Ted Cruz:

For a lot of people, it has become more and more difficult to put food on the table, to pay the mortgage, to pay the rent.

Every bill has gone up, but I think Republicans did not do a good enough job of addressing and prioritizing those needs.

We focused on a lot of things other than the economy, jobs and helping people.

Ted Cruz:

There is no doubt the Iran war, when it began nine months ago, I don't think the president believed it would last as long as it did.

It has driven up gas prices. There are a lot of things driving up gas prices, but that is one of them.

I think you're going to see the president bring the Iran war to a conclusion. He's going to bring it to a conclusion pretty quickly.

Ted Cruz:

People at the top are doing really, really well.

And yet, an amazing statistic: This last year, more cans of Spam, the meat substitute, were sold than at any time in American history.

That tells you a lot of Americans are hurting.

German AfD Leader Alice Weidel on vaccine side effects:

Did you know that BioNTech never brought a marketable product to market before?

It's not long Covid. It's vaccine side effects, from which many people died and still suffer enormous health damage today.

Something like this should actually never be made marketable.

Trump just put the architect of the Muslim ban and family separations in charge of the White House.

Stephen Miller replaced Susie Wiles as Chief of Staff, following Republican losses in both chambers of Congress.

Miller has long pushed for sweeping presidential powers. With Democrats controlling Congress, Trump's new strategy could be to bypass lawmakers and govern through executive orders.

European stocks of PAC-2 and PAC-3 Patriot interceptors are at minimal levels, Bloomberg reports, as allies hesitate to send more to Ukraine without U.S. replenishment guarantees.

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Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi:

Israel must withdraw from all Syrian territories it has occupied since the eighth of December two years ago.

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi:

The only state trying to strike this security and stability is Israel, starting from expansionist goals.

We call on the whole world to act to stop these attacks before the region is pushed to what is worse.

Syrian blood is as precious to us as Jordanian blood.

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani:

There is no deployment of forces in Yemen and not even a near plan for this.

Any military plan beyond the borders will certainly be announced and talked about, and its work will not be in secret.

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Democrats who won solid majorities in both chambers of Congress are signaling they will block President Donald Trump’s $1.5 trillion fiscal 2027 defense budget request, Bloomberg reports.

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Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani:

If your report speaks of tens of thousands of troops, how could something of that scale possibly be kept secret?

If there were a military position of support by the Syrian Arab Republic for any country in the region, whether Saudi Arabia or another country, that would certainly be an honorable position for us, and it would be officially announced.

Our position is clear and firm. We support Arab and Islamic countries in confronting the challenges and threats they face from militias and attacks.

Pete Hegseth allegedly blocked promotions for senior military officers based on their involvement in diversity initiatives, COVID-19 vaccination efforts, the Afghanistan evacuation or ties to former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley.

A senior official said Hegseth's office used internet search results to flag officers already selected through merit-based reviews, disproportionately affecting women and minorities. Of 31 officers selected for one-star promotions, nine were reportedly withheld from promotion.

“As soon as you introduce anything else in here…now you get away from merit,” the official said.

The Pentagon defended Hegseth, saying he was “reviving the warrior ethos” and ensuring promotions remained merit-based.

Source: MS NOW

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

God's hand is on the Jewish people and on the state of Israel.

It has been and it will continue to be.

Palantir Alumni Raise $300M to 'Awaken' Europe’s Defense Supply Chain

The Dutch startup Onodrim plans to buy controlling stakes in dual-use suppliers and help them expand production as European defense manufacturers face record order backlogs.

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U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

I've never been heckled, spit upon, I've never been attacked because of that.

In fact, I have an enormous level of freedom.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee:

A person can be Jewish. They need no relationship to a Christian at all to be Jewish.

I cannot be a Christian without the entirety of my faith, which is built completely on the foundation of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the entirety of the revelation of God through the life and the law and the light that was given to the Jewish people.

Ukraine’s parliament advances the creation of Space Forces to counter missile threats including Russia’s Oreshnik and to launch its own military satellites.

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Retired Col. Gen. Leonid Ivashov tells Vladimir Putin he has already lost the Ukraine war and lacked the wits to foresee it would not be a quick operation.

“You lost; you didn’t foresee a thing. You didn’t have the wits to realize that the war wouldn’t be some light-hearted operation: flit in there, peck somewhere, and that’s it—victory,” Ivashov said.

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'No Passports to Terrorists': Dhaka Rejects Ousted PM's Return From Exile

The ousted prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, says she plans to surrender in court after a death sentence was handed down in her absence. Dhaka wants India to extradite her.

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A Russian military Tu-154 used to carry senior officials and troops landed at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday evening after leaving a Moscow-area air base, KAN News reports.

The purpose of the visit remains unknown.

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