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🇩🇪🇺🇦 - Germany must limit military aid to Ukraine. According to the current budget planning of the federal government, no new money is available for this purpose.

Finance Minister Lindner informed the Ministry of Defense of this.

- Frankfurter Allgemeine

🇩🇪 - There is also the upcoming East German state elections, with BSW and AfD being up.

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🇵🇱 - “To all the initiators and patrons of Nord Stream 1 and 2. The only thing you should do today about it is apologise and keep quiet.”

- Polish PM Donald Tusk

🇦🇿 - Israel’s ally Azerbaijan’s army held air-defense drills just days after its southern neighbor Iran conducted naval tests near their shared border.

"Air defense systems including long-range S-300 were activated to practice defending important facilities against missile attacks from a 'conditional enemy'," the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said.

- Bloomberg

🇷🇺🇺🇦 - Russian MFA claims Ukraine prepares an attack on Kursk NPP.

🇸🇩 - The Adre crossing, which connects Chad to RSF-controlled parts of Darfur, will be reopened for humanitarian convoys following US-led peace talks. The crossing’s reopening is expected to favor arms flow from Chad to the RSF.

🇹🇷🇫🇷🇺🇸 - Turkey and France share a similarity: Once a powerful colonial empire, US hegemony ended up ending their colonial rule.

The US, after WW2, ordered France and Britain to decolonize. But, when France decolonized, the imperatives of fighting communisme meant the US authorized France to keep some of its influence on its colonies.

However, Turkey is on another level: Turkish influence was for a long time limited to the Turkish republic, and then to Northern Cyprus. The change came in 2 phases: the fall of Communism meant that multiple Turkic or European Muslim countries won their independence. And then Arab Spring created a fertile ground for a soft Islamic conservative country like Turkey to have an empire.

Furthermore, Turkey faced Russia often near directly, being those during the 2010s and even sometimes in the 2020s that made sure to benefit America by limiting Russian advance in Syria and Libya and by doing its Karabakh campaign.

Thus, Turkey became the first "new empire" that was created with US support, and didn't just continue to exist after WW2 like France.

Along with Turkey, one could name Ukraine, Israel, and Saudi Arabia as proxies who will wage war on America's behalf.

All of this is apart of a process that I would call geopolitical decentralization where the US manage to slow down, but not reverse as of yet, its decline by letting other nations gain some of the US historical "rights" to use force.

https://x.com/WAffairsBlog/status/1824886049627336962

Did a Twitter thread with it.

🇺🇸 - Former US Congressman George Santos expected to plead guilty to multiple counts in fraud case.

- AP News

🇺🇸🇪🇺 - Liberalism is an ideology that despite its claim doesn't believe in any inherent morals. It will thus never give the West the proper intellectual fertile ground to grow again.

🇺🇸🇪🇺 - There is 2 concept that if you admit that they exist in of themselves without condition you will never be a genuine liberal:

Good, which means that morals are inherent are aren’t made to be debated at each election cycles or societal change.
Truth, which means that fundamental truths about human nature should not be debated.

🇻🇦 - The strongest wealth anyone who fight for justice will ever have is not in this material world. Its the idea that if in their fight for justice they have shortcomings, if they fail, if they sin, if at some point their death instinct has no choice but to temporarily win over their hope of a better world for the time of an important fight, well that they will be forgiven for that. That fundamentally, and I'm saying this to everyone who had big fights in their lives, everyone who had shortcomings, fundamentally, no matter what people on Earth may think of what happened or what they think have happened, god knows the full story and will forgive you if you ask forgiveness.

A Christian society may never be Christian if it doesn't believe in godly forgiveness.

🇮🇱🇱🇧 - "Top Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr received a phone call from an unknown person to go to the seventh floor of the residential building in Beirut where he would be killed by an Israeli airstrike," an unnamed Hezbollah official tells The Wall Street Journal.

"At the time of the strike, the secretive commander was in his office on the second floor of the building, and bringing him five floors higher to his apartment likely made it easier for Israel to target him," the official says.

🇮🇱🇵🇸 - Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen :

"Israel will retain security authority over Gaza and the right to access it whenever necessary.

The Philadelphi Corridor should stay under Israeli jurisdiction".

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇧🇾 - Belarusian President Lukashenko :

"Kyiv may try to provoke Moscow to use nuclear weapons".