🇳🇱⚡️- An Eritrean national has reportedly taken hostages at a cafe in Ede, Netherlands. Police have reportedly disarmed a bomb and have secured the release of three hostages.

🇳🇱⚡️- Police have evacuated 150 homes in the town of Ede. It is believed that 2 hostages are still being held in the cafe.

Police have not confirmed the nationality or identity of the suspect at this time.

🇳🇱⚡️- Police have secured the release of all hostages and the suspect has been taken into custody.

🇳🇱🇪🇷 - The suspect is not an Eritrean immigrant, contrary to reports posted here and reports on social media. The perpetrator, his identity, and the motive have yet to be revealed.

🇹🇷⚡️- Selcuk Bayraktar, head of the Bayraktar company who produced TB2s and son in law to president Erdogan, expected to head Turkey after the next presidential election - WSJ

🇷🇺⚡- Russia is amassing forces in the Suvalki Gap – French Military Intelligence.

🇯🇵🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- Japan has begun the construction of bomb shelters on Southern Japanese Islands, near Taiwan, in preparation for a war with China over Taiwan.

🇺🇸🏳️‍⚧️⚡️- Joe Biden has declared March 31st, Easter Sunday, as "Transgender Day of Visibility."

🇺🇸🦁⚡️- President Trump's Campaign calls Joe Biden's declaration "blasphemous" and demands an apology to Catholics and Christians.

🇮🇱⚡- Nationwide, large scale protests held in Israel, against Netanyahu. Protests demand calls for his resignation as well as criticizing the IDF for 'not doing enough' to release the hostages held by Hamas. Observers state these are the largest protests held against Likud since October 7th.

🇸🇴⚡ - Puntland withdraw recognition of the Federal Government of Somalia following adoption of a new constitution.

🇷🇸🇽🇰🇧🇦 - Something important to understand about the situation in the Balkan is that pro-Western actors in the Balkan have an hegemonic agenda.

For many Western observers, having "authoritarian"/BRICS-friendly governments in Belgrade and Banja Luka is something that is avoidable. Especially as an undeclared Cold War 2 is now a thing. Why? Serbia is surrounded by NATO member states. This may not always be the case depending on how Ukraine war ends.

So what did the West do?

First of all, its important to understand that the Kurti government is a highly nationalist govt. There were multiple status quo in the Northern parts of Kosovo, such as car license plates being Serbian, Serbian presidential elections being held out there, and also the use of the Serbian dinar, and Kurti's policy is to systematically destroy all of those status quo which preceded his government. The West, on its side, doesn't actively supports Kurti's escalatory trajectory, but is ready to protect it. Thus, the West sanctioned Kurti, and spearheaded a "Ohrid agreement" which was basically a "Autonomy for Kosovo's northern Serbs in exchange for normalization deal", which neither side enforced, as Kosovo repeatedly refused to accept autonomy for its Northern side despite the deal. However, the West reduced its demand for a few hectares of a land to a Serb orthodox monastery, which Kosovo accepted, in exchange for membership in the Council of Europe, a first step before EU membership.

Then, about the Dodik govt. Its important to understand that Milorad Dodik, fundamentally, started his career as a pro-Western politician, he came in power by throwing off the wartime-era SDS, and doesn't want the independence of Republika Srpska. He is forced to use independence as a threat because fundamentally Sarajevo doesn't consider the existence of a Serb-majority autonomous entity as legitimate "Srpska is the result of genocide" and wants, on the long run, to massively reduce Srprka's autonomy. One way to attack Srpska's autonomy is by cutting off funding to the entity, with the Bosnian Serbs having had long-running financial issues. Thus, Srpska is in a defensive position. The defensive position forced it into some level of defiance, and this defiance enabled the West to launch massive sanctions on the government of Banja Luka.

TLDR its obvious that some actors in the West wants to get rid of the governments in Banja Luka and Belgrade by getting them to "Do something stupid" which would enable the West to launch crippling sanctions if not military force to throw them off.

✝️ - Happy Easter to all of our followers.

He is Risen. 🙏

🇷🇺⚡️- Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on Springs Conscription. 150,000 citizens aged 18 - 30 will be conscripted from April 1 - July 15.

🇲🇩🇺🇦⚡- "Moldova should ask Ukraine to deal with Transnistria, because Moldova can't handle the problem on their own.

And the sooner the 'Transnistrian enclave' is liquidated, the better it will be for regional security," – Serhii Kuzan, Head of the Ukrainian Center for Security and Cooperation.

🇺🇦⚡- The Ukrainian Interior Ministry confirms the cancellation of the General Elections (which were scheduled to be held today, 31 March 2024). The Ministry states that elections were cancelled in accordance with the Ukrainian Constitution, as the nation is under Martial Law.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡- Russian forces have captured Pervomaiske – confirmed by both sides.

A pro-Russian flag was seen hoisted today in the northern section of the town, previously under Ukrainian forces control.

🇱🇾⚡️- Factions fired RPG rocket on Libyan PM’s residence in Tripoli.

🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡️- European centrists are now expecting to be bailed out… by the incoming Russian offensive, which will "create a rally around the flag effect" if successful - Politico Brussels Playbook