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🇿🇦❌🇺🇸 South Africa briefly held US government personnel on refugee assignment amid fraught relationship The South African government briefly held, then released, two US government employees on assignment in South Africa as part of the Trump administration’s bid to admit Afrikaners to the United States, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation. The incident appeared to mark an escalation in the already-tenuous relationship between the United States and South Africa, which has rejected the premise of the Trump administration’s push to admit White South Africans as refugees. It also revealed some of the hiccups and hurdles US personnel have faced in the administration’s unprecedented focus on Afrikaners. It isn’t clear why the US employees were questioned. The US government is “seeking immediate clarification from the South African government” and it expects “full cooperation and accountability,” State Department principal deputy spokesperson Tommy Pigott told CNN on Tuesday. “We’ll have more to say once all the facts are confirmed, but the Trump Administration will always stand up for US interests, US personnel, and the rule of law,” he said. “Interfering in our refugee operations is unacceptable.” https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/16/politics/south-africa-afrikaner-us-refugees

🇷🇺🇺🇦We will liberate our historical lands by military means if Kiev and the West refuse to engage in dialogue, Putin stated. Other statements by the president regarding the conflict in Ukraine: ▪️The goals of the Special Military Operation will undoubtedly be achieved; ▪️We would prefer to eliminate the root causes of the conflict through diplomacy; ▪️The task of creating and expanding a buffer security zone in Ukraine will be consistently addressed; ▪️Ukraine has the full potential of the NATO bloc behind it;

🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Russian Defense Minister Belousov:

More than 70% of thermal power plants and over 37% of hydroelectric power plants in Ukraine have been put out of operation.

📖 📸 🎥 The Tilt Shift effect is a technique that can create an interesting 'toy-town' miniature look. 📎 Massimo

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Trump: "Sheldon Adelson is looking to give big dollars to Rubio because he feels he can mold him into his perfect little puppet. I agree!" October 13, 2015

📝 🇻🇪 🇹🇼 "With the U.S. instituting a blockade of Venezuela, I am concerned for the threshold of a blockade on Taiwan being lowered." - SA Defensa 📎 SA Defensa

Petro calls Maduro a dictator.

Maduro regime responds and repudiates Trump's statements, stating that it will "defend its rights to free trade, navigability, free development, sovereignty, and national independence." https://t.me/worldconflicts/52007?single

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Trump: "This is the first time that I've ever brought up notes to make a speech... you know why?! I've done so much for Israel, that I have to read— look at that, I've got like pages!!!" 📎 disclosetv

NOW - Miriam Adelson says she spoke to Alan Dershowitz in Israel about the legality of Trump serving a third 4-year term: "We can do it!.. Think about it. I will give you another $250 million." @disclosetv

🇺🇸 U.S. Capitol replaces Robert E. Lee statue with statue honoring civil rights icon Barbara Rose Johns 📎 Breaking911

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Trump: "I will always be a friend and a champion to the Jewish people... the strongest lobby was the Jewish lobby. It was Israel. That's no longer true. You have to be very careful. You have a congress, in particular, which is becoming antisemitic." 📎 disclosetv

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Trump admits he's the first Jewish President of the United States Mark Levin: 'Six years ago I was up here, and I said this is our first Jewish President. Trump: 'It's true' Mark Levin: 'Now he's the first Jewish President to serve two non-consecutive terms.' Trump: 'True. That's true.' @Middle_East_Spectator

🇺🇸⚡️- Brown University has released a statement addressing rumors that one of its students may be the shooter. The university clarified that the individual being doxed has no relevance to the investigation, and that if they did, law enforcement would be actively investigating them and providing information to the public.

🇻🇪🇻🇪❌🇺🇸🛢 — 1 May, 2007 AD, International Worker's Day: Venezuela seizes foreign oil fields

Thousands of Venezualan workers took control of foreign-owned oil fields yesterday as Hugo Chávez stepped up his battle with Washington in a new wave of nationalisation and an announcement that the country was leaving the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Amid jubilant scenes, oil workers wearing red T-shirts emblazoned with "yes to nationalisation" moved into the giant Orinoco basin shortly after midnight after Caracas insisted six of the world's biggest oil companies cede operational control. Three US companies - ConocoPhillips, Chevron and Exxon Mobil, together with BP, Norway's Statoil and France's Total agreed to transfer operational control to state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela.

🔗 Source: The Guardian

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡- Russian shadow tanker HYPERION has just entered the Carribbean waters, departing from the UMBA Offshore Terminal in Murmansk towards Jose Terminal, Venezuela. The vessel is under US sanctions.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "Only 40% of the global 'Dark Fleet' that serves Venezuela is under US sanctions," - Tanker Trackers.

#BREAKING 🇺🇸❌🇻🇪❗️ — The United States FAA, issues a new safety warning due to the deterioration of the security situation and the increase in military activity within and around Venezuela! The FAA says in its NOTAM that it is warning airlines flying in or near Venezuela about a “potentially hazardous situation” within the Venezuelan Air Space in the near future

— Trump is basically demanding the return of all Oil fields expropriated by Hugo Chavez in the 2000s There's no way, even within the so-called "Moderate wings" of the Regime it would be accepted

🇺🇸🇩🇴🪖🗺 — A total of 10x USAF KC-135s are now deployed at Las Américas International Airport, Dominican Republic 🔗 SA Defensa (@SA_Defensa):