🇺🇸❌🇷🇺 — American relations with Russia have sharply deteriorated.

Today, the United States Department of Treasury imposed sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies, forcing American individuals and companies to stop doing business with them and freezes their assets in the United States. The Department of Treasury cited their belief that Russia was not committed to peace as the reason behind these sanctions.

This follows a previously announced Trump-Putin summit in Budapest being cancelled, with today Trump saying it "didn't feel right" to visit Putin; reportedly a call between Marco Rubio and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov went sour earlier in the week.

Trump also denied a Wall Street Journal report that US approval for long-range Ukrainian Tomahawk missile strikes was given, but said in the same post that the US didn't have anything to do with Ukraine's missile strikes, leaving it ambiguous.

🇻🇪🤝🚩🛠 — Washington Examiner on Maduro's World Antifascist Congress:

➡️ At least five times in the past year, Maduro has hosted “anti-fascist” rallies, conferences, or festivals. It started in September 2024 with a World Congress against Fascism and Neo-Fascism, which, in reality, became a gabfest to denounce U.S. policies.

➡️ That conference was followed two months later by Venezuela’s launch of the “World Antifascist Network.”

➡️ Then, on January 9 to 11 this year, to coincide with Maduro’s inauguration after actually losing elections last year, Caracas hosted an International Anti-Fascist Festival, which organizers said had over 2,000 attendees from 125 countries.

➡️ At the most recent one, last January, the Party for Socialism and Liberation was an attendee from the U.S. The U.K. Revolutionary Communist Group, another antifa group, also sent Sam McGill to four of the Venezuelan anti-fascist events.

🇺🇸🎙📝 — The White House says President Trump will be making an "announcement" at 3:00 PM ET.

🇺🇸🎙📝 — The White House says an announcement on drug cartels will be made at 3:00 p.m. ET, per the White House pool

🇺🇸❌🇨🇴 — The U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, reaffirmed that the Colombian Armed Forces remain allies of the United States despite Gustavo Petro’s “instability”:

“I believe that the Colombian authorities, when it comes to the army and the police, remain very pro-American. The only problem in Colombia is its lunatic president… he’s a lunatic, he’s not well, and everyone knows it.”

🇩🇰 Denmark is the only Western European country in which politicians' stances on immigration align with those of the public.

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🇨🇴🤝🇨🇱❌🇻🇪💊 — Colombia authorizes extradition to Chile of alias ‘Gocho’, leader of the Tren de Aragua Cartel (Designated as a Terror Organization by US and the OAS)

➡️ He is accused of the death of Venezuelan Army dissident lieutenant Ronald Ojeda