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25 July 2025 13:12

🇷🇺🇺🇦 “The side that knows when to fight and when not will take the victory. There are roadways not to be traveled, armies not to be attacked, walled cities not to be assaulted.”

Sun-Tzu, The Art of War

📝 Alexander's Cartographer: Sun Tzu's maxims are often thought of as being mere tricks, but there really is good wisdom to be found in them

For example, the war in Ukraine is full of examples of the quote mentioned.

Facing very strong Ukrainian resistance & counterattacks, Russia in 2022 withdrew from more than half of the territory it initially occupied, in the north, and in Kherson & Kharkov. As a result, Russia lost territory but conserved its forces for the war of attrition that it was planning to fight.

Ukraine by contrast has stubbornly held on to every piece of territory it could, for as long as it could. Instead of withdrawing from (strategically insignificant) Bakhmut when it could, it held on to the last moment. As a result, Ukraine had less forces for its 2023 counter offensive, and it failed miserably.

This entire war is really a case of NATO & Kiev not knowing when not to fight. Ukraine was never going to win, and instead Russia will likely end the war with even better peace terms than it initially sought, and will possess a far stronger armed forces and more unified society than it had in Feb 2022.

The folly of Bakhmut is even acknowledged by the Ukrainian side now & it was likely done so to impress Kiev's Western sponsors

Russia by contrast had no one to impress & has a rather stoic population, so it could accept short term political embarrassment.

🔗 Alexander's Cartographer

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25 July 2025 13:01

🇺🇳⚖️🌍 UN International Court of Justice rules that climate change is an existential "universal risk" to all nations, unequivocally caused by human activities, and member states have a "duty" to prevent it.

The UN has already recognised “climate migrant” as a valid category in international law. Very soon, nations will be told they HAVE to take large numbers of “climate migrants” fleeing devastation caused by climate change, or even devastation that will be caused by climate change in the near future. This will legitimise and give carte Blanche to enormous exoduses from the Third World to the West.

For EU countries, this ruling will give more ammunition to the European Court of Human Rights to decide how EU members spend their money and will galvanize the EU's religious adherence to climate ideology in turn making the continent weaker economically.

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25 July 2025 11:50

🏘 🇺🇸 NBC News did a report on Eric Orwoll's (Aarvoll) RTTL Foundation (Return to the Land) and immediately reported them to the Arkansas General Attorney to find out if RTTL's "Whites Only" town is compliant with anti-segregation laws.

The Arkansas General Attorney's Office said it is currently "reviewing" the matter.

🔗 Daily Sneed

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25 July 2025 11:38

🇺🇸❌🇫🇷 U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, says that a Palestinian state should be created inside French territory.

🔗 Ambassador Mike Huckabee

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25 July 2025 11:34

🇮🇱❌🇫🇷 — Israel's Minister of diaspora affairs Amichai Chikli shared a picture of macron's wife punching him saying this is their response to France's recognition of a Palestinian state.

➡️It's worthy to note that France has actively participated in defending Israel from the Iranian drones and missiles during the 12-day war.

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25 July 2025 11:23

🇺🇸 Newsmax has begun referring to Ghislaine Maxwell as “a victim.”

As a reminder, Alex Acosta, who gave Epstein his “sweetheart” deal in Florida, and who also served in the Trump cabinet afterwards, is on the Board of Directors for Newsmax.

🔗 Travis Akers

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25 July 2025 10:35

🇫🇷🇵🇸 France will recognise the state of Palestine in September, President Macron says. He added:

“True to its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine.

I will make the solemn announcement at the United Nations General Assembly next September.”

🔗 Clash Report

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25 July 2025 09:18

🇺🇦/🇨🇳🇷🇺 Fully Chinese-made drone found in Ukraine for first time

A new Russian decoy drone used to spoof Ukrainian air defences is made up entirely of Chinese parts, it has been revealed.

The discovery, by Ukrainian intelligence, marks the first time that Russia has deployed weapons made only with Chinese components.

It shows the latest sign of cooperation between Beijing and Moscow, despite Xi Jinping insisting that China does not supply lethal aid to either side of the war in Ukraine.

While Chinese technology has been found in other Russian weapons, it had always been combined with components from other countries.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/23/fully-chinese-made-drone-found-in-ukraine-for-first-time/

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25 July 2025 08:26

🪖 Thailand vs Cambodia: Military Comparison

Budgets & Personnel:
🇹🇭Thailand: $5.89B budget, 606,850 personnel (360,850 in army).
🇰🇭 Cambodia: $860M budget, 231,000 personnel (221,000 in army).

Army:
🇹🇭 Thailand: 635 tanks, 16,935 AFVs, 665 artillery units.
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 644 tanks, 896 artillery units.

Air Force:
🇹🇭 Thailand: 46,000 personnel, 72 fighter jets (incl. F-16s & Gripens), 258 helicopters.
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 1,500 personnel, no fighters, 10 transport planes, 21 helicopters.

Navy:
🇹🇭Thailand: 70,000 personnel, 1 aircraft carrier, 7 frigates, 6 corvettes, 49 patrol vessels, 14 landing craft, marine corps (23,000), naval aviation with UAVs & helicopters.
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 2,800 personnel, 20 patrol vessels, 1 landing craft.

Global Ranking:
🇹🇭Thailand: 25th out of 145 countries
🇰🇭 Cambodia: 95th out of 145 countries


https://fxtwitter.com/visegrad24/status/1948374096657396101

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25 July 2025 07:26

🇹🇭🇰🇭 GeoInsider on X: Remember one thing. As the situation along the Thai-Cambodian border continues to evolve and more claims come out from both sides, it’s important to understand the context behind these reports.

The border is one of the most difficult environments to operate in militarily. Much of it is covered in dense jungle, steep hills, and remote stretches with little to no infrastructure. Movement is limited, supply lines are hard to maintain, and large-scale operations are nearly impossible to sustain for long. On top of that, many areas are still affected by landmines left over from past conflicts, making even basic patrols dangerous.

Before we get too caught up in headlines about who has captured what, remember that these are places where holding ground is a constant challenge. In many sectors, the environment itself pushes back harder than any opposing force.

That said, not all areas are equally difficult. From a military standpoint, the area around Preah Vihear Temple particularly near Choam Khsant is one of the more manageable zones. It offers better visibility, slightly more developed road access on the Thai side, and elevated positions that are valuable for both observation and defense. This is part of why it has been a key flashpoint in previous confrontations.

In contrast, areas like Ta Moan Thom and Ta Krabey, or the zones around Mom Bei and Phnom Khak, are extremely difficult to operate in. These are deep jungle zones with rough elevation and far fewer routes in and out. Any engagement there is hard-fought and logistically demanding.

So when you hear claims of territory being taken or held, keep in mind: it’s rarely black and white.

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24 July 2025 19:05

🇫🇷 "Pissevin, Nîmes is entirely controlled by narcoterrorists who threaten to shoot 5 year old kids"

"A garbage company demands police protection to collect trash in the city of Nîmes after two ”masked men” with AKs demanded taxes upon entry into a specific neighbourhood”

https://fxtwitter.com/SirenesFR/status/1947337238032859172

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24 July 2025 16:08

🇨🇿❌🇫🇷 Czech defence ministry warns French defense company KNDS over performance issues with CAESAR 8×8 howitzers

Chief Armaments Director Lubor Koudelka has written directly to KNDS, urging the company to address the Army’s concerns and prepare the vehicles for military testing. “If KNDS does not start fulfilling the terms of the contract and does not prepare the howitzers for military tests, the Czech Republic will stop paying advances,” Koudelka wrote.

To date, over CZK 7 billion (approximately $315 million) in advance payments have already been made, with a further CZK 1 billion (about $45 million) planned for this year. The entire programme, valued at around $450 million, is now under scrutiny due to what Defence Minister Jana Černochová described as “serious problems”.

A few weeks ago, French president, Emmanuel Macron, called on EU countries to "buy European". France has the EU's biggest defense industry and it seemingly failed to deliver adequate howitzers to Czechia. With such failings, Macron's call to "buy European" looks dead on arrival.

🔗 https://defence-industry.eu/czech-defence-ministry-warns-knds-over-performance-issues-with-caesar-8x8-howitzers/

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24 July 2025 14:04

🇨🇳Another round of Chinese live-fire amphibious drills across the strait from Taiwan.

In the littoral waters off southern Fujian, an amphibious armored unit from a brigade under PLA Eastern Theater Command conducted a comprehensive tactical exercise and landing operation, focused on command and control, assault wave formation training, obstacle crossing and breaching, infantry coordination, and air defense capabilities.

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18 July 2025 22:27

🇺🇸❌🇪🇺 Donald Trump pushes for 15%-20% minimum tariff on all EU goods

Donald Trump has escalated his demands in trade negotiations with the EU, pushing for a minimum tariff of 15 per cent to 20 per cent in any deal with the bloc, according to three people briefed on the talks.

The US president’s hardened stance aims to test the EU’s pain threshold after weeks of talks on a framework agreement that would have maintained a baseline tariff of 10 per cent on most goods.

Trump has also been unmoved by the latest EU offer to reduce car tariffs, and would be happy to keep duties on the sector at 25 per cent as planned, said people familiar with the negotiations.

Maroš Šefčovič, EU trade commissioner, gave a downbeat assessment of his recent talks in Washington to the bloc’s ambassadors on Friday, said two people briefed on the meeting.

If Trump insists on permanent reciprocal duties of 15 per cent to 20 per cent they would be as high as they were when trade talks began in April, and could push Brussels towards retaliation, said the senior EU diplomat. The US has also imposed sectoral tariffs of 50 per cent on EU steel and aluminium.

“We don’t want a trade war, but we don’t know if the US will leave us a choice,” they said.
A second EU diplomat added “the mood has clearly changed” in favour of retaliation. “We are not going to settle at 15 per cent,” they said.

📝: European industry, what wasn’t killed by Brussels’ stupid regulations and its dumb energy policies, relies on exports to the U.S. to make a profit. Without those exports, European industry either goes bankrupt or moves to other countries.

Trump’s intention is clear: force European industry to move to the U.S. which he will likely succeed in doing even if a 15% tariff is imposed, let alone a 20-25% or the original 30-35% tariffs announced.

Due to high energy prices, strict environmental regulations and workers’ rights European manufacturing is expensive. It cannot compete with Asian manufacturing, Chinese, Japanese, South Korean or Indian as all of the aforementioned countries produce more and far cheaper.

While stealing Europe’s industry may be beneficial on the short term for Trump as it will create new jobs for the U.S. economy, in the long run, it will make Europe weaker and even more reliant on the U.S. for defense which is not what Trump wanted.

Trump’s tariffs will crush Ursula von der Leyen’s plans of reestablishing European dominance on the world stage and set Europe on a path of political instability and unrest.

🔗 https://archive.ph/2025.07.18-172133/https://www.ft.com/content/43c98c4b-8772-4279-ad55-e46bd22409de

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18 July 2025 20:58

🇮🇱❌☦️🇬🇷🇻🇦 A joint Roman-Catholic and Orthodox delegation represented by their Beatitudes, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem, and Archbishop Alexios of Gaza visited the Latin Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City which housed both Catholic and Orthodox Christians.

Two of the victims from yesterday’s attack by an Israeli tank, were Orthodox Christians.

Their funeral services were held today in the presence of Patriarchs.

Pope Leo XIV condemned expressed his deepest sorrow at yesterday’s attack upon the Latin Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City and called for an immediate ceasefire to be instituted in the region.

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25 July 2025 13:10

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Ukrainian commanders admit, 2 years later, that it was a mistake to fight the battle of Bakhmut

"In the end Bakhmut fortress fell. The toll would undermine Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive, which also ended in failure. 'It was a mistake to stay in Bakhmut so long,' said a senior Ukrainian official involved with military planning.

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25 July 2025 12:00

🇵🇱✡️🕎 Monarchist politician, Grzegorz Braun, was indicted for the time he used a fire extinguisher to put out the candles out of a menorah during a Hannukah procession.

🔗 Polish Connection

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25 July 2025 11:42

🇧🇷🇧🇷🤡❌🇮🇱 — The government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) has withdrawn Brazil from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), where it had been serving as an observer member since 2021. The information was released by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Brazil’s decision to join the legal offensive against Israel at the ICJ while withdrawing from the IHRA, is a demonstration of a profound moral failure.

At a time when Israel is fighting for its very existence, turning against the Jewish state and abandoning the global consensus against antisemitism is both reckless and shameful.

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25 July 2025 11:35

🇺🇸❌🇫🇷 Netanyahu and the US State Department condemned French President Macron’s move to recognize Palestinian statehood.

Israeli PM Netanyahu stated, “Let’s be clear: the Palestinians do not seek a state alongside Israel; they seek a state instead of Israel.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the move a “slap in the face to the victims of October 7th.”

🔗 AF Post

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25 July 2025 11:25

🇺🇸 Ghislaine Maxwell returned to prison with a white box after meeting with the DOJ.

📝: Trump will pardon Maxwell and bury the Epstein story forever.

🔗 AF Post

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25 July 2025 11:04

🇷🇺🚢 Russian Pacific Fleet launches exercise "July Storm"

• 150 warships + support vessels
• 15,000+ troops from all 4 major fleets
• 120 aircraft; 10 coastal missile systems
• Pacific, Arctic, Baltic, + Caspian regions

The series of major naval drills from 23-27 July is aimed at "testing Russia's ability to protect critical maritime infrastructure and sharpen combat readiness in non-standard scenarios" and "assessing the Navy's ability to coordinate long-range precision strikes, deploy unmanned platforms, and integrate modern weaponry across domains."

🔗 Ian Ellis

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25 July 2025 10:09

🇹🇼 Images from Taitung Regional Command's live-fire "Joint Operations Training" held in Hengchun today.

🔗 Taiwan Security Monitor

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25 July 2025 08:51

🇰🇭 Nathan Ruser on X: It looks like Hun Sen, the President of Cambodia, posted these photos, including operational maps, to his Facebook page and then almost immediately deleted the picture with the maps (I can only find reposts).

🔗 Nathan Ruser

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25 July 2025 07:58

🇹🇭🇰🇭 Footage released by the Royal Thai Army, showing drone strikes earlier today against munition depots and other positions of the Cambodian Army near the border with Thailand, using FPV Drones equipped with M261 and M472 Mortar Shells as well as Improvised Air-Dropped Bombs.

🔗 OSINTdefender

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24 July 2025 21:33

🇮🇱🇵🇸 The Knesset of Israel has passed a non-binding resolution supporting the annexation of the West Bank.

Approved by 71 members, the measure declares that the Jewish people hold ancestral sovereignty over Judea, Samaria, and the Jordan Valley.

🔗 AF Post

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24 July 2025 16:22

🇺🇸 House Democrats were able to pass a motion in the GOP-controlled House Oversight subcommittee to subpoena ALL the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Republicans were blindsided because Democrats dropped an 11th-hour motion at an unrelated hearing after noticing that most GOP members on the panel had publicly demanded the files be released.

The GOP chair was caught off guard and scrambled—first delaying the vote, then trying to sabotage it by adding amendments to include Biden administration communications. Democrats called their bluff and agreed.

Then the GOP chair, Rep. Higgins, lied, claiming the motion FAILED until Rep. Robert Garcia forced a full roll call vote.

Ultimately, the vote passed 8-2 after 3 Republicans DEFIED their leadership and joined all 5 Democrats to pass the motion.

🔗 Call to Activism

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24 July 2025 15:57

🇸🇾🇹🇷 Syrian government officially requests Türkiye to help strengthen defense, combat terrorism

The Syrian government requested official support from Türkiye to strengthen its defense capacity and combat terror groups, especially ISIS (Daesh), sources in the Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

"In line with this request, we continue to work to provide training, consultancy, and technical support to increase Syria's defense capacity,” said the ministry sources.

“Türkiye's primary goal is to support Syria's political unity and territorial integrity and to lead efforts to achieve lasting peace in the region,” they added.

Responding to questions about the clashes in Syria’s Suwayda province and Israel’s attacks on Damascus, sources said Israel’s increasingly intensified strikes have heightened tensions between the Druze community in the southern Suwayda region and the Damascus government.

Türkiye maintains its resolute stance on preserving Syria’s territorial integrity, ensuring stability, and combating terrorist organizations, sources added.

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/politics/syrian-government-officially-requests-turkiye-to-help-strengthen-defense-combat-terrorism/3639472

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18 July 2025 22:32

🇮🇱🤝🇺🇸 Mossad director, David Barnea, is in Washington D.C. waiting to meet with American President, Donald Trump, and ask him to use the United States’ position as a superpower to coerce countries into accepting the Palestinians Israel wants to deport out of Gaza and the West Bank.

🔗 https://www.mako.co.il/news-diplomatic/2025_q3/Article-eb5e36a7a4e1891027.htm

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18 July 2025 21:05

🇵🇸🇻🇦🇬🇷 Orthodox Archbishop of Gaza, his Beatitude, Alexios, thanks Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem for coming to his parish.

Archbishop Alexios then delivered a heartfelt message to the delegation:

“The people don’t want to immigrate. The people they want to stay in Gaza because this is their home... This is the land of Palestine and the Palestinians have the right to stay in their land.”

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18 July 2025 19:04

🪖💥 This is likely what happened & it mirrors past events. Zionist jewish forces are known to despise the cross & target it whenever they can. In 2005 Israeli tanks targeted the cross atop the monastery Church of St. Photini in the West Bank but the shells were repelled when St. Philoumenos (who himself was martyred by zionist jewish settlers in 1979) miraculously appeared in the air & stopped them. Just last year the IDF destroyed a Christian cross atop Mt. Hermon in Syria as they invaded. This is a pattern 🇮🇱✡️❌☦️🇵🇸