🇺🇸🇷🇺 The United States is preparing a new round of sweeping sanctions against Russia over its ongoing war in Ukraine, with measures targeting major sectors including banking and energy most notably state-owned giant Gazprom.

🔗 GeoInsider

🇮🇱🇺🇸❌🇾🇪 — Israel will take action in Yemen in full coordination with US, Ynet reports

IDF halted attacks on Houthis due to American request, but this phase is over, report says

🇺🇸🇺🇸🔒❗️ — US President Donald Trump orders the reopening of Alcatraz prison to house "America's most ruthless and violent offenders"

🇳🇱❌🇵🇸 — The Dutch police have detained 2 anti-Israel protesters who were disrupting the 2 minutes of silence held today at Remembrance Day in Amsterdam by shouting “Free Palestine” and waving Palestinian flags

250,000 Dutch citizens were killed during the Second World War

🔗 Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24)

🇺🇸📞🇺🇳🇺🇳 — American economist Jeffrey Sachs, known for being an appeaser of the Regimes of China and Iran, said:

"We need a global government.
That's the UN."

➡️ He argues that since the atmosphere doesn’t recognize borders, carbon emissions anywhere fuel a global climate emergency.

➡️ Sachs insists that no single nation can solve this challenge alone: Only a united global authority can.

➡️ He clarifies he’s not a "globalist in general": Only when it comes to confronting climate change.

🇺🇦🇷🇺 World First: Ukrainian Maritime Drone Shoots Down Russian Flanker Jet

A Ukrainian maritime drone (USV: uncrewed surface vessel) has achieved a world-first, shooting down a Russian jet. The Flanker fighter was downed on May 2. It is the first time a fast jet has been shot down by an uncrewed vessel.

The Russian aircraft, reportedly a two-seat Sukhoi Su-30 Flanker, was operating in the eastern Black Sea, hundreds of miles from Ukrainian controlled coast. Full details have yet to emerge but it is likely that the jet was sent to interdict the USVs which were threatening the main naval base at Novorossiysk and Kerch straight. The jet would have been flying low to engage the USV with cannons or unguided rockets.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/05/world-first-ukrainian-maritime-drone-shoots-down-russian-flanker-jet/

🇺🇸/🇲🇽 After designating a 170-square-mile strip along the border between New Mexico and Mexico as a “National Defense Area” in April, allowing the U.S. military to temporarily detain illegal migrants or trespassers before being handed over to Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The U.S. Department of Defense this week established another “National Defense Area” in Southern Texas, consisting of a 63-mile-long strip running east from the border of New Mexico and Texas near El Paso. These designations follow an executive order signed last month by President Donald J. Trump, giving the Defense Department jurisdiction over the Roosevelt Reservation, a 60-foot-wide stretch of federal land that runs along the U.S-Mexico Border through New Mexico, Arizona, and California.

🔗 OSINTdefender

🇲🇽🇺🇸 Mexico President Sheinbaum says she rejected Trump offer to send US troops to Mexico

https://insiderpaper.com/sheinbaum-says-she-rejected-trump-offer-to-send-us-troops-to-mexico/

📈🇨🇳🇹🇼 Updated chart visualizing Chinese PLA air activity around Taiwan 2023-2025

🔗 Ian Ellis

🇾🇪🇮🇱 For the First time - a Houthi launched ballistic missile hit Israel's Ben Gurion airport. The missile was not intercepted.

🔗 Tal Inbar