🇷🇺🇸🇾🇱🇾 Exclusive: Russia transfers fighters, arms from Syria to Libya

Al-Araby Al-Jadeed has obtained information from monitoring and surveillance units of the new Syrian government confirming that Russia has transferred former Syrian soldiers and officers from the army of the deposed Bashar al-Assad regime to Libya.

The sources said the objective is to integrate them into Russian military bases located in areas controlled by the Libyan National Army (LNA) under Khalifa Haftar.

https://www.newarab.com/news/exclusive-russia-transfers-fighters-arms-syria-libya

🇨🇳 China’s amped-up nuclear power ambitions at core of energy security amid safety concerns

China is leading the world in nuclear power installations and projects under construction as Beijing amps up investment efforts to decarbonise its energy mix.

The country – the world’s largest producer of greenhouse gases, accounting for more than a third of global emissions – will kick off construction of more nuclear plant projects in coastal regions in 2025, with more in the state-planning pipeline.

https://www.scmp.com/economy/article/3291041/chinas-amped-nuclear-power-ambitions-core-energy-security-amid-safety-concerns

📝 James Hopf on X: "When China finishes its reactors currently under construction, it will pass the US and be the nation with the most nuclear capacity. They plan to have 150 GW of nuclear by 2030, and 380 GW by 2050."

🇨🇳 For Xi Jinping, 'Made in China 2025' has been worth every penny

Bill for technology upgrades and increased self-reliance reaches trillions of yuan: https://s.nikkei.com/49KGL5W

📎 NikkeiAsia

🇸🇷🇬🇾 ExxonMobil’s Exit from Suriname Raises Pressure on Guyana Amid Natural Gas Concerns

By some estimates, there might be 2.4 billion barrels of oil deep below the waters of the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Suriname, South America’s smallest country.

The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is what’s mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as natural gas.

In May, the U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil and its partner, the Malaysian oil company Petronas, announced their latest well in Suriname’s waters had struck oil. The find — their third fossil fuel discovery in the region — stirred speculation about the potential for a floating oil production platform off Suriname’s coast, and even the possibility of a floating liquified natural gas (LNG) export project.

ExxonMobil has already established itself in neighbouring Guyana, where for the past decade the company has discovered increasing amounts of oil under a partnership with Hess Corp. (pending acquisition by Chevron) and the China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) — amid legal challenges from environmental advocates.

But last month, just six months after announcing its latest discovery in the region, ExxonMobil pulled up its anchors and left Suriname, closing out its only remaining foothold in the nation’s waters. The third — and final — offshore well drilled by the partnership, known as the Fusaea-1 well, had produced more natural gas than expected, oil industry analysts noted in May.

https://www.desmog.com/2024/12/18/exxonmobils-exit-from-suriname-raises-pressure-on-guyana-amid-natural-gas-concerns/

#BREAKING
🏴❌🇩🇪 — Cars which crashed into Christmas market in Germany drove "straight into the crowd," according to witnesses!

🇸🇦🏴❌🇩🇪 | The Magdeburg terror attack perpetrator is a man from Saudi Arabia born in 1974, WELT learned from security sources.

🇩🇪🚓❗️ — The German police are evacuating a second Christmas market in the city of Erfurt

🇸🇦🏴❌🇩🇪 — The Saudi citizen arreted by German police over the terror attack in Germany is claimed to have not been previously known to Law Enforcement as an Islamic Extremist

🇸🇦🏴❌🇩🇪 — The 50-Year-Old Saudi National who drove his Car into a Christmas Market tonight in the German City of Magdeburg had been living in Germany since 2006 and was a Doctor at a Hospital in Saxony-Anhalt.

🇦🇷✅📊📈 — As Argentina leaves its recession and poverty reaches historic lows, the approval rate of Argentinean President Javier Milei reached a new historical high:

➡️ 56.7% of Argentinean population approves the Libertarian Leader's rule and his market-focused & results-driven policies

🇺🇸❌🇵🇦🇨🇳 — United States Presdent-elected Donald J. Trump, in a speech, called for the return of Panama Canal, a vital trade and logistical chokepoint to American control under National Security concerns (i.e. Chinese influence).

It happens despite the fact that the new Panamaian President is, in fact, one of the most Pro-West figures in Central America

The Panama Canal is considered a VITAL National Asset for the United States, due to its critical role to America’s Economy and National Security.

If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to us, in full, and without question.

To the Officials of Panama, please be guided accordingly!

🔗 Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom)