Again, as we have greatly detailed we saw this coming! Back on 2 January of this year we had forecast that Playing The Wild Card would be a Top Trend for 2025... and here we are. And who dealt the Wild Card? It was another one of our Top Trends for 2025... The Trump Card.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reminded reporters during his meeting with U.S. President Trump last week that they are still on the same page about clearing out Gaza so it can be rebuilt without Palestinians.
The Ukraine Defense Contact Group (UDCG) announced last week that it raised $23.8 billion in military aid after a meeting in Brussels that included top officials from 51 countries.
U.S. President Donald Trump was asked last week about the risk that a trade war with China could escalate to a hot war, but he said Beijing knows better than to test the strength of his military—before mentioning a mystery weapon that should strike fear in any adversary.
The United Kingdom announced last week that it will provide Ukraine with an additional £450 million to “pile pressure” on the Kremlin as the war drags on with no end in sight.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in Berlin last week to demonstrate against deportation orders delivered to four foreign activists against Israel’s ongoing Gaza genocide.
UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, announced last week that nearly 400,000 Palestinians have been displaced since the Hamas ceasefire with Israel collapsed and the IDF restarted its brutal bombing and starvation campaign.
A group of nearly 1,000 Israeli veterans signed a letter published last week urging the government to immediately end the genocidal war in Gaza because the conflict currently serves “political and personal interests, not security interests.”
The IDF on Sunday carried out an airstrike on Gaza City’s last fully functioning hospital after claiming that Hamas was operating a “command and control center” inside the facility.
The Trump administration is forcing Columbia to bow down to its demand to crush any criticism of Israel and is pursuing a “consent decree” that would put a federal judge in charge of making sure the school conforms to the White House’s demands—or face penalties, a report said.