"Sir, May I See You Please?" Trump's Latest Claim On PM Modi

01/07/26 6:33 PM

US President Donald Trump said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi directly raised an issue with him over the delivery of American-made Apache helicopters and called him "sir".

'Does anybody believe this guy?' Mark Kelly rips Stephen Miller on CNN

01/06/26 11:16 PM

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) criticized White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller Tuesday after his comments about Venezuela and Greenland following the attack and capture of ousted president Nicolás Maduro. Kelly, a veteran and Armed Services Committee member, was responding to questions from CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who wanted to know what Kelly made of Miller's comments Monday night and what potential plans the Trump administration has for the South American country."Does anybody believe this guy?" Kelly asked, responding to the comments from Miller, who, nearly 24 hours ago, got in a testy conversation with Tapper after the anchor started asking Miller if Venezuela should hold elections to select a new leader instead of handing the country over to one of Maduro's underlings."I mean, he obviously does not. They don't do not have a plan. They need to have a plan," Kelly said."Venezuela used to be a democracy, right. And we should be at this point making efforts to help them get back to a democracy, to have a democratically elected government running Venezuela," he added. "We do not want to be in the business of running this other country. And by the way, regime change generally has not worked out well for us. Look at South Vietnam, Cuba, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan. It usually does not go the way that we we hope. And it often puts service members in harm's way."

'Everybody loses': MIT expert blasts Trump for creating a massive new 'mess'

01/06/26 7:22 PM

The short-term plan Donald Trump has for Venezuela has been denounced as a "mess" by a climate expert. While the president has made it clear that oil is a leading factor in the U.S. strike on Venezuela, the administration may have trouble putting together its immediate plans for the country. The U.S. would capture President Nicolás Maduro too, with the Venezuelan leader flown to the United States, where he is now on trial for drugs, weapons and narco-terrorism charges. He pleaded not guilty.A climate expert has since warned that the short-term plan Trump will enact will cause major damage to the world, in a situation where "everybody loses." John Sterman, an expert in climate and economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, spoke to The Guardian about the administration's doomed plan for change in Venezuela.He said, "If oil production goes up, climate change will get worse sooner, and everybody loses, including the people of Venezuela. The climate damages suffered by Venezuela, along with other countries, will almost certainly outweigh any short-term economic benefit of selling a bit more oil."There could be some roadblocks for investors, though, as Sterman went on to suggest there is "political risk" and "project risk" involved in possible benefactors. While Trump may claim oil executives are keen on the plan for Venezuela, Sterman has suggested those same people may not be "eager to invest what’s needed because it will take a lot longer than the three years of President Trump’s term".Patrick Galey, head of fossil fuel investigations at the climate and justice NGO Global Witness, also suggested the president's oil executives' backing may be hindered by the limited assurances he can offer. Galey said, "So long as governments continue to rely on fossil fuels in energy systems, their constituents will be hostage to the whims of autocrats.""Any meaningful increase in current production would require tens of billions of investment in things like repairs, upgrades and replacing creaking infrastructure. That’s not even taking into account the dire security situation." He added it was "a bad bet generally" for oil executives to involve themselves in the promised Venezuelan takeover.