🇮🇹🇺🇸🇽🇰 Italy is preparing for a possible U.S. troop withdrawal from Kosovo, leaving European allies to manage escalating tensions with Serbia alone.

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🇺🇸📞🇪🇺🇺🇸Vice President J.D Vance at CPAC 2025:

"We cannot rebuild western civilization.

We cannot rebuild the United States of America or Europe by letting millions and millions of unvetted illegal migrants come into our country. It has to stop.

Thank God it stopped here but it's got to stop there."

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🇷🇺📞🕎 — Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Russian Jewish community leaders and passes the best wishes to Russian-Israeli hostage released last week.

➡️ It comes after Hamas militants released a, Mr. Alexander Troufanov a 29-year-old citizen of Israel and Russia, Sagui Dekel-Chen, a 36-year-old citizen of Israel and the United States and Iair Horn, a 46-year-old citizen of Israel and Argentina, which were taken as hostages after being kidnapped by the Palestinian terrorists from Kibbutz Nir Oz on Oct. 7, 2023.

Jewish leader to Putin:

'We say anyone who saves a life is as if he saved an entire world'

🇺🇸 President Trump is reportedly looking to abolish the IRS, according to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.

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🇺🇸 According to the Washington Post, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has signed a memo, ordering senior leaders at the Pentagon and across the U.S. Military to develop plans to cut roughly 40% of the defense budget by 2030, in increments of 8% per year for the next five years. The United States’ defense budget in 2025 was nearly $850 billion, having drastically grown since the mid-2010s due to threats from both China and Russia, who also both continue to increase their annual defense spending. The memo ordered that the proposed cuts be drawn up by February 24th, with only 17 categories of defense spending being prohibited from the cuts by the Trump Administration, which include operations at the U.S-Mexico Border, the modernization of nuclear weapons and missile defense system, and the acquisition of submarines, one-way attack drones and other munitions.

https://fxtwitter.com/sentdefender/status/1892327815988859279

🇺🇸🌐 Discussions about the withdrawal of US troops from all NATO states that joined the alliance after 1990 are one of the goals of the talks between Russia and the US, an Eastern European security official tells BILD

This comes after the Financial Times reported yesterday that: "European officials believe Trump is likely to agree to withdraw US troops from the Baltics and perhaps further west"

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🇺🇸 Massive WWII B-29 Bomber Base Fully Reclaimed For Future Pacific Fight

Satellite imagery shows the dramatic restoration of Tinian Island's historic North Field, a site that also presents targeting challenges for China.

https://www.twz.com/air/massive-wwii-b-29-bomber-base-fully-reclaimed-for-future-pacific-fight

🇦🇺🇳🇿🇨🇳 PLA Navy destroyer flotilla sailed near Sydney. Australia and New Zealand working together to monitor Chinese naval presence, declared 'provocative' by Coalition

https://www.defence.gov.au/news-events/releases/2025-02-13/statement-peoples-liberation-army-navy-vessels-operating-north-australia

🇺🇸🛩‼️🇲🇽 — 🌟 CNN | CIA flying covert drone missions into Mexico to spy on drug cartels | February 18, 2025:

"(CNN) — The CIA under President Donald Trump has been covertly flying MQ-9 Reaper drones over Mexico to spy on drug cartels, current and former officials familiar with the matter told CNN, part of Trump’s dramatic reorientation of national security assets to the US southern border.

The missions, which have not been previously reported, come as the Trump administration moves to treat transnational drug cartels as terrorist organizations — a designation it has yet to officially make.

The MQ-9 drones used for the missions are not currently armed. But they can be equipped with payloads to carry out precision strikes. The US regularly uses them to target suspected terrorists in Syria, Iraq and Somalia.

Some current and former officials say designating cartels as terrorist groups could potentially lay the groundwork for direct US strikes against the cartels and their drug labs in Mexico.

The CIA has flown surveillance drones to hunt cartels inside Mexico before, according to a former and a current US official, under at least one small program that partnered with Mexican authorities."

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🇵🇱🗯🇪🇺🚫🔫🕊🗺 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Poland's Security Chief Shares Some Interesting Insight About The Ukrainian Conflict's Endgame | Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack | February 19, 2025:

"He said that nobody in Europe knows what Trump’s plan actually is, they’re unable to assemble the approximately 100,000 troops that a prolonged peacekeeping mission in Ukraine would require, and Poland still remains reluctant to participate in any such mission even if it’s heavily pressured to do so.

Chief of Poland’s National Security Bureau Dariusz Lukowski gave an interview to Radio ZET on Monday about his country’s position towards the Ukrainian Conflict. According to him, it shouldn’t send peacekeepers to Ukraine, but this still can’t be ruled out in the future despite Prime Minister Donald Tusk once again explicitly saying that it won’t do so. That’s because there’d be a lot of pressure on Poland to get involved if others dispatch their peacekeepers there first, but he’s still unsure whether it’ll happen.

He assessed that Europe as a whole doesn’t have the 100,000 troops ready that would be required for patrolling the over 1,000-kilometer-long frontline for the decade that he expects such a mission to last at minimum. Even if Poland doesn’t participate on the ground, however, he said that it could still “secure the airspace over Ukraine. A form of air policing. Aircraft based in Poland could patrol the airspace of Ukraine.” Such scenarios would naturally depend on the outcome of the Russian-US talks though."

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🇩🇰⚡️💸📈🔫 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Denmark Set To Announce "Massive" Rearmament Plans | February 19, 2025:

"Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said her government would announce plans on Wednesday for a "massive" rearming of Denmark's military due to the growing threat posed by Russia.

"We must upgrade massively to protect Denmark. And we must rearm massively to avoid war," Frederiksen told parliament on Tuesday.

She did not disclose any details or sums, but according to Danish public broadcaster DR, the government is expected to announce the creation of a 50-billion-kroner ($7 billion) fund for additional defence spending in 2025-2026."

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🇦🇷🗳📝 | In a victory for Javier Milei, the Argentine Senate has rejected the creation of an investigative commission on the $Libra cryptocurrency scandal.