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Modern peace is an illusion. History shows stability is built and kept through force, not wishes, and every generation eventually learns that “normal” is fragile.

Judge upholds ICE rule, Trump’s tariff threats, and Kyiv hit by new strikes. Here’s your Tuesday morning brief for January 20, 2026.

Greenland standoff grows, Spain train crash kills 40, Ukraine deploys interceptor drones. Here’s what’s making headlines this Monday evening.

US DOJ eyes church protest as Europe fumes over tariffs and Gaza talks expand. Here’s your Monday morning brief for January 19, 2026.

Federal authorities have placed active-duty Army units on standby amid escalating immigration protests in Minneapolis, as court rulings tighten ICE crowd-control limits, fringe pro-ICE activism collapses locally, regional tensions shift in Syria with a Kurdish withdrawal east of the Euphrates, and President Trump moves to assert U.S. control over postwar Gaza through a new international “Board of Peace.”

Five Years to Freedom is a compact, must-read POW memoir that shows how Nick Rowe endured five years of Viet Cong captivity through discipline and mental control, influenced the modern SERE program, and belongs alongside Frankl and Solzhenitsyn as a study of inner freedom under coercion.

U.S. forces killed an Al-Qaeda-linked leader tied to the Palmyra ambush as counter-ISIS strikes continue, Democrats are pushing back on abolish-ICE rhetoric, ISIS-linked militants in Nigeria executed captives over ransom, and Trump’s Greenland push is driving NATO resistance and tariff threats.

Iran crushed unrest after a currency-driven protest wave, the United States moved the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group to raise deterrence, Syria’s government secured Deir Hafer near Aleppo after an SDF withdrawal, and Canada and China launched a strategic partnership to reset trade and diplomatic ties.

The Trump administration’s saber-rattling and tariff threats toward Greenland are a short-sighted, politically driven approach that lacks public and congressional support, risks undermining NATO and U.S. credibility, and could hand China and Russia an opening while alienating the very allies and partners America needs.

Germany’s airborne scandal, Taiwan’s major arms-driven defense buildup, and Russia’s improvised thermal concealment tactics all show how discipline, politics, and adaptation are shaping readiness in today’s high-pressure fights.

Greenland standoff rises as CIA courts Caracas and Gaza panel meets in Cairo. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.

Europe can hear the music, see the water move, and still insists on arguing about the weather while the dock creaks beneath the weight of decisions postponed too long.