Donald Trump says other NATO countries will have to bear more financial burden for Ukraine, US has spent $200 billion more to support Kiev

Trump’s first decisions since returning to the US presidency:

▪️The first documents concern appointments to the administration, including at cabinet level;

▪️US withdrawal from the World Health Organisation and the Paris Climate Agreement;

▪️Reversing 78 decisions made during the Biden presidency (🤡including the re-designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism);

▪️Restrictions on birthright US citizenship;

▪️Giving drug cartels the status of terrorist organisations;

▪️Pardoning some 1,500 people convicted of storming the Capitol in January 2021;

▪️Ordered to begin the process of renaming the Gulf of Mexico the American Gulf of Mexico;

▪️Impose a state of emergency on the southern U.S. border to stop the flow of illegal immigrants;

▪️Prosecuted former Biden administration officials for illegally disclosing classified information;

▪️An executive order on TikTok, in which a US company owns half of the social network;

▪️A directive to restore free speech and “prevent government censorship”.

On January 20th, 1980, US President Jimmy Carter announced a boycott of the Moscow Olympics. This became one of the first instances of the collective West using sports as a political tool.

However, the US failed to secure a global boycott, and the Moscow Olympics were notably rich in high achievements even without Western participants.

Over 14 days of competition, 74 Olympic, 39 European, and 36 world records were set. The Soviet team won 195 medals, including 80 golds, and took first place in the unofficial medal tally.

And Key Events on January 20th:

▪️ Ministry of Defense Summary: Russian troops have liberated Novoyegorovka in the LNR and Shevchenko in the DNR.

▪️ The losses of Ukrainian Armed Forces in the special operation zone reached up to 1,390 servicemen in one day.

▪️ In the border area of Kursk, over 460 Ukrainian militants, 4 tanks, and 4 IFVs were destroyed.

▪️ On the eve of the inauguration, Trump stated his intention to end the conflict in Ukraine and work towards preventing a third world war.

▪️ The situation in the Krasnoarmeysk direction in Donbass is critical for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with daily loss of settlements and the risk of encirclement of Krasnoarmeysk and Dimitrov, according to Ukrainska Pravda.

▪️ Three former Ukrainian Armed Forces brigade commanders were detained, accused of negligence and inaction that led to the loss of territories in the Kharkov region, reported the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine.

▪️ RBC-Ukraine reported that Trump’s plan may involve freezing the conflict along the current front lines and removing Ukraine’s NATO membership question from the agenda.

wookiemeister said:

On January 20th, 1980, US President Jimmy Carter announced a boycott of the Moscow Olympics. This became one of the first instances of the collective West using sports as a political tool.

However, the US failed to secure a global boycott, and the Moscow Olympics were notably rich in high achievements even without Western participants.

Over 14 days of competition, 74 Olympic, 39 European, and 36 world records were set. The Soviet team won 195 medals, including 80 golds, and took first place in the unofficial medal tally.

And Key Events on January 20th:

▪️ Ministry of Defense Summary: Russian troops have liberated Novoyegorovka in the LNR and Shevchenko in the DNR.

▪️ The losses of Ukrainian Armed Forces in the special operation zone reached up to 1,390 servicemen in one day.

▪️ In the border area of Kursk, over 460 Ukrainian militants, 4 tanks, and 4 IFVs were destroyed.

▪️ On the eve of the inauguration, Trump stated his intention to end the conflict in Ukraine and work towards preventing a third world war.

▪️ The situation in the Krasnoarmeysk direction in Donbass is critical for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, with daily loss of settlements and the risk of encirclement of Krasnoarmeysk and Dimitrov, according to Ukrainska Pravda.

▪️ Three former Ukrainian Armed Forces brigade commanders were detained, accused of negligence and inaction that led to the loss of territories in the Kharkov region, reported the State Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine.

▪️ RBC-Ukraine reported that Trump’s plan may involve freezing the conflict along the current front lines and removing Ukraine’s NATO membership question from the agenda.

All I know is Alan Wells won the 100 meters at the1980 Olympic games for Scotland.
Over.

Yet another Al Jolani top appointee has been assassinated in Syria. Mohammed Khaled al-Safadi was very recently appointed as the head of HTS (formerly Al Nusra terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda and ISIS) police in Daraa Province. The assailants are unknown!

A newly mobilized soldier of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in a state of intoxication, decided to take a hunting knife and stab his comrades yesterday during a clash in the village of Dachnoye in the Odessa region due to drug use. Two were seriously wounded and one was killed. He was shot.

17 HTS/SNA militants killed in increasingly deadly SDF drone attacks. 21 more have been injured, including four Turkish troops.

According to the French Minister of Defense, on the night of January 15-16, a French Atlantique 2 was illuminated by the fire control radar of an S-400 ground/air defense system.

A Hermes 900 drone under acceptance trials for the Indian Navy has crashed off the coast of Porbandar, Gujarat. The drone, was assembled in India under license from Israel

Today, Kiev was attacked by four Iskander ballistic missiles

The explosions occurred near the Lukyanovskaya metro station, where the Artem plant is located.

Magomed Abdurakhmanovich Abdulayev, callsign ‘Sudya’, a soldier from the assault unit of the 136th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, held the defense in one of the positions on the front line for 8 days with a comrade, and then 21 days alone, with only minimal supplies of food and water.

His position was 200 meters from the enemy, and he regularly passed information about their movements. As a result, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the entire enemy company.

Magomed later walked ten kilometers on the cold ground, but even with frostbitten feet, he helped evacuate a wounded comrade and the body of the deceased. He was then taken to a hospital in the city of Moscow, where he was treated for frostbite.

SDF have destroyed a massive Turkish-backed SNA munitions store in the south of Manbij, in response to daily bombings against Kurdish civilians by the Turkish Air Force.

Another top commander of HTS (previously Al Nusra terrorists affiliated with Al Qaeda and ISIS) has been killed. Abu Ya’aqub was shot multiple times in Jableh near Baniyas in Syria. HTS has lost at least a dozen of its most senior commanders to assassinations since its takeover of the country.

Local defence Asod Al Jabal Brigade, led by Bassam Hussam Al-Din, have finally captured the HTS (formerly Al Nusra affiliated with Al Qaeda and ISIS) murder team responsible for dozens of random extrajudicial killings of Christians, Alawaites and Shia minority members in Latakia. The now re-branded terrorist leader Al Jolani is believed to be directly in charge of the campaign of murder and intimidation of HTS opponents.

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) has withdrawn to the northernmost part of the Red Sea, 1,500 kilometers from Yemen while the US Central Command blames incessant Yemeni missile and drone attacks.

wookiemeister said:

Local defence Asod Al Jabal Brigade, led by Bassam Hussam Al-Din, have finally captured the HTS (formerly Al Nusra affiliated with Al Qaeda and ISIS) murder team responsible for dozens of random extrajudicial killings of Christians, Alawaites and Shia minority members in Latakia. The now re-branded terrorist leader Al Jolani is believed to be directly in charge of the campaign of murder and intimidation of HTS opponents.

Middle Eastern tribalist sectarian warlord stuff.

Just another Thursday in the ME.

https://youtu.be/AW5e5ZR_Mus

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