The “delusion” of globalism and the decision to allow mass migration into the West threaten the future of Europe and its peoples, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told attendees at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Saturday.
Mass migration is not some fringe concern of little consequence.
It was and continues to be a crisis that destabilizes societies across the West. pic.twitter.com/cPELgF0UrW
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) February 14, 2026
Donald Trump had only just regained the White House when his acolytes dealt Europe two verbal sucker punches in the solar plexus.
Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, declared that “stark strategic realities” meant that America would no longer be “primarily focused on the security of Europe”. Then JD Vance, the vice-president, marked St Valentine’s Day 2025 by telling the Munich Security Conference that Europe’s greatest peril came not from Russia, but “from within”, and that there was “nothing more urgent” than curbing mass immigration.
In the 12 months since those speeches, European governments have been forced to confront the stark reality that they must shoulder prime responsibility for defending the Continent, with all the extra costs and risks that implies, because America can no longer be relied upon to give reflexive support to Nato.
A Palestinian activist has called for dogs to be banned as pets in New York City claiming they aren’t Islamic.
Nerdeen Kiswani said dogs have a ‘place in society’ but ‘not as indoor pets.’
‘Like we’ve said all along, they are unclean,’ she wrote on X.
BREAKING: The leader of the pro-Palestinian movement and protests in New York, Nerdeen Kiswani, is now calling for a ban on dogs as pets in the city. Dogs are considered haram in Islam.
Who knew that Mamdani winning the election would embolden all the extremists? pic.twitter.com/Eh3F3BmU5e
— Dr. Maalouf (@realMaalouf) February 13, 2026
It’s hard to prove a connection, but easy to use your common sense on this one.
Changes in SNAP benefits and making people reapply after the government shutdown seem to have had a dramatic effect on the market for certain types of goods.
The Army is investing heavily in a strategy that will team soldiers with autonomous drones on the battlefield, with the goal of leveraging next-generation technology to save American lives, the U.S. Army’s chief technology officer said in an exclusive interview.
The service is searching for ways to fundamentally change how soldiers fight and win future wars. At the heart of that is a push for replaceable, smart technology — such as autonomous robots — to move ahead of human soldiers in the most dangerous situations. Army CTO Alex Miller said the Army’s top priorities include developing drone technology for overcoming battlefield obstacles, resupplying troops under attack, and evacuating wounded soldiers from the front lines.
Recent attention has focused on Greenland as a focal point of Arctic strategy, a reminder that geography once treated as peripheral now sits squarely within the logic of continental defense. A similar shift is unfolding elsewhere in the Arctic, though with far less public notice. The Northwest Passage—the network of sea routes threading Canada’s Arctic Archipelago between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans—has moved from a seasonal curiosity to a corridor of growing strategic consequence. As activity increases, questions long treated as theoretical, including the legal status of those waters, are being pushed toward practical resolution.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has spoken of a defining moment and a “new era” as he travels to Europe for a major speech to the Munich Security Conference.
Rubio will lead the US delegation at the first major global event since President Donald Trump threatened Danish sovereignty with a pledge to annex Greenland.
French President Emmanuel Macron has insisted Europe must prepare for independence from the US, while Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte has stressed that transatlantic bonds are as close and important as ever.
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WHO DID THIS???🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/SI44yznexI
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) February 13, 2026
President Trump’s main military strategist has called for a Nato “based on partnership rather than dependency”, in which European countries, Britain and Canada will be expected to accelerate their commitments to increase defence budgets.
Before a meeting of alliance defence ministers in Brussels on Thursday, Elbridge Colby, 46, argued for a reformed “Nato 3.0” that was closer to its original Cold-War era iteration, rather than a group mainly underwritten by US military power.
“In 2025, we saw a genuine commitment to have Europe lead the conventional defence of Nato,” he said. “Now it’s time to march out together, to be pragmatic, we have a really strong basis for working together in partnership, for a Nato based on partnership rather than dependency. Really, a return to what Nato originally was intended for.”
OTTAWA/WASHINGTON — U.S. federal prosecutors have unsealed an indictment alleging that a Dominican national and a U.S. citizen conspired to move foreign nationals from Mexico and Central and South America into the United States by flying them into Canada, staging them through Quebec, and then guiding them on foot and by vehicle across the Vermont border — a pattern investigators say reflects Mexican cartel-linked human-smuggling networks exploiting a “north border” pathway long viewed as secondary to the U.S.–Mexico frontier.
For the first time, the U.S. government discusses Sharia.
“On Tuesday, February 10, I appeared before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government to testify about Sharia. I gave a five-minute statement and then took questions from various representatives. Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Rep. Mark Harris (R-N.C.), Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.), Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.), and Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Tex.) asked incisive and illuminating questions.”
It was only a matter of time before something like this happened. Expect it a lot more.
Late Tuesday, the Federal Aviation Administration abruptly ordered El Paso International Airport to close for ten days.
El Paso is America’s 23rd largest city. And, in a country that treats canceled flights as human rights violations and where delayed or rerouted commercial and cargo flights can cost domestic businesses millions of dollars in direct and indirect losses, ten days sounds like an eternity.
What manner of foreign or domestic (or interstellar?) threat could cause such disruption?
Leaders of a right-wing group pushing a conservative Canadian province to secede and form a new nation say they have been meeting with Trump administration officials to discuss how their radical plan can benefit the U.S.
In three separate, highly unusual meetings with officials from the State and Treasury departments, they’ve discussed the logistics of Alberta breaking off from Canada, including switching over to U.S. currency and creating a new military.
Russia isn’t getting stronger.
In recent months, President Donald Trump’s assertive foreign policy has borne many fruits. His tough stance on burden sharing among NATO allies has led to dramatic increases in their military spending and financial support for Ukraine. His surgical attack on Iran, coupled with tough sanctions, has provoked massive people power protests there. His strong backing of Israel has contributed to a severely weakened and defanged Hamas. And his surgical extraction of Venezuelan tyrant Nicolás Maduro, coupled with the interdiction of Venezuelan oil exports, has forced initial concessions from the proto-communist regime there.
The U.S. Space Force is accelerating the deployment of counterspace weapons under a new Trump administration policy aimed at reasserting and ensuring American dominance over China and Russia in any potential orbital conflict.
The force is deploying three electronic satellite jammers and racing to match the more advanced space forces of China and Russia, which include arsenals of anti-satellite weapons.
Space Force Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently set the goal for the U.S. military to dominate in space.
WASHINGTON—The Trump administration covertly sent thousands of Starlink terminals into Iran after the regime’s brutal crackdown on demonstrations last month, U.S. officials said, an effort to keep dissidents online following Tehran’s stifling of internet access.
After Iranian authorities smothered mounting unrest in January by killing thousands of protesters and severely cutting internet connectivity, the U.S. smuggled roughly 6,000 of the satellite-internet kits into the country, the first time the U.S. has directly sent Starlink into Iran.
The State Department had purchased nearly 7,000 Starlink terminals in earlier months—with most bought in January—to help antiregime activists circumvent internet shut-offs in Iran, officials said. The purchase came after senior Trump administration appointees decided to divert some funds from other internet-freedom initiatives inside Iran to the purchasing of Starlink terminals instead.
