Tuesday, March 11, 2025
NATO Disregarded Russia's Warnings For Over 30 Years
NATO Disregarded Russia's Warnings For Over 30 Years
US will meet with Ukraine in Saudi Arabia to discuss the war in Ukraine.
- Keir Starmer will convene another summit in order to discuss the “coalition of the willing” regarding a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine.
- Donald Trump has stated that Russia doesn’t hold the cards in these negotiations.
- Bloomberg reports that the US is considering the easing of the price cap on Russian oil.
- Protests erupt in Romania, as Calin Georgescu’s candidacy has been refused by the Romanian authorities.
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- https://apnews.com/article/romania-ge...
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- https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/sdsse...
- https://rumble.com/c/c-6693516
- https://x.com/SebastianSas_YT
- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA...
SECTIONS
0:00 Intro
01:30 European Narrative
1:43 Hypocrisy Central
13:13 Romania Crisis
Red-letter day: Worm moon becomes a spooky blood moon this week
This week's full moon will come with a special treat – a total lunar eclipse, which will turn the moon a spooky blood red color.
While
the eclipse will last from 1:47 a.m. EDT to 4:10 a.m. EDT Friday
morning, March’s full moon reaches peak illumination at 2:55 a.m. EDT on
Friday, the Old Farmer's Almanac said.
But
you don't have to wait until the middle of the night: The moon will
still look nearly full when it appears above the eastern horizon late
Thursday afternoon, even though the precise moment the moon is full is a
few hours later.
March full moon 2025: The Worm Moon wriggles into a total lunar eclipse
RECAP: Solong Rams Anchored US Tanker Stena Immaculate | Ships Abandoned...
US
Defense Tanker Rammed, On Fire & Abandoned
March 11, 2025
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell
University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — provides an
update on the collision between containership Solong and US flag tanker
Stena Immaculate off the Humber River on March 10, 2025
#solong #stenaimmaculate #collision #humberriver
00:00 Situation of the Stena Immaculate & Solong on March 11, 2025
04:16 Establishment of a 2-mile Total Exclusion Zone
07:15 Did Solong Intentionally ram Stena Immaculate?
09:47 Replay of Collision 11:23 Macro Version of Maritime Traffic Replay
17:09 Crowley Statement
19:57 Conclusion
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MarineTraffic Replay of Collison between MV Solong and MT Stena Immaculate off Hull, March 10, 2025
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The Donald: Media Influencer??
Donald Trump put Tesla squarely in the middle of MAGA culture wars by announcing he'll buy one Tuesday as the automaker's stocks tumbled.
UNDER PRESSURE: Swiss Neutrality Laws Slammed by Critics for Limiting Market Access
Germany, the largest buyer of Swiss arms, has excluded Swiss companies
from some procurement deals, while Denmark and the Netherlands have
halted orders, Zoller said before the government released export figures
for 2024 on Tuesday.
Critics blame the country's neutral stance which has blocked the re-export of Swiss-made guns and ammunition to Ukraine.
Swiss arms exports fall as government mulls looser curbs after Ukraine war
A FAS 90 rifle of the Swiss army is pictured during a competition in Romont, Switzerland May 11, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights
BERN, March 11 (Reuters) - The Swiss arms industry is calling for looser curbs on the resale of its goods as weapons exports fell in 2024 for a second year, fueling concern the neutral country is falling behind as Europe ramps up defense spending over the war in Ukraine.
Matthias Zoller, who is responsible for the armaments sector at industry association Swissmem, said neutrality laws were holding Switzerland back from valuable contracts.
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- Swiss war material exports dropped 5% to 665 million Swiss francs ($754.74 million) from 696.8 million francs in 2023, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) said.
- The decline, which followed a 27% plunge in 2023 could be partly to do with European worries about the Swiss ban on the transferring of previously bought armaments to war zones, including Ukraine, SECO said.
"There's a big surge in defense spending in Europe, and Switzerland will miss out," Zoller said. "It's a disaster for the industry but also the country's defense capabilities.
"Instead of working day and night to ramp up production, many companies in Switzerland are letting people go or investing elsewhere."
Swissmem's members include military suppliers like Rheinmetall (RHMG.DE)
NEUTRALITY-LINKED RESTRICTIONS
Under neutrality laws and the Swiss war materials act, weapons cannot be sent directly to countries involved in armed conflict, and re-export of previously sold weaponry is also blocked. That has prevented transfers of anti-aircraft ammunition, for example, from Germany to Ukraine.
- Thierry Burkart, leader of the centre-right Free Liberal Party, described the restrictions as "completely absurd."
"This harms us enormously, not only our industry, and our defense capability, which we need to work on, but also our contribution to European security, while remaining neutral," Burkart told Reuters.
The Swiss government is now mulling whether to relax its restrictions "in extraordinary circumstances" as well as limiting the re-export restriction to five years after the products have been delivered.
- The move to a five-year limit was supported by the Social Democrats, said Fabian Molina, a member of the lower house of parliament.
"We should do everything possible, to support Ukraine, because European security is now defended in Ukraine," Molina said.
"Weapons that have already been sold to third countries should under strict conditions be allowed to be exported to Ukraine because they need them right now."
- Andre Mittmann from SECO, said the decline in the arms industry could worsen in future if countries continued to shun Swiss armaments.
- A drop in exports and knowledge from Switzerland "will be problem for the Swiss Army and could be then a problem for Swiss security policy," he said.
- Still, it was a matter for politicians to decide how to react due to the restrictions involved for Switzerland as a neutral country, he said.
"Changing this would be a political decision, for parliament and the Swiss people to decide."
($1 = 0.8811 Swiss francs)
Reporting by John Revill, additional reporting by Dave Graham; Editing by Bernadette Baum
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