💬 “It's clear Israel was hit hard. The Iron Dome was not so secure that Iran made a point and will probably be forced to make further points, I would imagine, because Israel is hell-bent on escalation. It wants to drag other parties into this abyss with it,” Phil Kelly, a political commentator and socialist activist based in Belfast told Sputnik’s Political Misfits.

💬 “The myth of America, I think, is over. It was struggling long before it went all in on genocide Joe's watch to push Europe into World War III and to facilitate [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. But the rest of the world sees the US for what it is, and that is why you're seeing real concrete moves in the global side to disengage,” he added.

“He spends most of his time on the beach sleeping. I never saw a guy could sleep in front of a camera,” the presidential hopeful said, blasting Joe Biden during a campaign event in North Carolina.

“This guy just falls asleep on the beach like there's nothing to it. I wish I had that ability. That's one ability he has that I do not have. And I wouldn't mind having it. I could use a little extra sleep,” Trump claimed.

💬 “We defeated ISIS, by the way. We took ISIS. We defeated them in four weeks. It was supposed to take five years. I rebuilt the military and we had a military,” the former president claimed in North Carolina.

💬 “We had a great military and we had a military that's not woke. You may have a few people on the top that are woke and we're going to get rid of them so damn fast your head's going to explode,” Trump declared.

💬 “Chlorine gas is very dangerous, especially considering it's been lingering around for many days now in the Atlanta metro area,” noted author and environmental organizer Tina Landis on Sputnik’s Political Misfits program. “It's a skin irritant, eye irritant, obviously it irritates your respiratory system and leaves permanent damage to your lungs after prolonged exposure.”

💬 “They don't actually even know how much is in the air at the moment,” she added, pointing out that nearly half of air monitoring stations located near the plant are not able to measure chlorine levels. “They put out an [evacuation] order, but there was no assistance for people to evacuate.”

💬 “These fines that are given to industries for polluting and literally killing people in the communities around them are so minimal. They're just seen as an operating expense and they just increase the cost of their products to compensate for it,” Landis explained.

"As the enemy Israeli infantry tried to advance towards the outskirts of the Odaisseh locality, the Islamic Resistance fighters clashed with it, causing a powerful explosion in the advancing troops' ranks, forcing them to retreat and suffering losses in terms of dead and wounded," the Islamic Resistance, which publishes Hezbollah statements, among others, said on its Telegram channel.

"During the meeting, the parties unanimously reaffirmed their support for Afghanistan’s development as an independent, unified and peaceful state. They expressed their readiness to assist Kabul in counter-terrorism and anti-drug efforts," the statement reads.

"Islamic resistance fighters attacked Ramat David base with Fadi-1 missiles," the statement read.