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The Israeli government has approved 22 new settlements in the West Bank region of Palestine, the most substantial expansion in decades
— BBC News
The Israeli government has approved 22 new settlements in the West Bank region of Palestine, the most substantial expansion in decades
— BBC News
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—🇽🇰 /🇷🇸 NEW: Kosovo’s Defense Minister states that 70% of Serbia's military capacity is deployed in the south, near the border with Kosovo.
Ejup Maqedonci affirmed that Serbia has 48 forward operating bases and 20 gendarmerie positions posing a direct threat to Kosovo’s sovereignty. However, he also said that he does he did not want to raise concerns over an inminent threat to Kosovo's integrity as his interview was focused on the Defender Europe 25 exercise and the part where he talks about the Serbian military presence near Kosovo lasts only about one minute, while the interview lasted 30 minutes. He wrote a post about this and you can read it here.
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Ejup Maqedonci affirmed that Serbia has 48 forward operating bases and 20 gendarmerie positions posing a direct threat to Kosovo’s sovereignty. However, he also said that he does he did not want to raise concerns over an inminent threat to Kosovo's integrity as his interview was focused on the Defender Europe 25 exercise and the part where he talks about the Serbian military presence near Kosovo lasts only about one minute, while the interview lasted 30 minutes. He wrote a post about this and you can read it here.
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🇨🇦 - Politico says Canadian industry minister working to chase "chasing investors in defense, energy, AI and tech to reignite Canada’s manufacturing sector".
🇨🇦 - Politico says Maritime Provinces in Canada have difficulties ending all inter-Canadian tariff barriers because of their traditionnal fisheries industries.
🇫🇷 - Did you know? French law bans elected officials from having a blue or grey badge on Twitter.
🇺🇸 - Jamie Dimon warned that a crack in the bond market is “going to happen” after the the US government and Federal Reserve “massively overdid” spending and quantitative easing - Bloomberg
🇰🇵 - ISW says North Korea stole more than 1.5 billion dollars in cryptocurrency only in March of 2025. It also says that the Pyongyang regime "earned" multiple millions through an online gambling platform.
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🇰🇵 - ISW says North Korea stole more than 1.5 billion dollars in cryptocurrency only in March of 2025. It also says that the Pyongyang regime "earned" multiple millions through an online gambling platform.
🇰🇵 - I think Pyongyang is in a moment of fragility following the destroyer PR fiasco, and if we insist strong enough with sanctions on illegal activities used to fund the Kim regime we may see some results.
Liberal democracy is about...
Anonymous Poll
58%
Liberals being in charge or at least liberal values being upheld
42%
Free elections being held + the absence of flagrant human rights violations
🇺🇸 - PBS joins NPR’s lawsuit against the Trump administration over de-funding.
🇺🇲 - Imo, the Virginia Gubernatorial election in November will be a good litmus test of how the federal civil servants see the Trump administration.
🇩🇪 - Key Green politician in Germany: Germany's historical responsibility towards Israel is undisputed. But precisely this responsibility compels us now to say to the Israeli government: Stop! Your actions can no longer be justified.
🇪🇺🇨🇦 - The reason communism lost is because the economy integrated the leftist leaders and made them rich, thus making them rationnal actors having a stake in the system and wanting stability.
At this point, I think the same strategy should be pursued with the postliberal Right-Wing: you take the smarter folks, those who can and do actually cause trouble, you give them a shitton of money, they become owners of multiple properties, and then boom suddenly they don't want systemic instability anymore. And spoiler alert: they may even suddenly change their mind on immigration once they start hiring people.
Gatekeeping didn't work.
At this point, I think the same strategy should be pursued with the postliberal Right-Wing: you take the smarter folks, those who can and do actually cause trouble, you give them a shitton of money, they become owners of multiple properties, and then boom suddenly they don't want systemic instability anymore. And spoiler alert: they may even suddenly change their mind on immigration once they start hiring people.
Gatekeeping didn't work.
🇺🇲 - Hegseth called on allies and partners in Asia to consider spending 5% of GDP on defense.