At telephoto distance, the only visible movement in the houses on the hill was that of two military vehicles and an excavator. “I do not recommend that you get close. They have expelled all the families from the surroundings and there are snipers in the windows,” a neighbor warned the journalists who had just arrived in Tell, a town of 7,000 inhabitants south of Nablus and the epicenter of the latest outbreak of violence in the West Bank.

The more than 5,000 sailors and soldiers aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, one of the largest aircraft carriers in the United States fleet, have been deployed in the Persian Gulf for over 250 days due to the Iran war. They have not made a port call in more than half a year, a new modern record for consecutive days at sea, and with no signs that the conflict will end soon, their families have reported a serious deterioration in living conditions and mental health.

Mikhail Gorbachev was not the last leader of the USSR, because the Soviet Union still exists and has been hijacked by a private company called Russia. All the bills that its citizens pay, such as electricity, gas, or mortgages, not to mention taxes, are illegal…