Marco Rubio on NATO:

If we can’t use those bases when we need them, then NATO becomes a one-way street.

Why are we in NATO if, in our time of need, we can’t use those bases?

We’re going to have to reexamine the value of NATO and that alliance for our country.

Houthis:

The Yemeni Armed Forces, with Allah's help and reliance upon Allah, carried out the third military operation in the "Holy Jihad Battle," targeting sensitive Israeli enemy targets in southern occupied Palestine with a barrage of ballistic missiles.

This operation was conducted jointly with our mujahideen brothers in Iran and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and, by Allah's grace, successfully achieved its objectives.

QatarEnergy reports that its oil tanker Aqua 1 was attacked this morning in the sea north of Qatar.

NEW: Australian PM Albanese begs ordinary Australians not to use fuel amid Hormuz crisis:

If you can switch to catching the train, bus or tram to work, do so.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese:

The economic shocks caused by this war will be with us for months.

Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese:

If you can switch to catching the train, bus or tram to work, do so.

BREAKING: Trump says he is “strongly considering” pulling the U.S. out of NATO.

Source: The Telegraph

Trump on NATO:

I was never swayed by NATO. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.

Source: The Telegraph

Trump on the Royal Navy:

You don’t even have a navy. You’re too old and had aircraft carriers that didn’t work.

Source: The Telegraph

Trump on NATO:

We’ve been there automatically, including Ukraine. Ukraine wasn’t our problem. It was a test, and we were there for them, and we would always have been there for them. They weren’t there for us.

Source: The Telegraph

Trump on Keir Starmer:

He can do whatever he wants. It doesn’t matter.

All Starmer wants is costly windmills that are driving your energy prices through the roof.

Source: The Telegraph

Keir Starmer on Iran:

This is not our war. We will not be drawn into the conflict.

That is not in our national interest.

Iran has warned it may strike British military bases used by the US, with ambassador Seyed Ali Mousavi saying Tehran will consider “every option” to “defend ourselves.”

Mark Levin is now advocating for a civil war in Iran.

Germany’s Economy Minister Katherina Reiche has urged a rethink of the country’s anti-nuclear stance as energy prices surge.

She warned Germany is now heavily reliant on gas after shutting down nuclear plants:

“We need gas to secure our supply — that is the only baseload supply I have left.”

Keir Starmer:

Whatever the pressure on me and others, whatever the noise, I am going to act in the British national interests in the decisions I make.

Kremlin:

Zelensky needs to make a decision “today already” to withdraw the Ukrainian Armed Forces from the territory of Donbas; he should have made this decision “yesterday already.”

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Keir Starmer:

We should strengthen our cooperation with the EU in defense, security, energy, and the economy.

Keir Starmer on Iran:

There has been a good deal of pressure on me to change my position in relation to joining the war. I am not going to change my position on the war.

Whatever the noise, I am the British prime minister and I have to act in our national interest.

U.S. official to Axios:

This isn't 3D chess — it's 12-dimensional.

He contradicts himself regularly, so nobody knows what he's thinking. It's on purpose.