🇭🇷🇦🇱🇽🇰 - 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."

🇨🇿🇺🇦 - Will the Czech Republic allow Ukrainian refugees to stay in the country after the war?

Around 400,000 refugees from Ukraine currently reside in the Czech Republic, having received temporary protection due to the war. In light of a potential end to hostilities, Prague has begun drafting a plan for temporary refugees in case the war concludes.

According to Czech media, the government passed a law yesterday allowing certain Ukrainians to remain in the country even after the war ends.

To obtain a residence permit in the Czech Republic, a Ukrainian must earn at least 37,000 CZK per month—slightly below the national average salary of 46,000 CZK—not receive humanitarian benefits since at least July 2024, and must not have committed any crimes while staying in the country.

Additionally, for each Ukrainian child, the parent's salary requirement increases by 110,000 CZK per year. For example, a mother with two children would need to earn 55,500 CZK per month—20% above the average salary in the Czech Republic.

In theory, Ukrainians are being allowed to stay in the Czech Republic, but in practice, most refugees will be unable to meet these requirements and obtain a residence permit.

As a result, the 400,000 "Czech" Ukrainians may soon have to follow the well-known Maidan chant: "Suitcase, train station...". But where exactly they will go remains unclear.

The first option is Ukraine. However, after living in the EU for several years, they are unlikely to want to return to post-war poverty.

The second option is Poland. But although Poland currently accepts all Ukrainians without restrictions, anti-migrant sentiment is rising there, which may lead Warsaw to follow Prague’s example and introduce similar restrictions on migrants.

Source: ceskatelevize.cz

🇨🇦 - Mark Carney to call for federal elections on April 28.