🇺🇸 The Trump administration is launching a program to fast track H-2A and H-2B work visas to migrant farm, hotel, and restaurant workers to fill the shortage caused by deportations.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸🇹🇷 Israel to U.S.: Don’t Sell F-35s to Türkiye

A senior Israeli official has urged the U.S. Congress to block the sale of F-35 jets to Türkiye, warning it would threaten Israel’s military edge and destabilize the Middle East.

The official cited Türkiye’s “neo-Ottoman” ambitions, support for Hamas, and operations in Syria as key risks.

Israeli official warned of a growing risk of military clashes with Türkiye, citing Ankara’s goal to restore the Ottoman Empire and control Jerusalem.

"Israel prefers to avoid conflict but is ready to act if needed."

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🇫🇷🇪🇺 Arnaud Bertrand on X: This might be the most remarkable geopolitical document I've seen come out of a major European institution so far this century.

France’s Parliament has just produced an extraordinary 153-page report that calls for nothing less than a complete strategic realignment of Europe.

The document systematically dismantles the EU's current geopolitical positioning - "vassalized" to the U.S., in the report's words - as a catastrophic failure that has led to the EU seeing "its influence diminish and its interests poorly protected."

The report details 50 recommendations from the "creation of a common world currency" (recommendation #14) to dedollarize the global economy, to "replacing the EU's strategy in the Indo-Pacific region with a cooperative approach including China" (recommendation #11).

In general the report's central recommendation is that Europe break free from Atlantic subordination and instead achieve strategic autonomy by partnering with China.

This would mark a complete historical reversal - for the first time since the colonial era, the historical West choosing equal strategic partnership with a Global South nation as an alternative to Western alliance structures.

The report (which you can find here: https://assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/rapports/due/l17b1588_rapport-information.pdf) is in French so I wrote a detailed article breaking down its most explosive findings and recommendations, an explaining why this could be its last chance to avoid irrelevance in a multipolar world.

https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/frances-parliament-calls-europe-to

🔗 Arnaud Bertrand

🪙📈 Bitcoin (BTC) has hit a new all-time high of $122,000.

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🇺🇸❌🇪🇺 U.S. President, Donald Trump, hit the European Union with a standard 30% tariff after negotiations with the European Commission.

The tariff takes effect on August 1st 2025.

President of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen said she “regretted” the tariffs, promised retaliation but promised she will continue to negotiate until August 1st to hopefully have the tariffs removed.

@Wallachian_Gazette

🇺🇸🇩🇪 Bundesbank head says tariffs may crush hopes for growth of the German economy

The head of Germany's Bundesbank warned on Thursday that the high import tariffs U.S. President Donald Trump currently plans to impose on European goods risk wiping out even a modest recovery in Europe's largest economy in the coming years.
Germany is battling to stave off a third consecutive year of recession in 2025, but Trump's 30% tariff on goods imports from Europe would, if implemented, erase whole chunks of transatlantic commerce and force a rethink of its export-led economic model.

"If tariffs materialise in August, a recession in Germany in 2025 cannot be ruled out," Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said.

The Bundesbank forecast a stagnation this year and slight growth of 0.7% in 2026, before the tariff rate was announced last week.

The projected growth for next year is no longer secure, with Nagel warning it could "possibly be completely eaten up by the tariffs that are now being discussed".

With European leaders hoping they can still win some kind of reprieve from Trump before his August 1 deadline, Nagel urged negotiators to aim for a significant reduction in the announced tariffs, which ideally should not be implemented at all. "That must be the goal."

Turning to any potential EU response if a deal is not reached, Nagel said all options should be considered, including the so-called anti-coercion instrument, which allows the bloc to retaliate against third countries that put economic pressure on EU members to change their policies.

The Bundesbank chief and ECB policymaker also issued a stark warning against interfering with the independence of central banks, following Trump's attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/bundesbank-head-says-tariffs-may-crush-hopes-german-growth-2025-07-17/

🇮🇱❌✝️🇻🇦 Based on photographs, the Israeli tank crew who fired at the Latin Church of the Holy Family in Gaza City, (not a missile as initially reported) aimed at the cross on the church but missed and hit the roof, causing part of it to collapse and crush several people, killing three and injuring a dozen more including the parish priest.

The IDF released a statement “deeply regretting” the “misfire” which resulted in the deaths and injuries at the Latin Church of the Holy Family.

Israel also “deeply regretted” firing at the USS Liberty when it “mistakenly misidentified” the ship as an Egyptian vessel.

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