🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇳⚡️- UK PM Keir Starmer has pulled the bill that was going to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after treaty concerns and pressure from the Trump admin. Diego Garcia's central location in the Indian Ocean is incredibly strategic, enabling US power projection into the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. A transfer would have allowed China to consolidate and control the Fourth Island Chain.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Iran will treat any attack—limited, kinetic, or unlimited—as an all-out war and respond in the hardest way possible. - Reuters citing an Iranian official.

🇮🇷⚡️- “We will defend Iran until death.” – Ali Jahanshahi, Commander of the Iranian Army (Artesh) Ground Forces, in a coordination meeting with the IRGC.

🇺🇸⚡️- The US to host the first Western Hemisphere Defense Sunmit on February 11. Military leaders from 34 countries are scheduled to attend.

🇨🇳⚡️- "Top Chinese military leaders Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli have been placed under investigation for suspected “serious” disciplinary violations, according to the Ministry of National Defence.

Zhang is the first-ranked vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), China’s top military command body headed by President Xi Jinping, while Liu is chief of its Joint Staff Department.

Zhang’s position as CMC No 2 after Xi makes him the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the Chinese military," - South China Morning Post.

🇺🇸⚡- The Pentagon releases its new National Defense Strategy, NDS:

"Defend the US homeland: We will secure America’s borders and maritime approaches, and we will defend our nation’s skies through Golden Dome. We will actively and fearlessly defend America’s interests throughout the Western Hemisphere. We will guarantee U.S. military and commercial access to key terrain, especially the Panama Canal, Gulf of America, and Greenland. This is the Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, and America’s military stands ready to enforce it with speed, power, and precision, as the world saw in Operation ABSOLUTE RESOLVE.

China: President Trump seeks a stable peace, fair trade, and respectful relations with China, and he has shown that he is willing to engage President Xi Jinping directly to achieve those goals. Our goal is simple: To prevent anyone, including China, from being able to dominate us or our allies. We will erect a strong denial defense along the First Island Chain.

Increase burden sharing with US allies: In the Indo-Pacific, where our allies share our desire for a free and open regional order, allies and partners’ contributions will be vital to deterring and balancing China. In Europe and other theaters, allies will take the lead against threats that are less severe for us but more so for them, with critical but more limited support from the United
States.

Russia: Russia will remain a persistent but manageable threat to NATO’s eastern members for the foreseeable future. Indeed, although Russia suffers from a variety of demographic and economic difficulties, its ongoing war in Ukraine shows that it still retains deep reservoirs of military and industrial power. European NATO dwarfs Russia in economic scale, population, and, thus, latent military power. Fortunately, our NATO allies are substantially more powerful than Russia—it is not even close. Germany’s economy alone dwarfs that of Russia.

Iran: President Trump has consistently made clear that Iran will not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons. Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” is similarly devastated. Israeli operations have left Hezbollah and Hamas severely degraded. Although Iran has suffered severe setbacks over recent months, it appears intent on reconstituting its conventional military forces. Iran’s leaders have also left open the possibility that they will try again to obtain a nuclear weapon, including by refusing to engage in meaningful negotiations. Nor can we ignore the facts that the Iranian regime has the blood of Americans on its hands, and that it remains intent on destroying our close ally, Israel.

North Korea: The DPRK poses a direct military threat to South Korea as well as to Japan, both of which are U.S. treaty allies. Although many of North Korea’s large conventional forces
are aged or poorly maintained, South Korea must stay vigilant against the threat of a North
Korean invasion. North Korea’s missile forces are also capable of striking targets in the ROK
and Japan with conventional and nuclear weapons as well as other weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, the DPRK’s nuclear forces are increasingly capable of threatening the U.S. Homeland."

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- Donald Trump confirmed to the New York Post that the US military used a weapon called the "Discombobulator" against Venezuelan forces during the raid to capture Maduro. The energy weapon apparently deactivated numerous Venezuelan devices.

“The Discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it. [...] They [Venezuelans] never got their rockets off. They had Russian and Chinese rockets, and they never got one off. We came in, they pressed buttons and nothing worked. They were all set for us.” - Donald Trump in his interview to the New York Post.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: Another fatal ICE shooting occurred in Minneapolis during an appeared operation.

Viewer discretion is advised.

🇺🇸⚡️- “DHS tells Fox News the suspect was armed with a gun, which has been recovered by federal agents.” - Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡️- President Trump is backtracking on his NATO comments saying that British troops are "second to none". This comes after Prime Minister Starmer demanded Trump apologize for insulting the UK Military.

🇺🇸🇨🇦🇨🇳⚡- "If Governor Carney thinks he is going to make Canada a “Drop Off Port” for China to send goods and products into the United States, he is sorely mistaken.

China will eat Canada alive, completely devour it, including the destruction of their businesses, social fabric, and general way of life. If Canada makes a deal with China, it will immediately be hit with a 100% Tariff against all Canadian goods and products coming into the U.S.A.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!" - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇨🇦🇨🇳⚡- "The last thing the World needs is to have China take over Canada. It’s NOT going to happen, or even come close to happening!

Thank you for your attention to this matter," - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🏳️⚡- "The GREAT and very BRAVE soldiers of the United Kingdom will always be with the United States of America!

In Afghanistan, 457 died, many were badly injured, and they were among the greatest of all warriors. It’s a bond too strong to ever be broken.

The U.K. Military, with tremendous Heart and Soul, is second to none (except for the U.S.A.!).

We love you all, and always will!" - President Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- “At 9:05 AM CT, as DHS law enforcement officers were conducting a targeted operation in Minneapolis against an illegal alien wanted for violent assault, an individual approached US Border Patrol officers with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, seen here. 

The officers attempted to disarm the suspect but the armed suspect violently resisted. More details on the armed struggle are forthcoming.

Fearing for his life and the lives and safety of fellow officers, an agent fired defensive shots. Medics on scene immediately delivered medical aid to the subject but was pronounced dead at the scene. 

The suspect also had 2 magazines and no ID—this looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.” - DHS on X.

🇺🇸⚡️- Another angle from the ICE shooting in Minneapolis today, displaying the precursors and aftermath, while appearing to come from a bystander’s perspective.

🇺🇸⚡️- “This is the gunman’s gun, loaded (with two additional full magazines!), and ready to go – What is that all about? Where are the local Police? Why weren’t they allowed to protect ICE Officers? The Mayor and the Governor called them off? It is stated that many of these Police were not allowed to do their job, that ICE had to protect themselves — Not an easy thing to do! Why does Ilhan Omar have $34 Million Dollars in her account? And where are the Tens of Billions of Dollars that have been stolen from the once Great State of Minnesota? We are there because of massive Monetary Fraud, with Billions of Dollars missing, and Illegal Criminals that were allowed to infiltrate the State through the Democrats’ Open Border Policy. We want the money back, and we want it back, NOW. Those Fraudsters who stole the money are going to jail, where they belong! This is no different than a really big Bank Robbery. Much of what you’re witnessing is a COVER UP for this Theft and Fraud. The Mayor and the Governor are inciting Insurrection, with their pompous, dangerous, and arrogant rhetoric! Instead, these sanctimonious political fools should be looking for the Billions of Dollars that has been stolen from the people of Minnesota, and the United States of America. LET OUR ICE PATRIOTS DO THEIR JOB! 12,000 Illegal Alien Criminals, many of them violent, have been arrested and taken out of Minnesota. If they were still there, you would see something far worse than you are witnessing today!” - President Donald J. Trump on Truth Social.

🇮🇹🇮🇱⚡- ITA Airways joins other European airlines cancelling overnight flights to Tel Aviv until January 27.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Israeli intelligence helped prove that the regime executed protesters, despite the information that Trump claimed to have received. President Trump said one of the reasons for postponing the attack was the cancellation of the 800 planned executions.

Netanyahu is currently meeting Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, both who belong to the side of the Trump administration that seeks a diplomatic solution to the Iranian problem.

Opposing Witkoff and Kushner are more or less most of Trump's other advisers and ministers, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who are pushing for a strong blow to the Iranian regime and its overthrow (or at least its weakening) as not only morally right, but also as a fundamental strategic move," - Israel Hayom.

🇸🇾⚡- Damascus-SDF ceasefire has been extended for another 15 days.