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19 August 2025 14:22

🇷🇺🤝🇺🇸 Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia, Dmitry Medvedev, on X/Twitter:

"The anti-Russian warmongering Coalition of the Willing failed to outplay the President of the United States on his turf. Europe thanked & sucked up to him. The question is which tune the Kiev clown will play about guarantees & territories back home, once he’s put on his green military uniform again".

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19 August 2025 12:42

🇪🇺🤝☪️ The EU refuses to eliminate islamophobia research, says funding such research papers into islam are "world-class scholarly undertakings that advance the frontiers of knowledge"

The EU executive has pushed back against far-right criticism over the allocation of over €17 million in grants by the leading European Research Council (ERC) to Islam-related projects, insisting they won funding on scientific merit.

The European Commission has countered criticism from far-right political groups for allocating EU research funds over the past years on projects focused on subject matters like Islam, the Qur’an, Sharia, and Islamophobia.

The controversy began after Italian hard-right MEP Silvia Sardone questioned the value of the projects, describing them as “studies of questionable utility, all focused on Islam,” and demanding that the Commission justify the use of public funds.

Similar concerns were raised by French far-right MEP Jean-Paul Garraud. Both lawmakers, who sit in the Patriots for Europe group in the European Parliament, suggested the projects unfairly promoted Islam or exaggerated the existence of Islamophobia in Europe.

In a response made public on Monday, the EU Commissioner for research, Ekaterina Zaharieva, stood by the European Research Council (ERC), the bloc’s scientific funding body, pointing out that the projects in question are “world-class scholarly undertakings that advance the frontiers of knowledge.”

She noted that the funded research spans a wide range of topics, including minority inclusion in democratic societies and the evolution of Islamic law.

Examples of ERC-backed initiatives include a €2.5 million project led by France’s National Centre for Scientific Research, which is mapping the evolution of Sharia law and will run until 2029.

Another project, coordinated by Istanbul Bilgi University between 2018 and 2019, received €2.3 million to study the rise of populist and Islamophobic discourse in Europe.

🔗 https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/08/18/eu-commission-defends-funding-for-islam-and-islamophobia-research-projects

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19 August 2025 12:12

🇮🇱❌🇫🇷 France threatens ‘strong response’ if Israel closes its Jerusalem consulate

French Foreign Ministry says it hasn’t gotten any official notification of the reported move, floated in response to Paris’s plans to recognize Palestinian state

The statement followed reports that Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar is pushing for Israel to close the French consulate in the capital, in response to French President Emmanuel Macron’s intention to recognize a Palestinian state. Macron’s declaration in July that France would recognize a State of Palestine at the UN next month kicked off a series of Western countries saying they would follow suit.

🔗 https://www.timesofisrael.com/france-threatens-strong-response-if-israel-closes-its-jerusalem-consulate/

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19 August 2025 12:05

🇺🇸⚓️🇻🇪 Three Arleigh Burke-Class Guided-Missile Destroyers:

USS Sampson (DDG-102),
USS Gravely (DDG-107),
USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109),

Have been ordered off the coast of Venezuela by the U.S. Navy, with them expected to arrived in the area within the next 36 hours, as part of a naval task force recently deployed to the Southern Caribbean Sea, which includes the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and several P-8A “Poseidon” Maritime Patrol and Surveillance Aircraft, meant to combat drug trafficking by narco-cartels in Latin America.

🔗 OSINT Defender

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19 August 2025 11:42

🇮🇳🤝🇷🇺 After hosting the Chinese foreign minister, Wang Yi, the Indian minister of foreign affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, is traveling to Russia to meet with his counterpart, Sergey Lavrov.

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19 August 2025 11:21

🇺🇸🇮🇱 I have obtained documents pertaining to the arrest of Israeli government official Tom Alexandrovich caught up in a recent Las Vegas undercover child sex sting

Key findings: Alexandrovitch allegedly solicited what he believed to be a 15 year old girl for sex. He told police he met with the FBI in Vegas, had a future meeting with the NSA and immediately identified himself as an employee of the Israeli government

Alexandrovich repeatedly emphasized that he needed to speak with someone about his upcoming flight to Israel and speak to his family/Israeli embassy

This calls into question claims from Prime Minister Netanyahu's office that they were not aware that Alexandrovich was arrested when initially contacted

The documents include much more detail on how Alexandrovich was caught up

Documents are available exclusively for Breaking Points premium subscribers and will be made public tomorrow

Key finding: Alexandrovich told police he met with the FBI while in the US and had meetings the next day lined up with the NSA before fleeing to Israel after being caught up in the child sex sting

🔗 Saagar Enjeti

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19 August 2025 11:13

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 The USAF deployed the WC-135R Constant Phoenix "Nuke Sniffer" deployed to Al Udeid.

🔗 MenchOSINT

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19 August 2025 11:01

🇺🇦❌🇺🇸 Despite a "positive" meeting between Vladimir Zelensky and Donald Trump, the Ukrainian president, according to the newspaper, Financial Times, still refuses to make territorial concessions to Russia.

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18 August 2025 22:04

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 Main takeaway:

A trilateral meeting between Trump-Zelensky and Putin must be scheduled in the near future.

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18 August 2025 19:50

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- The Trump-Zelensky meeting has begun.

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18 August 2025 19:50

🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦 — President Trump says that the US may get involved in Ukraine security guarantees, and will give a concrete answer on US troop deployments on Ukraine later today, presumably waiting to see how the summit goes between him, Zelensky, and European leaders.

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18 August 2025 19:43

🇺🇸🗣U.S. president, Donald Trump:

"I don't think you need a ceasefire. If you look at the six deals that I settled this year, they were all at war. I didn't do any ceasefires ... I like the concept of a ceasefire for one reason: because you'd stop killing people immediately."

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18 August 2025 19:38

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "We can reach a deal to freeze the conflict in Ukraine," - President Trump.

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18 August 2025 19:38

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "We're going to work with Ukraine, we're going to work with everybody, and we're going to make sure that if there's peace, that peace is going to stay long-term. We're not talking about a 2-year peace and then we end up in this mess again," - President Trump.

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18 August 2025 19:38

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "The war is going to end when it’s going to end. I can’t tell you when," - President Trump.

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19 August 2025 13:13

🇺🇸🇬🇷🇦🇷 What would happen if America started faking its economic data?

Lying to your lenders is a bad enough idea when you’re an individual. It’s even worse when you’re a country.

That’s the specter critics of President Donald Trump have raised after he fired the head of the US Bureau of Labor Statistics this month after disappointing jobs data. While there’s no indication the data has been rigged (assertions from the White House aside) – or will be rigged in the future – the White House’s nomination of a partisan to lead the government’s economic data agency was enough to worry global economic and financial circles.

There’s historical precedent for that fear. Countries like Greece and Argentina have been both been punished by investors for putting out manufactured numbers in the past.

But while Greece famously faked its way into the European Union and Argentina to this day remains embroiled in legal fights over its own sham numbers, there key differences here: The US economy is the world’s biggest, buoyed by its global dominance and its years of strength.

The Trump administration says firing Erika McEntarfer wasn’t about politics but was instead about making BLS data more rigorous and accurate

In 2004, Greece confessed it had faked numbers on its national deficit and debt to qualify for entry into the eurozone in 2001.

But the number-fudging didn’t end there. Appointed to Greece’s statistical agency in 2010, economist Andreas Georgiou made a bold decision: He worked to publish deficit numbers that aligned with reality. After years of untrustworthy numbers that made the idea of official Greek data a global punchline, his efforts were downright startling. What followed were years of legal fights, and he was prosecuted for allegedly inflating the country’s deficit figures. Even the EU itself condemned Greece for the false data.

The fakery made the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 significantly worse in Greece. Lenders, skittish of what Greece’s actual public finances might be, shied away, demanding increasingly higher rates to hold Greek bonds. Austerity measures demanded by the World Bank and International Monetary Fund to bail out Greece angered everyday citizens.

In Argentina, accusations of untrustworthy inflation and economic growth data have dogged Latin America’s third-largest economy for decades, scaring off investors despite a wealth of natural resources. Then-President Nestor Kirchner demoted the person in charge of preparing inflation data because she (correctly) reported surging prices in 2007. Everyone from ordinary citizens to global investors treated official inflation data as suspect for years after.

But the United States is far from replicating either scenario, said Robert Shapiro, When the data was revealed to be fake in both Greece and Argentina, those economies were already in terrible shape, Shapiro pointed out.

“So the impact of the markets no longer being able to rely on the data was a little less because the markets were already backing away from investment and employment.”

The US economy is growing, hitting a relatively robust annualized rate of 3% in the second quarter. And at over $30 trillion, the US economy has a heft that both Greece and Argentina lack.

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19 August 2025 12:17

🇺🇸 A Liberian-flagged coal carrier erupted in an explosion on Monday while transiting the Patapsco River near the demolition site of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.

The 751-foot W Sapphire, which had just loaded coal at CSX’s Curtis Bay terminal, was beginning its voyage to Mauritius when the blast tore through the ship at around 6:30 p.m. local time. Former Port of Baltimore CEO William Doyle confirmed to gCaptain the vessel’s loading location and cargo.

City officials say the explosion has been fully contained. All 23 crew members are safe and accounted for.

Baltimore Fire Department units responded by land and water, while tugboats assisted in stabilizing the vessel and moving it toward a safe anchorage. The U.S. Coast Guard is investigating, though it’s important to note that the Coast Guard typically does not fight fires itself. Baltimore maintains one medium fireboat, the 87-foot John R. Frazier, and several smaller craft, which are believed to have assisted in the response.

“Fireboats remain on scene as the Coast Guard and other agencies begin their investigation. The vessel will be moved to a designated anchorage area and held there until cleared by the Coast Guard,” the Baltimore City Fire Department said in a statement.

🔗 https://gcaptain.com/coal-blast-rocks-bulk-carrier-off-baltimore/

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19 August 2025 12:10

🇺🇸⚖️ The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to release the Epstein files to Capitol Hill after Trump denied their existence back in late June-early July.

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19 August 2025 12:03

🇺🇸🇻🇪 Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro said he would deploy 4.5 million militia members in response to US “threats,” after Washington raised the bounty for his arrest and launched anti-drug operations in the Caribbean

🔗 https://insiderpaper.com/maduro-says-mobilizing-millions-of-militia-after-us-threats/

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19 August 2025 11:34

🇺🇸📱🇮🇱 Some X/Twitter users report having their tweets deleted about the story surrounding the capture of Israel's National Cyber Directorate in a child predator ring stint operation.

X/Twitter's AI, Grok, claims that such posts are in violation of X/Twitter's terms of service.

However, NorthStar journalist, Shaun King's legal team said X/Twitter deleted his tweets at the request of a "government" entity.

Meanwhile, the U.S. State Department got community noted after misreporting on the facts about the arrest and the conditions for the release of Tom Alexandrovich, the director of Israel's National Cyber Directorate.

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19 August 2025 11:17

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Another batch of US Tanker Aircraft are leaving Al Udeid Air Base this morning (4 so far)

Are they evacuating it in preparation for something?

🔗 MenchOSINT

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19 August 2025 11:10

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 On August 18th, Five US Air Force Tankers have left Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, & the two E-3B AWACS deployed in Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia also left on the same day.

Possibly repatriation of fighter jets deployed during negotiations with Iran or preparation for a new bombing campaign against Iran.

🔗 MenchOSINT

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19 August 2025 10:56

#BREAKING | Ukraine pledges to purchase $100B in U.S. weapons, funded by Europe, to secure American security guarantees post-Russia peace deal, alongside a $50B drone agreement with Washington, per Financial Times.

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18 August 2025 20:33

🤖 This photo going around of European leaders sitting in a White House hall is AI-generated.

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18 August 2025 19:50

🇺🇸🇺🇦 — Journalists asked to leave the room, no fights between Trump and Zelensky this time, press conference went smoothly.

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18 August 2025 19:49

🇺🇦 — President Zelensky announces his readiness to hold elections in Ukraine after the war ends.

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18 August 2025 19:39

🇺🇸📞🇪🇺🇺🇳🇺🇦 — Asked whether the U.S. is prepared to send peacekeeping forces to Ukraine after a peace deal is signed, Trump answers that they will be working with the Europeans

🔗 Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24)

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18 August 2025 19:38

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "I don't think there will be a ceasefire," - President Trump.

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18 August 2025 19:38

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "We talked about security guarantees and Europe will be Ukraine's first line of defense and we will participate in it," - President Trump.

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18 August 2025 19:38

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- "Which side has the better cards?" - Reporter.

"I don’t want to say that," - President Trump.