🇮🇩 | Indonesia is still studying and does not want to rush into joining BRICS.

"We want to examine and calculate [BRICS membership] first. We don't want to be in a rush," President Jokowi said as stated in a press release.

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"nos hemos incorporado a la alianza de los BRICS". Alberto Fernandez, Presidente de la Nación Argentina.

"We are now part of BRICS", Alberto Fernandez, President of Argentina.

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I want to be entirely clear dear reader as I've seen many commentators within Telegram who have clearly no clue about Argentine politics talking precisely about Argentine politics, this annoyance is probably the biggest reason for the creation of /SCI/

Argentina is not joining BRICS, regardless of the wishes of the president Alberto Fernández and the Economy "superminister" Sergio Massa of joining BRICS to access more debt for the country, it cannot happen because such membership requires being ratified in the Congress and the Senate, both of which the current administration has no majority in either today let alone in 2 months when the elections take place and the new makeup of congress is even more right-wing.

The "full membership" date is also January 1st which is 20 days after the new administration inauguration, either Javier Milei or Patricia Bullrich, both of which have profoundly rejected the idea of joining BRICS with Milei going a step further and rejecting the regional group Mercosur and rejecting diplomatic relations with the CCP, instead recognizing Taiwan as the legitimate Chinese government again.

For the aforementioned reasons, and as I've said before, Argentina is not joining BRICS.

🇷🇺🇫🇮 - Ian Petrovsky, a member of the Russian nationalist paramilitary Rusich, was detained upon entering Finland on charges of having committed war crimes in the Ukraine.

🇧🇾🇷🇺⚡️- Belarusian President Lukashenko has stated that Putin “cannot be behind the attempt on Prigozhin”

🇷🇺⚡️- Russian President Putin has signed a decree that all “Russian paramilitary fighters” must pledge their allegiance to the Russian flag

🇧🇾🇷🇺⚡️- Lukashenko: “Prigozhin assured me that Putin warned him of an imminent assassination attempt.”

🇧🇾🇷🇺⚡️- Lukashenko: “I don’t imagine that Putin is behind the killing of the Wagner commander”

🇧🇾🇷🇺⚡️- Lukashenko: “Prigozhin never requested security guarantees”

🇦🇷⚡️🔥🌐 — Javier Milei criticizes Argentina's accession to BRICS: 'I won't ally with communists'; the BRICS expansion initiative was led by China, which is the largest economy in the group and accounts for nearly 70% of the bloc's GDP.

Two of the leading candidates for the Argentine Presidency, Javier Milei and Patricia Bullrich, have expressed their opposition to the country's entry into BRICS.

🟣 Milei (libertarian): "Our geopolitical alignment is with the United States and Israel. We will not align ourselves with communists. This does not mean that the private sector cannot trade with whomever they wish."

🔵 Bullrich (center-right): "The President [Alberto Fernández] is in a position of great weakness and is compromising Argentina. Under our government, the country will not be in BRICS."

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🇲🇱🇩🇪 IS-Sahel has announced the execution of a local Sahelian civilian who they allege collaborated with the German Bundeswehr, calling him a "spy of the crusaders".

Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East Mor Awa III Royel visits Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese in Sweden

https://syriacpress.com/blog/2023/08/23/catholicos-patriarch-of-the-assyrian-church-of-the-east-mor-awa-iii-royel-visits-syriac-orthodox-archdiocese-in-sweden/

🇲🇱🇳🇪🇧🇫 A new jihadist group in the Sahel?

According to an audio circulating on local WhatsApp, a new jihadi group (JNIM splinter) is born in the #Sahel, named Wahdat al-Muslimin (Muslim Unity) جماعة وحدة مسلمين, spox named Mouslimou Adam Abd al-Bara' calls for unity and an end to the war between JNIM and IS Sahel.

The narrator asks for an immediate cessation of the JNIM and IS Sahel conflict to "preserve the blood of Muslims, especially the ordinary Muslims who are killed day and night without any guilt, and to unite and save them...since local governments will kill them and have established fronts for this purpose led by Dozos, VDP, and Wagner."

Lastly, the narrator hopes for a response to the call "for everyone who wants unity and healing for Muslims."

https://twitter.com/MENASTREAM/status/1694747729627418853?t=hrSjZ1-dH-r7l3Mda3bOfw&s=19

🇨🇴 Colombia begins to issue passports with option X for non-binary people

https://alertas24.com/internacionales/colombia-comienza-a-expedir-pasaportes-con-opcion-x-para-personas-no-binarias/

🇺🇸⚡️- Karnes County in Texas is shutting down its schools for a week over a “recent surge in COVID-19 cases.”

#Myanmar (#Burma) 🇲🇲: People's Defense Forces (#PDF) ambushed Pyu Saw Htee (Pro-Junta militias) in #Pakokku, #Magway.

Several militia members were killed and M1 carbines were captured as a result.

Fighters were armed with Chinese Type 56 rifles, BA203 UBGL and Wa-81 rifles.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1695066024100475029

#Mali 🇲🇱: #ISIS - #Sahel militants executed a local individual who claimed to be working for #German Forces 🇩🇪.

Militants who carried out the execution appeared to be armed with AK-103 rifles (captured from Malian Forces) and a possible East German MPi-KM-72 rifle.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1695122170945421391

🌍 🇳🇬 🇳🇪 The ECOWAS-Standby Force has reportedly completed all Preparations and Deployments for a potential Military Intervention against the Military Junta in Niger, with roughly 12,000 Troops now able to launch the Operation at a moments notice.

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