U.S. official to Axios:

The president is the most bloodthirsty, like a mad dog.

Hegseth and Rubio sound like the doves compared to the president.

U.S. official to Axios:

The U.S. military attacked military targets on Kharg Island.

NEW: IRGC Aerospace Commander announces a new phase of the war, deploying fresh twin-launcher for Fateh and Kheibar-Shekan missiles.

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán:

Europe is heading towards one of the worst energy crises of all times.

If we do not take measures on time, we are going to see a shortage of energy, oil, and gas.

Hashtrood–Tabriz Bridge, hit by Israeli airstrike.

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán:

If the Europeans would not be blocking the peace efforts of Trump, peace would have been reinstated in Ukraine for a long time already.

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Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán:

Hungary is experiencing very harsh and very open interference by foreign security services into our elections.

JD Vance:

I want to help as much as I possibly can to Orbán as he faces this election season.

JD Vance:

Bureaucrats in Brussels are doing everything they can to hold down the people of Hungary because they don’t like the leader who has actually stood up for the people of Hungary.

JD Vance:

We want European families to be able to afford to heat their homes.

We want Europe to be energy independent and even energy dominant.

But it’s not going to be energy secure if it continues to follow the failed policies of the past.

Trump:

A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.

However, now that we have Complete and Total Regime Change, where different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail, maybe something revolutionarily wonderful can happen, WHO KNOWS?

We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end. God Bless the Great People of Iran!

JD Vance:

The two leaders who have done the most to end the war in Ukraine have been: Donald Trump and Viktor Orbán.

JD Vance on Hungary:

What has happened in this country, what has happened in the midst of this election campaign, is one of the worst examples of foreign intellectual interference that I’ve ever seen or even read about.

The bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary, they have tried to make Hungary less energy independent, they have tried to drive up costs for Hungarian consumers, and they’ve done it all because they hate this guy.

JD Vance on Russia-Ukraine:

You don’t have to defend the morality of the war.

I think Orbán and Trump have both condemned the invasion.

JD Vance:

There were people in the Ukrainian system who were campaigning with the Democrats before the 2024 election.

JD Vance:

Very shortly, this war is going to conclude.

The nature of the conclusion is up to the Iranians.

Turkish President Erdogan visits ROKETSAN, Türkiye’s leading missile manufacturer.

Displayed behind him are a range of Turkish ballistic and cruise missiles, alongside several air defense systems.

One of the systems visible in the background may be Türkiye’s most advanced medium-range ballistic missile, CENK.

Source: Defence_Turk (at X)

JD Vance:

While the Iranians are trying to exact as much economic cost through the Strait of Hormuz, the United States has the ability to extract much greater economic costs on Iran than Iran has the ability to extract costs on us or on our friends in the world.

So, I hope that they’re smart.

JD Vance jokes:

I hope God agrees with the decision that Iran shouldn’t have a nuclear weapon.

JD Vance:

We are going to work with whoever wins the elections in Hungary.

But Viktor Orbán is going to win the elections—I feel confident about that.