The entire Middle East is undergoing a tectonic shift. There’s regional understanding, and enforcement that all conflicts must end.

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This is what needs to happen in the West, particularly between and among Russia, Europe and USA.

I hope and believe Trump is working on both of these deals to the best of his ability.

Signs of success in ME. Signs of transition in Europe-USA-Russia.

From a game theory KOBK point of view, violent Western divisiveness if pursued without stopping is suicide for the West.

Western leaders must know this.

Those who are furthering violent divisiveness are either: 1) taking profits while they still can; or 2) are not real Westerners but either traitors of foreigners. ABN

Lithuanian military track drone from Belarus before crash

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On 10 July, around 11:30, Lithuanian Armed Forces detected an object approaching from the direction of Belarus. The Armed Forces said the Air Force activated NATO fighter jets already in the air by switching them from training to mission mode.

Shortly after detection, the object fell to the ground. The mission was canceled. Military units notified the State Border Guard Service (VSAT), and troops were sent to the crash site.

The Gerbera drone that crashed in Lithuania after crossing from Belarus. Photo: Lithuanian Ministry of Defense via Delfi.

Russia targets Ukraine daily with hundreds of Gerbera drones, used as decoys alongside explosive Shaheds to overwhelm air defenses. Recently, some of these cheap styrofoam Gerberas have begun carrying small warheads, increasing civilian casualties.

The drone that crashed in Lithuania may have veered off course during last night’s Russian attack on Ukraine — or it may have been a deliberate probe to test Lithuania’s and NATO’s response ahead of potential future aggression against the Baltic States.

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‘The US will send weapons to Ukraine THROUGH NATO. And NATO is paying for those weapons 100%’ — Trump

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This illustrates the pickle Trump is in.

He does not want the war but he cannot resist the forces within NATO and USA that do want the war.

Some of those forces are economic, some KOBK game theory aimed at destroying Russia AND Europe, and some, perhaps the most influential, are Jewish Supremist forces.

We have seen JS play their hand in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union and in Ukraine during the long run-up to the Ukraine War.

Starmer is Jewish as is Boris Johnson, just two of many who appear to be wholehearted Jewish Supremists and who have fought against peace and in favor of continuing the War. Victorina Nuland in USA is similar.

I have seen analyses saying Trump is fighting against the ‘inertia of war’. Some truth in that but there are people applying force to that ‘inertia’, lots of force. They have an agenda and it is not to benefit Russia or Europe or USA. ABN

The tragedy of Superman’s original Lois Lane, the Hollywood star who ended up homeless, eating out of trash cans with a life in turmoil

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She flew into the hearts of global audiences and the annals of cinematic history as her nightgown-clad heroine soared over the skyline of metropolis alongside Christopher Reeve when Superman hit theaters in 1978.

Actress Margot Kidder’s Lois Lane – a mixture of journalistic feistiness and besotted comic book-girlfriend vulnerability – became instantly iconic and recognizable. She starred in four of the franchise’s blockbusters, gracing the covers of countless magazines and making shoeless appearances for TV interviews as the world couldn’t seem to get enough of the ethereal Canadian star.

As legions of fans envied her aerial on-screen escapades with one of Hollywood’s then-hottest heartthrobs, however, Kidder was grappling with a lifetime of what she called ‘mind flights.’

Margot Kidder and Christopher Reeve played Lois Lane and Superman in 1978 film Superman

She would only come to accept a bipolar diagnosis later in life, but Kidder, from childhood, was plagued by mental struggles that would at one point in the 1990s leave her homeless and near toothless in California, committed to psychiatric care th and rummaging through garbage for food.

…In the early days of her international stardom, in the wake of the Superman box office behemoth, she described to Rolling Stone ‘a constant sense of conflict: if I think about what I believe is important, I’ll be crazy; and if I don’t think about it, I find myself denying, denying, denying in order to be normal.’

…‘The reality of my life has been grand and wonderful, punctuated by these odd blips and burps of madness.’.

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A Significant Geopolitical Problem for President Trump and Us

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Kuala Lumpur today.  Against the backdrop of multiple questions to him about the outcome of their discussion, let us first discuss the problem being avoided.

In the mind of President Putin, and in the growing awareness of the American electorate, the President of the United States does not control the Intelligence Community. It is entirely possible for the USIC to take America deeper toward war despite the President and people of America not wanting that to happen. Putin is simply prepared for that outcome.

This reality explains a dynamic where President Trump engages with President Putin in an effort to stop the war in Ukraine, yet President Putin continues the war in Ukraine; because ultimately he knows President Trump does not control the elements that facilitate the Ukraine military.

People struggle to accept this dynamic. However, I would remind everyone that right now YOU are paying for the entire government of Ukraine to exist. Including the Ukraine govt payrolls, retirement benefits, healthcare and operational budget of Ukraine overall.

Americans do not want to pay for that. President Trump does not want to pay for that. Yet, here we are, paying for that.

The same inertia process applies to the literal Ukraine war and conflict with Russia.

You might not want it. President Trump might not want it. Yet, here again we are providing weapons, intelligence, satellite communication, personnel and systems for the war.

This is the reality of the situation regardless of your/my willingness to accept it. This reality is what President Vladimir Putin discusses and accepts.

The problem for President Trump is not that this reality exists; the bigger political problem for President Trump is that people are increasingly becoming aware of this reality.

Now, many people are recently arguing against this reality. However, these are the same voices who previously stated President Trump could unilaterally declassify information within the same silo process that is designed to control his declassification authority. Empirically, and in reality, these voices are wrong.

Something needs to change. That something is generally that President Trump has to either: 1. admit publicly he does not control the U.S. Intelligence Community (very ugly); or 2. take control of that intelligence community (even uglier).

In this element of consideration you would be well served to insert the recent experience of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard; who, intentionally or not, opened the pandora’s box containing this issue, and look what happened to her.

There was a reason DNI Tulsi Gabbard sat silently recently in the very public Cabinet meeting. I will return to this in a moment.

♦ President Trump does not have control over the USIC activity in Ukraine. If he did, he would have been fully aware of the drone strikes against the Russian strategic bomber fleet before it was carried out. By his own admission he did not know.

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Austin Fire Chief Faces Backlash Over Kerrville Rescue Failure

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When tragedy struck Kerrville, Texas, swift water rescue teams could have made the difference between life and death. But thanks to Austin’s DEI-obsessed Fire Chief, they never got the chance.

Austin Fire Chief Joel Baker, celebrated by city leaders as the capital’s first Black fire chief and praised for pushing “diversity, equity, and inclusion” in hiring, is now facing a vote of no confidence from his own firefighters. And the reason is both infuriating and heartbreaking.

According to the Austin Firefighters Association, Chief Baker refused to pre-deploy rescue teams to Kerrville in the days leading up to the historic flooding—despite official state deployment orders arriving as early as July 2. The excuse? He wanted to “save money.”

But here’s the kicker: Texas fully reimburses departments for these emergency deployments. There would’ve been no cost to Austin taxpayers.

“I explained the reimbursement process to Chief Baker last week,” the union said, “and he failed to understand this very simple concept.”

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