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Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán:

Today Europe is run by a German war troika:

The President of the Commission is a German woman. The German Chancellor, obviously. And the leader of the largest faction in the European Parliament, the EPP, is also a German man.

These three people are the ones shaping Europe’s war policy today.

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán on war:

Go up on the internet, that’s what I suggest. There you’ll find old photos, and take a look at what Eastern Ukraine looked like before 2015. And what it looks like now.

You will be shocked. That’s what we’re talking about. This is not child’s play.

Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán:

The European experience is that European peacekeepers always become warkeepers.

Danish officials will skip this week’s World Economic Forum in Davos as tensions rise over Greenland.

Source: Bloomberg

German Chancellor Merz:

The U.S. administration has called for greater influence over Greenland, citing security in the High North.

We share this assessment that European NATO partners must do more there, as this is a shared transatlantic interest.

The Bundeswehr has completed a reconnaissance mission to explore possible engagement, and decisions on Germany’s contribution in a multinational framework will be taken in due course.

German Chancellor Merz:

Denmark and the population of Greenland can rely on our solidarity.

We are prepared to support talks with the United States, and the basis of these talks must always be the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity.

German Chancellor Merz responds to Trump:

Tariffs are usually paid by consumers in the importing country; in this case, American consumers would bear the costs.

At the same time, such tariffs would harm European industry and especially the German economy.

NEW: Trump invited Alexander Lukashenko to the “Board of Peace.”

Ukraine is delaying new orders of Helsing’s HX-2 strike drones after frontline tests showed problems, including launch failures, missing AI features, and vulnerability to jamming.

Germany, which funds the purchases, won’t place follow-up orders without clear Ukrainian interest.

Helsing disputed the findings, saying the HX-2 has performed well in tests and that Ukrainian units remain interested.

Source: Bloomberg

Head of the Syrian Petroleum Company:

We asked Shell to withdraw from the Al-Omar oil field and hand it over to us.

There are new American companies coming in, including Chevron.

A young Syrian man from Raqqa reunites with his mother after 14 years apart, following the expulsion of SDF/PKK terror group.

Germany's Merz:

The greatest security threat to Europe today does not come from the West.

It comes from the East — from the war in Ukraine.

My greatest concern for Europe’s security is not Greenland, but Ukraine.

BIG: Syrian Army:

Army forces have begun entering Al-Shaddadi, south of Hasakah, after the SDF/PKK released ISIS detainees from Al-Shaddadi prison.

Syrian Army:

Army units will secure Al-Shaddadi Prison and its surroundings, in addition to encircling Al-Shaddadi city, south of Hasakah and the surrounding areas, with the aim of arresting escaped prisoners who belong to ISIS.

Al-Shaddadi Prison and the security facilities in Al-Shaddadi city will be handed over immediately to the Ministry of Interior, after the completion of security and cordon operations.

The army leadership communicated with mediators and the SDF leadership in order to hand over Al-Shaddadi Prison to Internal Security and secure it and its surroundings, but the SDF leadership refused, and continues to refuse up to this moment.

We hold the SDF fully responsible for the release of ISIS elements from Al-Shaddadi Prison, and we will take all necessary measures to restore control over the area.

BREAKING: U.S.-backed SDF/PKK terror group deliberately freed hundreds of ISIS prisoners at Al-Shaddadi Prison in Hasakah, Syria.

SDF leadership had refused to hand the facility over to Syrian internal security forces, triggering a deliberate security crisis in the area.

Syrian Army forces now on rush to arrest escaped ISIS prisoners.

A U.S.-led coalition base is located just 2 km away from the prison, placing American troops at risk.

Nigel Farage on Trump:

To use economic threats against a country that’s been considered to be your closest ally for over a hundred years is not the kind of thing we would expect.

It’s wrong. It’s bad. It would be very, very hurtful to us.

Source: GB News

Nigel Farage:

I am all for Trump taking out enemies of the West, Maduro, the Iranian regime...

But if he falls out with his own allies and leaves America isolated, that would be a very bad place to be.

Source: GB News