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🇮🇹 🇳🇪 ✈️ Italy, the only European country tolerated in the Sahel post-coup, is expanding its military presence in Niger. Reports estimate around 300 troops, with reinforcements and additional assets, including C-27J Spartan and KC-767A air tankers.
https://www.startinsight.eu/en/italys-strategic-role-in-the-sahel-challenges-and-opportunities-after-the-french-withdrawal/
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🇪🇺 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 ‘Europe would need to form 50 new brigades, calculates Bruegel, a Brussels-based think-tank, many of them “heavy” units with armour, to replace the 300,000 American troops that it estimates would be deployed to the continent in a war.‘
🔶️ In truth, it could take a decade before Europe is able to defend itself without America’s help. To understand Europe’s challenge, start with the debate over Ukraine. European countries are currently discussing the prospect of a military deployment in Ukraine to enforce any future peace deal. The talks, which are being led by France and Britain, envisage sending a relatively modest force, of perhaps low tens of thousands of troops. They would not be deployed in the east at the front line, but to Ukrainian cities, ports, nuclear power plants and other critical national infrastructure, according to a Western official.
🔶️ The fact that Europe would struggle to generate an independent division-sized force for Ukraine demonstrates the scale of the task involved in Mr Merz’s vision. Meeting NATO’s existing war plans—with America present—would require Europe to spend 3% of GDP on defence, far above existing levels for most countries. Britain took a step in that direction on February 25th, announcing a plan to spend 2.5% of GDP by 2027, but even that may not be enough. Mark Rutte, the secretary-general of NATO, is said to be touting a target of 3.7%. But making good American shortfalls would require a figure well above 4%, probably much higher.
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/02/25/can-europe-confront-vladimir-putins-russia-on-its-own
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🔶️ In truth, it could take a decade before Europe is able to defend itself without America’s help. To understand Europe’s challenge, start with the debate over Ukraine. European countries are currently discussing the prospect of a military deployment in Ukraine to enforce any future peace deal. The talks, which are being led by France and Britain, envisage sending a relatively modest force, of perhaps low tens of thousands of troops. They would not be deployed in the east at the front line, but to Ukrainian cities, ports, nuclear power plants and other critical national infrastructure, according to a Western official.
🔶️ The fact that Europe would struggle to generate an independent division-sized force for Ukraine demonstrates the scale of the task involved in Mr Merz’s vision. Meeting NATO’s existing war plans—with America present—would require Europe to spend 3% of GDP on defence, far above existing levels for most countries. Britain took a step in that direction on February 25th, announcing a plan to spend 2.5% of GDP by 2027, but even that may not be enough. Mark Rutte, the secretary-general of NATO, is said to be touting a target of 3.7%. But making good American shortfalls would require a figure well above 4%, probably much higher.
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/02/25/can-europe-confront-vladimir-putins-russia-on-its-own
https://archive.ph/3J7Yw
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Can Europe confront Vladimir Putin’s Russia on its own?
An independent army, air force and nuclear bomb would come at a high price
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🇮🇱 ❌️ 🇸🇾 Israeli PM Netanyahu laid out his vision for southern Syria:
1️⃣) IDF will remain indefinitely across on the Hermon Mt.
2️⃣) Syrian forces won't be allowed south of Damascus.
3️⃣) IDF will ensure safety for the Druze in Syria.
Establishing a de facto autonomous Druze zone.
🔶️ A coalition of Druze have announced the formation of the Sweida Military Council. The militia seeks to unite Druze forces and acquire the ability to ensure the safety of the populace in southern Syria. The only obvious threat they could counter are Jolani's forces in Damascus. The Council's statement can be found on this Kurdish Media post. Essentially, they have thrown their lot in with the Kurdish SDF: they are willing to remain part of Syria, but they want local autonomy, and are willing to use military force to keep it.
🔶️ Statement by Suweida Military Council: "Our goal is to ensure the protection of society, national and regional security, and to safeguard the southern borders from smuggling gangs, arms and drug trafficking, and the infiltration of extremist terrorist organizations, spanning west to the al-Tanf region"
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1️⃣) IDF will remain indefinitely across on the Hermon Mt.
2️⃣) Syrian forces won't be allowed south of Damascus.
3️⃣) IDF will ensure safety for the Druze in Syria.
Establishing a de facto autonomous Druze zone.
🔶️ A coalition of Druze have announced the formation of the Sweida Military Council. The militia seeks to unite Druze forces and acquire the ability to ensure the safety of the populace in southern Syria. The only obvious threat they could counter are Jolani's forces in Damascus. The Council's statement can be found on this Kurdish Media post. Essentially, they have thrown their lot in with the Kurdish SDF: they are willing to remain part of Syria, but they want local autonomy, and are willing to use military force to keep it.
🔶️ Statement by Suweida Military Council: "Our goal is to ensure the protection of society, national and regional security, and to safeguard the southern borders from smuggling gangs, arms and drug trafficking, and the infiltration of extremist terrorist organizations, spanning west to the al-Tanf region"
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Israeli PM Netanyahu laid out his vision for southern Syria:
1) IDF will remain indefinitely across on the Hermon Mt.
2) Syrian forces won't be allowed south of Damascus.
3) IDF will ensure safety for the Druze in Syria.
Establishing a de facto autonomous…
1) IDF will remain indefinitely across on the Hermon Mt.
2) Syrian forces won't be allowed south of Damascus.
3) IDF will ensure safety for the Druze in Syria.
Establishing a de facto autonomous…
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🇮🇱 ❌️ 🇸🇾 Interesting development. It seems the Druze in the south of Syria and the Kurds in the north are moving towards creating a geographically continuous alliance with Israeli support. This follows an Israeli demand for the demilitarization of southern Syria.
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🇮🇱🇸🇾 — One year ago, Turkish media were reporting a plan of what now Arab and Turkish media refer to as "David corridor" connecting the Israeli controlled Golan heights to Suwayda (druze majority city) to Tanf US base then lastly to the SDF (possible future Kurdish state).
NEW: Trump says in the next two weeks the United States will be selling a "Gold Card". A $5M purchasable green card that will allow you to work in this country and have a route to citizenship.
This would be replacing the EB-5 program. Gold Card recipients would be vetted. Instead of green card lotteries they want to help eliminate the deficit by letting people buy their way in. This attracts money, job creators, high level talent, and companies will have to spend money who want to invest in high level global talent.
There wont be any tax on income outside of the United States and they'll pay full tax on income in the United States.
Trump anticipates they may be able to sell a million cards which would be $5T and if they hypothetically sold 10M cards that would be $50T which would eliminate the national debt.
This is completely in compliance with the law and doesn't need Congressional approval because it's a green card, not full citizenship.
Trump believes it could help eliminate the debt. Many countries do this, including Canada (The 51st state).
"You should be fascinated by the Gold Card. Your taxes would go down to nothing. Yes, even Russian Oligarchs will be eligible for it. I know some Russian Oligarchs that are very nice people. It's possible. They're not as wealthy as they used to be. I think they can afford $5M."
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This would be replacing the EB-5 program. Gold Card recipients would be vetted. Instead of green card lotteries they want to help eliminate the deficit by letting people buy their way in. This attracts money, job creators, high level talent, and companies will have to spend money who want to invest in high level global talent.
There wont be any tax on income outside of the United States and they'll pay full tax on income in the United States.
Trump anticipates they may be able to sell a million cards which would be $5T and if they hypothetically sold 10M cards that would be $50T which would eliminate the national debt.
This is completely in compliance with the law and doesn't need Congressional approval because it's a green card, not full citizenship.
Trump believes it could help eliminate the debt. Many countries do this, including Canada (The 51st state).
"You should be fascinated by the Gold Card. Your taxes would go down to nothing. Yes, even Russian Oligarchs will be eligible for it. I know some Russian Oligarchs that are very nice people. It's possible. They're not as wealthy as they used to be. I think they can afford $5M."
https://x.com/AutismCapital/status/1894525297422471409
@FelipeChannel
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If you don’t impeach the corrupt judges, you CANNOT fix the country.
They will form a cartel (a judicial dictatorship) and block all reforms, protecting the systemic corruption that put them in their seats.
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⚡️🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺 On the procurement of weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
During the first month of the D. Trump administration, as many as 70 transport aircraft from the United States arrived in Rzeszow, Poland.
Moreover, the American air transport agency carried out at least 10 flights, some from Europe, some from the Middle East and one flight from the United States.
Six flights were carried out by the Ukrainian AN-124 aircraft, which is much more than in previous months. Previously, Ukrainian Ruslans carried out 1-3 flights.
The remaining 54 flights were carried out by commercial airlines. It should be noted that the main routes are from the United States and the Middle East (Ab El Udeid).
Particular attention should be paid to the route “Danish Air Force Base Karup – Rzeszow-Jasionka”. Thus, from Canada alone, as many as 11 Canadian military transport aircraft arrived at the Danish air base.
@worldpravda
During the first month of the D. Trump administration, as many as 70 transport aircraft from the United States arrived in Rzeszow, Poland.
Moreover, the American air transport agency carried out at least 10 flights, some from Europe, some from the Middle East and one flight from the United States.
Six flights were carried out by the Ukrainian AN-124 aircraft, which is much more than in previous months. Previously, Ukrainian Ruslans carried out 1-3 flights.
The remaining 54 flights were carried out by commercial airlines. It should be noted that the main routes are from the United States and the Middle East (Ab El Udeid).
Particular attention should be paid to the route “Danish Air Force Base Karup – Rzeszow-Jasionka”. Thus, from Canada alone, as many as 11 Canadian military transport aircraft arrived at the Danish air base.
@worldpravda
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⚡️🇪🇺🇺🇦🇷🇺 On the procurement of weapons for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. During the first month of the D. Trump administration, as many as 70 transport aircraft from the United States arrived in Rzeszow, Poland. Moreover, the American air transport agency…
Most likely, the alliance partners were testing a new supply route through “friendly” countries.
Thus, the Croatian hub, against the backdrop of the White House administration’s announcement of the closure of the naval base in Alexandroupolis, Greece, sharply reduced its activity. It should be noted that the military base in Greece was used to transfer weapons to Ukraine and guaranteed Athens protection from threats from Turkey.
Moreover, the Balkan countries have an insecure position towards the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and Russia in general, unlike Western European countries.
As a result, the “warring party” is diversifying the routes of supplying weapons to the Kiev regime and is trying to neutralize the likely refusal of the United States to participate in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
@worldpravda
Thus, the Croatian hub, against the backdrop of the White House administration’s announcement of the closure of the naval base in Alexandroupolis, Greece, sharply reduced its activity. It should be noted that the military base in Greece was used to transfer weapons to Ukraine and guaranteed Athens protection from threats from Turkey.
Moreover, the Balkan countries have an insecure position towards the Russian-Ukrainian conflict and Russia in general, unlike Western European countries.
As a result, the “warring party” is diversifying the routes of supplying weapons to the Kiev regime and is trying to neutralize the likely refusal of the United States to participate in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.
@worldpravda
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"🇳🇴 🇪🇺 Exercises in Norway: a new stage in the militarization of the Arctic
In recent weeks, Scandinavia has once again found itself "at the top" of the information agenda. They are providing aid to the so-called Ukraine, and increasing anti-Russian pressure, and increasing the number of military maneuvers.
Norway is at the forefront of other countries in the region. It is there that NATO is currently most active as part of its policy of strengthening its position in the northern latitudes, including the Baltic Sea and the Arctic region.
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🔻What happened in Norway in February?
▪️From 4 to 8 February, the Dynamic Guard-2025/1 exercise was held in the Norwegian Sea. About 1.3 thousand military personnel, as well as 10 warships and vessels took part in it.
The frigates Auvergne of the French Navy, Iron Duke of the British Navy, Van Amstel, De Ruyter and Tromp of the Netherlands Navy, Louise Marie of the Belgian Navy, D. Francisco de Almeida of the Portuguese Navy, as well as the corvette Visby of the Swedish Navy and the cutter Pori of the Fikland Navy.
Some of these ships are part of NATO's Baltic Sentinel mission, and Swedish and Finnish sailors took part in the series of exercises for the first time.
▪️Also from February 3 to 14, the Arctic Dolphin exercise was held in southern Norway near the Haakonsvern naval base. About 1,000 military personnel, three submarines, seven ships and six aircraft took part in it alone.
Unlike the other exercise, it also involved three submarines from the Norwegian, German and Dutch navies. In addition, French marines, P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft, NH-90 helicopters from the French Navy, Merlin HM.2 from the Royal Navy and MH-60R Sea Hawk from the Danish Air Force were involved.
❗️In both the first and second exercises, the goal was the same — training NATO sailors in the protection and defense of waters, conducting reconnaissance of the enemy and ensuring the security of underwater communications.
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🔻Remembering all the recent incidents with underwater cables, in which all the responsibility was placed on Russia in order to create a pretext for the seizure of commercial ships, these exercises look like a rehearsal.
And the most interesting thing is that these events are actually preparations for a larger NATO exercise in Norway, which will take place in early March — Joint Viking. And within its framework, NATO units will practice not only naval operations, but also conducting sabotage missions in Arctic climate conditions.
It’s not hard to guess who will act as the hypothetical enemy and whose objects will be under threat.
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