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🚢 🇷🇺 🏴‍☠️ Flag-hopping shadow fleet starts to settle in Russia ▶️Shadow fleet ships are ending flag hopping in favour of direct Russian registration ▶️Russia’s ship register has increased in size by 40% since the invasion of Ukraine ▶️Shift towards Russia’s flag comes as EU is adding pressure on ship registers and seeking to board vessels https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1155952/Flag-hopping-shadow-fleet-starts-to-settle-in-Russia 📎 Sal Mercogliano

🛢 🇮🇷 🚢 Tanker Trackers on X: "Although (to our best knowledge) BELLA 1 (9230880) still hasn't been seized, she faces another challenge." "She has been in transit for 39 days, and at 11kn average speed, she has maybe another 28-35 days of fuel available unless her speed drops. This might happen if the US Coast Guard aborts the pursuit." "Based on that, she will likely be heading southeast towards South Africa in order to reach the Middle East. This will allow her to remain offline from AIS. The Suez Canal is an AIS mandatory zone, as is the Strait of Gibraltar." 📎 Tanker Trackers

🇸🇴 AS has been spotted in settlements around Warsheikh for the past two days. Until now, the nature of their presence had remained unclear, as recently as last June, militants were seen in some of these areas, which were considered a grey zone (unclear control). This time however AS appears to have dug in and consolidated control over the settlements of Masaale, Jabad Godane, and Cilaanley. The government responded by sending troops toward the area, and airstrikes were also reported. However, these actions did not succeed in removing AS or changing the situation on the ground that much. 📎 AAGA_CAWLLAN

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25A443 DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. v. ILLINOIS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [December 23, 2025] https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26438519/25a443-order.pdf

⚖️ 🇺🇸 👨‍⚖️ Significant loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that Trump lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to execute laws in Illinois. 📎 Kyle Cheney

🇱🇾🇹🇷🕊 — Libya's Tripoli-based National Unity Government has confirmed that the aircraft crash in Ankara has also killed the army chief of staff, the ground forces chief, the head of military manufacturing, and the chief of staff’s adviser.

🇱🇾🇹🇷⚡️ — Libya’s communications minister Walid Ellafi told Al Jazeera "all indications point to technical failure" as cause of the plane crash in the Ankara area.

🇹🇷🇱🇾⚡️ — Turkish security cameras captured the moment a Libyan Falcon 50 private jet crashed after taking off from Ankara Esenboğa Airport, which was carrying Muhammad Ali Ahmad Al-Haddad, Chief of Staff of Libya’s Government of National Unity.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️ — The U.S. has deployed a large number of special-operations aircraft and multiple cargo planes carrying troops and equipment to the Caribbean this week, expanding U.S. military options for potential action in the region, WSJ reports.

🇸🇦 🇮🇷 🇦🇪 Very interesting signal of rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran. The Emiratis are increasingly emerging as the largest menace in the Gulf. 🇾🇪 Mustafa Noman, deputy foreign minister in the Saudi-backed "recognized Yemeni government", said in a recent Al-Arabiya interview that he does not exclude the possibility of a wide-ranging alliance with Ansarallah aimed at preserving Yemeni unity. 📎 Dilawar Karwan

🇨🇳 🇫🇲 🇺🇸 China is methodically chipping away at America’s Pacific defense architecture, and Yap’s Woleai airfield is the latest warning sign. Despite the Federated States of Micronesia’s Compact of Free Association with Washington, Beijing has secured a deal to refurbish the airfield — just 450 miles from Guam. That puts a potential dual-use Chinese facility inside the second island chain, complicating US plans for agile air dispersal in a Taiwan war. Interior, regional commands, and legal advisers have all failed to enforce CoFA protections, risking billions in US investments and eroding America’s positional advantage in Micronesia. The Chinese activities at Woleai, to be clear, are not a surprise. It ranks almost as bad as the 2022 secret security pact the Chinese secured with the Solomon Islands. Left unaddressed, US leadership responsible for the region will continue to fail in identifying and addressing problematic Chinese encroachment and influence in Micronesia. The consequence of continued inaction will render years of effort and billions of dollars in military investment and planning useless. 📎 Byron Wan

🇺🇸 Data Set 8 of the Epstein Files show that a victim stated that Trump and Epstein raped her, and that a Limo driver heard Trump in the back speaking to “Jeffrey” about “abusing girls”. The victim then “committed suicide” in January of 2000 after reporting the incident. Police didn’t believe it was suicide. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00020517.pdf 📎 Brian Krassenstein

📝 🇺🇸 Can the U.S. Build Trump Class Battleship in 2.5 Years? The Constellation-class frigate, which utilized an existing design to save time, has faced delays of over 3 years, with its first ship now expected 7 years after the initial contract. For comparison, the Zumwalt-class destroyers, which were smaller at 15,000 tons, took 5 to 7 years per ship to build while suffering from massive cost overruns and tech-integration failures. Government Accountability Office (GAO) findings indicate that Navy lead ships since 2007 have averaged 8 to 19 years from contract award to fleet delivery. https://clashreport.com/defense/articles/can-the-us-build-trump-class-battleship-in-25-years-upbdf8x9u5g

🇾🇪🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- BREAKING: Saudi-backed Homeland Shield Forces, HSF, have begun deploying eastwards out of al-Abr, Hadhramaut region, eastern Yemen, towards al-Khashaea. HSF have captured Eukban and al-Wahid along the N5 highway and are advancing towards al-Kashaea, Yemeni frontline journalist Abdullah al-Juaidi reports. Al-Khashaea is a strategic town that sits just in front the the N5-R536 crossroad, but also home to the Saudi-backed 37th Brigade military base. Negotiations between the two sides are ongoing, but the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council, STC, have so far refused to withdraw. Saudi jets were flying at low altitude over the area earlier, in a move to intimidate the STC-backed forces.

🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🇪🇺 11 countries where BYD has outsold Tesla so far this year (there are quite a few more). Some of the surprises are the European ones where BYD surpassed Tesla in UK, Germany & Ireland this year. BYD is obviously much larger in all the Asian markets. 📝 RSL Game: "Germany is the most surprising one in here. Tesla has a factory, BYD doesn't." 📎 tphuang

🇧🇷🇰🇷🚀💥 — South Korean rocket, launched in partnership with the FAB at Alcântara Base, explodes after 50 seconds of flight ➡️ For the first time in decades, Brazil conducted its first commercial orbital-class rocket launch from the Alcântara Launch Center (CLA) on the night of this Monday (12/22), however after the HABIT-Nano rocket took off, it flew for about 50 seconds, when an anomaly occurred and it exploded. ➡️ The South Korean company Innospace has not yet provided further details on the reason that led to the explosion. ➡️ Even with the failure, the launch is an important milestone for the company and for the CLA, as it was the first commercial operation of an orbital type carried out on Brazilian soil and the first launch attempt of the HABIT-Nano rocket, which was still in the development phase.

🇬🇧 In a piece published in the Financial Times, Stephen Bush declared "Remigration" the year in a word, warning readers that opposition to diversity "has begun to seep into the mainstream." Bush is a British-born, mixed-race journalist with Jewish heritage. 📎 Europa

🇧🇪 Dries Van Langenhove on X: "The Public Prosecutor's office has just ordered police to interrogate me for the tweet below." "I have just received a letter for an interrogation "relating to a potential crime punishable by prison", namely "incitement to hatred against a person belonging to a protected group" (= anyone who is not a white, heterosexual male). I will post the letter under this quote-tweet." "This is the 13th (!!!) active court case/criminal investigation the Brussels regime has launched against me. They know that this eats away all of my time and money so that I can no longer focus on my activism against the Great Replacement." "The letter. The sheer amount of court cases and criminal investigations launched against me requires a near full time administrative effort to keep up. Lawfare." "Important to understand is that these cases against me are purely the result of the Brussels regime's desire to crush opposition, and not of an 'over active' Public Prosecutor or police." "When I file complaints for physical violence (in which the perpetrators confessed and even said they would do it again!), for death threats against me or my family, or for blatant, dangerous slander ("Dries attacked a child!"), the complaints are dismissed by the Public Prosecutor each and every time, essentially making me a free target for any sort of violence." 📎 Dries Van Langenhove

⚪️ 🇳🇿 "White New Zealanders have fallen to 55.9% of the population due to mass migration but New Zealand’s statistics department is fudging the numbers to make it look higher." "This is an existential threat to our survival as a nation." 📎 William McGimpsey

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