— 🇹🇷/🇸🇾 NEW: Turkish Foreign Minister has threatened to launch a military operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish SDF in Syria unless they accept Turkey's conditions for a 'bloodless' transition after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

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— ❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 WATCH: On his social media platform Truth Social, Donald Trump shared a video of Columbia University professor Jeffrey David Sachs discussing C.I.A. plans to overthrow Assad in Syria, how Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli lobby pushed for the U.S. to go to war with Iraq, and Netanyahu's ongoing efforts to involve the U.S. in a conflict with Iran.

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— 🇨🇳 UPDATE: The death toll from the recent 6.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Shigatse, Tibet, in western China has risen to at least 126, with 188 others injured.

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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades have released footage of targeting Israeli forces that entered Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip

The video also shows captured quadcopter drones containing footage of Israeli positions and equipment.

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇶 NEW: Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia Al-Sudani has met with the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, during his official state visit to Tehran

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I was going to say 'may God protect the people', then I remembered it's California.

I will finally be back in 4-5 days btw. So, starting in a few days, posting at the usual pace will resume.

— 🇺🇸 Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump: 'I think, personally, expanding the territory of the United States of America is one of the greatest, perhaps even the single greatest thing a President can do. It would be one of the greatest achievements.'

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— The situation.

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— Honestly though, wouldn't it be funny if the U.S. just ends up making a secret deal with Russia? (Schizo-posting ahead):

Two of the most sworn enemies coming together to dictate a new reality, something akin to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact where Nazi Germany & the USSR agreed to divide Poland among themselves.

America could take Canada, Greenland, Mexico and the Panama Canal, and Russia could get Ukraine, the Baltics, and Moldova. They could also peacefully integrate Belarus.

This is, of course, a total fantasy. But if it happened, Europe would be way too preoccupied with militarizing and defending themselves against the Russian threat in the East, they won't have time to care about Canada, much less Greenland or Mexico.

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