Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
This “peace deal” is a demand for Hamas’s surrender. Hamas surrendering may bring peace, but I generally wouldn’t call a demand for surrender a ‘peace deal’.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/29/trump-touts-peace-plan-for-israel-hamas-has-not-agreed-00584857?cid=Connatix&nid=00000150-1596-d4ac-a1d4-179e288b0000&nname=illinois-playbook&nrid=00000164-8481-d4a7-a5fc-9ecfc4730000
Sometimes, for wars to end, leaders on the losing side have to decide that they love their kids more than they hate their enemy. Hamas hates Israel more than they care about the lives of Palestinians, so Hamas refuses to surrender.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br3FD3Rt5-Q
In interviews, some Israelis reveal that they support the war, and their concern for Gazan civilian deaths are not a high priority.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp8mM1YiOEo
Trump defines him ending a war as a war or conflict ending or having a cease fire if the U.S. was involved in some way, even if Trump’s involvement had no impact on the outcome or if the participants say that Trump’s involvement wasn’t important.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otQ1hXjKRxs
Ukraine’s F-16s are helping it shoot down missiles that ground-based defenses and Ukraine’s Soviet aircraft have trouble with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ-IA0GLvqY
“Washington’s proposal to link Israeli withdrawals with Hezbollah’s surrender ignores decades of political entrenchment and risks fueling wider conflict.”
https://reason.com/2025/09/12/u-s-plan-to-disarm-hezbollah-is-a-diplomatic-dead-end/
Russian jets violated NATO airspace in Estonia with minimal consequences.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV2OTIBtjSw
The United States is greatly underplaying Russia’s military drone flights into Poland.
In general, the U.S. president is underplaying the entire Russian invasion. He still blames Biden and Zelenskyy for Putin invading its neighbor in a war of conquest or regime change (exchanging a struggling democracy with a Putin controlled dictatorship)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_knhpdBdJ-c
The hitting of refineries in Russia is creating a gas shortage that may impact civilians. This could eventually weaken Russians’ support for the invasion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvha2sVzAFE
Update from Ukraine | Awesome News from Frontline! Plus Ukraine Hits Gigantic Oil Refinery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxG8QEo5Wfs