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17 июля 2025 15:15

🇫🇷 French Budget Is a ‘Ticking Bomb’ for Euro, ING’s Pesole Says

Angst around how France will control its swelling budget deficit is returning to financial markets and may start to dent demand for the euro, according to strategists at ING Groep NV.

The common currency touched its weakest level against the dollar in a month on Tuesday as France’s minority government revived political tensions with proposals to sharply rein in the deficit, including scrapping two national holidays.

While the currency move was largely dollar led, with US inflation data driving the greenback higher, it also sent a warning for investors about the political and fiscal challenges in the euro area’s second largest economy, currency strategist Franceso Pesole said.

“The French deficit story has been very much in the background as of late, but yesterday probably served as a reminder that it is a ticking bomb for EU sentiment,” he wrote in a note on Wednesday. “We could start seeing some FX spillovers in the coming months.”

Prime Minister Francois Bayrou’s €43.8 billion ($50.9 billion) plan to narrow the deficit risks another government collapse. With no majority in parliament and opposition parties opposed to the spending cuts and tax increases, he could be forced to resign in a no-confidence vote in the fall — the same fate that met his predecessor, Michel Barnier, in December.

🔗 https://archive.ph/2025.07.16-133022/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-16/french-budget-is-a-ticking-bomb-for-euro-ing-s-pesole-says

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17 июля 2025 12:58

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸🇻🇦 The IDF fired a rocket at the Catholic Holy Family Church in Gaza city, wounding a dozen Catholic Gazans including the parish priest.

The roof was severely damaged as a result of the missile.

The IDF deliberately attacked the church while the parish priest, Gabriel Romanelli and several parishioners were on the roof of the church cleaning the dust off the solar panels in order to kill and maim as many people as they can.

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17 июля 2025 11:51

🇮🇱 Netanyahu trial adjourned amid strikes on Syria

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s testimony in his criminal trial in the Tel Aviv District Court ends early due to the developments in Syria and IDF strikes in that country aimed at defending its Druze community.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-trial-adjourned-amid-strikes-on-syria/

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17 июля 2025 09:34

🇺🇸 Trump triples down and calls it the "Jeffrey Epstein Hoax" and that his past supporters "bought into this 'bullshit'"

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17 июля 2025 07:11

🇪🇺🇷🇺 Igor Sushko on X: Europeans are selling 110-ton barrel forging machines to Russia, to help Russia mass produce tanks and artillery to murder Europeans.

"A Spanish firm has been linked to the delivery of a 110-ton forging machine to Russia, raising concerns about potential violations of international sanctions and Moscow’s efforts to sustain its artillery production amid the war in Ukraine, according to a report by Militarnyi.

Forward Technical Trade SL, based in Albacete, Spain, reportedly sold a used computer numerical control (CNC) forging machine to Russia’s AZK Group for $1.3 million. The equipment, manufactured in 1983 by Austrian company Gesellschaft für Fertigung (GFM), is capable of producing large-caliber artillery barrels, the report said."

https://defence-blog.com/spanish-firm-supplies-russia-with-machine-for-artillery-production/

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16 июля 2025 23:33

🇺🇦🇷🇺 Amerikanets on X: The war is sometimes described in terms of the Russians having destroyed two or three "armies," in overlapping phases. The first army was the one Ukraine had in February 2022, which at that time already included donated western equipment, but was mostly comprised of Soviet and domestically produced systems. This army was equipped with AK pattern rifles, 152mm Soviet artillery pieces, MLRS systems like the Grad, T-64, T-72 and T-80 tanks, MiG-29s and Sukhois, and S-300, Buk, and other Soviet air defense systems.

This army was largely destroyed during 2022-2023. To better understand this, let's take Ukraine's T-72's as an example. The AFU operated around 100-150 of the type at the beginning of 2022, and probably had around that number of refurbishable hulls in storage, in various conditions. LostArmour (which maintains exceptionally high standards) counted 150 visually confirmed T-72 losses for the AFU by October of 2023. Add whatever percentage you feel comfortable with considering only some losses will be caught on video, and it's safe to assume the "first army's" operational T-72s were destroyed by the end of 2023.

Next we should consider the "second army," which was the one composed of Soviet military equipment donated by ex-Warsaw Pact countries. Again using the T-72 as an example, the AFU has received an astounding 580 of them, with around half coming from Poland, while the other half is a mixture of countries like North Macedonia and "Avenger" models modernized in the Czech Republic and paid for by countries like Denmark, the Netherlands, and even the US. It's safe to assume that not all of these tanks were in the best of condition, and some may have been sent in order to be cannibalized for parts or refurbished.

LostArmour counts 294 visually confirmed T-72 losses for the AFU since the war began. Again add whatever you think is appropriate for losses not caught on camera, and a good chunk of the "second army" has been attrited, but there should still be a few hundred T-72s remaining in it.

The third "army" is of course the one composed entirely of western equipment. This army is now, as Patricia shows, essentially destroyed. This army was smaller the first army in some dimensions, and much smaller than the second in nearly all dimensions except vehicles like MRAPs and MANPADS.

The phases of the war, with three overlapping armies suffering attrition, are easy to see when looking at the statistics. LostArmour helpfully provides a stacked bar chart showing western (blue) and Soviet (red) equipment losses over time. The large numbers of Soviet vehicles being destroyed in the initial phase represent the destruction of the bulk of the first army, the third army's losses cease at the beginning of 2025 as its last components are destroyed, while the steady trickle into the second army of donated Soviet equipment allows it to outlast the third army.

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/ripplebrain/status/1945329864225309172

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16 июля 2025 22:25

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Nvidia said the U.S. government had approved sales of A.I. chips to China, three months after the Trump administration had shut them down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/nvidia-ai-chip-sales-china.html

https://archive.ph/nrsXa

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16 июля 2025 18:25

🇮🇱⚡- The Likud-bloc coalition now has 49 seats, leaving it in minority.

However, the Shas will not be backing a dissolution of Parliament, therefore keeping the Likud-bloc in power until the end of the Knesset's recess on October 27th.

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16 июля 2025 15:36

🇹🇼 The defense and fortification of key traffic nodes and bridges have been a major focus of this year’s Han Kuang exercises.

Below is TSM’s visualization of the major bridges leading into the city of Taipei. Highlighted is Wanban Bridge, where the ROCMP erected barricades and conducted a simulated defense using anti-tank equipment on the 14th.

🔗 Taiwan Security Monitor

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16 июля 2025 12:45

🇬🇧🇦🇫 Unbelievable story. Britain secretly offered asylum to 24,000 Afghan soldiers and their families, then spent two years enforcing injunctions to censor this from the public.

Rolling out the scheme fully would have cost £7 billion. Afghans have the highest sexual assault rate of any group in Britain.

All done by the previous Conservative government.

🔗 Keith Woods

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16 июля 2025 12:27

🇷🇺🇺🇦 The road from Zhovte to Novopustynka south of Pokrovsk. It shows 100+ destroyed Russian vehicles.

📝 Trent Telenko: This is visual proof of the obsolescence of 20th Century truck-based logistics in the age of drones.

It's not just the 100 dead trucks on this road.

It is the threat of drones is such that no systematic attempts were made to recover dead/damaged vehicles for salvage.

🔗 TrentTelenko

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16 июля 2025 11:07

🇪🇺🤝🇮🇱 EU shelves anti-Israel measures after Brussels sees ‘positive signs’ in Gaza aid situation

"The European Union will keep a close watch on how Israel implements this common understanding and the pledges," the EU's top diplomat said.

“We see positive signs. We see more trucks and supplies are reaching Gaza. We see more entry points opened. We also see electricity lines being repaired. But Israel needs to take more concrete steps to improve the humanitarian situation on the ground,” Kallas told reporters.

“But if the situation is not going to improve, then the member states are also willing to take next steps. The goal is to improve the situation, because it is really untenable, the humanitarian situation,” she added.

🔗 https://www.jns.org/eu-shelves-anti-israel-measures-after-brussels-sees-positive-signs-in-gaza-aid-situation

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16 июля 2025 09:28

🇲🇽 Mexico’s Fertility Collapse 📉

In 2023, Mexico’s total fertility rate (TFR) was just 1.60.
Yes—lower than the U.S. (1.62, CDC).

Yet every time I mention it, people react with disbelief.

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/JesusFerna7026/status/1945104197021471117

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16 июля 2025 08:24

🇺🇸 Trump: "I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff. I think really only pretty bad people, including fake news, want to keep something like that going."

🔗 Disclose

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16 июля 2025 07:49

🇺🇸 25% of Americans are “functionally unemployed," per Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity.

And 20% of job seekers have been looking for work for 10 to 12 months or longer.

📝 Functionally unemployed, per Ludwig Institute, includes those without full-time jobs (35+ hrs/week) who want them, the jobless, or earning under $25k/year pre-tax. Their True Rate of Unemployment is 24.3% as of May 2025, vs official 4.2%.

🔗 unusual_whales

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17 июля 2025 14:03

NEW - The exodus begins: More Poles left Germany than entered for the first time in 25 years.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/fd3d98mkfs/

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17 июля 2025 12:28

🇮🇱🇸🇾 Gedalyah Reback on X: "It's a war.

The IDF told reporters they're preparing for "several days of fighting."

With the Syrian general staff in smithereens in Damascus and operational assessments being passed to media about how much of Sweida is in regime hands, we're clearly drawing a red line now."

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-confirms-several-hundred-druze-crossed-border-into-syria-troops-working-to-return-them/

🔗 Gedalyah Reback

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17 июля 2025 10:32

🇺🇸🚢 John Konrad on X: Massive shipbuilding changes in DC. None of them good.

gCaptain has confirmed from a White House source that Trump has closed the shipbuilding office at the NSC.

Reuters reports that Ian Bennitt, the President’s Special Assistant for Shipbuilding at the White House, has been fired.

Favored candidates for Provost and Superintendent positions at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy have received denial notices.

At a recent USNI shipbuilding conference, it became clear: major shipbuilding primes are actively fighting plans to expand commercial shipbuilding.

🧵 https://fxtwitter.com/johnkonrad/status/1945308143212249566

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17 июля 2025 08:21

#NEW #mapupdate
⚡️🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 - The IDF has announced establishing a new corridor in between eastern and western Khan Yunis.

The corridor, titled the "Magen Oz", 15km in length, was established amidst the ongoing offensive in Khan Yunis by the IDF's "36th" Division, connecting to the "Morag" Corridor in Rafah.

➡️ The IDF has published an illustration of the supposed route [2], alongside drone footage [3], which also displays the intense and indiscriminate destruction in Gaza.

📝 Map [attached] displays illustration of approximate IDF control in southern Gaza, alongside corridors, including "Magen Oz" in light blue.

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17 июля 2025 00:48

🇺🇸🚢🇷🇺 Trump orders 40 icebreakers after realizing Russia has 40 and we have two

🔗 Mario Nawfal

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16 июля 2025 23:15

🇺🇸🚨🌊 A 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes near Alaska; tsunami warning issued for coastal areas.

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16 июля 2025 19:04

🇺🇦 Biggest English language newspaper in Ukraine, KyivPost, regularly cited and used as a source by Western medias, turned on Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky, after the arrest of Vitaly Shabunin, an anti-corruption activist.

In a premiere for the newspaper and Ukraine as a whole, the authors openly criticise Zelensky and Ukraine’s struggle to protect “democracy”, dismissing Shabunin’s charges of “draft dodging” as an excuse meant to punish him for his exposés against government corruption.

Shabunin’s investigations focused on Zelensky’s right hand man, Andrey Yermak and his deputy, Oleg Tatarov, whom are alleged to have embezzled funds meant to purchase Western weapons.

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16 июля 2025 18:25

🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: The religious Zionist, Orthodox party Shas has announced they will be leaving the Likud coalition, due to the Orthodox conscription laws.

Netanyahu’s coalition has effectively collapsed.

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16 июля 2025 14:29

🇮🇷🇨🇳 Iran may be prioritizing deeper strategic ties with China over its current partnership with Russia, though the extent of China’s willingness to support Iran remains unclear.

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Aziz Nasir Zadeh met with his Chinese counterpart on June 26 during a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Beijing, reportedly to discuss potential military purchases, including J-10 fighter jets and advanced AWACS systems.

Araghchi delivered a speech at the SCO meeting in which he proposed initiatives to strengthen regional cooperation, including creating a permanent security mechanism, a center to counter sanctions, and a regional security forum to address shared threats.

Iran has also signaled that China could play the role of mediator in potential future nuclear negotiations.

🔗 Critical Threats

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16 июля 2025 12:27

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Map markers of the destroyed Russian vehicles

🔗 Playfra

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16 июля 2025 11:11

🇺🇸📚 A start-up has introduced “Campus Guardian Angel” drones aimed at improving school security.

The drones can react to threats within seconds, launch pepper balls, and hit targets traveling at speeds of up to 100 miles per hour.

https://x.com/AFpost/status/1945158304084205729

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16 июля 2025 10:21

Countries are watching the election in Japan closely, as negative results for the LDP may lead to Ishiba's resignation

🇺🇸 The United States is mainly concerned of tariff negotiations stalling if Ishiba were to resign, with a source from the U.S embassy saying "If the administration isn't stable, negotiations likely won't move forward."

🇰🇷 A source from the South Korean embassy says "We can only hope the Prime Minister doesn't resign and that a hardline anti-Korea administration doesn't come to power."

🇨🇳 Japan-China relations have been improving under Ishiba with both countries getting closer economically due to U.S. tariffs, China is worried that could end if he resigns and a right-wing nationalist replaces him. "If possible, we hope the Ishiba administration continues."

🔗 Arin_Yumi

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16 июля 2025 08:55

🇺🇸 The GOP unanimously voted to block the release of the Epstein Files

🔗 Chief Trumpster

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16 июля 2025 08:23

🇺🇸 Trump repeats that the Epstein files are a "made-up" Democrat hoax.

🔗 Disclose

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16 июля 2025 07:17

🇮🇱🇸🇾 The Israeli Air Force carried out multiple drone strikes against the Syrian Transitional Government in Suwayda. Killing and wounding multiple fighters.

🔗 Woofers