🇷🇺⚡️ - In general, there seems to be a trend of Western (or West-aligned, given Lula's complicated relationship with the West) powers urging their citizens to leave Russia and Belarus. This might or might not be a sign of a planned NATO attack on Russia and its allies, but it is still a noteworthy escalation.

🇺🇸 🇷🇺 Americans in Russia could be forced to fight in Ukraine war, U.S. warns

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-in-russia-could-be-forced-to-fight-ukraine-war-us-embassy-warning/

🇺🇸⚡️- Republican Senator Tim Scott is apparently planning a 2024 presidential bid.

🇺🇸⚡️- Rihanna’s performance at the Super Bowl Halftime Show had serious resemblance to Ye West, including an elevated platform and similar attire to Ye’s Donda tour.

Rihanna also covered a Ye song, “All of the Lights,” which she was featured on.

🇷🇺⚡️- Russian President Vladimir Putin will address both chambers of the Duma on February 21st.

BREAKING UPDATE! Reports out of Ohio state that chemicals from the train derailment and explosion in East Palestine have “contaminated” the Ohio River as far as West Virginia, a source of water for more than 5 million people, per West Virginia governor Jim Justice.

This is a developing story.

@police_frequency

🇺🇸⚡️- A FOURTH train has derailed - this time in South Carolina.

🇺🇸⚡️- Right now, there are 4 confirmed, seemingly simultaneous derailed train incidents across America:

1) East Palestine, Ohio
2) Houston, Texas
3) Spartanburg, South Carolina
4) Outside Lafayette, Louisiana

🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️ - Israel will officially recognize nine Jewish settlements in the West Bank, as a response to Palestinian rocket launches carried out earlier this month.

🇲🇩⚡️- Reconnaissance drones have been spotted above Kishinev, Moldova. The airspace above the city has been closed.

🇲🇩🇷🇺⚡️- The Moldovan President has claimed that Russia is trying to stage a coup in the country.

🇲🇩⚡️- All Moldovan airspace has been closed until February 16th.

🇲🇩✡️⚡️- Moldovan President met with Alexander Soros in Davos, January 2023.

🇷🇺🇲🇩⚡️- The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs denied allegations of attempting a coup in Moldova

🇳🇱🇷🇺⚡️- Two Dutch aircraft intercepted a formation of three Russian fighter jets out of Kaliningrad, flying near the Polish border

🇺🇸⚡️- Inflation in the United States has increased to 6.4% in the last month.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- The White House has been doing damage control in preparation for the liberation of Artyomovsk to the Russians, saying “Bakhmut holds no strategic value to Ukraine.”

So that’s why Ukraine stacked 104,000 troops in that one city, right?

🇺🇸⚡️ - Nikki Haley has announced her presidential campaign.

🇬🇷🇺🇦⚡️- Greece has shipped ammunition and 20 BMP-1 Infantry Fighting Vehicles to the Ukraine

🇺🇦 - Ukraine's high command has also been preparing to surrender Artyomovsk, according to various sources from both sides of the conflict.

❤️ In a world where love is treated as something banal and frivolous, and the flesh speaks louder than the heart, let us turn to Saint Valentine and ask for his intercession that love as God intended never leaves us, be it the love that ties friends and family, be it the love that ties us to our partners for the rest of our lives.

Saint Valentine, pray for us.

📖 St.Valentine (Valentino) was a Roman priest who performed marriages in spite of Claudius II's law against such (Claudius believed that marriage was distracting to his soldiers, so outlawed it to them for a time). Fr. Valentine was martyred in A.D. 270 on the Flammian way, and at the site of his martyrdom, Julius I built a popular basilica.