In late January 2026, just three weeks after the new year began, European leaders held a closed-door emergency meeting in Brussels that some later called "therapy night."

With no aides, phones, or cameras, they openly vented their frustration and anxiety over Trump's actions, including his threats toward Greenland and broader shifts in U.S. policy.

The discussion centered on a once-unthinkable question: whether Europe needed to prepare for a future in which America was no longer a dependable ally.

French President Emmanuel Macron concluded that "there is no going back," while most leaders agreed Europe had to become more strategically independent, though Italy's Giorgia Meloni argued Trump could still be reasoned with.

Source: WSJ

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Netanyahu:

Jerusalem, our united capital, will never be divided again.

Britain intercepted a Russian Tu-142 "Bear F" maritime patrol aircraft after it approached the HMS Prince of Wales carrier strike group in the Norwegian Sea on July 2.

The UK said the aircraft behaved "unsafe and unprofessionally" by dropping sonobuoys near the carrier, prompting British F-35 jets to escort it away.

France has softened its long-standing opposition to selling the Franco-Italian SAMP/T air-defence system to Türkiye, allowing preliminary talks to move forward.

Any deal remains at an early stage and would likely require addressing Greek concerns before approval.

Source: Reuters

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel:

We only have one chance left as a nation.

We must finally end what we see as the wrong policies in Germany, as quickly as possible.

Euro bailouts, refugee rescue, climate rescue, Ukraine rescue—combined with consistent deindustrialisation and disastrous energy policy—are overwhelming the people in our country; they are overwhelming us.

They overwhelm those people who think every day about the future of their children, who think in terms of generations, and who believe in Germany’s future.

Video from Tehran, Iran shows demonstrators marching with large posters featuring red crosshairs over the faces of Laura Loomer, Trump, Ben Shapiro, Miriam Adelson, Lindsey Graham and others, with the text "Sooner or later, your heads will roll."

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Azerbaijan's Air Force conducted training flights with its new JF-17C Block III jets, Su-25 & L-39 aircraft as part of its 2026 combat readiness plan.

Message from Iran to Trump:

We will end you, Donald!

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel on the branding of AfD as right wing extremist:

The old parties clung to this ridiculous, unsorted collection of material in order to systematically deny us the rights of the opposition in the new Bundestag and prevent us from fully carrying out the voters’ mandate of parliamentary representation.

And for the history books, dear friends, it is truly sad that the once-proud workers’ party is disappearing from German party history so quietly and without glory.

I personally will not shed a single tear for the SPD. A party that betrays workers and employees in this way has no place here anymore.

The executive board had to do a considerable amount of work to legally challenge the defamatory document of the Social Democrat Nancy Faeser. And we won.

The decision of the Cologne Administrative Court is clear: we are not right-wing extremist.

We already knew that. We are now successfully fighting back against the politically directed domestic intelligence service.

U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau:

India should understand that we’re not going to make the same mistakes with India that we made with China 20 years ago,

In terms of saying, "Oh, you know, we’re going to let you be able to develop all these markets," and then the next thing we know, you’re beating us in a lot of commercial things.

We’re going to make sure that whatever we do, it’s fair to our people, because ultimately we have to be accountable to our own people, just as the government of India has to be accountable to its people.

Trump's giant banner gets stoned by Iranians during Khamenei's funeral procession.

Lukashenko said his country "does not want war" but "will not bow to the enemy."

"We are a peaceful people. We do not want to fight, but we will not bow our heads before the enemy," Lukashenko said.

Kremlin:

Trump is open to listening to the information that Putin conveys to him.

Kremlin:

Trump's position on Ukraine is consistent; he is confident in his own understanding of what is happening in Ukraine.

Europe’s relationship with Palantir is beginning to shift.

Across 2025–2026, a growing number of European governments, intelligence agencies and public institutions have moved to block new contracts, replace existing systems, or reduce dependence on the U.S. data analytics company.

The common concern: data sovereignty, strategic autonomy, and keeping sensitive government data under European control.

Here’s where each country stands.

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel on Skin Colour, Immigration, and Same-Sex Families:

Interviewer: During the campaign, you had your wife with you; she was born in Sri Lanka. Is something like this ever discussed at home, since it is, after all, a central issue here?

Alice Weidel: This is not about skin colour. And my wife, as you have once again done, is being labelled as having a migration background.

My wife is Swiss and was adopted, and accordingly she does not see herself as having a migration background. Those are completely different things.

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel on Same-Sex Families:

Well, we now live in a very different reality. Same-sex relationships must be treated as equal.

But if, as a politician, I speak of a social ideal, and that is the traditional family, then I can advocate for that. It is not a contradiction.

Sami Hamdi | Geopolitical Analyst | The International Interest:
 

Even candidates funded by AIPAC are turning against Israel.
 
Maxine Dexter won in Oregon with AIPAC money & went to Congress, compared Gaza to the Holocaust & voted for Rashida Tlaib's bill calling it genocide.
 
Chris Menefee won with AIPAC backing. AIPAC tweeted congratulating him. He then voted for the bill to stop weapons going to Israel.
 
James Fishback in Florida is openly saying he doesn't want to give $385 million to Israel & wants to keep it in Florida.
 
Israeli media says this may be the final Congress & president willing to listen to Israel because they have lost a generation of Americans about to come into power.

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