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Refugee crisis or opportunity?

As Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine drives millions of people out of the county, many for good.. countries like the US and Canada now have to decide how many people will be relocated here permanently. Ā John Stossel takes a look at the situation from an American perspective.
From Stossel TV
President Biden says the U.S. will accept up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees. Good. Some people think we should take more. Biden “could snap his fingers and make it 250,000,ā says Matt Welch, Editor at large of Reason Magazine. But many Americans fear refugees coming into our country. Will they be good neighbors? Or freeloaders? Or criminals?
The data do show that the vast majority of people who come to America from other countries make America better. This videos gives some details.
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“HELL WILL RAIN DOWN”: Trump unleashes U.S. military on Yemeni Houthis

MxM News
Quick Hit:
President Trump ordered a massive military assault on Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen on Saturday, vowing to unleash āoverwhelming lethal forceā after months of attacks on American and allied vessels in the Red Sea.
Key Details:
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Trump announced the strikes in a Truth Social post, stating, āToday, I have ordered the United States Military to launch decisive and powerful Military action against the Houthi terrorists in Yemen.ā
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He criticized former President Joe Biden for failing to contain the Houthis, saying his response was āpathetically weakā and emboldened the groupās ongoing attacks on commercial and military vessels.
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The U.S. Navyās USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group, along with three destroyers and a cruiser, launched the assault, targeting radars, air defenses, and missile systems used to disrupt shipping lanes.
CENTCOM Forces Launch Large Scale Operation Against Iran-Backed Houthis in Yemen
On March 15, U.S. Central Command initiated a series of operations consisting of precision strikes against Iran-backed Houthi targets across Yemen to defend American interests, deter enemies, andā¦ pic.twitter.com/u5yx8WneoG
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 15, 2025
Diving Deeper:
President Trump escalated U.S. military action against Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Saturday, ordering airstrikes on targets in Yemen in response to the groupās repeated attacks on Red Sea shipping. Trump, in a Truth SocialĀ post, declared that the U.S. military would not tolerate continued aggression and vowed an overwhelming response.
āThe Houthi attack on American vessels will not be tolerated,ā Trump wrote. āWe will use overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective.ā He directly warned the Houthis, stating, āYOUR TIME IS UP, AND YOUR ATTACKS MUST STOP, STARTING TODAY. IF THEY DONāT, HELL WILL RAIN DOWN UPON YOU LIKE NOTHING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN BEFORE!ā
The strikes, carried out by U.S. Central Command,Ā targetedĀ missile sites, drone launch facilities, and command centers used by the Houthis to strike commercial and military vessels in the Red Sea. U.S. warships and carrier-based fighter jets participated in the mission, marking a significant escalation in efforts to protect international shipping routes.
Trump also issued a direct warning to Iran, demanding that its support for the Houthis āmust end immediately.ā Addressing Tehran, Trump wrote, āDo NOT threaten the American People, their Presidentā¦or Worldwide shipping lanes. If you do, BEWARE, because America will hold you fully accountable and we wonāt be nice about it!ā
The strikes come after more than a year of escalating attacks by the Houthis, who have targeted over 100 merchant vessels, sunk at least two, and killed multiple sailors since the Israel-Hamas war began. Trump pointed to Bidenās failures in handling the crisis, noting that āit has been over a year since a U.S.-flagged commercial ship safely sailed through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, or the Gulf of Aden.ā
With Trumpās order, the U.S. is making clear that hostile actions in the Red Sea will not go unanswered. As military operations continue, all eyes will be on whether the Houthis and their Iranian backers heed the warningāor face even greater firepower from the U.S. military.
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EU leaders escalate war rhetoric with Russia in stark departure from Trumpās peace push

From LifeSiteNews
By Frank Wright
Germanyās leading academic authority on its army hasĀ saidĀ that Europeās depleted armed forces would be āwashed awayā by Russia in weeks, and that it could take at least 15 years before Germany was ready for war.
Last nightās European Council summit responded to Donald Trumpās moves to end the war in Ukraine with a commitment to massive European rearmament.
The EU CouncilĀ publishedĀ a statement that, āIn 2025, it will provide Ukraine with EUR 30.6 billionā and āincreased military supportā to Ukraine andĀ proposes āa new EU instrument to provide Member States with loans backed by the EU budget of up to EUR 150 billionā in support to ānon-EU membersā to rebuild ādefense.ā
The extraordinaryĀ announcementĀ comes two days after EU Chief Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen, an elected MEPĀ appointedĀ to the powerful leadership position by other MEPs, proposed to ārearm Europeā with theĀ releaseĀ of up to 800 billion euros ($867 billion) in funding. Details on how the money will be raised are set to be finalized later in March.
European and British statements on this issue directly contradict and defy moves towards a durable peace made by the Trump administration. They have also been met with stern rebukes from Russia.
ReutersĀ reportedĀ two days ago that Trump had vowed to āend this senseless warā and āstop the killingā:
Trump also said he had been in āserious discussions with Russiaā and had āreceived strong signals that they are ready for peace.ā
āWouldnāt that be beautiful?ā he said. āItās time to stop this madness. Itās time to halt the killing. Itās time to end this senseless war. If you want to end wars you have to talk to both sides.ā
Trump is attempting to return the Western world back to the traditions of international diplomacy before and during international conflicts to save lives and prevent unnecessary massive destruction.
This is a major turn away from the top priority given to military power in recent decades. That appears to have been driven by globalist forces, including giant military-industrial complexes, moneylenders, and globalist investment companies like Blackrock who greatly profit from continuous war.
The RussiansĀ respondedĀ with āconcernā over the āremilitarizationā of Europe, with spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying theĀ āconfrontational rhetoric and confrontational thinkingā from Europe goes against efforts to reach a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine conflict.
France ā nuclear escalation?
On Wednesday evening French President Emmanuel Macron made a directĀ addressĀ to the French nation in which he described Russia as a āthreat to France and Europeā and said he had decided āto open the strategic debate on the protection of our allies on the European continent by our (nuclear) deterrent.ā France is the only nuclear armed member state in the EU.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei LavrovĀ said Macronās speech was a āthreat to Russia.ā
āIf he considers us a threat, gathers a meeting of the chiefs of staff of European countries and Britain, says that it is necessary to use nuclear weapons, to prepare for the use of nuclear weapons against Russia, this is certainly a threat,ā Lavrov stated.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly emphasized Russia has no intention of invading any other nation or trying to resurrect the Soviet Union. It has been having trouble enough trying to protect endangered Russian-speaking Ukrainians in Eastern Ukraine for the past three years.
There has been no evidence indicating Russia is planning or even capable of invading and conquering other nations, but it has been forced to prepare to repel possible attacks in response to increasing hostility and unwillingness to dialogue from Western globalist leaders.
Reliable analysts have emphasized that the CIA and other deep state entities in the U.S. and Europe, in order to justify their massive military spending and Russian regime change goal, are the ones who have been spreading false rumors that Russia has expansionist objectives.
PutinĀ referredĀ to Macronās comments with a warning from history:
Some people still canāt sit still. There are still people who want to go back to the times of Napoleon, forgetting how it ended.
In a further sign that the U.S. is pursuing peace independently of the Europeans, Trump hasĀ suspendedĀ all military aid to Ukraine and cut off U.S. intelligenceĀ sharing, moves which dramatically reduce the war fighting capability of the Zelensky regime.
The EU-led initiative to fund European rearmament comes days after U.K. Prime Minister Keir StarmerĀ calledĀ for a ācoalition of the willingā to send troops to Ukraine and continue the supply of arms ā whilst talkĀ increasesĀ of Zelensky himself being replaced.
āWe have to learn from the mistakes of the past, we cannot accept a weak deal which Russia can breach with ease, instead any deal must be backed by strength,ā Starmer said, while failing to mention any nations actually willing to join his initiative. So far, none have ā thoughĀ suggestionsĀ have been made.
Western nations have been the ones breaching one agreement after another with Russia. Some of those are the promise to not expand NATO āone inch eastwardā at the time of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, plus the April 1,2022 Ukraine/Russia initialed agreement in Istanbul to end the Ukraine war, among others.
Starmerās claim to place āboots on the ground, and planes in the airā did not attract any pledges of support from any European nation. A U.K. deal wasĀ signedĀ agreeing to a āloanā of over Ā£1.5 billion ($1.94 billion approx.) to permit Ukraine to purchase British missiles, which have not yet been manufactured and could not in fact be aimed or fired without U.S. intelligence and guidance systems.
Starmerās bold statements produced a stern response from Russia, whose chief diplomatĀ reminded the world that any placement of NATO troops in Ukraine would be seen as a declaration of war.
Speaking ahead of yesterdayās EU-led Ukraine summit, LavrovĀ toldĀ reporters in Moscow, āWe see no room for compromise,ā explaining that sending European troops to Ukraine would mean the āundisguised involvement of NATO countries in a war against the Russian Federation. Itās impossible to allow this.ā
Responding to Macronās televised address, Lavrov added that Macron wished to āfight Russia,ā explaining the thinking behind the French presidentās outburst:
They said directly āWe need to conquer Russia, we need to defeat Russia.ā
He [Macron] apparently wants the same thing, but for some reason he says that we need to fight Russia so that it does not defeat France.
Rhetoric and reality
The reality of European and British military capability is simply not reflected in any of these statements. Reports over the last few years have consistently shown that there is in fact no realistic European military power to confront the Russians.
Germanyās leading academic authority on its army hasĀ saidĀ that Europeās depleted armed forces would be āwashed awayā by Russia in weeks, and that it could take at least 15 years before Germany was ready for war.
Speaking at a Berlin defense conference in November 2023, German historian Sƶnke Neitzel told military chiefs that in the case of a war with Russia, Germanyās soldiers ācan only dieā in a war they will certainly lose:
We are going to stand by the coffins at the soldiersā graves and we are going to be asked: āWhat have you done?ā We will have to explain to the mothers and the fathers why the soldiers could not fulfill their jobs. And at the moment we can only die gallantly if thereās a war.
Neitzel warned that men will be sent to certain death by their political leaders:
Itās very clear: if our armed forces are going to fight, they will die without drones, air defenses, without enough supplies. Are we now clear enough on our message [to Germanyās leaders]? They are going to die and itās your responsibility.
In an updated reportĀ publishedĀ March 7, Bloomberg reports that Europeās āundersized and fragmentedā forces would run out of ammunition within days and cannot manufacture sufficient gunpowder.
āEuropeās Defenses Risk Faltering Within Weeks Without US Supportā the report says, noting that, āIf attacked, Europeās ammunition stockpiles could run low within days and rearming will take years.ā
A report from the U.K.āsĀ GuardianĀ notedĀ last week that the EU āspends more on Russian oil and gas than financial aid to Ukraine,ā saying it had purchased ā22 billion euros of fossil fuelsā in 2024, against ā19 billion in aidā to Kiev.
Real war not realistic
Why are EU and British leaders talking war with no realistic chance of fighting one? U.S. moves to scale down and possibly withdraw from NATO spell the end of the alliance, of course, but the wider implications are obvious for the remaining liberal-globalist governments.
Britain, France, Germany, and the EU itself are led by a political establishment whose only hope of unity is in forging a war coalition in a battle they cannot win. As the āRussianistā Professor Gilbert Doctorow has noted, this spells doom for a liberal coalition which has decided to oppose the United States.
āWe have moved on from observations of people like myself from the sidelines saying that the leadership in Europe is not living in the real world but theyāre living in a bubble,ā Doctorow told Judge Napolitano this week.
āWhat we have now is the end game ā and they have created it for themselves.ā
The Ukraine war was never going to be won, and a new war between Russia and the liberals of Europe likewise has no basis in military reality. The moves by these failing states is a desperate bid for unity and relevance in a world which no longer corresponds to their values.
Alone among 27 EU member states inĀ opposingĀ increased arms supplies to Ukraine is Hungary. Its leader, Viktor OrbĆ”n, famouslyĀ definedĀ the values of the liberal order as āLGBT, open borders, and war.ā
To protect itself from the widespread rejection of these āvaluesā and the globalist agenda they project, the British and EU liberals have implemented totalitarianĀ restrictionsĀ on free speech ā and even thought and prayer ā and have effectivelyĀ suspendedĀ democracy in refusing to respect the results of elections while dramaticallyĀ increasingĀ digital surveillance andĀ censorshipĀ efforts to maintain control of a narrative which has parted company with reality.
The EU initiative to do so is ridiculouslyĀ calledĀ āThe European Democracy Shield.ā
As Doctorow told Judge Napolitano, it can only be a matter of time before the pro-war parties without an army part company with political power, too. The outbreak of peace is fatal to them, as these leaders have all invested their political capital in the black hole of crime and corruption which is another ugly dimension of reality to the failed proxy war in Ukraine.
Leaders like Von der Leyen, Macron, and Starmer do not fear the lights going out all over Europe. They fear the illumination of the darkness they have used their nationsā wealth to fund in Ukraine, which has been defended by years of outrageous lies. Having fought so long to keep their nations in the dark, the European liberal order is panicked into talk of Armageddon by the fear of the lights coming on at last. It is the end of their world that is nigh. Not ours.
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