🇺🇸 Donald Trump: "They have to bow today, or it might be tomorrow, but they have to one day."
🇨🇦 Mark Carney: "You fool. Never mistake our generosity for weakness. Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never, ever mistake our kindness for softness. We bow to no one."
Trump: “We had hundreds of Secret Service all over the course. They said, 'Does Trump cheat?' I can't cheat. You have 250 Secret Service agents running down.
It's not that I wouldn't cheat, but you can't move the ball."
Trump says he would “love to see” a united Ireland, saying reunification with Northern Ireland is “going to happen eventually” and “may as well happen now.”
Trump is in Ireland to attend the Irish Open at his golf resort in Doonbeg.
🇮🇷🇦🇪 Iran and the UAE have both signed a BRICS statement calling for “maximum restraint” in the Middle East war, while President Pezeshkian met Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Khaled bin Mohamed in New Delhi.
That is no small photograph.
Iran has repeatedly struck the UAE during this war. Now their leaders are sitting together and signing the same language on de-escalation, sovereignty and keeping energy flowing.
6 months of missiles, and diplomacy has rediscovered the table.
Between them, China and India account for more than a third of humanity.
When two countries that spent years staring suspiciously across the Himalayas start talking about “positive energy,” the rest of the world tends to pay quiet attention.
"Multipolarity faces resistance from those who are accustomed to thinking in colonial terms, dividing the world into a flourishing garden and wild jungles, and living at others’ expense.
They are not prepared to accept the changing reality and are trying by every means to contain their growing competitors.
Any means are being used, including tariff wars, illegitimate sanctions, attempts at economic diktat, blackmail, interference in internal affairs and simply brute force."