Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich:

We're too careful about the enemy, and at times we put our own soldiers at greater risk.

That's not the most moral approach.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

Before October 7, I was sitting in the cabinet. I told them, "Let's bomb Gaza. Bomb Gaza. Bomb Gaza."

They looked at me as if I were crazy.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

You should see what happens when we enter the prisons. They're afraid.

One prison officer told me that when we entered Marwan Barghouti's cell, he had tears in his eyes. We went into his cell.

He started folding, backing down, becoming afraid.

Today, we speak to them exactly the way they should be spoken to. And it works. It works, my friends.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir:

We go into the prisons, and they wet themselves.

I'm not joking—they wet themselves. They're afraid.

Fear rules them, and that's how it should be.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

Israel is using U.S. taxpayer dollars to silence any U.S. critics.

It will all soon unravel.

Zelensky says Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) destroyed a Russian Tu-95 strategic bomber at the Engels airbase.

China denied President Donald Trump's claim that it interfered in the 2020 U.S. election, calling the accusation groundless and saying it has never sought to influence American elections.

Beijing urged Washington to stop politicizing China in U.S. elections and said it hopes the dispute will not harm bilateral relations ahead of President Xi Jinping's planned September visit to the United States.

Source: ABC News

Andy Burnham has become Labour leader and is expected to become UK prime minister on Monday, replacing Keir Starmer.

Trump:

Great reviews on speech last night. Big audience.

Pass THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!!!

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The US president refused to schedule a meeting with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu after the Israeli leader publicly criticized American plans to sell F-35 fighter jets to Türkiye.

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U.S. strikes hit 6 bridges overnight near Bandar Abbas on Iran's coast, only several located so far.

Strikes appear aimed at cutting this coastal stretch off from supply lines to the rest of Iran, possibly as a prelude to a US invasion of nearby Qeshm Island (or to create that impression).

Iranian fishermen recovered a downed US LUCAS kamikaze drone from the Strait of Hormuz.

LUCAS (FLM-136) is America's reverse-engineered copy of Iran's Shahed-136 — a ~$35k disposable attack drone with ~650-800km range.

Pakistan and Kuwait are in early talks on expanding their defence partnership in exchange for greater energy cooperation and investment.

Kuwait is reportedly seeking a Saudi-style security arrangement that could include Pakistani troops, fighter jets, drones, air defence systems, and other military support.

However, Pakistani officials say combat troop deployments are not under consideration, stressing the talks remain at an early stage.

Source: Reuters

Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias:

I was sorry that I had to authorize the arrest of a Greek Air Force colonel for espionage on behalf of a big foreign power. You can imagine which one I'm mentioning.

No, that is not acceptable. That is not acceptable.

We respect China, but we demand their respect as well.

Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias:

Twice in the 20th century, the United States departed from Europe, and then they came back running during the First World War and during the Second World War.

So let's not try for a third time.

Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias:

If Greece and Türkiye had not been members of NATO, my hypothesis is that the Warsaw Pact would have controlled both countries.

Tucker Carlson on Trump:

I don't think Trump is the most powerful man in the world.

Many presidents have, to varying degrees, resisted attempts to control them from outside and he didn't.

So he's weak.

Source: Bloomberg

Tucker Carlson:

I'd love to go see Trump. I can't. I can't. Trump's all mad at me. They're all mad at me.

Calling me an antisemite or... it's just so ludicrous.

Look, I think at this point it wouldn't be good for me to contact anybody. I'm seen as disloyal.

Trump has been disloyal to the United States, totally disloyal to the United States.

He cheated on the United States with a foreign power. So I'm not the one who's been disloyal.

Source: Bloomberg

Tucker Carlson:

The Republican Party is going to be spanked in the midterms.

That doesn't make the country better.

I don't see any political leader right now speaking for the majority of Americans.

Source: Bloomberg

Tucker Carlson admits:

I certainly did support the Iraq War.

And I not only supported it, I argued against and attacked people who opposed it.

And I'm sorry, and I remain sorry, but I also was chastened and I learned something, which is you can get carried away by propaganda and you can end up lying. I didn't mean to lie, but I did.

And I'm resolved. I'm never going to allow that to happen to me again ever. I will never do that again. And I haven't.

Source: Bloomberg