⚠️🇻🇪 Severe electrical fluctuation in areas of Venezuela.

🇺🇸 🇻🇪 SOUTHCOM force posture following joint operation Absolute Resolve:

• 150+ aircraft from 20 bases participated
• Ground force of ~200 U.S. personnel "went downtown in Caracas"
• Unprecedented employment of OWA drones and layered CYBERCOM + SPACECOM effects

📎 Ian Ellis

🇻🇪⚡️- Diosdado Cabello, current Minister of Interior and extreme Chavista Maduro loyalist is currently on the streets of Caracas with police and paramilitary groups.

They are shouting about never being traitors, and down with traitors.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- BREAKING: Saudi jets over Aden, Southern Transitional Council controlled Yemen.

🇺🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 American officials have discussed offering a so-called Compact of Free Association to Greenland

The proposal involves a Free Association Agreement — a framework in which the United States provides funding and guarantees improvements in living standards, while the partner hands over defense matters to Washington, retaining internal self-government.

🇫🇲 🇲🇭 🇵🇼 The U.S. already operates under similar arrangements with Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau.

According to the magazine, Trump’s strategy has two main goals. The first is to deepen divisions between Greenland and Denmark. The second is to open direct negotiations with the island, bypassing Copenhagen.

https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2026/01/05/greenland-should-be-part-of-the-united-states-says-a-senior-trump-adviser

📎 The Economist

🇩🇰 🇬🇱 🇺🇸 Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said Trump's desire to acquire Greenland must be taken seriously, while raising concerns about NATO security and European stability

📎 Reuters

🇨🇳 🇹🇼 During the recent Justice Mission-2025 exercises around Taiwan, a key focus was rehearsing a blockade of Taiwan’s major energy import facilities. Taiwan imports nearly 96% of its energy, primarily oil and LNG.

Our visualization shows the locations of Taiwan's energy import and distribution facilities alongside live-fire zones from recent joint exercises around the island.

📎 Taiwan Security Monitor

🥇 🇺🇸 💵 Gold has surpassed the US dollar to become the world’s largest global reserve asset.

📎 AF Post

📢 🇻🇪 🇺🇸 Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodriguez responds to US threats.

"I say to those who threaten me, my fate is only decided by God."

📎 Rerum Novarum

🇲🇽 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 Mexico overtook Venezuela to become Cuba’s top oil supplier in 2025, according to industry data, helping support the communist island as Trump renewed his vow to strike Mexican cartels after capturing Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro.

📎 Financial Times

🇲🇽 Cártel del Golfo (CDG) members destroyed a convoy of their rival “Noreste Cartel” in Tamaulipas.

CDG sicarios notably used Armored “Monster“ trucks armed with at least one USA-made 🇺🇸 Barrett M82A1 / M107 anti-materiel sniper rifle.

📎 War Noir

🇺🇸 🇬🇱 🇩🇰 Trump doesn't rule out use of military force to acquire Greenland

The White House said on Tuesday: "The president and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the US military is always an option at the Commander-in-Chief's disposal."

The issue of Greenland's future resurfaced in the wake of the US military intervention in Venezuela, during which elite troops went in to seize the country's President Nicolás Maduro and take him to face drugs and weapons charges in New York.

US President Donald Trump has been discussing "a range of options" to acquire Greenland, including use of the military, the White House said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyg1jg8xkmo