🇺🇸🚫🧠🇺🇦❌🇷🇺 — 🇬🇧 Financial Times | US cuts off intelligence-sharing with Ukraine | Fresh blow to embattled government in Kyiv as Trump administration shifts on conflict | March 5, 2025:

"The US has cut off intelligence-sharing with Kyiv in a move that could seriously hamper the Ukrainian military’s ability to target Russian forces, according to officials familiar with the matter.

The move follows the decision on Monday by the Trump administration to suspend military aid deliveries to Ukraine and comes after a dramatic breakdown in relations between the US president and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

US intelligence co-operation has been essential for Ukraine’s ability to identify and strike Russian military targets."

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👤💬🔵🛢🇺🇸 — 📰 The Post Millennial | Donald Trump announces massive Alaska natural gas line, US rare earth mineral expansion | March 4, 2025:

"President Donald Trump announced a massive natural gas pipeline as well an expansion of rare earth mineral investment in the US during his speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. 

"My administration is also working on a gigantic natural gas pipeline in Alaska, among the largest in the world, where Japan, South Korea, and other nations want to be our partner,” Trump told Congress and America.

He added that trillions of dollars will be invested by the partner countries for the project that will bring more energy production to the US as well as create jobs in the region."

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🇪🇺➕🇷🇺🛢❌➖💸🇺🇦 — 📰 ZeroHedge | EU Spent More Money On Russian Energy Than Ukraine Aid Last Year: Report | March 5, 2025:

"A new report reveals that the anti-Russia, pro-Ukraine EU - spent more money on Russian oil and gas in 2024 than they did on military aid to Ukraine.

According to the report by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), the EU spent approximately $23 billion on Russian fossil fuels vs. $19.6 billion on military and financial aid to Ukraine.

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"Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Europe has made significant progress in terms of energy independence. Imports of Russian oil and gas have decreased substantially, with gas imports dropping from 45% in 2021 to 18% in 2024," said EU MP Thomas Pellerin-Carlin in response to the report."

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🇸🇦🤝🇪🇬🏗🇵🇸 — 📰 Associated Press | Arab leaders endorse Egypt’s plan to rebuild Gaza as an alternative to Trump’s proposal | March 5, 2025:

"CAIRO (AP) — Arab leaders on Tuesday endorsed Egypt’s postwar plan for the Gaza Strip that would allow its roughly 2 million Palestinians to remain, in a counterproposal to U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to depopulate the territory and redevelop it as a beach destination.

The $53 billion plan’s endorsement by Arab leaders at a summit in Cairo amounted to a rejection of Trump’s proposal. The summit conclusions were welcomed by Hamas, rejected by Israel and given a lukewarm response by the Trump administration.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi expressed his appreciation for “the consensus among the Arab countries to support the reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip, which allows the Palestinian People to stay on their land without displacement.”

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🇺🇸🚫🇸🇦🤝🇵🇸 — 📰 ZeroHedge | US Rejects Arab League's $53BN Alternative Gaza Reconstruction Plan | March 5, 2025:

"The United States and Israel have quickly rejected a new Gaza peace and reconstruction plan proposed by the Arab League under Egypt's leadership, which was unveiled Tuesday.

A counterproposal to Trump's provocative Gaza 'takeover' plan which advocates the removal of the Palestinian population to neighboring Arab states, the Egyptian plan would of course allow its roughly two million inhabitants to remain."

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🇨🇳🚫👨🏻‍🔬🧳➡️🇺🇸 — 📰 The Wall Street Journal | China Tells Its AI Leaders to Avoid U.S. Travel Over Security Concerns | Beijing increasingly views cutting-edge technology through national-security lens, putting executives on tighter leash | March 1, 2025:

"BEIJING—Chinese authorities are instructing top artificial-intelligence entrepreneurs and researchers to avoid visiting the U.S., people familiar with the matter said, reflecting Beijing’s view of the technology as an economic and national security priority.

The authorities are concerned that Chinese AI experts traveling abroad could divulge confidential information about the nation’s progress. They also worry that executives could be detained and used as a bargaining chip in U.S.-China negotiations, in an echo of a fight over a Huawei executive held in Canada at Washington’s request during the first Trump administration.  

AI has become the latest technology battleground between the U.S. and China, symbolized by the emergence of Chinese AI models from the likes of DeepSeek and Alibaba. They are challenging U.S. leaders including OpenAI and Google, and Beijing is increasingly pressuring its entrepreneurs in leading-edge fields to hew close to state interests."

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👔🇫🇷💣🤝🇪🇺❌🇷🇺 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Macron In Anti-Russia Rant Says France Considering Expanding Nuclear Umbrella To Europe | March 5, 2025:

"In the opening six months of the Ukraine-Russia war, France's President Emmanuel Macron came under fire in Europe for being one of the few major political leaders to hold regular diplomatic calls with Putin in an effort to solve the conflict and avoid further bloodshed in Eastern Europe.

Now he feels he has to go full hawk in response to US President Trump, as on Wednesday in a nationally televised address he claimed Putin is now threatening all of Europe and has declared, dubiously, that Russian aggression "knows no borders."

"We are entering a new era," he told his fellow countrymen in the address. "If a country can invade its neighbour in Europe and go unpunished, nobody can be sure of anything." That's when he asserted: "Beyond Ukraine, the Russian threat is real - it affects the European countries."

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🇺🇸⛓🇻🇪🇻🇪 — Pam Bondi, Attorney General under Donald Trump, has submitted a request to the FBI to arrest all individuals associated with Nicolás Maduro on U.S. territory.

🇪🇺 Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission: "We are in an era of rearmament."

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🇺🇸🇨🇳🇵🇦 After Trump pressure, China sells Panama port terminals to BlackRock and MSC

In a blockbuster deal that could shift the balance of power in global port operations, a consortium of U.S. private equity firm BlackRock and MSC of Geneva has agreed to purchase the non-Chinese assets of Hong Kong-based subsidiary Hutchison Port Holdings, including terminals at the ports of Balboa and Cristobal in Panama.

The news follows disputed claims by President Donald Trump that the Chinese military was controlling the Panama Canal, and that American vessels were being cheated on transit tolls. Trump also threatened U.S. action to wrest control of the waterway, a key route for military and merchant vessels between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, which was handed over to Panama in 1999.

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/after-trump-pressure-china-sells-panama-port-terminals-to-us-private-equity-firm-msc

📝 The deal will give the BlackRock consortium control over 43 ports in 23 countries, including the ports of Balboa and Cristobal, located at either end of the Panama Canal. Other ports are in Mexico, the Netherlands, Egypt, Australia, Pakistan and elsewhere.

🇫🇷☢️❗️— French President Macron announces that France will open discussions on extending its nuclear umbrella to make it a Pan-European Nuclear Umbrella

🇫🇷📞🇪🇺 — French President Emmanuel Macron in an emergency speech to French nation and EU:

I have decided to open a strategic debate on European nuclear deterrence

🇷🇺🛂📈 — Russia lacks migrants, says Russian Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov

➡️ In order to saturate the labor market, Russia should consider attracting migrants, but now from new countries.

➡️ As an example, he cited Myanmar with its population of 55 million people.

" This issue is already being discussed ," the minister said.

🇺🇸📞🇵🇸❗️ — United States President Donald Trump issued an new (and likely final) ultimatum to Palestinian Ikhwani Terrorist group Hamas release the hostages or face consequences:

Shalom Hamas means Hello and Goodbye - You can choose.

Release all of the Hostages now, not later, and immediately return all of the dead bodies of the people you murdered, or it is OVER for you

This is your last warning!
For the leadership, now is the time to leave Gaza, while you still have a chance."

🇪🇺🇺🇦❌🇷🇺❗️ — The Guardian:

The European Union Weighs Plan to Deploy 120 Fighter Jets to Protect Kyiv and Western Ukraine from Russian Strikes

🚢🇷🇺🇨🇳 OFAC Sanctions Reveal Houthis Coordinated Safe Passage for Russian and Chinese Ships Through Red Sea

New sanctions by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) have revealed that Houthi leaders actively coordinated with Russian and Chinese officials to ensure their vessels would not be targeted during the group’s ongoing maritime attacks in the Red Sea.

According to Treasury documents, Mohamed Ali Al-Houthi, a prominent member of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, explicitly guaranteed safe passage for Russian vessels while maintaining drone and missile attacks against other commercial shipping in the region. Al-Houthi has also been planning discussions with Russian officials regarding military aid to the Houthi group.

“Amid the Houthis’ ongoing maritime attack campaign, Mohamed Ali has communicated with officials from Russia and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to ensure that Houthi militants do not strike Russian or PRC vessels transiting the Red Sea,” OFAC stated in its announcement. “Speaking on behalf of the Houthis, Mohamed Ali has outlined the Houthis’ commitment to guarantee safe passage for Russian vessels.”

https://gcaptain.com/ofac-sanctions-reveal-houthis-coordinated-safe-passage-for-russian-and-chinese-ships-through-red-sea/

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸 Institute for the Study of War on X: Putin notably has not made any ceasefire offers since Trump assumed office on January 20. Kremlin officials instead formally rejected the possibility of a ceasefire on any terms other than Ukraine's and the West's complete capitulation in late February 2025.

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