🏴❌🇬🇧 — British Transport Police say two people have been arrested after multiple people were stabbed on a train to Huntingdon.

🔗 Sky News (@SkyNews)

🇺🇸✝️❌🇳🇬❗️ — US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth re-enforces Trump's ultimatum to the Muslim-controlled Nigerian Federal Government over the Mass killings of Christians in Borno and Plateau regions of Nigeria by ISWA and Boko Haram:

Yes sir.

The killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria — and anywhere — must end immediately.

The Department of War is preparing for action.

Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities.

🔗 Pete Hegseth (@PeteHegseth)

🇨🇴❌🇻🇪 — Conservative Colombian Presidential candidate, Vicky Dávila, declares her support for U.S. overthrowing Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela

Speaking to BTG Pactual " Gran Foro Colombia 2025 " event, she said:

YO YES I WANT TRUMP TO TAKE DOWN NICOLÁS MADURO, head of the Cartel of the Suns.

The fall of the narco regime [in Venezuela] would be great news for Colombia, a great opportunity. Maduro isn't going to leave, we have to take him down.

🔗 Vicky Dávila (@VickyDavilaH)

🇺🇸❌🏴💊 — US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth announces a new strike against another narco vessel in the Caribbean Sea, with 3x Narco-terrorists being Killed in Action (KIA) by American forces

Today, at the direction of President Trump, the Department of War carried out a lethal kinetic strike on another narco-trafficking vessel operated by a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) in the Caribbean.

This vessel—like EVERY OTHER—was known by our intelligence to be involved in illicit narcotics smuggling, was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route, and carrying narcotics.

Three male narco-terrorists were aboard the vessel during the strike, which was conducted in international waters. All three terrorists were killed, and no U.S. forces were harmed in this strike.

These narco-terrorists are bringing drugs to our shores to poison Americans at home—and they will not succeed.

The Department will treat them EXACTLY how we treated Al-Qaeda. We will continue to track them, map them, hunt them, and kill them.

🔗 Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar)

🇻🇪🇷🇺 WaPo claims Nicolas Maduro asked Vladimir Putin for urgent military assistance.

Similar cries for help were also passed on to Chinese and Iranian diplomats.

Recall that last Monday, a Russian IL-76TD Cargo Plane landed in Caracas and then departed for Cuba.

It is unknown if this cargo plane was Putin helping or if this flight had nothing to do with the U.S. military's war preparations in the Caribbean Sea.

It is also not known how did Iran and China respond to Maduro's aid requests.

🔗 https://archive.ph/6s1Z5

🇺🇸⚔️🇻🇪 The U.S. Navy has dispatched the cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG-64) to the Caribbean Sea.

She joins her sister USS Lake Erie (CG-70) in Caribbean operations ahead of potential land strikes against Venezuela

🔗 SA Defensa

🇪🇺 Why is Europe All-In on Ukraine? How the EU Uses War to Stave Off Economic Decline

The German economy is in recession. Manufacturing has imploded, particularly in the crucial automotive sector, which has shed hundreds of thousands of jobs since 2022, and lost a staggering third of its production volume since 2018. August saw the biggest drop in industrial output in more than three years, over four times the decline analysts expected.

The crucial machinery sector has dropped 22% since the pre-covid period, with a 5.6% drop expected this year alone. In recent months, massive declines have occurred in the pharmaceutical, electronic, energy, construction, and hospitality industries.

A brutal combination of energy price increases, increased regulation, tariffs, competition from China, and government policy have crushed Germany, which underpins the European economy. The supply chains for its manufacturing sector typically stretch across the entire EU, and the controlled demolition of its productive output is having ripple effects across the continent.

The German solution to this is debt – lots of debt. German borrowing has been extraordinarily reserved for a Western state ever since the “debt brake” amendment passed by the first Merkel cabinet came into effect in 2016, limiting deficit spending to 0.35% of GDP. In 2022, then Chancellor Olaf Scholz successfully led an amendment to the rule that allowed the creation of a €100 billion defense fund immune from the brake. In spring of this year, Scholz and incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz agreed to another amendment to exempt defense spending over 1% of GDP.

With deficit defense spending now unrestrained by its constitution, the German government announced earlier this year that it plans to double its current levels of defense spending over the next five years. $761 billion will be spent by the end of 2029. More than half – $469 billion – of this total will be funded through new debt. Net German government borrowing already more than doubled this year, increasing from $38 billion in 2024 to at least $95 billion by the end of 2025. Included in the 5 year spending plan is at least $10 billion in direct aid to Ukraine.

While it may seem imprudent for the German government to attempt to revamp the Bundeswehr and simultaneously fund a proxy war in the midst of a historic economic decline, there is a certain logic at play. In this piece, we’ll explore how EU economies benefit from the continuance of the war in Ukraine, and how they use the war to offset the effects of deindustrialization.

EU defense spending since the war began has surged by over 50%, increasing by nearly $150 billion a year from 2021-2025. The only EU state which hasn’t seen double-digit growth in defense expenditures since 2021 is Greece, which modestly decreased its spending.

These figures do not include the $70 billion in military “aid” to Ukraine given during this period, some of which is considered an investment instead of an expenditure, because it often comes in the form of loans. Ukraine currently owes $117 billion in debt to external creditors, with $50 billion of this figure being to EU institutions, and the remainder being to international lenders through which the EU has significant exposure, like the IMF and World Bank. In total, the EU has provided just under $200 billion in assistance to Ukraine, and another $170 billion in assistance to Ukrainian refugees residing within the EU.

🔗 https://www.amerikanets.com/p/why-is-europe-all-in-on-ukraine