SDF's Mazloum Abdi:

We want to have a local Kurdish administration. Whatever the name may be.

A Brooklyn drone manufacturer that supplies Israel was forced out of the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard six weeks after Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp., whose board is appointed by the Mayor, declined to renew Easy Aerial’s lease.

Source: New York Post

Russia's Medvedev:

The little green insect gets to stay alive only as long as it keeps dismantling country 404.

Zelensky to POLITICO:

We had the Budapest Memorandum, which was just security guarantees.

We gave nuclear weapons and other weapons and a lot of jets — dozens of jets — and yes, we gave them, and we got security guarantees that our sovereignty would be protected.

In the end, we don’t have security guarantees, because Russia came and nobody attacked Russia. Nobody saved our independence.

Zelensky to POLITICO:

Putin found some representatives in Europe who began to fight against the unity in Europe.

So it’s, you know, internal blowings.

Zelensky to POLITICO:

Ninety percent of Ukrainians are against elections...

A Norwegian government scientist secretly built a powerful microwave device to test whether pulsed-energy weapons could cause brain injury.

In 2024, he tested it on himself — and reportedly developed neurological symptoms similar to “Havana syndrome.”

Norway informed the CIA, prompting Pentagon and White House officials to visit and review the case.

The incident has reignited debate over whether directed-energy weapons could be behind some Havana syndrome cases, which remain officially unresolved and controversial.

Source: WaPo

India has reportedly approved ~$8.6–8.7 billion in arms purchases from Israel, making Israel one of its top defense suppliers (second after France).

The package includes precision-strike systems such as:
— SPICE 1000 guided bombs (≈1,000 units)
— Rampage air-to-surface missiles
— Air LORA air-launched ballistic missiles
— Ice Breaker missile system
— Additional drones, radars, and surveillance gear

Source: Forbes India

Zelensky to POLITICO:

Europeans still didn’t put sanctions on nuclear energy of Russians, on Rosatom, on people, on their relatives, on their children which live in Europe, which live in the United States, which study in the universities of Europe, which have real estate in the United States.

So, they have a lot of real estate, they have children, relatives everywhere.

Fuck away to Russia. Go home. You don’t respect anybody in the United States, you don’t respect rules, you don’t respect democracy, you don’t respect Ukraine, Europe, etc. Go home.

Trump:

The Board of Peace has unlimited potential. Last October, I released a Plan for the permanent end to the Conflict in Gaza, and our Vision was unanimously adopted by the United Nations Security Council.

Shortly thereafter, we facilitated Humanitarian Aid at record speed, and secured the release of every living and deceased Hostage. Just last month, two dozen distinguished Founding Members joined me in Davos, Switzerland, to celebrate its official formation, and present a bold Vision for the Civilians in Gaza, and then, ultimately, far beyond Gaza — WORLD PEACE!

On February 19th, 2026, I will again be joined by Board of Peace Members at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C., where we will announce that Member States have pledged more than $5 BILLION DOLLARS toward the Gaza Humanitarian and Reconstruction efforts, and have committed thousands of personnel to the International Stabilization Force and Local Police to maintain Security and Peace for Gazans.

Very importantly, Hamas must uphold its commitment to Full and Immediate Demilitarization. The Board of Peace will prove to be the most consequential International Body in History, and it is my honor to serve as its Chairman.

U.S. forces have boarded the Veronica III, a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker under U.S. sanctions, after tracking it from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean.

Netanyahu:

Iran is reliable on one thing—they lie and they cheat.

Netanyahu on Iran:

If a deal is to be reached, it should have several components—several components that we believe are important not only for the security of Israel, but for the security of the world: the United States, the region, the world.

The first is that all enriched material has to leave Iran.

The second is that there shall be no enrichment capability—not just stopping the enrichment process, but dismantling the equipment and the infrastructure that allow enrichment in the first place.

The third is to address the question of ballistic missiles. There's an MTCR limitation of 300 kilometers, and Iran is supposed to adhere to it—of course, it doesn't, as the Rising Lion Operation itself demonstrates, as everybody knows.

And the fourth is to dismantle the axis of terror that Iran has built. It's been smashed, but it's still there; it's trying to recover, as Iran itself is trying to do.

Netanyahu on Iran:

Trump is determined to exhaust the possibilities of achieving a deal, which he believes can be achieved now because of the circumstances that have been created—the force projection—and the fact that, as he says, Iran must surely understand that they missed out last time, and he thinks there's a serious probability that they won't miss out this time.

BIG: Dutch Defence Minister Gijs Tuinman hints that software independence is possible for F-35 jets.

He literally said you can “jailbreak” an F-35.

When asked if Europe can modify it without US approval:

“That’s not the point… we’ll see whether the Americans will show their true colors.”

And then he dropped this:

“I'm going to say something I should never say, but I'll do it anyway. Just like your iPhone, you can jailbreak an F-35. I won't say more about it.”

Source: BNR Nieuwsradio Podcast

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Netanyahu on Hamas:

There are practically no heavy weapons in Gaza. There's no artillery, there are no tanks, there's nothing.

The heavy weapon, the one that does the most damage, is called an AK-47. Okay? That's it. That's how they execute people. That's how they shoot our people. That's what they use—assault rifles.

That's what they used in the massacre of October 7th. That's what they used. That's what they—they did the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust with AK-47s.

60,000 of them. They have to go outside.

Netanyahu on Gaza:

They still have tunnels there. We dismantled about 150 kilometers of 500 kilometers of tunnels.

We have to complete the job.