🇫🇷🌍 French immigration, like US immigration, used to be near-exclusively European. Now it is mostly African and Middle Eastern.

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🇺🇸📞💉🪖 — Incoming Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth says members of the military who were kicked out over not taking the COVID vaccine will be apologized to and reinstated with pay and rank.

🇺🇸🕊🇨🇺 — In one of the least intelligent moves, the Outgoing Biden Administration removed the Communist Regime in Cuba from list of State Sponsors of Terrorism

➡️ It has long been known that the Cuban regime supports the FARC and ELN factions in Colombia, as well as Mapuche extremists in Chile, Maoist militants in Peru and the Polisario Front terrorists in southern Morocco

🇺🇸🏴‍☠️❌🇨🇺 — 🏴‍☠️ CEO of Blackwater Worldwide/Constellis PMC, Erik Prince calls out the final act by Biden Administration regarding the Cuban Regime

Biden removing Cuba from Terror list is as stupid as the Biden removing the Houthis from terror list who now have shut off the Red Sea for maritime navigation for over a year.

The Biden team is so consistently wrong they cannot be this stupid, they must be trying to ruin our Republic. Cuba is the nexus of socialist rot throughout Latin America.

🔗 @realErikDPrince:

🇻🇪🇬🇹✈️🗺 — Venezuelan President-elect Edmundo González has landed in Guatemala after flying from Dominican Republic

🇻🇪🇻🇪📞🇨🇺🇳🇮 — The Chavista Regime in Venezuela established an Anti-American Military alliance with the Sandinista Regime of Nicaragua and the Communist Regime of Cuba for mutual defense

➡️ The self-proclaimed president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, announced the preparation of a alliance with Nicaragua and Cuba to respond to a “potential invasion ” into its territory.

➡️ Along with Daniel Ortega and Miguel Díaz-Canel, the only ones who traveled to his inauguration on January 10, the Venezuelan dictator seeks “respond with weapons” to threats from foreign powers.

➡️ Since the fraud in the July 28 elections, versions of a international military intervention in Venezuela. Personalities like the founder of Blackwater, Erik Prince, raised funds in a call to action against the Nicolás Maduro regime.

➡️ The swearing-in of January 10 and the conversion of the questioned Venezuelan democracy to a dictatorship caused the despair of millions of Venezuelans inside and outside the country, as well as requests for help from leaders in the region.

➡️ In response to foreign pressure, Maduro announced a military alliance with Nicaragua and Cuba at the close of the II World Festival of the Antifascist International

“Venezuela is preparing together with Cuba, together with Nicaragua, together with our older brothers in the world, for itself one day we have to take up arms to defend the right to peace, the right to sovereignty and the historical rights of our homeland ”, announced the self-proclaimed Venezuelan president.

🇺🇦😬🤝🇷🇺 — 🇺🇸 The Hill | Ukraine not yet in strong position for peace talks: NATO chief | January 13, 2025:

"NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Monday that Ukraine was not yet in a strong position to begin peace talks with Russia ahead of President-elect Trump taking office next week with a pledge to end the war.

Rutte told the European Parliament’s foreign affairs and defense committees the hope was to ensure Ukraine has adequate security guarantees so that Russia could not attack again, but he expressed doubt that the current stage of the war afforded the opportunity for such a deal.

“At this moment, clearly, Ukraine is not there,” he said. “Because they cannot, at this moment, negotiate from a position of strength. And we have to do more to make sure, by changing the trajectory of the conflict, that they can get to the position of strength.”

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🇺🇸🇩🇰🇬🇱 Congress gives their approval for President Donald Trump to negotiate with Denmark to acquire Greenland

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🇺🇸🤝🇹🇭☢️🔋⚛️ U.S., Thailand agree to peaceful use of nuclear energy.

Officials for the United States and Thailand on Tuesday signed an Agreement for Cooperation Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy between the two nations.

U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Robert Godec and Thailand's Minister of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation Supamas Isaraghakdi signed the cooperative agreement on behalf of their respective nations in Bangkok, the U..S. Department of State announced in a news release.

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2025/01/14/US-Thailand-agree-to-peaceful-use-of-nuclear-energy/5511736898118/

https://www.state.gov/office-of-the-spokesperson/releases/2025/01/united-states-and-thailand-sign-civil-nuclear-cooperation-agreement

@FelipeChannel

🇮🇱/🇵🇸 Regarding the Israeli-Hamas ceasefire:

"Israel has capitulated on several factors, allowing for a deal to be reached:

▫️ Isreal has agreed to withdraw FULLY from Gaza leaving no troops or security zone. That includes a full withdrawal from the Philadelphi corridor.
▫️ It has agreed to allow Hamas to rule Gaza. That is not in the agreement, but there is also no mechanism to remove Hamas.
▫️ Israel has agreed not to exile released prisoners but rather let them into Gaza again.
▫️ Israel has waived its demand for a list of live hostages.
▫️ It has agreed to allow residents to return to northern Gaza with only symbolic security measures.
▫️ Israel agreed to accept dead bodies in the first stage.

All of these were red lines for Israel at one point. It is remarkable that all of them are being waived. The victory for Hamas is remarkable.

The reason this happened is clear. Despite incredible victories on the battlefield, Israel has not offered a political program to replace Hamas or moved to remove them from Gaza as a governing force. It has failed to translate IDF gains into political ones. That has, in essence, nullified all of its military achievements."

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🇺🇸/🇷🇺/🇨🇳 Trump: Deal with Putin and Buy Time with the Chinese

U.S. foreign policy and some aspects of its military doctrine are being remodeled under Trump and lessons from the Ukrainian battlefield.

Trump does not seem willing to guarantee Europe's security against the possibility of a Russian invasion. He has made it clear that he does not value NATO and believes Europeans should take care of their own security.

Increasing this distance, he has already announced plans to meet with President Putin soon after taking office, with whom he recently expressed admiration. This is an obvious move to reconstruct a new world order, aligning more closely with Russia and buying time to address issues with China.

🧵https://fxtwitter.com/pati_marins64/status/1879190643538342061

🇺🇸🇨🇳🚘 US to ban Chinese smart cars

The United States finalized a rule Tuesday effectively barring Chinese technology from cars in the American market, taking aim at software and hardware from the world's second largest economy on national security risks.

"But the US actions could attract Beijing's retaliation, with the Chinese Commerce Ministry already calling Monday's AI-related export curbs "a flagrant violation" of international trade rules."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-ban-smart-cars-containing-152059540.html

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