🇷🇺📶❌🇺🇸🇺🇦 — 🇺🇸 The Washington Post | Russian jamming leaves some high-tech U.S. weapons ineffective in Ukraine | Confidential Ukrainian assessments obtained by The Washington Post show how accuracy rates of some Western weapons fell after Russian jamming disrupted guidance systems | May 24, 2024:

"KYIV — Many U.S.-made satellite-guided munitions in Ukraine have failed to withstand Russian jamming technology, prompting Kyiv to stop using certain types of Western-provided armaments after effectiveness rates plummeted, according to senior Ukrainian military officials and confidential internal Ukrainian assessments obtained by The Washington Post.

Russia’s jamming of the guidance systems of modern Western weapons, including Excalibur GPS-guided artillery shells and the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, or HIMARS, which can fire some U.S.-made rockets with a range of up to 50 miles, has eroded Ukraine’s ability to defend its territory and has left officials in Kyiv urgently seeking help from the Pentagon to obtain upgrades from arms manufacturers.

Russia’s ability to combat the high-tech munitions has far-reaching implications for Ukraine and its Western supporters — potentially providing a blueprint for adversaries such as China and Iran — and it is a key reason Moscow’s forces have regained the initiative and are advancing on the battlefield."

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🏹 🇺🇸 🇹🇷 US Turns to Turkey for Explosives as War in Ukraine Saps Supply

⬛️ Turkey set to become largest seller to US of artillery shells
⬛️ Countries face shortage amid global demand for ammunition

🔶️ "Turkey is already on track to becoming the biggest seller of the artillery shells to the US as early as this year...Production lines of Turkish defense firm Repkon are expected to produce some 30% of all US-made 155mm artillery shells by 2025."

🔶️ "...the name of a company that no one knew until now and which will soon become one of Turkey's largest arms exporters is written: Arca Defense. It bought the plot to build a new facility for the production of artillery shells to be sent to Ukraine."

https://archive.ph/Sx7IK

https://www.duvarenglish.com/producing-artillery-shells-for-ukraine-who-bought-the-giant-factory-plot-in-capital-ankara-article-64404

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📢 🌐 🇷🇺 NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg has called on Western countries to lift restrictions on the use of their weapons in Ukraine to strike military targets located in Russia.

🔶️ Stoltenberg's call was made public in an interview with The Economist on May 24, 2024. It was further echoed by other Western leaders, including U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and Congressman Michael McCaul, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, who have criticized the current U.S. policy for its limitations on Ukraine's ability to effectively defend itself.

🔶️ This call to action is a response to the renewed Russian offensive that began earlier in May, with Stoltenberg arguing that Ukraine should be able to use Western weapons to attack Russian forces as they build up before crossing the border into Ukrainian territory. The move is seen as a significant shift in the West's approach to the conflict, with a growing number of high-profile Western leaders now advocating for a more aggressive stance against Russia.

🔶️ The debate over the use of Western weapons in Ukraine has been a contentious one, with some arguing that it could escalate the conflict and draw NATO directly into the war. However, Stoltenberg and other proponents argue that it is a necessary step to support Ukraine in its defense against Russian aggression.

🔶️ This development comes as the conflict between Ukraine and Russia continues to evolve, with both sides engaging in military operations and diplomatic efforts to gain the upper hand. The call by Stoltenberg and others for a more aggressive stance against Russia signals a potential shift in the West's approach to the conflict, one that could have far-reaching implications for the future of the region.

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🇺🇸🤝💸💰 — Former United States President Donald Trump says that he is "Very positive and open minded to cryptocurrency companies, and all things related to the field"

" Our country must be the leader in the field. There is NO SECOND PLACE."

, said Trump on a post on his social media Truth Social

➡️ Mr. Trump also claims that current US President Joe Biden, which he classifies as the worst president in American history, wants the crypto industry to "Die in a slow and painful death" that "will never happen with him (Trump)" in charge of United States

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🇺🇸🇺🇸🤝🐍💸 — Former United States President Donald Trump at the Libertarian Party National Congress:

"I will ensure that the future of crypto and Bitcoin will be made in the USA.
I will support the right to self custody to the nations 50 million crypto holders"

🔗 Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine)

🇺🇸🇺🇸🤝🐍💸 — Former United States President Donald Trump at the Libertarian Party National Congress:

"I will keep Elizabeth Warren and her goons away from your Bitcoin.

I will never allow the creation of a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)."

🌐 🇷🇺 🇺🇦 Baltic states and Poland will deploy troops to Ukraine in case of Russian successes on the front – Spiegel

🔶️ "If the Russians achieve a strategic breakthrough in eastern Ukraine because the West is helping without much enthusiasm, the situation could deteriorate sharply. In such a case, the Baltic states and Poland will not wait for Russian troops to be deployed on their border, Baltic politicians warned - they will introduce troops into Ukraine themselves," the article says.

🔶️ Baltic politicians warned Germany about such a scenario during Lennart Meri's conference in Tallinn, the newspaper said.

📎 Der Spiegel

🇺🇸👍🤐⛓ — 🏴 ZeroHedge | Exposing The CIA's Secret Effort To Seize Control Of Social Media | May 24, 2024:

"While the CIA is strictly prohibited from spying on or running clandestine operations against American citizens on US soil, a bombshell new "Twitter Files" report reveals that a member of the Board of Trustees of InQtel - the CIA's mission-driving venture capital firm, along with "former" intelligence community (IC) and CIA analysts, were involved in a massive effort in 2021-2022 to take over Twitter's content management system, as Michael Shellenberger, Matt Taibbi and Alex Gutentag report over at Shellenberger's Public (subscribers can check out the extensive 6,800 word report here).

According to "thousands of pages of Twitter Files and documents," these efforts were part of a broader strategy to manage how information is disseminated and consumed on social media under the guise of combating 'misinformation' and foreign propaganda efforts - as this complex of government-linked individuals and organizations has gone to great lengths to suggest that narrative control is a national security issue.

According to the report, the effort also involved;

a long-time IC contractor and senior Department of Defense R&D official who spent years developing technologies to detect whistleblowers (“insider threats”) like Edward Snowden and Wikileaks’ leakers;

the proposed head of the DHS’ aborted Disinformation Governance Board, Nina Jankowicz, who aided US military and NATO “hybrid war” operations in Europe;

Jim Baker, who, as FBI General Counsel, helped start the Russiagate hoax, and, as Twitter’s Deputy General Counsel, urged Twitter executives to censor The New York Post story about Hunter Biden.

(...)

Remember Nina? A huge fan of Christopher Steele - architect of the infamous Clinton-funded Dossier which underpinned the Trump-Russia hoax, and who joined the chorus of disinformation agents that downplayed the Hunter Biden laptop bombshell, Jankowicz previously served as a disinformation fellow at the Wilson Center, and advised the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry as part of the Fulbright-Clinton Public Policy Fellowship. She also oversaw the Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute."

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🇫🇷🤝🇮🇹 Le Pen to Meloni: Let’s team up and form EU Parliament’s No. 2 group

On the eve of next week’s EU election, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is inviting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to team up and form a right-wing super-grouping that would be the second-biggest party bloc in the European Parliament.

The far right is projected to perform well in the June 6-9 election but there are still intense doubts about which parties would be able to work together as cross-border political groups — because many of the national parties are sharply divided — especially over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The latest projections suggest 68 seats for ID and 71 for ECR, making 139 lawmakers in the 720-seat chamber. AfD is on course for 17 seats and the unaffiliated Hungarian Fidesz party currently has 12 MEPs. All together, something over 165 seats would seem to be in play for the (currently disunited) far right.

🔗 https://www.politico.eu/article/marine-le-pen-giorgia-meloni-italy-france-eu-election-far-right-block-european-parliament/