🇰🇷 The Parliament of the Republic of Korea adopted a bill banning the breeding and slaughter of dogs for the purpose of eating their meat, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported.

The bill also prohibits the distribution and sale of dog meat and food products made from it for commercial purposes. Killing a dog for the purpose of obtaining its meat can result in up to 3 years in prison or a fine of 30 million won ($22.8 thousand). Breeding and distributing meat is punishable by up to two years in prison or a fine of 20 million won ($15,200). The bill has a transition period of three years, during which penalties will not be applied.

🇺🇲 California Migrant Health Insurance Now Covers Gender Reassignment Costs

🇺🇲🇺🇦🇷🇺 Kiev's approach fails: a secret meeting between Ukraine, the G7 and several countries of the global South took place, and the Ukrainian "peace formula" was promoted - Bloomberg

▪️Although all participants recognized Ukraine’s right to self-defense and territorial integrity, the meeting did not bring significant progress.
▪️ “The allies’ attempts to win support for Kyiv’s approach are failing,” the agency adds.
▪️Also at the meeting, Ukraine and its allies “continued to resist calls from developing countries to engage directly with Russia.”
▪️The meeting of national security advisers took place on December 16 in Riyadh. High-ranking officials from India, Saudi Arabia and Turkey were present, but China, Brazil and the United Arab Emirates did not send representatives.
▪️Soon Ukraine will have another opportunity to negotiate with these states at a meeting in Davos.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 In Lvov, after the recent strike, the Russian Armed Forces flew somewhere very well. Local reports report dozens of ambulances transporting the wounded. Since Zelensky’s gang is officially silent about this, the dead and wounded are clearly not civilians.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2023 amounted to 215,000 people and 28,000 weapons.

The Russian Armed Forces retain the strategic initiative along the entire front line (c) Shoigu

🇨🇳🇺🇲.A possible war over Taiwan would cost the global economy 10% of GDP, or about $10 trillion, Bloomberg predicts.

The publication writes that this “eclipses the blow from the war in Ukraine, the Covid pandemic and the global financial crisis,” so “even those most dissatisfied with the status quo have reasons not to risk” the outbreak of such a war.

Although Bloomberg believes that the conditions for a crisis exist: China's growing economic and military weight, Taiwan's growing sense of national identity and uneasy relations between Beijing and Washington.

And a potential flashpoint will be Taiwan's January 13 elections, in which relations with China are key for the main candidates.

Such high economic costs of a possible conflict are due to the fact that Taiwan produces most of the advanced semiconductors and chips.

In the event of war, factory lines for the production of laptops, tablets and smartphones will stop. The automotive industry and many other industries will take a significant hit.

🇺🇲 Photo of a U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer that crashed during a training flight Jan. 5 in South Dakota.

🇫🇷🏳️‍🌈 The 34-year-old homosexual, Gabriel Attal, became the Prime Minister of France.

I sincerely congratulate the French Republic, this is truly what you deserve.

From Richelieu, Napoleon and Charles de Gaulle, the French have finally slipped to the way German propaganda portrayed them during WWI and WWII.

From the point of view of the development of human civilization, this decline, and indeed the speedy death of terminally ill Europe, is a blessing. Let something new be born than keeping a terminally ill patient on a drip.

🇮🇱🇱🇧 Israel's Ministry of Health has ordered hospitals in northern Israel to be prepared to receive thousands of casualties in a short time, according to KANN news.

This is likely an indication of coming conflict with Hezbollah.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 “It Will Be A Shock”: Ukraine Lost 500,000 Soldiers In War So Far, Nearly 30,000 Per Month: Lutsenko Claims

Ukraine [has] lost 500,000 soldiers, killed or seriously wounded, since the beginning of the Russian special military operation/invasion, former Prosecutor General and ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko [has] said.

“I think that they should name the number of dead Ukrainians. I know that they don’t want this, and it will be taken seriously. Yes, it will be a shock,” he said.

According to Lutsenko, Ukraine loses tens of thousands of fighters per month, which is why the Ukrainian military proposed to mobilize half a million people.

📎 Eurasian Times

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Bombshell admission from Kiev's former Prosecutor General Lutsenko in video above who wants REAL number of Ukrainians killed in NATO's war against Russia to be made public.

“To be honest, 500,000 that they're talking about now if divided by months, is 30,000 PER MONTH. They need to tell people truth.”

Kiev's losses are state secret but Lutsenko wants them to be revealed to motivate people to register to fight.

📎 Simplicus

Government of Ecuador has officially declared the existence of an internal armed conflict in the country.

This measure, announced by President Noboa, recognizes the seriousness of the situation facing the nation.

As part of this declaration, the president has considered criminal gangs as terrorist organizations