🇺🇦 Vladimir Zelensky at a press conference in Kiev said that the military informed him of the need for additional mobilization of another 450-500 thousand people in the Armed Forces of Ukraine and asked for almost 13.5 billion dollars for these activities.

🚢 🌍 🛢 "The Red Sea Crisis is coming at a really nice time given the breakdown of relations between Russia and Europe. Petroleum flows through the Suez Canal are more than twice what they were before the Russo-Ukrainian war began."

📎 Big Serge

🌐🚢 $35 billion. BILLION. In a few days. When you look at trade statistics sometimes you forget that there are physical ships moving the physical goods. Inflation is coming back folks.

📎 Philip Pilkington

🚢 🇮🇱 🇾🇪 "Israel's Eliat Port, due to the attacks has suffered an 80% drop in revenue after the Houthi blockade. Looks like the Houthis are getting what they wanted..."

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231219-israel-revenue-from-eilat-port-drops-by-80-due-to-houthi-red-sea-attacks/

📎 AyazK

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian sources suggesting that the AFU needs 20,000 replacements per month to keep their existing formations combat task capable. Insanity.

📎 Big Serge

🇷🇺🇺🇦 20,000 irrecoverable losses per month...

If we assume that they're averaging this year's rate, and assume that Mediazona catches 1/4-1/5 of Russia's irrecoverable casualties, then we're easily looking at an irrecoverable casualty ratio of 1.5-2:1 in Russia's favor in 2023.

📎 TNG5

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Former commander of US forces Europe Ben Hodges says Ukraine needs to start drafting women and rounding up every Ukrainian refugee who fled the country
(see the "path to 2025" section). "If the Germans could do it in '44, so can Ukraine". Psychopathic and delusional.

When the foreigners directing your war start blithely talking about how you can clear a minefield with enough 18 year old girls it's time to start planning your coup.

📎 The American Sun

🇺🇸🪖 ⚡️🇺🇸 The United States increasingly seems to be sleep walking into a crisis the likes of which it has not seen since the late 1850s…

🇺🇸🗳️ U.S. States with pending Trump ballot removal cases. 2024 is going to be pure chaos.

⚓️ 🇺🇸 🇾🇪 The Washington Examiner reports that the United States and the United Kingdom have moved sensitive air and naval assets near Yemen. These movements indicate preparation for possible strikes against Houthi forces in that country.

🔶️ The Washington Examiner is not disclosing the identity of the military forces now positioned closer to Yemen, but they include both strike and supporting platforms the deployment of which has not publicly been disclosed

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-force-movements-suggest-us-and-uk-strikes-against-houthis-increasingly-likely

📎 Faytuks

🇾🇪🇺🇸🇬🇧 “What’s the worst that could happen?”

🏳️‍🌈🇷🇺❗️US officials propose that the G7 consider the option of transferring blocked Russian assets to Kyiv in tranches through the World Bank or the EBRD - media

🇷🇺 The Kingisepp Machine-Building Plant is building for the Russian Defense Ministry a small series of unmanned combat carrier boats "Dandelion" of 10 units for testing in combat conditions.

As stated, the drone will be able to reach speeds of up to 80 km/h, cover up to 200 km and carry up to 600 kg of payload.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukraine will produce a million drones next year - Zelensky.

You know, paper airplanes don't count as drones.

🇪🇪👶Estonia birth update: From January-November 2023 Estonia has seen a decline in births of around 7.9%. They will almost certainly see the smallest number of births on record at sub 11,000. TFR will also fall to lowest low (~1.3) for the first time since 1998.