🇺🇸 - The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, 2025 (published by The White House):

- The Indo-Pacific is already and will continue to be among the next century’s key economic and geopolitical battlegrounds.

- To thrive at home, we must successfully compete in the Indo-Pacific.

- Reaffirm our commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific.

- We will build alliances and strengthening partnerships in the Indo-Pacific that will be the bedrock of security and prosperity long into the future.

- We will rebalance America’s economic relationship with China.

- A robust and ongoing focus on deterrence to prevent war in the Indo-Pacific.

- Ending Chinese propaganda, influence operations, and other forms of cultural subversion.

- Ending Chinese exports of fentanyl precursors that fuel America’s opioid epidemic.

- Ending Chinese grand-scale intellectual property theft and industrial espionage.

- We must continue to improve commercial (and other) relations with India to encourage New Delhi to contribute to Indo-Pacific security, including through continued quadrilateral cooperation with Australia, Japan, and the United States (“the Quad”).

- Deterring a conflict over Taiwan, ideally by preserving military overmatch, is a priority.

- We will also maintain our longstanding declaratory policy on Taiwan, meaning that the United States does not support any unilateral change to the status quo in the Taiwan Strait.

- We will build a military capable of denying aggression anywhere in the First Island Chain.

- America’s diplomatic efforts should focus on pressing our First Island Chain allies and partners to allow the U.S. military greater access to their ports and other facilities, to spend more on their own defense, and most importantly to invest in capabilities aimed at deterring aggression.

- Any competitor to have control over the South China Sea is harmful to the U.S. Strong measures must be developed along with the deterrence necessary to keep those lanes open.

Part Four

🇺🇸 - The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, 2025 (published by The White House):

- Promoting European 'Greatness'.

- European allies enjoy a significant hard power advantage over Russia by almost every measure, save nuclear weapons.

- Our goal should be to help Europe correct its current trajectory. We will need a strong Europe to help us successfully compete, and to work in concert with us to prevent any adversary from dominating Europe.

- Enabling Europe to stand on its own feet and operate as a group of aligned sovereign nations, including by taking primary responsibility for its own defense, without being dominated by any adversarial power.

- The key to successful relations with the Middle East is accepting the region, its leaders, and its nations as they are while working together on areas of common interest.

- America will always have core interests in ensuring that Gulf energy supplies do not fall into the hands of an outright enemy, that the Strait of Hormuz remain open, that the Red Sea remain navigable.

- We have a clear interest in expanding the Abraham Accords.

- The days in which the Middle East dominated American foreign policy in both long-term planning and day-to-day execution are over.

- The United States should transition from an aid-focused relationship with Africa to a trade- and investment-focused relationship.

Part Five

Russian Foreign Ministry:

Putin sent a congratulatory message to Syrian president Al-Sharaa on the occasion of the anniversary of the change of government.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇧🇮⚡- Convoys continue to pour into eastern DR Congo from Rwanda, backing the M23 in its offensive south of Kamaniola, Uvira direction.

After capturing Katogota, M23 claims to have captured neighbouring town Lubarika, Reuters reports.

DRC sources report heavy Rwandan drone presence along the DRC-Burundi border.

🇾🇪🇦🇪⚡️- "The [Saudi-backed] Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance holds the United Arab Emirates fully responsible for the killings, atrocities, looting, treachery, and other inhumane and immoral acts perpetrated by the militias and groups affiliated with the Southern Transitional Council in the Hadhramaut highlands," - Hadhramaut Tribal Alliance.

🇻🇪 - Maduro learns to play the glockenspiel.

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇷🇺⚡- Turkey is close to "giving up" the Russian-made S-400 missile defense system, as the country "does not even use it," Bloomberg reports, citing the US Envoy Tom Barrack.

In return, Turkey is keen to return to the F-35 jet program.

🇺🇸🕋⚡️- The countries that President Trump has frozen immigration from since the National Guard shooting only represents around 15% of the intake from the Islamic world over the last decade.

🏳️🇵🇰⚡- Border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan, Reuters reports.

Members of the nationalist women’s organization Collectif Némèsis unfurl a banner in front of the Strasbourg Christmas market with the text:

“6428 rapes and attempted rapes by foreigners in 2024. Dear Santa, remigrate the rapists!”

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🇪🇸🇪🇭🇲🇦⚡- Spain recognizes Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara.

🇲🇱⚡- JNIM ambushed yet another convoy of fuel tankers near Bougouni, southern Mali.

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇻🇪⚡- Turkey's Erdogan called Venezuela's Maduro, urging Caracas to keep communication lines with the White House open.

🇩🇪🇮🇱⚡- German Chancellor Merz arrives in Israel.