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🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia merely "shrugs" in response to Trump's threats to impose sanctions and is ready to fight in Ukraine for at least another year, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The Kremlin believes it is successfully resisting sanctions and that Moscow can withstand at least another year of conflict as long as Russians continue to be recruited to the front lines.

At the same time, Moscow has the advantage on the front line, slowly advancing towards Ukraine’s important logistics centres.

"We have an imbalance and inflation, but the situation is not so acute as to demand an end to all military action... We are able to insist on our demands... and if Ukraine's defense continues to collapse as it is now, it would be wiser for the other side to agree to our conditions," said Vasily Kashin, an expert at the Higher School of Economics.

Trump's statements, therefore, "appear to be too little to force Russia to change its core demands, which include de facto recognition of the lands it has conquered as Russian, an end to NATO ties with Ukraine, and a significant reduction in the Ukrainian military."

According to the publication, the Kremlin is more likely to view the US President’s threats as “posturing before negotiations.”

"Putin sees these statements as part of a political game. He doesn't take them seriously... He is prepared for any scenario and has no illusions that a deal will be reached quickly," says Tatyana Stanovaya, a political scientist at the Carnegie Center.

For Putin, she said, the ideal option would be a sweeping geopolitical agreement similar to the one agreed upon at Yalta by the leaders of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, which foreshadowed the post-war division of Eastern Europe into Soviet and Western spheres of influence.

"Of course, Putin wants to end the war, but only on Russian terms. The war in Ukraine is a way for him to get the West to sit down at the negotiating table for Yalta 2.0," Stanovaya says.

"Analysts say Putin is seeking a summit with Trump where the two leaders could hammer out a settlement acceptable to Moscow by pushing aside the Ukrainian leadership, which Putin rejects as illegitimate," the article says.

Experts believe that Trump's threat to impose new sanctions reflects his understanding that the deal could be delayed, and that such behavior could "push Russia away from the negotiating table."

"Russians always want to be spoken to directly; the Kremlin was already irritated by his communication style in his first term... This is not how to communicate with Russians," said Oleg Ignatov, an analyst at the International Crisis Group, a conflict resolution agency.

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukraine is burning M777 155mm howitzer barrels faster than the U.S. is producing them - The War Zone

- Now the Americans at their only facility are failing to produce more than 30 barrels each month.

- The Pentagon has submitted a request to Congress for funding to expand production.

- "Funds are needed for a second source of 155mm gun barrels to support Ukraine. Includes procurement, factory improvements, production equipment and tools in direct support of replenishment shipments to Ukraine," the request states.

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🇱🇧🇮🇱🇺🇸🇫🇷Medios hebreos informan que Israel ha pedido a Estados Unidos 30 días adicionales para llevar a cabo la retirada de sus tropas del sur del Líbano.

El ejército de Israel debería abandonar todas sus posiciones en el sur del Líbano antes del 26 de enero.

Haaretz informa que Estados Unidos y Francia están negociando la prórroga solicitada con funcionarios israelíes y libaneses.

🇬🇧Hebrew media reports that Israel has asked the United States for an additional 30 days to carry out the withdrawal of its troops from southern Lebanon.

The Israeli army should abandon all its positions in southern Lebanon by January 26.

Haaretz reports that the United States and France are negotiating the requested extension with Israeli and Lebanese officials.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸Moshe Ya’alon, exjefe militar israelí:

El gobierno quiere que la guerra continúe hasta el final de su mandato, lo que va en contra de los intereses israelíes.

No está actuando sinceramente para liberar a los rehenes; podríamos haberlos liberado en noviembre de 2023.

🇬🇧Moshe Ya'alon, former Israeli military chief:

The government wants the war to continue until the end of its term, which is against Israeli interests.

It is not acting sincerely to free the hostages; we could have released them in November 2023.

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“A sick thought can devour the body’s flesh more than fever or consumption.”

— Guy de Maupassant, “The Horla” (1886 version)

🇸🇰 2025 is the year of Pan-Slavism

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⚡️The Hind Rajab Foundation has initiated legal proceedings against Dror Zvi Bauer, an Israeli soldier in the 614th Battalion, Engineering Corps, accused of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide during the ongoing onslaught on Gaza since October 2023.
Legal complaints have been filed with the International Criminal Court (ICC) as well as with national authorities in Austria, Germany, and other European jurisdictions.

The suspect openly shared multiple times his actions on Instagram

🇺🇸💬🇷🇺 Trump threatens Russia if it doesn't stop the SMO

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❗️Documents obtained by The Washington Post reveal that Google "rushed" to provide Israel access to advanced AI technologies during the early weeks of the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza.

Following 7 October 2023, a Google cloud employee escalated requests from Israel’s Defense Ministry for expanded access to Google’s AI tools. The documents indicate Israel sought to utilize Google’s Vertex AI service for applying AI algorithms to their data.

As of November 2024, with ongoing Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, documents show Israel continued to seek access to Google’s latest AI technology, including Gemini AI, for developing AI assistants to process documents and audio.

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇸Trump is "not confident" that the ceasefire in Gaza will last, CNN reports.

"I'm not sure. This is not our war, this is their war," the US president said from the Oval Office.

He noted that after 15 months of bombing, Gaza had become like a "place of mass destruction" and would have to be "rebuilt from scratch."

CNN notes that the peace deal with Hamas has left "extremist right-wing Israeli politicians" unhappy, believing that the ceasefire was a capitulation.

Netanyahu said on Sunday that "both President Trump and President Biden fully supported Israel's right to resume hostilities if Israel concludes that Phase B negotiations are futile."

Let us recall that today Israel announced the beginning of an Israeli "counter-terrorist operation" in the West Bank of the Jordan River, which is controlled by the Palestinian Authority.