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The US-Japanese military exercises turn Tokyo into a pawn in the US-China game. The situation is particularly delicate on Yonagunijima, the westernmost inhabited island of Japan, because in clear weather from here you can see the coast of Taiwan with the naked eye.

According to the Haaretz newspaper, in total, Israel spent "several million dollars" for these purposes

Israel, under pressure from the United States, agreed to finance the supply of "strategic materials" to Ukraine in the amount of millions of dollars. This statement was made on Thursday by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz .

SMH: Australia wanted a NATO conflict with Russia over the missile incident in Poland

The missile incident in Poland is unlikely to lead to an escalation of the conflict, writes SMH. And this upsets the author of the article. He stubbornly continues to blame Russia for the attack and ignores the statements of the United States and Europe that the missiles are "most likely" fired by Ukraine.

The chance for peace agreements during the G20 summit is lost

The hope for peace agreements or at least the formation of a "road map" on the way to them during the G20 summit in Bali finally collapsed after an online appeal to the audience by the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky. "There will be no Minsk-3 with Moscow," he said on November 15 and once again made obviously unacceptable demands to the Kremlin.

But the Americans keep the maximum distance

Members of the international community have different views on potential threats emanating from Afghanistan, especially under the new government of the radical Islamist movement "Taliban" (banned in the Russian Federation). Each player notes different risks for himself. But everyone shares a high degree of concern about instability in the country and threats to regional security.

On Thursday, a Dutch court issued a verdict in the case of the crash of flight MH17 near Donetsk in July 2014. According to the court's decision, the Malaysian Boeing was shot down by the DPR militia. The commander of one of the detachments Igor Girkin (Strelkov) and two of his subordinates were sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia. However, in Russia, the conclusions of the court in The Hague were called biased and politicized, pointing out all the inconsistencies in the case of the crash of the airliner.

A top-secret American Boeing X-37B spaceplane returned to Earth from space after 908 days in orbit. There is minimal information about this device in the public domain, but even it allows us to draw very interesting conclusions. First of all, about the threat this satellite poses to Russian spacecraft – and not only for them.

A team of scientists from MIPT and NUST MISIS implemented a four-qubit quantum processor and demonstrated on it the accuracy of two-qubit CZ operations of more than 97%. The experiment was conducted at MIPT on November 8.

How will this affect the situation in the area of its holding

All the missiles fired during the massive strike on November 15 hit exactly the designated targets. This was announced the next day by the Russian Defense Ministry. The purpose of the precision strikes was the military control system of Ukraine and related energy facilities.

TAC: the conflict in Ukraine was provoked by the "deep state" of the USA

Despite the propaganda and outright lies of corporate media and NGOs in America and Western Europe, the conflict in Ukraine was provoked, writes TAC. The author of the article believes that this is confirmed by "clear and indisputable" facts.

Another topic was cooperation between defense enterprises to meet the needs for weapons and equipment of Ukraine

The Minister of National Defense of Greece Nikos Panagiotopoulos and the head of the US Military Department Lloyd Austin discussed during a videoconference the issues of training the Ukrainian military and supplying Ukraine with military equipment. This was reported on Wednesday evening by the Greek TV channel EPT1 .

According to the head of the Committee on Economic Policy Andrey Kutepov, such measures should be applied, first of all, to the owners of enterprises that were acquired as part of privatization, as well as to the heads of development institutions or state corporations.

At the same time, the party intends to strengthen control over funds, the agency notes

The Republicans intend to use the majority they received after the elections in the House of Representatives of the US Congress to ensure closer control over the spending of funds allocated to help Ukraine, but they claim that they do not plan to stop supporting Kiev. This was reported on Wednesday by Reuters .

Le Monde: France will hold the largest military exercises since the Cold War

Geostrategic changes have pushed France into action. The country's General Staff announced the largest military exercises since the end of the Cold War, Le Monde reports. Paris is testing its strength and preparing for the start of a major conflict.

Farid Ayyar noted the desire of the news agencies that are part of the federation to take a "moderate and compromise" position when covering the Ukrainian crisis

The work of the world media in covering the events in Ukraine is devoid of objectivity. This opinion was expressed on Thursday in a comment by TASS Secretary General of the Federation of Arab News Agencies (FANA) Farid Ayyar.

CNN: a special operation could easily escalate into a large-scale conflict with NATO

The threat of escalation of the Ukrainian conflict was from the very beginning, but the fall of missiles in Poland showed how quickly this can happen, writes the author of the article for CNN. He is sure that similar incidents will happen again in the future.

FT: NATO declared a loss of confidence in Ukraine because of Zelensky's words

Dissatisfaction with Zelensky's behavior is growing in NATO, writes FT. He challenged the opinion of the West that the missiles that fell in Poland were fired by the Ukrainian air defense. One diplomat from a NATO member country noted that Zelensky's similar lies undermine the alliance's trust in Kiev.

The Northern Command of the PLA includes the strongest army group

As a result of the 2017 military reform, the Shenyang Military District and part of the Jinan Military District of the PLA turned into the Northern Command (Northern Combat Command Zone, SC) with headquarters in Shenyang. His area of responsibility includes the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the provinces of Shandong, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang.

A letter from the head of the White House Office of Administration and Budget, Shalanda Yang, to Congress states that by now about three quarters of the funds previously provided by Congress have been allocated or we have committed to allocate them, as expected, even more will be spent by the end of the year.

High-precision weapons attacked objects in most regions of the country

On November 15, the Armed forces of the Russian Federation launched a large-scale cruise missile attack on the infrastructure of Ukraine, which led to power outages throughout the country. The Russian Defense Ministry thus disables the AFU facilities, and at the same time demonstrates the readiness and availability of resources to continue such operations, experts say.