Ricardo Vaz | Venezuelan Journalist & Analyst | Venezuelanalysis:
 

Venezuela's foreign policy realignment is stark.
 
When Iran made disrespectful comments, the Foreign Ministry summoned the Iranian ambassador with a formal protest.
 
Two days later, Trump said Venezuela would become 51st state of the US - they made no formal protest.
 
Both Chávez & Maduro condemned Israeli occupation. But now the government is talking about technical cooperation with Israel.

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Trump reposts:

How Trump can help Ukraine build its own Patriot missiles.

Trump:

Great jobs number just announced, breaking all estimates (except mine!) by double and triple - And you haven’t seen anything yet! EMPLOYERS ADDED 162,000 JOB IN AUGUST.

Lower the interest rates because the U.S.A. is a much stronger credit than it was just a short time ago!

A STRONG COUNTRY MEANS A LOWER INTEREST RATE - IT’S A BETTER CREDIT…Very simple! We should have the LOWEST RATE of any country in the World, like “the old days.”

Without the United States agreeing to allow them their big surpluses, and we could stop that immediately, they would no longer be considered financially ELITE!

LOWER THE RATE OR I’LL STOP TRADING WITH COUNTRIES WITH WHICH WE HAVE A DEFICIT, which the U.S. Supreme Court, in its ridiculous and very costly Tariff decision, strongly acknowledged “the President” has an absolute right to do.

IT’S BETTER THAN TARIFFS! The Fed Board, with its great new leader, must get smart - BE PATRIOTS for a change.

High interest rates put the U.S.A. at a very unfair disadvantage, and I won’t allow that to happen!

Trump:

PASS THE SAVE AMERICA ACT!!!

Putin's adviser Kobyakov:

Currently in Ukraine, only one child is born for every four people who die.

Ukraine has passed the point of no return on the path to extinction, and only Russia can save it.

In fact, we already did this once: when these lands were incorporated into Russia in the past, we resettled our population in Ukraine.

Israel Threatens UK Retaliation Over West Bank Settlement Sanctions

Gideon Sa’ar said Israel is preparing to retaliate if Britain imposes measures over illegal settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.

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Argentina’s intelligence agency posted a satellite image of the Falkland Islands with the message “We are watching.”

The post, shared on SIDE’s official X account, showed the islands from space but provided no further details.

US Jobs Smash Wall Street Forecasts As Trump Demands Lower Interest Rates

US employers added 162,000 jobs in August, nearly triple economists’ forecast, prompting markets to raise bets on a Fed hike even as Trump demanded sharply lower borrowing costs.

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Bessent:

I actually think we are going to be very much oversupplied in the oil market after this.

We can see $40–$50 dollar crude maybe.

Bessent on Canada:

I don’t want to do any grave dancing here, but Canada lost more than 40,000 jobs, and we had a blowout jobs number.

Our message at the G20 was, “Come and grow with us.”

Bessent:

People say to me, "stock market is going up on bad news."

I say it’s not bad news; the news coverage is bad.

The term "fake news" is not enough.

Bessent:

The Financial Times is anti-American, anti-business, anti-Western values.

WSJ isn’t a business paper. The only thing I read on them is book reviews.

Bessent on Iran:

They sent oil toward China. Watch this space for action on that on Tuesday.

Bessent on Iran:

Either the regime is going to change within, the people are going to come up, or we will see what happens.

NEW: Zelensky ordered an "adequate, tangible" response that would "mirror" Russia's attack on SBU building today.

Poklad is alive & well.

The UN says the world will likely warm more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels within the next few years.

This means the planet will pass a level of warming linked to more severe heat, floods, droughts, rising seas, and other climate impacts.

The goal now is to stop temperatures from rising too far above 1.5°C.

Source: AP

BIG: Iran appears more confident after six months of war with the U.S., according to recent U.S. intelligence assessments.

Tehran believes it has learned the limits of American military power, retained enough missiles and drones to keep fighting, and gained leverage by disrupting the Strait of Hormuz.

The broader assessment is that Iran sees little reason to negotiate now.

Instead, it may try to prolong the conflict through the U.S. midterm elections, betting that high energy prices, casualties and an unpopular war will weaken President Trump politically.

Source: NYT

NEW:The Pentagon pulled its mandatory testosterone screening order just one day after issuing it.

The guidance, which would have required blood tests for all troops 30 and older, was removed from the website and reclassified as a "draft."

Medical experts had objected, saying there's insufficient evidence for mass screening of men without symptoms.

Source: Military

Explosive devices were found near overhead power lines at two substations in Saxony’s Görlitz district, Germany, raising fears of further sabotage.

On September 2, similar rocket-like devices were found damaging power lines at a substation in Brandenburg, about 50 km away, while another sabotage attack targeted a substation near Bergheim, close to Cologne.

Police are investigating.

Source: BILD

NOW: Iran appears to have fired missiles again.

Target not yet confirmed.

NEW: The US Air Force is fast-tracking a cheap, expendable drone to replace the MQ-9 Reaper.

The new "Massed Modular Aircraft" would cost about $10 million — a third of a Reaper — with at least 180 planned.

The reason: 45 Reapers lost in the Iran war, about 25% of the fleet, over $1 billion gone.

Production ended in 2025 so there's no way to replace them.

A top general said they're going through Reapers "at a rate that is concerning."