🇹🇩 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 'Chad has fallen'

🔶️ "Russians are moving quickly. Once the Sahel becomes Moscow oriented, the United States will face resistance from North African countries when it comes to military collaboration. Europe will find it even more difficult to secure the Mediterranean."

📎 Zineb Riboua

🇺🇸 🌍 Headquartering AfriCom in Africa would enhance U.S. ability to support and cooperate with African nations. | USNI

🔶️ "U.S. Africa Command has a problem: it is not headquartered in Africa. The U.S. combatant command that oversees operations in the world’s second-largest and second-most populous continent is based in Stuttgart, Germany, more than 800 miles from African shores—a geographic and cultural distance that makes it ill-suited to direct U.S. operations in Africa."

🔶️ "Washington should negotiate an agreement to move Africa Command (AfriCom) headquarters to Africa to enhance its ability to cooperate with and support African nations and improve U.S. operations on the continent. The ideal candidate is Ghana, an ally with effective state institutions in a fragile region."

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2024/may/africom-belongs-africa

🌀 🇺🇸 Atlantic faces ‘extraordinary’ hurricane season: US agency

🔶️ The North Atlantic hurricane season, which starts on June 1, is forecast to be “extraordinary,” with up to seven storms of Category 3 or higher expected, the US NOAA weather agency said Thursday.

🔶️ “The forecast for named storms — hurricanes and major hurricanes — is the highest NOAA has ever issued for the May outlook,” Spinrad said. “It only takes one storm to devastate a community.”

https://insiderpaper.com/atlantic-faces-extraordinary-hurricane-season-us-agency

🗳 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 U.S. Senate fails to advance border security legislation, 43-50.

📎 CSPAN

"Brief: Scottish Demographics"

Scotland's census results on race and ethnicity paint a mixed picture.

Whites retain a healthy 92.9% share of the Scottish population, but the share declined more in the decade between 2011 and 2022 than it did in the 30 years before 2011.

The share of native Scots has decreased by 6.25 points from 83.95% in 2011 to 77.7% in the 2022 data.

The number of native Scots declined by 200,000, while the population of ethnic minorities increased by 177,000.

The Black African population of Scotland doubled from 29,000 in 2011 to 58,000 in 2022. While the Asian population increased by 140,000.

On the positive side, Scotland gained 43,100 speakers of Gaelic and Scots, and the youth population of the country remains overwhelmingly White.

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📢 🇳🇱 🇮🇱 Netherlands “nationalist” PVV party leader Geert Wilders swears an oath to Israel, stating, “Until the very end I support the State of Israel.”

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🇺🇳 🇮🇱 ⚖️ U.N.'s top court calls for Israel to halt military offensive in southern Gaza city of Rafah

🔶️ The International Court of Justice has ordered Israel to halt its military offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, and to take measures to ensure U.N. investigators have unimpeded access to Gaza to investigate allegations of genocide.

🔶️ Despite the ruling, the International Court of Justice does not have any way to enforce it, meaning the decision is not expected result in an immediate cease-fire. Russia has so far ignored the ICJ's order to halt its invasion of Ukraine.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/international-court-calls-for-israel-halt-military-offensive-rafah-gaza/

🇺🇸🛰️ The best illustration of the militarization of space is the news about the latest US military projects in near-Earth space. Yesterday, SpaceX launched a batch of satellites for the deployed global reconnaissance group Starshield.

However, an equally interesting news is the plans of the American startup Inversion Space to create a network of "orbital warehouses". They will represent a group of spacecraft where stocks of medicines, weapons, ammunition and other military products will be stored.

On command from Earth, the satellites will "fire" cargo capsules that will enter the dense layers of the atmosphere and land at a specific point. Thus, the developers want to provide the ability to quickly supply troops anywhere in the world, especially where there are no airfields, ports and other similar infrastructure.

🔻 It is characteristic that this is not the only project of its kind in the USA - earlier another private space company Sierra Space came up with a similar initiative. However, Inversion Space plans to send a prototype for testing into orbit as early as October.

Yes, the technology is still promising, and a stage of refinement is required for full implementation. However, the very fact that there are several parallel developing projects indicates that their initiators are quite serious, and soon what used to be the plots of science fiction films may well come to life.

📌 And again, it draws attention to the fact that the engine of US space progress at the moment are private companies - from SpaceX with its reusable rockets and manned spacecraft to small startups with innovative ideas.

So it would be a good idea to thoroughly analyze this experience and make a few fundamental decisions in this direction. The time is now quite suitable.
#space #USA
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