🇸🇪🤝🇺🇸 Sweden has now been Officially Inducted into the NATO Alliance, with a Ceremony expected to take place at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium on Monday in which the Swedish Flag will be raised alongside the other Members of the Alliance.

https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1765740914218049712

🇪🇺 Europe Is Alarmed Enough To Begin Wargaming A Food Crisis

Governments of the European Union are engaged in wargames which simulate and foresee a global food crisis. A mix of major factors including the Russia-Ukraine war and impact on grain supplies there, as well as weather events like El Niño and La Niña and their impact on Latin American soy output, and the anti-EU farmers' protests which have disrupted supermarket supply chains, have been cause for alarm, European officials say. Of course there's also the example of how drastically a pandemic can interfere with supply chains. Panic buying was a trend and constant fear within the early months of the coronavirus crisis.

Bloomberg details of a conference held in Brussels last month that envisioned a 2024 to 2025 food shortage in Europe: "...over two days in central Brussels last month, some 60 European Union and government officials, food security experts, industry representatives and a few journalists gathered to confront the possibility of something barely on the radar a few years ago: a full-blown food crisis."

Piotr Magnuszewski, a systems modeler and game designer who helped put the conference gaming scenario together told participants to "Expect a level of chaos" and cautioned, "You may be confused at times and not have enough information."

As the report underscores, what's remarkable about this is the fact that a continent which stands out as among the best-fed regions in the world is now busy stress testing its food system.

Below are some of the scenarios put before participants in the wargaming event last month:

🔸 Harvest failures:

🔸 Palm oil exports cut:

🔸 Fertilizer crisis:

🔸 Unrest in the street as shortages hit locally:

🔸 Popular anger targets elites & corporations

As for "solutions" - interestingly conference participants were told (or rather took it as an assumption) that populations would have to be weaned off meat. Let them eat bugs?

"Day two started with a mindfulness session before focusing on policy proposals and any conclusions," the Bloomberg journalist in attendance wrote. "There was little objection to the idea that diets need to shift toward healthier options and away from meat. Questions loomed over how best to manage food reserves and monitor the level of stockpiles."

🔗 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/europe-alarmed-enough-begin-wargaming-food-crisis

🚀💥🛰 NASA preparing for 'internet apocalypse' as huge solar storm could hit Earth by 2025.

The Earth's energy grids could be sent into meltdown with the onset of a solar storm in the next year.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1874263/nasa-internet-apocalypse-solar-storm-spt

🇹🇷🚫🇷🇺🛢 — 🇬🇧 Reuters | Turkish oil terminal halts Russian oil business
March 05, 2024 | March 6, 2024:

"LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - One of Turkey's mid-sized Mediterranean oil terminals - the Dortyol terminal - will no longer accept Russian imports after receiving record volumes last year, amid an increase in sanctions pressure by the United States.

Turkey has become one of the biggest importers of Russian crude and fuel since 2022, after the West imposed sanctions on Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine. Russia responded by re-routing oil away from Europe and the U.S. to Asia, Turkey and Africa.

Global Terminal Services' (GTS), which operates the terminal in Turkey's southeastern Hatay province, said it had told its clients it would not accept any products from Russia.

"GTS decided to cut all possible connections to Russian oil and declared accordingly to its customers in late February 2024 that even if there is no breach of any laws, regulations or sanctions, it would not accept any product of Russian origin or any products loaded from Russian ports as an additional measure to the sanction rules in effect," GTS told Reuters.

It said that all pervious operations had been in full compliance with sanctions including the G7's price cap."

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💰🚀📈 Ethereum over $3900 on all mayor exchanges!

💰📈🚀It happened!
Today, March 8, 2024, Bitcoin reaches a new all-time high, over $69000, on some exchanges event till $70000!

🇨🇳💴👁 JUST IN: China's Record $27 Billion Chip Fund to Counter US Tech Sanctions.

China is gearing up its semiconductor industry with a massive $27 billion chip fund, the largest of its kind to date, as the United States and its allies continue to amp up restrictions. The move aims to accelerate cutting-edge technology development, countering the US campaign to stifle China's move to expand chip technology.

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/302421/20240308/chinas-record-27-billion-chip-fund-counter-tech-sanctions.htm

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-prepares-27-bln-chip-fund-counter-growing-us-restrictions-bloomberg-2024-03-08/

🇲🇩📃🇷🇺—🇺🇸📰 RFE/RL journalist, Denis Dermenzhi, on X:

❗️Moldova withdrew from the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. The document established the limits on armaments and combat equipment, and also limited the number of armed forces. Moscow called Moldova's decision "directed against Russia and its interests".

🔗 Denis Dermenzhi

🇪🇺🤝🇺🇦 France, Germany and Italy are negotiating the return of weapons previously sold to Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia for their transfer to Ukraine, — Macron.

France will no longer supply shells and artillery systems to Qatar and Saudi Arabia to focus on Ukraine.

🔗 Maks23