Day: October 20, 2026

🚨🇺🇸🇹🇷 U.S. Amb. and Middle East expert Tom Barrack:

“The Rubik’s Cube effect of the unintended consequences all around us is like raising a teenage child and saying:

‘Okay, you’re going to have to take more regional responsibility yourself.

We’re going to help you, but now you’re an adult. Let’s figure out a way to cooperate with each other.'”

@USAMBTurkiye / Writer: Michael  x.com/clashreport/status/211…
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‘Can you think of any major world leader that Trump has insulted less than Putin? (But who deserves it more?)’

Jake Wallis Simons argues the president’s hostility towards Ukraine is matched only by his apparent favourable treatment of Putin’s Russia ⤵️
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US Vice President JD Vance distances himself from President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reelection, saying he is neither endorsing nor opposing the Israeli leader.
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Police charge a driver with intentionally causing serious injury to an Australian lawmaker who is in a critical condition after being struck by a car.  apnews.com/article/australia…

🇦🇺 Australian MP Helen Haines was targeted in an attempted assassination and rammed with a car by a radical far-left environmentalist.

She is in critical condition and has lost a leg.

The attack happened outside her electorate office in Wangaratta, Victoria. Suspect Brendan Nugent, 43, was arrested at the scene.

Police are treating it as a deliberate and politically motivated attack.

Haines, 65, was unloading her car when Nugent turned a white Toyota Land Cruiser into the car park, pinned her against her vehicle, then reversed and rammed her a second time.

A local barber pulled Nugent from the car, subdued him, and threw away a knife found in the vehicle.

Haines was airlifted to hospital. After surgery, she lost one leg and doctors are trying to save the other. She remains critical but stable.

Nugent, from Tarrawingee, is known as a radical far-left environmentalist and anti-logging campaigner.

Investigators are reviewing his social media posts, including anti-Israel and pro-environment content. He had previously interacted online with Haines.

This is too big too fast went from 2 to 3 to Jubal added to now the whole unit is jeopardizing their lives and careers. Well damn… guess you guys aren’t in the spy game for good reason.  This one should have been handed off to  #CIA bc these guys lasted exactly 2 minutes
#FBI

The IDF’s 91st Division has destroyed over 540 terror infrastructures in the security zone in southern Lebanon, the military said.
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Азербайджан и Беларусь продолжают расширять двустороннее сотрудничество, уделяя особое внимание торгово-экономическим связям, промышленной кооперации и реализации совместных проектов. Одним из ключевых направлений взаимодействия остаётся участие…