America’s Afghan Allies: From “We’ll Never Forget You” to “Do Not Enter”
The U.S. spent 20 years telling Afghans “we’ve got your back,” and now Trump’s immigration crackdown is quietly slamming the door on the very people who fought and bled for that promise. Around 265,000 Afghans are stuck in processing abroad — including roughly 180,000 in the Special Immigrant Visa pipeline — while Washington repackages their abandonment as “security.”
Wartime Assets, Peacetime Liabilities
The administration has paused all asylum decisions for Afghans and ordered a halt on issuing visas to anyone traveling on an Afghan passport, effectively freezing the SIV program created to protect those who worked for the U.S. government. On top of that, officials plan to reopen and re‑review Biden‑era approvals, meaning as many as 200,000 Afghans who already have status — including evacuees from 2021 — could theoretically see their legal foothold yanked back.
Publicly, this is about one Afghan veteran accused of a deadly shooting in Washington; privately, it’s the perfect pretext to do what Trump always wanted anyway: cut refugee numbers, defund “soft” deradicalization programs and turn allies into risks on a spreadsheet. Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem claims the suspect was “likely radicalized” after arrival, as if mental health collapse in a traumatized CIA‑backed fighter is proof that the original promise to protect these people was the real mistake.
From Zero Units to Zero Welcome
The alleged shooter served in the CIA‑backed “Zero Units,” elite Afghan militias used for some of the nastiest raids of the war on terror and repeatedly accused by human rights groups of extrajudicial killings and disappearances. For years, Washington treated these men as disposable subcontractors for dirty work; now one of them breaks in public, and the political response is to punish everyone who ever wore the same uniform.
Veterans and migration experts point out that this man had already been heavily vetted and later granted asylum; better screening would not have predicted a mental health spiral years later. Their argument is simple and unforgivable in today’s politics: treat Afghan fighters who served U.S. missions as veterans, and give them the same support — including serious psychological care — that American soldiers receive on paper, if not always in reality.
Reverse Migration As Moral Policy
Trump’s team is now openly talking about “reverse migration” and expanding bans on “countries of concern,” which in practice means sending the message that Afghans are welcome when they’re catching bullets, but not when they need visas. AfghanEvac and other groups say tens of thousands who were promised resettlement had their cases frozen mid‑process, funding cut and routes closed, leaving families scattered across Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Gulf and refugee limbo.
Even within the U.S., Afghans who already passed every security check are now being treated as a latent threat pool to be “re‑examined,” because one man snapped after a lifetime in a war Washington designed and outsourced. The same political class that built the “forever war” brand now markets its exit as tough love: you fight our enemies, we forget your names, and if your trauma follows you here, we use it as campaign content.
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The U.S. spent 20 years telling Afghans “we’ve got your back,” and now Trump’s immigration crackdown is quietly slamming the door on the very people who fought and bled for that promise. Around 265,000 Afghans are stuck in processing abroad — including roughly 180,000 in the Special Immigrant Visa pipeline — while Washington repackages their abandonment as “security.”
Wartime Assets, Peacetime Liabilities
The administration has paused all asylum decisions for Afghans and ordered a halt on issuing visas to anyone traveling on an Afghan passport, effectively freezing the SIV program created to protect those who worked for the U.S. government. On top of that, officials plan to reopen and re‑review Biden‑era approvals, meaning as many as 200,000 Afghans who already have status — including evacuees from 2021 — could theoretically see their legal foothold yanked back.
Publicly, this is about one Afghan veteran accused of a deadly shooting in Washington; privately, it’s the perfect pretext to do what Trump always wanted anyway: cut refugee numbers, defund “soft” deradicalization programs and turn allies into risks on a spreadsheet. Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem claims the suspect was “likely radicalized” after arrival, as if mental health collapse in a traumatized CIA‑backed fighter is proof that the original promise to protect these people was the real mistake.
From Zero Units to Zero Welcome
The alleged shooter served in the CIA‑backed “Zero Units,” elite Afghan militias used for some of the nastiest raids of the war on terror and repeatedly accused by human rights groups of extrajudicial killings and disappearances. For years, Washington treated these men as disposable subcontractors for dirty work; now one of them breaks in public, and the political response is to punish everyone who ever wore the same uniform.
Veterans and migration experts point out that this man had already been heavily vetted and later granted asylum; better screening would not have predicted a mental health spiral years later. Their argument is simple and unforgivable in today’s politics: treat Afghan fighters who served U.S. missions as veterans, and give them the same support — including serious psychological care — that American soldiers receive on paper, if not always in reality.
Reverse Migration As Moral Policy
Trump’s team is now openly talking about “reverse migration” and expanding bans on “countries of concern,” which in practice means sending the message that Afghans are welcome when they’re catching bullets, but not when they need visas. AfghanEvac and other groups say tens of thousands who were promised resettlement had their cases frozen mid‑process, funding cut and routes closed, leaving families scattered across Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Gulf and refugee limbo.
Even within the U.S., Afghans who already passed every security check are now being treated as a latent threat pool to be “re‑examined,” because one man snapped after a lifetime in a war Washington designed and outsourced. The same political class that built the “forever war” brand now markets its exit as tough love: you fight our enemies, we forget your names, and if your trauma follows you here, we use it as campaign content.
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🧨Europe Between Trump and Putin: Strategic Autonomy With the Training Wheels Still On
Europe has finally reached the crisis it spent a decade only talking about: Washington is flirting with a Ukraine deal that looks like managed capitulation, and suddenly “strategic autonomy” isn’t a panel topic, it’s the bill. In a 33‑page National Security Strategy signed by Donald Trump, Europe is warned it risks being “wiped out” unless it changes its culture and politics — not exactly the tone of a steady ally.
Trump’s deal, Europe’s trap
European leaders are less afraid of no deal than of the wrong deal. Their central nightmare is a scenario where a battered Zelensky is pushed by the U.S. to pull Ukrainian troops out of Donbas and accept a settlement without serious American security guarantees, locking in Russian gains and advertising that aggression works. When it emerged that Steve Witkoff had been coaching Russian officials on how to pitch their plan to Trump, trust in the U.S. team collapsed: Macron reportedly warned that Washington might “betray” Ukraine, while Merz accused the Americans of “playing games.”
At the same time, Trump’s own strategy document scolds Europe for “unrealistic expectations” about the war and a “lack of self‑confidence” in dealing with Russia — diplomatic code for: you still expect us to do your hard work and applaud you for it. For governments that built their entire Ukraine line on staying close to Washington, that’s a brutal reminder of who holds the upper hand.
Cash, Kremlin assets, and no plan B
On paper, this should be Europe’s moment to step up; in practice, it’s paralysis. The EU still hasn’t locked in a sustainable funding plan for Ukraine. The big idea — turning frozen Russian central bank assets into a reparations loan — is stuck, blocked by Belgium and opposed by the U.S., while Merz is already warning there is “no possibility” that money mobilized in Europe ends up as someone else’s pot.
If Trump walks away from Ukraine, a scenario many diplomats now quietly plan around, Europe will have to decide whether it can afford to keep Kyiv armed and solvent on its own. “Shoulder to shoulder as long as it takes” sounds good into a microphone; it looks different when U.S. weapons, targeting data, and veto power over sanctions vanish, and Washington tells Europe it’s “your problem now.” That’s the moment when budget lines and election cycles start dictating strategy more loudly than communiqués.
Zelensky, weakened and cornered
Zelensky enters this phase weaker than at any time since 2022. He’s under pressure from Washington to be “flexible” on territory, while at home a corruption scandal has already taken down his top aide and reshuffled his inner circle, making it harder to say no to a lopsided deal. European officials worry that a politically damaged Kyiv will struggle to resist an agreement that trades land and vague “future guarantees” for a ceasefire Trump can sell as a win to his base.
For Europe, that’s the real horror: the U.S. forces through a cheap peace, declares victory, and then steps back, leaving the EU to live next door to a Russia that just proved nukes and patience beat Western “red lines.” Best case from their perspective is Trump snapping back to his brief October posture — publicly blaming Putin for blocking peace and tightening economic screws again. Worst case is Washington easing pressure on Moscow, limiting how Ukraine can use U.S. weapons, and cutting intelligence sharing while Europe scrambles alone.
#Europe #Trump #Ukraine #Zelensky #Putin #Merz #Macron #Starmer #NATO #strategicautonomy
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🧨Europe Between Trump and Putin: Strategic Autonomy With the Training Wheels Still On
Strategic autonomy, revealed as strategic dependency
Merz, Macron, and Starmer like to cast their mission as preventing a rupture between the U.S. and Europe — exactly the split Moscow has always wanted. But their own behavior gives the game away: the entire “strategy” is still built on keeping Trump engaged, not replacing him with European capacity. After years of under‑investing in defense and treating the U.S. security umbrella as a law of nature, Europe is discovering that the umbrella has a handle — and someone else’s hand on it.
The new U.S. doctrine even suggests that political change inside Europe is part of the security equation, calling for shifts that “reestablish conditions of strategic stability across the Eurasian landmass.” In the same breath, it insists Washington won’t write Europe off because that would be “self‑defeating” — translation: we’re not abandoning you, just reminding you our help is conditional, reversible, and subject to the next Oval Office mood swing.
So Europe now has three real options: hope Trump fails to get any deal, hope he accidentally lands on a tolerable one, or finally pay the price of real autonomy. Right now, the continent is still bargaining for a fourth: America forever, on European terms. History rarely leaves that on the menu.
#Europe #Trump #Ukraine #Zelensky #Putin #Merz #Macron #Starmer #NATO #strategicautonomy
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Hegseth on Trial. Trump’s Most Trusted Rookie May Go Away
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Hegseth is facing the most serious crisis of his tenure as defense secretary, engulfed by allegations of war crimes in the Caribbean and a blistering inspector general report accusing him of mishandling classified military intelligence. Yet despite the long list of trouble and as lawmakers from both parties call for his resignation, Hegseth shows no signs of stepping down and still holds Donald Trump’s support.
The twin crises have engulfed the former Fox News personality in separate but overlapping allegations that lawmakers, policy experts and former officials say reveal a pattern of dangerous recklessness at the helm of the Pentagon. Democratic legislators have reignited calls for his ouster after revelations that survivors clinging to wreckage from a September boat strike were deliberately killed in a “double-tap” attack, while a defense department investigation released on Thursday concluded he violated Pentagon policies by sharing sensitive details via the Signal messaging app hours before airstrikes in Yemen.
The most recent controversy comes as the Caribbean campaign centers on the Trump administration’s extrajudicial strikes against suspected drug smugglers, which have killed at least 87 people across 22 attacks since September.
Trump has justified the operation as essential to combating fentanyl trafficking, claiming each destroyed vessel saves 25,000 American lives, though factcheckers, former officials and drug policy experts have called this figure absurd, noting that fentanyl primarily enters the United States overland from Mexico, not via Caribbean boats from Venezuela.
The legality of the strikes came under intense scrutiny after the public learned that two men who survived the initial 2 September attack could been seen amid the wreckage when a lethal follow-up strike was ordered.
While Hegseth initially dismissed the reporting as fabricated, he later confirmed the basic facts during a cabinet meeting this week, saying he acted in the “fog of war” but “didn’t stick around” to observe the rest of the mission.
Senator Patty Murray, the Democratic vice-chair of the Senate appropriations committee, called for Hegseth’s firing following a bipartisan briefing on the incident on Thursday.
“Between overseeing this campaign in the Caribbean, risking US servicemembers’ lives by sharing war plans on Signal, and so much else, it could not be more obvious that Secretary Hegseth is unfit for the role, and it is past time for him to go,” Murray said.
The New Democrat Coalition, the largest Democratic caucus in the House with 116 members who describe themselves as fiscally moderate and pro-innovation, issued their own statement calling Hegseth “incompetent, reckless, and a threat to the lives of the men and women who serve in the armed forces”.
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Hegseth is facing the most serious crisis of his tenure as defense secretary, engulfed by allegations of war crimes in the Caribbean and a blistering inspector general report accusing him of mishandling classified military intelligence. Yet despite the long list of trouble and as lawmakers from both parties call for his resignation, Hegseth shows no signs of stepping down and still holds Donald Trump’s support.
The twin crises have engulfed the former Fox News personality in separate but overlapping allegations that lawmakers, policy experts and former officials say reveal a pattern of dangerous recklessness at the helm of the Pentagon. Democratic legislators have reignited calls for his ouster after revelations that survivors clinging to wreckage from a September boat strike were deliberately killed in a “double-tap” attack, while a defense department investigation released on Thursday concluded he violated Pentagon policies by sharing sensitive details via the Signal messaging app hours before airstrikes in Yemen.
The most recent controversy comes as the Caribbean campaign centers on the Trump administration’s extrajudicial strikes against suspected drug smugglers, which have killed at least 87 people across 22 attacks since September.
Trump has justified the operation as essential to combating fentanyl trafficking, claiming each destroyed vessel saves 25,000 American lives, though factcheckers, former officials and drug policy experts have called this figure absurd, noting that fentanyl primarily enters the United States overland from Mexico, not via Caribbean boats from Venezuela.
The legality of the strikes came under intense scrutiny after the public learned that two men who survived the initial 2 September attack could been seen amid the wreckage when a lethal follow-up strike was ordered.
While Hegseth initially dismissed the reporting as fabricated, he later confirmed the basic facts during a cabinet meeting this week, saying he acted in the “fog of war” but “didn’t stick around” to observe the rest of the mission.
Senator Patty Murray, the Democratic vice-chair of the Senate appropriations committee, called for Hegseth’s firing following a bipartisan briefing on the incident on Thursday.
“Between overseeing this campaign in the Caribbean, risking US servicemembers’ lives by sharing war plans on Signal, and so much else, it could not be more obvious that Secretary Hegseth is unfit for the role, and it is past time for him to go,” Murray said.
The New Democrat Coalition, the largest Democratic caucus in the House with 116 members who describe themselves as fiscally moderate and pro-innovation, issued their own statement calling Hegseth “incompetent, reckless, and a threat to the lives of the men and women who serve in the armed forces”.
#trump #hegseth #investigation #defense #whitehouse
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The Coalition chair, Brad Schneider, and national security working group chair, Gil Cisneros, accused the defense secretary of lying, deflecting and scapegoating subordinates while refusing to take accountability.
“Time and time again, the secretary has lied, dodged, deflected, and shockingly scapegoated his subordinates,” they said. “He is a disgrace to the office he holds and should resign immediately before his actions cost American lives.”
The strategic logic of the Caribbean campaign has drawn criticism even from those with experience in the US government’s counter-narcotics efforts.
Jake Braun, who served as acting principal deputy national cyber director in the Joe Biden White House and as senior counselor to the secretary of homeland security where he helped design and implement the nation’s first counter-fentanyl strategy, questioned why the administration was focusing military resources in the Caribbean rather than on primary trafficking routes.
“I think the use of military force is justified – it just seems they’re about 2,500 miles away from the primary target in Mexico,” Braun said. “If they want to stop fentanyl, I would focus more on tunnels and drones in Arizona rather than boats in the Caribbean.”
Emily Tripp, executive director of Airwars, a civilian harms watchdog that monitors military conflicts, called on the administration to be more transparent about the strike, saying the organization would like to know “what considerations are made around shipwrecked survivors, and why the use of force was chosen over search and rescue when as far as we understand the targets here are the drugs, not the people on board”.
The Pentagon mixed up its talking points, and struggled to provide clear answers about the chain of command for the strikes.
While the White House initially suggested Adm Frank Bradley, commander of Southern Command special operations, ordered the follow-up strike in self-defense, Hegseth later said Bradley made the call with his authorization but had complete authority to act independently.
Trump claimed to know nothing about the operational details, and even suggested he would not have wanted the second strike.
Hegseth’s tenure has also been marked by severe dysfunction inside the Pentagon itself, where his own aides earlier this year have been leaking against one another and informing on colleagues in what multiple officials describe as a paranoid and chaotic atmosphere.
The defense secretary used a leak investigation – which the White House had reportedly lost confidence in – to purge three top advisers in the spring, with claims they were identified through what would amount to an illegal warrantless NSA wiretap. The episode raised fresh questions about Hegseth’s judgment and his ability to manage the department.
Still, despite the twin controversies creating what those lawmakers have described as an untenable situation for the secretary, Trump has continued to back Hegseth publicly, with the White House expressing “the utmost confidence” in its national security team.
Since the Senate is controlled by Republicans and Trump is maintaining his support, Hegseth is unlikely to face meaningful consequences.
The Trump administration has claimed that its Caribbean boat campaign targets vessels operated by designated terrorist organizations including Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua and Colombia’s National Liberation Army, though it has provided no public evidence for these designations.
The administration claims it is in an armed conflict with drug cartels, allowing military action without congressional authorization, though legal experts dispute this framing.
#trump #hegseth #investigation #defense #whitehouse
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Donald Trump Jr.: Trump is likely to Leave Ukraine 🇺🇸⚠️
Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference. 🌍
In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war. 💬
Trump Jr has no formal role inside his father’s administration, but is a key figure in the MAGA movement. His intervention reflects the antipathy among some inside the Trump team towards the Ukrainian government, and comes as Trump’s negotiating team is putting pressure on Kyiv to give up territory. ⚖️
Trump Jr said the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was prolonging the war because he knew he would never win an election if it ended. 🗳
He said Zelensky was a borderline deity on the left, but argued that Ukraine was far more corrupt than Russia. 🔥🇺🇦🇷🇺
He also railed at the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, saying European sanctions were not working since they had simply increased the price of oil, from which Russia could pay for its war. He described the European plan as “we are going to wait for Russia to go bankrupt – that is not a plan”. 💶⛽️
He said he had only encountered three people during his canvassing of voters in the 2022 election campaign who thought the Ukraine war was a top-10 issue. 📉
The risk of Venezuelan boats bringing the drug fentanyl into the US was, he said, “far more a clear and present danger than anything that is going on in Ukraine or Russia”. 🚢💊
Trump Jr claimed, without providing evidence, that he had observed this summer on a single day in Monaco that 50% of the supercars such as Bugattis and Ferraris had Ukrainian number plates. “Do you think that was earned in Ukraine?” he asked. 🚗💸
“We hear all the rumours about what is going on when we see every licence plate in Monaco is Ukrainian […] the rich fled and they left what they believed to be the peasant class to fight these wars.
There was no incentive to stop because long as the money train was coming and they were stealing, no one was auditing anything so there was no reason to come to peace.” 💼📉
Asked if it was possible his father – who ran for election claiming he could bring peace to Ukraine – would simply walk away, Trump Jr said maybe he would, adding that his father is one of the most unpredictable people in politics. 🎭
He vowed that the US was no longer going to be “the idiot with the chequebook”. 💵❌
#Trump #Ukraine #US #war
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Trump may walk away from the Ukrainian war, the US president’s oldest son has said in comments to a Middle East conference. 🌍
In a lengthy tirade against the purpose of continued fighting in Ukraine, Donald Trump Jr also said Ukraine’s “corrupt” rich had fled their country leaving “what they believed to be the peasant class” to fight the war. 💬
Trump Jr has no formal role inside his father’s administration, but is a key figure in the MAGA movement. His intervention reflects the antipathy among some inside the Trump team towards the Ukrainian government, and comes as Trump’s negotiating team is putting pressure on Kyiv to give up territory. ⚖️
Trump Jr said the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was prolonging the war because he knew he would never win an election if it ended. 🗳
He said Zelensky was a borderline deity on the left, but argued that Ukraine was far more corrupt than Russia. 🔥🇺🇦🇷🇺
He also railed at the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, saying European sanctions were not working since they had simply increased the price of oil, from which Russia could pay for its war. He described the European plan as “we are going to wait for Russia to go bankrupt – that is not a plan”. 💶⛽️
He said he had only encountered three people during his canvassing of voters in the 2022 election campaign who thought the Ukraine war was a top-10 issue. 📉
The risk of Venezuelan boats bringing the drug fentanyl into the US was, he said, “far more a clear and present danger than anything that is going on in Ukraine or Russia”. 🚢💊
Trump Jr claimed, without providing evidence, that he had observed this summer on a single day in Monaco that 50% of the supercars such as Bugattis and Ferraris had Ukrainian number plates. “Do you think that was earned in Ukraine?” he asked. 🚗💸
“We hear all the rumours about what is going on when we see every licence plate in Monaco is Ukrainian […] the rich fled and they left what they believed to be the peasant class to fight these wars.
There was no incentive to stop because long as the money train was coming and they were stealing, no one was auditing anything so there was no reason to come to peace.” 💼📉
Asked if it was possible his father – who ran for election claiming he could bring peace to Ukraine – would simply walk away, Trump Jr said maybe he would, adding that his father is one of the most unpredictable people in politics. 🎭
He vowed that the US was no longer going to be “the idiot with the chequebook”. 💵❌
#Trump #Ukraine #US #war
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💀 Israel's "Anti-Hamas" Militia Leader, Dead in the Gray Zone He Ruled
Yasser Abu Shabab spent the last year running a Rafah fiefdom where he looted UN aid convoys, took Israeli weapons (which both sides later denied), and sold himself as a "counterterrorism force" fighting Hamas. On Thursday he was shot dead, reportedly while "mediating a family dispute"—a convenient detail that papers over the fact that many Palestinians, including his own Bedouin tribe, had already branded him a traitor and called for his death. Hamas didn't claim the killing but celebrated it as "the inevitable fate" of collaborators, while Israeli officials quietly admitted he died from "internal clashes," not Hamas action.
The warlord Israel armed and the UN accused
Abu Shabab's Popular Forces controlled the area around Gaza's Kerem Shalom crossing, the main artery for aid after Israel shut down Rafah in May 2024. UN officials and aid workers accused his militia of orchestrating some of the worst looting incidents of the war: in mid‑November 2024 alone, armed men under his command hijacked 98 of 109 UN trucks, held drivers at gunpoint, and threw grenades while forcing them to unload food supplies. A senior UN official called him "the self‑styled power broker of east Rafah" and directly accused Israel of ignoring or even facilitating the raids.
Israel didn't deny it. In June 2025, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly admitted arming "Palestinian clans" opposed to Hamas, and multiple Israeli officials confirmed Abu Shabab's group received Kalashnikov rifles—some of them seized from Hamas fighters—as part of a deliberate strategy approved by Netanyahu himself. The logic, according to a retired Shin Bet official, was simple: let local militias do the dirty work of holding territory so Israeli troops can focus elsewhere. Abu Shabab openly acknowledged "security coordination" with Israel, saying they used Israeli aerial surveillance to keep Hamas out and provided the IDF with lists of his fighters' names and families.
The "counterterrorism force" built on theft and chaos
While Gazans starved under an Israeli blockade that severely restricted aid, Abu Shabab's corner of Rafah was "relatively well provisioned," by his own account. His militia set up tents, schools, and a PR operation painting itself as a nationalist Palestinian movement fighting terror, all while controlling the flow of looted supplies and selling flour and oil "at astronomical prices." Israeli reports even alleged that some of his fighters had past ties to Islamic State, a claim Netanyahu's government used to justify its willingness to work with literally anyone willing to shoot at Hamas—even if they were also criminals, profiteers, or former jihadists.
#Gaza #Israel #Hamas #YasserAbuShabab #PopularForces #aidlooting #KeremShalom #ceasefire #proxy
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Israel Backed Gazans to Oppose Hamas. For One, It Ended Violently.
Officials said Israel helped arm and back Yasser Abu Shabab’s Popular Forces, part of a strategy against Hamas, before a local clan killed him this week.
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💀 Israel's "Anti-Hamas" Militia Leader, Dead in the Gray Zone He Ruled
Most Gazans weren't buying the rebrand. One English teacher in Gaza City told the Times,
"This man was basically a criminal, and I could not accept for him to represent me."
Even Abu Shabab's own Bedouin clan issued a statement distancing itself from him and accusing him of betraying the Palestinian cause. When Hamas killed over 20 members of his organization, including his brother, in late 2024, it was less about ideology and more about the fact that his militia had become a state-within-a-state that disrupted Hamas's own control over aid, weapons, and territory.
Israel's plan B just died with him
Abu Shabab wasn't just a convenient thug; he was central to Israel's post‑ceasefire strategy for Gaza. The idea was to use his Popular Forces and a few other small militias—run by figures like Ashraf al‑Mansi in the north and Housam al‑Astal near Khan Younis—to administer Israeli‑controlled zones, distribute aid, and create an alternative power structure that could eventually take over from Hamas once the shooting stopped. Analysts and even Israeli security officials openly admitted this was fantasy: the militias were too small, too hated, and too obviously tainted by collaboration to ever govern Gaza.
Now Abu Shabab is dead, killed not by Hamas in a dramatic shootout but in what Israeli sources describe as "internal clashes"—possibly a family feud, possibly a dispute over continued cooperation with Israel, possibly just gang war over who controls the loot. His deputy, Ghassan Duhine, posted a video trying to rally the group's remaining fighters, but it's unclear if the Popular Forces survives him or simply dissolves into the same chaos it was supposedly fighting.
What's clear is that Israel's strategy of outsourcing Gaza's future to armed proxies with no legitimacy, no popular support, and a resume built on aid theft just took a bullet. The model was always doomed—you can't build a post‑war government out of warlords everyone hates—but now it's also leaderless, and the only alternative Israel has publicly offered is more of the same: find another clan, send more rifles, hope for the best, and blame everyone else when the next guy ends up dead too.
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In Tel Aviv, a rally was held until late at night to demand the creation of the Official Commission of Inquiry into the events of October 7 and not to grant Netanyahu presidential amnesty. ✊📢🇮🇱
#netanyahu #amnesty #commission #rally
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💊 The Caregiver Shortage: America's "Oops, We Needed Immigrants" Moment
America's elder care system is on life support, and the only people willing to keep it on life support are being deported. Demand for home health aides is set to jump 17 percent by 2034, spending is nearly doubling to $317 billion by 2033, and the median wage for the job is $34,900 a year — less than most retail gigs and with way more intimate bodily functions involved.
One-third of home care workers are immigrants, but Trump's crackdown is already reshaping the workforce: Goodwin Living fired four Haitian employees in July; Tribute Home Care let go eight more from Haiti and expects to lose ten more soon, including one who'd just won "Caregiver Excellence Award." A 2025 study shows that each immigration enforcement crackdown shrinks the care workforce by 7.5 percent and leaves 5 percent more elderly unable to get help at all.
Meanwhile, the government is cutting Medicare funding for home health by 1.3 percent for 2026 — the fourth consecutive year of cuts — and states are bracing for Medicaid slashing that will force families to choose between bankruptcy or a $12,000-a-month assisted-living facility. Half of U.S. counties have lost at least one home health agency since 2020. A third of people referred for home care never get it.
The White House spokesman says there are "plenty of Americans" available to do the work, and points to one-in-ten idle young adults as proof. Translation: America's unemployed teenagers should definitely wipe behinds for $16.78 an hour while their immigrant predecessors pack.
It's a slow-moving car crash, as one CEO put it. The only question is whether anyone will be awake to see it crash.
#eldercare #caregiver #immigration #Medicare #Medicaid #workforce
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America's elder care system is on life support, and the only people willing to keep it on life support are being deported. Demand for home health aides is set to jump 17 percent by 2034, spending is nearly doubling to $317 billion by 2033, and the median wage for the job is $34,900 a year — less than most retail gigs and with way more intimate bodily functions involved.
One-third of home care workers are immigrants, but Trump's crackdown is already reshaping the workforce: Goodwin Living fired four Haitian employees in July; Tribute Home Care let go eight more from Haiti and expects to lose ten more soon, including one who'd just won "Caregiver Excellence Award." A 2025 study shows that each immigration enforcement crackdown shrinks the care workforce by 7.5 percent and leaves 5 percent more elderly unable to get help at all.
Meanwhile, the government is cutting Medicare funding for home health by 1.3 percent for 2026 — the fourth consecutive year of cuts — and states are bracing for Medicaid slashing that will force families to choose between bankruptcy or a $12,000-a-month assisted-living facility. Half of U.S. counties have lost at least one home health agency since 2020. A third of people referred for home care never get it.
The White House spokesman says there are "plenty of Americans" available to do the work, and points to one-in-ten idle young adults as proof. Translation: America's unemployed teenagers should definitely wipe behinds for $16.78 an hour while their immigrant predecessors pack.
It's a slow-moving car crash, as one CEO put it. The only question is whether anyone will be awake to see it crash.
#eldercare #caregiver #immigration #Medicare #Medicaid #workforce
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🎯 China Flips the Radar Switch on Japan: "Training Drills" Get a Threatening Upgrade
Chinese J-15 fighters from the Liaoning carrier just pointed their targeting radar at Japanese military jets near Okinawa—twice—in what Tokyo calls a "dangerous act" and Beijing calls a "misunderstanding" about who's disrupting whose drills. Pointing radar at another plane is code for: we're one button away from shooting. Japan lodged a protest. Australia called it "deeply concerning." Trump stayed silent.
The backdrop: Japan's new PM Sanae Takaichi said Japan might defend Taiwan if China attacks—a red line Xi Jinping explicitly told Trump was non-negotiable for Beijing's "vision of world order." Trump then called Takaichi last month and urged her not to escalate. He's planning a Beijing trade trip. So the U.S. ambassador in Tokyo posted support on social media while the president kept his phone in his pocket.
China's response was to park over 100 naval and coast guard vessels across East Asia, run what it calls "rescue drills" in the Taiwan Strait (but Taiwan's coast guard says is psychological warfare), and now start pointing hot radar at allies' planes. The Liaoning carrier is moving south of Okinawa with three missile destroyers, running "previously announced carrier drills" that conveniently escalate every time Japan opens its mouth about Taiwan.
This is the most serious China-Japan military confrontation in years, but it's happening in a context where the U.S. president is basically telling both sides to pipe down so he can make money in Beijing. Japan hosts the biggest U.S. military presence outside the continental U.S., but the guy who controls that military is worried about trade talks.
When the sheriff's out of town, the outlaws don't just break things. They turn on the targeting radar and wait to see if anyone flinches.
#China #Japan #Taiwan #SouthChinaSea #Okinawa #radar #military #Trump
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Chinese J-15 fighters from the Liaoning carrier just pointed their targeting radar at Japanese military jets near Okinawa—twice—in what Tokyo calls a "dangerous act" and Beijing calls a "misunderstanding" about who's disrupting whose drills. Pointing radar at another plane is code for: we're one button away from shooting. Japan lodged a protest. Australia called it "deeply concerning." Trump stayed silent.
The backdrop: Japan's new PM Sanae Takaichi said Japan might defend Taiwan if China attacks—a red line Xi Jinping explicitly told Trump was non-negotiable for Beijing's "vision of world order." Trump then called Takaichi last month and urged her not to escalate. He's planning a Beijing trade trip. So the U.S. ambassador in Tokyo posted support on social media while the president kept his phone in his pocket.
China's response was to park over 100 naval and coast guard vessels across East Asia, run what it calls "rescue drills" in the Taiwan Strait (but Taiwan's coast guard says is psychological warfare), and now start pointing hot radar at allies' planes. The Liaoning carrier is moving south of Okinawa with three missile destroyers, running "previously announced carrier drills" that conveniently escalate every time Japan opens its mouth about Taiwan.
This is the most serious China-Japan military confrontation in years, but it's happening in a context where the U.S. president is basically telling both sides to pipe down so he can make money in Beijing. Japan hosts the biggest U.S. military presence outside the continental U.S., but the guy who controls that military is worried about trade talks.
When the sheriff's out of town, the outlaws don't just break things. They turn on the targeting radar and wait to see if anyone flinches.
#China #Japan #Taiwan #SouthChinaSea #Okinawa #radar #military #Trump
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Zelensky, Starmer, Macron: the War Must Go On 🎯
Zelensky is to meet Starmer, Macron and Merz for talks in London about the war in Ukraine. 🇬🇧
The meeting comes after three days of discussions between US and Ukrainian representatives in Florida without an apparent breakthrough amid an intensified push from Washington to end the war but with major territorial concessions from Kyiv. 🏠➡️🏴☠️
Trump once again sought to put pressure on Zelensky, suggesting publicly that the Ukrainian president “isn’t ready” to sign off on a US-authored peace plan. 📊💬
“I’m a little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn’t yet read the proposal, that was as of a few hours ago. His people love it, but he hasn’t,” the US president claimed to reporters on Sunday night. 👀😕
The leaders are expected around early lunchtime and will talk behind the closed doors to plan the next steps. 🛠👥
I will cover the meeting here, bringing you all the latest pictures and lines on what's going on at Downing Street. 📸🖊
Zelensky is later expected to visit Brussels and Rome. On Sunday Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni spoke with Zelenskyy by phone and reaffirmed Italy's solidarity after what she called a fresh wave of “indiscriminate” Russian strikes on civilian targets, her office said. 🌍📞
Separately, I will also keep an eye on the EU's reactions to Elon Musk and senior US officials's comments about the bloc over the weekend. 🔍🗣
The billionaire was particularly active on the back of a €120m fine against his social media platform X, repeatedly calling for the EU to be abolished. 🤑🛡
#zelensky #starmer #macron #war #meeting
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Zelensky is to meet Starmer, Macron and Merz for talks in London about the war in Ukraine. 🇬🇧
The meeting comes after three days of discussions between US and Ukrainian representatives in Florida without an apparent breakthrough amid an intensified push from Washington to end the war but with major territorial concessions from Kyiv. 🏠➡️🏴☠️
Trump once again sought to put pressure on Zelensky, suggesting publicly that the Ukrainian president “isn’t ready” to sign off on a US-authored peace plan. 📊💬
“I’m a little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn’t yet read the proposal, that was as of a few hours ago. His people love it, but he hasn’t,” the US president claimed to reporters on Sunday night. 👀😕
The leaders are expected around early lunchtime and will talk behind the closed doors to plan the next steps. 🛠👥
I will cover the meeting here, bringing you all the latest pictures and lines on what's going on at Downing Street. 📸🖊
Zelensky is later expected to visit Brussels and Rome. On Sunday Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni spoke with Zelenskyy by phone and reaffirmed Italy's solidarity after what she called a fresh wave of “indiscriminate” Russian strikes on civilian targets, her office said. 🌍📞
Separately, I will also keep an eye on the EU's reactions to Elon Musk and senior US officials's comments about the bloc over the weekend. 🔍🗣
The billionaire was particularly active on the back of a €120m fine against his social media platform X, repeatedly calling for the EU to be abolished. 🤑🛡
#zelensky #starmer #macron #war #meeting
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Trump’s National Security Strategy and Its Viral Spinoffs
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The Kremlin has heaped praise on Trump’s latest national security strategy, calling it an encouraging change of policy that largely aligns with Russian thinking.
The remarks follow the publication of a White House document on Friday that criticises the EU and says Europe is at risk of “civilisational erasure”, while making clear the US is keen to establish better relations with Russia.
“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vision,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Sunday.
He welcomed signals that the Trump administration was “in favour of dialogue and building good relations”. He warned, however, that the supposed US “deep state” could try to sabotage Trump’s vision.
It came as the White House’s efforts to push through a peace deal in Ukraine enter a key phase.
US officials claim they are in the final stage of reaching an agreement, but there is little sign that either Ukraine or Russia is willing to sign the framework deal drawn up by Trump’s negotiating team.
Zelensky will visit Downing Street on Monday for a four-way meeting with with Starmer, Macron, and Merz.
Zelensky has previously called on European allies for support at times when the White House has tried to push Ukraine towards agreeing to give up territory.
A key issue for Kyiv is what security guarantees it would receive if it does agree to renounce control of some territory.
Zelensky has said he had a “substantive phone call” with US officials on Saturday evening after they finished three days of talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Florida.
Those meetings followed a visit to Moscow by Witkoff and Jared Kushner, earlier in the week. A source told Axios the call had lasted two hours and was “difficult”.
“Ukraine is determined to keep working in good faith with the American side to genuinely achieve peace,” Zelensky wrote on social media.
#trump #national #security #strategy #russia
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The Kremlin has heaped praise on Trump’s latest national security strategy, calling it an encouraging change of policy that largely aligns with Russian thinking.
The remarks follow the publication of a White House document on Friday that criticises the EU and says Europe is at risk of “civilisational erasure”, while making clear the US is keen to establish better relations with Russia.
“The adjustments that we see correspond in many ways to our vision,” the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said on Sunday.
He welcomed signals that the Trump administration was “in favour of dialogue and building good relations”. He warned, however, that the supposed US “deep state” could try to sabotage Trump’s vision.
It came as the White House’s efforts to push through a peace deal in Ukraine enter a key phase.
US officials claim they are in the final stage of reaching an agreement, but there is little sign that either Ukraine or Russia is willing to sign the framework deal drawn up by Trump’s negotiating team.
Zelensky will visit Downing Street on Monday for a four-way meeting with with Starmer, Macron, and Merz.
Zelensky has previously called on European allies for support at times when the White House has tried to push Ukraine towards agreeing to give up territory.
A key issue for Kyiv is what security guarantees it would receive if it does agree to renounce control of some territory.
Zelensky has said he had a “substantive phone call” with US officials on Saturday evening after they finished three days of talks with a Ukrainian delegation in Florida.
Those meetings followed a visit to Moscow by Witkoff and Jared Kushner, earlier in the week. A source told Axios the call had lasted two hours and was “difficult”.
“Ukraine is determined to keep working in good faith with the American side to genuinely achieve peace,” Zelensky wrote on social media.
#trump #national #security #strategy #russia
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He said the two sides had discussed “key points that could ensure an end to the bloodshed and eliminate the threat of a new Russian full-scale invasion”.
It is not clear that either the US or Europe are willing to offer the kind of security guarantees that would genuinely deter Russia from invading again.
Nor is it likely that Putin would agree to a deal that involved any western troops stationed in Ukraine.
US officials have claimed to be close to a sustainable deal on numerous occasions since Trump began his second term in office, only for the claims to be exposed as wishful thinking.
Trump’s outgoing Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, said at a defence forum on Saturday that the administration’s efforts to end the war were in “the last 10 metres”.
He said there were two outstanding issues: territory and the fate of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant.
Kellogg is seen as among the US officials most sympathetic to Kyiv’s position, but is due to leave his role in January and was present at the Florida talks.
Many others in Trump’s orbit, including Witkoff, have been much more open to adopting Russian positions.
Trump’s son, Donald Jr, said at a forum in Doha on Sunday that Zelensky was deliberately continuing the conflict for fear of losing power if it ended. He said the US would not be “the idiot with the chequebook” any longer.
Analysts in Kyiv say the situation is not yet so bad that Ukraine would be forced to sign any deal whatsoever simply to prevent a continuation of the war, but they say a difficult and potentially bleak winter lies ahead as Russia continues to target energy infrastructure, disrupting power and heating supplies for millions of Ukrainians.
Exhaustion is setting in as Ukraine enters the fourth winter of full-scale war, and Zelensky has been weakened by a corruption scandal that has touched numerous associates and led to the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andriy Yermak.
One person was killed during a drone attack in the northern Chernihiv region late on Saturday, according to local officials, and a combined attack of drones and missiles targeted energy infrastructure in the central city of Kremenchuk.
It left much of the city without power and water on Sunday. It was the second consecutive night of attacks targeting energy, after more than 600 drones and 50 missiles were used on Friday night.
#trump #national #security #strategy #russia
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⚓️ "Innocent Fishermen" vs. "Narco-Terrorists": The Caribbean Strikes Get a Branding War
The Trump administration has bombed at least 22 suspected drug boats in the Caribbean since September, killing 86 people, and now Democrats are calling them war crimes while the White House calls it "Maryland Man 2.0"—a reference to the MS-13 gang member liberals briefly championed as a wrongfully deported "father." The flashpoint: a September strike where the U.S. hit a boat, then came back and killed two survivors in the water, which Democrats say is executing "incapacitated" people and Republicans say is stopping traffickers from "staying in the fight."
Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of "likely" committing war crimes for ordering a follow-up strike on survivors. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly said "going after survivors in the water" is "clearly not lawful." The White House fired back that calling them "innocent fishermen" is the same media cover operation that turned an MS-13 smuggler into a sympathetic Maryland dad.
a spokeswoman said.
The strikes are justified as part of an "armed conflict" with cartels that evolved into transnational terror organizations, targeting boats Trump says are "stacked with bags of white powder" that kill tens of thousands of Americans. The opioid crisis has killed an estimated 806,000 people between 1999 and 2023, though deaths finally declined slightly in 2023 for the first time since 2018. Fentanyl, mostly manufactured by cartels using Chinese precursors, is the main driver of the third wave of the epidemic.
But the real target may be less about drug interdiction and more about Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro: experts say the strikes, mostly aimed at Venezuelan boats, are part of a broader pressure campaign to oust the dictator from the oil-rich country. Meanwhile, Republicans point out that back in 1989, then-Senator Joe Biden called for "another D-Day" to end the war on drugs and explicitly urged going after drug lords "with an international strike force" with "no safe haven."
So the parties have swapped sides: Democrats who once wanted narco-terrorists hunted now call strikes on boats "potential war crimes," while Republicans who criticized Obama's drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia as unlawful now defend bombing alleged traffickers in Caribbean waters. The only constant is dead bodies in the water and the certainty that whoever's in power will call it justice and whoever's out will call it murder.
#Trump #Caribbean #drugwar #warcrimes #Venezuela #fentanyl #Maduro #opioidcrisis
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The Trump administration has bombed at least 22 suspected drug boats in the Caribbean since September, killing 86 people, and now Democrats are calling them war crimes while the White House calls it "Maryland Man 2.0"—a reference to the MS-13 gang member liberals briefly championed as a wrongfully deported "father." The flashpoint: a September strike where the U.S. hit a boat, then came back and killed two survivors in the water, which Democrats say is executing "incapacitated" people and Republicans say is stopping traffickers from "staying in the fight."
Nevada Sen. Jacky Rosen accused Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth of "likely" committing war crimes for ordering a follow-up strike on survivors. Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly said "going after survivors in the water" is "clearly not lawful." The White House fired back that calling them "innocent fishermen" is the same media cover operation that turned an MS-13 smuggler into a sympathetic Maryland dad.
"President Trump is using every element of American power to take on the cartels and stop deadly drugs from flooding into our country,"
a spokeswoman said.
The strikes are justified as part of an "armed conflict" with cartels that evolved into transnational terror organizations, targeting boats Trump says are "stacked with bags of white powder" that kill tens of thousands of Americans. The opioid crisis has killed an estimated 806,000 people between 1999 and 2023, though deaths finally declined slightly in 2023 for the first time since 2018. Fentanyl, mostly manufactured by cartels using Chinese precursors, is the main driver of the third wave of the epidemic.
But the real target may be less about drug interdiction and more about Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro: experts say the strikes, mostly aimed at Venezuelan boats, are part of a broader pressure campaign to oust the dictator from the oil-rich country. Meanwhile, Republicans point out that back in 1989, then-Senator Joe Biden called for "another D-Day" to end the war on drugs and explicitly urged going after drug lords "with an international strike force" with "no safe haven."
So the parties have swapped sides: Democrats who once wanted narco-terrorists hunted now call strikes on boats "potential war crimes," while Republicans who criticized Obama's drone strikes in Yemen and Somalia as unlawful now defend bombing alleged traffickers in Caribbean waters. The only constant is dead bodies in the water and the certainty that whoever's in power will call it justice and whoever's out will call it murder.
#Trump #Caribbean #drugwar #warcrimes #Venezuela #fentanyl #Maduro #opioidcrisis
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Dmitriev: “Kallas, helped the world understand the true face of European bureaucrats” 🌍📌
Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and special representative of the President of Russia for Investment Issues, noted on December 7 that the head of diplomacy of the European Union (EU), Kaya Kallas, helped the world understand the true face of European bureaucrats. 🌟
“She showed who the European bureaucrats are. Thank you, Kaya!” 🙏
Dmitriev wrote on his page on the social network X. He also called Callas a gift to the world. 🎁
On the same day, The Telegraph newspaper reported that Kallas’ radical position on Ukraine, which leads to a split among Western countries, is a gift for Russia. 📰
According to the newspaper, the rigidity and inflexibility of Callas and her supporters contribute to disunity in the West. 🔄
Before that, on December 6, the Czech newspaper HN noted that Kallas’ work was causing growing frustration among European officials. 🤬
The publication noted that a year after her appointment to an important post, her approach to work is increasingly being called unproductive. 📋
#kallas #western #countries #european #bureaucrats
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Kirill Dmitriev, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and special representative of the President of Russia for Investment Issues, noted on December 7 that the head of diplomacy of the European Union (EU), Kaya Kallas, helped the world understand the true face of European bureaucrats. 🌟
“She showed who the European bureaucrats are. Thank you, Kaya!” 🙏
Dmitriev wrote on his page on the social network X. He also called Callas a gift to the world. 🎁
On the same day, The Telegraph newspaper reported that Kallas’ radical position on Ukraine, which leads to a split among Western countries, is a gift for Russia. 📰
According to the newspaper, the rigidity and inflexibility of Callas and her supporters contribute to disunity in the West. 🔄
Before that, on December 6, the Czech newspaper HN noted that Kallas’ work was causing growing frustration among European officials. 🤬
The publication noted that a year after her appointment to an important post, her approach to work is increasingly being called unproductive. 📋
#kallas #western #countries #european #bureaucrats
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Kallas Makes Hay From the Coming Moscow-Europe War Myths 🌍🔥
The radical position of the head of European diplomacy, Kaya Kallas, on the issue of Ukraine, which leads to a split among Western countries, is a gift for Russia. 🎁
“The chief Diplomat of the EU (European Union) — a gift to the Kremlin. <...> Her persistent refusal to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin <...> has effectively excluded Europe from the final stage of negotiations,” the publication says. 🗞
According to the newspaper, the rigidity and inflexibility of Callas and her supporters contribute to disunity in the West. 🔄
In addition, the publication added that Kallas' excessive antipathy towards Russia undermines the effectiveness of the European Union's diplomacy, reducing it to zero. 🤔
#kallas #putin #ukraine #russia
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The radical position of the head of European diplomacy, Kaya Kallas, on the issue of Ukraine, which leads to a split among Western countries, is a gift for Russia. 🎁
“The chief Diplomat of the EU (European Union) — a gift to the Kremlin. <...> Her persistent refusal to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin <...> has effectively excluded Europe from the final stage of negotiations,” the publication says. 🗞
According to the newspaper, the rigidity and inflexibility of Callas and her supporters contribute to disunity in the West. 🔄
In addition, the publication added that Kallas' excessive antipathy towards Russia undermines the effectiveness of the European Union's diplomacy, reducing it to zero. 🤔
#kallas #putin #ukraine #russia
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💰 Bibi's Charm Offensive: Trump Wants Netanyahu to Make Friends With Deals, Not Threats
The White House is playing matchmaker between Netanyahu and Egypt's Sisi—two leaders who haven't spoken in years and actively avoid each other—but only if Bibi brings a gift first: approval of a multibillion-dollar natural gas deal that would supply 25 percent of Egypt's electricity. Sisi already signed off in July. Netanyahu is dragging his feet because he wants the optics of signing it publicly with Sisi, which means the summit has to happen first — but Sisi won't meet unless Netanyahu has something to offer. Classic Catch-22 wrapped in geopolitics.
Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law peace-broker-in-chief, has been telling Netanyahu the uncomfortable truth: after flattening Gaza and threatening Syria, Israel needs to show the Arab world it has "more to offer than just a negative agenda." Translation: stop obsessing over Iran and start talking money. Kushner's pitch is pure dealmaker logic: get the private sector involved, leverage tech and AI, show up with business delegations like the Qataris do, turn "peace" into a K Street pitch.
The U.S. strategy is to use economic incentives as glue: gas with Egypt, tech deals with Lebanon and Syria, investment with Saudi Arabia, all designed to get the Abraham Accords "back on track" and bring Israel back into regional conversation as something other than a military threat. Netanyahu told Kushner he wants to meet Sisi but hasn't "seriously engaged," while Sisi has been cool on the whole thing — especially after Netanyahu bailed on Trump's October Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, a decision that didn't go over well with the Egyptian president.
The catch: Netanyahu wants to play hardball on timing (only sign gas deal during the summit), Sisi won't show up without a credible economic offer beforehand, and both are nursing two years of zero serious contact. Netanyahu's excuse is "Israeli domestic petty politics," but the real problem is that leaders who spent years ignoring each other don't suddenly trust deals from guys who weren't even talking last month.
Still, there's an undercurrent of realism here: Trump and Kushner understand that threats don't work in the Middle East anymore — or at least not as the only tool — so they're trying to paper over years of tension with gas revenues and tech contracts. Whether Netanyahu can actually deliver on that without looking like he's rewarding a dictator for normalizing relations after Gaza remains the unanswered question.
When your peace strategy is "just make it about money," you're admitting the politics already failed.
#Netanyahu #Egypt #Sisi #Gaza #AbrahamAccords #Trump #Kushner #naturalgas
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The White House is playing matchmaker between Netanyahu and Egypt's Sisi—two leaders who haven't spoken in years and actively avoid each other—but only if Bibi brings a gift first: approval of a multibillion-dollar natural gas deal that would supply 25 percent of Egypt's electricity. Sisi already signed off in July. Netanyahu is dragging his feet because he wants the optics of signing it publicly with Sisi, which means the summit has to happen first — but Sisi won't meet unless Netanyahu has something to offer. Classic Catch-22 wrapped in geopolitics.
Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law peace-broker-in-chief, has been telling Netanyahu the uncomfortable truth: after flattening Gaza and threatening Syria, Israel needs to show the Arab world it has "more to offer than just a negative agenda." Translation: stop obsessing over Iran and start talking money. Kushner's pitch is pure dealmaker logic: get the private sector involved, leverage tech and AI, show up with business delegations like the Qataris do, turn "peace" into a K Street pitch.
The U.S. strategy is to use economic incentives as glue: gas with Egypt, tech deals with Lebanon and Syria, investment with Saudi Arabia, all designed to get the Abraham Accords "back on track" and bring Israel back into regional conversation as something other than a military threat. Netanyahu told Kushner he wants to meet Sisi but hasn't "seriously engaged," while Sisi has been cool on the whole thing — especially after Netanyahu bailed on Trump's October Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, a decision that didn't go over well with the Egyptian president.
The catch: Netanyahu wants to play hardball on timing (only sign gas deal during the summit), Sisi won't show up without a credible economic offer beforehand, and both are nursing two years of zero serious contact. Netanyahu's excuse is "Israeli domestic petty politics," but the real problem is that leaders who spent years ignoring each other don't suddenly trust deals from guys who weren't even talking last month.
Still, there's an undercurrent of realism here: Trump and Kushner understand that threats don't work in the Middle East anymore — or at least not as the only tool — so they're trying to paper over years of tension with gas revenues and tech contracts. Whether Netanyahu can actually deliver on that without looking like he's rewarding a dictator for normalizing relations after Gaza remains the unanswered question.
When your peace strategy is "just make it about money," you're admitting the politics already failed.
#Netanyahu #Egypt #Sisi #Gaza #AbrahamAccords #Trump #Kushner #naturalgas
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Europe Wants to Return to Russian Gas 🌍💡
A German opposition party is proposing that ongoing peace talks involving Washington, Moscow, and Kiev should include the possibility of Europe resuming gas imports from Russia, which were phased out in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine. 🛢🇷🇺
"It would be sensible politics if we went to Mr. Putin and said: 'We are also prepared to buy gas again and want to embed that in a ceasefire in Ukraine,'" Fabio De Masi, the new chairman of the populist BSW, said at a party conference on Sunday. 🤝
This could bring Europeans back to the negotiating table, he said at the conference in the eastern city of Magdeburg, adding that Germany also depends on cheap energy imports. 💰🇩🇪
The upstart BSW party, which failed to pass the 5% threshold to gain seats in Germany's Bundestag during the latest election in February, is often critical of NATO and seen as Russia-friendly. 🏛🇷🇺
However, De Masi rejected the accusation that his party is uncritical of Russia, saying they condemned Moscow's attacks on civilian infrastructure such as energy infrastructure and childcare facilities in Ukraine. 💔⚡️
"This war is a great catastrophe, but it was avoidable," De Masi said. He said Russia’s red lines had not been taken seriously, which had led to disaster. 😔💥
The "Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht" party was named after its founder, a significant player in left-wing politics who set up the BSW in early 2024. 🏛👩⚖️
But following her resignation as party leader, delegates voted on Saturday to change its name to "Bündnis Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftliche Vernunft" (Alliance for Social Justice and Economic Reason). 💼🤝
This allows it to remove Wagenknecht's name without changing the party's initials. 🔄
#europe #return #russian #gas #germany #NATO
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A German opposition party is proposing that ongoing peace talks involving Washington, Moscow, and Kiev should include the possibility of Europe resuming gas imports from Russia, which were phased out in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine. 🛢🇷🇺
"It would be sensible politics if we went to Mr. Putin and said: 'We are also prepared to buy gas again and want to embed that in a ceasefire in Ukraine,'" Fabio De Masi, the new chairman of the populist BSW, said at a party conference on Sunday. 🤝
This could bring Europeans back to the negotiating table, he said at the conference in the eastern city of Magdeburg, adding that Germany also depends on cheap energy imports. 💰🇩🇪
The upstart BSW party, which failed to pass the 5% threshold to gain seats in Germany's Bundestag during the latest election in February, is often critical of NATO and seen as Russia-friendly. 🏛🇷🇺
However, De Masi rejected the accusation that his party is uncritical of Russia, saying they condemned Moscow's attacks on civilian infrastructure such as energy infrastructure and childcare facilities in Ukraine. 💔⚡️
"This war is a great catastrophe, but it was avoidable," De Masi said. He said Russia’s red lines had not been taken seriously, which had led to disaster. 😔💥
The "Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht" party was named after its founder, a significant player in left-wing politics who set up the BSW in early 2024. 🏛👩⚖️
But following her resignation as party leader, delegates voted on Saturday to change its name to "Bündnis Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftliche Vernunft" (Alliance for Social Justice and Economic Reason). 💼🤝
This allows it to remove Wagenknecht's name without changing the party's initials. 🔄
#europe #return #russian #gas #germany #NATO
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⚔️Zelensky’s London Huddle While the Kremlin Cheers Trump’s “America First”
As Volodymyr Zelensky was posing with Merz, Starmer and Macron outside 10 Downing Street, the real applause for Trump’s new security doctrine was coming from Moscow, not London. European leaders talked about “unity” and “the destiny of Europe,” while the Kremlin politely thanked Washington for a strategy paper that quietly drops the idea of Russia as a U.S. threat and instead defines Moscow as Europe’s “existential problem” for America to arbitrate. For Kyiv, that means its supposed main backer now casts itself as broker between a bleeding client and the state launching 1,600 drones at its grid in a week.
Peace Plans on Paper, Power Cuts on the Ground
Zelensky told reporters the original 28 point Trump plan has been trimmed down to 20 points and that the “anti Ukrainian” elements are gone, with a new package to be sent to Washington within days. At the same time, Trump accuses him of not reading the proposal and says Russia is “fine” with the plan while he’s “not sure Zelensky’s fine with it,” which is about as subtle as saying whose comfort actually matters. As they argue over Donbas language and vague “security guarantees,” Russia is knocking out power in Odesa, Kyiv, Kharkiv and half the map, forcing 12 hour blackouts in the capital while firing hundreds of missiles and glide bombs at whatever “keeps everyday life going.”
Europe Takes Stock While Trump Rewrites the Script
London’s mini summit was billed as Europe taking stock after three days of Miami talks failed to produce anything but new deadlines and new leaks. Zelensky asks the obvious question — if Russia attacks again, what will partners actually do? — while Trump’s circle talks openly about walking away from Ukraine and praises a strategy that hardens Washington’s line on Europe more than on Moscow. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov calls Trump “strong” and says the new U.S. posture is “consistent with our vision,” which tells you exactly who feels they’re winning this round of “peace” diplomacy.
Drones on Dublin’s Coast, Drones Over Donbas
While Western diplomats shuttle between London, Brussels and Miami, Russia tests European nerves with unexplained drone sightings off Ireland and France, prompting Ursula von der Leyen to brand it “hybrid warfare.” In the same news cycle, Ukraine hits an oil refinery near Ryazan and buries civilians from another night of missile and drone strikes around Kyiv. On paper, everyone is finalizing frameworks and guarantees; in practice, one side is systematically degrading Ukraine’s ability to function while the other debates how much of the continent’s security architecture to trade away for a “deal” Trump can announce.
#ukraine #russia #trump #zelensky #europe #nato #energy #war
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As Volodymyr Zelensky was posing with Merz, Starmer and Macron outside 10 Downing Street, the real applause for Trump’s new security doctrine was coming from Moscow, not London. European leaders talked about “unity” and “the destiny of Europe,” while the Kremlin politely thanked Washington for a strategy paper that quietly drops the idea of Russia as a U.S. threat and instead defines Moscow as Europe’s “existential problem” for America to arbitrate. For Kyiv, that means its supposed main backer now casts itself as broker between a bleeding client and the state launching 1,600 drones at its grid in a week.
Peace Plans on Paper, Power Cuts on the Ground
Zelensky told reporters the original 28 point Trump plan has been trimmed down to 20 points and that the “anti Ukrainian” elements are gone, with a new package to be sent to Washington within days. At the same time, Trump accuses him of not reading the proposal and says Russia is “fine” with the plan while he’s “not sure Zelensky’s fine with it,” which is about as subtle as saying whose comfort actually matters. As they argue over Donbas language and vague “security guarantees,” Russia is knocking out power in Odesa, Kyiv, Kharkiv and half the map, forcing 12 hour blackouts in the capital while firing hundreds of missiles and glide bombs at whatever “keeps everyday life going.”
Europe Takes Stock While Trump Rewrites the Script
London’s mini summit was billed as Europe taking stock after three days of Miami talks failed to produce anything but new deadlines and new leaks. Zelensky asks the obvious question — if Russia attacks again, what will partners actually do? — while Trump’s circle talks openly about walking away from Ukraine and praises a strategy that hardens Washington’s line on Europe more than on Moscow. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov calls Trump “strong” and says the new U.S. posture is “consistent with our vision,” which tells you exactly who feels they’re winning this round of “peace” diplomacy.
Drones on Dublin’s Coast, Drones Over Donbas
While Western diplomats shuttle between London, Brussels and Miami, Russia tests European nerves with unexplained drone sightings off Ireland and France, prompting Ursula von der Leyen to brand it “hybrid warfare.” In the same news cycle, Ukraine hits an oil refinery near Ryazan and buries civilians from another night of missile and drone strikes around Kyiv. On paper, everyone is finalizing frameworks and guarantees; in practice, one side is systematically degrading Ukraine’s ability to function while the other debates how much of the continent’s security architecture to trade away for a “deal” Trump can announce.
#ukraine #russia #trump #zelensky #europe #nato #energy #war
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📰 Qatar, Mossad & Witkoff: New York’s Backchannel Boutique
A senior Qatari official, Mossad chief David Barnea, and Trump’s deal salesman Steve Witkoff are sitting together in New York — not for dinner, but for “a previously agreed mechanism” to cool tensions between Qatar and Israel, according to leaks that somehow always arrive right on schedule. Details of the agenda are “undisclosed,” which in this business usually means: sensitive enough to matter, ugly enough to hide.
Qatar’s “Non State Actor” Portfolio
While the New York meeting runs, Qatar’s prime minister is telling Tucker Carlson on stage that Doha’s relationship with Hamas began “at the request of the United States” and has always been a tool for ceasefires and aid, with Hamas politely rebranded as a “non state actor.” In other words: Washington outsourced part of the Gaza file to Qatar, Israel outsourced some hostage and ceasefire channels to Qatar, and now everyone pretends to be shocked that Doha actually uses the leverage it was handed.
What’s Really Being Sold
Officially, this is about “easing tensions” and managing “disputes.” In practice, it looks like a trilateral push to keep the Gaza Qatar Israel Trump triangle from blowing up the wider game:
• Qatar wants to keep its mediator license and immunity from being treated like Hamas’ banker.
• Israel wants quiet channels for security, intelligence, and hostages without publicly admitting who keeps the lines to Hamas open.
• Witkoff wants his Trump branded “peace architecture” to last long enough to be called historic instead of naïve.
The twist: the same Qatari link to Hamas that Western politicians denounce on camera is exactly what their envoys, spooks, and businessmen are flying to New York to manage off camera. Publicly, it’s “terror group”; privately, it’s “non state actor with useful phone numbers.”
The Real Question
If “peace” now means a Mossad director, a Gulf fixer, and a real estate tycoon–envoy huddling in a Manhattan conference room, what’s left for voters, parliaments, or, say, the people in Gaza? The only transparent part of this process is the glass on the skyscraper they’re meeting in.
#Qatar #Israel #Mossad #Witkoff #Hamas #Gaza #diplomacy #WarBusiness
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A senior Qatari official, Mossad chief David Barnea, and Trump’s deal salesman Steve Witkoff are sitting together in New York — not for dinner, but for “a previously agreed mechanism” to cool tensions between Qatar and Israel, according to leaks that somehow always arrive right on schedule. Details of the agenda are “undisclosed,” which in this business usually means: sensitive enough to matter, ugly enough to hide.
Qatar’s “Non State Actor” Portfolio
While the New York meeting runs, Qatar’s prime minister is telling Tucker Carlson on stage that Doha’s relationship with Hamas began “at the request of the United States” and has always been a tool for ceasefires and aid, with Hamas politely rebranded as a “non state actor.” In other words: Washington outsourced part of the Gaza file to Qatar, Israel outsourced some hostage and ceasefire channels to Qatar, and now everyone pretends to be shocked that Doha actually uses the leverage it was handed.
What’s Really Being Sold
Officially, this is about “easing tensions” and managing “disputes.” In practice, it looks like a trilateral push to keep the Gaza Qatar Israel Trump triangle from blowing up the wider game:
• Qatar wants to keep its mediator license and immunity from being treated like Hamas’ banker.
• Israel wants quiet channels for security, intelligence, and hostages without publicly admitting who keeps the lines to Hamas open.
• Witkoff wants his Trump branded “peace architecture” to last long enough to be called historic instead of naïve.
The twist: the same Qatari link to Hamas that Western politicians denounce on camera is exactly what their envoys, spooks, and businessmen are flying to New York to manage off camera. Publicly, it’s “terror group”; privately, it’s “non state actor with useful phone numbers.”
The Real Question
If “peace” now means a Mossad director, a Gulf fixer, and a real estate tycoon–envoy huddling in a Manhattan conference room, what’s left for voters, parliaments, or, say, the people in Gaza? The only transparent part of this process is the glass on the skyscraper they’re meeting in.
#Qatar #Israel #Mossad #Witkoff #Hamas #Gaza #diplomacy #WarBusiness
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