Poland’s Prime Minister today warned ‘we are closer to war than any time since World War Two’ after his country was forced to shoot down Russian drones that violated its airspace.
Polish media is now reporting that Donald Tusk has requested the triggering of NATO’s Article 4, where member countries can bring an issue to the attention of the North Atlantic Council. Poland’s security council will also meet to discuss an ‘appropriate response’.
More than eight million Poles were ordered to hide in their homes as the drones flew overhead, with debris from one shot-down device crashing into a house. The full force of NATO’s fighter planes was unleashed to shoot down the drones.
After the organisation’s patriot defence systems detected the drones with their radars, Polish F-16 fighter jets, Dutch F-35, Italian surveillance aircraft, and NATO’s MRTT mid-air refuelling aircraft all came together to counter the drones.
The downing of Russia’s unmanned aerial vehicles marked the first-ever direct engagement between Moscow and NATO. It has long insisted it wants no confrontation with Putin. Kyiv has accused Russia of deliberately invading Poland’s airspace with 24 UAVs to test the West’s defences.
Multiple Russian drones leaving Ukraine airspace into Poland’s
On Wednesday, Tusk held an extraordinary meeting with top officials after Russia’s actions. Senior army officials are present at the gathering.
He said a number of drones that posed direct threats to Russia were shot down in a joint effort with NATO allies, and warned that Poland is ready to react. The prime minister added that he was in communication with allies.
Tusk also spoke in parliament and said some of the drones flew in from neighbouring Belarus, a staunch ally of Russia. He also confirmed that three or four of the nineteen drones were shot down.
UPDATE: The reasons for this are decidedly ambiguous. Could be to provoke NATO, to test Poland’s defenses, to prepare for negotiations or just to flex. How we interpret it is a psychosemiotic challenge. I doubt Putin wants war and also I doubt he would back down from war if provoked. It is very possible Poland or NATO has provoked Russia in some way we do not know about. Navrotsky said yesterday: ‘I’m not going to give my consent to send the Polish military to Ukraine’. I wonder if his views on that will change now. Another possibility is Zelensky sent doctored drones from Ukraine to provoke Poland against Russia. ABN
Social media ban was lifted on Tuesday but some demonstrations were continuing
Nepali Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli was forced to resign on Tuesday by angry young anti-corruption protesters who defied a curfew and clashed with police a day after 19 people died in a first day of protests.
Demonstrations led by young people angry about the blocking of several social media sites gripped the country’s capital a day earlier, and police opened fired on the crowds, killing 19 and injuring 100.
The ban was lifted Tuesday, but the protests continued, with demonstrators setting fire to the homes of some of Nepal’s top leaders and the parliament building. The airport in the capital of Kathmandu was shut, and army helicopters ferried some ministers to safe places.
As the protests intensified, Oli, 73, said he was stepping down immediately.
Protesters take selfies and celebrate at the Singha Durbar, the seat of Nepalese government ministries and offices, after it was set on fire during a protest against a social media ban and corruption in Kathmandu on Tuesday. (Niranjan Shrestha/The Associated Press)
‘I’m not going to give my consent to send the Polish military to Ukraine,” Navrotsky said.
‘I declare and say this in all conversations with partners so that everything is clear.
We are ready to help the coalition of the willing, but from my point of view, the participation of the Polish army in Ukraine is excluded — there is no need for this.
As for the statements of Western European countries. As for the participation of these troops in Ukraine, so far, as far as I know, there are no clear declarations from Western states about which military contingent could go to Ukraine.”
It’s too destabilizing for Egypt, Jordan, GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council], and the TPS [Transnational Private Sector].
So Israel resorts to incremental displacement; making areas unlivable so populations slowly filter out.
That’s Israel’s current state calculus.
In parallel to that, yes, flattening urban space creates a blank slate for reconstruction contracts.
Cycles of destruction/rebuilding feed into TPS projects tied to donor funds.
This ensures that while Israel secures its “security” objective, the TPS still gets entry points for capital deployment.
But the TPS doesn’t want total ethnic cleansing, because it risks blowing up the very donor funds from the GCC and sabotages Israel normalization with them.
So the TPS tolerates destruction as long as it leads to managed rebuilding under conditional frameworks.
Everyone thinks Palestinians will be exterminated / totally displaced.
It’s already a foregone conclusion that this will not happen.
Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked about the status of negotiations with Ukraine. President Putin notes some of the internal political issues within Ukraine must be deconflicted in order for discussions to proceed. Without these issues resolved, discussion is futile.
Russian President Vladimir Putin: “First. After all, quite recently, the leadership of the Kyiv regime, mildly speaking unflatteringly of us, and excluded all possibility of direct Contacts. Now we see that they are asking for these contacts, at least Offer.
I have repeatedly said that I am ready for these contacts. At the news conference in Beijing, which you mentioned, I said that there is no point in I don’t see much of it. Why? Because it will be agreed with the Ukrainian side is almost impossible on key issues.
Even if there is a political will, What I doubt is that there are legal and technical difficulties that are that any agreements on territories must be confirmed in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine at a referendum. In order to hold a referendum, martial law must be lifted, Martial law is not carried out. If martial law is lifted, it is necessary to immediately hold presidential elections.
After the referendum, if it is held, regardless of the results, it is necessary to obtain a decision of the Constitutional Court. And the constitutional court does not work, because after requests, as I understand it, to the Constitutional Court about the legitimacy of the current government, the court evaded these decisions, and the head of the regime He simply ordered the guards not to let the chairman of the Constitutional Court into the working place.
This is the kind of democracy there. And the chairman of the Supreme Court is just sitting in prison on corruption charges. It is well known that Ukraine has enough of this Corruption. But why was it necessary to send the chairman of the supreme court to prison to plant, it is not very clear. Although it is clear that it came to destruction their judicial system as such. This is another of the striking signs of “democracy” current Ukrainian authorities.
Therefore, this endless process is going nowhere. Nevertheless, we said that we are ready for a summit meeting.
Listen, the Ukrainian side wants this meeting and offers this one Meeting. I said: ready, please come, we are definitely completely We will provide working conditions and safety, the guarantee is one hundred percent. But if We are told we want to meet with you, but you go there for this meeting, it seems to me that these are just their excessive requests to us.
I repeat once again: if someone really wants to meet with us, we Ready. The best place for this is the capital of the Russian Federation, the hero city Moscow.” {SOURCE}
Vladimir Putin: “We have an open dialogue with President Trump. There is an agreement that in case of We can call, contact, and talk to each other. He knows that I am open to these conversations; And he too – I know about it. But so far, we have not had conversations in Europe based on the results of these consultations. Actually, it was difficult for me to do this, I had just come from China, I’m here. We have no problems with communications here. First.
Secondly, regarding possible military contingents in Ukraine. This is one of the root causes of Ukraine’s involvement in NATO. Therefore, if there are some troops appear, especially now, in the course of hostilities, We proceed from the assumption that these will be legitimate targets for their destruction.
And if solutions are reached that lead to peace, to long-term peace, then I simply do not see any point in them being on the territory of Ukraine, that’s all.
If agreements are reached, let no one doubt that Russia will comply with them in full. We will respect those guarantees security, which, of course, must be worked out both for Russia and for Ukraine. And I repeat once again: of course, Russia will agree to these agreements execute. In any case, no one has discussed this with us on a serious level, that’s all.”
The United States has significantly increased its military presence near Venezuela in late August and early September 2025, deploying naval assets to combat drug trafficking and counter alleged narco-terrorism under President Donald Trump’s directives On August 18, three U.S. Navy warships—USS Gravely, USS Jason Dunham, and USS Sampson—along with approximately 4,000 military personnel, were sent to the Caribbean and waters off Venezuela’s coast This force has since expanded to include additional warships, P-8 surveillance aircraft, an attack submarine, and three amphibious assault ships carrying over 4,000 sailors and Marines
The U.S. government claims these deployments are part of a broader campaign to disrupt drug cartels, particularly the Venezuelan-linked Tren de Aragua, which was designated a foreign terrorist organization in February 2025 The Trump administration has also doubled the reward for information leading to the arrest of President Nicolás Maduro from $25 million to $50 million, accusing him of leading a “narco-terror cartel” Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the seizure of $700 million in assets linked to Maduro, including luxury goods and private jets
While the U.S. has not signaled plans for a land invasion, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated that President Trump is “prepared to use every element of American power to stop drugs from flooding into our country and to bring those responsible to justice,” declining to rule out military strikes On September 3, two Venezuelan F-16 fighter jets conducted a flyover near a U.S. destroyer, which the Pentagon condemned as “highly provocative,” warning against interference with counter-narcotics missions
In response, Venezuela has declared “maximum preparedness” for defense President Maduro announced the activation of over 4.5 million members of the Bolivarian Militia—a civilian defense force established in 2005—to guard factories, workplaces, and national territory He characterized the U.S. naval deployment as an “extravagant, unjustifiable, immoral and absolutely criminal and bloody threat” and warned that military action would “stain Trump’s hands with blood” Maduro also stated he would declare a “republic in arms” if Venezuela were attacked, though he did not elaborate on what that would entail
Venezuela has deployed more than 15,000 troops along its coast and border with Colombia and temporarily banned drone operations in its airspace, citing past assassination attempts The Venezuelan government rejects U.S. allegations, calling them a “false narrative” designed to justify regime change, and insists that most cocaine trafficking from Colombia occurs via the Pacific, not Venezuela
Analysts and officials note that while tensions are high, there is no indication of an imminent U.S. invasion, and the current operations remain focused on interdiction and deterrence within international waters and airspace
North Korea’s defence sector has inaugurated a new factory for the production of tactical ballistic missiles, which makes use of fully automated assembly lines that can reportedly handle material preparation, precision processing, and component assembly.
According to state media, new production processes will not only increase output, but will also improve product quality, potentially allowing for the realisation of higher levels of precision and longer service lives for the missiles. KN-24 short range tactical ballistic missiles were seen on the factory floor, although it remains uncertain whether any other missile classes will be produced at the facility.
KN-24 Missiles at New North Korean Missile Factory
Although North Korea has made significant strides in the quality of its machine tools and CNC machines, images from the country have indicated that civilian machinery such as CNC machines have been procured from China which could further significantly improve the products of local industry.
If even one European country sends troops to Ukraine, we’ll declare war on them immediately. No other way about it. It won’t be easy, but this time we’ll end the Patriotic War in London.
While we’re at it, we’ll clear out all illegal migrants from our mandated territory—grooming gangs? Shot on sight, no fuss. Every last one. And British girls will flock to greet our moral, slightly grumpy Russian soldiers. You’re free, Brits. Do whatever you want now.
Show your true colors!
Also with the French, but Cossacks on Montmartre is already déjà vu. Pick out a couple of lampposts for Macron and that wrinkled Neanderthal.
The big question to be answered is whether or not President Xi of China will mention the massive amount of support and “blood” that The United States of America gave to China in order to help it to secure its FREEDOM from a very unfriendly foreign invader. Many Americans died in China’s quest for Victory and Glory. I hope that they are rightfully Honored and Remembered for their Bravery and Sacrifice! May President Xi and the wonderful people of China have a great and lasting day of celebration. Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America. PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
China has immensely more reason to be grateful to USA than not. This includes not just the results of WW2 but also their receiving enormous amounts of American technology, knowhow, money, and good will since the 1980s. USA was not involved in the Opium Wars of the 19th Century; that was the Jewish Sassoon dynasty backed by the British Empire. I like the tone of Trump’s post. Gratitude toward USA and the West would go a long way toward healing this world. ABN
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