Update from Ukraine | Betrayal! Secret Talks to Force Ukraine for defeat
In secret talks, the Trump administration has been talking with Russia about Ukrainian capitulation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMZqRmMvBnY
Tag: international relations
Trump defends Saudi crown prince, who US intelligence found ordered killing of Washington Post columnist
“Asked by a reporter about Khashoggi’s murder during a press conference in the Oval Office, Trump defended the crown prince — who minutes earlier had pledged to increase his past commitment of $600 billion in investments in the U.S. to $1 trillion.
“He’s done a phenomenal job,” Trump said of Mohammed, adding: “Things happen, but he knew nothing about it.”
And, referencing Khashoggi, the president also seemed to offer an explanation for his murder: “a lot of people didn’t like that gentleman,” he said.
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Moments later, he went further and suggested that ABC should lose its broadcasting license over the reporter’s question.
It was not the first time Trump made excuses for Khashoggi’s murder, something he also did in 2018. And it followed the president praising Mohammed for his record on “human rights” and declaring that he and the Saudi crown prince have “always been on the same side of every issue.””
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/trump-defends-mbs-saudi-arabia-00656679?utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication&utm_medium=RSS&utm_source=RSS_Feed
Trump elevates Saudi Arabia to ‘major non-NATO ally’ status
“In addition to easing weapons transfers, the agreement will open Saudi Arabia as a location to store U.S. weapons, and make the country eligible to bid on Pentagon maintenance and repair contracts and purchase depleted uranium ammunition.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/18/trump-saudi-arabia-ally-00658467
Hamas Rejects Historic UN Resolution While Israel Worries About Hidden Dangers | Einat Wilf Analysis
The reason the two-state solution always fails is because Palestinians don’t want to live next to an Israeli state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFIOk676KGc
The Forgotten War That Paved the Way for Islam in Central Asia
The Muslims defeating China led to Islam being prominent in Central Asia and to paper technology leaving China and changing the world due to captured paper makers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPegSsK3l5o
What Happened to Russia’s Troops in Africa?
Russia intervenes in Africa not just for control over resources, but to compete against the West for influence. Russia can avoid sanctions and global condemnation by having African countries vote with them. Russia uses private military companies that in theory are independent, but in reality are arms of the Russian state.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVLBitv_A_4
When drones destroyed the desert silence: Israel pulls out all stops on Egypt border
“On some days, as many as 20 drones might fly across the Egyptian border into Israel from different points. It does not matter that much if Israel shoots some of them down or uses electronic warfare spectrum weapons to get others to crash or land in an open field to be seized. As long as a certain percentage of the cargo gets through, the smugglers can make millions.
THE SMUGGLERS also learned that they could send a vast amount of weapons across the border. Some of these weapons might be for Arab Israelis or Bedouin. Still, others might be eventually destined for Hamas or even for being transferred to terrorist groups in the Palestinian Authority-controlled portions of the West Bank.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/drones-destroyed-desert-silence-israel-170121685.html
Nvidia Earnings Brush Off AI Bubble Fears — For Now | Prof G Markets
Trump’s Saudi Arabia deal may be a lie. Multiple countries have promised to invest big money in the U.S. in deals with Trump, and many have not materialized. Is this a real deal, or a misleading press release?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE-GSXaryTM
The Future of Energy Has Arrived — Just Not in the U.S.
As the U.S. backs away from clean energy and limiting global warming on the president’s false belief that climate change is a hoax, China is stepping in as a leader globally, leading on the issue and selling its technologies and products to countries around the world. Despite its leadership and its massive renewable production, it still uses a lot of dirty coal. China’s clean energy partnerships around the world give it influence. The Trump-led U.S. is banking on past fuels and energy, while China is advancing into the future.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENJ6UmECe1Q
Britain and Colombia Cut Off U.S. Intelligence Access Over Caribbean Boat Bombings
“Both countries have been happy to cooperate with Washington against drug trafficking, but think that the decision to kill the suspected smugglers at sea is a step too far.
At least one of the people killed in the boat bombings was a Colombian citizen. “He may have been carrying fish, or he may have been carrying cocaine, but he had not been sentenced to death,” Petro said in a speech on Sunday, according to the Associated Press. “There was no need to murder him.” After Petro criticized the U.S. military campaign last month, the U.S. Treasury accused Petro of being complicit in drug smuggling and imposed financial sanctions on him, his wife, and his son.
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Another neighboring country whose citizens were killed, Trinidad and Tobago, has been more supportive of the campaign. “I have no sympathy for traffickers; the US military should kill them all violently,” Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said in a September 2025 statement.
The Trump administration has acknowledged that it is choosing to kill suspects that it could have arrested otherwise. “Instead of interdicting [the boat], on the president’s orders, we blew it up,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters after the first boat strike in September 2025. He argued that arresting traffickers and seizing their cargo “doesn’t work” because cartels plan for those losses anyway. Administration lawyers argue that drug cartels are wartime enemies, so they can be killed rather than arrested, while also denying that the president is limited by constitutional war powers in this campaign.”
https://reason.com/2025/11/12/britain-and-colombia-cut-off-u-s-intelligence-access-over-caribbean-boat-bombings/