🇺🇸🇮🇷 - The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group has arrived in the Middle East (CENTCOM area) and is near Iran.

- Israeli Channel 13 | @thewarreporterr

🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇪🇺 BBC analysis sees Trump pushing world back to pre-WW2 Great Power rivalries via Greenland push and tariffs. Middle powers like Canada and Europe must unite or risk being "on the menu".

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c99kkerr93ko

📎 FaytuksNetwork

🇪🇺 🤝 🇮🇳 Ursula von der Leyen on X:

"I’m so glad to be in India today."

"India and Europe have made a clear choice."

"The choice of strategic partnership, dialogue and openness."

'Leveraging our complementary strengths."

"And building mutual resilience."

"We are showing a fractured world that another way is possible."

📎 Ursula von der Leyen

🚷 🇪🇺 🇮🇳 VDL is in India to facilitate mass migration from India to Europe.

It's called the Common Agenda on Migration and Mobility (CAMM) & it's aim is to make it much easier and faster for Indian workers & Indian students to flood Europe.

📎 White Papers Policy Institute

🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 Summary of the meeting between CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper and senior IDF officials:

-- No date for an attack on Iran

-- The Americans will need time to build up significant force

-- US also for an immediate strike if necessary

-- The Americans want a clean, swift, and inexpensive operation

-- The objective - focus on those who harmed civilians and protesters

-- Ready to replace the regime in Iran

[Senior Channel 14 defence reporter]

📎 Faytuks News

JUST IN - Facial recognition technology and "police AI" to be rolled out across England and Wales in the UK's new police reforms, with more than £140m to be invested in new technologies.

@disclosetv

—❗️🇺🇸/🇦🇪/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The United Arab Emirates announces in a statement that it won't allow its airspace, territory or waters to be used in any hostile military actions against Iran, nor to provide any logistical support in that regard

@Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇺🇸/🇸🇦/🇶🇦/🇮🇷 NEW: Saudi Arabia and Qatar have also announced, privately, that they won't allow the U.S. military to launch attacks against Iran from their bases

@Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: 'Iran has sent very serious signals to countries in the Persian Gulf in recent days which were 'escalatory in nature'; in other words, don't be sure about the security of Dubai or Doha if the U.S. launches attacks from the Gulf' – Sources

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇬🇧 There was a reported rape every 54 minutes in London in 2025.

Metropolitan Police data shows 9,744 reported rapes last year.

Highest totals by borough include Croydon (474), Southwark (467), Newham (465), Tower Hamlets (460) and Westminster (437).

📎 Europa

🇺🇸 the Guardian: We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start

⬛️ Developments in Minnesota closely mirror a scenario explored in a 2024 exercise conducted at the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law at the University of Pennsylvania, which I direct

🔶️ Governor Walz has placed the Minnesota national guard on standby to support local law enforcement, while Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act – an extraordinary move that would grant him sweeping domestic military powers and potentially sidestep recent supreme court limits on the use of federal troops in law enforcement. One thousand additional ICE agents have been sent to Minnesota, suggesting that Trump is essentially using ICE as a specialized paramilitary force to target protesters and suppress dissent. And the Pentagon has readied the army’s 11th Airborne Division – roughly 1,500 active-duty soldiers – to back up the president’s threat.

🔶️ This scenario closely mirrors one explored in an October 2024 tabletop exercise conducted by the Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), which I direct, at the University of Pennsylvania. In that exercise, a president carried out a highly unpopular law-enforcement operation in Philadelphia and attempted to federalize the Pennsylvania’s national guard. When the governor resisted and the guard remained loyal to the state, the president deployed active-duty troops, resulting in an armed conflict between state and federal forces. The core danger we identified is now emerging: a violent confrontation between state and federal military forces in a major American city.

🔶️ While our hypothetical scenario picked a different city and a slightly different sequence of events, the conclusions we reached about the possibility of green-on-green violence are directly applicable to the current situation. First, none of the participants – many of them senior former military and government officials – considered the scenario unrealistic, especially after the supreme court’s decision in Trump v United States, which granted the president criminal immunity for official acts.

🔶️ Second, we concluded that in a fast-moving emergency of this magnitude, courts would probably be unable or unwilling to intervene in time, leaving state officials without meaningful judicial relief. State officials might file emergency motions to enjoin the use of federal troops, but judges would either fail to respond quickly enough or decline to rule on what they view as a “political question”, leaving the conflict unresolved. This is why Judge Menendez’s ruling is so critical: it may be the last opportunity a federal judge has to intervene before matters spiral completely out of control.

🔶️ Third, we warned that senior military leaders could face orders to use force not only against state national guard units, but against unarmed civilians – and that they must be prepared to assess the legality of such orders. Any domestic deployment of federal troops must comply with the Department of Defense’s Rules for the Use of Force and with the constitution, including the Bill of Rights. Even under the Insurrection Act, federal troops may not lawfully shoot protesters unless they are literally defending their lives against an imminent threat – yet such conduct is already happening in Minneapolis at the hands of federal agents.

🔶️ For members of the 11th Airborne Division, this may soon cease to be a theoretical question. Minnesota may be the first test of whether constitutional limits on domestic military force still hold – or whether the United States is about to cross a line from which it cannot easily return.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/ice-minnesota-trump