Month: January 2026

FUN FACT: 11 of the 25 countries on Trump’s “Board of Peace” are currently banned from immigrant visas to the United States. After the UK, France and Germany, now Spain also decides not to participate

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The 11 overlapping countries facing immigrant visa bans are: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Mongolia, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Uzbekistan. The suspension, effective January 21, 2026, targets nations deemed likely to burden US public resources; it halts immigrant visa processing pending review. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/15/trump-suspends-immigrant-visas-for-75-countries-whos-affected Trump's "Board of Peace": Belarus, Morocco, Vietnam, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Armenia, Egypt, Kosovo, … Read more

Macron says €300 billion in European cash will no longer flow to the U.S. Record Treasury sales by Europe, China, and India threaten to tighten global liquidity and could trigger severe stress in risk markets. Trump: “Big retaliation if Europe sells US assets like bonds…”

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Macron says €300 billion in European savings flown to the US every year will be invested in Europe from now on. All 27 states 🇪🇺 agreed to establish the S&I Union, a step toward the full Capital Market Union pic.twitter.com/CFUBNyFt14 — Mariska den Eelden 🇪🇺🇳🇱 (@eeldenden) January 22, 2026 WARNING: A BIG STORM IS COMING!! … Read more

China conducts large-scale military movements inside Iran; Iran tests an ICBM with a 10,000 km range.

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China has reportedly landed more than a dozen military cargo planes in the Islamic Republic of Iran within the last three days. According to Iranian and Israeli media, roughly 16 Chinese military cargo aircraft have landed in Iran over the past 56 hours. If accurate, this would represent the largest single Chinese military airlift to … Read more

Pentagon orders Fort Bragg MPs and Alaska airborne units to prep for possible deployment to Minneapolis

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Are soldiers about to enter Minneapolis over ICE enforcement protests? The Pentagon has issued prepare-to-deploy orders to several hundred active-duty military police soldiers with the U.S. Army 16th Military Police Brigade stationed at Fort Bragg in North Carolina, part of the XVIII Airborne Corps, in preparation for the possible mobilization of… pic.twitter.com/ZAF8DBSGkH — OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) … Read more