PUTIN TELLS FINLAND & NORWAY HE WON'T COMPROMISE ON TAKING ALL OF UKRAINE’S DONBAS REGION 🔸 Finnish President Stubb and Norwegian PM Støre held a rare call with Putin on Tuesday after consulting Kyiv. Scheduled for 20 minutes, it ran 90. 🔸 A source close to the Kremlin told Reuters Putin said Russia would not compromise on its goal of capturing the entire Donbas. The Nordic leaders replied that a "just" peace is needed. 🔸 Kremlin readout: peace only possible if Russia's interests are considered "in full and without any conditions attached." It blamed EU and NATO for prolonging the war. 🔸 Both sides welcomed US-Russia-Ukraine trilateral talks resuming in Abu Dhabi in early to mid November. 🔸 Denmark's Frederiksen criticized the call: Europe should stick together, not act alone. .......................................... Comment — These dudes hold calls with Putin as if they have any sway. xitter.cf/NOELreports/status/211…

UK CHARGES 2 MEN OVER IRAN-LINKED RAF FAIRFORD PLOT; FIRST CHARGES SINCE THE US BOMBER BASE INCIDENT 🔸 British prosecutors charged two British nationals, both 24 and from Westminster, under the National Security Act. 🔸 Mohmed Ahmad Abdulkarim: assisting a foreign intelligence service, Aug 31 to Sept 28. Counter-terror police say they believe that service is Iran's. 🔸 Nouman Essghir: entering a prohibited place for a purpose prejudicial to the UK on Aug 22, a month before he was arrested near the base on Sept 27. 🔸 8 men arrested in total. A 25-year-old UK-Iranian re-arrested Oct 20 was released without charge but remains on bail. 🔸 Counter-terror chief Laurence Taylor: "a range of incidents in recent months that we believe have been directed by the Iranian state." 🔸 Iran denies involvement. The US pulled its bombers out of Fairford after the incident. .......................................... Source — bbc.com/news/articles/cqly3v…

US WARNS IRAQ: MILITIAS JOIN THE IRAN WAR, THEY GET HIT –– NO ADVANCE COORDINATION PROMISED 🔸 Iraqi government sources told MBN the US has informed Baghdad that American forces will directly target armed groups in Iraq if they join a renewed war with Iran. 🔸 Washington would not commit to coordinating those strikes with Baghdad in advance. 🔸 Sources say the message carried a clear warning to Iraqi officials about the consequences of letting the militias enter the fight. 🔸 PM Ali al-Zaidi has pledged to disarm Iran-aligned factions. His Sept. 30 deadline was pushed back; a two-phase deal runs to June 2027, with ballistic missiles and drones handed over last. 🔸 Al-Zaidi's office, the White House, and State Dept. did not respond to MBN. ........................................ Comment — Clear and fair. Baghdad had its chance to rein them in. If Iran's proxies pick up rifles for Tehran, they get treated like Tehran, and we have no obligation to coordinate or notify our partners in Baghdad who failed to control them in the first place. Source — alhurra.com/en/48982

If both of you are sanctioned outcasts nobody else wants to trade with then obviously you’ll start trading more with each other. This isn’t an achievement, it’s an act of desperation and Iran’s sole land and sea route for trade.

TRUMP: IRAN HAS BEEN KILLING US FOR YEARS BUT NOW "WE'VE BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF THEM." –– During a midterm campaign rally in Mississippi today, Trump spent a lot of time discussing how Iran has been killing and maiming Americans for years, and on top of that tried to get nukes, which is why he went into Iran, but that also "we have to make sure that we follow it up." He also clarified that he did the ceasefire at the advise of others but thought it was a waste of time. ⭕️ IRAN STARTED THE WAR "Iran started the war with us ... In 1979, and they were killing our people for years. The SS Cole was an example. A lot of people died, but a lot of people died individually with the roadside bombs. Soleimani. You know, Soleimani? I killed him in my first term. Who was vicious. You know, we have people all over the country with no legs and with no arms, with a face that's been destroyed .... And that was done by Iran because they made those bombs. They made all of the roadside bombs. They gave them out. It was Soleimani's favorite weapon .... But they've been doing this to us for years. Iran has. They make great weapons. They're very smart people, but we've beat the shit out of them." ⭕️ IRAN WOULD'VE ACQUIRED & USED NUKES "And I don't feel we had a choice. They were two weeks away from having a nuclear missile. They're considered the number one state sponsor of terror in the world. But we have to make sure that we follow it up. And they can't ever have a nuclear weapon. They would use it, by the way. They'd use it immediately. They'd wipe out the Middle East, they'd wipe out Europe ... they had a missile that essentially reached Europe. They weren't supposed to ... Once they had it [nukes], it was a much tougher conversation that we'd have to have." ⭕️ CEASEFIRE AT THE ADVISE OF PROFESSIONALS "We did a little cease fire, which I never liked very much. I considered sort of a waste of time. But, you know, you like to listen to professionals. But we did a little cease fire, so we let some ships get in. You know, we want to be nice, but it was just a waste of time as far as I'm concerned."

Totally missed this! Where are all people who were saying America doesn’t care about true regime change in Venezuela? I’ve been saying for months now to pay attention to Rubio because he has been clear that true change is coming for the people of Venezuela.

SEC. BESSENT TO IRANIANS: STOP PAYING TAXES & STOCK UP FOR WINTER AS THE ECONOMY WILL GET WORSE –– In an interview w/ Iran Int'l, Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent gave dire warnings to the Iranian regime and instructions to the people to stop paying taxes and stock up on heating fuel and gasoline as winter approaches. KEY QUOTES: ⭕️ "From March of '26 until March of '27, the economy would contract more than 25 percent, which is more than the Soviet Union contracted after its collapse." ⭕️ "We've been going for eight weeks, and I can tell you the next 8 weeks is going to get even more intense." ⭕️ "My advice to the Iranian people would be: don't pay your taxes because you're not going to get anything back from the government, they're going to keep cutting social benefits; the other thing that I would tell the Iranian people is you should start –– anything you need for the winter, you should go and get now –– you should start stocking up on heating fuel. There's going to be a big heating fuel shortage. In terms of gasoline, everyone should fill up their tanks now." ⭕️ "Our goal is to bring the regime to the negotiating table. They've been murderous since last December when the protests started, tens of thousands of people murdered by the regime, and we want them to come to the table and negotiate in good faith." ⭕️ "The regime can end this at any time. President Trump has repeatedly said he wants to make a deal, that our actions are aimed at the regime, not the Iranian people. We are in complete solidarity with the Iranian people, and it is deplorable what has happened, the number of hangings ... as the economic conditions get worse ... the regime is afraid of the Iranian people." ⭕️ "Whether it's the public hangings, the threat of protest, and the Iranian people should know that President Trump, myself, the U.S. government, our military side with the Iranian people, and we want to see a day when Iran is prosperous again." ⭕️ "In terms of the sanctions, this is the most economic isolation that we have ever subjected a country to, and we hope the regime will come to their senses on behalf of the Iranian people." GOAL: Pressure the regime –– not the Iranian people –– to either": (a) cause the regime to turn on each other, which is something US is already seeing; or (b) do a deal which they keep, but they have to agree not to have a nuclear weapon and to stop funding their proxies. OTHER POINTS: 🔸 Rial likely above 3 million as regime hiding true currency value and stopped publishing the price. 🔸 Regime continues to send money to terrorist proxies while the Iranian people suffer. 🔸 US keeps humanitarian channels open but the regime is so broke they don't have the money for that stuff. 🔸 47 years ago the Iranian economy was bigger than the Turkish economy, but now the Turkish economy is 4 times bigger. 🔸 US doesn't want to harm the Iranian people. The Persian people are proud and incredibly commercial, and they can be one of the most successful countries in the world if the regime abandons its nuclear ambitions. 🔸 The regime isn't paying salaries. 🔸 People who are holding the regime's assets, including sanctioned people, can come and cooperate with the Treasury and will be rewarded 30% of such holdings. 🔸 Regime uses digital currencies as an act of desperation and an attempted workaround to the sanctions, but that is the Iranian people's money and US will track and escrow such money. 🔸 IRGC commanders are like rats in a sewer pipe; because they're in deep underground hiding, they do not see the dire economic conditions of the country and the suffering of the Iranian people. 🔸 Regime completely misunderstands the US system because nothing relating to the midterm elections will change President Trump's calculus with respect to Iran. 🔸 For the first time ever has no oil on the water, which is why Bessent is telling the Iranian people to go buy heating fuel and hoard gasoline. 🔸 There has never been anything this powerful as the combined kinetic action, the blockade, and the subsequent economic sanctions .

BIGGEST BLOW TO THE MONROW DOCTRINE: SOCIALIST LULA WINS 4TH TERM IN BRAZIL AS TRUMP ALLY BOLSONARO CONTESTS THE RESULTS 🔸 Brazil's electoral authority declared President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva the mathematically certain winner of Sunday's runoff. 97.69% of polling sections counted: Lula 51.74%, Flávio Bolsonaro 48.26%. Lula came back after trailing Bolsonaro 47.03% to 45.16% in the first round. 🔸 WSJ called it a “Surprise Election Outcome” and Lula winning caused Brazilian stocks to tumble as reported by multiple news agencies. 🔸 Flavio Bolsonaro has contested the election results and his core claim is that Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Cristiano Zanon, a former personal lawyer of Lula and who isn't even on the electoral court, illegally extended voting by 2 hours on election day over transport complaints. Brazil's Supreme Court has notoriously been accused of having too much power and Elon Musk has previously called its Chief Justice the "Darth Vader." 🔸 Flavio's dad, Jair Bolsanoro, was Trump's ally and the former president of Brazil. In Sep 2025, Brazil's Supreme Court sentenced him to a 27-year prison sentence for attempted coup after he lost the 2022 elections. Brazil's Congress then passed a law cutting the sentence by about 25 years. However, the Supreme Court paused its enactment and it is being battled in court right now. 🔸 Trump has met Flavio Bolsanoro and has said great things about him, but he hasn't explicitly endorsed him to prevent Lula from claiming foreign interference. 🔸 Trump's relationship with incumbent Lula has been very hostile as both of them have publicly made negative statements against each other. ........................................ BIGGEST BLOW TO THE MONROE DOCTRINE: SOCIALIST LULA WINS 4TH TERM IN BRAZIL AS TRUMP ALLY BOLSONARO CONTESTS THE RESULTSrgest economy in the world and the largest economy in our hemisphere after the US. Although Trump has successfully flipped almost all of the Latin American to conservative-governed states, Brazil was the most important of them all and this loss is a major blow to Trump's push of the Monroe Doctrone. So unless Flavio Bolsanoro's challenge to the election results is successful (highly unlikely), then at least for the next 4 years, the US will be stuck with a socialist governed Brazil with a BRICS-first leader who cozies up to Beijing and Moscow. And Lula does not appear to be the type of a leader that can be tamed with threats.E

RUBIO CALLS ON COUP IN CUBA — Sec. of State Marco Rubio called on anyone willing to “create a positive change in Cuba” to “seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.”

IRANIAN LEGISLATIVE MEMBER THREATENS ATTACKS ON IRAQ AFTER ISRAELI EXERCISES NEAR IRAN BORDER — Seyyed Mahmoud Nabavian, an Iranian Shia cleric and member of the Iranian Parliament, threatened an attack against Iraq unless Iraqi government took action to stop any further “fighter planes of the Zionist entity training in Iraqi airspace.” For context, a couple of days ago, Israel conducted training in the skies of Iraq and close to Iranian borders.

EUROPE & REGIONAL POWERS HUDDLE IN ISTANBUL ON HORMUZ — “NO ONE SUPPORTS ANOTHER ATTACK ON IRAN” 🔸 Who & Where: Foreign ministers of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt & Pakistan held their first-ever joint talks with the UK, France, Germany & Italy in Istanbul on Friday. Neither the US nor Iran took part. 🔸 Agenda: Strait of Hormuz, Bab al-Mandab, Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, Palestine, and Ukraine's war spilling into the Black Sea. 🔸 Turkish FM Hakan Fidan after the meeting: no one supports another attack on Iran, diplomacy is the only way forward, and renewed strikes would only increase violence. 🔸 German FM Johann Wadephul: “Enough is enough! Iran and the Houthis are holding the global economy hostage.” 🔸 Separately, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Turkey & Pakistan put out a joint statement calling “Israeli occupation” the main source of instability in the region. ........................................ Comment – Iran and its Houthi proxies hit ships, airports and Saudi cities, and the big takeaway is “don't attack Iran” plus blame Israel? Either this is a massive bluff, the Turkish FM is speaking on behalf everyone without authorization, or all of our allies continue to be massive spineless cowards. Allies who want open sea lanes should back the blockade, not lecture the ones enforcing it. xitter.cf/AlArabiya_Eng/status/2…