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As the US pulls back, NATO ponies up
NATO allies are stepping in to replace roughly $50 billion worth of U.S. planes, ships, and drones that are being removed from NATO crisis response allocations, Reuters […]
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US Starts Six-Months Review of Troops in Europe After Deep Cuts
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The US will kick off a review of its military presence in Europe, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said, weeks after Washington rattled its allies with a plan for deep cuts to American military support for the continent.
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US, Iran deal took ‘immediate effect’ after both sides signed, official says
The tentative memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. and Iran went into “immediate effect” after President Trump and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian signed it on Wednesday, according to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Sharif, who served as the top mediator between Iran and the U.S., said signing the 14-point MOU demonstrated “the commitment of…
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US ally in 'state of panic' over Trump's betrayal: ex-CIA official
According to former CIA official Marc Polymeropoulos, Donald Trump’s Iran deal, which has set off a deluge of criticism within the Republican Party, has left the leadership of Israel in a state of shock.Appearing on MS NOW with “Morning Joe” co-host Willie Geist, Polymeropoulos, who just returned from Tel Aviv, claimed he found a sense of betrayal during his visit. Geist prompted the 26-year veteran of the CIA with, “Marc, take us to Tel Aviv this morning. And what Bibi Netanyahu must be thinking; that he got his man in the White House in Donald Trump, that he went to the Situation Room, sold the war successfully. He thought that Donald Trump, the United States military, would come in and finish off Iran, take out the regime, and now he sits here this morning with this memorandum of understanding anyway, with explicit language that says there can be no attacks on Lebanon.”“So the Israelis I speak with are in a state of panic, one former Mossad official said, literally, ‘I can't believe this is happening,’” he reported. “But in some ways they should have known better,” he explained. “And one analyst actually told me, ‘Look, you know, Benjamin Netanyahu decided to ride the tiger — that's Donald Trump. And the tiger just turned around and just bit him on the rear end.’”“And like many of us predicted he would, he continued, “Because Trump was no dedicated, you know, savior. He was not the messiah for Israel. He's too transactional.”“Let me just add one quick thing, Willie,” he insisted. “Let's not forget at the end of the Biden administration, if you calculate what President Biden did after October 7th, he gave the Israelis $18 billion in military aid. Yet somehow, he is seen as not a supporter of Israel. That was preposterous. And right now, I think the Israelis are realizing that Trump was not who they thought he was, and that this MOU actually puts them in a very precarious national security situation, particularly in terms of ballistic missiles and what to do about Hezbollah, a terrorist entity sitting on their northern border.” - YouTube youtu.be
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Hegseth announces 6-month review of American forces in Europe, blasts NATO allies for putting troops 'at risk'
War Secretary Pete Hegseth announces six-month review of U.S. force deployment in Europe, pressing NATO allies to take primary responsibility for defense.
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Alleged $38M adult daycare scam busted in Brooklyn — snaring Pakistani community leaders who cozied up to Dems
“How are the politicians and the insurance companies going to control the fraud when they are part of the fraud?” the source asked.
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'Boiling point': Trump's relationship with Senate GOP frays as he 'takes shots' at leader
Republicans are at a "boiling point" over tensions between President Donald Trump and Senate GOP leadership, Punchbowl News reported on Thursday morning.Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has been "bearing the brunt of the fallout from Trump’s erratic behavior, expressing his frustrations with the president in an intentional but very reserved manner," said the report.For the last week, the report noted, Thune "was being stiff-armed by a White House that was refusing his request for a briefing on the U.S.-Iran ceasefire agreement" — then things kicked into high gear after Trump publicly blew up a hearing for one of his own critical nominees and triggered a standoff.Things have gotten so tense that Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) told reporters Trump is "taking shots" at Thune, and lamented, “Who doesn’t like John Thune? If you don’t like John Thune, you don’t like golden retrievers.”Trump has been enraged at the Senate ever since he realized that they don't have the votes to scrap the filibuster rule for the sake of passing his SAVE America Act, a controversial bill that would add draconian new restrictions to voting rights and subject state voter rolls to review by the Department of Homeland Security. Republicans, for their part, are broadly fed up over not being able to move past the controversy.Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC), who is leaving office at the end of the year and is increasingly outspoken against the Trump administration, told Punchbowl News that “At some point, we’ve got to return ourselves to being a board of directors versus like a manufacturing facility that just creates whatever product the White House wants. It’s not the way you can manage the Senate agenda over time."He went on to add that Thune "is an extraordinary leader ... but we’ve got to get some coordination here and end these unforced errors.”
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NATO chief downplays US military cutbacks
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Wednesday the U.S. cutting the number of troops and equipment it would provide to traditional allies in the event of an attack will not have an immediate impact. “This is not about where forces and assets are currently located,” Rutte told reporters in Brussels, according to The Associated Press. “It’s…
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Hegseth announces in Brussels a review of U.S. forces in Europe, and a 'NATO 3.0'
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashed out at NATO allies on Thursday, announcing a review of American forces in Europe, and calling for a reboot of the organization to turn it into a "NATO 3.0."
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