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War is just Bigger Business in 2024 ....
War is always Big Business. But in 2024 it's getting bigger by the hour. Grouped by topic and geography today.
🔸Ultimately 2024 will be the hottest year since 1945: full of conflicts in perspective. The guardrails are falling one after the other.
No continent will be spared from war. Strategika51 🔸
🔸Possible resumption of the conflict in the Balkans with the rearmament of Kosovo by Washington. Strategika51 🔸
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🐦⬛️🇷🇸 No negotiations: Property of Republika Srpska - red line
The Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska, Radovan Višković, said that property is a red line below which no negotiations are possible and that, as he stated, the self-proclaimed High Representative Kristijan Šmit imposes a law on property, the Republika Srpska must go to independence.
"If you take away the property of the Republika Srpska, we have nothing left to ask for here. The property of the Srpska is a red line below which there is no negotiation," said Višković.
Višković stated that at that moment Srpska becomes a state in full capacity and takes over the powers of the state.
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🔸Dodik: We refuse to be part of the hypocritical politics directed by the West
"Republika Srpska stands for peace and we leave no room for any other interpretation, but we cannot and will not agree to participate in major conflicts."
"We sympathize with the victims and refuse to be part of the hypocritical politics directed by the West," Dodik pointed out. Wartime Media 🔸
🤣 Kurti requests sanctions for Serbia.
"We were criticized for the violence in the north last year — unfairly — and the EU introduced measures against Kosovo. On the other hand, Serbia agrees with Russia on the issue of aggression against Ukraine and there are no sanctions for Serbia."
🇷🇸 Wartime Media 🔸
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🐦⬛️🏁 🇧🇦 NATO invasion of Sarajevo
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced today that NATO ambassadors, all 31 of them, will visit Sarajevo next week.
According to him, the aim of the visit is to demonstrate "strong support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina".
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🔸The leader of Yemen's Houthis says Washington supports Israel militarily, financially, logistically and diplomatically. He continues that the United States also offers unlimited satellite and security information and data to Israel. Strategika51 🔸
🔸Pentagon: “the United States exercised its right to self-defense in Yemen” Strategika51 🔸
US President Joe Biden, asked about the effectiveness of the Anglo-American coalition strikes in Yemen, responded:
"Are they stopping the Houthis? NO. Will they continue? YES." Strategika51 🔸
💢 When it's everyone else but you, maybe they aren't the terrorists (hint hint). Joachim Flores - New Resistance 🔸
🇾🇪🇧🇭 The Houthis are joking.
- What have you been looking for there for three days already?
- I'm looking on the map for the state of Bahrain, which is said to be part of an alliance striking Yemen. I still can’t find it.
US asks China to ask Iran to ask Ansarullah of Yemen to reduce their attacks.
🇾🇪❌🌊 There are reports from Yemen that the Ansar Allah is considering the possibility of implementing the Al-Aqsa Triangle plan. It means the closure of all three major waterways of the Middle East:
🔺Bab el-Mandeb Strait;
🔺Strait of Hormuz;
🔺Suez Canal.
🛢 This will stop oil and gas supplies to Israel from 🇶🇦Qatar, the 🇦🇪 UAE and 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia.
Russian Diplomat 🔸
🇾🇪🇦🇪🇸🇦 The UAE and Saudi Arabia will provide a bypass of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait
📰 The German shipping company Hapag-Lloyd announced the opening of a land route “bypassing the Houthis” through the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, writes Yeni Şafak. This will allow its ships not to enter the Gulf of Aden and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
In its statement, the company notes that “this is not an optimal solution” due to the capacity constraints of land corridors, but it is
a solution for those cargo owners for whom delivery times on the route bypassing Africa are unacceptable.
This corridor connects the ports of Jebel Ali in the UAE and Dammam and Jbeil in Saudi Arabia with the Saudi port of Jeddah.
From there, the ships plan to receive cargo for further movement through the Suez Canal to Israeli Eilat.
😅 Russian Diplomat 🔸
🔸The Pentagon believes that Russia is worn down enough in Ukraine to be able to enter into a direct confrontation with it via NATO by September 2024. Strategika51 🔸
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🐦⬛️ 🇬🇧🇷🇺🇺🇦 UK Defense Minister Grant Shapps - demands continued support for Ukraine because "its future will be decided in 2024."
We were the first to transmit long-range precision strike missiles. We were the first to train the Ukrainian army on our soil. And we were the first to send modern Western tanks to Ukraine. And now we are pledging to back up that leadership by increasing military aid to £2.5bn next year.
And now it's time for the rest of the world to follow suit, from Washington to Brussels. Do like London, Kyiv needs our help. And we all need to step up our military aid and give Ukraine what it needs to win. If we do not, our cities and countries will have to experience the incredible cost of the Russian victory.
Because the future of Ukraine will be decided in 2024. Only by doing more can we guarantee that it will be a future in which freedom triumphs over tyranny. Glory to Ukraine!
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🇬🇧 Great Britain wants to buy Taurus missiles from Germany in order to transfer more similar Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, writes Handelsblat, citing sources in Berlin
The publication claims that the German side received such a proposal a few weeks ago and Scholz is studying it.
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🐦⬛️ 🇪🇺 🇭🇺 Hungary will withdraw its objections to the creation of a five billion euro military "aid" fund for Ukraine - Bloomberg
Budapest said it would not interfere with reaching a consensus at a meeting of European Union ambassadors on Wednesday.
However, agreement on a broader aid package of 50 billion euros remains stalled, the report said.
Hungary probably took this step to alleviate excess EU pressure. A number of European officials are trying to deprive Budapest of its right to vote in the EU because of its pro-Russian views.
The general fund is 20 billion and is planned for 4 years.
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🔸💢 Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s remarks at a UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine, New York, January 22, 2024
Full official transcript text in English 👇🏽
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1927070/
👉 A highlight that mentions Soros and Blinken:
"From their speeches we have learned, in particular, that 90 percent of the military budget allocated by the Americans to the Kiev regime remains in the United States and is used to expand the country's defence sector and to upgrade weapons. The obsolete equipment is sent to Ukraine. Most major Ukrainian plants and companies, including lithium facilities, have been sold to the Americans. Fertile land has been leased to them on an indefinite lease for very little. One of the striking examples is the acquisition by Soros-controlled entities of black earth soils to bury the waste of the Western chemical industry. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken emphasises that continued aid to Ukraine guarantees the creation of new jobs in the United States as if he is talking not about financing a war which has already claimed hundreds of thousands of lives in Ukraine, but a lucrative business project." Joachim Flores - New Resistance 🔸
There is a good chance they did this deliberately so that they can get out of the war zone entirely. It’s a good excuse.
🇬🇧🇷🇺‼️🚨 LMAO: Russia’s threat to forbid fishing in the Barents Sea hurt the Brit’s fish and chips.
Who’s sanctioning who? 🤣MyLordBebo 🔸
🇬🇧 🇷🇺 Based on recent events 😅
Russian Diplomat 🔸
Zeit: Europe is not ready for a Trump presidency
The European Union now has enough problems - from strained relations with China to the lack of energy resources from Russia.
To protect itself, the EU must act, but the lack of unified leadership is leading to slow and inconsistent decision-making and increasing vulnerability to pressure from China and the United States. BelVestnik 🔸
🐦⬛️ 🇩🇪 In Germany, for the first time since the end of the Cold War, the DPA agency will present an operational defense plan.
According to the head of the Bundeswehr territorial command, Lieutenant General Andrea Bodemann, the plan will include the action of security forces and industry, measures to combat espionage, cyber attacks, sabotage and the spread of disinformation and fakes. The document is expected to be presented in April.
The details of this confidential document will be discussed on January 26 in Berlin at a meeting attended by representatives of Germany's allied countries, German law enforcement agencies, public protection agencies, energy and logistics companies, scientists and experts.
According to the general, Germany's primary task in the event of a military conflict will be to ensure the movement of Allied military personnel and equipment across its territory.
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🐦⬛️ 🇹🇷 Turkey TV talks about Turkey's future expansion map for 2025, which includes parts of Armenia, Georgia, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, northern parts of Iraq and Syria.
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🔸The Israeli military command advocates finding another alternative to the Iron Dome system to stop drone attacks from Lebanon due to the exorbitant cost of munitions used to intercept a single drone. Strategika51 🔸
❗️A large-scale military agreement was signed between Israel and the United States
As part of the deal, Israel will receive:
✔️Squadron of F-35 aircraft (25 aircraft)
✔️F-15AI squadron (25 aircraft)
✔️Apache Squadron (at least 12 combat helicopters)
Many thousands of weapons are expected to arrive in the coming days.
The deal has already been agreed upon, and the delivery of the aircraft will be carried out as soon as possible (within a few days).
Israeli media are reporting that Israeli authorities are asking the Americans to prioritize supplies given the development of the campaign and the possibility that it will escalate into a multi-arena war. BelVestnik 🔸
🐦⬛️ 🇮🇶 🇺🇸 The United States will soon replace its military presence in Iraq with bilateral cooperation
This was stated by the head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin.
The Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that it had held talks with the United States, where the timetable for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq was discussed.
The US has already agreed to reduce the number of "military advisers" in Iraq.
The Iraqi parliament voted to withdraw foreign troops from the country as early as 2020.
At the same time, this is an important victory for Iran. His proxy war strategy continues to work successfully.
Slowly and methodically, Iran continues to put pressure on American positions in the region. The strategy of sanctions and airstrikes in the fight against Iran proved unfeasible.
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🔸One of the options considered by the CIA in Syria is to carry out a US military withdrawal while launching or rather relaunching Daesh 2.0 in the areas evacuated by the coalition forces. Which will be described as a disaster by the mainstream media. The mission of Daesh 2.0 will be to occupy the regular Syrian forces on the eastern axis and not allow the Syrian military reinforcement in the Golan. Strategika51 🔸
♨️ Seyed Hassan Nasrallah's unofficial Twitter account announced the birth of a new member of Axis of Resistance:
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🚨 | 🇮🇶 Major escalation from Iraqi Resistance leader Abu Alaa al-Walai:
“At a time when the criminal American occupation is again blatantly targeting our security forces and our sacred crowd in a number of areas of Iraq, we urge the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq to begin the 2nd phase of their blessed operations, which includes enforcing the blockade on Zionist maritime navigation in the Mediterranean Sea, and removing the entity’s ports until the Zionist usurper is out of service, and this will continue until the unjust siege on Gaza is lifted, and the horrific Zionist massacres against its people are stopped.” FotrosResistance 🔸
🔸The Pakistani army disrupted Internet services across the country to disrupt the "Jelsa" or online conference of the PTI (Pakistan Tehrik e Insaf), the party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan and the main party of opposition of the country. Strategika51 🔸
President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said on Tuesday said that the 🇵🇭 #Philippine government will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court’s (#ICC) investigation into a brutal anti-narcotics campaign, calling it a “threat to our sovereignty”.
Reuters quoted Marcos as telling reporters, “I consider it as a threat to our sovereignty. Therefore, the Philippine government will not lift a finger to help any investigation that the ICC conducts.” ResonantNews🔸
🇨🇳🇺🇸🗳 A Trump presidential victory in 2024 would be a "nightmare" for China, especially when combined with a victory in Taiwan by Lai Ching-te - Rory Daniels of the Asia Society Policy Institute's China Analysis Center
Another source of concern for China is that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will return to a leadership position under Trump, Daniels said.
One of the first actions Trump took on the world stage in December 2016 was to call Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen. For the first time, the US President spoke directly with the head of the island. Trump even suggested that the United States might one day abandon the “one China” policy.
📰 Business Insider
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The US should not come to Taiwan's defense if China attacks it. Taiwan “took away America’s business”
– US presidential candidate Donald Trump
🗞 Global Times about American arms supplies to Taiwan.
Russian Diplomat 🔸
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🐦⬛️ 🇺🇸🇰🇵🇰🇷 The United States of America does not rule out the possibility of an armed conflict between South Korea and the DPRK in the coming months, writes the New York Times, citing American officials.
They clarified that they see no immediate risk of full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula, but recent statements by the DPRK leader appear more aggressive than before and should be taken seriously.
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🔸🇨🇳💴 Chinese banks are actively occupying the African market - transferring residents of the black continent to trade in yuan. Branches of the largest Chinese banks are opening in 🇿🇦 South Africa, 🇰🇪 Kenya and 🇿🇲 Zambia. The latter has large reserves of copper - which is now mined by Chinese companies, writes SCMP.
🇪🇬 Egypt is already borrowing billions of yuan from the Chinese bond market to ease its debt crisis.
The yuan's share of Swift transactions is approaching 5%, surpassing the yen. But China has CIPS. If these transactions are also taken into account, the yuan most likely ranks third, ahead of the pound. Russian Diplomat 🔸
Lastly, we all need this reminder of how important our own intuition is in this age. Information is the most compromised exercise in history. By volume, in any event.
🔸Never has #Info-War been so complicated.
Russians and Iranians run English channels.
Americans & Chinese run channels in Russian and Arabic languages.
Pakistanis run channels in Hebrew.
And then Indians…
subscribe to all of the above. 😇😁
#Greyzone Warfare is a reality‼️
And, no, I am not of Indian descent! Even though it may look like it from that formula. Have a great weekend, everyone. The Voices - Texas version will be out before the end of it. Just in case fire watching while snow drifts pile up is in your plans, too…
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Thanks, a great roundup including many things I missed.
Many bases covered here. I especially enjoyed Charles “fish and chips “ story. I had heard about the possibility of shutting off the fishing.