🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- A batch of the 12 F-22s have begun departing RAF Lakenheath, UK, for the Middle East.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡️- Iran is building a six-foot-tall wall spanning more than six miles along the border with the Penjwen district of Iraqi Kurdistan. This comes amid concerns about an attempted infiltration by Kurdish separatist groups or the possibility of a U.S. ground force intervention.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is conducting military drills on the country’s southern shores.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russia's Foreign Intelligence, SVR, unironically believes Paris and London are attempting to arm Ukraine with a nuclear bomb.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇻🇪⚡- "Three boats ran and now all three have been captured.

Overnight, U.S. forces conducted a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding of the Bertha without incident in the INDOPACOM area of responsibility. The vessel was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean and attempted to evade.

From the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean, we tracked it and stopped it. No other nation has the global reach, endurance, or will to enforce sanctions at this distance.

International waters are not a refuge for sanctioned actors. By land, air, or sea, our forces will find you and deliver justice.

The Department of War will deny illicit actors and their proxies freedom of maneuver in the maritime domain." - U.S. Department of War

🇳🇴⚡️- BREAKING: Former Norwegian Prime Minister Thorbjørn Jagland has been hospitalized after a suicide attempt, this comes shortly after Norwegian authorities opened a criminal investigation into his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇻🇪⚡️- Bertha (IMO: 9292163) is a Chinese owned vessel that was loaded with oil from Venezuela before fleeing the US imposed blockade of Venezuela on the 3rd of January and has been on the run since.

It was sanctioned by the United States in 2019 for its involvement in transporting Iranian and Venezuela oil products.

Bertha was a stateless vessel not displaying a valid Flag or valid AIS Data which allows the US Government to board and detain the vessel.

🇺🇸🇬🇧 - Just moments ago, the final three of the twelve F-22s have departed RAF Lakenheath for the Middle East.

Footage credit: Tall Glenn.

🇷🇺⚡- "Russia has opened a criminal case against me for “aiding terrorism.” Each day, the authorities fabricate new pretexts to restrict Russians’ access to Telegram as they seek to suppress the right to privacy and free speech. A sad spectacle of a state afraid of its own people," - Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram.

🇵🇦🇨🇳⚡- BREAKING: Panama has liberated the two ports on either end of the Panama Canal from the Chinese CK Hutchison today.

The Hong Kong-based firm has complained that Panamanian authorities "made direct physical entry into the terminals at Balboa and Cristobal and assumed administrative and operational control."

Danish shipping giant Maersk and Swiss-based MSC are to take over the operations of the two key ports.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump's State of The Union tonight will begin at 9PM EST. Coverage by Nick Fuentes on Rumble will begin at 8PM.

The speech will focus on the Presidents agenda intertwined with America's 250th birthday.

Confirmed special guests are the USA Olympic Hockey Team, conservative influencers such as Kai Schwemmer and Nick Shirley, family members of victims of illegal alien violence, the family of Jesse Jackson, the daughter of Jimmy Lai, the anti Communist activist arrested by the Chinese, local Sheriff's invited by Congressmen, Rick Woldenberg, one of the CEO's who acted as a plaintiff in the Supreme Court tariff case, and some others.

Also attending is Colin Hortman, the son of former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman who was killed last year. Family members of Charlie Kirk are not confirmed yet but will likely also be in attendance.

Democrats, of which over 2 dozen are expected to boycott the speech outright, have invited various Epstein victims and subjects of ICE enforcement to protest Trump.

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger will deliver the Democrats response after Trump is finished.

🇺🇸⚡️- Team USA arriving early no doubt hungover from partying in Miami last night.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- All twelve F-22s have arrived in Southern Israel.

🇺🇸⚡️- Erika Kirk is now confirmed to be in attendance.

🏳️🇵🇰 - Sporadic clashes between the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani military occured earlier today along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

🇺🇸🇬🇧⚡- Another six F-22s have departed Langley AFB towards the UK.

🇩🇪🇮🇱⚡- "In light of a potential US attack on Iran, which could also have repercussions for Israel and other countries in the region, the German Foreign Office has called on German citizens in the country to take security precautions.

Germans in Israel should, for example, be prepared to remain at their current location for some time in the event that the airspace is closed due to Iranian attacks," - Bild.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump, at the lunch before the State of the Union address, is reported to have stated to White House correspondents,

“Iran wants to make a deal more than I do, but they just won’t say the secret phrase: We won’t build nuclear weapons”.

🇺🇸⚡️- There are now 70 confirmed Democrats skipping the SOTU.