📢 🇪🇬 🇪🇹 Egypt says talks over Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam have failed -statement
🔶️ "Egypt reserves its right, in accordance with international charters and accords, to defend its water and national security in case of any harm," Egypt's ministry of water resources and irrigation said in a statement.
🔶️ Ethiopia, which argues that it is exercising its right to economic development, said in September it had completed its final phase of filling a reservoir for a massive hydroelectric power plant at the dam on the Blue Nile.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/egypt-says-talks-over-grand-ethiopian-renaissance-dam-have-failed-statement-2023-12-19/
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🔶️ "Egypt reserves its right, in accordance with international charters and accords, to defend its water and national security in case of any harm," Egypt's ministry of water resources and irrigation said in a statement.
🔶️ Ethiopia, which argues that it is exercising its right to economic development, said in September it had completed its final phase of filling a reservoir for a massive hydroelectric power plant at the dam on the Blue Nile.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/egypt-says-talks-over-grand-ethiopian-renaissance-dam-have-failed-statement-2023-12-19/
https://archive.ph/XElvW
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Egypt says talks over Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam have failed -statement
Egypt said the latest talks over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) had failed but it would monitor the process of filling and operating the dam.
🇸🇩 🏴☠️ The RSF capture of Wad Madani changes the military geography of the conflict in Sudan, Sudan War Monitor points out, as the RSF can now move freely across Central Sudan. People in nearby states anticipate further attacks soon.
https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/fall-of-wad-madani-fuels-criticism
📎 Gerrit Kurtz
https://sudanwarmonitor.com/p/fall-of-wad-madani-fuels-criticism
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🇸🇩 RSF rebels have captured an important city in Sudan
Situation as of December 20, 2023
🔻As we reported yesterday, in the province of El Gezira, rapid reaction forces engaged in intense battles in the area of two crossings near the Blue Nile River. After three days of assault, the RSF successfully captured the administrative center of the province - Wad Medani.
▪️ Wad Medani holds great significance for Sudan, serving as a crucial hub for transportation and trade. Most importantly, it is a crucial point along a railway connecting the capital with the south.
▪️ With the city now under RRF control, civilians are urgently fleeing from Wad Medani, and humanitarian organizations have also evacuated and moved southeast. This will likely lead to a collapse in the social sphere, further worsening the situation for ordinary people.
🔻Nevertheless, the RSF has no intention of stopping. Having gained a foothold on the western bank, the rebel detachments have secured control of the road bridge. In addition to their existing control over El-Khiyari to the south, this will enable them to organize supplies for their forces.
This development will contribute to a further increase in the RSF's offensive in other areas, such as Kadugli, where reconnaissance groups are operating more boldly. One of these sniper groups attacked government positions, resulting in several fatalities and a couple of injuries.
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Situation as of December 20, 2023
🔻As we reported yesterday, in the province of El Gezira, rapid reaction forces engaged in intense battles in the area of two crossings near the Blue Nile River. After three days of assault, the RSF successfully captured the administrative center of the province - Wad Medani.
▪️ Wad Medani holds great significance for Sudan, serving as a crucial hub for transportation and trade. Most importantly, it is a crucial point along a railway connecting the capital with the south.
▪️ With the city now under RRF control, civilians are urgently fleeing from Wad Medani, and humanitarian organizations have also evacuated and moved southeast. This will likely lead to a collapse in the social sphere, further worsening the situation for ordinary people.
🔻Nevertheless, the RSF has no intention of stopping. Having gained a foothold on the western bank, the rebel detachments have secured control of the road bridge. In addition to their existing control over El-Khiyari to the south, this will enable them to organize supplies for their forces.
This development will contribute to a further increase in the RSF's offensive in other areas, such as Kadugli, where reconnaissance groups are operating more boldly. One of these sniper groups attacked government positions, resulting in several fatalities and a couple of injuries.
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English version
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🇸🇩 🏴☠️ The fall of Wad Madani has sent shockwaves—political, social, & humanitarian—throughout Sudan, including calls for a coup to oust Sudan's ruling military junta. Last night, Ali Karti, leader of the Islamic Movement, issued a warning to the army leadership.
📎 Sudan War Monitor
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🗳 🇺🇸 California Lt. Governor Eleni Kounalakis calls on the Secretary Of State to begin exploring ways to remove Trump from the 2024 state ballot.
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📝 🇾🇪 🇺🇸 Why do I think the Houthis are such a force to be reckoned with? Why do I think there is actually a chance they could defeat a US led coalition? | Calvin Froedge
🔶️ The Houthis seized power in 2014 following a coup, and after taking the capital of Sana'a, moved southward to begin an offensive against government forces.
🔶️ In 2015, A Saudi-led coalition of Arab states—including the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain, Sudan, and Kuwait - with the material support of the US - joins the Yemeni government in fighting the Houthis.
⬛️ The coalition attacked by land, air, and sea.
🔶️ Despite an all out "scorched earth" war against the Houthis by virtually the entire Arab world and increased US arms sales to the Saudis, the Houthis remained undefeated and continued to gain ground against the Yemeni government.
🔶️ The Houthis would claim numerous victories over the coming years, not only against the Yemeni ground forces, but against coalition ground forces, coalition air forces, and even coalition naval forces.
⬛️ No matter how much they got hit with, the Houthis kept winning.
🔶️ In 2016 the Houthis even managed to completely destroy a coalition warship, the Emirati HSV-SWIFT 2.
⬛️ The ship was targeted by a Houthi anti ship missile.
🔶️ By 2019, the coalition has fallen apart. The Houthis have assassinated many key figures in the Yemeni government. They landed a huge blow against the Saudis in the 2019 Abaqiq attack. UAE forces have completely withdrawn from Yemen.
⬛️ The coalition decides to let the Houthis win.
🔶️ On March 30, 2022, Saudi Arabia announces a cessation of all military operations in Yemen.
🔶️ The Houthis have won. Against all odds, against the whole Arab world, against the United States, from a small city in Northern Yemen, the Houthis have conquered the country.
🔶️ Fast forward to today, are the Houthis weaker than they were a decade ago? Far from it.
🔶️ The Houthis now enjoy mass popular support and have inherited vast Yemeni weapons arsenal as well as supplies from Iran.
⬛️ They enjoy a strong strategic position at a vital choke point.
🔶️ My reasoning for thinking the Houthis are a force to be reckoned with is simple - they have already proven it, over and over again, while vastly outnumbered against foes supplied and supported by the most powerful empire the earth has ever seen.
⬛️ The Houthis are the Fremen.
🔶️ The Houthis have proven that they cannot be starved. Years of blockade were ineffective.
🔶️ They have proven that they cannot be defeated with technology - they have downed countless modern European and US built aircraft.
🇾🇪 This enemy will fight to the last man.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1737234674852778084.html
🔶️ The Houthis seized power in 2014 following a coup, and after taking the capital of Sana'a, moved southward to begin an offensive against government forces.
🔶️ In 2015, A Saudi-led coalition of Arab states—including the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Bahrain, Sudan, and Kuwait - with the material support of the US - joins the Yemeni government in fighting the Houthis.
⬛️ The coalition attacked by land, air, and sea.
🔶️ Despite an all out "scorched earth" war against the Houthis by virtually the entire Arab world and increased US arms sales to the Saudis, the Houthis remained undefeated and continued to gain ground against the Yemeni government.
🔶️ The Houthis would claim numerous victories over the coming years, not only against the Yemeni ground forces, but against coalition ground forces, coalition air forces, and even coalition naval forces.
⬛️ No matter how much they got hit with, the Houthis kept winning.
🔶️ In 2016 the Houthis even managed to completely destroy a coalition warship, the Emirati HSV-SWIFT 2.
⬛️ The ship was targeted by a Houthi anti ship missile.
🔶️ By 2019, the coalition has fallen apart. The Houthis have assassinated many key figures in the Yemeni government. They landed a huge blow against the Saudis in the 2019 Abaqiq attack. UAE forces have completely withdrawn from Yemen.
⬛️ The coalition decides to let the Houthis win.
🔶️ On March 30, 2022, Saudi Arabia announces a cessation of all military operations in Yemen.
🔶️ The Houthis have won. Against all odds, against the whole Arab world, against the United States, from a small city in Northern Yemen, the Houthis have conquered the country.
🔶️ Fast forward to today, are the Houthis weaker than they were a decade ago? Far from it.
🔶️ The Houthis now enjoy mass popular support and have inherited vast Yemeni weapons arsenal as well as supplies from Iran.
⬛️ They enjoy a strong strategic position at a vital choke point.
🔶️ My reasoning for thinking the Houthis are a force to be reckoned with is simple - they have already proven it, over and over again, while vastly outnumbered against foes supplied and supported by the most powerful empire the earth has ever seen.
⬛️ The Houthis are the Fremen.
🔶️ The Houthis have proven that they cannot be starved. Years of blockade were ineffective.
🔶️ They have proven that they cannot be defeated with technology - they have downed countless modern European and US built aircraft.
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📢 🇸🇾 🇮🇱 Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad questions official narrative of the holocaust saying, “There is no evidence six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust.”
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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 BREAKING: Israel tells mediators time is running out for diplomatic solution with Hezbollah; Washington fears war in Lebanon will require U.S. to get involved - Kann
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🇺🇸⚡️- Maine is considering a removal of Trump from the 2024 ballot.
🗳 🇺🇸 "Efforts to remove Trump from the ballot are underway in several states, with lawsuits filed in at least California, New Mexico, New Hampshire, and Colorado."
🔶️ "In Colorado, the Supreme Court ruled, while Minnesota's Supreme Court dismissed a similar lawsuit."
🔶️ "Additionally, Democratic secretaries of state in swing states like Arizona and Michigan have been skeptical of exerting authority to disqualify Trump, though efforts are being made in some states to remove him on constitutional grounds, specifically related to his role in Jan 6."
🔶️ "In Colorado, the Supreme Court ruled, while Minnesota's Supreme Court dismissed a similar lawsuit."
🔶️ "Additionally, Democratic secretaries of state in swing states like Arizona and Michigan have been skeptical of exerting authority to disqualify Trump, though efforts are being made in some states to remove him on constitutional grounds, specifically related to his role in Jan 6."
🚢 🇾🇪 🌍 Every containership over 8,000TEUs, except for one, have turned from the Bab el-Mandeb.
🔶️ This means that all the major ocean container lines have abandoned the region even after the @DeptofDefense and @CENTCOM have announced Op Prosperity Guardian.
📎 Sal Mercogliano
🔶️ This means that all the major ocean container lines have abandoned the region even after the @DeptofDefense and @CENTCOM have announced Op Prosperity Guardian.
📎 Sal Mercogliano
Corrections:
FS Champlain (A-623) and FS Floreal Class Frigate due to operating in the Indian Ocean have been removed from the map for the time being.
ENS Alexandria (F-911) spotted in Djibouti Port December 10, 2023
Either operationing in Red Sea or Gulf of Aden until more accurate location found will have at displayed at Djibouti Port.
Updates:
Italy has announced ITS Virginio Fasan (F-591) will be deployed and partake in Operation Prosperity Guardian.
FGS Hessen (F-221) talks are ongoing in Germany on whether to deploy to Region in January/February 2024.
🔗 Intel Schizo @Schizointel
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🇺🇸 🇾🇪 💵 A $2M missile vs. a $2,000 drone: Pentagon worried over cost of Houthi attacks ⬛️ “That quickly becomes a problem because the most benefit ... is in their favor,” one expert said. 🔶️ As American warships rack up kills against Houthi drones and missiles…
🏹 🇺🇸 ⚓️ In the past, the US Navy would have destroyer tenders forward deployed to not just provide maintenance for ships, but to reload warships - principally destroyers. But the US decommissioned its last destroyer tender in 1996.
🇻🇪Venezuela Network Report | Intel, Urgent News and Archives | TOTAL CHAVISTA DEATH Edition
Maduro's Regime would have been planning an extraction operation to take Alex Saab back to Caracas. One PDVSA's airplane used by Chavismo's leaders flet from Caracas to Havana. Then went to Africa flying over Cabo Verde and landed in Bissau. Sources of Armando.Info…
— Qatar managed to secure a deal to release American hostages held in Venezuela, according to a source briefed on the details. As part of the deal, the US today released Colombian businessman Alex Saab - a close associate of Venezuelan President Maduro and who served as Venezuela's liaison to the Iranian regime.
Negotiations on the deal lasted about two years
🔗 Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid)
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— tl;dr: The Biden Administration, in its famously known brilliant art of negotiations, has just released one of the biggest drug traffickers and arms smugglers in Latin America, Alex Saab - who is an active member of the Cartel of the Suns - for some American Mercenaries involved in the Failed Operation Gideon led by Canadian-American PMC Silvercorp USA
Worth remembering:
— It took 2x different Joint DEA and CIA operations to arrest him
— Saab is by far one of the largest suppliers of weapons between Eastern Bloc/Eurasian countries for anti-American guerrillas in Latin America
Worth remembering:
— It took 2x different Joint DEA and CIA operations to arrest him
— Saab is by far one of the largest suppliers of weapons between Eastern Bloc/Eurasian countries for anti-American guerrillas in Latin America
Forwarded from Intel Slava
🇺🇦🇺🇸 Former commander of US forces Europe Ben Hodges says Ukraine needs to start drafting women and rounding up every Ukrainian refugee who fled the country
(see the "path to 2025" section). "If the Germans could do it in '44, so can Ukraine". Psychopathic and delusional.
When the foreigners directing your war start blithely talking about how you can clear a minefield with enough 18 year old girls it's time to start planning your coup.
📎 The American Sun
(see the "path to 2025" section). "If the Germans could do it in '44, so can Ukraine". Psychopathic and delusional.
When the foreigners directing your war start blithely talking about how you can clear a minefield with enough 18 year old girls it's time to start planning your coup.
📎 The American Sun
📯 🇦🇪 🇮🇩 UAE's Mubadala Energy has announced the discovery of a large gas reserve in the Indonesian South Andaman field. International companies are pivotal to boost domestic production and exports, even to EU countries. Gas is also key for Indonesia's energy transition. | Francesco Sassi
🔶️ The one in the South Andaman field represents the world's second-largest deep water discovery this year. The field could contain close to 90 bcm of gas and it represents the first deep water operation for Mubadala, which is exploring 4 large areas in Indonesia since 2004
🔶️ According to Mubadala's chief executive Mansoor Mohamed Al Hamed "This is not only a significant development for Mubadala Energy but a huge milestone for Indonesia’s and Southeast Asia’s energy security."
The discovery cements the company's global operations away from the Gulf
🔶️ in Southeast Asia, where Mubadala has exploration fields in
🇹🇭Thailand
🇲🇾Malaysia
🇻🇳Vietnam
🇮🇩Indonesia
but also in
🇪🇬Egypt - Zohr gas field
🇷🇺Russia - Western Siberia oil fields in a JV with Gazpromneft-Vostok
🔶️ Mubadala Energy is a state-owned enterprise fully controlled by a sole shareholder, the government of Abu Dhabi. The company has not signed the Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter at the recent COP28 in Dubai, with 50 companies pledging to slash methane emissions by 2030
🔽 Continued
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1737445310605963623.html
🔶️ The one in the South Andaman field represents the world's second-largest deep water discovery this year. The field could contain close to 90 bcm of gas and it represents the first deep water operation for Mubadala, which is exploring 4 large areas in Indonesia since 2004
🔶️ According to Mubadala's chief executive Mansoor Mohamed Al Hamed "This is not only a significant development for Mubadala Energy but a huge milestone for Indonesia’s and Southeast Asia’s energy security."
The discovery cements the company's global operations away from the Gulf
🔶️ in Southeast Asia, where Mubadala has exploration fields in
🇹🇭Thailand
🇲🇾Malaysia
🇻🇳Vietnam
🇮🇩Indonesia
but also in
🇪🇬Egypt - Zohr gas field
🇷🇺Russia - Western Siberia oil fields in a JV with Gazpromneft-Vostok
🔶️ Mubadala Energy is a state-owned enterprise fully controlled by a sole shareholder, the government of Abu Dhabi. The company has not signed the Oil and Gas Decarbonization Charter at the recent COP28 in Dubai, with 50 companies pledging to slash methane emissions by 2030
🔽 Continued
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1737445310605963623.html
Bellum Acta - Intel, Urgent News and Archives ✝️ #FreeVenezuela
— tl;dr: The Biden Administration, in its famously known brilliant art of negotiations, has just released one of the biggest drug traffickers and arms smugglers in Latin America, Alex Saab - who is an active member of the Cartel of the Suns - for some American…
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💉 🇺🇸 🇻🇪 Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab arrives in Venezuela following his negotiated release from the United States, after 3.5 years of illegal incarceration.
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