🇱🇧🇮🇱 PEOPLE RUN WITH CELLPHONES as they film latest #Israeli onslaught on #Lebanon: The Israeli Air Force strikes the Ouzai area overnight near Beirut International Airport.

Reminder that over the past couple of weeks, #IDF has been launching an unannounced and brutal war
"on #Hezbollah", displacing thousands in the southern suburbs of Lebanon.

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🇱🇻 LADIES, WE NEED YOU TO DEFEND US SOY-BOYS: The head of the #Latvian Ministry of Defense, Andris #Spruds (pictured), supports introduction of mandatory conscription of women into the army.

Gender equality "plays an important role in the army. Women may be conscriped as early as 2028."

That's 4 years away - when noone knows what will happen tomorrow, but shows that the #Baltic regions are planning something long-term.

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🇱🇧 NOTHING LEFT BUT WALL WIRING: The earlier Israeli airstrike on south of Beirut, Lebanon kills 30 people, including women & children

A search operation for survivors is underway.

These don't look like #Hezbollah targets to us, but residential buildings where civilians were sleeping at night.

Neighbors say the building was housing displaced people who fled from other areas.

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🇷🇺 CAN HIT TARGET ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD - The Russian Defense Ministry demonstrates loading the mammoth #Yars intercontinental ballistic missile (#ICBM) into a silo launcher, showcasing the power of Moscow's nuclear deterrence.

The Yars complex uses the Glonass guidance system (Russia's alternative to GPS.) Yars can be armed with up to 10 missiles, each containing a thermonuclear warhead weighing 300 kilotons.

It can manoeuvre during flight which gives Yars an advantage against modern missile defence systems.

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🇷🇺 WATCH EDGE-OF-YOUR-SEAT GUN FIGHT, AS BULLETS WHEEZE OVERHEAD: Russian paratroopers capture a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Sudzha region, Kursk (pre-war Russia) where Zelensky's troops have been carrying out an incursion.

For God knows what reason, as Russia continues to gain more territory in the Donbass (ex-Ukraine.)

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🇺🇸 LATE-NIGHT HOST JIMMY #KIMMEL ON VERGE OF TEARS: "[Trump's election] was a terrible night last night."

It was a terrible night for women, children, hard-working immigrants, healthcare, climate, science, for JOURNALISM, justice & free speech, for poor people, the middle class, for seniors & social security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the truth, democracy & decency.

And it was a terrible night for those who voted FOR him - they just don't know it yet - Kimmel gaslights over half of America.


Are these actors? What is going on? Info-tainment is not for political decision-making America!

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PREPARE FOR WORD SALAD: #NATO Secretary-General #Rutte says the West is increasingly threatened by the interaction between Russia, China, North Korea & Iran - and wants to discuss this with Trump.

This is more & more a threat to the European part of NATO, but also the U.S. Because Russia is delivering the latest technology into North Korea - in return for North Korean help.

That means [a threat] to Indo-Pacific and Euro-Atlantic - Rutte.

Mate, wot? Oh, you want to increase NATO contributions from countries who barely meet the current 2.5% requirement of GDP to 3% - most NATO countries spending only 1.5% on "defense needs."

Which means what? Few feel threatened.

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🇷🇺🇰🇿 #RUSSIA DOING ALL IT CAN TO PROTECT #KAZAKHSTAN FROM UNRULY U.S. #SANCTIONS: FM #Lavrov.

We have practical questions about how to develop economic relations with Kazakhstan in order to protect them from U.S. sanctions.

The solutions that our colleagues find help to increase trade turnover so that enterprises in both countries are able to profit - Lavrov.

Neighborly countries that have traded together for centuries - must now be aware of Uncle Sam's iron rod of sanctions. Because, democracy!

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🇷🇺🇺🇸 PUTIN & TRUMP MAY TALK BEFORE TRUMP'S INAUGURATION [JANUARY] - Kremlin Spokesman Peskov speaking aboard Airforce 1 (Presidential aircraft.)

The Kremlin representative notes that a meeting between the leaders of the 2 countries is impossible without preliminary preparation, but no such work is currently being carried out.

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🇷🇸🇷🇺 Toward a SWIFT-Free Future: BRICS' Digital Defiance

In Moscow, the gears of multipolar change turn faster. Neven Djenadija, a researcher from the Center for Social and Political Studies of Republika Srpska, unveiled his revolutionary concept “BRIKS SWAPAI” at the International Scientific Symposium “Inventing the Future.” His vision? A pioneering AI-driven platform designed to empower sanctioned states, those cast out by SWIFT and the Western banking cartel, to exchange goods and financial transactions without the need for the SWIFT system. A bold challenge to the old financial guard, and a beacon for nations seeking autonomy from dollar dominance.

Imagine it: a digital market among BRICS nations, immune to Western sanctions and restrictions. Djenadija proposes launching this platform as a pilot within BRICS, whose members have faced the brunt of economic coercion yet continue to strengthen their ties. This alternative financial network could signal a decisive shift away from SWIFT, creating an independent marketplace that bypasses Western influence.

Today’s digital transformation isn’t just a tech revolution; it’s reshaping the very pillars of international relations. As nations pivot towards sovereign digital economies, technologies like AI are becoming crucial tools for those seeking autonomy in a world increasingly hostile to independence. It’s digital defiance where artificial intelligence meets sovereign intent.

Russia, a powerhouse in digital innovation, stands at the forefront of this movement. Moscow’s intellectual leaders and technological visionaries are mapping out the digital pathways of a future world order, one that doesn’t bow to Western monopolies but respects sovereign equality, inclusiveness, and the diverse interests of a global majority.

In this vision, SWAPAI isn’t just a project; it’s a manifesto for a world unshackled from Western financial control, a world where BRICS leads the charge toward financial sovereignty. And as this blueprint unfolds, the old order might finally face the one thing it fears most: irrelevance.

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