Gaza in ruins.

U.S. F-16 fighter jet crashed in the Yellow Sea, South Korea.

The pilot was safely rescued after making an emergency escape.

The crash was near the U.S. Air Force base in Gunsan.

Argentina’s new President Javier Milei passes the chainsaw for the first time officially and signs the reduction of ministries in Argentina from 19 to 9 ministries, eliminating 10 ministries at once.

Republican U.S. Senator J. D. Vance:

Any person with a brain knows that the conflict in Ukraine will end in negotiations. The idea that Ukraine will push Russia back to its 1991 borders is ridiculous, no one actually believed it. Ukraine is functionally destroyed as a country.

American authorities should stop the bloodshed, not write more blank checks for war.

IDF’s official death toll in Gaza has surpassed 100, reaching 101.

High-ranking officials from leading Western countries are increasingly discussing the need to replace Zelensky, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service claims.

“Among Zelensky’s possible successors, Brussels is considering Zaluzhny, Budanov, Ermak, Arestovich, Klitschko.

In the West they believe that Zelensky has gone too far and, if necessary, will not be able to become a party to negotiations with the Russian Federation to “freeze” the conflict.”

Concerns are growing over the weakening of armed forces and the emptying of arsenals in Europe, WSJ reports.

The leaders of Europe - the British military - have only about 150 tanks and perhaps a dozen serviceable long-range artillery guns.

France, also a big military spender, has less than 90 heavy artillery pieces, equivalent to what Russia is losing roughly every month on the battlefield in Ukraine.

Denmark has no heavy artillery, no submarines, no air defense systems. The German army has enough ammunition for two days of combat.

For decades, Western governments have put up with the weakening of European armies because the US has been the backbone of NATO and defense policy in Europe.

However, anxiety is growing as America takes an increasingly isolationist position, and the understanding of the potential threat to Europe from the Russian Federation is re-emerging after almost two years of fighting in Ukraine.

“Israel has only a few weeks left to destroy Hamas”: America has given Israel until the new year to complete the operation in the Gaza Strip, The Economist reports.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken conveyed a similar message to his interlocutors during a recent visit to Israel.

The Biden administration is demanding that Israel do more to reduce the suffering of Palestinian civilians, especially in the southern Gaza Strip.

If the US demands to stop bombing the Gaza Strip early next year, the Israeli army will most likely continue its military campaign, albeit with less intensity.

In this situation, Hamas will continue to control part of the Gaza Strip, and Israel will not achieve its main goal - to destroy the organizers of the October 7 attack.

UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron has called for 350 billion dollars (£278 billion) in frozen Russian bank accounts to be used to fund the Ukrainian war effort:

Instead of just freezing that money, let’s take that money, spend it on rebuilding Ukraine and that is, if you like, a downpayment on reparations that Russia will one day have to pay for the illegal invasion that they’ve undertaken.

I’ve looked at all the arguments and so far, I haven’t seen anything that convinces me this is a bad idea.

New Argentinian President Javier Milei:

Argentina has no money.

IDF says it has airdropped about 7 tons of equipment to hundreds of IDF troops of in Khan Yunis .

This is the first time since the 2006, Second Lebanon War, that IDF has airdropped equipment to troops.

Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Güler:

Eurofighter is a good alternative for us and that is why we want to buy it. We are a NATO member, but another NATO member is against us buying these jets.

There is no explanation for an ally saying, "I'm not giving you jets.” We believe that other allies can bring Germany to a certain point.

Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Güler:

S-400 is a defensive system. If someone thinks of attacking us, they will see very well what the S-400 or other defense systems will do.

Italy, France and Germany call on the European Union to impose sanctions on “Hamas and its supporters”.

IDF says it has deployed “elite female” soldiers deep inside Gaza for “classified missions alongside special forces units.”