4-Star General & former CIA Director David Petraeus:

If we allow Ukraine to fall, Russia will next invade Moldova or the Baltics.

Ukraine only needs a very small part of our own military budget. We must help Ukraine achieve victory.

The US can easily afford to accept an aid package for Ukraine, our military budget for 2 years was $1.7 trillion.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad shows roadside bomb attack on IDF convoy in Jenin, occupied West Bank.

An Israeli border police officer was killed and others were wounded in this ambush.

Syrian regime and Iranian-backed terrorist groups targeted Idlib, Syria this evening.

8 thermite rockets (incendiary ammunition) fired from BM-21 GRAD MLRS were fired at Idlib city center. Several civilians were killed/wounded.

Just before that, Turkish F-16 flew at low altitude over Idlib city center.

Turkish Army artillery also shelled Assad regime positions in Saraqib and Jarada villages in southern Idlib.

Die Zeit ist um: Olaf Scholz's term is coming to and end.

Most Germans surveyed would like a change in chancellor.

64.3% of Bild survey participants support the idea that Olaf Scholz cede his post to the head of the German Ministry of Defense Boris Pistorius.

Pistorius also leads the ranking of the most popular politicians. He supports Ukraine and sharply criticizes the Putin regime.

23-year-old Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot with the call sign "Blue Helmet" reportedly died during a recent flight.

This is how Israel demolishes Gaza with explosives.

Seized IDF military equipment by Mujahideen Brigades in Gaza.

The border fence between Egypt and Gaza after the completion of the Egyptian works to thicken the defense against breaching the fence.

Israeli TV interview with an Israeli soldier inside the Gaza Strip gets interrupted after Palestinian resistance rockets start to hit nearby areas.

More footage of demolition of Khan Yunis, Gaza by IDF.

"The most expensive war - and Israel's goals have not yet met"

Israeli Yedioth Ahronot newspaper reports Israel has entered a routine of war, and is facing difficulties it has never faced before.

The cost of fighting has grown to nearly $60 billion, the hostages still do not see on the horizon the return to their homes in the south and north, and Israel is far from restoring the personal security that was lost when it was attacked.

Israeli Finance Minister Smotrich:

We need to establish a Jewish settlement in Gaza - if we are not there and there are 2 million Nazis there, we will wake up in 10 years to a new October 7.

Senior Hamas leader Osama Hamdan to Israeli Minister Smotrich:

Smotrich will soon return to his homeland Ukraine and I will soon return to my homeland Palestine.

Trump says Iran can achieve a nuclear bomb within 34 days.

Massive pro-Palestine march in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Russia has the upper hand in electronic warfare with Ukraine, FT reports.

Russia has increasingly deployed EW to push off-course Ukraine’s western-supplied, precision-guided munitions, such as HIMARS rockets and Excalibur artillery shells.

Moscow has also used its EW capabilities to mimic missile and drone launches in order to confuse Ukraine’s air defences and identify their locations.

Without EW protection, Ukrainian troops are easy prey for drone-guided artillery strikes, drones dropping bombs and kamikaze strikes by exploding unmanned aerial vehicles.

One Ukrainian soldier bemoaned the lack of EW protection for his unit, which was largely wiped out during weeks of intense bombardment on the eastern front, with Russian drones “hitting us like mosquitoes”.

“What radio-electronic warfare? . . . We had none. I don’t even want to recall those days in the trenches. Our boys were falling like flies,” Ukrainian soldier said.

Gen Valeriy Zaluzhny, commander-in chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, warned in November that EW was “the key to victory in the drone war” — and in breaking the deadlock along the frontline.

Germany to lift veto on Eurofighter sale to Saudi Arabia after their use against Houthi attacks

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock signals the ruling coalition in Berlin is prepared to lift a veto on selling Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.

Baerbock said during a visit to Jerusalem that the Saudi role in thwarting Yemen-based Houthi rebel attacks on Israel mean that Germany can no longer justify blocking Britain’s wish to supply the fighters.

She said it’s “an open secret” that the Saudi air force is deploying Eurofighters against the Houthis and that “this shows Riyadh’s efforts for a better future in the region.”

Israeli soldiers forcing semi-naked Palestinian civilians, including several children, to chant against Hamas in a desperate plea for their lives.

4 years ago, today.

Footage of Iranian tactical ballistic missile (TBM) strikes on American Al-Asad Airbase in Iraq following the assassination of IRGC General Qassem Soleimani after American strike in Baghdad on January 3, 2020.

While Germany has ceased its objections to the sale of Eurofighter Typhoon jets to Saudi Arabia, NATO-member Türkiye remains blocked by Germany from purchasing Eurofighter Typhoons & by the United States from buying F-16Vs.

The rationale behind permitting the sale to Saudi Arabia, according to German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, is that ''Saudi Arabia contributes to Israel's security by intercepting missiles fired at the country by Yemen’s Houthi rebels.''

Russian BMP-2 IFV, ignoring its predecessors, drives through a mine field. The result is obvious.