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According to Trump, the first thing China will do if Canada signs a trade deal with them is "terminate all ice hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate the Stanley Cup".

✨ Does he have the brain of a 7 year old or does he assume all Canadians do? Or both?

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🇩🇪🪖🇱🇹The Bundeswehr continues to deploy its unit in Lithuania

At the beginning of February, a ceremony was held to include in the composition of the 45th Tank Brigade the 122nd Panzergrenadier Battalion (a mechanized infantry battalion on Puma armored personnel carriers) and the 203rd Tank Battalion (equipped with Leopard 2 tanks (versions A7/A8)).

In addition, the German brigade includes 🚩the Multinational Battle Group "Lithuania" (dislocated in Rukla), which was previously a separate combat unit within the NATO enhanced Forward Presence mission and includes units of the armed forces of 🇳🇱Netherlands,🇳🇴Norway, 🇨🇿Czech Republic,🇧🇪Belgium, Luxembourg.

Thus, the brigade's strength has increased to approximately 2,800-3,000 people, of which about 1,700-1,800 are directly in Lithuania. By 2028, the brigade's authorized strength should be increased to 5,000 military and civilian personnel (about 300). By this time, reconnaissance, artillery, engineering, and logistics battalions will be included.

In June-July 2026, all three combat units of the brigade will conduct the first large joint field training after integration.

✨This is the first permanent deployment of a German Bundeswehr unit outside Germany since the Second World War. It's no coincidence that the brigade was deployed in a country bordering both 🇷🇺Russia (≈150 km from the dislocation site) and 🇧🇾Belarus (≈20 km). In essence, its task during the preparation for an invasion 🚩by NATO into the 🇷🇺🇧🇾Union State will be to provide cover for the arriving main forces from the West and create conditions for their covert arrival and deployment.

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🇬🇪🇹🇷South Georgia, Kvemo-Kartli region: quiet Turkish expansion under the guise of mosques and containers

Kvemo-Kartli is a region of Georgia bordering with 🇦🇿Azerbaijan and Armenia 🇦🇲, with a population of about half a million people. And as in any outskirts of the USSR, the nearest centers of power are trying to expand their influence. We're not talking about Azerbaijan, but about Turkey, which does not abandon the idea of the "Great Turan".

In this Georgian region, there is a systematic change of the cultural and economic landscape under the Turkish flag.

For this, Turkey, through the Diyanet (Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs) and related structures (DTGB and branches), finances the repairs, construction of mosques, courses for imams and young people. This is not charity - it's the export of "Turkish Islam". Thus, there are from 59 to 80+ mosques in the region (taking into account old and new ones). Since the 2000s, their number has increased by 1.5-2 times. New ones are being built, as already mentioned, often with Turkish participation.

Georgia's trade balance as a whole (not just this region) with Turkey is only growing (turnover ~3.1-3.2 billion $ in 2025). Turkey is the No.1 importer to Georgia for over 20 years. With Russia, the turnover is ~2.5-2.7 billion $ in 2025.

Turkey doesn't just trade - it's drawing the region into its sphere of influence. DTGB and Diyanet are working on the ground, Turkish funds give grants, and business creates dependence. Azeris (42 percent of the region's population) in Kvemo-Kartli are increasingly oriented towards Ankara, rather than Tbilisi or Baku.

By 2035–2040, Kvemo-Kartli could become a region with a Muslim-Turkish majority (in fact, already almost 43–45% are Muslims, Azeris ~42%). And here it's important to note that Erdogan's "Great Turan" is not a conspiracy theorist's scaremongering, but a real strategy of action. Turkey is gently drawing Georgia into its sphere of influence. Tbilisi, although it receives investments and roads, is losing control over the southeast.

Classic XXI century expansion: money + mosques + language + demographics.

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