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Between 17–20 Feb 2026, President Trump extended the USS Gerald R. Ford’s deployment to rush a second U.S. carrier strike group toward Iran and publicly said he is "considering" a limited military strike unless Tehran accepts a nuclear deal within roughly 15 days.
Leaked deliberations show President Trump examining an air-strike on a handful of Iranian military/government sites within days to coerce Tehran into a new nuclear accord, short of full-scale war.
On 16 Feb 2026 Brussels said Commissioner Dubravka Šuica will sit in on the 19 Feb Washington launch of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace solely for the Gaza segment, but the EU will not join the body.
Third U.S.-mediated Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Geneva ended 18 Feb 2026 after only two hours and no deal on territory or Zaporizhzhia, days after Zelensky publicly demanded Western sanctions on Rosatom and ordered Kremlin-linked oligarchs in the West to leave.
On 18–19 Feb 2026, Kim Jong Un ceremonially deployed fifty 600 mm multiple-launch rocket systems billed as nuclear-capable, while sister Kim Yo-jong lauded South Korea’s public apology for four civilian drone flights and Seoul’s plan to restore the suspended 2018 inter-Korean no-fly zone.
The two-day round of U.S.–mediated negotiations in Geneva ended 18 Feb 2026 without agreement on territorial concessions, breaking off after only hours on day two despite limited consensus on a U.S.-monitored cease-fire mechanism.
At the Feb 14-15 Munich Security Conference, days before the 17-18 Feb third U.S.-brokered Geneva talks with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky publicly insisted on a legally binding 20-year American security guarantee as a pre-condition for any territorial concessions, criticizing Washington for pressuring Kyiv rather than Moscow.
On 14 Feb 2026 at the Munich Security Conference, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly complained that Washington ‘too often’ demands Ukrainian, not Russian, concessions just days before U.S.–brokered Russia-Ukraine talks resume in Geneva on 17-18 Feb.
On 17 Feb 2026 Iran, joined by Russian and Chinese warships, closed shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz for several hours of live-fire drills—the first publicly declared shutdown in decades—just as its second round of indirect nuclear talks with the United States adjourned in Geneva.
On 17 Feb 2026, Peru’s unicameral Congress voted 75-24 to censure and thereby remove four-month-old interim president Jose Jeri after leaked videos showed undisclosed late-night meetings with Chinese businessman Zhihua Yang.
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