Update: echoing comments made by Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who serves on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the top House Democrat said that the Trump budget proposal is "dead on arrival."
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Once again, Israeli warplanes have carried out a number of airstrikes on multiple locations across the Gaza Strip. The attacks were reportedly in retaliation after a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into an unpopulated area in the occupied territories. Press TV reports: According to al-Aqsa TV, Israeli jets targeted areas to the west of the Dayr al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, and an empty patch of agricultural land to the east of Gaza City in the early hours of Thursday morning. Israeli F16 jets also bombed the Shejaiya area, reportedly resulting in power cuts across the region.
While some were worried about an "unexpected outcome" from yesterday's Dutch general election, in the end the country's center-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte managed to fight off the challenge of anti-Islam, anti-EU rival Geert Wilders to score an election victory that was hailed across Europe on Thursday by governments facing a rising wave of nationalism.
Authored by Andrei Akulov via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
With Donald Trump leading the United States, Europe seems to be losing trust in the American nuclear umbrella. As the EU focuses on the need to have its own military, the issue of European nuclear deterrent comes to the fore. The debate has been triggered. This issue is intensively discussed in Germany.
John McCain lost the plot on the Senate floor on Wednesday after being triggered by Rand Paul stating his belief that tiny European state Montenegro should not join NATO. ‘The senator from Kentucky is now working for Vladimir Putin!‘ an out-of-control McCain screamed after berating his GOP colleague for several excruciating minutes. Rand Paul issued a statement later that clarified he is against Montenegro joining NATO because the U.S.’s military commitments are stretched and we have already pledged to defend the 28 countries in NATO.