California Gov. Gavin Newsom, top 2028 Democratic contender:

The devastation in Gaza… I have strong opinions that it was not just collateral damage.

I have a lot of issues with how Bibi ultimately conducted the war.

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto:

Italy did not start this war. Ukraine did not start this war.

Europe did not start this war. NATO did not start this war.

Someone did start it — and only that same actor can stop it.

Syrian Army’s Operations Command calls on SDF/PKK leadership to immediately honor its commitments, withdraw fully east of the Euphrates, and remove all military presence from Tabqa to allow civilian administration, warning that compliance is the only way to end escalation.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, top 2028 Democratic contender:

I didn’t like the way Netanyahu talked about the Palestinian people. I just didn’t.

There was a dehumanization.

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto:

Ukraine cannot and will never win the war.

Ukraine is trying to survive.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, top 2028 Democratic contender:

I am crystal clear about my love for Israel and my condemnation of Bibi — there’s a distinction.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei said Trump invited Argentina to join the new “Board of Peace” on Gaza.

Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto on European troop deployment to Greenland:

Imagine 15 Italians, 15 French, 15 Germans in Greenland. To me, it seemed almost like the beginning of a joke.

I believe, instead, that it is in our interest to keep the Western world, the free world, together.

Terror group SDF/YPG supporters blocked the road to the international coalition base in Qasrak, north of Hasakah, protesting what they called the coalition’s “silence” and chanting “death to betrayal.”

Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence:

Russia is considering options for strikes on substations of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants in order to force the signing of unacceptable capitulation demands to end the war.

U.S. officials had been quietly talking with Venezuela’s Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello for months before the U.S. raid that captured Maduro, and those contacts have continued since.

Washington warned Cabello not to use security forces or pro-government militias against the opposition. Talks also covered U.S. sanctions and the drug-trafficking indictment he faces.

Cabello, long seen as Maduro’s chief enforcer, was not arrested and retains control over key security institutions.

Source: Reuters

BREAKING: Syrian Army take control of Tabqa Airbase, liberating it from SDF/YPG terror group.

Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey:

You will not convince Americans to go fight another war, even if it is just.

I don't think that America could work itself up enough to go fight the Nazis again.

I think we literally don't have it in us.

Source: The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey:

Look at the kids who were on the beaches in Normandy on D-Day. Do you think that we have a few million of those?

Source: The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey:

The U.S. needs to stop being the world police and start being the world’s gun store.

In other words, we shouldn’t be sending our own people to die for other countries’ interests.

We should be giving them the tools that they need to maintain their existence as a nation that the U.S. wants to be allied with.

The analogy I prefer is to turn them into porcupines.

Source: The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey:

North Korea doesn’t need to fight South Korea to win.

They just need to keep having kids and making artillery shells.

Source: The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Anduril Founder Palmer Luckey:

The United States really since the end of the Cold War has erected these ideas that the things that we're spending money on are going to keep us safe and that they're going to help our allies win any potential war that comes along.

And then we've been confronted with this stark reality. Things like the Ukraine invasion where we realize that actually a lot of these tools are sitting ducks.

You're going to have $50 million bombers blown up by $500 drones, and we don't have the tools that we need to stop them.

Source: The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Senator Graham:

If there is use of military force by the new Syrian government against Syrian Kurds and the SDF, that would create tremendous instability in Syria and the region and would tell me all I need to know about this new regime.

If military action is taken by the Syrian government, I will do everything in my power to revive the Caesar Act sanctions, making them even more bone crushing.

Gregory Bovino, Trump’s Border Patrol Chief, appeared at the Minneapolis protests with officers.

NOW: SDF/YPG terror group members fleeing from Tabqa, following swift Syrian Army advances today.

Netanyahu’s Office:

The announcement of Gaza’s governing council, subordinated to the peace conference, was not coordinated with Israel and contradicts its policy.

The Prime Minister has instructed the Foreign Minister to raise the matter with the U.S. Secretary of State.