Settlements are Israeli civilian communities, overwhelmingly inhabited by Jews, in territories acquired by Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War that are not under Israeli sovereignty.
— Read on israelpolicyforum.org/west-bank-settlements-explained/
British fighter jets were scrambled in Romania overnight in response to a Russiandrone attackon Ukraine.
Two RAFEurofighter Typhoon aircraftwere given permission to engage the Russian drones as they launched attacks on ports along the River Danube, which flows through or borders 10 countries, including Romania and Ukraine.
The Romanian defence ministry said the British jets, which were part of a wider Nato mission, had been scrambled from the 86th Air Base in Fetesti in the early hours of Saturday.
The British planes never entered Ukrainian airspace and did not engage Russian drones, the Romanian and UK defence ministries confirmed to The Telegraph.
The typhoons tracked the drones, which were approaching Reni in Ukraine, where explosions were later reported. At that moment, contact with the drones was lost.
Romanian authorities recovered drone fragments in the south-eastern city of Galați following the overnight attack, which left an electricity pole and a household annex damaged, according to the defence ministry.
Emergency services later evacuated the area over fears the fragments could contain an explosive.
While drone fragments have routinely fallen on Romania, a member of Nato which shares a 400-mile land border with Ukraine, Saturday marked the first time property had been damaged.
“The defence ministry firmly condemns the irresponsible actions of the Russian Federation and emphasises that these represent a new challenge to regional security and stability in the Black Sea area,” the Romanian defence ministry said.
“Such incidents demonstrate the Russian Federation’s lack of respect for the norms of international law and endanger not only the safety of Romanian citizens, but also the collective security of Nato.”
The statement continued: “The Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft had radar contact with a target located 1.5km [one mile] from Reni, above Ukrainian territory.”
I’m all for embracing converts to the anti-Trump cause. But if you listen to the dialogue between Tucker and his brother, it’s clear that rather than honestly reckoning with their role in America’s derangement, they’re developing a new conspiracy theory to explain it away.
Trump, they strongly imply, has been compromised — maybe even blackmailed and physically threatened — by Zionist or globalist forces seeking the deliberate destruction of the United States. On Tucker’s podcast, Buckley described a systematic undermining of America through the George Floyd protests, mass migration and now the war with Iran.
“It can’t be a confluence of random events,” Buckley said. “It is clearly by design. It’s clearly been a long-term plan.”
As former Secretary of State John Kerry has said, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel tried to persuade previous American presidents to strike the Islamic republic, but only Trump was vain and gullible enough to agree. America’s hand-in-glove relationship with Israel has become a liability, and we should end it.
But it wasn’t Israel or Zionist donors or some shadowy internationalist cabal that made Trump a buffoonish maniac who glories in threats of violence. If the second Trump administration is worse than the first, it’s largely because the establishment figures once demonized by Carlson as deep-state subversives are all gone. Trump is who he always was. He’s just more politically unfettered than before.
“President Zelensky warned at the weekend that Russia was again seeking to use Belarus as a platform for an attack on Ukraine. “According to intelligence, road construction in areas leading to Ukraine and the establishment of artillery positions are going on in the Belarusian border area,” he said.
The Ukrainian leader also appeared to warn Lukashenko that he could be abducted by Ukrainian special forces if he went along with the Kremlin’s plans. “The nature and consequences of the recent events in Venezuela should deter the Belarusian leadership from making mistakes,” he said, referring to the capture by US troops of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan leader.
The mood in US-Belarus relations shifted last year when the Trump administration began to court Lukashenko, seeing him as a possible bridge to Putin. After the two leaders spoke on the phone, Minsk released 123 political prisoners in December, including Ales Bialiatski, the Nobel peace prize laureate, and leaders of the 2020 protests against Lukashenko’s rule.”
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“Why Trump’s bromance with Lukashenko could pave way for Putin deal”
NOTE FROM CHILDLESS CAT LADY WORKING AWAY IN A SUB-BASEMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF SNARK: NEITHER TRUMP NOR LUKASHENKO WOULD TAKE A PISS WITHOUT PUTIN’s APPROVAL. THE WSJ implies that Putin might get jealous if Trump and Lukashenko got too close. Jesus.
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