🇷🇼🇨🇩🇶🇦 - Congolese and Rwandan leaders met in Doha and called for a ceasefire in eastern DR Congo, in talks that came after the M23 pulled out of the planned meeting in Angola, due to imposed sanctions.

- Al Jazeera

🇮🇹 - Italian PM Giorgia Meloni: ‘’Naive and Foolish to think that Europe can stand alone without NATO and USA.’’

🇭🇷🇦🇱🇽🇰 - Croatia, Albania, and Kosovo have signed a defense agreement in Tirana. For the most part, it highlights defense-sector and industrial cooperation. The Croatian defense minister has said that Bulgaria is a potential member.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli forces have initiated a focused ground operation in the central and southern Gaza Strip.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 - Ongoing unconfirmed report that a Ukrainian F-16 aircraft was shot down by Russian AD, the pilot is reportedly KIA.

🇷🇸 - Serbian PM Miloš Vučević quits with his government following mass protests. As we mentioned before, his resignation was submitted a few months ago, but was accepted by Parliament today.

What a US civil war would look like

Is actually the MLB blackouts areas listing

What's blue remains Canada, what's Green is annexed into Washington State, what's dark red is annexed into Minnesota and what's light red is annexed into Maine

For those wondering where I got that: its the MLB mapping out its markets. The "civil war" thing is a joke.

🇺🇸🇫🇷 - A French researcher traveling to the U.S. for a conference was denied entry after a border agent searched his phone and found comments critical of President Trump.

— Le Figaro

I'm not an expect in seduction because I have had only 2 Girlfriends, the second of which I'm still with today. But I do know one or two things in how to keep a relationship alive.

But... my second relationship is ongoing since very long (years) and I think I can give a few advice and findings about what "genuine love" is.

1) Passed a certain point, you don't need to seek and guess if there is love. You know it instinctively.
2) Find and keep certain rituals to keep your partner happy and remember her about your love, both in the bedroom and in life.
3) Good sex is the bedrock of a solid relation, sorry not sorry, at least is true in this day and age.
4) At some point, you will love each other as if you were married since years.
5) I never argued once with my GF. I let things happen depending on how we feel it should happen.
6) The more stable the girl, the better the relationship.

Perfect love is when the man and woman ask not "what can you do for me," but "what can I do for you?" Magically, the needs of both are met...

Back to your daily flow of death, destruction, and war.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Deaths from Israel's new military operation in the Gaza Strip today rise to 60 confirmed.

🇾🇪🇺🇸 - The Houthis/Ansarallah today claimed to have shot down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone. This brings total *claimed* shootdowns to 16!

🇷🇺 - "Russia will expand in all directions, as far as God wills" – Putin's ex-adviser (2012-2020) Vladislav Surkov in an interview with L’Express

"At one time, I elevated to the level of official ideology the concept of the 'Russian World' (russkij mir - русский мир), which had previously existed in philosophical circles. The Russian World has no borders. The Russian World exists wherever Russia’s cultural, informational, military, economic, ideological, and humanitarian influence extends to some degree. That means on all continents.

The concentration of our influence varies greatly in different regions, but it is never zero anywhere. So we will expand in all directions—as far as God allows and as far as our resources permit. The key is not to overextend ourselves, not to seize a trophy so heavy that we cannot carry it."