☑️ Cyprus Presents NATO Accession Plan to Biden as Talks Begin on Permanent US Base

The detailed plan was “eagerly accepted” by Washington. (Kathimerini)

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan reportedly described it as a “win-win,” emphasizing the significant opportunities such a development could create.

Following his visit to Washington, Cyprus’ President Nikos Christodoulides also discussed the plan with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Bucharest during the European Political Community Summit.

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🗣🤕🌈 TRUMP TO IMMEDIATELY KICK 15K TRANS TROOPS OUT OF U.S. MILITARY, according to article in meme above (citing unnamed sources) that has the mentally ill, deeply confused and all types of wokes shook and raging.

Publication claims president-elect will sign executive order as early as 1st day back in office that will not only give all existing transgenders in army the bum's rush but will outright banish others from enlisting, declaring them unfit to serve.

If Trump implements trans ban, it would undermine readiness of military and create an even greater recruitment and retention crisis, not to mention signaling vulnerability to America’s adversaries - says Executive director of Modern Military Association of America, which campaigns on behalf of LGBTQ+ military personnel.

Pretty sure nothing "signals vulnerability to America’s adversaries" like having military personnel looking like MAN in middle of meme above.

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‎🤔 JUST IN: NATO Military Committee Chairman Warns Businesses to “Prepare for Wartime Scenario”

“Economies win wars; businesses must adjust production to ensure resilience,” warhawk Rob Bauer said at the European Policy Centre think tank in Brussels Monday.

Bauer noted western dependencies on supplies from China, with 60% of all rare earth materials produced and 90% processed there.

"We are naive if we think the Communist Party will never use that power. Business leaders in Europe and America need to realise that the commercial decisions they make have strategic consequences for the security of their nation.”

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🤔 ICYMI: Israel sanctions Haaretz due to articles that ‘hurt’ Israeli state

Israel has approved a resolution to cut ties with the Israeli news outlet Haaretz and ban govt funding bodies from communicating or placing advertisements with the newspaper.

Haaretz called the decision ‘another step in Netanyahu’s journey to dismantle Israeli democracy.’

Tel Aviv’s dispute with Haaretz intensified last month at a conference in London, when publisher Schocken said Netanyahu’s govt did not care about “imposing a cruel apartheid regime on the Palestinian population.”

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❌ UK Delivered Dozens of Storm Shadow Cruise Missiles Weeks Before Officially Approving Strikes Deep into Russia - Bloomberg

Starmer said at the G20 summit in Brazil last week that his govt was “doubling down” on support for Kiev - without giving any specifics.

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⚠️ Germany’s Largest Steelmaker Set to Cull Over 40% of it’s Workforce by 2030 - FT

Thyssenkrupp will cut 11k jobs as it seeks to slash its steel production capacity from 11.5mn tons annually - to between 8.7 and 9mn tons in order to become “more competitive.”

The company warned of oversupply in Europe and “a rise in cheap imports” from China, in the latest blow to German industry.

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🤔 “We can control Gaza and cut its population in half through voluntary migration within two years” - Israel’s finance minister Bezalel Smotrich

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😮 Marine Le Pen threatens to bring down French govt

The National Rally leader left a meeting with Michel Barnier - leader of the centrist-conservative coalition - saying he had not budged on any of her demands to ease the burden on poorer households in the draft 2025 budget.

Le Pen ended her hard-right party’s tacit support for the govt last week and threatened that unless concessions were made she could join a left-wing no-confidence vote that could topple it.

“My position has not changed,” Le Pen said as she left the Hôtel Matignon, the prime minister’s mansion in Paris. “No more, it seems, than that of the prime minister has changed.”

Asked if the Rally would back a no-confidence motion, she said: “Of course.”

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🌐 Trump Promises to Hit China, Mexico and Canada with New Tariffs

Donald Trump says he will impose new tariffs on day one of his presidency on the countries, in an effort to force them to crack down on illegal immigration and drug smuggling into the US.

The president-elect revealed that he will sign an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on all goods coming from Mexico and Canada immediately after his inauguration on Jan 20.

He also said an additional 10% tariff will be levied on China until Beijing blocks smuggling of the synthetic opioid fentanyl from the country.

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❌ Pakistan Police Fire Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets at Pro-Khan Supporters

Protesters demanding the release of ex-PM Imran Khan killed four members of the nation's security forces, the govt claimed Tuesday, as crowds defied police and closed in on the center of Islamabad.

The capital has been locked down since late Saturday, with mobile internet sporadically cut and more than 20,000 police flooding the streets, many armed with riot shields and batons.

"Those who will come here will be arrested," Interior Minister Naqvi told reporters late Monday at D-Chowk, the public square outside Islamabad's government buildings that PTI aims to occupy.

Is Washington about to lose one of its puppet leaders?

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🇷🇺🇺🇦The deputy head of Russia's Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, has commented on discussions by US politicians and journalists about the transfer of nuclear weapons to Kiev:

The very threat of transferring nuclear weapons to the Kiev regime can be seen as a preparation for a nuclear conflict with Russia.

In addition, Medvedev stressed: 'The actual transfer of such weapons can be equated with a fait accompli of an attack on Russia, and the consequences are obvious.

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⚠️ JUST IN: Israel Issues Evacuation Warnings for 20 Locations in Beirut Suburbs - amid expectations for a ceasefire agreement

A significant wave of attacks is expected.

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🔴 US to Deploy Missile Units to Japan Islands

The US military will set up temporary bases along Japan's southwestern Nansei island chain and the Philippines to deploy missile units in the event of a Taiwan contingency, sources familiar with Japan-US relations said to Kyodo News.

The US Marine Littoral Regiment, which possesses multiple-launch High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, will be deployed along the island chain stretching from the Japanese prefectures of Kagoshima and Okinawa toward Taiwan, according to the sources.

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