— 🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NEW: The U.S. Navy has reportedly failed to seize the 'BELLA-1' oil tanker, which it had been pursuing off the coast of Venezuela since early yesterday morning

The vessel managed to escape.

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Clashes have stopped.

Negotiations for a ceasefire are ongoing.

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—❗️🇺🇸 NEW: Handwritten letter by Jeffrey Epstein to fellow pedophile Lary Nassar, sent from prison:

'As you know by now, I have taken the 'short route' home. Good luck! We shared one thing: Our love and caring for young ladies in the hope they would reach their full potential.

Our president [Trump] shares our love of young, nubile girls.

When a young beauty walked by, he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system.

Life is unfair.'

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—❗️🇺🇸 BREAKING: An Epstein survivor testified that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein raped her

The victim was later found dead with bullet holes in her head, and her death was ruled as a suicide.

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—❗️🇱🇾/🇹🇷 WATCH: Turkish security cameras capture the moment when the Libyan 'Falcon 50'-type private jet crashed during its departure from Ankara Esenboga

The plane was carrying the Tripoli-based National Unity Government's Chief of Staff, General Muhammad Ali Ahmad Al-Haddad.

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— 🇧🇪/🇿🇦/🇮🇱 NEW: Belgium has officially joined South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ)

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 WATCH: Israeli Channel 13 openly hosts and amplifies supporters of genocide

'I want to kick them out. We have to exterminate every last one of them [Palestinians].

I'll tell you what I envision: There's not a single person, not a single tree, not a single house, and if I could, I'd even poison the fish in the sea.

Everyone there is an enemy. The child who was born yesterday in Rafah, is an enemy.'

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Stuff will soon happen, maybe.

Or maybe not, who knows.

— All jokes aside, regarding the Israel-Iran situation, I consider there to be two main possibilities as of now.

As you all probably know, Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting Washington D.C. on December 29th to meet with President Trump. The topics? Iran, Lebanon, Gaza.

In my opinion, this meeting is either a distraction and they've already made their decision to strike Iran, which means it could happen before the meeting even takes place, in an effort to 'surprise' attack. Considering the sudden fabricated panic about Iran's missile program in Israeli media, this is a possibility (they've been building pretext).

Second possibility: The meeting is not a distraction, and Trump & Netanyahu actually need to discuss some things. In that case I don't consider an attack likely until February or March 2026 at the earliest. And no, Iran won't conduct a preemptive attack no matter what. They'll buy as much time as possible.

This is only regarding Iran. Lebanon is a total wildcard, Israel pretty much doesn't need to make any 'preparations' and war could break out there whenever they choose, which will most likely be in the form of gradual escalation (assassinations, increasing strikes in Beirut) until Hezbollah will eventually be forced to respond.

Regarding Gaza, I don't expect large-scale fighting to resume anytime soon. Pretty much everyone wants to see the war end, including the US, because continuing the war reflects badly on the Trump administration and the Israel dilemma has split American conservatives. Besides, there's no more objectives for the IDF to achieve. If fighting does resume, it's purely for political purposes (i.e. Netanyahu finds himself in hot water).

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