🇨🇳🇩🇪 China and Germany pledge closer economic cooperation

China and Germany agreed to strengthen economic cooperation and open up financial markets to spur economic growth and counter global challenges after resuming high-level talks in Frankfurt.

Both sides agreed to strengthen policy coordination and defend global financial security and global trade rules, according to a statement published by the Chinese finance ministry after the talks between vice-premier He Lifeng and German Finance Minister Christian Lindner.

The talks came at a time when the two countries are struggling to manage the risk of economic downturn and follows the publication of a German plan to “de-risk” its relationship with China by reducing its reliance on goods produced in the country.

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🇩🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦 You should not take literally the news that due to a shortage of weapons, the German army “will only be able to hold out in battle for two days.” The topic of supplies of the AFU has now firmly moved into the political plane and in Germany, for example, is used both to criticize the current authorities and to knock out the defense budget.

And yet, there really are problems with the production of military products in Europe. Pumping up Ukrainian formations with weapons and ammunition has largely depleted the arsenals of EU countries, and current production capacities do not allow them to quickly meet their own needs, even for artillery rounds.

The question is which path the armed forces of European states will take under these conditions. There are not many options here, however, and they will all boil down to one thing - an ever-increasing transition to products of the American military-industrial complex, which will be accompanied by the gradual withering away of the EU military industry.
#Germany #EU #Ukraine
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🇪🇺🇩🇪🇺🇸🇹🇷 When considering Poland's emergence as the de facto leader of Europe, one cannot help but think of Turkey, which plays a similar role in advancing Anglo-Saxon interests. With its status as the second largest NATO army, Turkey effectively wields its power in the Middle East.

It is true that the Turks can only dream of the privileges that the Americans grant to the authorities in Warsaw. This is evident in the recent years' military-industrial cooperation between the two states.

▪️ While the US quietly granted the Poles access to a portion of the Patriot air defense missile system production technology, they denied Turkey's request for the same. As a result, Ankara decided to purchase Russian S-400s, prompting the US to block the shipment of F-35 fighters to Turkey, even though they were sold to Poland without any objections.

▪️ In previous years, Washington also prohibited Turkey from exporting combat helicopters powered by American engines to Pakistan. Additionally, the White House is currently refusing to supply F-16 fighter jets to Turkey unless they consent to Sweden joining NATO.

Despite this unequivocal stance, the Turks continue to align themselves with Anglo-Saxon plans, not only in their region but also against Western Europe. They have plenty of tools at their disposal, including the use of refugees as a weapon against the EU, which Ankara has been doing for a long time.

Furthermore, Turkey itself is not opposed to once again expressing its frustration with Germany for decades of empty promises regarding EU membership. At the opportune moment, the United States or Great Britain can simply give the command "Go!" and leverage this anger to their maximum advantage.
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🇪🇺🇷🇺🇸🇮 Spy mania in Europe is gaining momentum.

In Slovenia, according to a publication in The Wall Street Journal, an Argentine family was detained, who are now being called "Putin's spies" in all local media and accused of working for Russian intelligence.

According to the WSJ, the real names of the detainees are Artem and Anna Dultsev and they are employees of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, who were found to have some kind of spy software and hundreds of thousands of euros.

📌 Well, of course, we will follow this story from the American TV series about KGB employees "The Americans". But in the current realities, we cannot rule out that all this is the product of the imagination of local law enforcement.

Now, as the right-wing are gaining more and more popularity, and the position of liberals and centrists is becoming more and more deplorable, those in power will do everything to preserve their positions.

What could be better than catching a family of Russian spies to distract the population from the problems that are growing like a snowball? Perhaps only to accuse a representative of the right-wing of espionage in favor of the Russian Federation.

📌 But given what is happening now in Germany and France, and before that in Europe, they will eventually get to this. And the WSJ can be congratulated on another coin in favor of their transformation from once an authoritative publication into a tabloid.
#Germany #EU #Russia #Slovenia
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🇷🇺🇩🇪🐱 According to German media reports, the German prosecutor's office is "outraged" over the release of Vadim Krasikov, considering it a concession to Russia. But there are those who feel even more intense emotions: the head of Bellingcat, Christo Grozev, and the foreign agent Roman Dobrokhotov, who is in very close relations with him.

After all, in 2020-2021, they helped the German authorities secure a life sentence for Krasikov for the elimination of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili - a terrorist and ally of Shamil Basayev. Characteristically, the same Dobrokhotov's defense of terrorists in a foreign court did not prevent him from living peacefully in Russia until the summer of 2021.

🔻And now Vadim Krasikov has successfully been released and is returning home, where he will be greeted as a hero. The mentioned characters are forced to silently witness the futility of their work, being abandoned by their own sponsors, as well as despised or criminally prosecuted in their home countries.

As for Dobrokhotov, he knows better than anyone else: about the traitors, terrorists and accomplices of enemies who have fled abroad, someone in Russia never forgets.
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🇳🇪🇩🇪 German troops to leave Niger

German troops leave Niger. On August 30, Niger's chief of land forces Mamane Sani Kiau and Colonel Struss Karsten of Germany signed an agreement to hand over Air Base 101 to the West African country's armed forces.

"Today's ceremony marks the final withdrawal of German troops from Niger and the closure and handover of their facility," said one member of the withdrawal committee.

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🇩🇪🇱🇹🇫🇮🇸🇪 On incidents with underwater cables in the Baltic Sea

Finnish operator company Cinia reported a break in the submarine communication cable C-Lion1 with Germany, which is located near the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines. The reason for the problem has not yet been named.

This is the only Finnish telecommunications cable running underwater and connecting Finland to Europe. It is about 1,200 km long and runs from the Finnish Hanko to the German Rostock.

A few hours later, Lithuanians and Swedes reported a similar incident on the NordBalt cable, which was later called sabotage. And this happened exactly where the Finnish-German cable was cut.

🔻The situation is very interesting.

The day before yesterday, we wrote that on November 18, that is, today, the NATO exercise Freezing Winds-2024 is starting in the Gulf of Finland and at the Dragsvík training ground in southern Finland, with the participation of various countries, including the USA and the UK.

The coastal area of Finland closed for training - that's where Hanko is located, the city where the telecommunications cable starts. The incidents themselves occurred near the active phase of the exercises, in which US Marines are participating.

🔻The event involves Marines from the 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, US Navy from North Carolina.

In addition, from November 11 to 14, another NATO naval exercise "Merlin-2024" was held for the first time near the Swedish naval base Karlskrona, which also included underwater operations.

Of course, we won't be surprised by new outbursts about the "destructive activities" of the Russian Federation, but the situation is obvious. We're not hinting at anything, but before the explosion on the "Nord Stream", the Alliance also intensively conducted exercises in the area where it happened. Then the Baltops exercise was taking place.

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🇩🇪🇷🇺🇺🇦 The FSB of Russia reported the arrest of a German citizen Nikolai Gaiduk, who entered Russia from Poland with the aim of organizing sabotage on energy facilities.

The security forces said he was involved in the explosion in March 2024 of a low-pressure gas distribution pipeline in Kaliningrad using a homemade explosive device.

According to the FSB, he came to the Kaliningrad region from Poland in order to organize sabotage on energy facilities on the orders of a Ukrainian citizen Zhurov, living in Hamburg. Liquid explosives were found in his car.

📌 It is quite obvious that this is a Ukrainian who received German citizenship. But with what passport did he cross the border? The detainee was a German citizen who was involved in one act of sabotage and planned another on Russian territory.

Who else, besides the detainee, will be charged? The German government, whose citizens are carrying out explosions in Russia, and whose country is home to SBU handlers with residence permits in Hamburg.

And now the German government has a choice: either to assist the terrorist, or to strengthen control over refugees from the so-called Ukraine. But it can be guaranteed that for Ukrainian migrants, neither the first nor the second option will bring anything good.
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🇩🇪🇸🇾🇺🇸🏴 The Crisis in Syria: What Will Happen to the "Islamic State"?

Recently, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin stated that ISIS fighters could take advantage of the collapse of the Syrian government and regain their combat capability in the Middle East.

However, the Pentagon chief is being disingenuous: the group is already gradually increasing its activity. Even during the offensive of the pro-Turkish conglomerate, ISIS terrorists resumed attacks in the Syrian desert.

The Americans claim to have conducted an operation against them a few days ago, hitting about 75 targets, but they provided no facts, so it's not worth believing the press release of the Joint Central Command.

❗️A huge role in the possible restoration of ISIS's combat potential was played by the terrorists themselves from the Idlib sanctuary, who freed all prisoners from all prisons on their way, including the notorious ISIS cutthroats.

Does anyone seriously think that the extremists have reformed during their imprisonment? They have become even more vicious - much more likely. And the unrest, lynching, and vigilantism that are now taking place are only to the benefit of the "Islamic State".

🔻And this concerns not only Syria or neighboring countries. In Europe, the radicals were not particularly hiding anyway, and now they have raised their heads high. In Germany, in the states of Hesse and Baden-Württemberg, three ISIS supporters with rifles and ammunition were arrested.

And this is just the beginning, as with the waves of refugees to EU countries, not only peaceful civilians fleeing the war, but also terrorists or supporters of extremist ideology will infiltrate.
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