🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- "Japanese militarists during World War II waged wars of aggression and committed inhumane atrocities, creating the darkest page in human history. Despite its defeat, Japan has never fully eliminated the scourge of militarism in the country.

If the [Sanae Takaichi's] right-wing forces in Japan are left free to develop powerful offensive weapons, or even possess nuclear weapons, it will once again bring disaster to the world," - Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman.

🇯🇵🇨🇳⚡- "China is shocked that a senior official [Itsunori Onodera] from the Japanese Prime Minister’s Office, who is close to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, brazenly claimed that Japan should have nuclear weapons," - Lin Jian, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman.

🇹🇭🇰🇭⚡- Heavy clashes between Thailand and Cambodia on the outskirts of Poi Pet city, western Cambodia. Thai flares illuminate the sky.

🇺🇸✝️⚡️- Vince Zampella, the creator of Call of Duty and Titanfall, was killed in a car accident yesterday at age 55.

🇷🇺🇻🇪⚡- Russia's Foreign Ministry denies AP's report that Russia has begun evacuating the families of its diplomats from Venezuela.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Delaware Supreme Court has ruled in favor of the reinstatement of Elon Musk’s 2018 Tesla compensation package.

The ruling potentially opens the door for Musk to invest heavily in his various projects: SpaceX, X, Grok, etc. and increased his net worth to around $750 billion.

Furthermore, Musk led an exodus of businesses from Delaware, which harmed the state’s corporate reputation.

🇺🇸🇩🇰🇬🇱⚡️- Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen also denounced the special envoy position as “completely unacceptable,” stressing that the announcement came “out of nowhere.” - Foreign Policy.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump calls U.S. Congressman Thomas Massie a “lowlife” and “loser” for pushing for the release of the Epstein files.

🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡️- A sanctioned tanker has, for the first time, directly linked Russia’s Arctic oil trade with Venezuela. Hyperion loaded naphtha in Murmansk, transited the Northern Sea Route, and then sailed to the Amuay refinery on the Paraguana Peninsula. This shows how Russia’s shadow fleet and Venezuela’s sanctions evasion networks are converging.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇻🇪⚡️- BREAKING: Iranian shadow tanker "BELLA 1", which refused to be boarded and was being pursued by the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, has fled into the Atlantic. - ABC.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- "On Dec. 22, at the direction of the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a low-profile vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations in international waters. Intelligence confirmed the low-profile vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. One male narco-terrorist was confirmed killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. OperationbSouthern Spear" - U.S. Southern Command

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇻🇪⚡️- The U.S. Navy and Coast Guard are still actively pursuing the Iranian shadow tanker “BELLA 1” in the Atlantic Ocean, more than 35 hours after making contact with it.

🇺🇸⚡️- During his suicide watch observation, Jeffrey Epstein stated that his cellmate tried to kill him.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein sent a letter to convicted pedophile Larry Nassar while they were both in prison.

"We shared one thing: our love and caring for young ladies in the hope they would reach their full potential. Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by, he loved to “grab snatch,” whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. Life is unfair.

Yours,
J. Epstein.’”

Epstein states two major details in the letter. He confirms that he will take his own life, and he also claims that President Donald Trump shares their love of “young, nubile girls.”

🇨🇳🇮🇳⚡- Three Chinese research vessels enter the Indian Ocean, surveying waters around India.