Vitalik Buterin endorses one of North Korea’s favorite coin mixers, Railgun.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has sent more than $300,000 to coin mixer Railgun which has also been used by North Korea’s Lazarus Group.

Buterin has been using the service for months, — albeit with smaller sums of money — and today he took a definitive stand in support of it and other coin anonymizing services.

https://protos.com/vitalik-buterin-endorses-one-of-north-koreas-favorite-coin-mixers-railgun/

T-Mobile Employees Across the Country Receive Cash Offers to Illegally Swap Sims (🔥 Score: 172+ in 1 hour)

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🇬🇾 ExxonMobil Commits $12.7 Billion Investment in Guyana's Whiptail Oil Field Development

ExxonMobil, a prominent US oil and gas company, has finalized its decision to proceed with the development of the Whiptail oil field within the Stabroek block located offshore Guyana.

The total financial commitment to this development project stands at $12.7 billion. Anticipated production from the field by the end of 2027 is estimated to reach approximately 250 thousand barrels per day (bpd). This significant addition will elevate Guyana's total oil production to 1.3 million bpd, placing the nation among the ranks of the world's leading oil producers.

Exxon intends to drill a total of 48 wells within the field as part of its development strategy.

Having been active in Guyana for five years, ExxonMobil has contributed over $4.2 billion to the country's economy during this period. Additionally, more than 6 thousand local residents are employed in Exxon's operations, with a production volume exceeding 600 thousand bpd.

ExxonMobil Guyana Limited, a subsidiary of Exxon, serves as the operator of the Stabroek block and holds a 45% stake in the project. Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd. holds 30%, while CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited holds the remaining 25% ownership share.

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JUST IN: Telegram founder Pavel Durov sat down with Tucker for his first on-camera interview since 2016. In this clip, Durov talks about the pressure tactics the US government has used against him, including sending FBI agents to his home. Watch the full interview at TuckerCarlson.com.

📖 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 We are approaching a situation where the Russians are progressively gaining the skies. | Patricia Marins

🔶️ The current scenario involving the Russians utilizing new missiles like the KH-69 and soon the Izdeliye 720 poses a significant challenge for Western air defenses. Now consider the Upgrades in missiles such as the KH-101 and P-800, that have improved the effectiveness of these weapons.

🔶️ Furthermore, the Ukrainian Soviet air defenses were depleted months ago, and they are now relying on the older S-125 systems donated by Poland.

🔶️ These systems could be complementary if Western anti-air systems had a sufficient supply of missiles, but they are also facing ammunition shortages, as I reported two months ago.

🔶️ Last days the Russian operations on Chasiv Yard were vastly supported by air power without any contestation.
On one side, we witness the Russians executing massive mechanical maneuvers supported by air power, while the Ukrainians are mainly limited to defensive actions with the aid of numerous FPV drones.
Some drones can function as counter-artillery, but due to their limited range, FPV drones have proven to be effective as active mines, significantly delaying the Russian advancement.
The Russian missile industry has displayed resilience, and is prevailing in the attrition battle against Western Air Defenses, after depleting the Ukrainian Soviet systems.

🔶️ While many are unaware of this attrition war between missiles and Air Defenses, it's worth noting that the Ukrainians had over 10,000 anti-air missiles across their Soviet and Western systems, but now it has a shortage.

🔶️ The potential game-changer in this conflict could be foreign intervention. However, we are observing a scenario where a possible foreign task force may not have adequate air defense systems to safeguard their operations in Ukrainian territory.
The inertia and delayed political decisions of Western leaders, combined with Russian long-term strategies, could potentially outmaneuver even European forces stationed in Ukraine.

🔶️ There are several reasons contributing to why the West is losing this war, but the primary issue appears to be the lack of strong leadership.

https://fxtwitter.com/pati_marins64/status/1779215790949978468

📖 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 The Russians are breaking out of positional warfare and beginning to restore maneuver to the battlefield because of the delays in the provision of US military assistance to Ukraine. | ISW

🔶️ "Ukraine cannot hold the present lines now without the rapid resumption of US assistance, particularly air defense and artillery, that only the US can provide rapidly and at scale."

🔶️ "Ukrainian artillery shortages are letting the Russians use armored columns without suffering prohibitive losses for the first time since 2022."

🔶️ "The US can quickly resume providing military aid to let Ukraine stabilize the front lines near the current locations. Or it can let the Russians defeat the Ukrainian military and drive toward the NATO borders from the Black Sea to central Poland. There is no third option."

🔶️ "The risks of a Russian attack against NATO in the near future would rise dramatically if the US allows Russia to defeat Ukraine now, and the challenge of defending the Baltic States in particular could become almost insurmountable."

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/america%E2%80%99s-stark-choice-ukraine-and-cost-letting-russia-win

🏹 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 "Ukraine will not have a chance to win the war without the help of the USA.
Currently, the ratio of artillery at the front is 1 to 10, and for planes it is 1 to 30. With such statistics, the Russian Federation will push us back every day; Ukraine has completely run out of missiles to protect the Trypil TPP due to lack of assistance from allies," stated Zelensky.

✒️ Patricia Marins:
For several months, I have been predicting a Ukrainian defeat based on multiple shortages and maps. If I can foresee these developments, surely well-compensated government analysts can do the same. In this actual scenario, the war is lost. If the scenery change, I need to remake my predictions.

🔶️ Ukraine holds a disadvantage in every aspect of war, from manpower to heavy vehicles and air defenses.

🔶️ We are witnessing the Ukrainian army transitioning from modern weaponry to a guerrilla force whose main weapon is civilian drones.

🔶️ This is occurring under the watch of NATO countries and amidst the largest military budget in history.

🔶️ The Western allies have never sent a quantity of weapons sufficient to rival what Russia has deployed in Ukraine. The Russians have consistently had no fewer than 2,600 tanks deployed in Ukraine, which is almost three times the total number of tanks sent to Ukraine since 2022.

🔶️ I cannot see a way for Zelensky to hold the front until he is in a better position for negotiations. What can the allies send that would change the course of this war? I do not see any viable options that could alter the direction of this conflict.

🔶️ The West lacks the mobile air defense systems required by Zelensky, and they cannot produce enough missiles to support the long and medium range air defense systems throughout the country.

🔶️ Similarly, regarding artillery pieces, the logistics for maintaining equipment have not been established, and essentially the Western SPGs are depleted, with few exceptions. Not to mention ammunitions.

🔶️ In this guerrilla warfare armed with FPV drones, the Ukrainians are successfully delaying the Russian advance, but without any prospect of victory, it is merely buying time in a losing battle.

🔶️ The new defensive lines built by Ukraine are part of this delay strategy, which will eventually require Zelensky to sit down and negotiate.

🔶️ It's not the US parliament who are delaying weapons, but the lecture of the war. It became extremely hard to win.

🔶️ Negotiations aren't a choice, but the only way when you have no choices.

https://fxtwitter.com/pati_marins64/status/1780306086618103856

⚠️ Researchers warn of a global increase in TOR-based brute-force attacks targeting VPNs, web applications, and SSH services.

Details: https://thehackernews.com/2024/04/cisco-warns-of-global-surge-in-brute.html

— 🇮🇷 For the record:

This is a satellite photo of an Iranian ballistic missile storage / production facility. There are HUNDREDS of such warehouses and production facilities in Iran.

Practically every cent of Iran's defense budget has been spent on the mass production of ballistic missiles since the early 2000's.

The situation has now reached a point where the problem is not production capacity, but storage capacity. There are literally too many missiles to store. One commander famously said: 'We produce them like cigars'. Let this be clear.

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