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🇮🇷 — Clashes have broken out between Iranian security forces and armed groups in Saravan, Sistan and Baluchistan Province.

🇷🇺 Moscow police arrested a Nazi black man (not Kanye West) who was making Nazi salutes and shouting racist slogans.

Prior to being arrested for Nazism, the exotic-looking foreigner sustained some beating by disappointed passer-by's.

🇺🇸🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — United States Central Command (CENTCOM) announces it redirected 100 commercial ships over the past 60 days as part of the blockade on Iranian ports

CENTCOM forces have redirected 100 commercial vessels over the past 60 days since America resumed the steel wall blockade against Iran.

ZERO ships have passed through the blockade without U.S. forces allowing. American service members remain laser focused on this mission.

🇺🇸🇮🇪🛫 — Video from last night shows POTUS Donald Trump departing for Ireland:

🇺🇸🇮🇪🛫 — POTUS Donald Trump departing for Ireland

🇺🇸🇮🇪🛬 — Video shows USAF Air Force One landing at Dublin Airport, touching down on South Runway shortly after 8.20am.

On another footage, it's possible to see the USAF presidential plane landing during the Irish Open

🇾🇪🇸🇦❌🇾🇪 — Saudi-backed PLC Forces released a new footage showing Yemeni Air Force airstrikes targeting Houthi fighters and military vehicles in the designated “kill box" in Mocha of Taiz, Southwestern Yemen

🇺🇸❌🇦🇫🏴❗️ — Afghan national Nazira Haji Zada has been permanently removed from the United States in the first-ever case brought before the Alien Terrorist Removal Court.

▶️According to the Justice Department, Zada supported her son and son-in-law’s ISIS-inspired plot to carry out a mass shooting on Election Day 2024. The two men previously pleaded guilty after obtaining AK-style rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition from an undercover FBI agent.

▶️Zada conceded removability under the Alien Terrorist Removal Act, waived her right to appeal and is now permanently inadmissible to the United States.

▶️Attorney General Todd Blanche called the case a landmark use of a terrorism-removal mechanism that had never previously been used.

One less Islamic terrorist on American soil. 🇺🇸👏

🇺🇸🤝🇮🇪❌🇬🇧🇮🇪 — Controversy between Anglo-American relations after US President Donald Trump has said he would 'love' to see a unified Ireland during a meeting with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin in Dublin.

Replying to a reporter, the US president said 'it's going to happen eventually' adding 'the UK will have something to say about it'.

📝 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 The British reaction to the US supporting the Falklands going to Argentina and Irish unification under the Republic is so fractious and discombobulated because the truth of the British-American relationship has been one based on deep denial and repression.

In 1956 during the Suez Crisis the US made its policy clear: Britain would not be allowed to maintain any of its imperial possessions. Any attempt to maintain them would be met with raw American power.

The Argentineans fought the British in the early-80s with a large supply of American weapons. The Peace Process in 1997 in Ireland was brokered by the Americans and was de facto an Irish Republican victory.

The post-1956 policy has never changed. Why did the British act like this was not the reality? Many reasons, too many to go into here. But they didn’t. Now Trump is saying the quiet part out loud and British commentators are acting as if they were betrayed? These policies are four generations old.

I never understood why the British repress these obvious realities. Every foreign observer knows them. But until Trump says them out loud talking about them in Britain is like passing wind at a dinner party. Maybe Trump’s diplomatic trolling is a moment when Britain actually looks itself in the mirror.

https://multipolaritypod.substack.com/p/the-shift-to-a-multipolar-world-order

📎 Philip Pilkington

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪❌🇬🇧 — The sun finally sets over Britannia? Irish, Scots and Welsh leaders meet to plan break-up of United Kingdom

➡️ Leaders of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will meet in Cardiff on Monday to sign a joint declaration asserting their right to hold independence referendums, according to The Telegraph.

📝 The agreement will commit their parties to cooperation on the economy, energy, Europe and self-determination, with all three supporting closer ties to the EU.

🔥 At an unprecedented summit in Cardiff, the three first ministers will put pen to paper on a joint declaration demanding the right to hold independence referendums.

🥴 The summit will come two days after Donald Trump declared that he would “love” to see a united Ireland. During a visit to Dublin on Saturday, he said Northern Ireland joining the Republic would be “a great thing” and asked: “How can it be bad?”

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 John Swinney, the SNP leader and Scottish First Minister, claimed Mr Burnham was “facing up to the idea that he will go down in history as the final prime minister of the United Kingdom”.

>indirectly elects the first-ever Papist PM
>dissolves on the next day

🇫🇷 Only 16% of people in France approve of Macron - his lowest result ever.

He is now competing with Merz and Hitler in 1945 for the title of the least popular European leader.

🇯🇵🗳 — Major defeat for Pro-China and Pacifist Parties in Okinawa, as Japan ruling camp-backed Koja wins governor race

➡️ Genta Koja, the candidate backed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's ruling coalition, has won Sunday's Okinawa gubernatorial election, defeating incumbent Denny Tamaki, Kyodo News projections showed.

➡️ Koja's victory will provide a tailwind for Takaichi's government as it pushes for the contentious relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan to the coastal Henoko area within the southern island prefecture

📝 Arin Yuni: The Japanese left has lost its last major stronghold. Okinawa will have a central government-aligned governor for the first time since 2014, bringing an end to 12 years of rule by the left-wing All Okinawa coalition.

🇯🇵🇺🇸🪖 — Arin Yumi: For more than a decade, All Okinawa was one of the biggest obstacles to Japan and the United States expanding their military presence in Okinawa.

🕊 Governors Onaga and Tamaki strongly opposed relocating the Futenma base to Henoko and frequently clashed with Tokyo over new military infrastructure.

➡️ They could not completely stop these projects, but they were able to delay them through legal battles and make cooperation between Okinawa and the central government much more difficult.

➡️ With Genta Koja, that resistance is expected to weaken significantly. A governor willing to cooperate with Tokyo could make it easier to develop bases, ports and other infrastructure used by the JSDF and U.S. forces.

📝 This has implications far beyond Okinawa.

🏝 The islands are strategically important as China expands its military presence in the region.

🪖 With less resistance from the Okinawa government, Japan and the U.S. may now have an easier time strengthening their military presence in the area.

🔗 @Arin_Yumi

🇯🇵🗳 — There was a big age gap in the Okinawa gubernatorial election:
NHK exit polls indicate that over 60% of elderly (70+) Okinawan voters supported the pacifist-leaning Governor Tamaki, while most younger voters supported LDP-backed Right-wing challenger Koja.

• Fwd from @
📝Russian Church in Latin America📝
from Buenos Aires to São Paulo

If in Asia and the Middle East church communities form around recent relocation flows and entrepreneurs, then in Latin America the situation looks fundamentally different. Here Eastern Christian presence spans more than a century, yet the very mechanism of uniting people around shared spiritual roots faces an entirely different set of challenges.

➡️On paper, the demographic base looks impressive. Argentina has around 300,000 descendants of settlers from several historical waves and newly arrived citizens. In Brazil, the number of people of Eastern European origin is estimated at 200,000, concentrated mainly in São Paulo and southern states.

Notable communities persist in Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, and the Cuban parish in Havana has served for decades as a notable architectural center in the Caribbean basin.

📌 However, unlike conditional Dubai, Phuket or Bali, where communities consist of people with active passports and direct ties to the homeland, the Latin American environment has fundamental differences.

🖍Therefore, the logic of consolidation that works organically in Eastern countries hits an institutional dead end in South America. Parishes struggle to compete for the attention of people who have long been integrated into local society and don't experience nostalgia.

❗️To overcome this inertia, churches lack the transition from passive preservation of historical walls to creating living centers of bilingual humanitarian work: opening language courses for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking descendants, youth cultural clubs and educational programs.

Without such systemic support, old parishes risk ultimately becoming rare ethnographic open-air museums, losing the chance to become a real bridge between generations.

📍

🇪🇺 🇨🇦 Canada is reportedly exploring becoming an “associate member” of the European Union.

A new social-media trend among Yemen’s Houthis is featuring fighters and supporters filming themselves overlooking the Bab al-Mandab Strait while issuing threats against Saudi Arabia and emphasizing their claimed ability to control the strategic Red Sea chokepoint.

In one video, a Houthi addresses Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman directly, declaring that no Saudi ship or even a Saudi nail will be allowed through Bab al-Mandab or the Red Sea until the siege on Yemen is lifted.

Other videos have adopted similar imagery and theatrical props, turning the strait, through which major international shipping routes pass, into the backdrop for a coordinated propaganda campaign aimed at projecting Houthi maritime power and increasing pressure on Riyadh.

🇸🇾 🏴 — Reports of an explosion outside a church in Hama.