🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrikes against the Bekaa region, Lebanon.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "U.S. military planning on Iran has reached an advanced stage with options including targeting individuals as part of an attack and even pursuing regime change in Tehran, if ordered by President Donald Trump," - Reuters.

🇺🇸⚡️- The mechanism President Trump is using for these new tariffs expire without Congressional approval and would trigger a vote on them in September right before the midterm elections.

🇧🇬⚡- NOTAM over Sofia International Airport, Bulgaria, from 1:15am-2:50am on the 23rd of February, and 1:05am-3:35am on the 24th of February.

The airport will be closed for all flights except military.

🇺🇸🇧🇬 - An image of Sofia International Airport from yesterday – over half a dozen US aerial refuelers arrived at the airport in recent days.

🇺🇸🇶🇦🇦🇪⚡- A significant number US military assets have been relocated from al-Udeid Air Base, Qatar, and al-Dhafra Air Base, the UAE, to positions further west in the Middle East.

The relocations were not broadcast, with no data picked up on ADS-B or ACARS.

🇪🇹⚡- Major civilian evacuation from the cities of Mekele, Maychew, Abiy Addi, Indabaguna and others – Tigray region, northern Ethiopia.

🇸🇩🇺🇬⚡- Rapid Support Forces Commander-in-Chief Hamdan Dagalo meets Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in Kampala, Uganda.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- A US attack on Iran may happen this weekend, Politico reports.

🇺🇸🇹🇷🗽⚡️- Leftist streamer Hasan Piker claims he regularly speaks with NYC Mayor Mamdani and his staff members.

What advice Mamdani accepts from Hasan is unclear as Mamdani regularly ignores the demands of unreasonable DSA members and activists.

🇺🇸🇮🇳⚡️- Microsoft announces that Xbox head Phil Spencer is retiring as Microsoft Gaming CEO and will be replaced by Indian woman Asha Sharma currently the Microsoft CoreAI head.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The New York Times reported mass evacuations of troops from Al Udeid Air Base and other bases in Bahrain. Later, senior U.S. officials told Fox News that this was not true.

It is important to note that in times when war seems imminent, the media is used by all sides as a tool of psychological warfare. Our followers should keep that in mind when taking reports at face value.

🇸🇦🇦🇪⚡- "Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent a 'lengthy' letter to UAE national security advisor Tahnoon bin Zayed complaining about the emirates' activities in Sudan and Yemen," - Middle East Eye.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "The Trump administration is prepared to consider a proposal that allows Iran "token" nuclear enrichment if it leaves no possible path to a bomb, a senior U.S. official told Axios."

🇺🇸⚡️- “On Feb. 20, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear” - U.S. Southern Command

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "President Donald Trump has pushed the United States to the brink of war with Iran even as aides urge him to focus more on voters' economic worries, highlighting the political risks of military escalation ahead of this year's midterm elections."

"A senior White House official said that despite Trump's bellicose rhetoric there was still no "unified support" within the administration to go ahead with an attack on Iran."

"Despite some dissenting voices, many in Trump's isolationist-minded "Make America Great Again" movement supported the lightning raid that deposed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro last month. But he could face more pushback if he steers the U.S. into war with Iran, which would be a much more formidable foe." - Reuters.

🇸🇰🇺🇦⚡️- "IF THE UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT DOES NOT RESUME OIL SUPPLIES TO SLOVAKIA ON MONDAY, ON THAT SAME DAY I WILL ASK THE RELEVANT SLOVAK COMPANIES TO STOP EMERGENCY ELECTRICITY SUPPLIES TO UKRAINE.

Since the beginning of the war, Slovakia has been helping Ukraine. Around 180,000 Ukrainians are currently on our territory, we provide humanitarian assistance, and we organize joint government meetings. We are doing substantially more for Ukraine than some other countries.

The Ukrainian president refuses to understand our peace-oriented approach and, because we do not support the war, he is behaving maliciously toward Slovakia. First, he halted gas flows to Slovakia, causing us damages of €500 million per year. Now he has stopped oil flows, causing us further losses and logistical difficulties.

If the West does not mind that the Nord Stream gas pipeline was blown up, Slovakia cannot accept Slovak-Ukrainian relations as a one-way ticket benefiting only Ukraine. Slovakia is a proud and sovereign country, and I am a proud and sovereign Slovak. If oil supplies to Slovakia are not resumed on Monday, I will ask SEPS, the state-owned joint-stock company, to stop emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine. In January 2026 alone, these emergency supplies, needed to stabilize the Ukrainian energy grid, were required twice as much as during the entire year of 2025.

Given President Zelensky’s unacceptable behavior toward Slovakia, treating it as a hostile country, I consider it absolutely correct that I refused to involve the Slovak Republic in the latest €90 billion military loan for Ukraine." - Robert Fico, Prime Minister of Slovakia

🇸🇴🇵🇰⚡- "Somalia advances deal for 24 Pakistani JF-17 fighter jets," - Somalia Today.

🇸🇩⚡- "If it weren't for the drones launched from neighboring countries, we would have entered Khartoum and Port Sudan," - Hamdan Dagalo, Commander-in-Chief of the Rapid Support Forces.

🇺🇸🇨🇺🇷🇺⚡- Russian tanker SEA HORSE is carrying nearly 200,000 barrels of Russian fuel and is reportedly en route to Cuba, in an attempt to breach the US blockade.

The vessel is currently sailing the Atlantic Ocean.