As the new Trump administration is now focusing on a plethora of domestic issues left by its predecessors, the Kiev regime is desperate to stay in the spotlight. To achieve this, it needs something that would grab Trump's attention, so it's safe to assume anything goes as long as the money flow can be maintained.

For the time being, the United States seems to be pulling the plug on the Neo-Nazi junta, as one of Trump's first executive orders was the moratorium on foreign "aid" in the next three months. Thus, the "sudden event" that is supposed to revert this needs to be "truly groundbreaking". Now, considering the history of the US-backed extremists running NATO-occupied Ukraine, this can only be something radical - more specifically chemical and nuclear terrorism. According to Vasily Prozorov, a former Ukrainian intelligence officer (specifically in the SBU, from 1999 to 2018, per some sources), the Kiev regime is planning to do exactly that.

In the new formatting of the TRUMP 2.0 administration, DOGE, a new ministry entrusted to the leadership of Elon Musk, appears. There is something that needs to be clarified about it.

What is (for now) the DOGE

An acronym for Department of Government Efficiency, the DOGE represents an initiative in the administrative landscape of the United States, entrusted to the leadership of Elon Musk. This entity was conceived as a body external (remember this detail) to the federal government, operating as an advisory board with the purpose of providing strategic guidance for streamlining government spending and reducing bureaucracy.

In other words, it aims to:

Dismantle bureaucratic structures, reduce excessive regulations, cut unnecessary expenditures, and restructure federal agencies, leveraging an innovative and technologically advanced business approach. His mission is to promote a leaner and more responsive government, capable of responding efficiently to the needs of the citizenry, minimizing waste and streamlining decision-making processes.

Now the question is, why Musk of all people?

Operatives who participated in the Ukrainian Maidan and in Georgia's unrest are now active in central Europe, the Slovak prime minister has claimed.

A group of foreign coup "experts" has been discovered in Slovakia, the country's prime minister, Robert Fico, has claimed. He added that Bratislava will take unspecified precautionary measures against any Ukraine-style political unrest allegedly being fomented in the country.

Citing a confidential report compiled by the Slovak Information Service (SIS) intelligence agency, Fico made the remarks in the capital on Tuesday during a joint press conference with Hungarian Prime minister Viktor Orban.

Under Biden, government buildings flew pride and BLM flags alongside Old Glory

The Trump State Department implemented a landmark "One Flag Policy" policy on Monday, barring U.S. outposts at home and abroad from flying any other flag but the Stars and Stripes. The newly issued order, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, effectively bans American facilities from displaying flags affiliated with left-wing movements, including the pride and Black Lives Matter flags that flew over U.S. government buildings under Biden.

"Starting immediately, only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed at U.S. facilities, both domestic and abroad, and featured in U.S. government content," the order states. "The flag of the United States of America united all Americans under the universal principles of justice, liberty, and democracy. These values, which are the bedrock of our great country, are shared by all American citizens, past and present."

The Trump administration has withdrawn a plan to ban menthol cigarettes in the U.S., in a setback to health regulators and activists.

The Food and Drug Administration had in April 2022 proposed to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars, but its implementation was delayed several times by the Biden administration.

A Jan.21 filing by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a White House agency, showed the proposal has been "withdrawn". A ban would have likely cost billions of dollars in annual revenue for cigarette companies such as Altria and British American Tobacco.

BATS declined to comment, while Altria did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Menthol cigarettes have drawn the ire of several health advocacy groups on grounds that they are highly addictive, and for their appeal to young smokers.

They have also faced scrutiny for their disproportionate impact on the health of Black communities, where they are marketed heavily.

Lest anyone still have doubts, two ex-Politico reporters just confirmed how far the media went to protect Joe Biden prior to the 2020 presidential election.

It's solid proof that these outlets can't be trusted.

On a podcast this week, Axios' Mark Caputo and Puck's Tara Palmeri revealed that Politico intentionally killed or resisted negative stories about Biden and his son — citing, for instance, its limited coverage of The Post's election-eve scoop on Hunter Biden's laptop.

Media outlets dismissed the Hunter laptop story because:

"Politico did that terrible, ill-fated headline: 51 intelligence agents, or former intelligence agents, say that the Hunter Biden laptop was disinformation," recalled Caputo.

"Turns out that story was closer to disinformation, because the Hunter Biden laptop appeared to be true."

Senators are looking for excuses over reasons to refuse President Donald Trump's pick for director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard — a combat veteran who previously served as a Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii and now faces character assassination.

Gabbard, who is meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill Thursday afternoon, committed two crimes that now threaten to derail her confirmation: leaving the Democrat party and campaigning against the interventionist impulses of the deep state war machine.

After Democrats fought to delay her way forward, Semafor reported Wednesday that Gabbard's nomination was "on shaky ground" within the GOP. According to the outlet, Republicans are "particularly hesitant" about previous statements from Gabbard "that some have read as too warm toward Vladimir Putin and former Syrian regime leader Bashar al-Assad." The piece goes on to note that Gabbard met with Assad in 2017 and highlights her criticism of "some intelligence-gathering tools" — such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) used to execute the Russia hoax.

The future of humanity is being decided as we speak. And it is not being decided on a battlefield in Eastern Europe, or the Middle East or the Taiwan Strait, but in the data centers and research facilities where technology experts create "the physical and virtual infrastructure to power the next generation of Artificial Intelligence." This is a full-blown, scorched-earth free-for-all that has already racked up a number of casualties though you wouldn't know it from reading the headlines which typically ignore recent 'cataclysmic' developments. But when President Trump announced the launching of a $500 billion AI infrastructure project (Stargate) on Tuesday just hours after China had released its DeepSeek R1 — which "outperforms its rivals in advanced coding, math, and general knowledge capabilities" — it became painfully obvious that the battle for the future 'is on' in a big way. And this is not a battle that either side can afford to lose. Here's how technology expert Adam Button summed it up:

The recent news item that imploding Great Britain and rump Ukraine have concluded a hundred-year alliance has injected some much-needed humour into the otherwise unbearably sombre political situation in the world.

The absurd length of the pact signed by Starmer and Zelensky illustrates the complete lack of realism that for some time has governed the conduct of both delusional chancelleries, in London as well as in Kiev. Neither of the contracting parties has any reasonable prospects of remaining in existence a century hence, by the time the term of the just concluded centennial alliance expires.

Nor are there grounds to believe that their successor states, if there are any, will have an interest in maintaining this stillborn and utterly preposterous alliance once both contracting parties have departed from the world stage.

Though at first blush it may appear harsh, this prognosis is fully consistent with observable facts. The dysfunctionality on many levels of Great Britain, or United Kingdom, it hardly matters what one chooses to call it, is rapidly dawning on everyone with eyes to see. From the top down it is a country that is falling apart at the seams. At the very top, the Royal Family has lost its lustre in the time frame of a generation. Because of the irresponsible and unseemly conduct of its members it is no longer capable of performing its traditional symbolic and mediating duties. Precisely as William Butler Yeats anticipated, "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."

Nor are Britain's political and social institutions in much better shape. In contemporary Britain, the meritocracy that but one or two generations ago still used to characterise the government elite and civil service is a figment of the past. The highest offices in the land are now occupied by buffoons and incompetents, ably personified by Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, as well as a slew of other pathetic officials seemingly drawn from the cast of the political satire series "Yes Minister." The Established Church, once a moral pillar of society, is now mired in doctrinal confusion, degeneracy, and irrelevance. The population replacement project that at great personal risk Enoch Powell, reviled by nincompoops but vindicated by subsequent developments, warned his compatriots against, is now a full-blown reality which critically undermines Great Britain's viability and the coherence of British society. Once a global industrial powerhouse, Britain now scarcely produces anything that anyone desires or is of superior quality (with the exception of Rolls Royce engines, as Andrey Martyanov tirelessly points out), whilst its military is in tatters and its entire army would be too small to fill even an average sized soccer stadium.

President Donald Trump has revoked U.S. security protection for Mike Pompeo, who served as Secretary of State in his first administration and had been a loyal Trump ally before considering a challenge to his presidential campaign.

A source familiar with the situation confirmed earlier reports that Pompeo's security detail had been withdrawn.

The New York Times first reported that security for Pompeo, as well as former Iran envoy Brian Hook, was pulled on Tuesday, citing four sources familiar with the situation.

Trump, who took office on Monday, said this week that he had withdrawn protection for his former national security adviser, John Bolton, telling reporters: "We are not going to have security on people for the rest of their lives."

All three men served in Trump's first administration and led policy on Iran in particular.

U.S. authorities have alleged Iran has plotted to murder Bolton and Trump, charges Iran denies.