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29 May 2025 13:34

🇪🇺❌🇷🇴 Due to the disastrous economic situation, Romania has defaulted on its financial obligations towards Ukraine and the EU is now placing fines on Bucharest!

Romania failed to contribute in time with 18.6 million EURs to the European Peace Facility and now the EU is placing a 3.181 EUR fine/day until Romania pays what it "owes" to Ukraine + the daily penalties.

This money should've been paid on April 14th but the EU granted a "month of grace" and didn't apply penalties until May 13th after which the fines started coming in. The government is now scrambling to use the reserve fund to pay the sum before the fines make it too expensive.

@Wallachian_Gazette

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29 May 2025 11:34

🇬🇷🇮🇳 Greece ready to bring 50,000 workers from India

Greece is one step away from signing the intergovernmental agreement to send workers from India.

The country with the largest population on the planet is settling the final details to proceed, if possible, with the signing of an intergovernmental agreement with Greece after the end of the summer.

The agreement will aim to address the huge problem of the lack of labor that plagues many sectors in our country by providing for the transfer of highly specialized workers to many sectors of the Greek economy (such as catering and tourism).

According to Proto Thema, India is interested – at least in the first phase – in sending approximately 50,000 skilled and unskilled workers per year within the framework of the intergovernmental agreement that is expected to be signed.

https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/05/27/greece-50000-workers-from-india/

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29 May 2025 09:55

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Q: "On Iran, did you warn Prime Minister Netanyahu against taking some sort of actions that could disrupt the talks there in a phone call last week?"

President Trump: "Well, I'd like to be honest. Yes I did."

🔗 CSPAN

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29 May 2025 08:45

🇭🇹🤝🇺🇸🏴‍☠️ — Haitian Provisional government turns to Mr. Erik Prince, a Trump ally, in Fight Against Gangs

➡️ Erik Prince, a private military contractor and prominent supporter of President Trump, is working with Haiti’s Provisional government to conduct lethal operations against gangs that are terrorizing the nation and threatening to take over its capital.

➡️ Mr. Prince, the founder of Blackwater Worldwide, signed a contract to take on the criminal groups that have been killing civilians and seizing control of vast areas of territory, according to senior Haitian and American government officials and several other security experts familiar with Mr. Prince’s work in Haiti.

➡️ Haiti’s government has hired American contractors, including Mr. Prince, in recent months to work on a secret task force to deploy drones meant to kill gang members, security experts said.

➡️ Mr. Prince’s team has been operating the drones since March, but the authorities have yet to announce the death or capture of a single high-value target.

➡️ Security experts said Mr. Prince has also been scouting Haitian American military veterans to hire to send to Port-au-Prince and is expected to send up to 150 mercenaries to Haiti over the summer.

➡️ He recently shipped a large cache of weapons to the country, two experts said.

https://archive.is/OrHuz

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29 May 2025 07:43

🚘🔋 Overnight the world's largest maker of EVs, China's BYD (it surpassed Tesla last year) unleashed a price war nuke, cutting prices by up to 34%. Other Chinese automakers immediately followed. This will send a deflationary shockwave and spark major trade war escalation by Europe

🔗 zerohedge

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28 May 2025 23:22

🇯🇵/🇹🇷 Taro Kono once again urged Japan to suspend visa free entry for Turkish nationals due to Kurdish illegal immigration.

Deputy Foreign Minister Takuma Miyaji rejected the idea, citing the importance of diplomatic relations with Turkey. Kono accused him of prioritizing diplomacy over domestic issues.

https://www.sankei.com/article/20250528-DZYJCYVHL5DXNMUU3LESFF7YOY/

🔗 Arin Yumi

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28 May 2025 21:28

🚢🇺🇸 John Konrad on X: I was asked at a panel why should we support large shipyards at all?

Small yards can innovate and test fast. Small boats give us options and command experience for young officers.

The problem with small boats is physics. Small boats are slow, have limited range and payload capacity. They need to be extensions of, not replacements for, larger ships.

The problem with large ships is also physics. They require a lot of steel and are difficult to produce.

But here’s the thing. If we support both we could have the best of both worlds.

Small yards can innovate and test new construction methods and designs rapidly, then only the best, proven methods can be transferred to larger yards.

So why can’t we just invest in small yards now and build new large yards later?

Because large yards take enormous amounts of space and time to develop.

The bottom line is we need to invest in both. Build out the large yards and get them rolling while developing ways to transfer technology from the small yards.

Do both simultaneously. Otherwise we won’t have any large shipyards left when it’s time to scale what Saronic proves to be scalable.

https://fxtwitter.com/johnkonrad/status/1911755126261285258

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28 May 2025 20:53

🚢 Sal Mercogliano: Autonomous ships are a waste of effort.

They should be focusing on minimal crewed warships that can be linked to current Aegis vessels to supplement and add to their sensor coverage and missile loadouts.

https://www.twz.com/news-features/new-dutch-navy-support-vessels-will-be-missile-toting-wingmen-to-frigates

🔗 Sal Mercogliano

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28 May 2025 18:41

🇺🇳🇮🇱 ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan was preparing to seek arrest warrants for Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir before he went on leave as the UN investigates sexual-assault allegations against him. - WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/icc-israel-politician-warrants-91d24404

https://archive.ph/7mpYH

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28 May 2025 17:59

Startup Saronic to build ‘Port Alpha,’ next-gen shipyard focused on autonomous vessels

https://youtu.be/jf0QnvSKZng

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28 May 2025 16:34

🇯🇵🇺🇸 Japan proposes to buy U.S. chip products in tariff talks, Asahi says

Japan has proposed purchasing billions of dollars worth of U.S. semiconductor products during ongoing tariff negotiations with the United States, the Asahi newspaper reported, citing an unidentified source.

The Japanese government plans to subsidize domestic companies that buy the U.S. chips from companies such as Nvidia, opens new tab, with potential imports reaching up to 1 trillion yen ($6.94 billion), aimed at reducing America's roughly 10 trillion yen trade deficit with Japan, the report said.

https://www.reuters.com/business/japan-proposes-buy-us-chip-products-tariff-talks-asahi-says-2025-05-27/

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28 May 2025 14:28

🇺🇸🇸🇸 Trump asks Supreme Court to make it easier to deport migrants to South Sudan and other third-party countries

President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to make it easier for his administration to deport people to South Sudan and other countries that are not their homeland, the latest in a series of controversial immigration policies the administration has put before the conservative-majority high court.

The issue involves a policy the administration adopted soon after returning to power, which allows the Department of Homeland Security to deport immigrants to nations other than their home country or one where they have legal status – without first notifying them or giving them a chance to claim they risk persecution, torture, or death in that third-party country.

“The United States is facing a crisis of illegal immigration, in no small part because many aliens most deserving of removal are often the hardest to remove,” the Department of Justice told the Supreme Court.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/27/politics/south-sudan-deportations-trump-supreme-court

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28 May 2025 12:26

🍼📉 The increase in childlessness over time is among liberals, not conservatives.

🔗 Jonatan Pallesen

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28 May 2025 11:31

🇺🇸President Trump warns to withhold federal funds permanently from the State of California if a transgender is allowed to participate in female sporting events

🔗 Insider Paper

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28 May 2025 09:15

🇺🇸🇹🇼🇨🇳 US’ 500 military personnel in Taiwan an ‘open test’ of Beijing’s red lines

Some analysts downplay the number, but others say the revelation puts Beijing in a challenging position

Washington’s disclosure that around 500 US military personnel are stationed in Taiwan signals more open and substantial defence support for the island – a pivot from a previously discreet partnership that is openly testing Beijing’s red lines,according to analysts.

The disclosure, made on May 15 by retired US Navy Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery during congressional testimony, was the first official acknowledgement of such a substantial American military presence on the self-governed island.

Su Tzu-yun, a research fellow at Taiwan’s Institute for National Defence and Security Research, a Taipei-backed think tank, said Montgomery was likely to have been referring “to training personnel rather than combat troops” – distinct from the reported active-duty US military personnel stationed on the island who are serving in administrative roles.

🔗 Indo-Pacific News

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29 May 2025 12:32

🇺🇸 Oxford Economics report finds employment for 22-27 y.o. college grads in computer science and mathematical occupations is down 8% since 2022: "Recent and experienced college graduate unemployment rates have always been lower than the national average, until now"

📝 Matthew Zeitlin: Entry level white collar jobs disappearing is the big story right now, what happens in the job market, in politics, in the housing market if the unemployment rate for recent college grads is 10%?

One of the great unbarking dogs in american politics is that there's no upswell of support for entitlement cuts among young people, does that change as a more conservative generation of young people has trouble finding jobs after college?

🔗 Matthew Zeitlin

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29 May 2025 10:58

🇺🇸✡️ Everyone hates this dude.

299k views, 23 likes

But he’s on stage at CPAC and meets with world leaders regularly.

🔗 Harrison H. Smith

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29 May 2025 09:13

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Thomas Massie on X: AIPAC takes candidates for U.S. Congress to Israel for wine-and-dine vacations… sometimes before they even file to run for office.

Here’s a recent example in Kentucky. I’m also attaching an article about cybertools and reminding Senator Amanda Mays Bledsoe U.S. laws don’t apply in Israel.

🔗 RepThomasMassie

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29 May 2025 08:17

🇰🇷 Drone carrier from Hyundai and Hanwha Ocean. Hanwha Ocean's model is Ghost Commander II. There is a lot to see at this Busan Madex 2025. The meeting with Marlène from ADIT-group and the Naval News team was great.

🔗 Mason

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29 May 2025 07:12

🇺🇸 The thing to understand about student visas is that most colleges are selling tickets to naturalization more than education (hence rampant cheating, low quality students, etc). Even if we should be selling citizenship, why should colleges be able to privatize the gains?

Also one of the 9/11 hijackers was on a student visa and two more got them after the attack... for flight school.

https://gborjas.scholars.harvard.edu//_publications/rethinking-foreign-students

🔗 arctotherium

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28 May 2025 22:12

🇺🇸 Bill adding regulations to Texas renewable energy misses key deadline

Legislation that would have added several layers of regulation to new wind and solar power facilities – rules opposed by renewable energy producers and environmentalists – missed a key deadline Saturday and is unlikely to pass this year.

Senate Bill 819, authored by Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, R-Brenham, would require new utility-scale wind and solar plants to undergo Public Utility Commission approval and public notice. In addition, new wind turbines would have to be set back from neighboring property lines by twice the height of the turbine and blade unless a waiver was signed, according to the most recent version of the measure.

https://www.kxan.com/investigations/bill-adding-regulations-to-texas-renewable-energy-misses-key-deadline/

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28 May 2025 21:15

🇺🇸🚢 Primer: Deterioration, Abuse, and Waste in the Shipbuilding Industry

America’s shipbuilding industry has been treated as if it is in hospice rather than infirmary care, receiving only the bare minimum to sustain operations while its workers and equipment age into dysfunction.

https://americarenewing.com/issues/primer-deterioration-abuse-and-waste-in-the-shipbuilding-industry/

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28 May 2025 20:53

🚢 John Konrad: I absolutely love saronic

But how are all those small drones going to cross the pacific ocean without refueling? How are they going to rearm without ammo ships?

🔗 John Konrad

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28 May 2025 17:59

Saronic Acquires Gulf Craft to Accelerate Autonomous Shipbuilding, Plans $250M Investment in Louisiana Yard

Autonomous vessel developer Saronic announced today the acquisition of Louisiana-based Gulf Craft, marking a significant expansion into autonomous shipbuilding.

The acquisition provides Saronic with a strategically located Gulf Coast shipyard that will serve as the production hub for its medium unmanned surface vessel (MUSV) fleet, beginning with the Marauder, a 150-foot Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV).

The Marauder vessel features a 40-metric ton payload capacity and can travel up to 3,500 nautical miles or maintain a 30+ day loiter time. It will be fully unmanned and integrate Saronic’s proven autonomy technology.

https://gcaptain.com/saronic-acquires-gulf-craft-to-accelerate-autonomous-shipbuilding-plans-250m-investment-in-louisiana-yard/

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28 May 2025 17:10

🌏🇺🇸 ASEAN opens summit with Persian Gulf nations and China as US threatens tariffs

A regional association of Southeast Asian nations held a summit Tuesday with China and six Persian Gulf countries in efforts to expand economic engagement and bolster resilience amid global trade volatility due to U.S. tariff hikes.

The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Gulf Cooperation Council and China have a combined GDP of nearly $25 trillion and a market of over 2 billion people, offering vast opportunities to promote cross-regional investment, he said.

https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-asean-gulf-china-cb6a65eecbe619f8eb7c7a97a756e26c

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28 May 2025 15:43

🇨🇳 This could potentially be very consequential: China and a group of about 20 other countries (including Indonesia, Pakistan, Algeria and Serbia) are launching on Friday the "International Organization for Mediation" (IOM), a treaty-based multilateral organization that will be a platform for the peaceful settlement of international disputes.

It's basically a competitor to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague with a few notable differences, besides the obvious fact it is started by the Global South and not the West.

The fundamental difference seems to be philosophical: where the ICJ determines legal rights and wrongs through binding verdicts, the IOM will seek mutually acceptable "win-win" solutions that allow all parties to save face and maintain cooperation. It's designed as an alternative that prioritizes relationship preservation over legal victory.

This is basically what China achieved in its mediation role between Iran and Saudi Arabia. In that instance there was no point to determine a "loser" and a "winner": the objective was to resolve differences via mediation in order to restore the relationship. Which is often the case in disputes between countries.

Obviously, this represents yet another significant step taken to de-monopolize the West's hold over the international order. With such an institution, developing nations will be able resolve their disputes without having to navigate institutions designed by (and often for) the West.

It's also in many ways an illustration of the dysfunction of the current world order: when existing structures fail to serve the majority of humanity, new ones naturally emerge to fill that void.

Which will likely be remembered as a critical strategic error by the West: by failing to reform existing institutions to serve the world as it is instead of the world they preferred, they sowed the seeds of their growing irrelevance.

🔗 Arnaud Bertrand

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28 May 2025 13:32

🇺🇸🇨🇦 President Trump stated that Canada would have to pay $61 billion for the Golden Dome, unless they become the “cherished 51st state.”

“They are considering the offer!”

🔗 AF Post

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28 May 2025 11:55

🇺🇸 If you’re older and wondering why America doesn’t look like the country you grew up in…the reason is immigration.

🔗 The Columbia Bugle

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28 May 2025 09:45

💴📊 BREAKING: Unrealized losses on domestic bond holdings for 4 of Japan’s largest life insurers rose to a record $60 billion in Q1 2025.

This is 4 TIMES more than unrealized losses seen in Q1 2024.

Nippon Life, the largest Japanese insurer and the world’s sixth-largest life insurance company, posted $25 billion paper losses, marking a +260% jump YoY.

This comes as Japan’s 30-year and 40-year bonds have seen one of their most violent price declines in history.

Japan’s financial system is on the edge.

🔗 The Kobeissi Letter

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28 May 2025 08:45

🇺🇸🏛 The Trump administration has paused new interviews for student visa applicants and is looking to vet all foreign students’ social media accounts for “antisemitism” before allowing them to enter the country.

🔗 AF Post