Tariff War: Whole American shipping industry is collapsing.

Imports dropped down 35%. Atleast 80 cargo ships have gone, cancelled or diverted empty.

Truck drivers losing loads and their jobs. And 90% of truck drives voted for Trump.

Americans are now being charged $89 in import fees for just $64 worth of Temu items.

VERY interesting: The U.S. Navy lost a $60 million F-18 jet at sea after it fell overboard from the USS Harry S. Truman, reportedly during a sharp turn to evade Houthi fire.

Source: CNN

Blackout: Spain’s Interior Ministry deploys 30,000 police officers nationwide to bolster security during the power outage.

Zelensky:

Minerals agreement with the US has become stronger and more equitable after negotiations.

Israel is “losing the digital war,” says Norm Coleman, Chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition and former U.S. Senator.

Israeli forces are rapidly completing the destruction of Rafah.

USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost two F/A-18 fighter jets since its deployment to the Red Sea.

On December 22, 2024 an F/A-18F was accidentally shot down by the USS Gettysburg in a friendly fire incident.

Spanish PM Sanchez confirms that power has been restored to several points in the north and south of Spain "thanks to interconnections with France and Morocco."

This is an extremely serious incident for U.S. Navy.

It would mean hostile missiles or drones got past the carrier’s layered defenses (fighters, AEGIS ships, CIWS), showing potential gaps in U.S. naval protection.

A group like the Houthis forcing a $13 billion carrier into hard maneuvers would signal a major asymmetric threat to U.S. power projection.

Such an incident would trigger a rethinking of how vulnerable carriers are to cheap, massed threats.

U.S.-Iran negotiations are likely to conclude with an agreement.

Israel is awaiting the nature of the agreement and does not yet know whether it will meet its demands.

Source: Jerusalem Post, Israeli official

Chinese PLAAF Y-20 cargo aircraft departed Saidu Shariff Airport in Swat, Pakistan and is currently en route to an unknown destination.

Macron:

I urged President Trump to take a tougher stance toward Putin.

Macron:

I believe I have convinced the US side of the possibility of escalating the threat and imposing sanctions to force Russia to accept a ceasefire.

JD Vance:

Ukraine will not win the conflict with Russia if military actions continue in the coming years, but a scenario of nuclear escalation is possible.

JD Vance on the Ukraine war:

I think there's this weird idea in the mainstream media that if this goes on for a few more years, the Russians are going to collapse, the Ukrainians are going to take back their territory, and everything is going to go back to what it was before the war, but that's not the reality we live in.

Portuguese Prime Minister:

Power expected to be restored across the country within the next few hours.

The cause of the power outage in Spain is a failure in the European electricity interconnection system via France.

Source: La Vanguardia newspaper, citing the Spanish electricity operator

Portuguese Prime Minister:

The origin of the giant power outage is probably in Spain.