Zhuravlyov was arrested this Wednesday for his involvement in the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipeline in 2022, in which a team of Ukrainian divers allegedly placed explosives on one of the underwater pipelines crossing the Baltic Sea between Russia and Germany, supplying gas to Western Europe. The explosions occurred just a few months after Russia launched its large-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The future of Donald Trump’s ballroom in the White House is in the hands of the United States Supreme Court. This Friday, the ruling that ordered the halt of the works on the ground level of the president’s flagship project in the presidential complex came into effect, as the two-week suspension of the order granted by the judge for the Administration to file an appeal before the highest judicial authority expired.
The prestige of Mossad, the espionage agency that for decades cultivated its legend of omniscience, is going through low times. The Israeli secret service, which once boasted of knowing the streets of Tehran better than those of Tel Aviv, now suffers the consequences of the failure of its most ambitious plan: overthrowing the regime of the ayatollahs. The internal crisis also erupts at the worst possible moment for Israel, with the October elections just around the corner, half a dozen open fronts between Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank, and a conflict with Iran that, far from being resolved, has become entrenched.
After nine at sea and in unhealthy conditions, the 5,000 sailors and soldiers aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, one of the largest aircraft carriers in the United States fleet, have begun their journey back to San Diego, the coastal city in southern California, this Thursday. To continue their mission in the Middle East, due to the Iran war, the Pentagon has deployed another aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington. This was announced on Sunday by Admiral Brad Cooper, head of the United States Central Command, in an opinion article published in The Wall Street Journal, and confirmed this Thursday by Administration officials.
A 7.2 magnitude earthquake shook the Andean region of Ayacucho in southern Peru this Thursday. The Geophysical Institute of Peru has detailed that the epicenter of the earthquake was located 35 kilometers from the town of Cora Cora, with no personal or material damage reported so far due to the great depth of the epicenter of the movement.
North Korea launched ten ballistic missiles over the Sea of Japan on Thursday morning, just hours after Donald Trump had downplayed his support for the southern neighbor and shown his respect for Kim Jong Un, whom he has promised to meet before the end of the year.
Given the strategic failure of the six-month military campaign and stalled diplomacy with Iran, Donald Trump’s plan to defeat the enemy now involves the economic isolation of the Islamic regime. The president announced last night what he dubbed an “economic D-Day,” a new offensive with which he aims to punish any country that helps or does business with Tehran, a measure that could provoke a new indirect confrontation with China or Russia.
Moscow gas stations have resumed rationing gasoline supply this week as long lines begin to appear and authorities acknowledge the start of the “second stage” of the fuel shortage crisis due to Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries. The Kremlin has had to redirect supplies from the provinces to the capital and import gasoline from other countries to stabilize the situation.
The Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, announced this Tuesday the start of the construction phase of what he called a “hanging facility” for those sentenced to death in the center of the country, according to a video he himself shared on his Telegram channel.
Resisting is everything for people trapped in the wheel of destruction, reconstruction, and destruction again. Resistance determines who they are and what they do. If they want to keep living, they must first resist. Any aspiration they have is secondary. In the Middle East, the most militarized region in the world, millions of people wake up every morning with the goal of resisting. The strongest and best-armed set the level of endurance that the rest must reach. Political, social, and economic relations are determined by this hierarchy of resistance.
