Canadian PM Mark Carney:

Two weeks ago, we made the right decision to suspend our trade negotiations with the United States.

We couldn’t accept what they’d offered. We wouldn’t give what they’d asked.

As a result, the U.S. has imposed new tariffs designed to hurt and divide us.

Now, that’s a miscalculation, because Canadians will always take care of each other.

And it’s a miscalculation because we have everything we need to build the country we want. We have the reserves. We have the resilience. And we have the right plan.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis:

It is inconceivable for there to be an active threat of war and a challenge to Greek sovereignty by a country that aspires to improve its relations with the European Union.

Türkiye’s European path, which we want to strengthen, cannot but go hand in hand with building good-neighborly relations with Greece.

I will say it again: my country is a peaceful country that poses a threat to no one.

But it will not accept instructions from anyone on how it should strengthen its defenses.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis:

The financing of the defense of every inch of Europe must be unified.

SAFE was an important initiative and moved in the right direction.

But we need more, and we also need to choose our partners very carefully.

Let me remind you that a condition for the participation of third countries in the program was, and remains, that the security and defense interests of the member states must not be harmed.

The U.S. Navy is facing a serious logistics problem in the Middle East.

Around 20 ships carrying roughly 20,000 sailors and Marines need more than 420,000 meals and about eight million gallons of fuel every week.

The situation became much harder after Iran destroyed a key Navy logistics base in Bahrain and made other nearby ports too dangerous to use.

Supply ships now have to travel about 2,200 miles to Diego Garcia, or even farther to Singapore, before returning to the fleet.

Source: NYT

Russia continues to install massive anti-drone cage structures over oil storage tanks at a fuel depot.

The idea is to act as a last line of defense against kamikaze drones by physically blocking them before they hit the tanks.

Abdul El-Sayed says Netanyahu should be arrested if he comes to the U.S., calling him a war criminal.

NEW: German industrial bosses want workers back to 40 hours a week without extra pay — effectively a 13% cut in hourly labor costs.

The 35-hour week in metals and auto was won by IG Metall after a seven-week strike in 1984 and has been the norm since 1995.

Now with German manufacturing over 15% below its 2017 peak, labor costs at €49.50 an hour (47% above the EU average), and VW considering plant closures, executives at Mercedes-Benz, Stihl, and others are openly calling the old deal unaffordable.

Source: FT

For the first time in recorded history, people 65 and older outnumber children 5 and under worldwide — 852 million versus fewer.

By 2060, the 65+ population hits 2 billion, accounting for 55% of all global population growth.

The driver is simple: fertility has collapsed below replacement in countries representing 71% of the world's population, up from 45% a decade ago.

South Korea is projected to be the oldest country by 2060 with 41% over 65.

The world's age pyramid is flattening into a column.

Source: Axios

Trump on Spain:

What's happened with Spain is an outrage. When I look at it, it's so sad.

It's gonna ruin their whole country. What are they doing?

Venezuela's opposition leader María Corina Machado questions U.S.-Venezuela oil deal:

The true scope of this agreement is still unknown.

Who signs? What is actually being signed? Who puts up the money? Who gives the guarantees?

How does this benefit Venezuelans?

Trump:

We didn't have crime in London. London was a very safe place.

Now a different culture has entered London. Same thing with Paris.

It's not recognizable.

Trump claims there are "Sharia courts" in London.

Turkish police killed a 21-year-old ISIS suspect in Istanbul's Sultanbeyli district during a raid.

The suspect, identified as Berkan Ç., was assessed as planning a terrorist attack in Türkiye.

He opened fire on officers during the operation and was shot dead.

One civilian was injured.

The operation was carried out by Istanbul's counter-terrorism and intelligence branches.

Trump:

I'm saving the UK from the Iranian threat.

If Iran had a nuclear weapon, they are more likely to use it in Europe than they are against America.

Trump hosted Hasidic rebbes and a Litvish rosh yeshiva in the Oval Office for a pre-Rosh Hashanah meeting — described as the first such gathering in over 50 years.

Both rival Satmar brothers attended and exchanged greetings for the first time in decades.

Trump asked if they were twins.

The guest list included leaders of Satmar, Skver, Bobov, Vizhnitz, and Lakewood's Beth Medrash Govoha.

Expected topics included defending Haredi educational independence from New York state oversight.

The Satmar rebbe reportedly planned to raise Israel's yeshiva draft.

The invite drew criticism from pro-Israel Trump allies given Satmar's anti-Zionist stance.

Trump on Iran:

As soon as we win... we have already won.

Trump on Ukraine:

The level of animosity between Putin and Zelensky is causing that war not to end.

Türkiye's intelligence chief İbrahim Kalın made a quiet visit to Athens last Friday, meeting his Greek counterpart Themistoklis Demiris.

Neither side announced it.

Greek media broke the story days later.

Greek sources say they discussed the Eastern Mediterranean, Syria, Libya, and Türkiye-Israel tensions, with both sides signaling a desire to keep the Aegean calm.

Trump on the Falkland Islands:

The UK is not the same country it was 20–25 years ago.

You went there and took the Falklands back very quickly.

I don't know if the UK has the capacity to do it again.

Trump on Spain:

Spain is going to be destroyed.

Q: Can AI turn against humanity?

Trump: It's gonna be fine. We will always have something to stop them, right?