Japan’s LDP Wins Landslide Early Election Under PM Sanae Takaichi

READ MORE

Japan's PM Sanae Takaichi:

The Japan–U.S. alliance remains the cornerstone, but we will also deepen cooperation with allies, partners, and the Global South.

With President Trump, we will reaffirm the unshakable bond between Japan and the United States.

We aim to open a new chapter in the history of the Japan–U.S. alliance — in diplomacy, the economy, and security.

Because the international situation is becoming more severe, Japan must act with resolve and clarity.

Former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz:

The entire dilemma in Iran came about because the British and the American governments overthrew the democratic government of Iran and replaced it with the dictator, the Shah, who was later overthrown in turn by today’s rulers, who then established a brutal dictatorship — unlike what many people had hoped for at the time.

Had it not been for the overthrow of Iran’s democratic government at the beginning, carried out for oil interests, Iran would today be a very successful Western country

READ MORE

Former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz:

It is an illusion to believe that trade automatically prevents war.

Capitalism has expanded historically through wars.

Sometimes wars happen precisely because someone wants oil.

READ MORE

Former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz:

If you compare the military capabilities that NATO has today with the help of the Americans with what is available in France and Great Britain, the difference is like night and day.

Apart from the fact that Germany has said we will not have nuclear weapons and has signed that agreement, I pushed for a different decision and believe it to be the right one.

We need strategic weapons, which is why I have advocated stationing American conventional intermediate-range missiles in Germany and beginning to develop such weapons ourselves.

READ MORE

Former German Chancellor Olaf Scholz:

My proposal is not to continue with these negotiated projects where officials say: I’ll make the door of the helicopter, you make the skids, and someone else makes something different on the same piece of equipment.

Instead, if the German government or any other orders a system, then any other European country should be able to join that order under the same conditions.

That would strip power from the bureaucrats and, in a simple and natural way.

READ MORE

"Epstein Class" Sen. Ossoff Slams US Government as Elite Rule

READ MORE

Keir Starmer’s Director of Communications, Tim Allan, has resigned after five months, a day after the PM lost his Chief of Staff.

Senator Jon Ossoff:

You're seeing what I'm seeing, right?

The President posting about the Obamas like a Klansman.

Scholz: Germany Needs Strategic Missiles, Not Nuclear Arms

READ MORE

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang:

AI reduces the cost of intelligence, creating abundance by orders of magnitude. What used to take a year can now take a day, an hour, or be done in real time.

Moore’s law was slow — now progress is a million times every 10 years. Engineers now say, “why don’t we just train an AI model on all of the world’s data?”

The definition of abundance is you look at a problem so big and you say, 'you know what? I'll do it all.'

I'm going to cure every field of disease. I'm not going to just do cancer, are you kidding me? That's insane. We'll just do all of human suffering.

UK PM Keir Starmer told staff to “go forward with confidence” after losing two senior aides amid fallout over Epstein-linked controversy.

“We must prove that politics can be a force for good… We go forward from here.”

Taiwan’s Vice Premier Cheng Li-chiun rejected U.S. calls to shift 40% of Taiwan’s chipmaking to the US, saying it is “impossible.”

She said the island’s semiconductor ecosystem “cannot simply be relocated.”

India and France are close to a ~€300m deal for 100–150 SCALP cruise missiles for the Indian Air Force, after their combat use by Rafale jets against Pakistan.

Source: ANI

Polish Lt. Gen. Piotr Blazeusz says Poland is actively planning for scenarios where the U.S. does not come to help:

You always need a main plan and branch plans.

You don’t discuss the details, but you always have different plans shelved.

Facing its worst labor shortage in decades, Russia is turning beyond Central Asia to South and East Asia, especially India, to fill millions of jobs.

Moscow says it needs 11 million more workers by 2030, has eased migration rules, and issued 56,000 work permits to Indians last year, up from about 5,000 in 2021.

Source: Bloomberg

U.S. military forces carried out a routine boarding of the Aquila II in the Indian Ocean without incident, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said.

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán:

I remember that in 1999 the then President of the United States, President Clinton, called me and asked me to open a second front and to attack the Serbs from Hungarian territory, firing through Vojvodina all the way to Belgrade.

The fact that you did not end up in a war at that time required that the Hungarian government of the day say no to a direct request from the American President.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s Australia visit on Monday drew thousands of protesters in Sydney and nationwide, as activists challenged restrictions, calling for the arrest of Herzog for Israeli Genocide in Gaza.

READ MORE