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🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 The Baltic states will build a defense line against Russia on their eastern border

In particular, Estonia alone plans to create a network of 600 concrete bunkers to repel Russian aggression.

The bunkers will protect the military from enemy fire and shell fragments, Rostimees reported.

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Four Years After Biden ‘Laptop From Hell’ Falsely Labeled ‘Misinformation,’ DOJ Admits It’s Real

READ: https://thefederalist.com/2024/01/17/four-years-after-biden-laptop-from-hell-falsely-labeled-misinformation-doj-admits-its-real/ • @FDRLSTT

How to Recognize VHIQ

/pol/ considers how the average individual can recognize a highly intelligent individual in public situations: It’s rather refreshing – and slightly suspicious – to see a midwit who is sufficiently self-aware and modest enough to distinguish between his own superior intelligence and VHIQ. Especially when he is clearly observant enough to recognize some of the […]

https://voxday.net/2024/01/20/how-to-recognize-vhiq/

"If the power output is sufficient, mobile phones equipped with nuclear batteries will no longer need recharging, and drones will not need to return for recharging.

Zhang added that the company is collaborating with domestic universities to develop higher-power batteries using ... promethium-147...."

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202401/16/WS65a68ff7a3105f21a507c9b7.html

🇸🇰 News from Robert Fico.

1. Slovakia will use its veto power to block attempts to admit Ukraine to NATO.
2. Slovakia will no longer supply any weapons to Ukraine.
3. Slovakia does not consider Ukraine an independent country; it is completely controlled and administered by the United States.

"At -5 °F an electric car will have less than 50 percent of its full range, according to a study by telematics provider Geotab.

"And owners able to get to charging stations quickly discovered that charging them takes much longer – and is sometimes not possible at all.

"The sheer number of flat EVs in Chicago and the difficulty owners were having charging them caused lines to build up at supercharging stations starting on Sunday, Fox 32 reported."

https://davidicke.com/2024/01/17/tesla-graveyards-form-in-parts-of-chicago-as-arctic-blast-leaves-evs-low-on-juice-and-owners-unable-to-charge-them-we-explain-how-freezing-weather-cuts-battery-range-in-half/#:~:text=At%20%2D5%20%C2%B0F,Fox%2032%20reported.

NEW - NBC reports "climate change" killed "King Kong" apes 300,000 years ago: "Did not fall off Empire State Building."

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‼️🇧🇾👉🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ The KGB of the Republic of Belarus detained two SBU agents who were transporting weapons, explosives and drones across the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, organizing caches in a forest area.

According to initial data, they were preparing terrorist attacks at oil refining enterprises, murders of civil servants and media personalities on the territory of the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation.

The End of Drone Power

The long-predicted end of Air Power has already arrived. But the battlefield reign of the drone, first evidenced in the brief Second Nagorno-Karabakh War of 2020, then subsequently confirmed by the NATO-Russian war in the Ukraine, looks to be a very short one. An industry team has for the first time destroyed an aerial target […]

https://voxday.net/2024/01/20/the-end-of-drone-power/

Internal data shows that military recruitment among white Americans has collapsed in the past five years, driving almost all of the dip in military recruiting.

Military recruiters are shocked that fewer white teenagers want to sign up to fight for a ruling elite that hates them. They’re even more shocked that ads emphasizing meaningless diversity didn’t make up the shortfall.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/01/10/army-sees-sharp-decline-white-recruits.html

"Predictably, the rest of the country would be appalled to hear what this group would do with absolute power; the percentage that would agree to any of those measures lies between 16% and 25%.

"What’s perhaps most troubling of all, however, is elites’ staggering surplus of self-confidence in government, a halfway decent proxy for themselves.

"Seventy percent of elites (double the number of average Americans) and 89% of super elites said they trust the government to do the right thing."

https://nypost.com/2024/01/19/opinion/shocking-survey-reveals-the-reason-elites-are-out-of-touch-and-it-isnt-why-you-think/#:~:text=Predictably%2C%20the%20rest,the%20right%20thing.

🚨Breaking: US cargo ship off Yemen is hit by a missile, British military confirms after Houthi rebels attacked American destroyer in the Red Sea.

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Time-lapse footage of the Brooklyn Tower swaying last night in 60 mph winds.
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https://news.1rj.ru/str/LauraAbolichannel

"How birds work"

🇬🇧 A British Navy ship rammed its minesweeper

▪️HMS Chiddingfold rammed HMS Bangor at the pier at the base in Bahrain, the “attacked” ship received a hole. The investigation is being led by a special team from the Royal Navy.