Trump:

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vučić announced he will resign within weeks and call early presidential and parliamentary elections, despite his second and final term being set to end in mid-2027.

BIG: Russia's fuel crisis spreads to nearly all 89 regions.

Fuel shortages have now affected the vast majority of Russia's 89 regions, prompting many to cap per-customer purchases and ban filling jerrycans.

The causes:
Ukrainian strikes on oil refineries disrupting processing.

Scheduled refinery maintenance.

Panic-buying driven by news of attacks, price hikes, and shortages elsewhere.

Seasonal summer demand spikes.

The situation is far worse in Crimea and the occupied territories (DNR, LNR, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson), where shortages stem from strikes on logistics rather than refining.

Fuel simply isn't reaching consumers, or arrives late and in smaller volumes.

The Trump administration will send a new nine-figure aid package to Venezuela following the devastating earthquakes that struck on Wednesday.

The funding adds to the $150 million already committed as search and rescue efforts continue.

Source: WaPo

Israel is reorganizing its "security zone" in southern Lebanon and is expected to withdraw from two positions—Zoutr al-Gharbiya and Froun—in the Nabatieh area.

Source: Kan News

Bill Maher:

They (Hamas) have tunnels, which are shelters, which they didn’t put any of their people in (Gaza).

You have to look at who caused it.

Senior U.S. officials are frustrated after Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado sought U.S. help to return to Venezuela immediately following the deadly earthquakes.

While Washington supports her return, officials believe the timing could complicate ongoing humanitarian relief efforts.

Source: Reuters

Italy’s Meloni on EU:

It is clear that being a major commercial or regulatory platform is no longer enough.

We need strategic autonomy, industrial capacity, technological sovereignty and financial power.

Europe must be ready to use its geopolitical and geoeconomic strength.

Bessent:

The Iranians are masters of propaganda...

The negotiating team is from the government, and they are playing to a hardline audience back in Tehran.

Just like we have hardliners in our system, they have hardliners.

Netanyahu on Lebanon:

Israel stays in the yellow security zone that keeps us safe. And this is a huge achievement. Huge!

Because what did they try? They tried to get us out of there through all kinds of means, all kinds of pressures. That, of course, did not happen.

I thank President Trump and Secretary of State Rubio for their involvement and their contribution.

Netanyahu on Lebanon:

We are breaking the Iranian diplomatic axis.

We managed to reach this framework of understandings for a simple reason: because we struck Hezbollah hard.

And Hezbollah, which expected help from Iran, didn't get it.

Germany's Army Chief Lieutenant General Christian Freuding:

The tank must become a kind of command and control center — a kind of mothership.

A mothership for ground robots, for commanding and controlling unmanned systems.

But on the other hand, you need something like a tank for one-to-one situations.

You need both the capability to fight over long or medium distance, and the capability for direct fire, for duel situations.

On the modern battlefield, we will see AI-supported drones — and we need the soldier with his rifle and bayonet.

Netanyahu on Lebanon:

I want to remind you what was in Lebanon. Hezbollah had 150,000 missiles and rockets. And we eliminated about 90% of this huge stockpile.

We shocked them with beepers, we eliminated Nasrallah, we killed the commanders of the Radwan Force.

Just in the last two weeks we killed more than 200 terrorists.

Netanyahu on Lebanon:

We are destroying their terrorist infrastructure.

There are bunkers, there are tunnels, there are terror villages.

We are destroying everything.

Netanyahu reveals the two pilot zones from which the IDF will withdraw in Lebanon.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

The agreement with Lebanon is a big mistake.

I appealed to the Prime Minister this evening to hold a vote in the cabinet, and I've been fighting against this agreement for weeks.

Yes, we are staying in most of the territory for now — but the State of Lebanon will not disarm Hezbollah.

Hezbollah ministers sit in the Lebanese government, and Lebanon cannot be trusted to take away Hezbollah's weapons. I will demand a vote in the cabinet.

Only IDF soldiers will destroy Hezbollah — no one else will do it for us.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on the dollar as reserve currency:

If the United States is not the preeminent military and the preeminent economy in 30 or 40 years, we will not be the preeminent reserve currency.

Here’s an IQ test: If you can only invest all your money in one country, what country would it be? There's only one obvious answer.

Someone was telling me they were taking their gold out of the vaults in the United States... because they're pissed off at us.

I was like, 'Well, that's really great, except there are three armies who can come take your gold right now.'

That is the world. People forget, it's a tough world.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar:

Israel will in the coming years be engaged in a struggle for its existence and future.

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Europe's decline:

The GDP of Europe has gone from 90% of America to 70%.

And in our view, it will probably continue to erode over time.

Our stock exchange is worth, I think, 60, maybe 70 trillion today.

Deutsche Börse, three.
The FTSE UK, four.
The French one, three.

Mark Levin:

If this regime in Iran could, they would murder every single one of you sitting in this room, every single one.

Every woman in this room, they would rape you. Every single one.

If you had grandchildren here, they would murder them.

They would slaughter them, every single one of you here because you're Jews or you're Christians or you're just not one of them.

Netanyahu:

After we have removed the Iranian existential threat, a broad national government can bring peace among ourselves, deal with the remnants of the Iranian axis, and reap the fruits of our victory through diplomatic agreements like the one we are making with Lebanon.