EU foreign policy chief Borrell:

We are ready to engage in the Middle East peace process with Türkiye, which has played an important role in resolving almost every conflict.

Pentagon says it has no money for Middle East buildup, Politico reports.

Pentagon has ordered an additional aircraft carrier strike group, air defenses, fighter jets and hundreds of troops to the Middle East.

The problem: Congressional dysfunction means the Pentagon has no money to pay for the buildup.

The military, like the rest of the federal government, is operating under a temporary funding measure that freezes spending at the previous year’s levels.

And because the Middle East troop movements weren’t planned, the Pentagon has had to pull money from existing operations and maintenance accounts.

Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Commander Salami to Netenyahu:

Practice swimming in the Mediterranean because soon you will have no other escape but the sea.

Ukrainian HIMARS strike destroys Russian Buk-M3 air defense system in the south.

Southern Cyprus sold its 11 Mi-35P combat helicopters to Serbia for 105 million euros.

The helicopters were delivered from southern Cyprus on November 19-21 to the Serbian airbase Batajnica, where they were later inspected by Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó:

Hungary will never supply weapons to Ukraine.

Because the more weapons supplied, the longer the war will last.

IDF soldiers in Gaza were given a mission: to cover with paint the hundreds of Hebrew graffiti inscriptions sprayed on Palestinian buildings in Gaza- from returning to Gush Katif to sympathizing with soccer teams.

Chinese Norinco Type 05 amphibious fighting vehicle (ZTD-05) firing with its ZPL-98A 105mm rifled gun during an exercise.

Netanyahu:

In the last few days I hear a question - after this phase of returning our abductees is exhausted, will Israel return to fighting?

So my answer is an unequivocal yes.

There is no way we are not going back to fighting until the end. This is my policy.

Hamas says 10 month old Kfir Bibas, along with his 4 year old brother Ariel, and his mother Shiri have been killed in previous IDF strikes.

IDF says it is investigating the claim.

Israeli Defense Minister Gallant:

If anyone has any doubts - very soon we will continue the ground operation all over Gaza.

New reality of warfare: Russian soldier tries to fight off a Ukrainian FPV kamikaze drone but...

Venezuela claims Guyana’s Essequibo region, a territory larger than Greece and rich in oil and minerals, as its own and whose future it intends to decide Sunday with a referendum.

The practical and legal implications of the vote, which among other things calls for turning Essequibo into a Venezuelan state, remain unclear, but the referendum has left area residents on edge.

The 61,600-square-mile (159,500-square-kilometer) area accounts for two-thirds of Guyana.

Yet, Venezuela has always considered Essequibo as its own because the region was within its boundaries during the Spanish colonial period, and it has long disputed the border decided by international arbitrators in 1899, when Guyana was still a British colony.

Venezuela’s commitment to pursue the territorial claim has fluctuated over the years. Its interest piqued again in 2015 when ExxonMobil announced it had found oil in commercial quantities off the Essequibo coast.

The disputed boundary was decided by arbitrators from Britain, Russia and the United States. The U.S. represented Venezuela on the panel in part because the Venezuelan government had broken off diplomatic relations with Britain.

Venezuelan officials contend the Americans and Europeans conspired to cheat their country out of the land and argue that a 1966 agreement to resolve the dispute effectively nullified the original arbitration. Guyana, the only English-speaking country in South America, maintains the initial accord is legal and binding and asked the world court in 2018 to rule it as such.

Brazilian troops are reportedly moving towards the border with Venezuela as reports of clashes circulating around near disputed Guyana-Essequibo region.

U.S. Army deployed some of the leadership for the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) to Guyana over the weekend.

The SFAB team met with Guyana Defense Force (GDF) leadership in order to plan out enhanced military cooperation together.

#BREAKING Israel and Hamas agree to extend Gaza truce for two more days.

Hamas releases two more Israeli hostages with Russian citizenship to the Red Cross.

Putin:

Germany “swallows” attacks from its “allies” due to the lack of sovereignty and insufficient training of some leadership representatives, who are laughed at all over the world.

Elon Musk in response to advertisers like Disney, IBM, Apple pulling their ads on Twitter/X:

If somebody is gonna try to blackmail me with money… Don’t advertise…go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself. Is that clear?

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was left waiting 30 minutes at tarmac of Qatar airport.

No Qatari official showed up to pick him up from the airport.