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Less than a day after Joseph Dunford, the commander of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told South Korean President Moon Jae-in that the US is ready to use “the full range of military capabilities to defend our allies and the U.S. homeland,” Defense Secretary and retired Gen. James Mattis told reporters that the situation with North Korea “could escalate into war” if the isolated country fires a missile at the US.

"If they fire at the United States, it could escalate into war very quickly," Mattis said, according to Reuters.

During an impromptu statement from The White House, President Trump attempted to clear up the nation's comprehensions of his views calling out the "KKK, Neo-Nazis, White Supremacists, and other hate groups as repugnant."

Declared on Monday that “racism is evil”, Trump's public comments were the first instance in which he called out the KKK and Nazis specifically for their role in this weekend’s violence at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. 

An Israeli defense contractor is facing allegations that it live tested a high tech suicide drone against Armenian troops in an active battle zone. Over the weekend multiple Israeli newspapers reported that a formal complaint filed with the Israeli Defense Export Controls Agency alleges that Aeronautics Defense Systems was asked by Azerbaijan to provide a live demonstration of the Orbiter 1k armed unmanned aircraft along the disputed border area of Nagorno-Karabakh, where Azerbaijan and Armenia have intermittently clashed since 1991.

Via Disobedient Media

After President Donald Trump warned on Friday that the US military is “locked and loaded” and presumably prepared for an all-out nuclear showdown with North Korea, administration officials engaged in that most artful of Trump-era maneuvers: softening the president’s rhetoric without appearing to undercut him.