🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- 4 IRGC officials have been killed by Israeli airstrikes in Damascus, including the Quds Force Intelligence Commander, Hajj Sadiq.

🇩🇿🇶🇦⚡️🇲🇦🇦🇪 ~ The diplomatic crisis is intensifying between Algiers and Abu Dhabi, against a background of deep differences on regional issues.

Algiers expressed on Wednesday "its regrets about the actions hostile to Algeria, emanating from a brother Arab country".

Algeria, supported by Qatar, accuses the UAE, which support Morocco, of financing destabilization campaigns, especially in the Sahel as with Mali 🇲🇱 recently, in order to lose the influence of Algeria and Qatar for their profits.

Source : Le Point (FR) (17/01/24)

🇺🇸 - Patriot Front are currently marching in NYC, following their appearance at yesterday's March for Life.

🇺🇸⚡️- DeSantis campaign expected to be suspended imminently.

🇺🇸🇾🇪 - The Biden Administration has completely failed in every conceivable measure on its foreign policy, and Yemen is just the recent pet project turned disaster.

Biden kicked off his administration very early on with an attempt to cool off the Yemeni Civil War by removing Ansar Allah, the Houthis, from the United States' foreign terrorist organization list, reversing President Trump's last minute designation in early January 2021. This ultimately culminated in a ceasefire being put on paper between Ansar Allah and the Presidential Leadership Council in April 2022. Despite the fact that the ceasefire expired in October 2023, the ceasefire has - for the most part - remained in place.

Yemen's civil war has resulted in the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, largely thanks to American-supported, Saudi-led airstrikes across Houthi-controlled territory, and America's reversal of this policy in favor of mediation and peace talks initially emerged as a massive victory for the Biden administration. In some ways, one could interpret America's softening policy towards Yemen throughout the course of 2021-2023 as steps towards ending the civil war, even favoring the Houthis in a post-war scenario. However, this all went down the drain when October 7th happened.

The United States went from hating the Houthis, to softening its policy towards it, to mediating peace between the Houthis and its enemies, and now a complete 180, carrying out frequent airstrikes against them. What was once a victory - albeit minor in the grand scheme of things - has collapsed.

This failure is now intermingled with multiple other foreign policy disasters, not just with the Middle East, but with other regions. Saudi-Israeli peace talks have been indefinitely suspended. The India Middle East Economic Corridor (IMEC) is now in serious jeopardy. The Biden Administration's previous attempts to restart negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program are gone, likely never to return. All of this, coupled with America's failures in Ukraine and the as of now disastrous "Pivot to Asia" policy, has pulled the rug from underneath Biden's chances of having just one foreign policy victory in his term.

Domestically, Biden will find it impossible to champion a foreign policy victory in the 2024 election. Internationally, America's credibility, respect, and trust has been seriously damaged, and the next administration will have a hard time recuperating America back to where it once was on the world stage.

🕊️⚡️- There seems to be massive shadowbanning across X right now, with right-wing accounts experiencing over 50% less engagement, suspensions, and restricted posts.

🇺🇸⚡️- DeSantis campaign has been suspended as he endorses Donald Trump.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: United States Central Command announces the death of two U.S. Navy SEALs after boarding 'an illicit boat' transporting advanced Iranian weapons in the Red Sea

@Middle_East_Spectator

⚛️ - The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists are set to unveil the 2024 "Doomsday Clock" tomorrow.

⚛️ - In 2018, the Doomsday Clock was set to 2 minutes until midnight (midnight being nuclear war.) In 2023, it was 90 seconds until midnight.

While the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is an irrelevant and insignificant source when it comes to measuring how close the world is to nuclear annihilation, it's still worth getting a glimpse at what the "experts" have to say about the state of the world.

P.S., the Bulletin was founded by Manhattan Project Jews, most notably Einstein.

🇺🇸✡️⚡️- Elon Musk and Ben Shapiro photographed at Auschwitz.

🇩🇪🇪🇺⚡️- Alice Weidel, the leader of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) has called for a German referendum on leaving the European Union.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 - Zelensky issues a decree claiming that the Russian regions of Rostov, Bryansk, Krasnodar and Belgorod, all of which border Ukraine's pre-2014 territory, are "historical Ukrainian land".

🇨🇳🇲🇲 - Zhao Dashuai, a Chinese state press officer, announces that ethnic Chinese militias and their allies have secured several key areas on the Chinese-Burmese border.

Zhao also stated that those areas are likely to be integrated into China's economic and cultural sphere; the renminbi has already begun to circulate there.

🇪🇬🇸🇴 - Egypt offers to provide military support to Somalia in the event of a Somali-Ethiopian war.

This follows Ethiopia's decision to recognize the breakaway state of Somaliland and acquire basing rights in its port of Berbera.

JUST IN - EU member states agree on military campaign to secure merchant shipping in the Red Sea — n-tv

@disclosetv

JUST IN - U.S. Supreme Court on 5-4 vote allows federal agents to cut razor wire Texas installed on US-Mexico border.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/4vhui0fdxx/

@disclosetv

⚡️ - US formally launches organized campaign against Houthis - CNN.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Texas GOP has officially enshrined the right to secession in its party platform.

🇺🇸🇺🇦 - Now that the war in Gaza has simmered down, It would be timely to discuss how America’s commitments to Israel and larger intervention into the Middle East have begun to strain Ukraine’s war effort.

America is having to use more of its shrinking stockpile of weapons on Yemen or give them to Israel, which is starting to display how overextended the United States is. Patriot missile system interceptors, for example, are a crucial weapon in America’s, Ukraine’s, and Israel’s air defense. However, because of stockpile issues, someone will get their supply cut off.

Beginning on the night of December 28th, Russia launched one of the biggest and most prolonged missile strikes on Ukraine at a scale not seen since the beginning of the war. They started with Geran FPV drones to exhaust Ukrainian air defenses, followed by Iskanders, “Daggers,” Kh-22s, and many more types of Russian missiles of both super and hypersonic qualities, totaling over 160 projectiles in a single night. Again, on January 1st, over 100 missiles were launched. On the 7th and 13th, there were more similarly sized strikes. Besides the large strikes, there was a notable increase in the number of missiles Russia fires daily on average, rising from 5 to 10-20. The Ukrainians, who are always delighted to post any missile interception they get, were quiet, despite making up 95% of interception numbers as usual. Furthermore, the size of the strikes was so large that despite laws in place banning the recording of Russian missile strikes in Ukraine, dozens of videos were posted during the following days of large strikes. There was a noticeable lack of large missile attacks in the months before this strike as Russia spent time stockpiling months in advance. Because of the stockpiling, as mentioned earlier, it displays that these strikes were planned months in advance, hinting that these could be preludes to a sizeable Russian ground offensive in early 2024, likely towards Kharkov in the spring.

These attacks will not be the end of missile strikes over Ukraine, but they display the cracks in Ukraine’s war machine as their last remaining AD stockpiles have dried up. Ukraine already has problems replacing other critical war equipment from ongoing fighting and failed offensives across the frontlines. These airstrikes are far from the decisive blow needed to end the war; however, they highlight that as the United States becomes more distracted, the outlook for the future of Ukraine becomes dimmer.