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The Kremlin confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone with Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro on Thursday

 

The Kremlin statement added that "Putin expressed solidarity with the Venezuelan people and reaffirmed his support for the Maduro government's policy of safeguarding national interests and sovereignty amid mounting external pressure."

(Putin could give Maduro missiles good enough to sink American ships but Putin might make Maduro agree to sink ships in the carrier task force one by one but spare the aircraft carrier.)

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-doubles-down-backing-maduro-after-us-seizes-oil-tanker

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”You can have peace or you can have Zionism but you can't have both” (Comment made on this morning's Military Summary channel.)

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A US-trained Somali government force killed dozens of civilians during an attack on a village in southern Somalia that started Tuesday night and continued until Wednesday morning, according to Somali media reports.

According to the Somali Guardian, the attack targeted the village of Jambaluul, about 40 kilometers west of Mogadishu, and was launched after the arrival of the Alpha Group, a special operations branch of Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency that has received training from the US.

Garowe Online reported similar details, though it said the attack was conducted by the Danab, a special operations force of the Somali military that is armed and trained by the US. Both reports said that more than 30 civilians were killed and that the village was flattened by the attack, which involved artillery fire.

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/12/11/us-trained-somali-forces-kill-dozens-of-civilians-in-attack-on-village-in-southern-somalia/

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The US Treasury Department on Thursday announced sanctions targeting six companies it accused of transporting Venezuelan oil, as Reuters reported that the Trump administration is gearing up to seize more oil tankers. (This is insanity squared. Russia can respond by giving Maduro weapons capable of sinking our ships.)

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/12/11/us-sanctions-six-companies-accused-of-transporting-venezuelan-oil-as-it-prepares-more-seizures/

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Gaza’s Health Ministry said on Thursday that since the ceasefire deal was supposed to go into effect on October 10, Israeli forces have killed at least 383 Palestinians and wounded 1,002. At least one more person was killed on Thursday as WAFA reported that a woman was killed by an Israeli airstrike that hit Jabalia, northern Gaza.

The US has established a military base in southern Israel to “monitor” the ceasefire, but the Trump administration has been silent on Israel’s repeated attacks and continued restrictions on aid.

https://news.antiwar.com/2025/12/11/come-see-our-children-in-the-morgue-israel-continues-killing-palestinians-in-gaza-despite-truce-deal/

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TOP DEMOCRAT: MURDER OF DC NATIONAL GUARD MEMBER "JUST AN UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT"

During a heated House Committee on Homeland Security hearing on Thursday, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) sparked outrage by dismissing the Thanksgiving-eve shooting of two National Guardsmen in Washington, D.C., as an "unfortunate accident." The casual characterization of what DHS Secretary Kristi Noem quickly corrected as a terrorist attack revealed Thompson's apparent inability—or refusal—to acknowledge the gravity of the attack that left 20-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Sarah Beckstrom dead, and 24-year-old U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe critically wounded.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/top-democrat-murder-dc-national-guard-just-unfortunate-accident

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Criminalizing Bible Verses? Canadian Lawmakers Target Religious Expression With Proposed 'Hate Speech'

In a move that should alarm anyone who is pro-free speech, members of Canada’s Liberal Party have capitulated to pressure from Quebec’s ultra-secular separatist party by voting to strip away a longstanding religious exemption from the country's hate-speech laws as part of the draconian Bill C-9, also known as the so-called Combating Hate Act.