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🇷🇺 🤝 🇦🇫 Afghan Taliban no longer Russia’s enemy — Russian diplomat

🔶️ According to Kabulov, relations between Russia and the Taliban are on the rise but "there are certain political limits." "Russia has not yet officially recognized the current regime in Kabul. But we maintain relations via our embassy in Kabul. We have allowed a Taliban mission operate in Russia at the level of a charge d’affaires and have a military and trade attaches. Some time ago, when the Taliban was fighting against the Americans, they said: the Americans have watches but we have time. Now Russia has both watches and time," he stressed.

https://tass.com/politics/1788697

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🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Vladimir Putin said that as now, today, there are no plans to capture Kharkov city

➡️ The Russian President emphasized that the current goal of the operation of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kharkov region is the creation of a sanitary zone in response to shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

➡️ With the composition of the forces and means taking part in the limited offensive operation in the Kharkov region, the capture of such a large regional center as Kharkiv city is actually impossible due to the small number of troops

➡️ However, this does not mean that current goals will not be adjusted as the situation on the battlefield develops.

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 — Patriot systems may appear in Kharkiv, United States is discussing with Ukraine the placement of complexes, says US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Alongside it
➡️ The USA allocates plus $2 billion for weapons
➡️The decision to start negotiations with the Russian Federation must be made by Ukraine, the States will support any
➡️A security agreement between the USA and Ukraine will be signed within two weeks

🇺🇦🪖📃 — The President of Ukraine Volodomyr Zelenskyy signed a new law on mobilization, which was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

In the new law:
➡️ The age of those being mobilized has been reduced from 27 to 25 years
➡️ The clause on demobilization has been excluded
➡️ Men aged 18 to 60 years are required to present military registration documents at the request of police officers, border guards and the military registration and enlistment office
➡️ Those recognized as partially fit must come back to the medical commission
➡️ Within 60 days, those liable for military service must appear at the TCC to clarify their registration data
➡️ Consular services for Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 years will not be provided without military registration documents
➡️ Men previously recognized as partially fit for service will be required to undergo re-examination within 12 months
🔴 Persons who received disability group II or III after February 24, 2022 (except military personnel) are subject to repeated medical examination to determine suitability for service
➡️ Restriction of the right to drive a car for those evading military service
➡️ the document provides that the summons will be considered received even without delivery in person
🔴 Police officers and civil servants of category “A”, assistants to deputies and owners of strategic enterprises received reservations from mobilization
🔴 Students receiving a second higher education were left without the right to a deferment
🔴 the document also instructs Ukrainians abroad to register for military service

📃 The document will come into force one month after the day following its publication.

➡️ The Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights Lubinets believes that the bill in the form in which it was approved by the Rada and signed by the President of Ukraine is the best option that could be hoped for.

🗳 He also added that now, in his opinion, the procedure looks as democratic as possible, without coercion.

🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — Russian channel 112 reports that 5 people were injured due to a UAV attack in St. Petersburg

➡️ Two of them are in serious condition and were hospitalized. Emergency services are currently working at the Budyonny Academy of Communications on Tikhoretsky Prospekt.

➡️ It is unknown if the attack was conducted by a Pro-Ukraine Partisan group or by Ukrainian Army using long range UAVs

🇦🇷🏴❌🏦💸 — "The Central Bank will be totally eliminated" says Argentinean President Javier Milei.

➡️ He reaffirmed his campaign promise along with the intention to send a law "that prohibits the money issuance" and explained:

"The monetization will be done by the people who bring their foreign currency, the amount of dollars will be to be older and the BCRA (Argentinean Central Bank) will close.

➡️ This speech by the Argentine libertarian President comes after 5 months of work, where he managed to reduce Argentine monthly inflation to 1 digit, deregulated the economy and as he reduced the South American nation's basic interest rate by half

🇦🇷🏴❌🌹 — Argentinean Libertarian President Javier Milei: "I am a liberal in a country of leftist people. They did things so badly that here we are"

https://news.1rj.ru/str/AxtronOK/36819

🇦🇷🏴💸📈 — Argentinean Libertarian President Javier Milei: "We went from discussing the possibility of hyperinflation in December to talking about mortgage loans"

https://news.1rj.ru/str/AxtronOK/36820

🪙❌🐙Tether’s USDT Faces Potential Delisting From Kraken’s Platform Within 2 Months

In a move that could have significant implications for the global cryptocurrency market, the US-based crypto exchange Kraken is “actively reviewing” plans, including removing support for Tether’s USDT stablecoin within the European Union (EU).

The potential delisting comes as the EU prepares to implement a new regulatory framework, Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA), set to take effect in July. According to a Bloomberg report, the upcoming EU rules are expected to impact USDT, the world’s most-traded cryptocurrency.

https://bitcoinist.com/kraken-considers-delisting-tethers-usdt-stablecoin/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-17/kraken-actively-reviewing-tether-s-status-under-new-eu-rules

🌐 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 As Russia Advances, NATO Considers Sending Trainers Into Ukraine | NYT

📝 Patrick Fox: "This type of military incrementalism is how nations walk themselves into wars. If Gen. Brown's instincts are correct here, it's the wedge to force direct NATO involvement."

"Remember when I told you all the other day the West doesn't have a plan? This is the kind of thing I'm talking about. If NATO is going to involve itself in the Russo-Ukrainian War, that is the last type of decision that should be made in fits and starts. It should be deliberate; done with a clear understanding of methods, means, and objectives involved."

"There are ways NATO could involve itself more seriously in Ukraine, I've written about them. Doing it haphazardly is a recipe for disaster."

"It's not like we haven't seen this before either:

"Non-Combat" Trainers leads to;

Trainers actually in combat leads to;

Aircraft to support trainers & the units they're attached to leads to;

Security formations to protect the bases the aircraft supporting the trainers operate from leads to;

Full blown US combat operations in country."

"While the circumstances are certainly not 1-to-1 in the above example and I'm abbreviating the sequence of events significantly - the parallels are becoming uncomfortably similar. This is also an example of why I so consistently harp on studying history. Understand what happened before and you'll have a better handle on what comes next."

"Yes, I just described, again in a very truncated fashion, US involvement escalation in Vietnam."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/politics/nato-ukraine.html

📎 Patrick Fox