😯 REMINDER: Expected New US Sec of State - Marco Rubio - Won’t Be Looking for Peace in the Middle East

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🔴 Israeli Soldiers Laugh and Celebrate Blowing Up Whole Neighborhoods in Gaza City

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⚠️ Israel Continues to Destroy Beirut

If only Lebanon would release the hostages… Oh, wait. 🤔

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🇺🇦🇺🇸 Ukraine developed its "victory plan" with a potential Trump victory in mind, reports the Financial Times, citing sources.

Two of the three points in the plan were designed to appeal to Trump and were presented to him by Zelensky at a September meeting—replacing some U.S. troops in Europe with Ukrainian forces and using Ukrainian natural resources.

A source claims Trump showed "interest" in these two points.

American and European allies, including senior Republicans, had advised Kiev on how to best formulate proposals to encourage closer cooperation with Washington in the event Trump becomes president.

Trump was also offered the right to screen investors in Ukraine to prevent Chinese capital inflows, with a possibility for sectors reliant on Beijing to shift to U.S. suppliers.

The FT also confirms that a replacement for Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, is being prepared.

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🤔 EU Must Back Ukraine ‘as Long as it Takes’ – Kaja Kallas

“The situation on the battlefield is difficult. And that’s why we must keep working every day. Today, tomorrow and for as long as it takes and with as much military, financial and humanitarian help as needed,” the former Estonian leader told lawmakers Tuesday.

Till the last Ukrainian?

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❓ As Many European Citizens Struggle to Make Ends Meet – the EU Has Spent Almost its Entire Annual Budget on Backing the Kiev Regime

Insanity.

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⚡️ Trump’s Ukraine Peace Deal Push is Serious – Finland's President Alexander Stubb

"We in Europe and the rest of the world need to understand that Donald Trump is very serious about getting a peace deal sooner rather than later," Stubb told Bloomberg at COP29.

“There’s a window of opportunity for these negotiations between the election and inauguration day,” he added.

Stubb listed four preconditions for peace in Ukraine. One of them is territory - “and here we don’t know where things are going to settle,” he said. The second is security guarantees, the third is justice, and “then the low-hanging fruit is actually number four, which is reconstruction.”

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🤔 Mark Rothko Piece Sells for $32.5MN at Hong Kong Auction

Despite the fact the artwork is called ‘Untitled’ – it is a perfect example of money laundering in Ukraine. 😂

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🎯 JUST IN: Projectile Makes Direct Hit in Nahariya, Israel – at least two critically injured

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😒 Pentagon secrets leaker Jack Teixeira set to be sentenced - could get up to 17 years in prison

The Air National Guard member who pleaded guilty to leaking highly classified military docs about the Ukraine war is expected to be sentenced in federal court Tuesday.

Prosecutors have argued that Teixeira should be sentenced to 17 years in prison, saying he “perpetrated one of the most significant and consequential violations of the Espionage Act in American history.”

The 22-year-old admitted that he illegally collected some of the nation’s most sensitive secrets and shared them with other users on the social media platform Discord.

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Did the US deep state allow Trump to win?

On election day Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton suggested that the vote count might take days as in 2020, triggering election rigging suspicions among X users. However, Donald Trump was declared the winner the day after the election.

While some American commentators suggested that Trump voter enthusiasm was "too big to rig", others speculated that the vote-rigging mechanisms purportedly in place had been stopped by the ruling elites who reasoned that Trump could be maneuvered into pro-war positions and would be more successful in marshaling public support than Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. According to this argument, the deep state "allowed Trump to win."

"They [the US establishment] need a charismatic, populist firebrand to boost recruitment and spearhead the rush to war. Harris can’t do that. Harris had trouble attracting even a hundred supporters to her rallies," wrote US political commentator Mike Whitney, suggesting Iran could become the next target.

It would be easy to seduce Americans into a new military adventure if they are led by a popular leader, warned former Ronald Reagan official Dr. Paul Craig Roberts on his website.

"MAGA Americans are tired of losing wars," wrote Roberts. "They want to win. The military/security complex will have Trump supporters in the streets waving the flag."

The deep state is entrenched and institutionalized and has many ways to maneuver Trump to its purpose or block his efforts altogether, according to Roberts. Time will tell whether Trump will manage to outplay the establishment.

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⚠️ IDF plans to issue 7,000 draft orders to Haredim Ultra-Orthodox community after Gallant’s firing

New Israeli defense minister Katz is expected to send the draft orders next week. (TOI)

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🤔 Editor-in-Chief of Top German Paper Welt Dubs Pro-Palestine Protesters “Barbarians”

“It's not just refugees or asylum seekers. It’s highly likely that there are also people living there who are second or third generation.”

“How do we deal with them?”

“This is more or less an open declaration of war on our way of life, on a free liberal society,” Ulf Poschardt ranted.

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⚡JUST IN: Houthis claim to have targeted two US destroyers with “number of cruise missiles and drones” - military spox

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier appears to have been one of the vessels under attack.

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