UEFA World Cup Qualifiers today:

🇧🇪 Belgium vs 🇲🇰 North Macedonia — 18:45 UTC

🇽🇰 Kosovo vs 🇸🇮 Slovenia — 18:45 UTC

Tragic scenes from Tennessee, US.

A military arms producer facility blew up from what is assumed to be mishandling of TNT production with an unknown number of casualties.

A few months ago I reported how Bosnia declined to handle a $1bn order of Chinese TNT via a Bulgarian firm.

This is the same company which is part owned by the US and is currently seeking investments to increase production capabilities. The brave employee who rejected the purchase of the Chinese TNT was fired for her decision.

It's well reported the US is suffering shortages across the board for military arms and munition procurement and that sale would have been a short gap solution to its problems.

While it is true that increased arms production in Bosnia will bring with it increased job opportunities, would this expansion of military production be in the benefit of Bosnia's sovereignty?

🇭🇺 Hungary’s MOL to Increase Oil Deliveries to Serbia 🇷🇸

Hungary’s oil giant MOL will ramp up its oil deliveries to Serbia after the U.S. sanctions on Serbia's Russian-owned NIS refinery.
The sanctions led Croatia to cut crude oil supplies, raising concerns that Serbia’s sole refinery might shut down soon. While MOL is stepping in to provide more fuel, they admit it won’t fully replace the loss of supply from Croatia due to logistical limitations.

⚠️ NIS currently meets most of Serbia's fuel needs, including diesel, gasoline, jet fuel, and heavy fuel oil.
A new oil pipeline between Hungary and Serbia is in the works, potentially ensuring full supply by 2028.

President Trump has announced 100% tariff increases on Chinese products on top of existing tariffs.

Chinese expansion into auxiliary markets to be expected. China has an increasing share of market competitiveness in the Balkans and this latest tariff penalty which comes into action November 1st, 2025 will only increase existing trade.

https://www.hungarianconservative.com/articles/politics/western-balkans-china-economy-geopolitics/

Toncoin, associated with Telegram, took a hit. The wallet stopped working momentarily. The coin dropped by 40%. At one point, it fell by 75%.

The cryptocurrency market capitalization lost nearly half a trillion dollars following Trump's statement on new tariffs against China.

It has come to my attention that there are Israelis attempting to create allies from Eastern Europe and the Balkans disguised as nationalists and attempting to intertwine Judaism with Christianity against a hypothetical threat of Islam.

If that sounds familiar, it is. We've seen how this plays out.

They are subversive, religious fanatics who will attempt to buy your pride. If you consider yourself a patriot, there is no cost to one's pride. These are not allies to any Balkan nationalist cause.

Never have been. Never will be.

—Meanwhile, Hungary’s MOL oil company has increased oil supplies to Serbia.

Serbian Defense Minister announced the start of "Operation True Promise: Kosovo Edition"

🇭🇷 Croatia: an individual had 5 tonnes of paprika peppers stolen which he kept in a lorry.

He says the cabbage was left intact. Based on this evidence, we can conclude the thief was a Macedonian and not a Bosnian.