🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 The Jerusalem Post reports that Israeli defense officials have warned U.S. counterparts that Iran’s ballistic missile program now constitutes an ‘existential threat’ to Israel and could trigger unilateral Israeli military action.

According to senior security sources, Israel has set a clear ballistic missile red line and has informed Washington it will strike alone if Iran crosses it. Officials said Israel is not yet at that threshold but is closely monitoring missile production and activity inside Iran.

Israeli defense officials outlined plans to dismantle Iran’s missile capabilities and production infrastructure, presenting operational concepts that include strikes on manufacturing sites and supporting facilities. One official described the current moment as a historic opportunity to severely degrade Iran’s missile program and remove a strategic threat to Israel and the region.

The report also cites Israeli concern that President Trump could favor a limited U.S. strike model, similar to past actions against the Houthis, targeting only select sites and leaving Iran’s core missile capabilities intact. Israeli officials warned such an approach would fail to eliminate the long term threat and leave Israel exposed.

IDF Brig. Gen. Omer Tishler, the incoming Israeli Air Force commander, is set to accompany Prime Minister Netanyahu on Wednesday’s U.S. visit, where they are expected to meet President Trump and other U.S. officials.

🔗 Osint613

🇵🇹🗳 A socialist wins the Portuguese presidential election for the first time in 20+ years

António José Seguro defeats the anti-mass immigration candidate André Ventura with 65% against 35%. The victory was made possible by center-right voters supporting the socialist AJS

📝Christian Heiens: Every single European election always features the same thing.

“Conservatives” and “Centrists” uniting with Socialists, Greens, and literal gender goblins from the designated Gay Race Communist Party to defeat the “Please stop importing the Third World” Party.

It happened in France, it happened in Germany, and now it has happened in Portugal.

🔗 Višegrád24

🇹🇼🇺🇸⚡️ — Taiwan’s Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun rejected U.S. suggestions that 40% of Taiwan’s semiconductor production be shifted to the United States, calling the idea “impossible.”

➡️ She said Taiwan’s chipmaking ecosystem "cannot simply be relocated" and made clear to Washington that such a target is unrealistic.

➡️ While emphasizing that semiconductor capacity will continue expanding in Taiwan, she added that companies can still increase their presence and investment in the U.S. without moving core operations.

🇺🇸🇮🇱📱❌🇮🇷 — On Tiktok, Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reposted yesterday describing potential strikes by the United States Navy against Iran, involving the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and her Carrier Strike Group currently deployed to the Arabian Sea.

The video so far got there 1.8 Million views and, as expected, made netizens worry about what could happen in the next days.

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSmemreo8/

🇺🇸🔄🤝🇦🇲 — United States Vice President JD. Vance and Armenian Prime-Minister Pashinyan sign an agreement on peaceful nuclear cooperation between the USA and Armenia

🇮🇳🤝🇫🇷❗️ — India is considering making a "major order" for French SCALP cruise missiles.

▶️The SCALP is the French variant of the British Storm Shadow missile, which the two European countries jointly produce. India already has some of these missiles but has used some in its fighting with Pakistan, and needs to replenish its stocks.

🇹🇷☢️📹 — CNN Türk Reporter asks Turkish Foreign Minister on whether Turkey should get nuclears bombs:

Should Türkiye have nuclear weapons?

Turkish FM Fidan: 🤐

Reporter:

You can say “No comment.”

Turkish FM Fidan: 🤐

🇨🇳‼️😀🚫🇺🇸💵 — 📰 ZeroHedge | China Tells Banks To Limit Exposure To US Treasuries, But To Some This Is "Hardly An Issue At All" | February 9, 2026:

"Treasury yields hit session highs shortly after midnight ET, when Bloomberg reported that Chinese regulators had advised financial institutions to rein in their holdings of US Treasuries, citing concerns over concentration risks and market volatility.

Citing anonymous "people familiar with the matter" Bloonberg added that officials urged banks to limit purchases of US government bonds and instructed those with high exposure to pare down their positions. The directive doesn’t apply to China’s state holdings of US Treasuries.

Communicated verbally to some of the nation’s biggest banks in recent weeks, the guidance reflects growing wariness among officials that large holdings of US government debt may expose banks to sharp swing . The worries echo those made by governments and fund managers elsewhere amid a brewing debate over the safe haven status of US debt and the appeal of the dollar."

#Geoeconomics #WWT

🗄 Archive

🔗 Source:

📁 Attorney for Ghislaine Maxwell says the convicted Epstein accomplice can clear President Trump's name in the Epstein probe in exchange for clemency.

🔗 CNN

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 Reporter: Can the regime in Iran be overthrown through air strikes?

Turkish FM Hakan Fidan: No. It wouldn’t collapse.

🔗 Clash Report (@clashreport)

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇮🇷 Turkish FM Hakan Fidan on Iran:

Right now, there doesn’t seem to be an imminent threat of war.

🔗 Clash Report (@clashreport)

🇷🇺❌🇺🇸 Lavrov's Rare Rebuke Of Trump: In Reality, Relations No Better Than Under Biden

The Kremlin has lashed out at the Trump administration in a rare moment, revealing its impatience and dissatisfaction with the way trilateral talks focused on ending the Ukraine war are going.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in a fresh interview also accused Washington of sabotaging efforts to improve bilateral relations while undermining negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. The charge is ironic, given it is typically the West which mounts the same accusation at Moscow.

"Despite all the statements by the Trump administration about the need to end the war… it does not challenge all the laws that Joe Biden passed to punish Russia after the start of the special military operation," Lavrov said in an interview with TV BRICS.

"In practice, the opposite is happening: new sanctions are being imposed, a war is being waged against tankers on the high seas, in violation of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea," he said in reference to recent actions involving the US seizing shadow fleet tankers.

The Trump administration also slapped sanctions on the two Russian oil giants Lukoil and Rosneft - in a controversial action last fall.

Moscow is also likely disappointed that President Trump hasn't pressured Zelensky into making serious territorial concessions using the significant leverage Washington has over Kiev.

Lavrov asserted that Trump reneged on certain "understandings" reached directly with President Putin at the Anchorage summit in August.

"Beyond what they claimed to offer on Ukraine … we also see no positive outlook on the economic front," Lavrov said in the interview. "Washington, in our view, is seeking control over global energy supply routes serving major economies across multiple continents."

Russia wants to cooperate with the US toward achieving peace, Lavrov continued, but he went on to say that "the Americans themselves are creating artificial obstacles on this path" - or in essence, sabotaging peace.

This kind of criticism by Russia has typically been reserved only for Europe. EU leaders have remained much more out in the open in terms of imposing extra 'obstacles' and conditions on US-proposed peace measures. So this kind of directly taking aim at Trump is a break from past rhetoric.

On Europe and its newly investing in defense, Lavrov has said, "We have no intention of attacking Europe. There is no reason to do so."

"If Europe acts on its threats to prepare for war against us and initiates an attack on the Russian Federation, it will face a full-fledged military response from our side, with all available military capabilities," the Russian top diplomat added.

🔗 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lavrovs-rare-rebuke-trump-reality-relations-no-better-under-biden