Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias:

The seventh program concerns three C-390 Millennium aircraft under a government-to-government agreement with Portugal.

The first aircraft will be delivered in 2027. They are twice as fast as the transport aircraft currently operated by the Greek Air Force.

But that is not the main reason behind this decision, even though their speed is a major advantage.

The transport time to Cyprus—or the number of flights to Cyprus, for example—could be doubled.

Elon Musk:

One of the tricks I think is quite funny is to take a speech from Obama and Hillary, and go to someone who's sort of on what I call the lunatic left, and say, "What do you think of this speech by Trump?"

They'll say, "Oh wow, he's the worst person ever." Actually, that was a speech by Obama. Actually, that was a speech by Hillary.

Source: The Economist

Elon Musk:

Here are the principles—and tell me which of these sound terrible: that we should have secure borders, that we should have safe cities, that we should have sensible spending.

Which of those three are far-right fringe? And I would like to just admonish you and the media for the absurd characterization of the far right.

It is false and misleading and nonsense. Please keep this part in. We'll keep all of this in. Don't cut this part.

Source: The Economist

Q: People say that you're a racist.

Elon Musk: My partner is half Indian, and I have four children with her. One of them was named after a famous Indian physicist. So I would say I'm not racist.

And also, if you look at the people that are employed at my companies, we have senior executives of all races. I don't think there's any racism there.

Source: The Economist

Q: Are you anti-Muslim?

Elon Musk: If people are coming to a country with antithetical views—I am against that.

I'm against rape and murder. I'm against the imposition of rules and laws that are contrary to what we've come to accept in the West.

Source: The Economist

The U.S. Senate voted 49–47 to block a resolution that would have required Trump to obtain congressional approval for further military action against Iran.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz:

We are prepared for any scenario. If Iran attacks Israel, it will suffer a crushing blow.

Elon Musk:

I think AI may exceed the sum of human intelligence in around five years. In five years—roughly five years—is my guess.

So there really won't be anything that AI can't do better than humans, apart from being human, perhaps.

Source: The Economist

Fox News commentators are debating potential US targets in Iran, specifically discussing which power stations could be hit.

Pro-Trump influencer Laura Loomer, who recently decided to turn pro-Ukraine, has interviewed President Zelensky in Kyiv.

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Trump:

Take a look at California. You have brownouts and blackouts every weekend.

Trump:

AI is bigger than the internet.

AI is bigger than anything anyone's seen thus far.

Trump:

We made a purchase of 10% of Intel. We got it for the right price.

We made approximately 72 billion dollars on that deal.

Do I get credit for that one? No, I get no credit!

Trump:

I would like to be the next president.

I am going to make somebody look very good.

Trump:

Nobody could watch the debate between Donald Trump and Sleepy Joe Biden because the wind wasn't blowing.

Trump:

If you dislike another country, let them keep building windmills.

Trump on Iran:

We are doing very well against the Islamic Republic of Iran. We're doing extremely well.

They would like to do something, but I say they are not ready yet.

They need more of the same. They have some evil intentions.

Trump:

We are making a lot of money thanks to Venezuela.

We are entitled to that.

Trump on U.S. casualties:

That's 18 in two wars.

Trump on Venezuela:

Energy Secretary Chris Wright is running Venezuela.