🇺🇸🇷🇺🇻🇪⚡️- BREAKING: "Russia’s Foreign Ministry has begun evacuating the families of its diplomats from Venezuela, according to a European intelligence official, with women and children included." - Associated Press.

🇯🇵⚡- BREAKING: Itsunori Onodera, former Japanese Defense Minister and member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, said "Japan must engage in renewed discussions" regarding the nuclear question.

The comments were made during the live broadcast of NHK.

🇯🇵🇷🇺⚡- "We are aware that discussions are now under way in Japan on amending the provisions of its constitution regarding the non-nuclear status – our attitude is absolutely negative," - Andrey Rydenko, Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister.

🇯🇵🇰🇵⚡- "The war criminal state Japan's attempt to go nuclear must be prevented at any cost as it will bring mankind a great disaster.

This is not a misstatement or a reckless assertion, but clearly reflects Japan's long-cherished ambition for nuclear weaponization. It constitutes an open challenge to Japan's Constitution as well as all the international laws stipulating the duties of a defeated nation," - Choe Son-hui, North Korea's Foreign Minister.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- "If Japan's domestic right-wing forces are allowed to push for the development of powerful offensive weapons, or even the possession of nuclear weapons, it will once again bring calamity to the international community.

China and all peace-loving countries around the world are highly vigilant and firmly opposed to Japan's dangerous tendencies on the nuclear issue. We strongly urge the Japanese side to abide by international law and its own constitution," - Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- "Japanese militarists during World War II waged wars of aggression and committed inhumane atrocities, creating the darkest page in human history. Despite its defeat, Japan has never fully eliminated the scourge of militarism in the country.

If the [Sanae Takaichi's] right-wing forces in Japan are left free to develop powerful offensive weapons, or even possess nuclear weapons, it will once again bring disaster to the world," - Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- "China is shocked that a senior official [Itsunori Onodera] from the Japanese Prime Minister’s Office, who is close to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, brazenly claimed that Japan should have nuclear weapons," - Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡- Heavy clashes between Thailand and Cambodia on the outskirts of Poi Pet city, western Cambodia. Thai flares illuminate the sky.

🇺🇸✝️⚡️- Vince Zampella, the creator of Call of Duty and Titanfall, was killed in a car accident yesterday at age 55.

🇷🇺🇻🇪⚡- Russia's Foreign Ministry denies AP's report that Russia has begun evacuating the families of its diplomats from Venezuela.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the reinstatement of Elon Musk’s 2018 Tesla compensation package.

The ruling potentially opens the door for Musk to invest heavily in his various projects: SpaceX, X, Grok, etc. and increased his net worth to around $750 billion.

Furthermore, Musk led an exodus of businesses from Delaware, which harmed the state’s corporate reputation.

🇺🇸🇩🇰🇬🇱⚡️- Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen also denounced the special envoy position as “completely unacceptable,” stressing that the announcement came “out of nowhere.” - Foreign Policy.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump calls U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie a “lowlife” and “loser” for pushing for the release of the Epstein files.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡️- A sanctioned tanker has, for the first time, directly linked Russia’s Arctic oil trade with Venezuela. Hyperion loaded naphtha in Murmansk, transited the Northern Sea Route, and then sailed to the Amuay refinery on the Paraguana Peninsula. This shows how Russia’s shadow fleet and Venezuela’s sanctions evasion networks are converging.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇻🇪⚡️- BREAKING: Iranian shadow tanker "BELLA 1", which refused to be boarded and was being pursued by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, has fled into the Atlantic. - ABC.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "On Dec. 22, at the direction of the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed the low-profile vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. One male narco-terrorist was confirmed killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. OperationbSouthern Spear" - U.S. Southern Command

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇻🇪⚡️- The U.S. Navy and Coast Guard are still actively pursuing the Iranian shadow tanker “BELLA 1” in the Atlantic Ocean, more than 35 hours after making contact with it.

🇺🇸⚡️- During his suicide watch observation, Jeffrey Epstein stated that his cellmate tried to kill him.