🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️ — President Trump on Canada:

We defend Canada for nothing. We don’t get anything.

They don’t pay us to defend Canada, but we defend Canada

They want to be treated like a state, but they're not a state. We just can't do that anymore.

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️ — President Trump:

We have a gulf. We have a lake. Now all we need is an ocean.

So maybe we will have to change the name of the Atlantic or the Pacific.

🇺🇸🇨🇦⚡️ — Reporter: Why are you doing things like this toward America’s allies instead of America’s adversaries?

Trump: Canadian officials are nasty people. They treated us very badly.

Who is the worst to deal with on trade? Canada. They feel entitled. We can’t have that.

🇺🇸🪖⚡️ — Under Secretary of War for Policy, Elbridge A. Colby:

The United States is not leaving the continent. It’s not leaving the Alliance.

We’re going to go back to the origins of what NATO is supposed to be, where Europe is going to take the lead.

🇨🇦🇺🇸⚡️ — Canadian PM Mark Carney:

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 According to the New York Times, CIA director John Ratcliffe, went to Moscow to ask "deliver an urgent message" to FSB director, Alexander Bortnikov about Russia's alleged "high" casualty rate in Ukraine.

CIA analysts believe Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is "ill informed" about the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine and unaware of the "high manpower losses" of the Russian Army.

Ratcliffe allegedly urged Bortnikov to inform Putin about the "serious need" for Russia to pursue peace negotiations and stop attacking Ukraine.

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🌟 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has released a new video update from Adm. Brad Cooper, announcing that U.S. forces have cleared an international shipping channel of mines and declared the Strait of Hormuz open.

According to Cooper, U.S. forces have assisted more than 1,500 vessels through the Strait over the past several months, carrying more than 750 million barrels of oil.

The announcement comes as commercial traffic through the Strait remains well below prewar levels and amid continued concerns over remaining Iranian mines and threats to shipping. U.S. allies have privately assessed that not all mines may have been cleared, while the International Maritime Organization continues to advise vessels to exercise maximum caution.

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