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Outline

THE HOLY LAND

– ISR: Israel orders more Gazans to flee, bombs areas where it sends them ( Reuters )

– ISR: Israel weights plan to flood Gaza tunnels with seawater ( WSJ )

– ISR: Corruption trial against Netanyahu resumes after war pause ( TOIsrael > Cradle )

– ISR: Stock market bets suggest foreknowledge of 7 October attack ( Haaretz )

– ISR: Critical IDF surveillance videos from 7 October missing ( JPost )

– ISR: Mossad plans to assassinate Hamas leaders abroad after war : Report ( WSJ > Cradle )

– ISR: ‘The Gospel’: How Israel uses AI to select bombing targets in Gaza ( Guardian )

– USC: Biden‘s bear hug of Netanyahu is a disaster – sending bombs, asking to limit civilian deaths ( The Nation )

– USC: How the Biden team is planning for postwar Gaza – install PA, even if Net. doesn’t like it ( Politico )

– USC: Lloyd Austin publicly warns Israel about harming civilians : Strategic defeat ( speech )

– USC: USS Carney, multiple commercial ships attacked in the Red Sea: Pentagon ( WSJ )

– USC: Sends Israel 200-p Bunker Buster bombs – also urging Israel to limit civilian casualties ( WSJ )

– WEA: Iranian president Raisi will visit Moscow on Thursday ( Tasnim )

– WEA: Maersk, ZIM, MSC ( largest in world ) avoid Suez Canal for shipping ( Logistics News )

– RUC: Iran’s top diplomat Abdollahian heads for Moscow to attend Caspian Summit ( IRNA )

– RUC: Russia is turning increasingly hostile towards Israel – picks sides in Middle East ( CNBC )

COUNTRY 404 + HOUSE SLAVES

“We have until about the end of the year before it becomes very, very difficult for us to continue to support Ukr. And the end of the year is coming”– Kirby

– 404: There will be no NATO for Ukraine, Blinken told Europeans to stop discussing it – Goncharenko ( Telegram )

– 404: Elensky acknowledges need for greater mobilization as manpower slumps  ( Kyiv Ind )

– 404: Zaluzhnyi’s bold ask: 17 million shells and $400 billion for Ukraine‘s liberation ( MSN )

– 404:Eelensky communicates with commanders bypassing Zaluzhny ( Upravda )

– 404: Soldier tells BBC of front-line ‘hell’ – we thought the enemy would flee ( BBC )

– 404: Kyiv mayor Klitschko attacks Elensky : moving toward authoritarianism ( Kyiv Ind )

– 404: General to general: Potential peace being negotiated in Ukraine ( Hersch )

– 404: Soros family makes deal to dump chemical waste in Ukraine ( TASS )

– 404: Ukraine blows up 2 railway connections in Buryatia between RU-CN ( Politico )

– 404: Poroshenko not allowed to leave country, accuses Elensky ( Berliner Zeitung )

Context : “Dozens of meetings” planned in Poland and US, for more funding

– USC: White House warned US will run out of Ukraine funds by end of year ( FT )

– USC: Did the West deliberately prolong the Ukraine war? ( Responsible Statecraft )

– USC: Senate immigration negotiation collapse, posing threat to aid for URK-ISR ( NBC )

– USC: Transatlantic tech summit postponed as platform loses steam ( Euractiv )

– EUK: EU budget dispute threatens €50b war lifeline for Ukraine ( FT )

– EUK: Belgium will transfer F-16s to Ukraine but not before 2025 ( Defense News )

– EUK: Czech Republic not send anything more to Ukraine – empty warehouses – DM ( Euronews )

– EUK: Bulgarian President Radev vetoes agreement on supply of 100 APCs to Kiev ( BRA )

– EUK: NATO has three years to prepare for Russian attack, warns Poland ( Times of London )

– EUK: Finland plans to start producing heavy ammunition for Ukraine – MoD Häkkänen ( Ilta Sanomat )

– EUK: NATO should be ready for ‘bad news’ from Ukraine – Stoltenberg ( Politico )

– EUK: Former FM Joschka Fisher “ashamed of our country” believes EU needs its own nukes ( Zeit )

– EUK: British Armed Forces face $22b equipment shortfall, watchdog says ( Reuters )

– EUK: CEPA: US-led NATO in Europe facing ‘unprecedented‘ twin threat from RU-CN ( ERR, Estonia )

– EUK: Spain bought record amount of Russian gas in 2023, 6×2018 volumes ( El Mundo )

– EUK: New party in Slovakia ( United Slavs ) will raise exit from NATO and EU ( DW )

– EUK: Germany seeks to reduce contribution to €20B EU Ukraine fund – leaked doc ( Guardian )

– EUK: British Navy turns to ‘refer-a-friend’ scheme in bid for new recruits ( Daily Mail )

DOOMING HARD

– EUK: Did we underestimate the Russians? ( Bild )

– EUK: Has Kyiv already lost? The allies are weary ( Welt )

– EUK: Why Putin has every reason to be satisfied with himself ( Spiegel )

– EUK: How a somber mood gripped Europe ( Economist )

– EUK: Putin‘s buddy Orbán pushes EU to the brink over Ukraine ( Politico )

– EUK: Finland launches 2-hour online courses on anti-Russian sanctions ( MFA )

– EUK: Estonia falls into hopeless recession ( Bloomberg )

Context: Estonia became first country in world to give more than 1% GDP to Ukraine ( ~ December 2022 )

THE HEGEMON

– USC: The US earned 72.65 billion USD from supplying gas to Europe ( Eurostat )

– USC: Inflation in your fault – people mad about prices, keep buying expensive things ( Atlantic )

– USC: Raimondo Says Commerce Needs More Money to Halt China Chip Drive ( Bloomberg )

– USC: US aims to halve Russia‘s energy revenues by 2030 – official ( FT )

– USC: The US Air Force is in serious decline ( National Interest )

– USC: In South Korea, a bird shot down an American fifth-gen F35A ( Kyodo )

– USC: Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Taylor Swift on Time ‘person of the year’ shortlist ( Fox )

– USC: Swing-state Muslim leaders launch campaign to ‘abandon’ Biden in 2024 ( Politico )

– USC: Joe Biden‘s obvious mental struggles makes it almost cruel to allow ’24 run ( NYPost )

– USC: The Trump Dictatorship – Op-Ed by Robert Kagan ( WaPo )

THE HEARTLANDS

“The US cannot stand competition and can only exist in an atmosphere of controlled chaos. They have forgotten that they are no longer capable of controlling this chaos” – Maria Z

– RUC: Lukashenko meets Xi Jinping in Beijing, exchange gifts ( videos )

– RUC: President Putin will embark on diplomatic mission to UAE, Saudi Arabia this week ( Ru MFA )

– RUC: Roughly 40% of those who left Russia in 2022 have returned ( Izvestia )

– RUC: UNGA passes Russian non-deployment resolution of weapons in space ( TASS )

– RUC: In Russia, the shift in public opinion is unmistakable – allgood ( WaPo )

– RUC: 5.5G China is rolling out the next big thing in comms-tech 1Gbps > 10Gbps ( SCMP )

– RUC: Hong Kong Protest leader Agnes Chow jumps bail, stays in Canada ( BBC )

– RUC: US aims to limit China‘s role in EVs – keeping Chinese components out ( WSJ )

– RUC: China, Vietnam weigh rail link through rare earths heartland ( Reuters )

– RUC: NASA urges researchers to reach out for China‘s Chang’e 5 moon samples ( SCMP )

Context : Going around the 2011 ‘Wolf Amendment’ to bar China, going fucking viral on Chi-SM

THE GLOBAL SOUTH

– LAA: Lula to invite Putin to upcoming G20 – despite ICC warrant ( TeleSur )

– LAA: Maduro passes landslide referendum on Guyana, against US base and Exxon ( speech )

– LAA: Cuban president Diaz-Canal arrives in Iran, sign joint statement, 7 cooperation pacts ( IR MFA )

– AFR: Russian MoD delegation arrives in Niamey, Niger ( video )

– AFR: Burkina Faso, Mali Niger announce confederation to oust EU / US interests, form ties with RU-CN ( AN )