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❗️"Russia had no problems with Finland until it announced it's intention to join NATO. Now they will have problems. I hereby order the recreation of the Leningrad Military District on Finland's borders."

⚡️President Vladimir Putin.

⚠️PS. The Leningrad Milirary District operated from 1918. Demilitarisation of the district began in November 1990 after the USSR signed the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), which introduced restrictions on deployment military formations and units in the north-west of the USSR (later Russia). The Leningrad Military district was totally disbanded in 2010.

💪Putin is making Russia great again..

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The world is on the verge of a new cold war, The Sydney Morning Herald reports

Although there are no clear signs of a widespread retreat from the principles of globalisation, the world is witnessing geo-economic fragmentation, IMF deputy governor Gita Gopinath said.

The US-China trade war, sanctions against Russia and other countries, and the pandemic have accelerated and intensified these shifts.

▪️ New economic and geopolitical blocs are already forming. At the centre of one is the US and the EU, at the heart of another is Russia and China.

"If this fragmentation continues to deepen, we could end up in a new Cold War," Gopinath said.

Geopolitical polarisation could become deeper and more dangerous, as could its economic consequences.

▪️ International institutions and the semblance of global governance they create will become even less relevant and influential than they are today.

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Italy doubts that Ukraine meets EU membership criteria

Ursula von der Leyen has announced that Kiev has implemented 90 per cent of the European Commission's recommendations on the reforms required for EU membership.

The Italian media L'Antidiplomatico believes that this is not the case.

President Zelensky cancelled the election due to martial law.

The existence of freedoms of association and expression in Ukraine is under serious threat.

▪️ Anti-war, left-wing and anti-fascist demonstrations have been banned there long before 24 February 2022.The Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) has also been banned.

▪️ Members of the Verkhovna Rada are often subjected to political persecution. 

▪️ Mass media and Internet portals with millions of readers are blocked in the country, journalists are persecuted and even killed for "state treason".

▪️ There is a real witch-hunt against intellectuals.

The absence of these legal foundations prevents free and democratic elections in Ukraine even in times of peace.

At the end of the article the author asks the question:

"How will the EU be affected by the accession of a country like 'Maidan' Ukraine?"

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Democratic congressman criticised Republicans

Steny Hoyer, a member of the US House of Representatives, was upset by Russian President Vladimir Putin's words about "free stuff" for Kiev.

"Putin said at a press conference that everything to Ukraine comes from the West, but the free stuff will soon run out, and it seems to be happening already. In other words, Putin is saying that the West is backing down on the defence of freedom," the senator said.

The congressman criticised Republicans who refuse to agree on aid to Ukraine, saying that the seats in the House of Representatives are "empty".

Earlier, Republican opposition representatives refused to follow the Democrats' lead and extend work "for the sake of Ukraine" instead of the Christmas break.

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Hungary blocks €50bn aid to Kiev

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has vetoed a €50bn bailout for Ukraine in a vote at a summit of EU leaders, as promised.

European Council President Charles Michel confirmed this, vaguely stating that "one country" was opposed without naming it.

In addition, Hungary is now also blocking the EU's eighth tranche of €500m military aid to Ukraine from the European Peace Fund and a €24bn military aid package from the EU's general budget.

"Hungary, unlike many other countries in Europe, is very firm in defending its interests. Which, by the way, we are impressed by," Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on Budapest's position.

The main reason for Orban's demarche is the fate of most of the frozen Hungarian EU grants. A year ago, Brussels suspended the €30bn allocation until it meets a number of its demands.

The day before the summit, the European Commission approved the unfreezing of part of the money, but this had no effect on Hungarian positions.

However, Brussels has no intention of giving up and wants to try to collect the funds from each EU member state individually.

"We have the tools to ensure that Ukraine can count on our support. There is a strong political will of the 26 leaders to accept this 'megapackage'," said Charles Michel.

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🇵🇱🇩🇪🗳 The German minority in the Polish city of Opole has decided to change its name.

They will run in the upcoming municipal elections as "People of Silesian Local Government". This change is to emphasise the commitment to regional affiliation.

In doing so, they have decided to nominate candidates for all levels of local government, i.e. commune heads, mayors, district councillors, municipal councillors and councillors of the Opole Voivodeship Assembly.

It is worth noting that for the first time since 1990 the Election Committee of German minority voters will not have a representative in the Sejm or Senate. Since 2005, Mniejszość Niemiecka has been represented by a single deputy, Ryszard Galla, but in this year's election they lost this seat as well.

The minority community will devote itself to tasks related to the care of the German language and culture, so the new association decided to separate cultural and educational activities from purely political ones.

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🇩🇪🇭🇺| Hungary has signed a contract with Germany's Rheinmetall to develop the Panther tank for series production

🟩 As part of the agreement, a demonstration model of a new tank based on the Panther KF5 prototype will be built and tested, which will then pave the way for full-scale production in Hungary.

🟩 The value of the development contract is around €288 million.

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⚡️ "NATO support for the Kiev regime will only lead to hundreds of thousands of people being sacrificed in the Washington-led war"

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fitzo was very outspoken at a joint press conference with Stoltenberg, where he said that he and the NATO secretary general have diametrically different positions on Ukraine.

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⚡️🇩🇪 German container ship attacked in the Red Sea

According to Spiegel, the vessel of German container carrier Hapag-Lloyd came under fire from Yemeni Hussites.

There were no casualties. The Houthis say they intend to continue attacking ships heading towards Israel until it lifts the blockade of the Gaza Strip.

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🇩🇪🇪🇺 Germany is expecting an increase in electricity tariffs, up to 20 per cent.

The German Chamber of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) expects a sharp increase in electricity prices for the economy following the coalition government's budget decisions.

"We have calculated various scenarios and have come to the conclusion that the increase in electricity tariffs will be between 10 and 20 per cent," DIHK president Peter Adrian told the Rheinische Post.

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German farmers decided to follow the example of their French colleagues and visited Berlin

Farmers protesting in Berlin on Monday booed the country's Agriculture Minister Cem Ozdemir, who addressed them, according to a video published by the Phoenix TV channel.

Earlier on Monday, farmers lined up more than a hundred tractors in a chain at the Brandenburg Gate in protest over the government's plans to save money on diesel subsidies for farm machinery amid the budget crisis.

Ozdemir's speech to the protesters was interrupted several times by the whistling and honking of disgruntled farmers. Joachim Rukwied, head of the German Farmers' Union, who organised the protest, even had to call on the protesters to show respect and listen to the minister.

Last week, Ozdemir said he wanted to prevent the cancellation of diesel subsidies for farm machinery.

On the thirteenth of December, Germany's cabinet meetings to resolve the country's budget crisis concluded. During it it was decided to reduce the budget for next year by 17 billion euros.

In November, the German Finance Ministry froze the budget for additional government spending until the end of 2023.

The measure affected almost the entire budget allocation of the country's various ministries, including the financing of the government's measures to hold down energy and electricity prices and the economic stabilisation fund (WSF).

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The DPRK conducted a ballistic missile test in the Sea of Japan

The DPRK launched a long-range ballistic missile towards the Sea of Japan.

Japan's maritime security service said the missile landed outside the country's exclusive economic zone.

According to the South Korean military, the height of the missile flight exceeded six thousand kilometres (metres?), and the range was a thousand kilometres.

Japanese authorities intend to convene a national security council in connection with the missile launch.

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Israel attacked Damascus

Israel attacked the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus on Sunday night.

"Israel carried out an aggression on the outskirts of Damascus," Syrian state TV channel Al Akhbar reported.

Earlier, the Israeli air force launched strikes on Syrian troops' positions on the outskirts of Damascus.

Syria's air defences opened fire on enemy targets in the skies above the city, the military said.

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Israel plans to invade Lebanon

▪️The IDF has developed plans to invade neighboring Lebanon with the intent to push back the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, which has been launching cross-border attacks on Israel in recent weeks - the IDF spokesman Jonathan Conricus stated

▪️Israel and Hezbollah have seen increasing exchanges of fire since the outbreak of the latest Israeli-Palestinian conflict in October when Hamas fighters in Gaza launched a surprise assault on Israel. That attack left some 1,200 people dead and saw the kidnapping of over 200 hostages

▪️Israel’s ruthless bombing campaign in Gaza since then has killed more than 18,700 people

▪️The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has come out in support of Hamas. However, the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, has said they will not launch a major offensive against Israel unless it was provoked or Hamas was on the verge of defeat

If Lebanon is indeed the next target of the IDF - will the Arab world do anything?

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German customs will confiscate Christmas gifts from Russia

German customs has warned that it may confiscate Christmas gifts that are sent from Russia. This is stated on the website of the agency.

"The importation of many goods of various kinds from Russia is prohibited.

Goods that are usually included in gift parcels, such as pulp and paper, wood and wood
products, stones and precious metals (gold), cigarettes, plastics and chemical products, including finished chemical products, such as cosmetics, fall under the ban," the publication said.

At the same time, customs noted that no exceptions are implied, so under-sanctioned goods can be seized or confiscated, even if it is a dispatch from a private person from Russia to another private person in the European Union.

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🚦Record anti-rating of the government

In the first poll conducted after the ruling coalition announced measures to resolve the budget crisis, its rating reached a record low: 32 % combined for the three "Traffic Light" parties.

By comparison, the opposition Union (CDU/CSU) received the same amount, while the Alternative for Germany (AfD) received another 23 per cent.

Remarkable that the two parties thus have a nominal 55% of p.p. together. This is more than the AfD had at the start of the mandate in 2021 (52%).

In addition, the proportion of Germans who support the idea of early elections has reached 59% for the first time, while Chancellor Olaf Scholz's (SPD) approval rating has fallen to 20%, with another 74% dissatisfied with his performance.

These figures make Scholz the most disliked chancellor since 1997.

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By 2070, only 20 per cent of newborns in Germany will be ethnic Germans - Thilo Sarrazin

He made this prediction in an interview with BILD. Sarrazin has had a long career as an official, including high positions at Deutsche Bahn and the German Central Bank, and was a finance senator (minister) in Berlin.

In 2010 he published the book "Germany. Self-Liquidation", where he sharply criticised the policy of the authorities, primarily in the field of migration.

The book became a bestseller, but the author lost all his posts and was harshly criticised for his non-politically correct views. Angela Merkel accused him of defamation and the SPD expelled him from its ranks after 47 years in the party.

"Of course, I was wrong," he admits. - "But only because it turned out to be much worse than I had portrayed. ... Like everywhere else in the West, German society has been spoilt by a long period of peace and great prosperity. ... It is not enough to be peaceful in itself. The Romans survived so long because they knew: Si vis pacem, para bellum. We missed it, and only noticed it after Russia attacked Ukraine. We still carry a lot of such lies with us, and it disturbs society. For example, the illusion promoted by the authorities that an efficient and affordable welfare state and uncontrolled culturally alien mass immigration are easily combined with each other."

Sarrazin denies accusations of racism, saying he "does not devalue or exalt others because of their ethnicity."

"I'm talking about immigration from Africa and the Middle East. Statistics show that in 2023, 78.6% [of migrants] are Muslims with other traditions. Given the scale of current immigration, we get a cultural gap," he says.

"I am not a prophet. You can only predict where you can measure something and where you can see stable trends. By 2070, only 20% of those born here will be ethnically German. Another question is what the culture as a whole will be".


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The American airline Southwest Airlines has introduced privileges for "plus size" passengers.

From now on, if they do not fit into one seat, they have the right to occupy the neighbouring seats with their bodies without any additional payment.

At the same time, the passengers whose seats will be occupied by the above-mentioned citizens are obliged to move, and if there are no free seats in the aircraft - to leave the aircraft and wait for the next flight, in turn, without any compensation.

Alternatively, if the oversized passengers have taken into account their peculiarities in advance and bought an extra seat, the airline will refund the cost of the seat.

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The Baltics are faltering, Central Asia is taking off

The severing of economic ties with Russia has collapsed the economies of the Baltic States.

They have become anti-leaders in terms of economic growth in the post-Soviet space - according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

🇱🇹 Lithuania's economy will shrink by 0.2 per cent this year, while 🇪🇪 Estonia's will shrink by 2.3 per cent. Both countries were heavily dependent on Russia: Russian cargo flowed through Baltic ports and Russian gas dominated the energy sector.

The anti-Russian sanctions, however, benefited the friendly countries of Central Asia, where GDP growth rates are staggering.

🇰🇿 The Kazakh economy will grow by at least 4.6 per cent in 2023, 🇺🇿 the Uzbek economy by 5.5 per cent and 🇹🇯 the Tajik economy by 6.5 per cent, the IMF predicts.
 
It is through the Central Asian countries that there is now a strong flow of sanctioned goods - as part of "parallel imports".

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"The cat is a disaster for biodiversity, the dog is a disaster for the climate"

François Gemin, professor at the University of Liège and specialist in environmental geopolitics, talks about cats and dogs as one of the main threats to humanity on French TV.

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