🇳🇬❌🟠Nigeria government demand $10 billion in damages from Binance.

Authorities for Nigeria don demand $10 billion dollars as penalties from di biggest cryptocurrency exchange platform in the world, Binance.

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c25817r8wk8o

🇳🇬🤝💸💰 — Against the background of the Financial Crisis in Nigeria and the Total ban of Cryptoexchanges, Biafran Separatists in Oil-rich Southeastern Nigeria vowed to defy the ban and use altcoins to make daily financial transactions and, as crazy as it may sound, launch their own cryptocurrency to bypass Government financial controls.

🇦🇷🗯🇦🇷 — 🇺🇸 Oil Price | Argentina Oil Provinces Rebel Against Milei’s Austerity Plan | February 26, 2024:

"Argentina’s oil-producing provinces have threatened to cut off oil supply to the rest of the country if the government of Javier Milei goes through with plans to withhold billions in federal tax revenues.

"Not a drop of oil will come out on Wednesday if they don't respect the provinces once and for all and take their foot off our back," the governor of the southern Chubut province, Ignacio Torres, told a local TV channel, as quoted by AFP.

The central government wants to withhold the equivalent of some $15.3 million from Chubut as a way of collecting on unpaid debt from that and 10 other provinces, as explained by Economy Minister Luis Caputo."

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🇷🇺📝🔫🔫 — 🇬🇧 Financial Times | Leaked Russian military files reveal criteria for nuclear strike | February 28, 2024:

"Vladimir Putin’s forces have rehearsed using tactical nuclear weapons at an early stage of conflict with a major world power, according to leaked Russian military files that include training scenarios for an invasion by China.

The classified papers, seen by the Financial Times, describe a threshold for using tactical nuclear weapons that is lower than Russia has ever publicly admitted, according to experts who reviewed and verified the documents.

The cache consists of 29 secret Russian military files drawn up between 2008 and 2014, including scenarios for war-gaming and presentations for naval officers, which discuss operating principles for the use of nuclear weapons.

Criteria for a potential nuclear response range from an enemy incursion on Russian territory to more specific triggers, such as the destruction of 20 per cent of Russia’s strategic ballistic missile submarines.

“This is the first time that we have seen documents like this reported in the public domain,” said Alexander Gabuev, director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin. “They show that the operational threshold for using nuclear weapons is pretty low if the desired result can’t be achieved through conventional means.”

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👤🗯❗️— 🇺🇸 Politico | Macron stands by remarks about sending troops to Ukraine | French president has faced a barrage of criticism, but said his comments were “weighed, thought through and measured.” | February 29, 2024:

"PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said his refusal to rule out the prospect of sending Western troops to Ukraine was intentional, despite the uproar it has provoked.

Macron swept aside the barrage of criticism he has faced in France and on the international stage and insisted his statements on Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggression against Ukraine were carefully thought out.

"These are sufficiently serious issues; every one of the words that I say on this issue is weighed, thought through and measured," Macron told reporters on the sidelines of a visit to the 2024 Olympic village near Paris. But he refused to answer any further questions on the topic."

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🏴 Former Blackwater CEO, Erik Prince:

Ukraine (...) we need to bring that war to a close because all that Ukraine is doing now is destroying itself demographically, They're chewing up the next generation of manpower that they can't really replace right now. They don't have enough manpower, the Western defense base is pathetic and you're not going to out-conventional war the Russian bear.

And I say that an ugly peace is better than their idea of what an ideal war is (...) meaning freeze the lines, straighten the lines, let them have Crimea, accept, let them keep Donetsk, Lugansk whatever, they need to. (...) It is not the American taxpayer's obligation to spend another hundred billion dollars on Ukraine when there has been significant corruption and really nothing to show for it.

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🇾🇪❌🇬🇧🇧🇿 Rubymar cargo ship attacked by Houthis has sunk, Yemeni government says

The Rubymar cargo ship, attacked last month, has sunk in the southern Red Sea, Yemen's internationally recognised government said in a statement on Saturday.

If verified, it would be the first vessel lost since Houthi militants began targeting commercial shipping in November.

The government statement said the ship sunk on Friday night and warned of an "environmental catastrophe".

The ship was carrying more than 41,000 tons of fertilizer when it came under attack, the U.S. military's Central Command previously said.

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🇾🇪❌🇬🇧🇧🇿 Video of the partially sunk Rubymar, filmed some time before its complete sinking.

The British bulk carrier, Rubymar, was first struck by Houthi missiles on February 19.

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