🇭🇰🤝📈💰🔹H.K. Seen Approving Bitcoin, Ether ETFs as Soon as Monday

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-12/hong-kong-bitcoin-ether-etf-approval-expected-as-soon-as-monday

🇫🇷🇷🇺 France buys more gas from Russia than any other EU country - Politico

France increased its purchase of Russian gas more than any other European country in the first quarter of 2024. More than 600 million euros worth of gas was imported during this period

The country's authorities say that the national energy company TotalEnergies' agreements with Moscow to buy gas were made long ago and are difficult to get out of.

"France is quietly stepping up payments for gas from Russia, while President Emmanuel Macron is loudly promoting himself as one of Ukraine's most ardent defenders," the article said.

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🇺🇸⚡️🇪🇺 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Where NATO Has An 'Enhanced Forward Presence' | April 10, 2024:

"On Monday, Germany sent an advance team of 20 soldiers to Lithuania, laying the groundwork for the recently discussed establishment of a permanent brigade in the NATO country.

According to Deutsche Welle reporting, the 5,000-strong strikeforce called Panzerbrigade 45 is said to become fully operational by 2027. The brigade will support the already existing so-called NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in the Baltic country, which, in contrast to Panzerbrigade 45, rotates its personnel regularly and was made up of soldiers from Germany, Belgium, Czechia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and the United States as of December 2023.

As Statista's Florian Zandt shows in the chart [above], Lithuania is one of eight nations with such a force that's, according to NATO itself, "defensive, proportionate, transparent and in line with the Alliance’s international commitments and obligations".

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🇺🇸⚓ — 🏴 ZeroHedge | "We're Going To Lose A Major War": US Navy Deletes Photo Of Ship Commander Shooting Rifle With Backwards Scope | April 11, 2024

🔎 — #VÆ: Not Babylon Bee 🐝

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🇮🇷❌🇮🇱❗️ — 🇺🇸 Former United States President Donald Trump:

With what’s going on with Israel, we could end up in a World War.

🇮🇷🪖⚠️ — 📰 Al-Arabiya: Two sources told CNN: Washington noted that Iran is moving military assets, including aircrafts and cruise missiles

https://fxtwitter.com/AlArabiya_Brk/status/1778954135037002092

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚠️ — ⛓ Victor Manuel Rocha, former US ambassador to Argentina and Bolivia, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in Miami for working as a spy for Cuban intelligence for four decades.

🔨 Rocha, 73, who lived in the city of Florida, was arrested in December. According to the Miami Herald, Judge Beth Bloom of the Miami District Court called the former ambassador "an enemy of the United States government."

"Your actions were a direct attack on our democracy and the security of our citizens. You turned your back on this country, a country that gave you everything."

😪 According to the Miami newspaper, Rocha, born in Colombia and naturalized as an American in 1978, apologized to the judge, the United States, and his family before the sentence was announced.

❌ "As a student, I was strongly influenced by the radical politics of the time," he said. "Today, I no longer see the world through the radical eyes of my youth."

‼️ Among the murky stories involving Rocha, one that stood out was a statement he made in June 2002, four days before the presidential election in Bolivia, in which he referred to then-candidate Evo Morales without mentioning his name.

💬 "The Bolivian electorate should consider the consequences of electing leaders somehow linked to drug trafficking and terrorism," Rocha said, suggesting that Morales' election could lead to a cut in US aid to Bolivia.

⁉️ The statement sparked outrage among the Bolivian population and, according to analysts, was decisive in Morales gaining last-minute votes and almost winning that year's election.

❗️ The Bolivian leader coined an immortal phrase: "My best campaign manager is named Manuel Rocha." After the former ambassador's arrest, suspicions grew that the 2002 statement was deliberate self-sabotage, considering Morales' strong ties to the Havana dictatorship.

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🇨🇳👺❔🇺🇸 — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Kyle Bass Says Email Hacking By China Follows Exposé On Secret ChiCom Hypersonic Space Station Base In Argentina | April 11, 2024:

"Dallas-based hedge fund manager Kyle Bass claims the Chinese government hacked his email account after he quoted an article on X about a 'secret' space station base in the Patagonia region of Argentina that the Chinese military use "to steer their hypersonic weapons over the pole."

"The Chinese need this 'secret' space station in Argentina to steer their hypersonic weapons once over the pole. Milei should take it down (or somebody else will 🇺🇸)," Bass wrote on X.

Bass was quoting an article on X account Indo-Pacific News - Geo-Politics & Defense that wrote:

The space station can have a military role in tracking missiles & satellites in the southern hemisphere.

US Ambassador to Argentina Marc Stanley told the Argentine newspaper La Nación that he was surprised Argentina allowed Chinese armed forces to operate a base on its territory."

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