🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump calls U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie a “lowlife” and “loser” for pushing for the release of the Epstein files.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡️- A sanctioned tanker has, for the first time, directly linked Russia’s Arctic oil trade with Venezuela. Hyperion loaded naphtha in Murmansk, transited the Northern Sea Route, and then sailed to the Amuay refinery on the Paraguana Peninsula. This shows how Russia’s shadow fleet and Venezuela’s sanctions evasion networks are converging.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇻🇪⚡️- BREAKING: Iranian shadow tanker "BELLA 1", which refused to be boarded and was being pursued by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, has fled into the Atlantic. - ABC.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "On Dec. 22, at the direction of the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed the low-profile vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. One male narco-terrorist was confirmed killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. OperationbSouthern Spear" - U.S. Southern Command

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇻🇪⚡️- The U.S. Navy and Coast Guard are still actively pursuing the Iranian shadow tanker “BELLA 1” in the Atlantic Ocean, more than 35 hours after making contact with it.

🇺🇸⚡️- During his suicide watch observation, Jeffrey Epstein stated that his cellmate tried to kill him.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein sent a letter to convicted pedophile Larry Nassar while they were both in prison.

"We shared one thing: our love and caring for young ladies in the hope they would reach their full potential. Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by, he loved to “grab snatch,” whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair.

Yours,
J. Epstein.’”

Epstein states two major details in the letter. He confirms that he will take his own life, and he also claims that President Donald Trump shares their love of “young, nubile girls.”

🇨🇳🇮🇳⚡- Three Chinese research vessels enter the Indian Ocean, surveying waters around India.

🇸🇾⚡- The Syrian government has imposed a complete siege on the SDF-held areas of Aleppo, closing all entries and exits.

Rerum Novarum's map shows the situation in Aleppo, with all key locations in the area included.

Map key:
Yellow - SDF-controlled,
Green - Damascus-controlled.

🇺🇸⚡- "Trump is blaming me for a bill he eventually signed, while defending his banker friends, Bill Clinton, and “innocent” visitors to rape island. Meanwhile Bondi is working fervently to redact, omit, and delete Epstein files she is legally required to release under our bill," - Thomas Massie.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: Lebanon has announced the death of a Lebanese soldier, Ali Abdallah, in an Israeli airstrike yesterday.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡- "Moscow conveyed to Washington its concerns about US actions towards Venezuela," - Andrey Rydenko, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister.

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇴🇲⚡- Saudi-backed Yemen and the Houthis have reached a major prisoner exchange deal. Thousands of Saudi, Yemeni and Sudanese forces will be released in exchange for a similar number of Ansarullah members.

The deal was mediated by Oman.