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In a meeting with Ukrainian officials in Kyiv last week, U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll delivered a grim assessment. Driscoll told his counterparts their troops faced a dire situation on the battlefield and would suffer an imminent defeat against Russian forces, two sources with knowledge of the matter told NBC News. The Russians were ramping up the scale and pace of their aerial attacks, and they had the ability to fight on indefinitely, Driscoll told them, according to the sources. The situation for Ukraine would only get worse over time, he continued, and it was better to negotiate a peace...

For years, Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., has regularly undertaken actions that undermine America’s national security.Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., has found himself in some pretty hot water — and for good reason.On Monday, the Department of War announced that Kelly, a retired Navy captain, could be “recall[ed] to active duty for court-martial proceedings or administrative measures” because of his participation in what has now been dubbed the “Seditious Six” video. As The Federalist’s Breccan Thies summarized, the video in question featured Kelly and other “Democrat lawmakers encourag[ing] military members to ignore orders from President Donald Trump, their commander-in-chief.”“In a spliced video...

Philippine President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. is under serious pressure. A wave of protests over corruption in flood control projects has piled pressure on his government. Cabinet ministers have resigned. And further rallies, which the Catholic Church is throwing its weight behind, are planned for Nov. 30. The turmoil has sparked speculation about Marcos being unseated via impeachment or coup. For now, this possibility probably shouldn’t be taken too seriously. The military and leading politicians have denied considering such options. And there is barely a modern Filipino president who hasn’t at some time or other been subject to such rumors...

Brazil's Former President Jair Bolsonaro, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, was convicted in 2022 of conspiring to overthrow his successor, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. His defence team chose not to file a final appeal against the conviction. As a result, Justice Moraes declared the ruling final, closing the door on any further appeals and activating the full 27-year sentence.

BRASILIA, Brazil — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday started his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, to the surprise of many in the South American nation who doubted he would ever end up behind bars. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, who has overseen the case, ruled Bolsonaro will remain in custody after being preemptively arrested on Saturday. Supporters and detractors of the embattled leader have gathered outside the federal police headquarters since the order was issued, some calling for Bolsonaro’s release and others toasting to his imprisonment. The far-right leader had been under house arrest...

Ukraine has said a "common understanding" has been reached with the US on a peace deal aimed at ending the war with Russia.The proposal is based on a 28-point plan presented to Kyiv by the US last week, which American and Ukrainian officials worked on during weekend talks in Geneva.In a post on social media, US President Donald Trump said the original plan "has been fine-tuned, with additional input from both sides".He added: "I have directed my Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with President Putin in Moscow and, at the same time, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll will...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union lawmakers voted on Tuesday to deepen integration of the bloc’s defense industry with Ukraine as a U.S. peace plan remains in flux and Russia’s unconventional warfare operations rattle the 27-nation bloc. European Parliament legislators voted 457-148, with 33 abstentions, to approve a 1.5-billion euro ($1.7 billion) program, with 300 million euros ($345 million) slated for the Ukraine Support Instrument. Raphaël Glucksmann, an EU lawmaker from France’s S&D party, said that the defense program “will enable us to build a more resilient and sovereign Europe” through partnering with Ukraine to build a cutting-edge military industrial complex....

On November 18, 2025, Trump and the Saudi Crown Prince walked into the Oval Office and treated it like a showroom floor. Every sentence was a sales pitch. Every claim was polished to sound like victory. And every lie was delivered with the confidence of people who assume the public won’t bother checking the fine print.What you’re about to read is a highlight reel of contradictions, fantasy numbers, selective memory, and the kind of strategic blindness that gets entire regions burned to the ground.They said the quiet parts out loud, assuming no one would connect the dots.So I did.Below is...

Vice President Vance fired back at Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Monday after the former Senate republican leader warned the Trump administration not to appease Russian President Vladimir Putin in the emerging Ukraine peace deal.“This is a ridiculous attack on the president’s team, which has worked tirelessly to clean up the mess in Ukraine that Mitch–always eager to write blank checks to Biden’s foreign policy–left us,” Vance wrote in a post on the social platform X.“I wonder if the three candidates to replace McConnell in Kentucky share his views here,” he continued.Vance was responding to a quote from McConnell, who...

A suspected terrorist accused of stabbing three people in Madrid before attacking police shouting 'Allahu Akbar' reportedly told his mum he was on a mission to 'kill Christians.'The 18-year-old, a Spaniard of Moroccan origin, remains in hospital after being tasered and shot by anti-terror police when he holed himself up in a flat following the triple stabbing and violently resisted attempts to arrest him.A judge at Spain's central criminal court is now investigating the incidents on Saturday afternoon as suspected Islamic terrorist crimes.Cops had told the judge the teenager, who is currently under police guard at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon Hospital,...

"Our delegations reached a common understanding on the core terms of the agreement discussed in Geneva," said Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council secretary, Rustem Umerov Ukraine said on Tuesday that it has agreed to the "core terms" of the U.S. peace deal proposal to end its war with Russia.Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council secretary, Rustem Umerov, posted on X: "We appreciate the productive and constructive meetings held in Geneva between the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations, as well as President Trump’s steadfast efforts to end the war."Our delegations reached a common understanding on the core terms of the...

In light of actual progress toward a peace proposal in the Russo-Ukrainian War, warmongers scrambled to hurl their favorite smear at the Trump administration. According to them, anything less than a total crushing victory over Russia is no different than British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s policy of appeasement toward Nazi Germany in 1938 and paves the way for further Russian aggression.We’ve heard this accusation thrown around time after time from neocons, Democrat politicians, the propaganda press, and really anybody who is personally offended when America stays out of a foreign conflict for more than two seconds. Continuing in that vapid...

As U.S. gunships patrol closely to Caracas, Venezuela's narcodictator, Nicolas Maduro, is seeing few efforts to help him from his big-gun friends, such as Russia, China, and Iran.His little-gun friends, though, e.g., Cuba, are where his real problems are. They're out to kill him.According to Axios (emphasis added):Oil-rich Venezuela has long been an opponent of the U.S. and has helped prop up Cuba's dictatorship, which furnishes security that helped install Maduro in 2013 and keep him in power. Venezuela also is an ally of Iran, China and Russia.Part of the challenge of persuading Maduro to leave, U.S. officials say, is...

The EU’s new plan to regulate speech, media, and elections.The European Union has just unveiled the so-called European Democracy Shield. The name, while promising, claims to “protect” democracy on the basis of two pillars which, on principle, should raise concerns: combating “disinformation” and “foreign interference.”To that end, the EU will create a new European Centre for Democratic Resilience, intended to collect data from Member States on information manipulation; foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI); and phenomena classified as disinformation. The same package also includes a European network of independent fact-checkers and a European Digital Media Observatory, which will be endowed...

A welfare fraud scandal in Minnesota reveals that large numbers of new arrivals aren't assimilating and are funneling our tax dollars to literal terrorist groups. An innocent woman was set on fire in Chicago as the mayor resists federal law enforcement resources to bring peace to one of our great cities. The Obamacare insurance system is buckling under its own weight. And the country is $38 trillion in debt. Our administration is working hard on addressing all of these problems. But you know what really fires up the beltway GOP? Not any of the above. Instead, the political class is...

The appointment of a Turkish police chief as the new head of Interpol would destroy the organisation’s credibility, lawyers have claimed. Mustafa Serkan Sabanca has been mooted as the favourite to win the election for the presidency of Interpol, which opened on Monday. His nomination has prompted concerns that Turkey’s autocratic regime would use Mr Sabanca’s position to whitewash its reputation for arresting and imprisoning critics en masse. “It’s like sitting the North Koreans on the UN Human Rights Council,” said one British extradition lawyer who represents several dissidents in hiding from Turkish police. Turkey is ranked behind only Russia...

The American F-35 stealth fighters that participated in the Operation Midnight Hammer strikes on Iran flew hundreds of miles deep into its airspace and were the last ones out, US military commanders revealed this week. F-35A Lightning II aircraft assigned to the Utah-based 388th Fighter Wing escorted the B-2 Spirit stealth bombers that dropped over a dozen heavy bunker-buster bombs on Iran's nuclear facilities in late June. The F-35s suppressed Iran's air defenses and cleared the way for other combat aircraft, including the seven B-2s, during the complex nighttime operation."We flew hundreds of miles into Iran, escorting the B-2s the...

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the US peace plan a complete capitulation by Ukraine’s so-called friends and said it amounted to a betrayal, according to his article for the Daily Mail. Johnson writes that Vladimir Putin "cannot help but smile" this Saturday at what he describes as the incompetence of his opponents and the remarkable weakness of the West. According to him, Russia has lost "more than a million soldiers, killed and wounded, trying to subdue Ukraine," has still failed to capture more than 20 percent of the country’s territory, and its economy is collapsing. Yet, he says,...

• Ukraine has agreed to a deal to end the war with Russia with only “minor details” outstanding, a US official said, even as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said more work needed to be done. • It comes as US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll holds meetings with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi about a proposed plan for ending the war, according to a US official. • Russia though could reject an amended US peace plan if its terms are “fundamentally different” to the understanding reached during the US-Russia summit in Alaska, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

Brazil's federal police arrested former President Jair Bolsonaro preemptively on Saturday, days before he was set to begin his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, officials said. A close aide said the embattled former leader was taken to the police force headquarters in the capital, Brasilia, from his house arrest. The force said in a short statement, which did not name Bolsonaro, that it acted on the request of Brazil's Supreme Court. Neither Brazil's federal police nor the Supreme Court provided more details. Bolsonaro's aide Andriely Cirino confirmed to The Associated Press that the arrest took place around...