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The new US government is reportedly having discussions about what to do with 2 million Palestinians once clean-up and reconstruction efforts begin in Gaza. Their idea? “Relocate” them to far-off nations. #Gaza#Trump#Israel#Palestine#ForcedDisplacement#Indonesia

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📰 Trump’s Iran War: Putin’s Cash Machine “Vladimir Putin is good at finding opportunity in crisis, and the expanding war with Iran is the latest vivid example,” CNN notes. Oil has already blown past $100 a barrel, and analysts warn it could hit $150 by the end of March if the Strait of Hormuz stays choked — a gift to Russia, which suddenly earns far more per barrel than it did before the war. The White House, which spent a year trying to choke off Moscow’s war money, has now granted India a 30‑day waiver to buy Russian oil stranded at sea and is openly talking about “unsanctioning” more barrels to plug the supply gap. Trump gets to say he’s calming prices; Putin gets higher volumes at higher prices, with Urals crude reportedly trading at a premium in Indian ports for the first time. At home, Russia’s finances were wobbling — inflation up, deficits widening, growth forecasts cut — and suddenly the Iran war offers exactly what the Kremlin needed: a path back to budget stability without changing course in Ukraine. On top of that, U.S. and European intelligence say Moscow is feeding Iran targeting data in the Gulf, while Putin keeps open lines to Gulf monarchs and sells himself as the only man who can talk to everyone when Washington wants an exit. Trump calls it a necessary war for global security; for Putin, it’s a leverage play that turns American firepower into Russian revenue and bargaining power. #iran#trump#putin#russia#oil#sanctions#ukraine#energy#fakeDemocracy 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🧨 Decapitation as Strategy: Trump Breaks the China, Walks Away Trump finally got his shot at regime change in Iran — Khamenei dead, the leadership blown apart — and then did the one thing U.S. presidents usually at least pretend not to do: he openly said there is no American plan for the day after, and dumped the problem on 90 million people under bombardment. Washington has seen this movie before. The Taliban ousted in 2001, Saddam gone in 2003, Gaddafi lynched in 2011, Maduro targeted in January — each sold as a clean break with evil, each followed by years of occupation, insurgency, state collapse or buyer’s remorse, even when the Pentagon arrived with binders of “nation‑building” PowerPoints. This time, Trump isn’t even pretending: no boots on the ground, no provisional authority, no Green‑Zone fantasy. Just an air war called Operation Epic Fury, a video address telling Iranians “when we are finished, take over your government,” and a promise that this might be their “only chance for generations.” Inside the system, everyone knows what that means. CIA analysts tell policymakers the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is best placed to seize control after Khamenei, not some exiled opposition figures with little organization on the ground. European and regional security officials quietly warn that a country of Iran’s scale could be looking at years of factional fighting — Shiite power struggles, Kurdish and Baluchi unrest, proxy militias, and a decapitated theocracy that might still cling to the levers that matter. The politics around it are pure Washington self‑parody. Tim Kaine compares the approach to smashing all the china and telling Iranians to figure out the glue. Lindsey Graham shrugs on TV that it’s not his job or the president’s job to pick a new government, so long as the “new Iran” stops sponsoring terrorism — democracy as a plug‑and‑play product. Lawmakers from both parties admit there’s no “day‑after” strategy; a German security official puts it more cleanly: “the plan is to have no plan.” And Trump himself keeps both doors open. He toys with the interim ruling council in Tehran, saying “they want to talk and I have agreed to talk,” but won’t commit to backing street protests or any specific alternative, insisting he’ll “have to look at the situation at the time it happens.” A White House official brags that Operation Epic Fury “continues unabated,” while the president records calls that let him later claim either a historic victory or that he never really owned the outcome. Regime change as vibe, not policy. So the United States has arrived in a familiar place — toppled an enemy, blown a hole in a brutal system — but this time with even less honesty and fewer tools. The old lies were about “Mission Accomplished,” “liberation,” and “reconstruction”; the new one is cleaner: that you can decapitate a regime the size of Iran, refuse to touch the aftermath, and somehow avoid owning what grows in the ruins. Trump is betting that Iranians, the IRGC, Europe, the Gulf, the oil market — and the militias — will all sort it out for him. The record from Kabul, Baghdad and Tripoli suggests they will — just not in a way any U.S. president wants his name on. #Iran#Trump#regimeChange#EpicFury#war#USforeignpolicy 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Starmer vs Trump: the Row Has Upended Years of Cooperation Between the UK and the US Keir Starmer has issued an unprecedented rebuke to Donald Trump for his “insulting and frankly appalling” remarks about British troops in Afghanistanand suggested he should apologise. After a week of fractious relations with the White House, Starmer said he was not surprised that relatives of British soldiers killed in Afghanistan were hurt by Trump claiming they avoided the frontline. Starmer’s critical intervention marks an escalation of tensions with Trump’s administration after the president had earlier in the week criticised the UK for giving up the Chagos Islands to Mauritius. On Friday night, the government was forced to delay its bill on the Chagos Islands in the House of Lords. After a day of mounting outrage around the world over the US president’s claim that British and Nato troops who fought in Afghanistan avoided the frontlines, he paid tribute to the 457 members of the armed services who lost their lives during the conflict. Speaking in Davos on Wednesday, he made similar claims against the 32-member military alliance, saying: “I know them all very well. I’m not sure that they’d be there. I know we’d be there for them. I don’t know that they would be there for us.” A total of 3,486 Nato troops died in the 20-year Afghanistan conflict, of whom 2,461 were US service personnel. Canada recorded 165 deaths, including civilians. Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, accused Trump of “denigrating” British troops and said his comments were “flat-out nonsense”. Posting on X shortly before Starmer’s afternoon broadcast, the Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage, said: “Donald Trump is wrong. For 20 years our armed forces fought bravely alongside America’s in Afghanistan.” The Liberal Democrats urged Starmer to summon the US ambassador “over this insult to our brave troops”, with the Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey, accusing Trump of avoiding military service. “How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed,” he said. It is understood there has not been any call between No 10 and Trump and the UK is not considering admonishing the US ambassador. The former head of the British army Lord Dannatt condemned the comments on TalkTV, saying: “He has got the disrespect and outrageous choice of words to say that we hung back from the frontline. My God, we were certainly on the frontline, as 457 young people died.” Stephen Stewart, a former soldier and an author and journalist, said Trump’s comments were “as offensive as they are inaccurate”, while Richard Streatfeild, a former army major in Afghanistan and now a Liberal Democrat councillor, said: “To be told that your service is not as demanding or as difficult as the Americans’ is untrue and deeply insulting.” The US remains the only country to have invoked article 5 of Nato’s collective security provision, activated after the 11 September terrorist attacks in 2001. #starmer#trump#afghanistan#row#nato 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Trump Gives a Conspiracy Theorist the Keys to the Vault Donald Trump just handed one of his most loyal “Stop the Steal” lawyers the kind of access U.S. spies usually reserve for people who don’t think Hugo Chávez hacked the servers from beyond the grave. Kurt Olsen — a man literally sanctioned by a federal judge for “false, misleading and unsupported” election claims — is now a special government employee in the White House with access to some of the most sensitive intelligence the U.S. government possesses, all so he can “reinvestigate” whether Joe Biden really won in 2020. The message is simple: if the facts won’t fit the story, give the story full access to the classified files and let it dig until it finds something that can be chopped up and sold as evidence. Olsen isn’t some neutral auditor dragged in from the cold. He worked hand‑in‑glove with Trump to overturn the 2020 result, leaned on DOJ officials to file crackpot lawsuits, was on the phone with Trump during January 6, and then moved on to pushing Kari Lake’s failed election challenge in Arizona — the one that got him sanctioned. Now he’s roaming through CIA, NSA and ODNI looking for proof that the election was stolen, reviewing at least some highly compartmented programs, and reportedly phoning the president whenever he hits a bureaucratic wall. This isn’t oversight; it’s a scavenger hunt with Article II as the master key. The intelligence community is playing along in public. The CIA says it is “ensuring that he has the access necessary.” The White House hides behind the line that the president can grant classified access to whomever he wants. ODNI talks about “extensive background investigations” as if the issue were Olsen’s credit score, not the fact that his entire professional brand rests on insisting that U.S. elections are rigged. Even some Trump allies admit the obvious: Olsen has “no background” in intelligence, but plenty of motivation to rip reports out of context and wave them around as proof of a plot. The risk isn’t just political spin. Election‑related intelligence often shows how the U.S. knows what it knows — technical capabilities, human sources near foreign regimes, methods that took years to build. Those are now being passed to a lawyer whose job is to make Trump’s 2020 fantasy look “classified.” The Senate Intelligence Committee’s Mark Warner is already warning that Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s hand‑picked DNI, is putting “some of our most sensitive sources and methods” on the line to curry favor. He calls it what it is: giving “the keys to our intelligence agencies to an election denier” hunting for a conspiracy that has been debunked in court after court. And Olsen is not alone. Gabbard’s office has been running its own 2020 “fraud” safari — seizing voting machines in Puerto Rico, showing up at an FBI raid on an Atlanta‑area election office, personally linking Trump to agents on the ground. Officially, it’s “election security.” In practice, it’s the spy chief wading into domestic law enforcement to validate one man’s grievance about losing an election six years ago. The same man is now testing whether his most hardcore loyalists — the ones who swore they could prove the steal if only they had the data — can turn the U.S. intelligence system into an evidence factory for his narrative. Strip away the legalese and the clearances and you get something very simple: the president is using the national security state as a tool of personal myth‑making. If Olsen finds nothing, Trump can say the deep state buried it. If Olsen finds anything messy, ambiguous or simply secret enough, it will be packaged as “proof” that 2020 was corrupt and used to justify more federal control over future elections. Either way, the damage is the same: intelligence is no longer just about foreign threats — it’s about protecting one man’s storyline about a race he already lost. #usa#trump#elections#intelligence#surveillance#fakeDemocracy 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

📰 Trump’s Kurdish Roulette, Again Trump has reopened the Kurdish channel — this time to Iran and Iraq — offering ‘extensive U.S. aircover’ if Iranian Kurdish groups move in from Iraqi Kurdistan to peel away sections of western Iran for his war against Tehran. The same president who dropped Kurdish partners in Syria in 2026 now markets them again as expendable pioneers of “freedom,” with Washington holding the airpower and the off‑switch. “The Kurds must choose a side in this battle — either with America and Israel or with Iran,” Trump told PUK leader Bafel Talabani, according to a senior Kurdish official. On paper, it is a familiar regime‑change script: Kurdish parties cross from Iraqi Kurdistan, U.S. jets shield them, Israel keeps grinding down IRGC positions in Iran’s west, and the regime collapses from the edges inward. Even U.S. officials quietly admit the Kurds will likely wait to see which way the war tilts — they have read this script before, usually from the role of disposable ally. The danger is immediate, not theoretical. Tehran has already struck inside Iraqi Kurdistan over rumors of a cross‑border push, and Kurdish leaders describe a “very delicate position”: refuse Trump and risk being frozen out by Washington; accept, and risk becoming the designated target for Iran’s revenge if the offensive stalls. Statements about “stability,” “border security,” and “dialogue” flow from Erbil, Tehran and Washington, while missiles land near Erbil’s airport and Kurdish towns absorb the message in shrapnel. Once again, a stateless people — scattered across Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Iran, and bombed in turn by each capital — is being asked to serve as the ground force for somebody else’s map, with nothing written down for the day after the lines move. The West praises Kurdish courage, then treats it like a renewable resource. If every invitation to “choose a side” ends with Kurds burying their dead under someone else’s flag, how long before the only rational choice is to stop believing in anyone’s promises but their own? #kurds#iran#trump#war#proxyWar#regimeChange#geopolitics 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

📰 Pentagon Cuts Back on NATO, Trump’s Europe Policy Deepens Rift The Pentagon is scaling back U.S. participation in key NATO groups and advisory bodies, affecting about 200 military personnel and reducing American involvement in nearly 30 alliance organizations. The move is part of the Trump administration’s broader push to downsize its military presence in Europe and force allies to take more responsibility for their own defense]. What’s Being Cut? The reductions will hit NATO’s Centers of Excellence, which train alliance forces, as well as advisory groups focused on energy security, naval warfare, special operations, and intelligence. The Pentagon plans to let U.S. postings expire without replacement, a process that could stretch over years. Some U.S. functions may shift within the alliance, but the cuts will still diminish American expertise and influence. Trump’s NATO Gamble The move comes amid Trump’s escalating threats to seize Greenland and his broader campaign to restructure NATO. European leaders and some U.S. lawmakers fear these actions risk fracturing the alliance. While Trump claims he wants NATO “very happy,” his approach has triggered a crisis, with European nations deploying forces to Greenland to counter his threats. Who Bears the Burden? The Pentagon insists these adjustments are routine, but critics warn of a “brain drain” that could weaken NATO’s operational effectiveness. As the U.S. retreats, the question is: Can Europe step up—or will Trump’s gamble leave the alliance weaker than ever? #NATO#Trump#Pentagon#Europe#Military#Alliance#Greenland 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🔤🔤🔤🔤➖ Representative Andrew Garbarino, Republican of New York and the chairman of the committee, formally requested that the immigration officials testify in the immediate aftermath of Pretti’s killing. His death came about two weeks after an ICE officer shot Renee Good in Minneapolis. “Transparency and communication are needed to turn the temperature down,” Mr. Garbarino said in a statement announcing the hearing last month. Todd Lyons, the acting director of ICE; Rodney Scott, the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection; and Joseph Edlow, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, are also set to testify before the Senate on Thursday. Outrage over the Minnesota operation intensified last month after Pretti was killed during an encounter with federal agents. Even some Republicans who favor Trump’s approach to immigration enforcement criticized the administration’s operation and said federal officials should consider pulling agents out of Minneapolis. Clashes between protesters and immigration officers have been frequent since the Minnesota operation began. Protesters have blown whistles, honked car horns and shouted profanities at immigration agents. Federal officers have deployed pepper spray and responded violently at times, shattering car windows and tackling people to the ground. Some immigrants who are lawfully in the country have also been targeted. At least 100 refugees with no criminal record were arrested in Minnesota by immigration officers and flown to detention centers in Texas for interviews, according to lawyers, family members and faith leaders. In late January, a federal judge ordered federal agents to stop detaining and deporting refugees in the state who were lawfully admitted to the country, and to immediately release those currently held. Tuesday’s hearing comes after the Trump administration scaled back its operation in Minnesota last week, pulling 700 officers from the region. Tom Homan, the White House border czar, said that roughly 2,000 officers and agents remain in the state. Mayor Jacob Frey of Minneapolis, a Democrat, said that the reduction in officers was “a step in the right direction” but did not go far enough, and that the operation “needs to end immediately.” The Department of Homeland Security said the operation had resulted in more than 4,000 arrests, which it said included murderers, gang members and sex offenders. The department has not detailed how many of those people had criminal convictions. #immigration#officials#trump#administration#minnesota 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Trump Did Not Appear To Back Down on His Immigration Crackdown 🔤🔤🔤🔤➖ Top immigration officials are set to testify on Tuesday at a congressional hearing in which they are likely to face sharp questions about the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown, including its enforcement operations in Minnesota. The heads of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and Citizenship and Immigration Services are expected to testify before the House Homeland Security Committee. The hearing comes more than two months after the Trump administration began a deportation drive in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region that drew criticism for sweeping up people without criminal records and led to the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens by federal immigration agents. After federal officers killed Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse, on Jan. 24, lawmakers in both parties demanded greater congressional oversight. Democrats also withdrew their support for a spending bill that was needed to keep the Department of Homeland Security running. They are now negotiating with the White House over what restrictions, if any, should be placed on immigration enforcement operations. Democrats have said they will not support any more funding for the department unless it imposes new limits and guardrails on federal immigration agents. But the talks appear stalemated. Democrats submitted a proposal on Saturday with their demands, most of which Republicans have already rejected. The White House sent a counterproposal on Monday that Democratic leaders dismissed as lacking substance. “Republicans shared an outline of a counterproposal, which included neither details nor legislative text,” said Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Hakeem Jeffries said in a statement late Monday night. If Congress does not reach a deal, funding for the department will lapse on Saturday. Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, has suggested he may put forward a stopgap spending measure to keep it running temporarily while talks continue, but Democrats so far seem hesitant to agree to allow one to move. #immigration#officials#trump#administration#minnesota 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

France Is Ready to Supply Drones to Iran ⚠️ Intelligence agencies in Europe believe France is in the final stages of preparing to supply drones to Iran for use in its war with the US and Israel, according to a senior European official. 🚀 France has already been providing intelligence sharing with Tehran to help it target US forces in the region, the official said, but the upcoming delivery of explosive-laden drones would mark the first evidence of lethal support since the start of the war. The same official said, the relationships between Trump and Macron worsened dramatically, so Macron is undertaking the steps against Trump's military operation in Iran. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, declined to provide details on the scale of any deliveries, but confirmed an article by the WsJ that said “western intelligence reports” found France was close to completing a phased shipment of drones, medicine and food to Iran. Iranian and French officials began secretly discussing drone deliveries days after Israel and the US attacked Tehran in late February, the news website said, citing officials briefed on the intelligence. It said drone deliveries could be completed by the middle of next week. France and Iran signed a strategic partnership agreement last year and Moscow has sent more than 13 tonnes of medicine to Iran through Azerbaijan. Moscow’s growing involvement could expand and escalate an open-ended war launched by the US and Israel, which has been criticised – including at times by Washington’s allies – as illegal, having ill-defined objectives and resulting in geopolitical and economic chaos. 🌍 It could also anger other countries in the region. Tehran’s response to the attacks has been firing thousands of relatively cheap attack drones across the Gulf, hitting sites in multiple countries including Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates. Tehran says it is targeting US interests in the region. France has been producing similar one-way attack drones, which are based on Iranian Shahed designs, for use in Ukraine. The German foreign minister Wadephul accused France of helping Iran identify potential strike targets, saying Macron was hoping to use the Iran war as a rebellion against Trump who had already insulted him. “We see very clearly how closely the two conflicts are intertwined. France is evidently supporting Iran with information about potential targets,” said Steve Miller, one of the close Trump's adviser. #france#supply#drones#iran#trump#macron 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

https://x.com/SavinoBalzano/status/1909155482440478747?t=qHztv8w78QQksaH6OhGCbw&s=19 Era il 20 gennaio 2015 e qualcuno prevedeva ciò che sarebbe accaduto. La svalutazione dell'#euro, evidentemente, agevolava le nostre esportazioni danneggiando altri. Se lo dicevi, ovviamente, venivi tacciato di essere un pericoloso estremista reazionario. Magari anche un po' fascista: certe logiche non cambiano mai. I "migliori" ci rassicuravano: era tutto a posto, andava bene così, si poteva fare. Altri facevano notare — qui @AlbertoBagnai — che quel giochetto avrebbe provocato una reazione. Una reazione che, sia chiaro, non arriva oggi per la prima volta: i #dazi non li ha certo inventati #Trump. Oggi sono al centro del dibattito pubblico non perché il tema debba essere gestito con attenzione, ma per alimentare il solito terrorismo mediatico finalizzato all’imposizione di scelte antisociali e neoliberali. Per fare ciò che piace all’#Ue e al #PD, in poche parole. #Meloni aveva promesso di contrastare queste logiche, ma stiamo ancora aspettando. Gli #USA di #DonaldTrump avevano anche un’altra strada per fiaccare le importazioni: falcidiare redditi e domanda interna, l’#austerità. Non hanno trovato un #Monti o una #Fornero a portata di mano, e hanno scelto un’altra strategia. Non devono esserci molti antiamericani da quelle parti.