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.

UN 'intellectual' 🤡 #AnnalenaBaerbock verbal diarrhea:

Human rights are women's rights. And women's rights are human rights.

#NATO #Drones #FalseFlag

From the horse's mouth

#Estonia's ex-president Toomas Hendrik Ilves:

We need a mass casualty event on NATO soil.

"To be cynical about it, I think we need a mass casualty event before the member states are forced to actually take this seriously.
"I mean, we've had some near misses with bombs placed on planes that all so far have fortunately been found before they went off. We do have cases of major arson that we know the Russians did.
"But I think that it will take a genuine tragedy before NATO will get itself in order on these issues, precisely because of this incredible reticence to undertake anything".

#India told the US that it may reduce oil purchases from Russia if purchases from other sanctioned suppliers - Iran and Venezuela - are allowed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 😎
Otherwise, the simultaneous cessation of oil supplies from Russia, Iran, and Venezuela to India will lead to a sharp rise in global prices.

Bloomberg:

Oil refiners paid an average $68.90 a barrel for Russian crude in July, compared with $77.50 from Saudi Arabia and $74.20 from the US, according to data from the Commerce Ministry. India is the biggest buyer of Russian oil delivered by tanker, while China is the largest overall importer, including deliveries by pipeline.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung says North Korea is close to developing an ICBM capable of striking the US with a nuclear weapon, needing only to perfect re-entry technology.

https://archive.is/bb56v

The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) presented a report on the state of the Pentagon's cyber forces — and the conclusions are harsh: "We've never seen such chaos and lack of discipline."

The cyber forces include not only cyber units but also PSYOP, electronic intelligence, and electronic warfare. Yet for almost ten years, no one at the Pentagon has systematically checked what is going on there.

According to the GAO, about 500 entities and over 70,000 people are involved in US cyber operations. The system is decentralized and fragmented: each department creates its own services and even its own training programs, although Congress demanded a unified approach to save resources.

As a result, the Pentagon has grown to 434 organizations conducting offensive and defensive cyber operations, with a total staff of over 60,000 military personnel and nearly 10,000 contractors. The Air Force and Space Force have the most units — 238 organizations and more than 22,000 people. About 70 more entities and 3,400 specialists provide only support.

What is the US Trump's administration up to?

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered hundreds of the US military’s generals and admirals to gather on short notice — and without a stated reason — at a Marine Corps base in Virginia next week, sowing confusion and alarm in the ranks.
The highly unusual directive was sent to virtually all of the military’s top commanders worldwide, according to more than a dozen people familiar with the matter. The directive was issued earlier this week.
In a statement Thursday, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell affirmed that Hegseth “will be addressing his senior military leaders early next week,” but he offered no additional details.