Whether you love or hate Trump’s “Muslim ban” (it’s actually a temporary 3-month ban, except for Syrians), there’s a bigger picture …
CNN notes:
The seven Muslim-majority countries targeted in President Trump’s executive order on immigration were initially identified as “countries of concern” under the Obama administration.
Following up on this morning latest terrorist attack in Paris, in which a terrorist suspect attacked soldiers with a machete near the Louvre art gallery in Paris, Reuters reports that according to a French prosecutor, the assailant has been identified as Abdullah Reda al-Hamamy, a 29-year-old Egyptian born in Dakahlia, a province northeast of Cairo, who was living in the United Arab Emirates.
As President-Elect Trump visited Washington in December, and received calls from world leaders, Germany's Der Spiegel magazine makes it clear just what the European establishment thinks of The Donald's future...
And now, with President Trump having taken office, the German media (having exclaimed his inauguration address as "a declaration of war"), have dropped their latest cover-bomb, dubbed "America First"...
... clearly, Europe - or at least Spiegel - is confident it is next.
Turkey has waned Greece that military drills they are conducting on the Aegean island of Kos, are against international law and could spark tensions between Athens and Ankara In a statement the Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu said: “We call on our neighbor Greece to refrain from unilateral actions that… could trigger tensions and are against international law” RT reports: The exercises breached a 1947 treaty that prohibited this kind of activity on the island, Muftuoglu noted, adding that Turkey could take preventive measures if necessary.
The Mexican government denies a report by the Associated Press that alleges US President Donald Trump threatened President Enrique Pena Nieto with US military action to deal with the “bad hombres down there,” if Mexico was not willing to. Referring to drug trafficking across the border, Trump allegedly told Pena Nieto “You aren’t doing enough to stop them. I think your military is scared.