Donald Trump posted this Tuesday on his Truth Social network a map in which the Strait of Hormuz appears described as “new U.S. territory,” thus resuming an idea he had already expressed in recent days. The president spoke for the first time of “U.S. territory” to refer to this strategic commercial artery last week, during a rally and in a tone that made it seem like a joke.
A fifteen-minute walk separates the Bab Tuma gate from the ruins of Jobar. You start walking in the city that has been preserved and a kilometer later you cross an abyss and reach the one that has disappeared.
The U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Elbridge Colby, was blunt last week: “America is not disengaging from Asia. We are not leaving; in fact, we are digging in.”
The U.S. administration is having great difficulties advancing the Peace Plan for Gaza. After two days of on-the-ground talks, the special envoy of the U.S. president, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, only secured a vague commitment from the Israeli prime minister to “move forward.” Benjamin Netanyahu insisted that Israel will not withdraw its army from the Gaza Strip until Hamas has been completely disarmed, a position he has not changed for weeks. In his meeting with Kushner, which was described as “extensive, deep, and very productive” in a statement from the Peace Board, Netanyahu requested that a U.S. general oversee the delivery of weapons by the Palestinian group.
The United States Supreme Court once again refuses, and it seems definitively, to erase the serious stain on President Donald Trump’s reputation, whose image will be legally associated with the sexual abuse of writer E. Jean Carroll.
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, threatened this morning to bomb Oman, a traditional ally, if it “interferes” in the talks with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The president issued the warning during an interview with Fox News, the same day the ceasefire signed two months ago with Iran expired, under which both countries gave themselves 60 days to seek a definitive end to the war.
Russia is said to have established secret bases capable of launching high-powered drones that could reach NATO countries, according to The Telegraph newspaper this Monday. According to the investigation by that newspaper, there are ten Kremlin bases equipped with newly built launch platforms for Moscow’s most advanced long-range suicide drones.
Donald Trump said he had ordered the Pentagon to “substantially reduce” the joint military maneuvers starting today Monday in South Korea. In his message on social media, the US president suggested that his decision was motivated by his frustration over the lack of South Korean support in his aggression against Iran.
What happened at Leipzig-Halle airport on August 5 has acted as a shock to the German security services and their NATO allies. The failed attack by a drone carrying the powerful plastic explosive Semtex against a Ukrainian cargo plane, the huge Antonov AN-124, has been interpreted as a very disturbing qualitative leap, the possible beginning of another dimension of Russia’s hybrid war against Europe, the shift from indirect harassment to direct confrontation.
The Israeli Minister of National Security, the far-right and former convict Itamar Ben Gvir, publicly called for the killing of between “30 and 40 people” each night in Gaza, in a podcast published in recent hours with Rom Braslavski, who was a hostage of Hamas in the Strip.