"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." They can put a spin on it, but the reality is that the West simply can't supply enough weapons. This is the situation seen from Ukraine. The war is lost and they know it. @LauraRuHK

EU’S AMMO TARGETS FOR UKRAINE COLLIDE WITH REALITY As foreign and defense ministers meet today in Brussels, they face a harsh reality: The growing disconnect between their pledges and their real deliveries of ammunition to Ukraine.

A million rounds of ammo sent to Kyiv by next March — that’s the self-imposed deadline set by European leaders. So far, the EU has achieved less than a third of that target. Some 300,000 rounds have been shipped since February 9 under a program to send shells from national stockpiles, according to a senior EU official, as my colleagues Josh Posaner and Laura Kayali report.

The other challenge: No deal is expected on topping up the European Peace Facility (EPF) — the off-budget EU fund that finances military aid to Ukraine — with a proposed €20 billion over the next four years.

Not to mention Orbán’s blockade: Hungary isn’t about to unblock the latest tranche of €500 million from the fund for Ukraine either. “The message is that we continue to stand by Ukraine, but it takes time, you can’t do this overnight,” one senior EU official said.

Reimbursement slowdown: Diplomats complain that the blockade is leading to delays in reimbursing military gear across the bloc. “Yes, there is a backlog,” conceded one, adding however that military aid didn’t decrease because of that.

Magic numbers: The issue is not a lack of political will — Kyiv announced on Friday that Lithuania had transferred two launchers for anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine — but rather a discrepancy between that will and the reality of Europe’s industrial capacity. EU leaders should not have come up with the figure of 1 million rounds of ammunition to begin with without assessing whether it was doable, a former top military official said.

European Peace Facility refill on life support: While European diplomats are not burying the Commission’s plan to top up the EPF with €20 billion, there’s an increased focus on needs for improvements as well as bilateral aid to Ukraine. “The EPF is politically important and a mechanism of solidarity, I’m not going to declare it dead, but improvements can always be made,” a senior EU diplomat said on Friday. Another EU diplomat insisted the fund should be used more for joint procurement between member countries. (Source: Politico) @LauraRuHK

Israel's ambassador to Russia said that pro-Palestinian demonstrations are "anti-semitic". @LauraRuHK

❗️Germany's Left Party To Dissolve

The Bundestag's Left Party (Die Linke) has formally announced its decision to dissolve itself in December after the exodus of some deputies to the new movement established by former party member Sahra Wagenknecht. (Source: RT) @LauraRuHK

❗️In Germania si scioglie il partito Die Linke (La Sinistra)

Il Partito della Sinistra tedesca ha annunciato formalmente la sua decisione di sciogliersi a dicembre, dopo l'esodo di alcuni deputati verso il nuovo movimento fondato dall'ex membro del partito Sahra Wagenknecht. (Fonte: RT) @LauraRuHK

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Meno del 4% degli ebrei israeliani si fidano delle informazioni fornite da Netanyahu. La fonte non e' Hamas, ma Haaretz, giornale israeliano. @LauraRuHK

"Western people are watching the horrifying slaughter of Gaza’s civilian population, 70% of which have been displaced and all of which have been denied humanitarian aid, live on social media. Then if they are to turn to the US President, he is openly lying about having seen photos of “terrorists beheading [Israeli] babies” and questions the number of Palestinians being killed. On the BBC, which released multiple reports in which it stated that Palestinians die, while Israelis are killed, they are labeling the internationally respected Palestinian Health Ministry a “Hamas-run health ministry”. The Washington Post is publishing cartoons of Palestinians that depict them as the Nazis did the Jews in World War 2. The people were watching. Lie after lie after lie after lie. Then, when the single Palestinian member of the US congress calls for a ceasefire and a free Palestine “from the river to the sea”, the bulk of the members of her own party vote to censure her. Although Palestine is, geographically speaking, a very small piece of land and Gaza is even smaller, the indigenous inhabitants of this land have shaken up the entire world. Their bravery, whether it be their Resistance fighters, their journalists, their doctors and ambulance drivers, or whether it be the survivors of the murderous bombings that have taken the lives of their families, they are an inspiration to the entire world. Gaza is the pulse that keeps humanity alive, its people and their faith summon courage, revolution and inspire us to make the world a better place. We may be a world away, but our soul lives in Gaza today. What Palestine has sacrificed, has removed the masks of the most powerful empire in human history, it has collapsed hundreds of billions of dollars worth of lies that have been conjured up over hundreds of years." @LauraRuHK https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-mask-has-fallen-as-the-west-backs-genocide-in-gaza

MIKE POMPEO JOINS KYIVSTAR, UKRAINE'S LEADING MOBILE OPERATOR - The former U.S. Secretary of State, ex-CIA director, will join the Board of Directors of VEON’s wholly-owned Ukrainian subsidiary Kyivstar as an independent non-executive director. He joins as a Partner of Impact Investments, a newly established US-based strategic and financial advisory and investment firm. @LauraRuHK

Israele segue lo stesso copione degli ukronazi e demolisce monumenti. Ieri l'IDF ha distrutto con i bulldozer almeno due monumenti in memoria dell'ex presidente dell'OLP Yasser Arafat all'ingresso del “campo profughi” di Tulkarm in Cisgiordania, istituito nel 1950 per accogliere i rifugiati dalle città occupate due anni prima dai coloni della neonata entita' sionista. https://t.me/presstv/79681

▪️Xi Jinping has arrived in San Francisco for a summit with Joe Biden and to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Meeting.
Xi and his wife were warmly welcomed by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (!), California Governor Gavin Newsom and other US representatives.
▪️The age of US lecturing China is over. US debt is $34 trillion and soaring, and there are fewer and fewer buyers, two wars are already hanging over Washington and both are stalemates (Israel and Ukraine), the US cannot afford to antagonize China. That's why the Chinese media today collectively radiate calm while all the US-funded "human rights" NGOs representing various separatist movements, from Xinjiang to Taiwan, from Tibet to Hong Kong, are fuming. @LauraRuHK

Elena Panina, director of the Institute for International Strategic Studies:

After it became clear that the much-hyped counteroffensive had failed, Washington again started talking about negotiations. In November, the American media began to persistently spread the thesis that it was time for Kyiv to sit down at the negotiating table. It is emphasized that Ukraine is losing, so it will have to make concessions. They even proposed admitting Ukraine to NATO, but without Crimea, Donbass, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
But Zelensky (for some unclear reasons, considering himself an independent political figure) “went into denial” and declared that it was necessary to fight until the last Ukrainian.
CIA Director Burns is reportedly traveling to Ukraine on Wednesday to tell Zelensky his time is up. Burns was tasked with freezing the proxy war due to Biden's weak performance. Elections (like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) may make their own adjustments.
https://t.me/EvPanina/11780

No problem, let the USA and Ukraine “freeze” their actions, and let the Russian army move forward. If Russia tries to participate in this “freeze”, it will not be frozen, it will be destroyed. Only forward and Putin understands this, although he does not say it. But these are tactical tricks, and that’s what needs to be done.

🛢 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 Russia And China Tighten Grip On Iraqi Oil Crescent 🇮🇶

⬛️ Lukoil’s oil service contract for the Iraqi West Qurna 2 oilfield got extended by 10 years to 2045.

⬛️ Chinese contractors working in and around the West Qurna 2 field have been instructed by Beijing to expedite their drilling work.

⬛️ ExxonMobil’s exit from West-Qurna is set to benefit both China and Russia.

🔶️ In line with Moscow and Beijing’s objective of keeping the West out of energy deals in Iraq to keep Baghdad closer to the new Iran-Saudi axis and to “end [the] Western hegemony in the Middle East [that] will become the decisive chapter in the West’s final demise,” Russia has struck a new deal in one of Iraq’s biggest oil fields. Around the same time, another Chinese company has been granted full exploration and development rights across Iraq’s oil and gas reservoirs.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Russia-And-China-Tighten-Grip-On-Iraqi-Oil-Crescent.html