China’s Secret Fighter Jet Was Just Captured on the Tarmac. Here’s What We Know.
China may have the most advanced jet in the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb73ujYs2m8
Tag: foreign affairs
Trump ally Orbán pushes back on pressure to halt Russian oil imports
“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Friday that he is putting Hungary’s national interests first in rejecting a call by President Trump for all NATO allies to halt the purchase of Russian fossil fuels.
Orbán, in remarks to state radio and reported by The Associated Press, said he told Trump that ending Russian oil imports would be an economic “disaster” for Hungary that would put the Hungarian economy “on its knees.”
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Trump seemed to cut Hungary and Slovakia some slack in continuing to purchase Russian oil.
“I just don’t want to have people go blaming them when, you know, we spoke to them at length today and it seems like that, for them it’s a little bit,” the president said from the Oval Office on Thursday, trailing off and turning to his pressure campaign on Turkey to stop buying Russian energy.”
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5526962-hungary-nato-russian-oil/?tbref=hp
Netanyahu apologizes for Qatar strike, says it won’t happen again
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani on Monday for the Israeli strikes on Doha that killed a Qatari service member and violated Qatari sovereignty.
In a call organized by President Trump, Netanyahu also said such a strike would not happen again.”
Israel was trying to hit Hamas targets in Qatar.
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5527325-netanyahu-apologizes-qatar-strike/
READ: Trump’s 20-point proposal for peace in Gaza Strip, ending Israel-Hamas war
READ: Trump’s 20-point proposal for peace in Gaza Strip, ending Israel-Hamas war
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5527504-read-gaza-strip-ceasefire-trump-israel/
Argentina’s Economy Is Struggling. Why Is the White House Stepping In? | Big Take
Argentina’s Economy Is Struggling. Why Is the White House Stepping In? | Big Take
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bw2YddQ6s18
Your Tax Dollars Are Funding the DUMBEST Bailout Ever!
Some of the taxes you pay are going to bailout farmers who only need to be bailed out because of Trump’s tariff policies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVPQRK-gF0
The U.S. Keeps Killing Venezuelans on Boats. Is That Legal? | The Daily
Trump’s strikes on drug boats appear to be illegal. These military men and women are likely breaking the law by following orders.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYAwwZDLUy4
Donald Trump Is Not a Peace President
“The two Trump administrations have launched as many airstrikes at overseas targets as any other administration. Although childish and superficial, his renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War doesn’t telegraph a love of peace. Nor does his authorized strike on a Venezuelan boat in the Caribbean. His policies in the Middle East have amounted to little more than giving Israel the greenlight to do as it pleases. Then there were his attacks on nuclear sites in Iran and his constant threats to send troops to root out cartels in Mexico.
Whether or not you agree with these policies, they don’t adhere to any principled non-interventionist philosophy. And that takes us back to Russia and Ukraine. The problem with appeasement is that it emboldens the aggressor rather than secures lasting and just peace. No serious person is calling for American troops in Ukraine, but Trump’s insistence on blaming Ukraine and not pushing Russia for serious concessions has escalated the conflict.”
https://reason.com/2025/09/19/donald-trump-is-not-a-peace-president/
Trump touts Israel’s approval of his Gaza peace plan. Hamas has not agreed.
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
US sanctions wife of Brazilian judge who oversaw Bolsonaro prosecution
Trump is using U.S. sanction power to punish those who prosecute people Trump likes politically. This isn’t an act of justice, but an act of defending those who try to coup democracies. He did something similar when he pardoned the January 6th attackers who tried to end U.S. democracy.
“The U.S. announced new sanctions on the wife of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Monday, the latest move in the Trump administration’s effort to object to the prosecution of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.
The Trump administration has repeatedly targeted de Moraes for overseeing the prosecution of Bolsonaro, who was convicted of organizing a coup to remain in office following his electoral loss to now-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2022. A panel of Supreme Court justices, including de Moraes, voted earlier this month to sentence the far-right populist leader, an ally of Trump’s, to a 27-year prison sentence.
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The Brazilian government called the move “a new attempt of undue interference in Brazilian internal affairs,” accusing the U.S. government of pursuing “the politicization and distortion” of the Magnitsky Act.
“This new attack on Brazilian sovereignty will not achieve its goal of benefiting those who led the failed coup attempt, some of whom have already been convicted by the Supreme Federal Court. Brazil will not bow to this latest aggression,” Brazil’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/22/bolsonaro-prosecution-us-sanctions-00575122