🇩🇪 Germany's capital Berlin will allow women to go topless in public swimming pools, in nod to Weimar past.

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🇮🇱🇵🇸⚡️- Israeli Special Forces raiding a Hamas cell.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Silicon Valley Bank has been closed by regulators after a serious 60% dump leading to fearful speculation in the banking sector. The FDIC has promised to protect insured deposits in the bank.

🇺🇸⚡️- Multiple banks across the United States are experiencing failures, including Wells Fargo.

🇺🇸⚡️- The Silicon Valley Bank has dropped by 62%, the most of any bank since the Great Recession.

🇺🇦 The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has been informed by President Zelensky's government that it is to be expelled from its holiest site - the Kiev Caves Lavra - by the end of March.

The canonically-recognised Orthodox church in the country has prayed and struggled there for over 1,000 years.

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🇺🇸⚡️- Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen has warned the House of Representatives of “economic collapse” due to defaulting

🇷🇺🇬🇪⚡️ - Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a tweet encouraging Georgian protesters to "think twice" about installing a pro-Western government, comparing the situation in the country to the Euromaidan and implying Russia might launch a second "special military operation" to rectify it.

🇺🇸⚡️ - Tucker Carlson has revealed that the NSA hacked his cell phone in order to prevent him interviewing Vladimir Putin.

🇩🇪⚡️ - Germany's "Catholic" Synod has voted in favor of blessing gay "marriages", with 38 out of 58 bishops voting in support of a motion allowing them to be blessed. The Pope has previously condemned the idea gay "marriages" can be blessed, and has rebuked bishops' conferences in Europe for considering blessing them.

🇺🇦⚡️ - An Orthodox priest writing under condition of anonymity said in a statement that "the [Kiev] authorities took the Soviet model of 100 years ago and are applying it to the faithful of the canonical Orthodox Church. We have no rights, we have no protection, nobody wants to help us anymore."

Pray for the persecuted Christians in the Ukraine.

🇵🇪⚡️ - Pedro Castillo's jail sentence has been increased to 36 months.

⚡️ - A Twitter bluecheck had an interesting geopolitical take.

⚡️ - Parra also said that Poland would only become a superpower if its center-right and vaguely Christian Law and Justice Party was replaced with a government that supported "freedom and democratic checks" (read: Westernization).

⚡️ - In this admin's view, Parra is wrong, but there is a grain of truth to what he says.
Poland was a superpower until the partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and was a significant regional power under Piłsudski, during the Second Republic. Like Turkey, there is no reason why Poland could not become a geopolitical pole in its own right in opposition to both Russia and the West - and doing that was a goal of the Polish government for a long time, as can be seen by Poland's attempt to create an "Intermarium" federation in the 1920s and the Visegrad pact in the 1990s.
The issue with people like Parra is that they believe Poland can become a superpower by embracing the West further and reaffirming its membership of NATO. (Many of these people, incidentally, believe in the myth of a "based Poland".) If Poland wants to form its own alliance and live up to the expectations some people online have of it, it will have to stop submitting to a rootless, "Western" clique of financiers and will have to readopt the Catholic society its government has slowly been abandoning in exchange for Western support.
Poland's future lies either with Moscow, Washington, or St John Paul II. The question is which of those options Poland will choose.

SBU confiscated icons with the royal family of Nicholas II from the priests of the UOC.

This was stated by the rector of St. Tikhvin Cathedral in Lisichansk, Archpriest Andrey Pavlenko.

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ - Vladimir Zelensky has said he will officially explore the possibility of renaming Russia to "Muscovy". In response, Medvedev said that Ukraine should change its name to "Bandera's Reich".