Fox News was embarrassed last week when court documents were released from the Smartmatic lawsuit against Fox Corporation that revealed a behind-the-scenes effort by prominent hosts on the network trying to help President Donald Trump be re-elected in 2020—even after the contested election.
Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel, said last week that when European leaders make “noise” about a Palestinian state, the effort turns out to have a “counterproductive effect that they probably think that they want.”
U.S. President Donald Trump gave an interview last week where he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and himself war heroes after their coordinated attacks on Iran in June.
Ukraine informed the Trump administration that it will use European money to buy $100 million in American-made weapons in return for security guarantees if there is ever a peace deal with Russia, according to a report last week.
Taiwan announced last week that it will try to increase military spending by 22.9 percent—or 3.3 percent of its GDP—to enable it to stand up against any aggression by China.
Another week, another Donald Trump “this or that.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s conditions for peace include three key points: No NATO for Ukraine, no Western troops in Ukraine, Kyiv must part with the Donbas, Russian sources told Reuters.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week that he will not cede any land to Russia and wants Moscow out of any security guarantees for Ukraine at the completion of the war, which the Kremlin called a “road to nowhere.”
The Ukrainian military managed to carry out several strikes on an important Russian oil pipeline last week that connects Russia with much of its European market, sending prices higher in the country and prompting Slovakia, a member of the EU, to condemn the attacks.
An Israeli database managed by the country’s Military Intelligence Directorate indicates that at least 83 percent of the Palestinians killed in Gaza in the nearly two-year-long genocide have been civilians, according to a joint report by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian.