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On 1 May 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio bypassed Congress under emergency authority to approve $8.6 billion in missiles, guided rockets and battle-command systems for Israel, Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE.
On 3 May 2026 the Pentagon instructed the removal of roughly 5,000 U.S. soldiers from Germany within a year after President Trump, angered by Chancellor Merz’s remarks on Iran talks, signalled deeper cuts to America’s European footprint.
Three days after threatening reprisals, President Trump green-lit a Pentagon plan to remove 5,000 of the roughly 36,000 U.S. troops stationed in Germany within 6-12 months, the first concrete cut in Europe since Russia’s 2022 invasion.
On 29 April 2026, Presidents Trump and Putin held a 90-minute phone call in which Trump urged – and Putin tentatively accepted – a temporary halt to fighting in Ukraine timed to Russia’s 9 May Victory Day celebrations.
On 30 April 2026, Israeli forces deepened their incursion to 10 km inside Lebanon and carried out air-strikes that killed at least 9–15 civilians, breaching the 16 April ceasefire and reigniting diplomatic rifts from Beirut to Riyadh.
On 30 Apr 2026 U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro published six-minute high-resolution surveillance video that shows suspect Cole Tomas Allen firing a shotgun at a Secret Service officer—confirming the officer’s wound was not from friendly fire—during his 25 Apr attempted attack on President Trump at the Washington Hilton.
On 29 Apr 2026 Ukrainian SBU drones set ablaze a Transneft oil pumping station near Perm—over 1,500 km from the border—marking Kyiv’s deepest confirmed strike into Russia and the declared start of an expanded long-range campaign against Moscow’s energy revenue.
Revealed on 30 April 2026, Admiral Brad Cooper will brief President Trump on plans for a rapid infrastructure bombing campaign, a Strait of Hormuz seizure, and a raid on Iran’s enriched-uranium stockpile, threatening to end the fragile three-week ceasefire.
On 29 April 2026 the White House ordered the Pentagon and Treasury to prepare for an open-ended naval embargo of Iran, rejecting Tehran’s cease-fire proposal and keeping the Strait of Hormuz closed until Iran accepts a 20-year halt to uranium enrichment.
During an April 29, 2026 phone call, Vladimir Putin warned Donald Trump of "extremely damaging consequences" if the US/Israel strike Iran again and simultaneously offered a symbolic May 9 cease-fire in Ukraine that Trump said he "actively supported."
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