Turmoil and Chaos all over the Planet

[Ravenlocke]

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🇺🇦🇩🇪The mayor of Kiev, Vitaliy Klitschko, has acquired a house in Hamburg for a quarter of a billion UAH.

This is according to his statement. On 20 December, the Kiev mayor received the mansion as a debt payment from Maximum I LLC, a company registered in the United States, which belonged to his brother Vladimir - but was transferred to Vitali's ownership in May 2023.

The house is valued at 227 million UAH (about $5.9 million). Its area is 750 square metres.

Vitaliy Klitschko already had a villa in Hamburg before he became mayor. German media reported that it was near Otmarschen Park. Now there will be another one.

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1744058028754657619

[Kryztian]

Yet another "corner of the globe" where nuclear weapons are present heats up:

North Korea to officially label South ‘number one hostile country’ – Kim
Leader Kim Jong-un has called for the constitution to be amended, branding the neighboring country as an arch-enemy
https://www.rt.com/news/590709-north...tion-agencies/

North Korea has followed through on leader Kim Jong-un’s conclusion that peaceful reunification with Seoul is impossible, scrapping the government agencies that were involved in such efforts and preparing to constitutionally brand South Korea as Pyongyang’s arch-enemy.

Speaking to North Korea’s parliament on Monday, Kim called for South Korea’s constitutional status to be changed to the “No. 1 hostile country.” The parliament immediately agreed to scrap the agencies involved in promoting reunification with the South and inter-Korean tourism, Pyongyang’s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Tuesday.

Kim reiterated his conclusion that reunification of the two Koreas is no longer possible, citing claims that Seoul seeks to force the collapse of Pyongyang to gobble up North Korea. His comments followed a statement in late December that Pyongyang’s approach to reunification based on “one state with two systems” was diametrically opposed to Seoul’s goal of “unification by absorption.”
Korean unification ‘impossible’ – Kim READ MORE: Korean unification ‘impossible’ – Kim

The North Korean leader has claimed that the US is seeking a military confrontation on the peninsula and has essentially turned South Korea into a military base and “colonial subordinate state.” He warned on Monday that military conflict may be inevitable.

“We don’t want war, but we have no intention of avoiding it,” KCNA quoted Kim as saying. “We will never unilaterally unleash a war if the enemies do not provoke us,” he added, warning that the “enemies should never misjudge this as our weakness.”

Former US State Department official Bob Carlin co-authored a report last week claiming that the situation on the Korean Peninsula is now more dangerous than at any time since June 1950, when the Korean War began. “Like his grandfather in 1950, Kim Jong-un has made a strategic decision to go to war. We do not know when or how Kim plans to pull the trigger, but the danger is already far beyond the routine warnings,” he claimed.

The US and South Korea have ramped up joint military exercises in the past year, while North Korea has carried out a series of missile tests. Pyongyang reportedly tested a solid-fuel ballistic missile armed with a hypersonic warhead on Sunday. The South Korean Defense Ministry condemned the launch and vowed an “overwhelming response” if Pyongyang commits a “direct provocation.”

https://www.rt.com/news/590709-north...tion-agencies/

[Kryztian]

And yet another hotspot emerges: Pakistan (which definitely has nuclear weapons) recalls it's ambassador from Iran (which might have nuclear weapons). While the U.S. has been dropping thousands of bombs on the Baluchistan are of Pakistan for years, the Pakistani government government has never reacted as they have to this incident.

Pakistan accuses Iran of violating its airspace, killing 2 children in missile strike
By Reuters
Published Jan. 17, 2024, 9:06 a.m. ET
https://nypost.com/2024/01/17/news/p...issile-strike/

Pakistan said neighboring Iran has violated its airspace resulting in the death of two children, hours after Iranian state media said missiles targeted two bases of militant group Jaish al Adl on Tuesday.

Islamabad warned that the incident could have “serious consequences” and was “completely unacceptable” in a statement released by Pakistan’s foreign office spokesperson in the early hours of Wednesday.

Iran’s foreign ministry was not immediately available for comment.

On Monday, Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards attacked targets in Iraq and Syria with missiles.

Jaish al Adl has previously mounted attacks on Iranian security forces in the border area with Pakistan.

“These bases were hit and destroyed by missiles and drones,” Iranian state media reported earlier, without elaborating.

Iran’s Nournews, affiliated with the country’s top security body, said the attacked bases were in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.

Pakistan’s statement did not mention the location of the incident, nor the nature of the airspace violation, but said it had lodged a protest with Tehran and the head of the Iranian mission in Islamabad had been called to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

“The responsibility for the consequences will lie squarely with Iran,” Pakistan’s statement said, adding that the incident had occurred despite the existence of several channels of communication with Iran.

The Pakistani military’s public relations wing did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

[Kryztian]

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has been convicted of drug trafficking. This all happened within the justice system and with no thanks to the Obama administration, the Trump administration and the Biden administration, all of which will pretend to be supporters of democracy, and supporters of the "war on drugs". (14 minutes)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Lyo4a0zcB-U

[Matthew]

Posted by Kryztian (here)
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández has been convicted of drug trafficking. ...

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