The President 'of peace' ...

Trump wants Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan back under US control as it is close to China’s nuclear weapons production sites...

#EU war party floats "creative" new way to legalise stealing Russian assets

Brussels is attempting to solve one of the thorniest problems since the beginning of the war — that the West can seize interest generated by Russian assets but not the huge capital sums, which would make a significant difference to Ukraine's ability to defend itself and rebuild.
The new proposal — described by one official as “legally creative” — could release a major stream of additional funding for Kiev’s war effort without technically expropriating the Russian assets themselves, which would be legally risky.

#Israel Netanyahu:

'If you have a cell phone, you are holding a piece of Israel'

Israel tracks GPS on smartphones for assassinations.

A recent report revealed that AppCloud, an Israeli application developed by IronSource, comes pre-installed on certain Samsung devices, particularly Galaxy A and Galaxy M models, and cannot be fully removed. The app automatically collects user data, including location, device fingerprints, and IP addresses.

Countries with the highest number of arrests for online comments in 2023:

United Kingdom: 12,183

Belarus: 6,205

Germany: 3,500

China: 1,500

Turkey: 500

Russia: 400

Poland: 300

Thailand: 258

Brazil: 200

Syria: 146

India: 100

Iran: 100

France: 54

USA: 50

Vietnam: 45

Egypt: 20

Saudi Arabia: 15

Azerbaijan: 13

Hungary: 10

Biden = Trump’s war in #Ukraine

Trump:
"I don't want to make money on that war" but I'm forced to make huge profit anyway 🤦‍♂️

Pentagon informs European diplomats the US will partially halt military assistance to Baltic nations and NATO states bordering Russia.
Pentagon informed European diplomats that the US was shifting to a "homeland defense" priority.

Pentagon officials sat down with a group of European diplomats in late August and delivered a stern message: The US planned to cut off some security assistance to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, all NATO members bordering Russia.
More broadly, Pentagon official David Baker told the group, according to an official with direct knowledge of the comments, Europe needed to be less dependent on the US under President Donald Trump, the US military would be shifting its attention to other priorities, like defense of the homeland.

From the horse's mouth:

Finland’s President Stubb stated that security guarantees for Ukraine will obligate European countries to fight Russia.

Stubb:

security guarantees for Ukraine, which are being discussed by the so-called “coalition of the willing”, would compel the European countries that sign to fight Russia if Moscow launched military action against Ukraine again in future.

Venezuela Captured a DEA Agent with 3.7 Metric Tons of Cocaine.

Venezuela 's Minister of the Interior, Justice, and Peace , Diosdado Cabello, announced a major anti-drug operation in which 3,680 kilograms of cocaine were seized early Monday morning.
According to the official, the vessel with the cargo departed from the Puerto López sector in La Guajira, Colombia.

Iran and Russia will sign an agreement this week to build new nuclear power plants. Under bilateral deal, Russia is expected to construct 8 new plants in Iran.

Russia will also produce nuclear fuel for Iranian nuclear power plants during the whole service life of the eight new power units. Spent nuclear fuel will be also returned to Russia for reprocessing and storage,
In particular, a contract signed to build the second line of nuclear power plant Bushehr, envisages the construction of two nuclear power units with possible expansion to four power units.

There is real tension between the Trump administration and its Baltic allies.

In Washington, I have heard complaints about the “Estonianisation” of European foreign policy — a reference to the fact that Kaja Kallas, the EU’s foreign policy chief, is Estonia’s former prime minister. In parts of the Trump administration, the Balts are regarded as dangerously aggressive in their attitude to Putin. At a recent high-level Pentagon meeting, Baltic officials were accused of being “ideological” in their opposition to Russia.
The largest European countries are much more consistent than the Trump administration in their insistence on the need to counter Russian aggression. But they are also very nervous about the idea of fighting Russia without the US alongside them — witness the agonising about whether a European “reassurance force” could ever be deployed to Ukraine without an American “backstop” behind it.

US-backed #Israel genocide in #Gaza

"Rules based order" American style👇 🤦‍♂️

The US is considering sanctions against the International Criminal Court.

The US is considering imposing sanctions as soon as this week against the entire International Criminal Court, putting the court's day-to-day operations in jeopardy in retaliation for investigations of suspected Israeli war crimes.
Washington has already imposed targeted sanctions on several prosecutors and judges at the court, but naming the court itself in the sanctions list would be a major escalation.

This is grotesque!

Former CIA Director David Patraeus to self-appointed #Syria's HTS headchoper 'president' #Jolani aka Ahmad al-Sharaa:

We were on opposite sides in Iraq: I commanded the surge, you were detained.
Now you’re Syria’s President at the UNGA.

Jolani:

We moved from war to discourse.