🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- BREAKING: The Treasury Department announces sanctions on Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel.

🇺🇸🇬🇧 - “Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.

The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.” - U.S. State Department.

🇺🇸⚡️- Brett Scrogham, a 23-year-old recent graduate from Indiana University, was shot and killed while on the way to watch a baseball game in Indianapolis with his family by a “14-year-old boy” who has not had his name released to the public.

🇬🇧 - Henry Nowak’s godmother made a statement concerning his murder and the anti-White British policing:

"Shame on the monster who took him, shame on the officers who should've helped him & shame on the organization that trained police to prioritize accusations of racism over a dying man,” per Suffragent.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡- "For decades, Cuba has been the world capital for radical left-wing terrorism. The regime in Havana has recruited, trained and backed violent Marxist and third-worldist movements across our hemisphere and beyond. Today, we are targeting the network that enables and funds Cuba's subversive and radical operations.

Pursuant to sanctions authorities created by President Trump’s groundbreaking Cuba Executive Order, I am designating the following entities:

1. Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba (MINFAR)
2. Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP)
3. Amistur Cuba S.A.
4. Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR)
5. Minera La Victoria S.A.

Anyone providing services to these sanctioned actors is at risk of sanctions themselves. Foreign banks and other companies that provide services to these entities should freeze those activities.

The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate radical Marxist regimes in our hemisphere seeking to threaten U.S. national security and engage in influence operations to export their poisonous and evil “revolution” to our country and around the world," - Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️- The Ukraine Support Act has passed in the House by a vote of 226-195.

The bill will provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tougher and further sanctions on Russia.

🇺🇸⚡️- The motion to attach the SAVE America Act to the BR conciliation bill has failed.

Four Republican Senators dissented: Susan Collins, Mitch McConnell, Lisa Murkowski, and Thom Tillis.

🇨🇳🇰🇵⚡️- Chinese president Xi Jinping will visit North Korea on the 8th and 9th of June.

🇺🇸 - Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent asked Representative Judy Chu, “Who was the President during World War I?”

Chu did not know the answer.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- "If Zelensky wants to meet with Putin, he can come to Moscow." - The Kremlin.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️- "Right now the issue of resolving another crisis, the one involving Iran, is extremely pressing, and naturally we can all see and understand that the US administration is being forced to shift its attention and deal with this issue above others [Ukraine]." - Putin.

🇺🇸🇨🇺⚡️- "The President of the United States makes new threatening statements against Cuba; and the Treasury Department has added new names of Cuban leaders, organizations, and companies to an illegitimate sanctions list.

They are aimed at reinforcing the blockade measures and the scenario of conflict between Cuba and the United States.

This political blindness is added to the coercive measures applied in recent weeks against our country, designed to harm the Cuban people.

The aggressiveness and perversity of the Yankee government will clash with our determination to confront the worst scenarios and resist the imperialist onslaught." - Miguel Díaz-Canel, Cuban President.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡️- BREAKING: Oman's Mina al Fahal port has halted all crude oil loading after the port was attacked by a drone.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has appointed Bill Pulte as the acting director of national intelligence. Bill Pulte is currently the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and will take on both roles.

Trump has said he will not nominate Pulte for the permanent position.

🇻🇪 - The Kobeissi Letter reports that Venezuluan crude oil exports have increased 61% in the last 12 months, to 1.25 million barrels of oil per day, a seven year high, with a target of 1.37 million per day by the end of the year. Exports have also increased 150% since November last year.

The surge was led by rising shipments to the US at ~558,000 barrels per day, India at ~427,000 barrels per day, and Europe at ~169,000 barrels per day.

Credit: The Kobeissi Letter

🇺🇸🇵🇭⚡️- The Philippines Coast Guard will receive vessels from the US and Japan to increase its presence in the South China Sea.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has already announced a decommissioned cutter-class vessel will be transferred, as well as discussions on transferring more. Japanese Defence Minister has announced the acceleration of consultations on the transfer of the Japanese Abukuma-class destroyers, which Japan plans to decommission near the end of the decade. Japan has also expressed interest in transferring light patrol aircraft.

🇺🇸 - The US Navy has started its first round of prototyping with seven companies for a medium Unmanned Surface Vessel (MUSV).

The US Navy says the objective of the contract is to "assess industry’s ability to provide a materiel solution within an accelerated timeframe at an affordable cost". With expectations that the first vessel deliveries will be within 12 months of a contract being awarded, and all contracted vessels being required within 24 months. The Navy says to achieve their goal, they require an existing design, with minor modifications, or conversions of existing vessels, with a clean sheet design not being an option.

They're interested in vessels less than 200 feet in length, and less than 500 tons in displacement. Vessel payloads will vary, and would include. but not limited to, equipment for ISR (Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance), the Navy and Army’s new Mk70 Launcher system (a Containerised platform with 4 missile silos each for long-range missiles, capable of launching Tomahawk missiles, the SM-6 anti-air and anti-ship missiles, and similar), flight deck space capable of launching unmanned drones, or two standard 40-foot shipping containers for cargo, or any other modular container based system.

🇺🇸🇬🇹⚡️- "U.S. Marine Corps General Francis Donovan, commander of U.S. Southern Command, completed a two-day visit to Guatemala today that included meetings with President Bernardo Arévalo; Minister of National Defense.

General Donovan was in Guatemala to continue the bilateral dialogue between senior U.S. and Guatemalan leaders on expanding the bilateral defense partnership to implement a shared commitment to counter cartel criminal activity under the Americas Counter Cartel Coalition — a hemispheric effort involving 18 nations steadfastly committed to ensuring peace, protecting sovereignty, and strengthening security in the region.

General Donovan’s visit reflects the United States’ recognition of Guatemala’s leading role in regional efforts to confront narco-terrorist networks and deny them safe haven in the Western Hemisphere. Guatemala’s recent successes in this area are a testament to its commitment and leadership." - US Southern Command.

🇺🇸 - The US Coast Guard is preparing for the launch of a new online based and modernised credentialing platform allows people to obtain merchant mariner credentials through an online portal.

This comes amid a coast backlog of over 19,000 credential applications, the federal funding lapse and government shutdown being a large contributor. The backlog and slow process of mariners obtaining credentials has long contributed to problems within the US Navy's Military Sealift Command (partly operated by civilian mariners) and led to the Navy sideling 17 support vessels (8% of their fleet) 18 months ago due to the civilian workforce shortage.

🇬🇧🇫🇷🇮🇷⚡- "Britain and France have completed preparations for a coalition mission involving up to 15 countries that would begin mine-clearance operations shortly after the United States and Iran reach an agreement restoring freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz," - Bloomberg.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon last night killed at least 8, and wounded 15 according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.