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22 August 2025 16:25

🇪🇺 The European Union's 150 billion rearming loan scheme "SAFE" is dead on arrival:

The European Parliament is suing the European Commission for creating the SAFE loan scheme and seeks the scheme's TERMINATION in court despite 18 member states expressing interest in taking said loans.

While the Parliament stresses that the “instrument has the full support of Parliament [...] It is about the legal basis that was chosen, which undermines democratic legitimacy.”

To skip parliamentary approval, von der Leyen wielded a part of the EU treaties (Article 122 TFEU), normally reserved for emergencies such as the Covid-19 pandemic, which speeds up the legislative process by reducing Parliament’s negotiation time significantly.

“The use of Article 122 for SAFE as a legal basis was, in Parliament’s view, procedurally incorrect and simply unnecessary. It undermines democratic legitimacy in the eyes of the public, and there is no Parliament in the world that would accept that,” the Parliament's press service told Euractiv.

“That is why, Parliament brings a case on grounds of inadequate legal basis.”

In a letter to von der Leyen, the Parliament's President Roberta Metsola warned in May that the Commission could be taken to court. Von der Leyen rejected the complaint, arguing that using the emergency clause is “fully justified” as SAFE is “an exceptional and temporary response to an urgent and existential challenge”.

EU countries, which are counting on the loans, are still in the clear for now. In its request to the Court, the Parliament asked to maintain the effects of the regulation until a replacement is adopted.

🔗 https://www.euractiv.com/section/defence/news/european-parliament-sues-council-over-e150-billion-defence-loan-scheme/

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22 August 2025 10:48

🇨🇴 Colombia: "Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia" (FARC) reportedly struck a Military Air Base in the city of Cali.

FARC fighters used two Explosive-laden Trucks (1 detonated, 1 failed) to target the Marco Fidel Suarez Air Base. Several people were killed & wounded.

🔗 War Noir

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22 August 2025 09:33

🇮🇶 In a first in many years, Islamic State showcases an execution of an alleged Iraqi National Security Service spy southwest of Mosul, Iraqi operations in new al-Naba get some more than usual coverage. Their persistent presence amid crippling hits as usual is a reminder.

Seems IS media arm wants to ensure Iraq and Syria stay afloat propaganda wise, though they can't really compete with ISGS, ISWAP and IS Mozambique anymore in this department.

🔗 Paweł Wójcik

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22 August 2025 08:11

🇨🇳🇹🇼 A group of Chinese PLA-affiliated civil-military ferries deviated from regular routes in the Yellow Sea and arrived in the Taiwan Strait this week, likely prepositioning for upcoming amphibious exercises.

🔗 Ian Ellis

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21 August 2025 21:25

🇮🇱❌🇪🇬 A few weeks ago, the IDF held exercises on the Jordanian-Israeli [right red rectangle] southern borders simulating a sudden large scale multi-front invasion into Israel.

➡️ The IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir ordered a surprise inspection of the military’s top headquarters to test their readiness.

➡️ Several Egyptian pages raised concerns about the drills, suggesting that they might have been conducted with Egypt in mind, given the similar terrain and border length [left red rectangle].

🔗 Geopolitics Watch

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21 August 2025 21:22

🇻🇪❌🇺🇸 Nicolas Maduro has decreed in a security meeting yesterday that the Venezuelan government will mobilize “4 million” personnel from militias to “protect the nation” from foreign intervention, referring to the U.S. Navy’s deployments.

🔗 SA Defensa

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21 August 2025 21:05

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪 Q: "US warships are being sent to Venezuela. There's 4,000 Marines onboard. Are you looking at boots on the ground there?"

PRESS SEC: "President Trump has been very clear and consistent, he's prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country."

"Maduro is not a legitimate President."

🔗 Breaking911

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21 August 2025 19:05

🇺🇸🇮🇱 TikTok updated its guidelines 15 days after hiring a “former IDF soldier & proud Zionist” to fight antisemitism.

Calling the IDF terrorists now violates community guidelines.

They also changed “all racial supremacy” as hate speech to only “White supremacy.”

🔗 Wally Rashid

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21 August 2025 19:00

—❗️🇺🇸/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 President Trump: 'Russia is hitting Ukraine hard. They're hitting very hard. So why shouldn't Ukraine be allowed to hit them back? That's how it works, you hit and get hit, you can't complain about that.'

@Middle_East_Spectator

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21 August 2025 18:37

‼️🇺🇸🇮🇱 YouGov poll shows a majority of Americans now believe that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians; particularly the young and Democrats. I suspect views of Israel are going to keep deteriorating after the conflict rather than bouncing back to positive.

🔗 Murtaza Hussain

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21 August 2025 18:31

‼️🇺🇸🇮🇱 - A very odd comment from Clark County DA Steven Wolfson to the Las Vegas Review Journal emphasizing that the Israeli government official Tom Alexandrovich's charge of luring a child is "probation eligible"

Could be a preview of what is to come.

🔗 Saagar Enjeti

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21 August 2025 18:30

🇬🇧🚓 - Lucy Connolly, jailed for a “racist tweet” after the Southport stabbing at a Taylor Swift–themed dance class in Merseyside, England, will be freed tomorrow after serving nine months.

In her post about migrants, she wrote, “Set fire to all the f*cking hotels full of the bastards for all I care,” and added, “if that makes me racist so be it.”

🔗 AF Post

📝 Tamay Besiroglu - The UK is arresting ~12k people per year over speech crimes.

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21 August 2025 18:27

🇺🇸❌🇻🇪 New details on U.S. Navy deployments to Southern Command

- 3 destroyers will reportedly arrive off the coast of Venezuela within 24 hours (USS Gravely + USS Jason Dunham left Mayport last week, USS Sampson is near the Panama Canal)

- Littoral combat ship USS Minneapolis-St. Paul is already on station and in the vicinity of Curacao

- The Iwo Jima amphibious ready group (ARG) is back in Norfolk to wait out the hurricane

📝: Trump is positioning the U.S. Navy for an attack on Venezuela.

🔗 Ian Ellis

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21 August 2025 16:58

— ❗️🇮🇱 Benjamin Netanyahu: 'There is work to be done on Gen-Z across the West'

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21 August 2025 16:56

✡️💉 Israel’s sordid history of aiding drug cartels

💵 Tel Aviv has a long history of providing material assistance and expertise to drug cartels in Latin America. Here’s but a few examples:

🌏 A private mercenary company called Spearhead Ltd., established by former Israeli army Col. Yair Klein, provided arms and training to various armed groups in South America, including Colombian drug cartels’ death squads in the 1980s;

🌏 A raid on the home of Medellin drug cartel leader Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha in 1989 led to the discovery of a large cache of Israeli-made arms, including Galil assault rifles and Uzi submachine guns.
💥 These weapons turned out to be part of an arms shipment that was ostensibly sold by Israel to Antigua but got diverted to Colombia with Klein’s involvement;

🌏 A report released by the American Friends Service Committee in 2020 revealed that from 2006 and until 2018, some 24,000 guns and rifles were exported from Israel

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22 August 2025 11:30

🇨🇩🇷🇼 M23 has increased the tempo and scale of an indiscriminate counterinsurgency campaign against anti-M23 militia groups—including legitimate military targets, such as Hutu extremist militants—in the eastern DRC with Rwandan backing.

M23’s campaign likely violates M23’s and Rwanda’s commitments under the US-backed peace framework, however, and has allegedly involved a high degree of systematic violence against civilians, which may violate international humanitarian law.

Rwandan-backed M23 has increased the tempo of its counterinsurgency operations against anti-M23 militia groups in M23-controlled Rutshuru district in North Kivu since mid-July.

M23 and its Rwandan backers likely seek to clear Hutu extremist militants from their strongholds in Rutshuru and prevent attacks on M23 positions and logistic routes.

M23’s campaign—and alleged direct Rwandan involvement in the operations—violate multiple elements of the US-backed peace framework in the eastern DRC despite combating legitimate military targets.

Rwanda committed to not “engage in, support, or condone any military incursions or other acts” in the eastern DRC as part of the US-brokered June peace deal.

The US deal further committed Rwanda to “ensure that all armed groups” in North and South Kivu [M23] “cease engaging in hostilities.”

M23's campaign further complicates security provisions of the US-backed peace framework, which committed the DRC to take the lead on dismantling the FDLR in exchange for the withdrawal of Rwandan forces from the eastern DRC.

M23, for its part, committed that it would not launch any new attacks or attempts to conquer new territory against "all forces engaged in the conflict" as part of a Qatari-backed ceasefire with the DRC in July.

The DRC has failed to uphold its commitments in both the US- and Qatari-backed peace talks to rein in pro-Congolese government militias involved in the fighting.

M23 has reportedly used indiscriminate violence, collective punishment, and forcible relocation against civilians as part of this yearslong, systematic campaign.

These acts may amount to violations of international humanitarian law, war crimes, and further violations of the US-backed peace framework.

M23 and Rwanda have both denied these various allegations.

🔗 Critical Threats

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22 August 2025 10:26

🇨🇳🇹🇼 UPDATE: Following a brief stop near several ports in the Quanzhou area, the group of ferries which departed the Bohai Sea several days ago is on the move again.

🔗 Taiwan Security Monitor

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22 August 2025 08:48

🇺🇸 California Governor Newsom signs legislation for a special November election to approve redrawn congressional maps to combat Texas' redistricting.

🔗 Disclose

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22 August 2025 07:08

🇺🇸 President Trump’s net approval rating on the economy stands at -14, 15 points lower than at the same point in his first term.

Democrats currently hold a 5-point lead among registered voters heading into the 2026 midterms, according to a YouGov poll.

🔗 AF Post

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21 August 2025 21:24

🇪🇬❌🇮🇱 Egypt has built up a force of over 40,000 troops in North Sinai, moving in advanced weapons systems and air defenses.

The deployment is concentrated in Zone C—the area bordering Gaza and Israel—where Cairo was previously barred from stationing such large numbers of troops.

🔗 Egypt’s Intel Observer

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21 August 2025 21:16

🇲🇽❌🇺🇸 President Sheinbaum of Mexico has formally condemned the US Navy assets being deployed of the coast of Venezuela stating “NO to interventionism.”

🔗 SA Defensa

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21 August 2025 19:07

🇺🇸🇮🇱📝 - I have repeatedly warned that America is on track to go from the most philosemitic country in the world to 11th century antisemitism, without passing "go".

Nobody is pumping the brakes on that train, instead they're throwing more coal into the boiler.

🔗 Juche Respecter

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21 August 2025 19:00

—❗️🇺🇸/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 BREAKING: The United States is considering implementing a 'no-fly zone' as part of its options to increase its air support to Ukraine – Reuters

@Middle_East_Spectator

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21 August 2025 18:54

🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇱❓- Republican Jewish Coalition's Matt Brooks tells Chabad of Aspen that he has spent "a lot of time" talking to PM Benjamin Netanyahu about the "existential threat" of the "Woke Right"—Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, etc.

"If we lose the [GOP], Israel has nobody."

🔗 Chris Menahan

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21 August 2025 18:35

🇺🇸🇮🇱 The U.S. State Department has fired its top press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs after internal disputes over Israel policy, including whether to express condolences about journalists killed by Israel in Gaza and publicly oppose forced displacement of Palestinians.

⚫️ Last week, there was an internal debate about releasing lines to the news media saying, “We do not support forced displacement of Palestinians in Gaza.” It was prompted by questions about Israel-S. Sudan talks on transferring Palestinians. Leadership sided against doing so.

⚫️ Another dispute occurred earlier this month following Israel’s targeted killing of Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif and several other journalists in Gaza City. The department sided against expressing condolences.

🔗 John Hudson

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21 August 2025 18:31

🇺🇸🇮🇱 - Las Vegas Review journal confirms that the Israeli official Tom Alexandrovich caught up in a child sex sting has hired celeb attorneys David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld

Chesnoff was appointed by Trump to the Homeland Security Advisory Committee.

🔗 Saagar Enjeti

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21 August 2025 18:29

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 An American-European-Ukrainian Commission has reportedly been formed, led by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, with national security and military advisers from Ukraine and Europe, in order to draft a proposal for security guarantees, similar to those provided by NATO’s Article 5, for Ukraine, with hopes that a framework will be established by Friday.

📝: “We can’t bring Ukraine in NATO so we bring NATO to Ukraine”.

🔗 OSINT Defender

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21 August 2025 17:57

A leaked Israeli military intelligence database shows that by May 2025, only 17% of Palestinians killed in Gaza were identified fighters (8,900), while 83% of the 53,000 dead were civilians.

This civilian death rate is among the highest in modern conflicts, comparable only to atrocities like Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Mariupol.

Source and the graphic: The Guardian

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21 August 2025 16:58

— ❗️🇮🇱 WATCH: Israeli Prime Minister and international fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu calls for mass censorship of 'the algorithms and the social networks' to stop criticism of Israel

He states, 'Israel is accused of starving children in the way Jews in the Middle Ages were accused of killing Christian children for their blood.'

@Middle_East_Spectator

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21 August 2025 14:27

🇸🇩 Sudan: the situation in El-Fasher is becoming increasingly desperate.

following months of stalemate and siege Radio Dabanga reports that the RSF (🟡) broke through the defenses at 3 points.

The SAF and Darfur Joint Forces (🔴⚪️) today managed to halt the advances but have not yet been able to regain the lost ground.

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/ThomasVLinge/status/1958253304934170930