Dr. Khaled Beydoun | Author & Geopolitical Analyst | Arizona State University:
 

Influential figures like Trump, Tucker Carlson & Candace Owens view the US & Western Europe as white Anglo-Saxon Christian nations.
 
During the Zohran Mamdani mayoral race, Muslim candidates were labeled Trojan Horses.
 
But the terror label is thin, weak & disingenuous - and thanks to social media.

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Putin:

Multipolarity faces resistance from those who are accustomed to thinking in colonial terms, dividing the world into a flourishing garden and wild jungles—and living at others’ expense.

They are not prepared to accept the changing reality and are trying by every means to contain their growing competitors.

Any means are being used, including tariff wars, illegitimate sanctions, attempts at economic diktat, blackmail, interference in internal affairs and simply brute force.

Putin:

The entire system of international relations is beginning to malfunction. The effectiveness of a number of multilateral structures and institutions is declining.

Russia attaches exceptional importance to preserving and strengthening the central role of the United Nations in world affairs.

The UN Charter is a key source of international law, despite attempts by some countries to replace it with some kind of order based on rules drawn up by who knows whom.

Putin:

The time has long come to improve global economic governance institutions—the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO.

They were all created under completely different political and economic realities and are struggling to adapt to a situation in which economic activity is increasingly shifting toward developing markets.

Dr. Khaled Beydoun | Author & Geopolitical Analyst | Arizona State University:
 

American & European leaders have exploited Crusades narrative to justify the War on Terror.

Bush's first Congressional speech after 9/11 appealed directly to evangelical rhetoric & the Crusades.

Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations provided intellectual framework - a civilizational paradigm underpinned by religion.

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Crowds gathered in Dublin to protest Trump’s visit to Ireland, with demonstrators using imagery featuring Trump, Epstein and Netanyahu to voice their criticism.

Ukrainian drones hit sanctioned Russian tanker Armada Leader off Sochi despite a Russian helicopter firing at the incoming drone.

The drone evaded and struck anyway.

This is part of Operation MoLoChKa, which Ukraine says has hit 285 Russian vessels since July.

Dr. Khaled Beydoun | Author & Geopolitical Analyst | Arizona State University:
 

The War on Terror provided foreign governments a legitimized body of law & language to persecute their own Muslims.
 
Modi's government uses counterterrorism language to label opponents & vast Muslim populations as putative terrorists.
 
France accelerated its Islamophobic project. Sweden & countries across Europe followed.

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Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli:

Israel is united with both Greece and Cyprus against Islamic extremism in the region led by Türkiye.

Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli on U.S. Ambassador to Türkiye Tom Barrack:

He is acting against the interests of the West, Christians and the United States.

NATO’s Rutte:

Russia is suffering enormous losses, now estimated at more than 40,000 killed or seriously wounded every month.

Think about it for a moment. Over 40,000. Every month.

Despite those heavy losses, Putin shows no willingness to bring the war to an end.

NATO's Rutte:

The latest hostile actions by Russia are reckless, dangerous, and a threat to life. But we are not intimidated.

We know these are the tactics of a desperate regime that is failing to meet its objectives in Ukraine.

Putin thinks he can divide us, destabilize us, and weaken our support for Ukraine.

But he will fail.

NATO's Rutte:

If China were to move against Taiwan, Xi Jinping would first call his junior partner, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow to keep us busy here.

In other words, the Indo-Pacific and Europe are more and more interconnected.

A Russian Shahed drone struck the city center of Zviahel in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, reportedly near a gas station.

Casualties have been reported.

Hundreds protested outside Israel's Embassy in Bangkok.

"Thailand Is Not For Sale".

"This Is Not The Promised Land."

Bahrain says it refuses to attend any meeting with Iran until diplomatic ties are restored, rejecting Oman's proposed Gulf-Iran ministerial on Hormuz.

Bahrain set four conditions: stop the attacks, pay reparations, respect sovereignty, settle disputes legally.

US Embassy in UAE warns Americans to exercise "increased caution" around Jewish and Israeli-linked sites, including places of worship.

UAE remains at Level 3 "Reconsider Travel" for terrorism and armed conflict.

Not a new specific threat, but a reminder amid heightened risk.