🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷❌ — The official Israeli broadcasting authority, citing military sources:

➡️Our operations in Iran are not proceeding as we had planned, and we need to reassess our war objectives.

➡️We are facing serious difficulties in getting the Iranians out onto the streets.

🇺🇸 Trump's Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent, resigned:

"I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby."

🔗 Joe Kent

🇩🇪✊ Germany’s The Left party is facing a major internal crisis after adopting a motion rejecting Zionism and accusing Israel of “apartheid”, “settler colonialism” and “genocide”.

Efforts to soften the wording were voted down.

Brandenburg’s Anti-Semitism Commissioner Andreas Büttner has now quit, warning of deep divisions over Israel and anti-Semitism.

🔗 Europa

🔽 $100 in 2021 is worth about $80 in 2026, the biggest five year drop in purchasing power since 2005

@just 📄

—🇹🇷 Turkey emerges as second global power in foreign bases

➡️ Turkey has become the country with the second highest number of overseas military bases in the world after the United States, with 133 foreign bases compared to 887 for Washington, surpassing traditional powers like the United Kingdom (117), Russia (29) and India (20).

➡️ In Africa, Ankara has built a dense network of strategic installations in Somalia, Libya and Chad, consolidating itself as a key security actor that challenges the influence of France, Russia and Gulf states while expanding its military, economic and political footprint.

✅ @balkanspectator — the leading Balkan news channel in English