Week in Review: Plans for EU Army Actually Here!, Iran Courts Hamas, Merkel’s Days Numbered?

• As more and more Europeans grow concerned about the Continent’s refugee crisis and other global tensions, European leaders are making concrete plans for an EU army!

• Russian hackers appear to be tampering with the U.S. election, in a way that could cast doubt on the legitimacy of the upcoming American vote.

• Central Asia is suffering a confluence of crises that could cause a leadership void in the strategic region. Russia and China appear eager to fill that void.

• Iran’s relationship with Hamas has been on-again off-again in recent years. But now it is very much on again, which could spell disaster for Israel.

• We’ll also talk about the thin ice that Chancellor Merkel in Germany seems to be on with her constituents, Turkey’s efforts in the Syrian war, a bizzare new law in North Korea, and the unraveling of a major American city.