"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.
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🛰 🇺🇸 🌐 Starlink consists now of over 6,000 satellites in low Earth orbit, the largest-ever satellite constellation.

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🇧🇾🏴 The arrest of members of the terrorist cell "Jamaat Ansarullah" in Belarus raises a number of important questions in our view.

▪️Firstly, the terrorist attack at "Crocus" involving radical Islamist groups from Tajikistan was likely not the only goal of the same organizers. Something similar could have been planned in Belarus to destabilize the domestic political situation.

▪️Secondly, "Jamaat Ansarullah" rarely appears in the media, especially in the context of arrests. However, their activation in conjunction with "Wilayat Khorasan" indirectly confirms the involvement of external stakeholders who have seen Tajik radicals as an effective tool for carrying out terrorist attacks.

▪️And thirdly, there are growing concerns that the ethnic Tajik riots in the Afghan Badakhshan and the war of local groups against the Taliban significantly simplifies the task of terrorists in recruiting the oppressed population and stimulates the spread of radical movements across the post-Soviet space.

🔻All this needs to be taken into account when shaping Russian migration policy.

#Belarus #Russia #terrorism
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