🇷🇸 - The protest in Belgrade took place peacefully. Elsewhere in Serbia, however, a member of National Patrol was arrested - according to police in Novi Sad, he posessed a firearm and a scope illegally.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚡️ - Two English Catholics placed on trial for praying near an abortion mill have been acquitted.

Thanks be to God.

🇺🇦⚡️ - Sources within Vladimir Zelensky's office have stated that he plans to publicly ask Joe Biden for long-range missiles and F-16 jets when the two meet in Poland.

🇷🇺⚡️ - Two members of ISIS (an Israeli op, by the way) were arrested in the Kaluga region of Russia for plotting an attack against a chemical plant there.

🇷🇺 - Marina Yankina, head of finance for Russia's western military district, has "fallen out of a window". It is suspected that her death, like that of many other government officials who have "fallen out of windows", is connected with corruption in the Russian armed forces and in Russian society in general.

🇿🇦🇨🇳🇷🇺⚡️- South Africa has begun its long-awaited naval exercises with China and Russia.

✡️⚡️- George Soros has endorsed Ron DeSantis for the 2024 presidential election, despite Ron DeSantis providing no announcement.

⚡️- Soros has stated what American “conservatives” refuse to acknowledge- Trump has become “pitiful,” as he continues to “bemoan his ‘loss’ about the 2020 election.” Trump has clearly lost his way, but by no means is DeSantis a viable choice, especially with DeSantis being universally endorsed by world Jewry.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- PMC Wagner have liberated the village of Paraskoviyevka, just north of Artyomovsk.

The final showdown for the city is imminent.

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is headed to Israel during a time of turmoil

Democratic leaders have expressed concern about the Israeli government’s judicial overhaul plan

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is expected to visit Israel next week as mass protests over the Israeli government’s plan to curb the power of the high court and other democratic institutions continue to roil the country. A recent Israel cabinet decision to legalize illegal outposts and approve plans for 10,000 new housing units in existing settlements in the occupied West Bank, have also exacerbated tension with the Biden administration.

“I love Eretz Yisrael,” Schumer, the highest-ranking Jew in American politics, often says in speeches before Jewish and Israeli audiences. In recent appearances, Schumer has said that he has a special obligation as the leader of the Democratic Party to keep his caucus pro-Israel and preserve bipartisan support for the Jewish state no matter the makeup of the Israeli government.

Schumer will meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he maintains a good working relationship, and with President Isaac Herzog. He has yet to speak out about the legal shake-up, which has already drawn criticism from President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and other Democratic leaders.

“I know Bibi very well, and so we work together,” Schumer said in a speech last November.

https://forward.com/fast-forward/536238/chuck-schumer-israel-netanyahu/

🇺🇸⚡️- FEMA allegedly denied to give aid to East Palestine, Ohio after the destructive train derailment

🇸🇻 ❌️ 🏴 El Salvador, population 6M, has gone 300 days without any homicides. Before Bukele took over, it was considered the most dangerous in the world. There were 382 homicides in the city of Los Angeles (3.8M pop) last year.

El Salvador now has the lowest murder rate in the Americas.

The previous administration - the one that the United States backed - didn't have a single day without homicides - in 4 years.

They called Bukele a tyrant. They said he was anti democracy. Funny how El Salvador now has peace and Bukele has an > 90% approval rating.

What's behind this unprecedented drop in violent crime? An unprecedented crack down on gang violence. Over 61,000 people have been detained.

90 people died in police custody in November 2022 alone. To sum up why the homicide rate in El Salvador has cratered: they're getting rid of all the criminals.

Petty criminals are being imprisoned, violent criminals are being killed in police custody. A zero tolerance purge.

They changed the homicide definition/ to exclude:

- People killed in police custody
- People who die in prison
- People who die in confrontations with police

Are state executions without due process a good thing? Is El Salvador's homicide rate dropping? Yes.

- Calvin 🏴‍☠️

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1625983166702919680.html

🇺🇸⚡️- Donald Trump will visit East Palestine next week

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Rocket strikes in Kiev

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Air raid alert throughout all of Ukraine. Multiple strikes reported nationwide.

🇺🇸⚡️- Former President Jimmy Carter, 98, has been put in hospice care.

🇮🇱🇸🇾⚡️- Israeli airstrikes in Damascus

🇺🇸⚡️- Residents near East Palestine, Ohio have been reporting bizarre conditions, including rashes, blemishes, and illnesses.

🇧🇷🇺🇦🌐 💥🇷🇺— Lula (PT) confirms call with Zelensky; Kiev accepts Brazilian proposal at the UN

Lula is expected to telephone the president of Ukraine, Volodymir Zelensky, in the next few days, in yet another sign of Brazil's effort to position itself as an interlocutor for the eventual condemnation of Russia in the war.

There was a request from the Ukrainian leader for a conversation with the Brazilian since Lula took office. But the offer took shape after the chancellors of both countries met in Munich (Germany). The Kiev government also signaled positively with Brazil's proposal to include, for the first time, an appeal for an end to hostilities in a resolution that will be put to a vote at the UN General Assembly next week.

Sources connected with pro-Putin ambassadors in Brazil confirm that this movement could weaken the autonomy of the BRICS, strengthened during much of the Bolsonaro government.