📰 Trump, Iran, and the Fallout of His Own Exit

Trump is now trying to negotiate Iran back from a nuclear program that exploded after he tore up the Obama deal in 2018.

The irony is almost too neat: he killed the old accord, Iran enriched more uranium, and now his team is trying to clean up the damage while insisting they can still produce a “far better” agreement.

The numbers tell the story better than the slogans. The IAEA says Iran’s stockpile is about 11 tons at different enrichment levels, enough in principle for dozens of weapons if it is refined further, and much of it now sits inside a program that keeps surviving airstrikes and diplomatic theater.

That is why the current talks are so messy. Washington is not just negotiating over enrichment limits; it is also trying to stop missile rebuilding, reopen Hormuz, calm protests, and somehow make a war it escalated look like leverage.

But the real lesson is darker than the headlines. Trump bombed the nuclear sites, bragged about “obliterating” the program, and still left Iran’s basic industrial capacity, hidden facilities, and tunnel networks intact — which means the problem was never just a building, but the knowledge and the machinery behind it.

So the White House is selling a future deal as if it can erase the past. It cannot.

It can only try to bargain with the consequences of a decision that made Iran more dangerous, not less.

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📰 Trump’s Week From Hell Is Now a Poll Story

Trump just spent a week collecting setbacks like they were tradeable assets: a Cabinet shake-up, a mess in Iran, rising gas prices, and polls showing Democrats pulling ahead on the economy for the first time in years.

Even Republicans are starting to flinch on inflation, which is usually when the “strongman” routine stops sounding strong.

The White House keeps calling the Iran fight a temporary disruption, but voters hear something else: higher prices, drifting goals, and a president who would rather talk about granite pavers than the cost of gas.

That kind of detour is fine if you run a PR shop; it is a problem if you run a country.

The polling is the real warning sign. Democrats now have a lead on the economy, Trump’s inflation numbers are sinking among independents and his own voters, and the party that sold itself as the adult in the room suddenly looks like it is fighting to keep the lights on.

The irony is that Trump still thinks the Iran standoff can be turned into a strength story.

Maybe it can, eventually. Right now it mostly looks like a drag on his brand, his base, and his midterm math all at once.

So yes, this is a political headwind. But it is also a familiar one: the president promises control, the crisis eats the promise, and the polls show the bill arriving early.

#Trump #economy #inflation #Iran #polls #midterms

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📰 Trump’s War Is Now a Midterm Liability

Republicans are watching the Iran war and the redistricting mess turn into the same political problem: a president who promised control and delivered chaos.

Bloomberg reports that party operatives are openly blaming Trump’s political team after Virginia’s map fight backfired and the war pushed gas prices higher, making the usual economy-first message much harder to sell.

That is why the panic is spreading. If the House looks lost, the Senate looks shaky, and the party’s best redistricting gambit ends up helping Democrats instead, then the whole 2026 strategy starts to look like an own goal in expensive shoes.

The irony is brutal. Trump spent months demanding tougher maps, punishing holdouts, and trying to turn politics into a shank-proof machine, but the result is more donor money burned, more infighting, and more Republicans muttering that “Blairy-mandering” blew up in their faces.

The Iran war makes it worse because it attacks the one issue Republicans wanted to own: affordability.

Gas prices are up, voters are unhappy, and the president keeps drifting into side quests about granite pavers and pet projects while his party tries to explain why the Middle East is suddenly part of the domestic economy.

So the midterm story is no longer just redistricting or just war. It is the same pattern in both places: Trump turns everything into leverage, and then the leverage turns into drag.

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Zelensky Is In a Hurry To Join the EU. Why? 🏃‍♂️🇪🇺

Zelensky has called on European leaders to speed up Ukraine’s accession to the European Union, while welcoming a new support package and the bloc’s 20th round of sanctions against Russia. 🚀

In a post on Telegram, Zelenskyy thanked partners for their continued backing and stressed the urgency of financial assistance, Caliber.Az reports. 💰

Speaking at an EU meeting, Zelenskyy urged EU leaders to accelerate Ukraine’s path to membership, stressing that the country is defending not only itself but the European way of life. 🛡

“It is important that already in May we can move to unlocking the clusters — to open the first cluster and immediately the remaining five clusters, and then begin closing chapters. 🗝

We are striving for the same full-fledged membership that every country of the European Union has — from Cyprus to Poland. The only thing we ask for is the acceleration of full membership with a clear date for its start,” he stressed. 📅

“This is necessary to prevent Russia from indefinitely blocking our path. And not only blocking it, but also dividing and weakening Europe to stop Ukraine. A clear timetable and an accelerated procedure can prevent this. That is why we are asking for it,” he mentioned. 🛑

Addressing the issue of financial aid, he said Ukraine very much expects the first tranche from the €90 billion package to be delivered as soon as possible. 💸

“These funds are intended for our army, and we are ready to use them to procure weapons, including air defence systems. 🔫

This is also financing that will help us prepare for winter, and work to protect our energy system has already begun, with European funds also supporting this effort,” he noted. ❄️

Strengthening sanctions is the right step, especially given that the Americans have softened some of theirs. The situation on the front line in Ukraine is currently distinct. 🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦

Our positions are more stable than in previous months and years, while Russia is losing at least 30,000–35,000 troops every month,” he added. 📉

The Ukrainian leader made it clear that this was difficult for Russia, and we must make it even more difficult for them to push them toward diplomacy. 🤝

According to him, “Kyiv is actively cooperating with countries in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, as well as engaging with partners in the Caucasus. 🌍

And I want to emphasise: Ukraine offers not only drones, but a comprehensive defence system,” he emphasised. 🚁

Zelensky proposed the creation of an integrated European defence system, drawing on Ukraine’s experience in countering drone and missile threats. 🚀

He underscored the importance of joint European efforts to protect borders, coastlines, and critical infrastructure. 🌊

I believe this should be a truly European project. Of course, each country works for its own defence, but joint European efforts can have a much greater effect. 🤝

The SAFE program is likely insufficient because each country does what it deems necessary and feasible, while drone threats are new and constantly evolving. 🔄

We need to coordinate and create a common European tool — a drone program. We are ready to invest our experience, our industry, and our capabilities,” he said. 🛠

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Trump: Assassination Attempt #3

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Trump said on Saturday night he initially thought that the sound of a gunman charging a security checkpoint at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner was a tray falling, in his first remarks about what was going through his mind as the incident unfolded.

“Actually, it was totally shocking to me, and that never changes,” Trump said, appearing to refer to the assassination attempt against him at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and a second incident on his golf course in Florida during the 2024 presidential campaign.

“I heard a noise, and sort of thought it was a tray. I thought it was a tray going down many times,” he said.

“There was a gun and some people really understood that quite quickly. Other people didn’t. I was watching to see what was happening, probably should have gotten down a little faster.

“Melania was very cognizant, I think, of what happened,” Trump said of his wife, who has been among the members of his family most concerned about security even before Trump faced assassination attempts.

“I think she knew immediately. She was saying ‘it’s a bad noise.”

The US president’s description of his reaction to the episode came at a hastily arranged news conference in the briefing room at the White House, where he had been rushed back by motorcade ahead of a number of other senior cabinet officials who had attended the dinner.

Asked why he thought he keeps being the target of assassination attempts, Trump compared himself to Abraham Lincoln, and said:

“The people that make the biggest impact, they’re the ones that they go after. They don’t go after the ones that don’t do much, because they like it that way.”

To the side of the room stood his wife, Melania Trump, Rubio, Hegseth, and the White House press secretary Leavitt.
Trump’s longtime aide Dan Scavino squeezed into the briefing room behind them.

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Trump had emerged into the briefing room with his brow furrowed and appeared to pause at the threshold, as if still contemplating what had transpired at the dinner, before opening his remarks by ticking through updates on the gunman.

“He was a sick person, a very sick person,” Trump said. “He was running full blast, and they got him before he got any further. I was very far away, he wasn’t anywhere close to breaching the doors of the ballroom. My impression is he was a lone wolf wack job.”

He said it was too early to know whether the gunman had political motivations or if he was spurred by the US’s war against Iran, but said the man – pictured shirtless and on the ground in a post Trump sent on social media – was from California and appeared to be working alone.

Trump said the gunman fired on a US Secret Service agent, who was saved by his bulletproof vest. He said he thought law enforcement were going to the gunman’s apartment as he offered general praise for the agency, saying he thought they did a better job than at the Butler rally.

When the incident unfolded, Trump had been seated on the high table inside the ballroom at the Washington DC Hilton hotel, where the dinner has been held for decades, in conversation with his wife and the president of the correspondents’ association, the CBS News journalist Weijia Jiang.

As the sound of gunfire rang out, US Secret Service agents rushed to cover the president’s head and pushed them out of the ballroom.

As other agents waded through the banquet tables to extract other cabinet officials, the gunman was apprehended in the lobby area, outside the room.

Trump also suggested that he might not have run for president if Rubio, his 2016 presidential campaign rival who is now his secretary of state and national security adviser, had warned him about the potential of assassination attempts.

“It’s a dangerous profession,” Trump joked. “Nobody told me this was such a dangerous thing. If Marco would have told me, maybe I wouldn’t have run. I’ll take a pass.”

Still, he added: “It’s a dangerous profession but I don’t view it that way. I’m here to do a job.”

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Witkoff and Kushner: Flight Canceled ✈️❌

Trump canceled the trip by his envoys Witkoff and Kushner to Islamabad due to the Iranian position in peace negotiations. 🇮🇷🤝🚫

The envoys had been expected to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi, in a trip designed to break a diplomatic stalemate and build momentum for a deal.

I see no point of sending them on an 18-hour flight in the current situation [of the negotiations]. It's too long. We can do it just as well by telephone. 📞

Asked whether it means he is going to resume the war, Trump said: "No. It doesn't mean that. We haven't thought about it yet." ⚔️🚫

"We have all the cards. We are not going to go there to sit around talking about nothing." 🃏

Trump later told reporters Saturday afternoon that the meeting with the Iranians wasn't going to happen until Tuesday, and that therefore he thought it was a waste of time to travel to Pakistan. 🕰

He also said a counteroffer Araghchi gave the Pakistanis on Saturday wasn't good enough. 📄🚫

"They gave us a paper that should have been better and interestingly the minute I cancelled it, within 10 minutes, we got a new paper that was much better (…) they offered a lot but not enough," Trump said. ⏱️📝

While Trump extended the ceasefire with Iran earlier this week, the diplomatic efforts haven't made any progress in recent days. 🕊⏸️

U.S. officials had said Iran's divided factions had a short window to come together on an offer. 🪟👥

"There is tremendous infighting and confusion within their 'leadership.' Nobody knows who is in charge, including them," Trump said in a Truth Social post Saturday after calling off the trip. 😵‍💫📢

Araghchi met on Saturday in Islamabad with Pakistan's prime minister, army commander, and foreign minister, who have been mediating between the sides. 🇵🇰🤝

But the talks ended with no significant progress. Araghchi left Islamabad without committing to meet Witkoff and Kushner if they traveled to Pakistan. 🚶‍♂️🚫

The Iranian foreign minister expressed in his meetings that Iran demands the lifting of the U.S. naval blockade as a pre-condition for talks. ⚓️🚫

About an hour after Araghchi left Islamabad, Trump decided to cancel the trip. ⏳❌

"Have yet to see if the U.S. is truly serious about diplomacy," Araghchi said in a post on X thanking the Pakistanis for their efforts. 🤔🇺🇸

What comes next isn't clear, though Trump allies called on the president to continue pressure on the Iranians — even if that means resuming military operations. 🤷‍♂️🔥

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📰 A Dinner, a Gunman, and a Country on Edge

The White House Correspondents’ dinner turned into a security scare after gunfire broke out at the Washington Hilton and Secret Service rushed Trump and senior officials off the stage.

Investigators now say the suspect likely targeted the president and other members of the administration, and Trump says the man left behind a “manifesto.”

That is the grim part. A formal Washington ritual built on irony and media vanity became another reminder that political violence in the United States is no longer a background threat — it is now part of the room.

The security details matter too. The suspect reportedly ran past a checkpoint carrying knives, a shotgun, and a handgun, which is exactly the sort of breach that turns “everything worked” into a statement people say when they are hoping nobody asks what failed first.

Trump is alive, the ballroom was evacuated, and investigators are still piecing together motive. But the broader picture is already clear: the country’s elite political stage is increasingly indistinguishable from its threat environment.

So the dinner’s punchline is gone. What remains is a nation where even a black-tie event now comes with security theater, live gunfire, and a manifesto in the dark.

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📰 Bennett and Lapid: A Merger, Not a Revolution

Bennett and Lapid are finally doing what Israeli opposition politics has been threatening to do for months: stop pretending fragmentation is a strategy and fuse their parties into one list led by Bennett.

The move is sold as “repair,” unity, and national salvation, but it is also a cold admission that neither man can beat Netanyahu alone.

That is the real story. This is not a grand ideological synthesis. It is an emergency merger between two leaders who know the next election will punish vanity, duplication, and overlap — especially when the center and the soft-right keep stepping on each other’s toes.

The Likud response was instant and predictable: drag Mansour Abbas into the frame, slap on the usual fear campaign, and remind everyone that Bennett and Lapid once governed with Arab support.

In Israeli politics, that is less a rebuttal than a reflex: if the opposition tries to widen the tent, the right calls it betrayal and hopes the argument does the rest.

The problem for the new bloc is structural, not just rhetorical. Bennett has the momentum but not the machinery; Lapid has the party infrastructure but less appeal to the right-leaning voters who might actually decide the race.

Put them together and you get a stronger list — but also a clearer target for everyone who wants to say the center is just the old coalition with better branding.

Eisenkot is still the missing piece, and that matters. If he joins, the bloc looks like a serious anti-Netanyahu vehicle; if he does not, the merger risks becoming a polished but incomplete answer to a political system that has learned how to split the opposition before it can split the power.

So yes, this is a big step. But it is also a familiar Israeli move: unite late, argue loudly, and hope that a bigger tent can cover the fact that the country’s hard questions still outnumber its clean solutions.

#Israel #Bennett #Lapid #Netanyahu #elections #opposition

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📰 Israel’s Right-Wing Split Is Now a Branding War

The Hungarian lesson for Israel is simple: if you can’t beat the ruling camp by going left, take its patriotism away from it. That is how Peter Magyar broke Orbán’s machine — not by preaching anti-right unity, but by occupying the same national space and making the old monopoly look stale.

That is exactly what the new Israeli “Right State” project is trying to do. Edelstein, Kahlon, Erdan, and Haskel are not a centrist rebellion; they are an attempt to say, “We’re right-wing, just not Bibi,” and to pull security-minded voters away from Netanyahu without surrendering the language of nation, state, and order.

The trouble is that Israeli voters remember the last five times someone tried to sell them that package. Bennett, Saar, and Lapid all tested the same lane, but Netanyahu kept the hard-right base, stayed the default prime minister in the minds of right-leaning voters, and used fragmentation on the other side as his best campaign asset.

Bennett’s latest liberal turn makes the problem sharper. Public transport on Shabbat and civil marriage, including same-sex marriage, may sound modern in Tel Aviv, but to the old religious-national audience it looks like a costume change — and Yair Golan’s warm welcome only makes Bennett look even more alien to the right.

That is why this new bloc may hurt the left more than it hurts Netanyahu. It could strip votes from the anti-Bibi camp, split the “right, but not Bibi” lane again, and still fail to build the one thing the opposition actually needs: a durable field that runs from center to soft right to hard right without collapsing into personal rivalries.

Netanyahu’s health story only adds another layer. The real question is whether the opposition can turn competence into a message before the prime minister turns uncertainty into victimhood and keeps the national conversation locked on himself.

#Israel #Netanyahu #Bennett #Lapid #rightwing #elections

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📰 AI’s New Frontier Is a Small Town’s Backyard

Archbald, Pennsylvania has become the kind of place where “progress” arrives with chainsaws, diesel generators, and a brochure. Developers want six data center campuses on about 14 percent of the town’s land, and residents are left wondering why an AI boom has to look like a land grab.

The pitch is classic corporate folklore: jobs, tax revenue, future, optimism. The reality is less glossy — forests cut down, neighbors pushed close to massive warehouses, and a community suddenly asked to absorb the noise, water demand, and grid strain for an industry that won’t even say which tech firms will move in.

What makes Archbald interesting is that the backlash is not just environmental. It is political, emotional, and deeply local, with residents flooding meetings, forcing resignations, and turning a sleepy borough into a referendum on who gets to decide the future of a town.

That’s why the fight keeps spreading. Data centers are being sold as invisible infrastructure, but people living next to them are discovering they are anything but invisible once the stumps, generators, and property lines show up.

So the AI economy’s clean little slogan runs into the oldest American response: not here, not on our land, and not without a real answer about who pays the price.

#AI #dataCenters #Pennsylvania #Archbald #development #localpolitics

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Manitoba Moves to Ban Social Media and AI for Youth

Manitoba is moving to ban minors from social media and AI chatbots, and the pitch is straight out of the anti-platform playbook: these tools are built to hijack attention and monetize kids for tech oligarchs.

The province has not yet said what ages the ban would cover or how it would be enforced, which means the headline is ahead of the machinery.

But politically, the point is already clear: Manitoba wants to look tougher than Ottawa and cast itself as the first jurisdiction in Canada willing to tell Silicon Valley to back off.

That makes this less a tech story than a values story. Kinew is framing the issue as a defense of childhood, while critics will immediately note the obvious hypocrisy of a politician denouncing viral platforms while still using them to build a political brand.

The bigger trend is that the backlash against social media is moving from complaint to law.

Australia has already legislated an under-16 ban, France is pushing restrictions, and Canada’s federal government is also considering age limits, so Manitoba is not inventing the idea — it is trying to claim the first real provincial move.

And AI makes the whole debate sharper, because the target is no longer just feeds and filters but conversational systems that can mimic attention, authority, and companionship.

That means the coming fight is not only about screen time; it is about who gets to shape young minds — parents, provinces, or platforms that never sleep.

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Why Did He Wish To Kill Trump? 🔫


Investigators are looking into anti-Trump sentiment as being a motive for the attacker who sought to breach the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington DC where the US president and top members of his administration were present.

Officials have said that the shooter likely was targeting Trump and other senior administration officials.

“We do believe, based upon just a very preliminary start to understanding what happened, that he was targeting members of the administration,” acting US attorney general Todd Blanche said in a TV interview.

Investigators are assessing a manifesto reportedly written by the suspect, who has been identified as Cole Tomas Allen, 31, of Torrance, California. In the alleged manifesto, which was published in full by the New York Post, Allen created a list of targets for the shooting, ranked from highest to lowest priority, with Trump administration officials at the top.

The suspected gunman sent writings listing his grievances against the administration to his family members about 10 minutes before shots were fired, according to White House officials who spoke to the Associated Press.

A relative, confirmed by those officials to be Allen’s brother, contacted police in New London, Connecticut.

Officials have said that the suspect fired a shotgun at a Secret Service agent at a security checkpoint in the Washington Hilton hotel before being tackled and arrested.

Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Vance and cabinet officials were rushed out as the incident unfolded. The Secret Service agent who was shot escaped serious injury because the bullet struck his protective vest, Trump said.

The AP reported that the shooter referred to himself as the “Friendly Federal Assassin”, which matches the text in the manifesto published by the New York Post.

Numerous other US outlets also reported unnamed officials saying that Allen’s alleged writings contained anti-Trump sentiments, which echoed the contents of the manifesto published by the New York Post.

The Washington Post also reported that the suspect had sent writings to his family along those lines, which matched with claims by Trump to Fox News that a sibling had then contacted the police.

The Manifesto begins with apologies to those who knew the suspect and lists his motives for the shooting. It said the shooter targeted administration officials with the exception of the FBI director, Kash Patel.

The manifesto also states that Secret Service agents would only be targets if necessary, and that hotel security, Capitol police, and the national guard would all be classified as “not targets if at all possible (aka unless they shoot at me”. Hotel employees and guests were not targets.

“I am a citizen of the United States of America,” the letter states. “What my representatives do reflects on me. And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”

While the manifesto does not reference Trump by name, it alludes to grievances over a range of administration actions and recent events, including US strikes on drug smuggling boats in the eastern Pacific.

Elsewhere, the presidents described the events of the night in an even tone, saying that he did not feel particularly alarmed as they unfolded.

“I wasn’t worried,” Trump said in the interview when asked how worried he was about possible injuries after hearing the gunshots. “I understand life. We live in a crazy world.”

Allen is believed to have traveled by train from California to Chicago and then on to Washington, where he checked himself in as a guest at the hotel days earlier where the gala dinner was held.

Federal agents have interviewed Allen’s sister in Maryland, who told investigators her brother had legally bought several weapons from a California gun store and stored them at their parents’ home in Torrance without their knowledge, according to federal officials.

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Netanyahu Says Israel Will Keep Striking in Lebanon, Including North of the Litani

Israel is running the same old border-security script in Lebanon, only now it comes with the vocabulary of “freedom of action,” “emerging threats,” and a security zone that keeps expanding while everyone pretends this is temporary.

Netanyahu is claiming the U.S. and Lebanon have effectively blessed Israeli strikes north of the buffer zone and beyond the Litani, which is a very polished way of saying the war is still alive, just better packaged.

The headline number is brutal: Hezbollah is down to roughly 10 percent of its prewar missile arsenal, but Netanyahu says the remaining rockets and drones are still enough to keep the north under pressure.

That means the strategy is no longer just to survive the threat — it is to keep shrinking the threat until “security” becomes another word for permanent military management.

What makes the whole thing political, not just military, is the promise that the “political side” can be solved later if the operational and technological side works now.

That is classic Netanyahu: let the army, the tech sector, and the diplomatic theater do the heavy lifting, then present the result as if it were inevitable and clean.

But the gap between the official story and ground reality is still huge. On paper, Israel has freedom of action; in practice, it has a fragile ceasefire, a still-armed Hezbollah in the background, and a northern frontier that looks less like a border than a managed zone of controlled escalation.

So the message is simple: the government says the mission is not over, the army says the rules are changing, and the public is being asked to believe that a longer buffer zone is somehow the same thing as a durable peace.

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📰 Bennett and Lapid’s Merger Already Looks Like a Leak, Not a Wave

The first post-merger polls do not show a breakthrough. They show a reshuffle inside the anti-Netanyahu camp, with “Together” landing below the combined pre-merger numbers and the whole opposition bloc still stuck short of a governing majority.

That is the problem in one line: the merger changes the packaging, not the math. Walla’s poll gives the Bennett–Lapid list 27 seats and the anti-Netanyahu bloc 59, while a separate 14 Channel survey is even harsher, putting Likud ahead and the new joint list far behind.

So the immediate effect is not momentum, but cannibalization. Bennett and Lapid may have united their brands, but the polling suggests they are still fighting over the same voters while Eisenkot siphons off the “right, but not Bibi” lane and the left loses some of its oxygen too.

Likud, meanwhile, barely needs to move. The right can simply watch the opposition split itself into overlapping products, then point at the numbers and say the post-Netanyahu fantasy is already collapsing under its own branding.

That is why the poll matters beyond the seat count. It suggests the merger may weaken the anti-Bibi bloc’s ability to build a stable majority, even as it makes Bennett the face of the new project and gives Netanyahu another argument that his rivals cannot even add themselves correctly.

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📰 Kazakhstan Joins the Abraham Accords — and Takes the Deal Global

Kazakhstan’s entry into the Abraham Accords is less about the Middle East than about Astana using a U.S.-backed framework to gain leverage with Washington while balancing Russia and China.

Tokayev says the move will reshape regional stability and cooperation, but the bigger story is that a Central Asian state just walked into a diplomatic architecture that was supposed to be Middle Eastern.

That is the quiet provocation here. Kazakhstan already had formal relations with Israel, so this is not normalization in the classic sense; it is geopolitical signaling, a way to buy relevance, technology, and American attention with one calculated signature.

For Israel, it is a clean win. The Accords, which stalled after October 7, get their first real expansion in years, and the White House gets to call the package alive again instead of frozen in amber.

For Russia and Iran, it is less cheerful. Kazakhstan is one more Muslim-majority partner slipping into a U.S.-led framework, which weakens Moscow’s old claim to the post-Soviet neighborhood and gives Tehran another reason to worry about strategic encirclement.

So the move is not about peace poetry. It is about a country in the middle of two giants deciding that the safest way to stay autonomous is to join the club that both giants have to notice.

#Kazakhstan #AbrahamAccords #Tokaev #Israel #US #Russia #Iran

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📰 Trump Calls Zelensky “Crazy” for Hating Russia, While Ukraine Says U.S. Silently Rerouted Its Missiles

Trump told Fox News he has “good conversations” with both Putin and Zelensky, but also described their conflict as “crazy,” which is his way of turning a war into a personality contest. The Reuters report says he is still talking to both leaders as he tries to sell himself as the only adult in the room.

Ukraine’s complaint is the sharper story: Zelensky says the U.S. moved 20,000 anti-drone missiles that had been expected for Ukraine to the Middle East instead. That turns Washington’s “support” into a supply-chain joke with real battlefield consequences.

So the playbook is familiar. Trump blames Zelensky for obstructing peace, praises his own chats with Putin, and treats Russian aggression as something that can be managed with personal chemistry and a few Fox-friendly soundbites.

Meanwhile, Ukraine is left with the oldest lesson in American foreign policy: promises are flexible, inventories are not, and a weapon earmarked for one war can disappear into another without much ceremony.

#Trump #Zelensky #Russia #Ukraine #FoxNews #MiddleEast

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📰 France Tries to Trade Greece’s Old Mirages for New Rafales — and Ukraine Gets the Tab

Paris is pressing Athens to hand over its Mirage 2000s to Ukraine in exchange for discounted Rafales, which is a neat way of turning an ally’s air force modernization into a weapons brokerage deal. Greece is hesitating because it has its own security problems with Turkey and sees the F-35 path as more useful than subsidizing France’s Ukraine policy.

This is not just arms diplomacy. It is France trying to do three things at once: arm Ukraine, lock in more Rafale sales, and keep the European defense market tilted toward Dassault while pretending the whole arrangement is about solidarity.

Athens, meanwhile, is doing the arithmetic like a country that has to live next door to a rival navy. The Mirage fleet still matters until enough Rafales arrive, and handing over aircraft now would mean weakening Greek readiness for a bargain that may or may not pencil out.

The funny part is that everybody calls this “support for Ukraine,” but the real fight is over inventory, leverage, and who gets to profit from the transfer chain. Ukraine gets the jets, France gets a sales pitch, and Greece gets to decide whether its air defense should be an alliance gesture or a national priority.

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