🇪🇺🇷🇸 - Josep Borell, the EU's foreign minister, has said that Serbia and "Kosovo" must normalize relations (a euphemism for recognizing the independence of "Kosovo") before Serbia will be admitted into the EU.

🇺🇸⚡️- Nikki Haley has stated on Fox News that “Poland and the Baltics are next” and that “we need to win in Ukraine.”

Interesting that Haley refers to “we” on the discussion of the Russian special military operation, almost as if America is a combatant in the war.

🇺🇸 - Ahead of President Trump's projected arrest on Tuesday, some of his supporters have called for bank runs and trucker strikes. These tactics are reminiscent of the Freedom Convoy in Canada - we can only hope they are successful in America.

The EFF is rallying up support for their planned shutdown on the 20th March with a threat of looting businesses.

"Close down all your businesses to avoid the looting. Close down all your shops to avoid the looting. Close down all your factories to avoid the looting. Close down everything."

🇺🇸⚡️ - President Trump announced a rally in Waco, Texas next Saturday.

🇷🇺⚡️ - Vladimir Putin visited Mariupol in the Donetsk People's Republic and spoke with local residents.

🇧🇮⚡️- Burundi has announced a polio outbreak, it’s first in 30 years.

🇺🇸🇨🇭⚡️ - The American government is attempting a takeover of Crédit Suisse, following Zurich's declaration that it will not bail the crisis-hit bank out.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️ - Washington has declared that it will reject a proposed Chinese-mediated solution to the Ukraine war.

🇩🇪 - In Aachen, Germany, street signs in Arabic were installed.

🇿🇦⚡️ - Black nationalists in South Africa have closed gas stations in preparation for a planned "national shutdown" tomorrow.

PLANNED BUSINESS & SERVICE CLOSURES

Several business and services are shutting down in preparation for tomorrow's national shutdown protests.

▫️Airlink airline - Some drop-off and pick-up terminal roads at OR Tambo Intl. Airport will be closed
▫️Toyota factory - Durban
▫️SABC FM Radio Studio
▫️PUTCO bus routes - Gauteng / Limpopo
▫️Grindrod Logistics
▫️Save Hyper & Goal Supermarket Chains
▫️Legal Practice Council offices
▫️Gauteng courts - virtual
▫️MWEB offices
▫️Syntech Johannesburg

INCREASED SECURITY:

▫️TRANSNET - ports and railway
▫️Waterfall City estate and CBD (Riot Units deployment)
▫️Increased SAPS and SANDF visibility

This list is subject to change.

🇲🇪⚡️ - In Montenegro's presidential election, Milo Đukanović (the current president) and Jakov Milatović made it into the second round. Andrija Mandić, known for his pro-Serbian and pro-Russian views, was eliminated.

🇲🇪 Jakov Milatović, the candidate who will face Đukanović in the second round, while he is pro-Western in terms of his foreign policy views, is also an informal member of the "anyone-but-Đukanović" bloc which is supported by anyone from Montenegrin liberals to Serbian nationalists.

Therefore, while Milatović is pro-EU and pro-NATO, he is also supportive of ethnic Serb rights and even backed the Serbian Orthodox Church when it was facing religious persecution from Đukanović's former government a few years ago. He also supports closer relations with Serbia, although this is more for economic and cultural ties rather than geopolitical reasons.

His party's leader Milojko Spajić, who was meant to run for the presidency instead of him but was barred due to suspicions of holding Serbian citizenship, is also an ethnic Serb who in the recent past lobbied for the Serbian Orthodox Church.

🇦🇿🇦🇲⚡️ - Azerbaijan has sent a convoy carrying weapons to its border with the pro-Armenian seperatist state of Nagorno-Karabakh, as it claims that border guards from Armenia have attackes Azerbaijani forces.
It seems another Nagorno-Karabakh War could be in the offing.

🇺🇸 - A high school football coach fired for praying before games was reinstated and paid $2 million in compensation.

BREAKING: Trump lawyers seen entering DC Courthouse.

Ron DeSantis ATTACKS Trump over imminent arrest. His candidacy is over before it even started.

🇺🇸⚡️ - Steel barricades have been placed in front of Manhattan's courthouse.

🇫🇷⚡️ - A no confidence vote in the French government is currently taking place. It has been reported that the National Assembly is 11 votes away from declaring it has no confidence in Macron, an effectively unprecedented event in French politics.