🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "There is a possibility of a military conflict between Israel and Turkey, this is an unprecedented situation," - Efrat Aviv, Israeli professor and expert on Israeli-Turkish relations.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Erdogan’s policies in Syria bring Turkey and Israel closer to confrontation," - The Jerusalem Post.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has led Turkish anti-Israeli sentiment for years," - The Jerusalem Post.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Erdogan, who is deeply influenced by the same Muslim Brotherhood ideology as Hamas, began to deteriorate the relationship between Turkey and Israel," - The Jerusalem Post.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The Islamist rebels who overthrew Assad and are backed by Turkey threaten US-backed SDF territories. Israel has maintained covert relations with the Kurds throughout the years, seeing it as a possible ally against shared enemies," - The Jerusalem Post.

🇰🇷⚡- BREAKING: South Korea's arrest warrant for President Yoon expires in just 18 hours.

The Public Prosecutor's Office may attempt to arrest him again at midnight (in 16 hours), Seoul time.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwan believes the Cameroon-flagged Chinese vessel, Shunxin-39, was responsible for cutting an undersea cable northeast of Taiwan. The weather prevented the Taiwanese Coast Guard intercepting and then boarding the vessel, and the Shunxin-39 was able to continue en route to a port in South Korea.

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- Taiwanese outlet, Focus Taiwan, says China is learning from and copying Russian tactics in the Baltics.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Ugur Alperen, Turkish Sergeant, likely died in Syria, adding to a growing list of Turkish military deaths in the country.

The official Turkish version is that Alperen "suddenly fell ill and then died".

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israel's Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, has ordered the military to be on high alert for possible extreme actions by Iran in the coming days," - Walla.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- "The IRGC are transferring funds to Hezbollah via civilian aircraft," - Walla.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Don't hold your breath.

🇺🇸 - All American military bases in North America has instituted heightened security.

🇺🇸⚡️- Bloomberg reports that President Trump will issue over 1000 pardons to Jan 6th protesters. It is unclear as of now what criteria was established to determine who would and who would not be granted clemency.

🇾🇪⚡- "Houthi militia plants and funds sleeper cells in Aden [STC-controlled Yemen] to destabilize security and stability in the interim capital," - al-Montasaf, Southern Transitional Council outlet.

🇷🇺⚡️- In 2024, Russia set a record by moving 38 million tons of cargo along the Northern Sea Route. This marks a tenfold increase in volume compared to 2014, when the route handled only 3.7 million tons.

🇺🇸⚡️- Former Trump National Security Council member Joshua Steinman revealed in a Twitter thread that the incoming administration will not be cleaning house in the existing NSC and will allow many Biden appointees to stay, 4 years earlier Biden canned the vast majority of Trump appointees.

Full thread can be read here: https://x.com/JoshuaSteinman/status/1875974603480416657