lethal that they're tantamount to chemical weapons."
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⚠️🇺🇸 Trump on attacks on 'narco-boats': 'We are going to start the same process on land'
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Panama offers temporary refuge to Chavista regime officials to facilitate mediation with the US. https://bit.ly/49XUatG
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Panamá ofrece refugio temporal a funcionarios del gobierno venezolano para facilitar mediación con EE. UU. - Diario Versión Final
Panamá se posiciona como posible mediador en la crisis entre Estados Unidos y Venezuela, ofreciendo incluso acoger temporalmente a funcionarios del gobierno
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🇧🇯 — The coup in Benin has failed according to AFP and the Beninese Foreign Ministry.
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📖 🇺🇸 🏡 Remembering and rebuilding first shelterbelts
Trees have been planted by nature and humans on the Plains region since ancient times, making the region more livable for man and beast. While the Prairie States Forestry Project of Roosevelt’s New Deal administered the planting of almost a quarter-million acres of windbreaks over an eight-year period, many of these shelterbelts have been removed over time. That said, a fair amount of these historic shelterbelts remain across the prairie states, still providing good service to landowners.
This was not necessarily an original idea. European settlers on the Plains brought their tree-planting methods with them to their new homesteads after the Civil War. For instance, as early as 1885, a tree-planting project took place at South Dakota State University at Brookings, where students planted trees for shelterbelts on the campus during their spring term.
https://www.farmprogress.com/conservation-and-sustainability/remembering-and-rebuilding-first-shelterbelts
Trees have been planted by nature and humans on the Plains region since ancient times, making the region more livable for man and beast. While the Prairie States Forestry Project of Roosevelt’s New Deal administered the planting of almost a quarter-million acres of windbreaks over an eight-year period, many of these shelterbelts have been removed over time. That said, a fair amount of these historic shelterbelts remain across the prairie states, still providing good service to landowners.
This was not necessarily an original idea. European settlers on the Plains brought their tree-planting methods with them to their new homesteads after the Civil War. For instance, as early as 1885, a tree-planting project took place at South Dakota State University at Brookings, where students planted trees for shelterbelts on the campus during their spring term.
https://www.farmprogress.com/conservation-and-sustainability/remembering-and-rebuilding-first-shelterbelts