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“Based on the successful election of the now president of Poland, Karol Nawrocki, who I was proud to endorse, and our relationship with him, I am pleased to announce that the United States will be sending an additional 5,000 troops to Poland,” U.S. President Donald Trump announced on social media yesterday. Under Trump, the U.S. is basing the deployment of troops on political alignment. Previously, the U.S. stationed troops in Europe to keep hostile forces at bay.

“Germany is accepting its leadership responsibility,” German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul stated yesterday before meeting other nato foreign ministers in Sweden. His goal is a “new burden-sharing arrangement that reflects Germany’s and Europe’s economic and military potential.” To give Germany a “greater role,” he called for more “intensive defense cooperation.” nato was founded, in part, to “keep the Germans down,” as one early British official characterized it. But now, a new German war machine is rising within it.

Germany’s Federal Association of Departments for Research and Information on Anti-Semitism reported on Wednesday that the capital city, Berlin, recorded 2,197 anti-Semitic incidents last year. Although that marks a 13 percent decline from the previous year, it is twice the levels seen before the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist massacre. In the state of Hesse, 1,099 incidents were recorded last year, an increase of 18 percent from 2024 and almost six times the pre-October 7 level. According to that report, these incidents “point to a societal climate in which anti-Semitic statements and actions are possible—and too often go unchallenged.” Hesse’s anti-Semitism commissioner, Uwe Becker, stated that “the threat to Jewish life is worse than at any time since the Holocaust.” Bible prophecy warns that Germany will deepen its relationship with the Jewish nation—then betray it and launch a new Holocaust.

Italy will buy six A330 tanker aircraft valued at $1.6 billion from Airbus, the European Union announced on Tuesday, a switch from the past 15 years of purchasing tankers made by American company Boeing. Bible prophecy warns that Europe’s growing military independence is an ominous sign for the world.

Turkey’s main opposition leader was ousted from office yesterday. A Turkish court deemed the 2023 party congress that elected Ozgur Ozel illegitimate, resulting in a new party chairman, Kemal Kilicdaroğlu, who lost to Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan in 2023. This further solidifies Erdoğan’s one-man rule over Turkey, a trend significant to end-time Bible prophecy.

Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa will visit France as an invited guest to the June 15–17 G-7 summit, Reuters reported yesterday. A Syrian official said Sharaa will probably discuss Syria’s potential as a “strategic hub for supply chains” following Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz. A prophecy in Psalm 83 says Syria will align with Europe so that “the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.” The G-7 summit is a sign of a strengthening relationship that will fulfill this prophecy.

The U.S. opened a new consulate in Greenland yesterday, replacing a small wooden house near the fishing harbor in Nuuk, the capital city, with a three-floor, 3,200-square-foot facility with bulletproof glass, security grilles and space for armored vehicles. The upgrade comes as President Donald Trump continues to insist the U.S. should buy, annex or otherwise increase its control over Greenland. Denmark, which governs the island, and most Greenlanders oppose this idea, and protests were held outside during the opening ceremony of the new facility. Bible prophecy indicates that the fight over Greenland and other trans-Atlantic issues will rapidly grow more intense as a revived Holy Roman Empire rises against the United States.

Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of a U.S. company whose docks in Havana were seized by Fidel Castro’s government more than 65 years ago. The case involves Havana Docks suing four major cruise lines—Carnival, Norwegian, Royal Caribbean and msc—for using the confiscated property during the Obama-era opening to Cuba. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion. He said the cruise lines used property that still legally belongs to the American company under the Helms-Burton Act. The ruling sends the case back to a lower court and strengthens claims by Americans against companies that benefit from property stolen in Cuba’s 1959 revolution. It also gives President Trump more legal and economic tools in his push for regime change in Cuba.

• Iran is rapidly rebuilding its drone program, cnn reported today. According to “sources familiar with U.S. intelligence assessments,” Iran could fully replenish its drone stockpiles to prewar levels in half a year. The cnn report claimed Iran is rebuilding its missile capabilities faster than the United States was expecting.
• The world could have a food price shock within 12 months due to Iran blocking the Strait of Hormuz, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization reported yesterday. The blockage stops not only oil and gas shipments but also one third of the world’s fertilizer trade.

The German government plans to buy 40 percent of tank manufacturer knds’s shares when they are publicly listed this summer, a German government source said in a report published Wednesday. That stake will equal France’s and will ensure the German government’s control over ongoing European military development.

Ukraine is reinforcing its northern border against a potential Russian invasion from a third country, Belarus, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted to social media yesterday. Though an invasion from Russia-dominated Belarus remains unlikely according to experts, expanding the invasion and involving Belarus will further motivate European militarization.

Increased levels of radiation were found at the wreckage of a Russian drone shot down during an April 7 attack, according to reports from the Security Service of Ukraine published yesterday. According to the Security Service, the levels of low-enriched uranium at the site were significant enough to endanger human health. Ukrainian authorities are pursuing a war crimes investigation. This is an example of Russia’s ruthlessness, which will continue to worsen.

On Tuesday, the European Space Agency and the Chinese Academy of Sciences launched the Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer (smile) mission from French Guiana. smile analyzes solar and geomagnetic storms to help predict them and protect technology and astronauts from space weather. The U.S. has dominated space exploration in recent decades, but biblical prophecy shows that Europe and China will form an alliance to the detriment of the U.S., which will likely include meeting and surpassing American space capabilities.

• President Donald Trump met with advisers late on Monday to receive briefings on potential further attacks on Iran and remarked that Iran has “two, three days, maybe Friday or Saturday, early next week” to make a deal.
• A nato diplomat told Bloomberg the alliance is contemplating a mission to force open the Strait of Hormuz in early July if Iran continues to block traffic there. A previously suggested Anglo-French mission would only form once the war had completely ended.

The European Union lifted sanctions on Syria’s defense and interior ministries, as well as three of its intelligence agencies, on Monday, just days after resuming formal trade ties with the formerly isolated nation. The European Council called the reopening of trade a “clear political signal of the EU’s commitment to reengage with Syria and support its economic recovery.” In August 2024, before the regime of Bashar Assad fell, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote: “Bible prophecy indicates that through Syria, Germany is about to get control of the Middle East.”

Germany is considering purchasing Turkey’s long-range Yildirimhan ballistic missiles and Tayfun Block-4 hypersonic missiles, according to German news outlet Die Welt on May 11. This purchase would replace the American Tomahawk long-range missiles that will no longer be stationed in Germany. This would represent another major step toward Germany building Europe’s most powerful conventional military independent from the U.S., as prophesied in the Bible.

Germany plans to spend $12 billion through 2029 on civilian defense infrastructure, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt said on Monday. Reuters said these funds could be used for hospitals, shelters, special vehicles and alert networks. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said the same day, “We cannot talk about defense ‌capabilities and invest in them without also giving civil defense the support it needs.” This shows that the German government is orienting even the civilian mindset toward war.

The German military is implementing a more merit-based promotion system, suspending its practice of automatically promoting servicemen to the equivalent rank of staff sergeant after 16 years of service from July forward. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius’s plan will include more aptitude tests and fewer promotions, which is unpopular in the military but is designed to create a more effective and deadly German fighting machine.

• President Donald Trump again threatened military action, then backed off: He claimed today that he had planned on attacking Iran tomorrow but changed his mind after lobbying from several Gulf Arab governments.
• Iran’s most recent proposal to formally end the state of war with the U.S. is for the U.S. to withdraw from the areas around Iran, pay for reparations, and force Israel to stand down in Lebanon. Last week, President Trump called a similar proposal “garbage.”
• European countries are negotiating with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian media reported. Bible prophecy states Europe will eventually sail its ships through Iranian territory—but not because of diplomacy.

The German Armed Forces will deploy a Patriot air and missile defense task force to Turkey, along with 150 German military personnel, from late June to September, the German Defense Ministry announced yesterday. The mission is framed as an effort to help share the defense obligations of nato and relieve a unit from the U.S. Germany, however, has its own ambitions in the region.

The U.S. Justice Department is preparing a federal indictment against Raúl Castro, Cuba’s former president. The charges are linked to the Feb. 24, 1996, downing of two civilian planes flown by the Miami group Brothers to the Rescue. Cuban fighter jets downed the planes, killing four Cuban-American pilots: Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre Jr., Mario de la Peña and Pablo Morales. Castro, now 94, was Cuba’s minister of the armed forces at the time. The planned indictment is part of increased pressure on Cuba’s government. Castro could not be extradited from Cuba, but the charges would carry symbolic weight.

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, announced this morning that he is concerned about the speed and scale of an Ebola outbreak. Since the first known case developed around April 24 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, there have been 516 suspected cases, 35 confirmed cases and 131 deaths. Two of the confirmed cases are in neighboring Uganda. Some health workers have also caught the virus, raising fears it is spreading in hospitals. Jesus Christ prophesied in Matthew 24 that plagues would be among the dire signs that precede His Second Coming.

Yesterday, two teenage gunmen opened fire at the Islamic Center of San Diego, killing a security guard and two other men outside the mosque. The suspects, Cain Clark, 17, and Caleb Vazquez, 18, were later found dead in a car from self-inflicted gunshot wounds. The mother of one teen called police two hours earlier to report her suicidal son had run away with three guns. All the children at the mosque’s day school were safe. The shooting happened at the largest mosque in San Diego County, just days before the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. No motive has been confirmed, but authorities found anti-Islamic writings in the vehicle. Rising violence is reminiscent of a sobering prophecy in Ezekiel 7:23: “Make a chain: for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.”

• President Donald Trump threatened Iran on Sunday, posting on Truth Social that the “clock is ticking” and Iran had “better get moving, fast [to make a deal], or there won’t be anything left of them.” He has made statements like this repeatedly throughout the ceasefire’s duration without following through.
• A drone struck a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates on Sunday, starting a fire. There were no reports of any released radiation. The U.A.E. blames Iran, though the drone could have come from one of Iran’s proxies in Iraq or Yemen.

Russia tested its new Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin deemed it “the most powerful missile in the world,” saying it has a far longer range than its Western counterparts and can “penetrate all existing and future antimissile defense systems.” Putin’s comments are likely hyperbolic, but the Sarmat is known to have global reach and the capability to carry 11 tons of payload, including countermeasures and multiple hypersonic and nuclear warheads. Sarmat is a powerful symbol of Russia’s push to once again become a military superpower, as prophesied.

Finance ministers of the six largest European Union economies (France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain) are scheduled to meet in Berlin on May 28 to announce an agreement for expediting cross-border flows of capital. For over a decade, the EU has failed to implement its Capital Markets Union concept for unifying Europe’s financial markets, creating a rival to Wall Street’s financial markets and debt financing, and providing European capital for European start-ups and scale-ups.