Senator Graham:

To our Arab allies, you need to help Trump, and if you say no to him, you do so at your own peril.

American-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard:

I'm not so sure that we will have as easy a time with the Turks as we've had with the Iranians.

We have to be prepared for the next war, which will probably be against Türkiye and Egypt.

The storm is coming.

American-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard:

For the United States and the West, nuclear weapons — at any level: tactical, strategic, EMPs, whatever — are viewed as something that should only be used as a last resort, and even then very carefully, on an escalation ladder, as they say.

I don't care if you start throwing nukes immediately — responsibly, but immediately.

And a case that I've been pushing is the use of an electromagnetic pulse weapon, or weapons, against Iran. Why are we waiting to get hit?

American-born Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard:

We are an American auxiliary. We are not an independent state.

That's why I kind of derisively referred to Bibi as ‘Governor Bibi.’

And this is why I've been talking about the need for an Israel-first principle to act on.

Trump visited Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Tuesday for a medical checkup and met with service members, but he did not visit the 14 troops recovering there from injuries sustained in the Iran war.

The White House said Trump was “honored to meet” service members and staff but did not explain why wounded troops from Operation Epic Fury were not included in the visit.

Source: CBS News

The UN added Israel to its blacklist for conflict-related sexual violence, according to Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon.

Iranian air-defense intercepting what’s claimed to be a U.S. AGM-158 JASSM cruise missile.

EU’s Kaja Kallas is demanding that any Ukraine peace deal include Russia withdrawing troops from all the “frozen conflict” zones it occupies.

Transnistria (Moldova), Abkhazia and South Ossetia (Georgia), Belarus, and Armenia.

BIG: Sweden is donating several JAS 39 Gripen C/D fighter jets to Ukraine, with PM Kristersson announcing it today at Uppland Air Base.

Separately, negotiations are opening on a future sale of the newer Gripen E, financed through an EU loan.

This follows an October 2025 letter of intent and could eventually cover 100–150 aircraft total.

The Gripen’s ability to operate from highways and short strips makes it especially valuable given Russian strikes on Ukrainian air bases.

Source: Aftonbladet

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard released footage showing the launch of missiles toward the U.S. base in Kuwait, describing it as retaliation for the American attack near Bandar Abbas in southern Iran.

The video also featured symbolic anti-U.S. imagery.

WATCH: Russia is airlifting Pantsir-S1 air defense systems onto Moscow skyscraper rooftops using Mi-26T heavy-lift helicopters — including a filmed deployment onto the 42-floor Nordstar Tower.

Russia has been expanding this rooftop network since 2023.

EU’s Kaja Kallas said “America left” Kyiv, but it’s false.

The US Embassy immediately denied it and confirmed it’s fully operational.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry also shot it down.

Kallas was apparently relaying bad information she’d received from Ukrainian sources the day before.

All European embassies are staying too.

Russia had issued threats urging diplomats to leave Kyiv ahead of planned strikes, but no major embassy moved.

Kremlin:

Russia warned embassy personnel that they should leave Kyiv, and after that, everyone will make their own decisions.

North Korea says there will be “absolutely and forever no denuclearization” of the DPRK.

Pyongyang enshrined its nuclear status in law in 2022 and Kim has repeatedly ruled out bargaining it away.

Kazakh President Tokayev:

No global problem can be solved without Russia’s participation.

Zelensky:

Today I am in Sweden on a working visit. We are preparing a major defense package for Ukraine and a strong step regarding Gripen fighter jets that will definitely make our combat aviation more effective.

Guatemala agreed to allow joint U.S. military strikes on drug trafficking groups inside its borders.

It’s the second such arrangement under Trump (after Ecuador), with Honduras reportedly next.

The broader goal appears to be encircling Mexico, which has refused U.S. military presence on its soil.

Source: NYT

Former senior CIA officer David Rush was arrested after FBI agents found ~300 gold bars ($40 million +), $2 million cash, and 35 Rolexes at his Virginia home.

He’d falsely claimed the gold was for “work-related expenses” over several months.

He also spent nearly two decades lying about his credentials — fake degrees from Clemson and RPI, fake service as a Navy pilot — none of it true.

CIA Director Ratcliffe referred the case to the FBI after an internal investigation.

Most assets have been recovered.

NEW: The US government picked five companies to potentially receive leftover Cold War nuclear weapons material and turn it into fuel for power plants.

It would be the first time private companies get access to this kind of weapons-grade plutonium.

Source: NYT

Israeli "settler" enters a cave dwelling in the West Bank's Masafer Yatta area and shoving a Palestinian woman holding a child to the ground.

The man is also seen beating the family's tied-up dog with a stick.

📸 Hezbollah FPV drone hit a readiness squad vehicle in the Shomera area of northern Israel after the squad responded to an initial drone attack that had started a fire.

The double-tap strike seriously damaged the vehicle and wounded two reservists, one moderately and one severely.

Their helmets are credited with saving their lives.

Source: ynet