🇨🇺🤝🇺🇸💵 — Cuba's 'socialist dream' is ending? Cuba is now officially cashing in on Uncle Sam's greenbacks!

➡️ The Cuban communist regime officially enacts partial dollarization by publishing Decree-Law 113/2025, which allows internal transactions in foreign currencies, authorizes the Central Bank to enable foreign bills as legal tender in specific cases, and empowers the Minister of Economy to decide who can operate in hard currency.

➡️ Starting December 17, mipymes, cooperatives, and economic actors will be able to open accounts in foreign currencies, retain earnings, and pay in foreign currency, under a model entirely controlled by the State that confirms the crisis of the peso and the advance of covert dollarization.

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🇪🇺🇺🇦 Italy, Malta, Czechia and Bulgaria are joining Belgium, Hungary and Slovakia in opposing the seizure of Russia's assets from the Euroclear bank!

The opposition from Italy, Malta, Czechia and Bulgaria is masked under the proposal that the EU issue joint-debt to Ukraine, a measure which would require unanimous support but that has no hope of succeeding as Hungary and Slovakia have threatened multiple times in the past to veto such attempts.

The growing opposition to the seizure of Russian assets is causing headaches for the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Kaja Kallas, as the European Commission cannot actually take ownership of the Russian assets in Belgian banks and is reliant on Belgium caving in on the pressure and instead of more countries applying pressure on Belgium, they are siding with it against the Commission.

Still, even with these 7 countries opposing the asset seizure, this is not enough for a blocking majority so the European Commission will go ahead with the plan regardless which will severely damage the relations between it and member states and generally speaking the cohesion in the EU.

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🇺🇸🇻🇪🕊 — President Maduro wore a hat exclaiming "No War Yes Peace" in the same red as President Trump's signature "Make America Great Again" hat today.

🇪🇨🤝🇺🇸 — The US Air Force is deploying to Ecuador for a "temporary operation" for anti-drug trafficking purposes at Eloy Anfaro International Airport, despite Ecuador's population rejecting the presence of foreign bases on Ecuadorian territory in a referendum last month.

Eloy Anfaro International Airport is a dual civilian airport and Air Force base that previously housed US personnel until Ecuador banned foreign bases in 2009. Corresponding with this deployment, six US Air Force C-17A Globemaster cargo planes have been recorded flying to Eloy Anfaro International Airport since December 13.

🇮🇱🤝🇪🇺 —The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen:

Jewish history is the history of Europe. Jewish culture is a European culture, and Jewish life must be able to thrive so that Europe can fully prosper.

🇮🇱🤝🇪🇬 — Netanyahu has approved a 35$ billion gas deal with Egypt, the largest gas deal Israel has ever signed.

🇲🇽❌🇺🇸 — 🇻🇪 Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, comes to the defense of Nicolás Maduro following Donald Trump’s announcement to block sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela:

“No to intervention! I call on the United Nations to assume their role; they have not been seen.”

🇲🇽🤝🇨🇺 — Claudia Sheinbaum admits that Mexico continues to send oil to Cuba as “humanitarian aid,” through Gasolinas del Bienestar, without disclosing amounts, contracts, or oversight mechanisms. Meanwhile, she insists that “there is nothing shady.”

🇷🇺🎙📝 — Russian State media published the moment when Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived at the Ministry of Defense for a meeting of the department’s board.

There, he noted that 2025 has become an important stage in solving the problems of the Northern Military District.

🇷🇺🎙📝 — Before the Russian General, Putin says that Russian Federation is "proud of the feats of soldiers and officers fighting on the front line"

According to him, the Russian State will do everything to support the families of fallen soldiers

Afterwards, he announced a minute of silence in memory of the deceased.

🇷🇺🤝🇰🇵❌🇺🇦 — During his speech, Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the 'valiant actions' of North Korean People's Army personnel that joined on Russian side against Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region and thanked their assistance in the large-scale work of demining the Kursk area

Initially denied, the North Korean KPA participation became one of the key points of the Russo-Ukrainian War since last year

🇷🇺❌🇪🇺🪖 — Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a speech, says that the geopolitical situation in the world remains tense, and "in a number of regions it is critical", stating that Russia has no plans to attack NATO:

In Europe, people are being instilled with fears about an allegedly inevitable clash with Russia, but this is a lie and simply nonsense, the president noted. Large-scale military aid to Ukraine from NATO is ongoing without interruption.

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking to Russian Generals:

The goals of the Special Military Operation will undoubtedly be achieved

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that Russia will start putting hypersonic IRBMs into action:

The "Orekhnik" missile system will be put on combat duty in Russia before the end of the year