🇻🇦⛪️ Pope Francis says ideology based on gender is very dangerous.

🗣 Gender ideology today is one of the most dangerous ideological colonization because it blurs differences and the value of men and women - Pope.

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⚡️16 storey building on fire in Karachi, Pakistan - miraculously only 1 person is injured.

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⚡️ Four largest US banks lose $47 BILLION in 1 day - caused by collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

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⚡️ School attack effectively prevented in Moscow.

A man with a knife [in metal casing] shows up at a school, where a vigilant security guard refuses to let him inside the building.

Guard then calls the National Guard who apprehended the man - motive remains unknown, but crisis averted. 🥇

National Guard is a division of the Russian Armed Forces designed to ensure public security, protect the rights and freedoms of citizens.

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⚡️BRICS countries overtake the G7 in share of world GDP.

Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa (BRICS) now provide 31.5% of global GDP, with further projected growth - while Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, and United States (G7) provide 30.7%.

Will the leadership of G7 continue to reference themselves as "the global community", as if no one else makes a difference?

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⚡️Police in the Hague, Netherlands disperse environmental activists with water cannons.

Climate activists oppose government subsidies for oil, gas and coal extraction.

At the same time, more than 10,000 Dutch farmers protest against the government's plans to limit nitrogen emissions (aka close down farms.)

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⚡️🇮🇱 Israel rocked by country's largest ever protest.

Up to 200,000 have come out in Tel Aviv to protest Netanyahu's judicial reforms, which aim to give the elected government control over choice of judges.

The reform will also limit the ability of the Supreme Court to rule against the President and Executive, or strike down legislation.

Critics are concerned about the state of Israeli democracy.

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❗️Right now, Ukrainian army is shelling Donetsk, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine) - information on any casualties among civilians being confirmed.

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⚡️🇮🇷 Iran completes deal to purchase Russian Su-35 fighter jets.

The number of aircraft is not known - the agreement was signed at the end of the UN arms embargo, there are no violations by Iran.

Earlier, Israel reported that Russia would supply the Iranian Air Force with 24 x Su-35 fighters, originally intended for Egypt.

Su-35 is the only fighter jet capable of fighting the American F-35s in service with the Israeli Air Force.

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⚡️Ukrainian troops launch massive artillery strike on Novaya Kakhovka village, Kherson region (ex-Ukraine) - 1 woman has died, several private homes and shops are destroyed.

This is how Ukriane protects what it considers it's own people?

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⚡️Result of this morning's attack by the Ukrainian army on residential Donetsk, Donetsk Republic (ex-Ukraine).

By some miracle, no civilians have died.

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CHECKMATE, MATE: Emmanuel Todd, French political scientist, says the West pushed Russia into a preventative war in Ukraine - counting on the fact it would not be able to survive the sanctions imposed.

In actuality, Russia is as close as it comes to being an autarky (self-sufficient), and in underestimating Putin - NATO may cease to exist, as it demilitarizes itself by sending stockpiles to Ukraine...

And that analysis is not even taking into account should China begin supplying weapons to Russia.

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⚡️Protest in Prague, Czech Republic - people demand no weapons supplies to Ukraine and the removal of the Ukrainian flag from the National Museum.

18 people are detained.

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FOOLISH POLISH: Poland to become the largest military force in Europe - this year, it will spend 4% of GDP on defense, which will take it to first place in NATO, in terms of military spending per capita (standard spending is 2%).

🇵🇱 The size of the army will reach 300,000 people, surpass the number of tanks in Britain (227) - Warsaw has already ordered 1,000 x South Korea K2 and 250 x Abrams tanks from the United States.

For the Air Force, they've ordered 96 x US Apache helicopters, and 48 x FA-50 aircraft from Seoul. Poland also intends to build more than 1,000 Borsuk infantry fighting vehicles, reinforce the artillery with 600 x K9 howitzers, 18 HIMARS and 288 x multiple rocket launcher K239 Chunmoo systems, also from South Korea.

🇰🇷 South Korea making bank off of clinical paranoia of the Polish government.

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