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• Jul 30, 202635x their median

  BREAKING: 🇪🇸 Spanish National Police and Guardia Civil unions estimate around 12,000 North Africans crossing per hour, with up to 80,000 possibly already across. A Guardia Civil spokesperson accused the Moroccan government of a proxy attack on Spain. Sánchez’s government still denies any wrongdoing and acts as if it poses no threat to national security.

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• Aug 2, 202633x their median

  Meanwhile in INDIANA… (not a typo) https://t.co/OFcPlRmt6x

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• Aug 18, 202616x their median

  Today is a great day to repeal the Immigration Act of 1965

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• Aug 1, 20263.8x their median

  THE ANTIDOTE TO SUICIDAL EMPATHY FOUND IN CEUTA Numerous reports confirm that by last night: “More Than 48,000 Migrants Return To Morocco from Ceuta” (cf. NY Times, Reuters, France 24 etc.) What happened? Anti-suicidal antipathy, the antidote to suicidal empathy, that’s what. What happened exactly? They got hungry, nobody fed them. All markets and restaurants were closed. They had to sleep in the streets on asphalt and concrete, nobody tented or housed them. They had no clothes, many not even a shirt, no blankets, nobody gave them anything. They were not welcome, they got anti-suicidal antipathy, not suicidal empathy. The local Ceuta residents universally told them, “Get the eff out of here, go back to where you belong!” And so they did. Is there a lesson here? Ya think?? Don’t feed them, house them, clothe them, don’t give them free phones and credit cards, don’t give them a damn thing and poof! They self-deport, all by themselves. Are we learning yet, Europe? Of course, you need police, lots of police for many will turn to crime. Yes, there are millions of them in Spain, France, Italy, Sweden, Ireland, the UK, etc., the problem is orders of magnitude greater than 50K in a place from where they can just walk home to. But the path and strategy is now clear. By this afternoon (Aug 1), a rapidly dwindling few hundred “migrants” are left in Ceuta now. Are we learning yet, America? All the taxpayer-paid freebies and handouts supplied by the Dems, all the massive fraud allowed by Tampon Tim Walz and other Dems, is part of their cheat-to-win via illegals' fraud-voting – and it all needs to be completely 100% shut down. Team Trump – spearheaded by TreasurySec Bessent – is trying, but efforts need to accelerate from snail speed to warp speed. No welfare goodies for illegals should be a total winner for citizen-voters. What happened in Ceuta today must be a lesson put into immediate practice by Team Trump in America, and in Europe starting with the Spanish evicting Sanchez from power. Ceuta should be the tipping point for Western Civilization regaining moral common sense.

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• Aug 20, 2026

  Off Leash update 20 August 2026 STRAIT OF HORMUZ •Axios reported that the U.S. has stealthily set up a shipping corridor on the Oman side of the Strait of Hormuz that has seen 15-20 tankers per day enter or exit the Persian Gulf over the past few weeks. •Those transits were not included in Kpler's recent shipping data, which showed traffic through the Strait at a three-month low last week. •The U.S.-backed transits take place at night, under the cover of darkness - and the additional cover of U.S. Air Force fighter jets ready to intercept missiles or drones Iran lobs in the general direction of the tankers. •[Thanks to U.S. strikes on Iran's radar and maritime surveillance systems, Iran has lost most of its visibility into the southern side of the Strait and is increasingly firing in the general direction of where small IRGC spotter boats observe tankers.] IRAN •The UAE announced it would end all trade with Iran on Tuesday, after accusing Iran of firing missiles into its territory. [Iran denies targeting the UAE, and claims the offending strikes were part of a false flag operation that the U.S. and / or Israel staged to provoke the UAE to impose punitive measures - like this embargo - on Iran.] •The blockade could prove devastating for Iran. The UAE is Iran's largest source of imports, supplying around $19.1 billion of non-oil goods - such as gold, electronics, and consumer goods - annually. Iran sends around $6.6 billion of exports - including food and spices - in the other direction. Dubai's role as a global financial hub with comparatively light regulation means it's also a key part of Iran's off-the-books trade and sanctions evasion. •If the UAE cracks down on illicit dealings and vigorously enforces its blockade, it could help achieve Pres. Trump's goal of forcing Iran into economic isolation. •To that end, Trump threatened Iran's trading partners yesterday, with a warning that "ANY country that allows its financial institutions, businesses, airports, or government entities to provide any type of lifeline to Iran will itself face TREMENDOUS Economic Consequences." It's not clear whether U.S. pressure influenced the UAE's decision to embargo Iran. UKRAINE •Pres. Zelensky was forced to sack his Deputy Chief of Staff, Iryna Mudra, after she was arrested on charges of money laundering. •The revelation of rot inside his own office is badly timed for Zelensky. It comes just a day after former defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov - who Zelensky also ousted, but not for cause - spoke out about a crisis in Zelensky's government and called for new elections. •Fedorov plans to continue his crusade for reform. He'll travel to the U.S. next week, and there's speculation that he'll call on U.S. officials to seek their support for his efforts to force elections. GAZA •Under pressure from critics, Israel's military said it would open criminal investigations into its troops' conduct in two cases that sparked widespread outrage: the killing of five-year-old Hind Rajab and six of her family members in Jan. 2024, and the shooting deaths of 14 medical workers and a UN employee in Mar. 2025. •Critics note that Israeli military investigations are slow and rarely result in convictions - even though the military only investigates the most egregious cases that generate the greatest public uproar. The military declined to take up three other cases in which troops killed aid workers, finding no grounds for a criminal investigation in any of those. NORTH KOREA •Kim Jong Un's influential sister, Kim Yo Jong, cast doubt on Pres. Trump's claim that her brother had had a "very positive" response to Trump's recent gestures of friendship. She said she was "completely unaware" that her brother had responded at all - though she noted he had "fond personal memories and feelings" towards Trump. •Kim proclaimed that North Korea still views joint U.S.-South Korea military drills as "provocative and aggressive" - even though they were shortened and scaled down on Trump's orders - and said that if the U.S. intended the reduction "as some kind of ‘goodwill measure’, they will not get the answer they desire." •The answer Trump desires is rumored to be Kim's agreement to meet for an eighth time this fall. That could still happen, though: CSIS's Korea chair, Victor Cha, pointed out that Kim Yo Jong often plays "bad cop" in dealings with the U.S. so that her brother can be the "good cop." Her tough talk may only be bluster.

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• Aug 19, 2026

  Off Leash update 19 August 2026 UKRAINE •Mykhailo Fedorov - the popular former defense minister Pres. Zelensky sacked last month - posted a bold video to YouTube calling for new elections to be held, despite the ongoing war, to address Ukraine's "systematic crisis of governance." •Fedorov was the architect of Ukraine's highly effective drone program, and as defense minister he led a drive to clean up corruption and push the stodgy old guard into retirement. Having failed to regain his post - despite widespread demonstrations calling for his reinstatement - he now looks poised to bring that fight to the broader government and its leaders, who Fedorov criticized for being "scared of change." •Given Fedorov's popularity, his call for a vote could be the most serious challenge yet to Pres. Zelensky's leadership. Zelensky has not responded yet. RUSSIA •The Washington Post reported that Russian banks have seen record outflows in the past three months, as panicked savers rush to withdraw their money before the Kremlin can confiscate it for its war efforts. •In the year to date, $24.7 billion (2 trillion rubles) have left the country. That's roughly the same level of capital flight Russian banks experienced in the first two weeks of the war ($23 billion), before the government intervened to slow the bank run. •The resurgence of capital flight could be a sign that Ukraine's efforts to raise the cost of the war for Russia are working. It also suggests - as a former advisor to the Russian Central Bank pointed out - that "people have no trust in the Russian banking system or in the Russian financial system." IRAN •According to a new Financial Times report, Iran's hardliners are weighing a plan to attack U.S. assets in southeastern Europe if Pres. Trump carries out his threats to escalate the war. They're also considering targeting subsea cables in the Strait of Hormuz. •As FT noted, "The threats reflect the defiant mood in Tehran, where many within the regime increasingly see a resumption of the war as a matter of when, not if." SYRIA •Israel conducted airstrikes on the defunct Abu al Duhur military air base in northwestern Syria's Idlib province. •Prime Minister Netanyahu justified the strikes as a necessary warning shot to deter Syria's government from advancing rumored plans to host Turkish soldiers at a different air base near Aleppo. Per Netanyahu, "Israel repeatedly warned Syria that such a deployment would pose a threat to Israel’s security. Syria chose to ignore these warnings." •Naturally, the incursion angered Syria's al Sharaa government, who called it "an unjustified act of aggression, a flagrant violation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and a dangerous escalation that threatens security and stability in the region." •The strikes also drew an exceptionally blunt rebuke from U.S. diplomats, who have forged constructive ties with al Sharaa's government in recent months. Tom Barrack - who is both the U.S. Special Envoy to Syria and Iraq and the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey - called Israel's actions an "unnecessary escalation" and pointed out that "[t]he Al-Sharra government has neither adopted a predatory posture nor maintained proxy forces. It has, in fact, repeatedly indicated a preference for de-escalation with Israel." TRADE •Just before his new 50% tariffs on many Canadian exports to the U.S. were about to go into effect, Pres. Trump paused them for three days to finalize a deal that Trump said was only pending the "finalization of documents." •However, three days might not be enough. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested the deal isn't quite as final as Trump implied: "Substantial progress has been made, although there is important work still to be done." •In the meantime, businesses on both sides of the border are in limbo. As the head of Canada's Chamber of Commerce noted, "an extension doesn’t bring the certainty that a signed interim deal would."

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• Aug 21, 2026

  Off Leash update 21 August 2026 UKRAINE •It now looks like ousted defense secretary Mykhailo Fedorov miscalculated when he launched a political challenge against Pres. Zelensky by calling for wartime elections. •Fedorov's call fell flat. Ukrainians may detest the corruption scandals dogging Zelensky's government, but the president remains widely popular - though not as popular as Fedorov - and many worry about the impact elections would have on their national unity - or on Zelensky's ability to continue leading the country through a war. •Even Fedorov's greatest supporters - the protesters who were rallying for his reinstatement as defense minister - largely disagreed with his call for elections. Nearly all of them dispersed this week, ending weeks of demonstrations. •Meanwhile, Russia's strikes on Ukraine are getting deadlier because Ukraine is short of interceptors. In March, Kyiv boasted of intercepting around 70% of incoming ballistic missiles. In July, it quietly conceded that it had intercepted only 20%. •Russia knows this, and is taking advantage of Ukraine's weakness. While it usually opens its overnight attacks by sending drone swarms to distract interceptors from the missiles that follow, last night's barrage began with ballistic missiles. •Ukraine is pleading for more interceptors - especially Patriots - but there are fewer to go around because many were used up against Iranian missiles. Countries that still have some are hoarding them, although production is ramping up to build more. Russia, though, is also accelerating missile production. IRAN •U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced plans to impose the "toughest sanctions in history" on Iran, and urged China - Iran's largest trading partner and the main buyer of its oil - to "get with the program." •China declined to partake. A spokesman for its leaders warned that "economic warfare" won't work, and called for the U.S. and Iran to negotiate a diplomatic solution instead. That suits Beijing well: it can continue buying cheap Iranian oil, and has little interest in crippling an Iranian regime busy antagonizing the U.S. CHINA •Hui Ka Yan, the billionaire founder of China's disgraced property giant, Evergrande, was sentenced to life in prison and ordered to forfeit all of his personal assets to the state. •He reportedly pleaded guilty to the state's fraud charges against him back in April - 2.5 years after he suddenly disappeared from public life, and nearly five years after Evergrande spectacularly collapsed under $300 billion in debt. That collapse exposed cracks in China's property sector that are still weighing on the economy.

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• Aug 18, 2026

  Off Leash update 18 August 2026 NORTH KOREA •Some analysts speculated that Pres. Trump's announcement about reducing joint military drills with South Korea wasn't really about South Korea at all. Rather, they suggested, it was a gesture intended to woo North Korea's Kim Jong Un into another round of diplomacy. •That now looks correct, and it seems it worked. Pres. Trump told reporters yesterday that Kim sent a "very positive" response to his overture, but declined to confirm reports that he hopes the outreach will lead to a new summit with Kim. •Analysts point out that Trump's past summits with Kim achieved no major breakthroughs on U.S. objectives like preventing North Korea from further advancing its nuclear weapons programs. Pyongyang now has 3-6 times more assembled nuclear warheads than it did before Trump and Kim signed a toothless denuclearization agreement in 2018, and it has also since developed missiles capable of striking the U.S. •It's hard to see what Trump stands to gain by re-engaging Kim. Kim is unlikely to agree to scale back his arsenal, and he has no reason to stop further nuclear work if Trump asks him nicely to do so. The one thing that renewed U.S.-North Korea dialogue might achieve is to cause concern for South Korea, which is on Trump's bad side for refusing to support his Iran war. IRAN •Pres. Trump threatened Oman - a longtime U.S. ally - in a phone interview with Fox News: "If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the shit out of them." •Oman - which is sometimes dubbed "the Switzerland of the Middle East" for its strict neutrality amidst regional conflicts - isn't known for getting in anyone's way. It was historically one of the main mediators facilitating communication between the U.S. and Iran, and serves as a principal go-between for indirect U.S.-Iran negotiations today. •What got Oman in Trump's sights was its negotiations with Iran on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S. was excluded from those talks and objects to rumored provisions to eventually let Iran and Oman charge fees (i.e., tolls) to ships transiting the waterway. •Trump may hope his threats pressure Oman into either walking away from talks with Iran or advocating a plan more favorable to the U.S. than the current proposal. ZAMBIA •Zambia's Electoral Commission declared President Hakainde Hichilema the winner of last week's election, securing a second term with 60% of the vote. His victory suggests voters are happy with the economic reforms he enacted during his first five-year term. •Critics accused Hichilema's government of bullying the opposition, but observers noted no major irregularities during the campaign and the main opposition candidate - Brian Mundubile - still won 38% of the vote, which observers said was largely free and fair. •Things quickly turned sour after polls closed, though. Mundubile accused the government of manipulating the vote in Hichilema's favor, without providing evidence. The government then accused Mundubile and other senior opposition figures of plotting an armed insurrection, and arrested 11 people in a raid on Mundubile's home. The reality is murky. TAIWAN •Taiwan's proposed a 2027 budget that gives citizens cash handouts of NT$10,000 ($314) as a way to share the windfall profits the country's semiconductor industry has piled up lately. That sector is the main driver behind Taiwan's double-digit economic growth, which the statistics bureau forecasts will reach an annualized rate of 11.1% this year.

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• Aug 13, 2026

  Off Leash update 13 August 2026 CHINA •China's central bank granted Germany's Deutsche Bank permission to be the first non-Chinese bank allowed to clear transactions in renminbi (yuan). •Deutsche Bank is likely to be the first of many non-Chinese - and non-American - banks to get China's approval to deal in yuan. China's economic planners want to dislodge the U.S. dollar as the main currency for cross-border banking as part of their long-term plan to challenge American leadership of the global financial system. •It's likely to take decades to unseat the dollar. Dollar assets represent 58% of global currency reserves (vs. 2% for the yuan), 49% of global SWIFT transaction value (vs. 5% for the yuan), and 64% of global debt (vs. less than 2% for the yuan - despite China's best efforts to finance its development projects abroad in yuan). IRAN •Iranian officials vigorously refuted Pres. Trump repeated claims that the U.S. has "total control" of the Strait of Hormuz in a series of taunting social media posts and interviews. •Mohammad Reza Naqdi, a top advisor to the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), told PBS that "the American military is weaker than what we perceived," and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted on X that the U.S. "has long miscalculated due to intelligence failures," citing the war on Iran and the debacle in the Strait as examples of U.S. miscalculations. •In reality, both the U.S. and Iran seem to have just enough "control" over the Strait to ensure the other can't unilaterally reopen it. Maritime data showed that daily traffic through the chokepoint dropped to near its lowest level since May 12 - and 90% below pre-war levels - this week. RUSSIA •Russia's Pres. Putin provoked outrage in Japan yesterday by visiting the Kuril Islands - which the two countries have disputed for decades - for the first time. •The four Kuril Islands were historically Japanese, but after World War II the Soviet Union annexed them and deported their ~17,000 Japanese residents. (Incidentally, the rift over Moscow's annexation of the Kurils was the main reason the Soviet Union and Japan never signed a peace treaty ending that war.) •Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae called Putin's visit "absolutely unacceptable," and said it had "worsened Japanese sentiment towards Russia" - which wasn't great to begin with. Russia particularly resents the sanctions Japan imposed in 2022 over Putin's war in Ukraine. COLOMBIA •U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that Colombia's new right-wing president, Abelardo de la Espriella, asked for U.S. military help fighting narco-terrorism and authorized joint military operations to strike drug traffickers in Colombia. •De la Espriella's left-wing predecessor, Gustavo Petro, was less keen on the idea of U.S. military intervention in his country: he preferred a softer approach. •But de la Espriella has reinvigorated the fight against armed groups in Colombia. Just days after his inauguration last week, he authorized a military operation that killed the head of a left-wing rebel group in central Colombia. His outreach to the Pentagon could see the U.S. join his fight. AFGHANISTAN •This week marks the fifth anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan. •It also marked the publication of some grim new reports on how the country is faring under Taliban control. A new UN report revealed that half of Afghan women never leave their home or leave only once or twice per month, while separate research by Save the Children found that one in 10 Afghan children suffers from acute malnourishment.

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• Jul 20, 2026

  Time to get the Cuban Communist Party agents of influence, and their followers, out of analytical, staff, and teaching positions at US military schools, @NDU_EDU, and @Southcom. @WOLA_org, this means you, too. https://t.co/Av61Dq9JOc

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