🇺🇸🇷🇺 Marco Rubio on pessimism that the Russian war can be settled with diplomacy:
Reporter:
"What evidence do you actually have that Putin is open to peace talks?"
Rubio:
"What evidence? This is not a criminal case. This is about diplomacy. In diplomacy, you continue to try.
Sometimes these conflicts are complicated and deadlocked, in which neither side is making clear victories, but both sides are inflicting tremendous damage.
We're just going to keep trying to the extent that we can."
Writer: Mhedi
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Whatever happened to ending the war in 24 hours?
Rubio now says the roots of the Ukraine war are a tough nut to crack:
“Underlying factors that led to the Ukraine War and have persisted are not easy ones to address. But we will continue to try.”
Nearly 2 years into Trump’s term, and the plan has gone from 24 hours to “we will continue to try.”
Writer: Julie
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🇦🇹🇮🇱🇧🇬 A bomb threat sent an Austrian Airlines flight to Bulgaria instead of Vienna.
The plane was heading from Tel Aviv to Vienna yesterday with 57 people on board when the crew reported a bomb threat near Romania.
That forced a diversion to Sofia, Bulgaria's capital, where a fighter jet reportedly escorted the plane in for landing.
Everyone got off safely, and the aircraft was being searched. The airline said passengers would be put on another flight once the checks were done.
So far, there's no confirmation that an actual bomb was on board.
Source: Reuters / Writer: Daniyal
🇺🇸 SpaceX is getting ready to attempt something absolutely INSANE: REFUELING TWO STARSHIPS IN ORBIT.
The company is targeting the first half of 2027, potentially as early as FEBRUARY, for its first orbital docking and refueling demonstration.
Two massive spacecraft will have to meet in space, dock, and transfer super-cold rocket propellant between them.
This is one of the BIGGEST technological hurdles standing between humanity and a return to the Moon, with enormous implications for future missions to Mars.
If SpaceX pulls this off, it could fundamentally change how humanity travels through space.
Writer: Sol
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.@SecScottBessent: “Core inflation is down. Food is below the Fed’s targets. Prescription drugs have had the biggest decrease in history. Rents are down. This is an energy shock. We will get to the other side of the Iran conflict, and those prices will come down.”
.@SecScottBessent: "The Europeans have given Russia and Vladimir Putin more money than they've given the Ukrainians. They continue to gorge on Russian energy... Why should the U.S. go at it alone?"
🇦🇱 ALBANIA IS EXPLODING!
PROTESTERS ARE BREAKING THROUGH POLICE LINES
Tirana is in open turmoil.
6 days of unrest, and protesters are pushing forward with violent force.
Rama refuses to resign. The crowds refuse to give in.
Writer: Oliver
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed that he, President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping meet next month to attempt to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine that would favor Moscow, per WSJ
Mexico extracted $65.4 billion from the United States in remittances in 2024.
That’s more than India, Guatemala, and the Philippines combined.
Open borders turned this country into an economic zone for foreign populations that resent it, live off it, and send the proceeds home while the host society absorbs the costs.
🇮🇷 Iran's foreign minister has accused @Netanyahu of pushing Trump into another war to avoid going to prison.
Abbas Araghchi warned that Iran emerged stronger from the previous conflict and challenged Trump's threat to “finish the job,” declaring: “Be careful, we have unfinished jobs too.”