🇦🇿🇮🇷⚡- Azerbaijan says it won't allow its airspace to be used for any potential attack on Iran.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- BREAKING: "The US finds that the policies, practices, and actions of the Government of Cuba constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security and foreign policy of the United States," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- "Cuba has taken extraordinary actions that harm and threaten the United States. The Cuban regime aligns itself with — and provides support for — numerous hostile countries, transnational terrorist groups, and malign actors adverse to the United States, including Russia, China, Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸⚡️- “The Senate struck a deal to fund a large portion of the government on Thursday evening, just a day before a shutdown deadline.

The agreement will split the bill funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) off from a "minibus" package of five other major funding bills. The Senate will instead move a stopgap bill known as a continuing resolution (CR) that funds DHS at current levels until Feb. 13.” - The Hill.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- "Cuba blatantly hosts dangerous adversaries of the United States, inviting them to base sophisticated military and intelligence capabilities in Cuba that directly threaten the national security of the United States.

Cuba hosts Russia’s largest overseas signals intelligence facility, which tries to steal sensitive national security information of the United States.

Cuba continues to build deep intelligence and defense cooperation with China.

Cuba welcomes transnational terrorist groups, such as Hezbollah and Hamas, creating a safe environment for these malign groups so that these transnational terrorist groups can build economic, cultural, and security ties throughout the region and attempt to destabilize the Western Hemisphere, including the United States," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- "The Cuban communist regime supports terrorism and destabilizes the region through migration and violence.

The communist regime persecutes and tortures its political opponents; denies the Cuban people free speech and press; corruptly profits from their misery; and commits other human-rights violations," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- "The United States has zero tolerance for the depredations of the communist Cuban regime.

The United States will act to protect the foreign policy, national security, and national interests of the United States, including by holding the Cuban regime accountable for its malign actions and relationships, while also remaining committed to supporting the Cuban people’s aspirations for a free and democratic society," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- BREAKING: "NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the situation with respect to Cuba constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the national security and foreign policy of the United States and hereby declare a NATIONAL EMERGENCY with respect to that threat," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- "To deal with the national emergency declared in this order, I determine that it is necessary and appropriate to establish a tariff system.

Under this system, an additional ad valorem duty may be imposed on imports of goods that are products of a foreign country that directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to Cuba.

In my judgment, the tariff system is necessary and appropriate to address the national emergency declared in this order," - President Donald Trump.

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️- "Based on the fact that Canada has wrongfully, illegally, and steadfastly refused to certify the Gulfstream 500, 600, 700, and 800 Jets, one of the greatest, most technologically advanced airplanes ever made, we are hereby decertifying their Bombardier Global Expresses, and all Aircraft made in Canada, until such time as Gulfstream, a Great American Company, is fully certified, as it should have been many years ago. Further, Canada is effectively prohibiting the sale of Gulfstream products in Canada through this very same certification process. If, for any reason, this situation is not immediately corrected, I am going to charge Canada a 50% Tariff on any and all Aircraft sold into the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

DONALD J. TRUMP
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" - President Trump via Truth Social

🇺🇸⚡️- George Zinn, the person who faslely claimed responsibility for the assassination of Charlie Kirk in the minutes following the attack, has been sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for obstruction of justice and also two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor due to child sexual abuse material that was found on his phone during the investigation.

🇺🇸⚡️- Congress has (supposedly) agreed to a funding deal that will avert a Government shutdown until September, when it is all but guaranteed another shutdown will occur for the midterm elections.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "The current set of options even includes the potential for American forces to carry out raids on sites inside Iran, and it comes in a different context, now that the protests have been brutally quashed, at least for the time being." - NYT.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israel is pushing the United States to join it in a strike against Iran’s ballistic missile array, and Trump is particularly interested in targeting Iranian leaders who have threatened to assassinate him.

🇮🇷🇹🇷⚡️- Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, has landed in Turkey for meetings with senior Turkish officials and President Erdoğan to discuss regional developments.

The trend of Sunni Muslim powers such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia moving closer to Shiite Iran continues.

🇺🇸🇦🇪🇷🇺⚡- BREAKING: The UAE has provided Russia with the identities of US intelligence officers, the Washington Examiner reports, citing US officials.

Note, late last year, the Financial Times, citing a US intelligence report, reported the Emirati State passed sensitive US defense technology to China.

🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- Taiwan is preparing to deploy its recently acquired HIMARS to Dongyin (Matsu Island chain) and Xiyu (Penghu Island chain). The deployment would put almost all Chinese military infrastructure on the east coast within Taiwanese firing range.

🇺🇸⚡️- "I am pleased to announce that I am nominating Kevin Warsh to be the CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. Kevin currently serves as the Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution, and Lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a Partner of Stanley Druckenmiller at Duquesne Family Office LLC. Kevin received his A.B. from Stanford University, and J.D. from Harvard Law School. He has conducted extensive research in the field of Economics and Finance. Kevin issued an Independent Report to the Bank of England proposing reforms in the conduct of Monetary Policy in the United Kingdom. Parliament adopted the Report's recommendations. Kevin Warsh became the youngest Fed Governor, ever, at 35, and served as a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 until 2011, as the Federal Reserve's Representative to the Group of Twenty (G-20), and as the Board's Emissary to the Emerging and Advanced Economies in Asia. In addition, he was Administrative Governor, managing and overseeing the Board's operations, personnel, and financial performance. Prior to his appointment to the Board, from 2002 until 2006, Kevin served as Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, and Executive Secretary of the White House National Economic Council. Previously, Kevin was a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions Department at Morgan Stanley & Co., in New York, serving as Vice President and Executive Director. I have known Kevin for a long period of time, and have no doubt that he will go down as one of the GREAT Fed Chairmen, maybe the best. On top of everything else, he is “central casting,” and he will never let you down. Congratulations Kevin! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP" - President Trump via Truth Social

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡- Following the visits to China by the Canadian and British Prime Ministers:

"To all world leaders meeting with Xi Jinping: China sells nothing but cheap products and cheap friendships," - House Foreign Affairs Committee.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "The next meeting of the Ukrainian, U.S., and Russian delegations was previously scheduled for Sunday, February 1, in Abu Dhabi, but the date and location may change.

According to Zelensky, this is due to developments in US–Iran relations.

He stressed that it is critically important for Ukraine that all parties involved in the preliminary agreements attend the meeting, as feedback on the consultation results is expected," - Kateryna Lisunova of RAZOM for Ukraine.