France has sent its ambassador back to Algeria and dispatched a senior official to attend ceremonies commemorating the 1945 Sétif massacre.

Source: AFP

Pete Hegseth:

The Biden administration’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine mandate was wrongfully forced onto our warfighters.

It was unjust, and we are doing everything we can to make it right.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo admits:

There is not a prime minister of Israel who has any chance of getting elected who would not do almost precisely what Netanyahu has done to date — and will continue to do.

This is not about Netanyahu.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo:

I’m much less worried about Taiwan than I am about Denver, Colorado, or Los Angeles, or Phoenix, or Ottawa, or Toronto.

The Chinese Communist Party is hard at work inside the gates here — right where we’re sitting today.

I’ll bet you there are Chinese Communist Party affiliated people in this room today.

And by the way, they look like me — like white Italian dudes. They’re working for this mission set, and they’re not spies in the quintessential sense.

They’re in our university systems in the United States. There is not a single university in the United States that isn’t deeply tied to Chinese money. Chinese students in our country pay full tuition, and then they come give money to our labs so they can steal our stuff.

Obama meets with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Trump:

I've settled eight wars — and actually nine — and now it looks like we could have 10.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo:

As we sit here, many of you are young. Some of you have on your phone, or your children and grandchildren have on your phone, basically the Chinese Communist Party messaging team, and they’re telling your kids things, and you can’t disintermediate it.

And they’re telling them Canada sucks, and you people are decadent, and the West is in decline, and if Canada’s bad, America is really bad.

Be very mindful that they are working very hard to shape the next generation to undermine the things that we care most about.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

I personally do not trust somebody like Marjorie Taylor Greene—a proven bigot and anti-Semite—on the issues of what is good for Gazans and Israelis. I don’t think it benefits our movement to align with white nationalists.

Putin:

Victory has always been and will always be ours.

Putin:

Our fighters in Ukraine are confronting an aggressive force backed by the entire NATO bloc, and despite this, they continue to advance.

North Korean troops marched in Russia’s Victory Day parade in Moscow for the first time.

Kremlin:

There were no strikes on Red Square on May 9, and naturally there was no massive retaliatory missile strike on Kyiv either.

Hezbollah released footage of an FPV drone strike targeting an Israeli Merkava tank near Alma al-Shaab in southern Lebanon.

Russia is using the Caspian Sea to quietly move military and commercial supplies to Iran, helping Tehran bypass U.S. pressure and sanctions.

Source: NYT

Prof. Foad Izadi | Foreign Policy Expert | American Studies at the University of Tehran:
 

The Trump administration sought to change Iran's government - they haven't been able to do that.
 
In fact, the leaders they assassinated were more lenient & accommodating than those who replaced them.
 
The new Iranian leaders are younger, more energetic & have concluded that the US only understands the language of force.
 
After the June attack on Iran, no American soldiers were killed in Iran's response. This time, the response is much more severe.
 
Trump explicitly said he wanted to take over Iran's oil in a Financial Times interview. He hasn't been able to do that either.
 
When pressed, Trump said he's a businessman who likes to make money - using business as cover for what amounts to piracy, referencing the US Navy seizing Iranian oil tankers.
 
On every major objective - regime change, territorial changes, taking Iran's oil - they have not been successful.

FULL INTERVIEW

Prof. Foad Izadi | Foreign Policy Expert | American Studies at the University of Tehran:
 

Before the war, some Iranians blamed the government for economic difficulties. That has changed.
 
Pezeshkian's reformist government was in the middle of negotiations when Iran was attacked - twice.
 
In the latest round in Islamabad, Iran wasn't attacked mid-negotiations, but the naval blockade was announced - an act of war.
 
Iranians understand their country was attacked while their government was pursuing a diplomatic solution. That makes tolerating economic hardship easier.
 
There is a strong rally-around-the-flag effect.
 
Trump has left Iran with only one choice: to defend itself. And Iranians, regardless of their other grievances, understand that defending the country comes first.
 
Iran has a population of over 90 million with diverse views & political disagreements - that's normal.
 
But on the question of an unjust external attack by Israel & the US, there is unity: resist.

FULL INTERVIEW

Péter Magyar officially becomes Hungary’s Prime Minister.

Baykar Chairman of the Board and Chief Technology Officer Selcuk Bayraktar on Palantir's manifesto:

Recently, a text resembling a manifesto was published. When we looked at that text, we encountered a dark mindset that views war, peace, and human life merely as optimization problems — as algorithmic outputs — removing conscience, morality, and the human soul from the equation.

For them, the world may consist of nothing more than a simulation processed on their servers, a computer algorithm. But we know that humanity, which they seek to imprison within that spider web, is far more than a source of data.

Against these arrogant and dark manifestos, we must put forward our own roadmap centered on justice, compassion, morality, and human dignity.

Putin to Fico:

We will do everything to satisfy the Slovak Republic’s needs in energy resources, and we are also ready to cooperate in other areas.

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

We all know that security in Europe has fundamentally changed in recent years. It is clear that Russia poses an imminent threat to us.

In this time of geopolitical uncertainty and growing security challenges, Germany carries a special responsibility, not only for its own future, but also for the unity of Europe as a whole.

We are transforming our army, the Bundeswehr, into the strongest conventional army in Europe.

Germany's Chancellor Merz:

Germany is no European magnet for illegal migration anymore.

We have been able to reduce illegal migration, dear colleagues and friends, by 70% compared to 2023. For the first time since 2015, Germany is no longer the country with the highest number of asylum seekers in Europe.