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📢 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Marco Rubio on X: "Today, the Trump Administration is sanctioning two International Criminal Court judges directly engaged in politicized and illegitimate actions against Israel. The United States has been clear: we will continue to respond with significant and tangible consequences to protect against the ICC’s lawfare, abuse of power, and blatant disregard for the sovereignty of the U.S. and Israel." 📎 Secretary Marco Rubio

🇵🇱 🇪🇺 🇷🇺 Poland to start producing anti-personnel mines to lay along eastern border The mines would be part of the "East Shield", a defensive programme aimed at fortifying Poland's borders with Belarus and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, he said. Asked whether production of mines could begin next year, once the withdrawal process from the Ottawa Convention was completed, Zalewski said: "I would very much like that... We have such needs." 📈 "We are preparing for Polish demand ... to amount to 5-6 million mines of all types," Belma's CEO Jaroslaw Zakrzewski told Reuters. Belma's Zakrzewski said exports to Ukraine were possible and that NATO countries bordering Russia, including the Baltic states, had already signalled interest in buying anti‑personnel mines. He said Poland's own needs would take priority, but any excess production could be supplied to allies in the region. 🇱🇹 🇫🇮 Earlier this year, Lithuania and Finland said they expected to start producing anti‑personnel mines next year amid rising concerns about Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. 🇱🇻 🇪🇪 Latvia and Estonia are also leaving the treaty but have not announced production plans, though officials in Riga said they could launch manufacturing quickly if needed and Estonia sees it as a future option. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/poland-start-producing-anti-personnel-mines-lay-along-eastern-border-2025-12-17/ 📎 Reuters

🇱🇧 The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is reportedly “ready” to begin disarming Hezbollah between the Litani and Awali rivers as part of the second phase of the LAF’s disarmament plan. This effort would mark an unprecedented step by the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah north of the Litani River. 📎 Critical Threats

🇺🇸⚡- "US Naval Forces Central Command successfully launched the one-way attack drone LUCAS from a ship at sea in the Middle East for the first time on December 16," - NAVCENT.

We Are the Americans—A Response to Vivek Ramaswamy’s “What Is An American?” "Ronald Reagan was wrong, and so is Vivek Ramaswamy. To be an American is not to proclaim loyalty to a set of abstract and GOP-focus-group-approved ideals." James K. responds to Indian anchor baby and Ohio gubernational candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's NYT OpEd describing a history of immigration law that has, until 1965, been deliberately crafted to maintain the founding demographic character of this nation. "America is a nation of European settlers, of Christians, and is the most successful outpost of Western civilization. It is our inheritance, and it is not yours to use for your political purposes. To be an American is to inherit something wonderful which our ancestors created for us, their posterity." 🔗 Read on Substack here 🔗 or our website here 🔗 follow us on X

🇨🇳 This is an incredible story by Reuters: they reveal that China now has a working EUV lithography machine prototype, which makes China the only country in the world to have succeeded at replicating the ASML technology, years earlier than anticipated. The machine apparently "fills nearly an entire factory floor". It's operational and successfully generates extreme ultraviolet light (what "EUV" stands for), but has not yet produced working chips. The objective for the latter is 2028, which is a crazy fast timeline: ASML took 18 years to go from prototype to machines that could produce commercially-available chips, China aims to do it in 3. The security measures around the project look insane. The employees work under fake identities so they don't know each other's real names. They work inside secure facilities where "no one outside the compound could know what they were building - or that they were there at all". They're divided in "teams who are kept isolated from each other to protect the confidentiality of the project," where "they don't know what the other teams work on." For foreign employees, China exceptionally gave them Chinese passports and allowed them to maintain dual citizenship, which is normally forbidden under Chinese law. This seems to be because some of the employees are former ASML workers such as Lin Nan, ASML's former head of light source technology who would be less vulnerable to Western sanctions under Chinese citizenship. The salaries offered are apparently "uncapped" with "signing bonuses that started at 3 million to 5 million yuan" and "home-purchase subsidies". This all means that we're looking, within a few years, at yet another self-inflicted wound by the West: the development, because of sanctions, of a serious competitor for Europe's most successful technology company (one of our very rare ones!). And the worst part, for Europe, is that these sanctions weren't even initiated by us nor serve our interests: we just followed Washington's lead as usual, suffering the costs while getting no obvious benefit out of it. Quite the contrary in fact as all its doing is replacing a massive customer with a massive future competitor. We, again, let ourselves be the chessboard on which others play. We just absorb the damage from both sides and have no voice in the game. 📎 Arnaud Bertrand

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Harvard officials have opened a 'secret disciplinary investigation' into at least two students for their roles in exposing the relationship between Israeli pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and the school’s former Jewish-American president, Larry Summers, who stepped down in November – New York Times The students are facing potential disciplinary actions that could range from a private reprimand to being required to withdraw from the school. @Middle_East_Spectator

🇺🇸📞🇭🇳 — US State Department's Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs on X:

In Honduras, the National Electoral Council (CNE) needs to begin immediately the special scrutiny process to finalize official results. Any call to disrupt public order or the CNE’s work will be met with consequences. The voices of 3.4 million Hondurans must be respected and upheld.

#BREAKING 🇭🇳🗳❗️ — After the Socialist LIBRE Party called for Revolution, the CNE, Honduras' election committee, suggests there is an imminent threat to the electoral process of the country and calls on Honduran Armed Forces to secure a government site where election materials are stored! The CNE also makes a request for the international community to "document what may occur"

🇺🇸 🇹🇼 🇨🇳 US announces massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion The Trump administration has announced a massive package of arms sales to Taiwan valued at more than $10 billion that includes medium-range missiles, howitzers and drones, a move that is sure to infuriate China. The State Department announced the sales late Wednesday during a nationally televised address by President Donald Trump, who made scant mention of foreign policy issues and did not speak about China or Taiwan at all. U.S.-Chinese tensions have ebbed and flowed during Trump’s second term, largely over trade and tariffs but also over China’s increasing aggressiveness toward Taiwan, which Beijing has said must reunify with the mainland. The eight arms sales agreements announced Wednesday cover 82 high-mobility artillery rocket systems, or HIMARS, and 420 Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS — similar to what the U.S. had been providing Ukraine during the Biden administration to defend itself from Russia — worth more than $4 billion. They also include 60 self-propelled howitzer systems and related equipment worth more than $4 billion and drones valued at more than $1 billion. Other sales in the package include military software valued at more than $1 billion, Javelin and TOW missiles worth more than $700 million, helicopter spare parts worth $96 million and refurbishment kits for Harpoon missiles worth $91 million. ⚡️ Under federal law, the U.S. is obligated to assist Taiwan with its self-defense, a point that has become increasingly contentious with China, which has vowed to take Taiwan by force, if necessary. https://apnews.com/article/trump-taiwan-arms-sales-china-2743b66e3a4e47a895e731568cef9008

🇪🇺🇺🇸🇷🇺 Trump and Putin are not the enemies of Europe | CIG #commentary 📝 Martin Sellner: When we say "Remigration" we mean: 1. Getting rid of the traitors class. Liberals who are responsible for population replacement and the weakness of Europe. 2. Getting rid of left-wing liberalism, universalism, the ideology of human rights interventionism & the end of history. 3. Dealing with foreign powers and ensuring nonintervention in our space. It will work because: a) there are adults in the room again, who will be taken seriously by US, China & Russia b) European patriots will be actually willing to fight for such a political leadership, while they despise the current one. 🔗 https://telegra.ph/Trump-and-Putin-are-not-the-enemies-of-Europe-12-17

📢 🇺🇸 President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpLvGmPetds

🇺🇸❌🚤💊 — NEW: SOUTHCOM has released footage from Wednesday of a “lethal kinetic strike” on a suspected drug vessel that was traveling along “a known narco-trafficking route” in the eastern Pacific, killing all four people onboard.

🇻🇪📞🇨🇴❌🇺🇸 — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro calls on Colombia and its military to join together in arms against foreign military intervention:

I make my call. Reaffirmed, with the deep love of a great Colombian that I feel myself to be, to the ordinary people of Colombia, to its social movements, to its political forces, and to the Colombian military, whom I know very well, for perfect union with Venezuela. So that no one dares to touch the sovereignty of our countries and to fulfill Bolívar's decree of permanent union and shared happiness.

🇺🇸 🇻🇪 U.S.A Blockade Armada | Ian Ellis U.S. Navy surface combatants in the Caribbean Sea/SOUTHCOM AOR

At least 14 U.S. Navy ships (excluding subs) are now operating in the U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) area of responsibility (AOR).

 📎 Ian Ellis

🇻🇪❌🇺🇸 — Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro:

We cannot fail the Venezuelan people, we can never fail them. We will defend these people, because these people have a right to their land, their wealth, their homeland, always.

🇪🇨❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — Ecuador’s National Assembly approved a resolution to support the detention of Nicolás Maduro. With 80 votes in favor, the full National Assembly approved a resolution endorsing international actions aimed at restoring democracy in Venezuela and the detention of the drug-running dictator.

— Twenty-six continuous years of plundering the wealth not only of Venezuela, but of all of South America, by the Chavista regime and its regional allies through the São Paulo Forum, are on the verge of coming to an end. TACO memes aside It is well known that the shift in US foreign policy towards a more Western Hemisphere-oriented stance will accelerate a process that is now undeniable: — 🌹📉 The Anti-American Pink Tide in Central and South America is dying. 🐍 We have been talking about this for a long time, since 2023, with Milei's rise to power. ➡️ With the predictable fall of Petro in Colombia and the growing possibility of Bolsonaro's eldest son, in coalition with the traditional Brazilian elites, taking power from the Workers' Party, which is by far the most sinister and kleptocratic force in the region, only the Communist regime in Cuba and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua remain in the hands of the anti-American Left in the region. We are witnessing a generational event, even if an intervention in Venezuela does not happen. 📝 Parties foreign to the American continent must understand this as soon as possible or they will be caught by surprise. ⚰️ Should the latter happen and the Chavistas are consigned to the dustbin of history (where they belong), it can be said that the Old Guard of the Left, which includes these foreign parties, will be dead. Permanently. Like the dragon mortally wounded by Saint George. The La Patria Grande Project and the São Paulo Forum are witnessing their final moments. The only questions that should be asked at this moment are: When will they breathe their last? When La Guaira see the 🇺🇸 "The Star-Spangled Banner" on its coast alongside 🇻🇪 7-Stars, or when Brasilia sees a counter-revolution of its own? Only time shall tell.

🇺🇸 🇻🇪 211-213: House narrowly defeated Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Jim McGovern's war powers resolution to block unauthorized U.S. military action within or against Venezuela, without the approval of Congress. 📎 Craig Caplan

🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇪🇺 US, Russia to hold talks on Ukraine war in Miami this weekend The Russian delegation is expected to include the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund Kirill Dmitriev, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. Both people were granted anonymity to discuss plans for the next rounds of sensitive talks. Trump administration special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner are expected to represent the U.S. side. European leaders have spent much of the past two weeks huddling to try and iron out specific plans for security guarantees for Kyiv, including a demilitarized zone along the current frontlines, and troop pledges for training Ukrainian forces and monitoring any ceasefire. One European official, also granted anonymity to discuss sensitive diplomacy, said that the coalition troops would likely be tasked with operating aircraft and drones to survey the frontlines, while some troops would be stationed in western Ukraine “to help rebuild the Ukrainian forces — not to serve on the front line.” https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/17/us-russia-ukraine-war-miami-00695305