NATO's Rutte:

I know many of you criticize Trump. But do you really think that, without Trump, eight big economies in Europe—including Spain, Italy, and Belgium—and Canada would have reached the two-percent defense spending target in 2025?

At the beginning of the year, they were at just 1.5 percent. Without Trump, this would never have happened. They are all at two percent now.

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Q: You said that Europe can defend itself without the Americans.

Stubb: Well, that’s not an exact quote... I love journalists.

Finnish President Stubb on Ukraine-Russia:

NATO hasn’t entered the scene yet, and the Russians have not been able to advance as much as they expected over the past four years.

Finnish President Stubb:

Here we are, asking ourselves, “Are we able to defend ourselves?”

My answer is yes, we are.

NATO's Rutte:

Trump said last night that he was doubtful about whether Europeans would come to the rescue if Article 5 were triggered.

I told him yes, they will. They did after the 9/11 attacks—the only time Article 5 has been invoked.

I have no doubt that the US would come to the rescue here, and we would come to the rescue of the US.

We need each other for our collective protection.

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Kremlin:

Putin plans to meet with Witkoff tomorrow.

NATO's Rutte:

Ukraine should be our number one priority.

Then we can discuss all the other issues, including Greenland.

But it should be Ukraine first because it is crucial for our security.

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Rutte:

Poland, which is the closest ally to the US you can find, is buying in South Korea because they cannot buy enough in the US or Europe.

Rutte to Stubb:

Alex, I love you, but you are not producing enough for your defense.

LATEST MAP: Syria, now.

🟩 Syrian Government
🟨 SDF/PKK

NEW: Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will represent Türkiye at the “Board of Peace” meeting in Davos.

Türkiye has agreed to join the “Board of Peace.”

Reports claim senior PKK/SDF commander Sipan Hamo was killed by drones of unknown nationality in Qamishli that targeted a meeting last night.

He was seen as the de facto leader of the PKK’s Syria wing.

Just days earlier, he publicly said:

“Israel is a powerful state in the region, and we hope that the stance it has taken to protect the Druze will also be extended to include the Kurds.”

On French TV, judge Magali Lafourcade revealed that people sent by the U.S. Embassy under the Trump administration came to her office during Marine Le Pen’s embezzlement trial, allegedly trying to frame it as a “purely political trial” to block Le Pen from running for president.

“Very quickly the conversation turned to Marine Le Pen’s trial.”

“The idea was to find elements showing this was a purely political trial.”

“I was so taken aback… that I did something I never do with foreign diplomats: I informed the French Foreign Office.”

“There is a political project behind all of this.”

Canada’s military has modeled how it would respond to a hypothetical U.S. invasion, after President Donald Trump publicly talked about the country as a “51st state.”

Planners assumed U.S. forces could overrun Canada in days, so defense would rely on asymmetric tactics like ambushes, sabotage, drones, hit-and-run, similar to past guerrilla warfare.

Source: Bloomberg

WATCH: Terror group PKK supporters openly claim they are organizing across Europe to occupy train stations, state institutions, and parliament buildings, framing it as coordinated “civil disobedience.”

“All train stations in Europe, all state institutions will be occupied.”

“We won’t let Europeans sleep at night anymore.”

“They won’t find peace.”

Steve Witkoff on the Board of Peace:

What we’re going to do here, what Trump is going to do here, will be game-changing for the world.

Source: Bloomberg

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Q: We’ve seen Russia continue their attacks on critical infrastructure, most recently energy infrastructure, leaving thousands, maybe millions of Ukrainians without power, without heat. Do you think Putin is truly here for a peace deal?

Witkoff: Well, first of all, they’re in a war and so they’re shooting at each other. And we don’t condone that. We think it’s unfortunate.

Source: Bloomberg

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Steve Witkoff on Russia-Ukraine:

We think people are suffering on both sides.

It’s cold there. And not to have heat is terrible.

Source: Bloomberg

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Trump arrives in Switzerland for World Economic Forum.

Steve Witkoff:

The Russians have invited us to come, and that’s a significant statement from them. And Kirill (Dmitriev) was here yesterday and working on this with us.

So I think everybody is embedded in the process and wants to see a peace deal happen.

Source: Bloomberg

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Steve Witkoff:

Iran needs to change its ways. They need to do that.

And if they do, if they indicate that they’re willing to do that, I think we can diplomatically settle this.

Source: Bloomberg

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