Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has confirmed the existence of the letter from President Donald J. Trump.

The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and her Carrier Strike Group observed passing westward through the Strait of Malacca overnight Sunday, on their way to the Indian Ocean and eventually the Middle East.

Satellite imagery from earlier today, January 19, shows Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, which was packed with military aircraft last year prior to strikes against Iran, including 6 B-2 “Spirit” Long-Range Stealth Bombers and 4 B-52H “Stratofortress” Long-Range Strategic Bombers, still almost entirely devoid of aircraft, besides a single C-17A or possibly a KC-135R/T.

Speaking on Monday in front of the Knesset, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran against any attack against Israel, stating, “If Iran makes a mistake and attacks us, we will respond with a force that Iran has never experienced before. No one can predict what will happen in Iran, but one thing is clear: Iran will never return to what it once was.”

U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry, has been disinvited from a traditional dog sled race on the Danish territory by the Greenland Dog Sledding Association (KNQK), in response to recent threats of tariffs by President Trump, according to Politico.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has announced that military aircraft will arrive soon at Pituffik Space Base in Greenland, who along with aircraft operating from bases in Canada and the United States, will support various long-planned activities by NORAD in the Arctic. According to NORAD, these military activities have been coordinated with and build on “enduring defense cooperation” with both Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark.

Massive demonstrations tonight by Kurds in front of the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, Northern Iraq, protesting what they see as inaction by the United States to the ongoing offensive by the Syrian Army against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in Northeastern Syria.

Kurdish protesters have begun to climb the walls, fence, and guard houses around the U.S. Consulate in Erbil, Northern Iraq.

Renault Group, the French multinational automobile manufacturer, is preparing to launch the production of long-range attack drones at its factories in Le Mans and Cléon, with cooperation from the aerospace and defense manufacturer Turgis et Gaillard Groupe.

Renault has stated that it intends to produce 600 drones per month, with employees and equipment being transferred from its automotive manufacturing lines in France.

Chorus, the name of the drone to be manufactured by Renault, are meant to be reverse engineered Russian/Iranian “Shahed-131/136 One-Way Attack Drones, which have been used in the tens if not hundreds of thousands in the Middle East and Ukraine.

Several dozen additional Soldiers with the Royal Danish Army, including Chief of the Danish Army Command, Maj. Gen. Peter H. Boysen, arrived in Greenland on Monday via multiple charter and military flights, in order to participate in Danish-led exercise Arctic Endurance in the Northern Atlantic.

Newly released footage from the recent anti-regime demonstrations in Iran show protesters running from unseen gunfire, several appearing to have been shot and injured, as pools of blood soak the ground, with the footage believed to be from the brutal crackdown by security forces in the capital Tehran on either January 8 or 9, alleged to have been carried out by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Fifteen Servicemembers with the Bundeswehr (German Armed Forces) returned to Germany on Monday from their “advance mission” to Greenland, gathering on-the-ground insights into possible future contributions to the joint strengthening of security in the Arctic by Germany in coordination with Denmark and other members of NATO.

Footage from the recent anti-regime protests in the Iranian capital of Tehran, dated January 8, show security forces on motorcycles attacking people walking down the sidewalk using batons, with one of the officers heard saying, “Hit him in the head!”

In February, the Swedish Air Force will deploy a squadron of Saab JAS 39 “Gripen” Multirole Fighters to Keflavik Air Base in Iceland as part of NATO’s Icelandic Air Policing Mission, supporting the defense of the Northern Atlantic, Greenland, and the Arctic Ocean.

Speaking on the sidelines of today’s summit for the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said, “We as Europe must tell Trump: this far and no further. ‘Back down,’ or we’ll go ‘all the way,” stating that defense spending in Europe must be increased, adding about recent threats by President Trump, “threatening NATO allies with military intervention on NATO territory is so unprecedented that you are really approaching a breaking point… Being a happy vassal is one thing. Being a miserable slave is something else.”

Addressing the 56th Annual Summit of the World Economic Forum (WEF) today in Switzerland, French President Emmanuel Macron attacks practices by both China and the United States, stating that it is “concerning” as “we are killing the structures where we can fix the situation,” adding that collective governance gives way to “relentless” competition, and says that American, “demands maximum concessions and openly aim to weaken and subordinate Europe,” and criticizes an attempted “accumulation of new territories” by the United States. Macron also speaks about China’s “massive excess capacities” and “distortive practices” that seek to “overwhelm” some sectors of the World Economy.