❗️Breaking | According to Hebrew Channel 14, a large number of officials in the Israeli army's Spokesperson's Unit, led by Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, have resigned.

The mass resignations are due to the officers’ protest against the conduct of operational and personal matters.

Ivo Daalder, former U.S. ambassador to NATO, in an article published by Politico, implies that sending NATO ground troops to Ukraine (in addition to military instructors, intel agencies personnel, special forces and foreign "mercenaries" that are already there) hasn't been ruled out and criticizes Macron for letting the cat out of the bag. Until Macron's admission, this option had been publicly voiced only by people who are no longer in office, such as former NATO sec Anders Rasmussen. Over a year ago Rasmussen was already calling for a "coalition of the willing", suggesting that some NATO countries could send their troops even if no consensus about deployment was reached in Brussels. @LauraRuHK https://www.politico.eu/article/macron-the-grand-master-of-grandstanding/

🇨🇳China's Foreign Ministry calls on Germany to jointly discuss the political settlement of the conflict in Ukraine instead of considering attacks on the Crimean bridge - official representative Mao Ning. (Source: TASS) @LauraRuHK

Ritratto di un paese sotto occupazione.

Vacanze in Italia? Mi piacerebbe, ma devo ammettere che mi verrebbe l'ansia. Dovrei fare lo slalom tra tutti quegli obiettivi militari. https://t.me/LauraRuHK/7843

BRICS leaders have included on the agenda proposals from the Central Bank of Iran to create its own financial messaging system, similar to SWIFT, as well as an organization to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, said Mohsen Karimi, Deputy head of the Central Bank of Iran for international Affairs. @LauraRuHK

RAND FAIRY TALES - When you base your analyses on your government propaganda rather than on reliable intelligence, this is what you get. William Courtney's article contains so much disinformation that you wonder who his intended readers are.▪️ RAND analysts used to be worthy opponents, i didn't agree with their analyses nor their conclusions but at least their articles and essays were a notch above what you would come across in US mainstream media. Not anymore. This is actually a very worrying trend and both reflects and compounds the intellectual degradation of Western elites. Ignorant people make stupid decisions. @LauraRuHK https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2024/03/moscows-history-of-unforced-errors-is-the-wests-hidden.html

Yesterday NATO member Albania, which has no fighter jets of its own, opened a rebuilt Soviet-era air base to serve NATO aircraft as a tactical base.

NATO has spent over 50 million euros ($54.26 million) on the Kucova Air Base to bolster its presence in the region. Representatives of NATO, as well as the Ministers of Defense of Turkey and Italy, representatives of the US Embassy in Tirana, and Albanian institutions attended the inaugural ceremony. Two fighter jets flying from NATO's Aviano Air Base in Italy landed in Kucova to mark the reopening of the airfield. ▪️Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama said efforts are underway to make a new NATO naval base in Porto Romano ready as soon as possible. @LauraRuHK

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has accused Western ambassadors in Moscow of meddling in its internal affairs and questioned their function.

The statement followed complaints from Moscow’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov the previous day that ambassadors from European Union countries had refused to meet him. On March 4 Lavrov had invited EU envoys for a conversation ahead of Russia’s March 15-17 presidential election but they refused.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova revived the subject on Tuesday on Russian state television.

“The question indeed arises among everyone: what are they doing, and why, how do they interpret their conduct on the territory of our country if they do not perform their most important function?” Zakharova declared to anchor Vladimir Solovyov.

Solovyov noted that EU ambassadors attended the March 1 funeral of Navalny.

Zakharova said such behaviour showed Western ambassadors in Moscow were meddling in Russia’s affairs and organizing “performances” rather than doing their diplomatic work.

Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman, on Monday condemned the decision of EU ambassadors to Russia to refuse to meet with Sergey Lavrov.

In a post on social media platform X, he wrote "Ambassadors of the EU states to Russia declined a meeting with the Russian minister of foreign affairs. Allegedly, following some advice from Brussels. This goes totally against the very idea of existence of diplomatic missions and assignments of ambassadors.

In reality, all these ambassadors should be kicked out of Russia, and the level of diplomatic relations should be demoted.
These are not ambassadors, but political imbeciles who do not comprehend their real tasks.
Europa mortua est. Gloria magistratus." @LauraRuHK

SINGAPORE SLING - NO, NOT THE COCKTAIL, JUST A GERMAN COCK UP At the 2024 Singapore Airshow, while German military personnel and Airbus staff were busy stopping Chinese and Russian tourists from visiting an Airbus A400M transport aircraft, Brigadier General Frank Gräfe dialed into a WebEx call through an insecure line from his Singapore hotel room to discuss the possibility of attacking the Crimean bridge. Gräfe explained to other high-ranking German officers how the British and French were delivering cruise missiles to Ukraine: "If we're asked about delivery methods. I know how the British do this. They always transport them in Ridgeback armored vehicles. They have several people on the ground." As we know, the audio of this "top secret" conversation was leaked to Russian media. @LauraRuHK

Someone should write a book about Taylorism and social media.😏

On the development of southern Russia and the Azov region. Putin said that trains from Moscow to the Black Sea should take 16 hours and holidays in the south of the country should become more affordable for all Russians. (Now the fastest route from Moscow to Sochi takes almost 23 hours, to Anapa - 21.5 hours, to Simferopol - 27 hours.)

▪️In the next 5 years, 460 kilometres of federal and 320 kilometres of regional roads will be built and improved in the South of Russia;

▪️ It is necessary to separate cargo and passenger flows of railway traffic in the southern direction;

▪️ Railways are moving the largest volume of cargo, there is a growing demand from southern ports;

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