🇦🇫 Taliban organized a massive military parade at Bagram Military Base on the 3rd anniversary of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Military equipment left by the U.S. forces everywhere.

🔗 Clash Report

🇸🇪🦠 First monkeypox case outside of Africa was recorded in Sweden, one day after the WHO declared a global health emergency.

The patient discovered to be infected happened to have been in one of the affected areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The Swedish public health agency said that the strain found in the infected patient is more deadly than the strain which affected thousands of homosexual men two years ago and it can spread from human to human without sexual contact.

🔗 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gqr5lrpwxo

🇻🇪🗳 María Corina Machado rejects proposals to repeat elections.

“We went to elections with the rules of tyranny. Proposing a new election is a lack of respect for Venezuelans and July 28.”

https://news.1rj.ru/str/worldconflicts/36582

@FelipeChannel

🤝😳🏦💸💰The main donors of the World Health Organization #WHO from 2020 to 2021:

https://x.com/wolff_ernst/status/1824040299791864187/photo/1

@FelipeChannel

🇺🇸🇻🇪🗳 Reporter: "President, do you support new elections in Venezuela?"

Biden: "I do"

https://news.1rj.ru/str/worldconflicts/36594

@FelipeChannel

🇺🇸⁉️🇻🇪 — The White House has clarified that Biden misunderstood a question about the elections in Venezuela, which led to confusion about his stance. The administration reaffirms that there are no changes in its position regarding the South American country.

🇺🇳🇨🇩🦠❗️ — On August 14, 2024 AD, the Director of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, declared monkeypox in Central Africa outbreak a public health emergency of international concern

In a post on his X/Twitter account, he said:

The emergence of a new clade of #mpox, its rapid spread in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, and the reporting of cases in several neighbouring countries are very worrying.

On top of outbreaks of other mpox clades in DRC and other countries in Africa, it’s clear that a coordinated international response is needed to stop these outbreaks and save lives.

🔗 Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros)

🇹🇼📈❗️ — M6.3 magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Taiwan

🇨🇳🇺🇸 China has banned the export of metallic antimony.

Antimony is a key material with many military applications, such as high explosives, missile propellants, and infrared guidance. The antimony required by the US military industry is mainly imported from China. In terms of civilian use, antimony is still one of the key raw materials for photovoltaic cells and photovoltaic glass.

China's restrictions on antimony exports will not only hit the US military industry, but also make the Western photovoltaic industry even more hopeless.

At present, China holds 32% of antimony reserves, but 80% of production. In addition, Bolivia and Russia also have relatively large antimony reserves. Of course, the United States can find antimony reserves in other countries, but establishing production lines requires time and technology, and is not an easy task.

BTW: China has banned the export of gallium and germanium for over a year. How is the progress of production lines for these two metals in the United States? any update? how about rare earths production line?

🔗BeijingDai

🇭🇷 Croatia to Reinstate Mandatory Military Service Amid Rising Regional Tensions

Starting next year, Croatia will reintroduce compulsory military service for men as part of its strategy to enhance defense readiness.

The Balkan country, which abolished mandatory basic training before joining NATO in 2009, will now implement two-month service periods to build “much better, stronger, and higher-quality defense forces,” according to Defense Minister Ivan Anusic in an interview with local broadcaster RTL.

🔴 @DDGeopolitics

🇨🇳❌🇨🇳 — Chunqian Publications: Xi Jinping calls class struggle a “leftist mistake.”

➡️ Thus, Xi Jinping openly rejects Marxism.

🔗 Chunqiao Publications (@ChunqiaoPub)

🇨🇴❌🌹🇧🇷🇻🇪 — The former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana strongly criticized the leaders of Colombia and Brazil, Gustavo Petro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, respectively, for their “support” of Nicolás Maduro following Venezuela's presidential elections.

“Gustavo Petro and Lula missed the opportunity to go down in history as democrats by disregarding the popular will and supporting the coup by @NicolasMaduro in Venezuela. Democracy must be respected.”

Andrés Pastrana A (@AndresPastrana_) on 𝕏 🖇