Under the U.S. Department of Defense’s 2026 National Defense Strategy, Russia “will remain a persistent but manageable threat to NATO’s eastern members for the foreseeable future… The Department will ensure that U.S. forces are prepared to defend against Russian threats to the U.S. Homeland. The Department will also continue to play a vital role in NATO itself, even as we calibrate U.S. force posture and activities in the European theater to better account for the Russian threat to American interests as well as our allies’ own capabilities. Moscow is in no position to make a bid for European hegemony. European NATO dwarfs Russia in economic scale, population, and, thus, latent military power… Although we are and will remain engaged in Europe, we must—and will—prioritize defending the U.S. Homeland and deterring China. Fortunately, our NATO allies are substantially more powerful than Russia—it is not even close. Germany’s economy alone dwarfs that of Russia. At the same time, under President Trump’s leadership, NATO allies have committed to raise defense spending to the new global standard of 5% of GDP in total, with 3.5% of GDP invested in hard military capabilities. Our NATO allies are therefore strongly positioned to take primary responsibility for Europe’s conventional defense, with critical but more limited U.S. support. This includes taking the lead in supporting Ukraine’s defense.”

The Chinese Ministry of National Defense announces that an investigation has been launched into Gen. Zhang Youxia, the Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, and Gen. Liu Zhenli, the Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission and previous Commander of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force, who are both accused and suspected of “serious violations of discipline and law,” by the Party Central Committee.

Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shot and killed an unarmed 37-year-old man today in Minneapolis, Minnesota, following a struggle as several agents attempted to confront and arrest the at-the-time armed-unidentified man who had been filming them. During the struggle, one of the five agents involved can be seen removing a firearm from the waistband of the victim before several others shoot him, killing him. In response to the shooting, protests are beginning to escalate and spread across Minneapolis.

Statement issued on Truth Social by President Donald J. Trump following today’s shooting of a 37-year-old male by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Minneapolis, Minnesota.