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The War Party Is Out of Ideological Ammunition

Tucker Carlson haters lie because they have to lie. Mark Levin, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and company get on their stages and behind their microphones and claim that he’s some vicious anti-semite, attempting to make any association with him permanently toxic and destructive to others’ reputation and standing.

As Levin said in his speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition summit this past weekend, this used to work, and they’re doing their level best now. They’re probably scaring the hell out of their own sincere supporters as well, just for the effect. But their problem is that everyone knows Tucker Carlson. He’s been on television forever. He used to be with Bill Kristol and The Weekly Standard crowd; CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, etc. He’s from a somewhat high-falutin WASPy background, with genteel-type manners. (Took him forever to quit wearing that damn bow tie.) Now, as everyone knows, he’s decided he’s going to make up for supporting Iraq War II by opposing all the next ones. But we’re supposed to believe instead that he’s turned into some sort of Aryan Nations prison gang leader? It’s like calling Donald Trump a Russian agent – or white supremacist for that matter. Donald Trump, as in the Donald Trump from TV? GTFO.

As you may know, I got the chance to meet and hang out with Tucker for a couple of days this last July, where he let me complain about the American neoconservative-led War Party for three hours on his show. Israel and their Likud Party’s role in America’s disastrous Mideast policy was obviously a major part of the discussion. I’ve been good on Israel-Palestine since at least the late 1990s, and especially after the neocons lied us into Iraq War II in 2002 and 2003 for them, as detailed in my book Enough Already, and many others. And I’ve got a chip on my shoulder about it still, quite frankly. I may have said “Israel” more times than anyone in that funny supercut of people saying it on his show that was being passed around a couple months ago. But I’m not anti-Jewish in the slightest. Anyone who cannot differentiate between Richard Perle and his gang and people who are not them, for example, are either dummies who weren’t part of the discussion in the first place or disingenuous accusers putting words in people’s mouths.

But I had dinner and talked with Tucker late into the night, and we of course discussed exactly these issues off the air as well. It’s just a damned lie that he hates Jewish people or wants anyone else to or has ever tried to convince anyone else to. You can watch his show on YouTube and X, you know. (We’ve become friends in the time since, and the same holds.) On the contrary, the War Party is so upset at Tucker because they know he is a decent and sincere person, and they know we all know that too. And they know that every time he expresses his concern about America being implicated in Israel’s horrific violence, he is then giving “license” to other decent not-too-far-to-the-right-actually people to join him in breaking with their support as well.

The Israelis and their amen corner have had a powerful narrative that all good rightwingers are Zionists until you go all the way to the avowed-fascist, anti-Semitic factions. Tucker proves every day that that is not true. So all they can do is try to lamely insist that he’s included. As anyone who actually watched Tucker’s interview with Nick Fuentes – rather than just shrieking about it – could tell you, he, again, made his own views very clear, and they were not hateful in any way. He in fact insisted it was against his Chrisitian religion to hate anyone or to identify individual people as collectively guilty for anything – which is also the same reason he opposes being made to help fund and support Israel’s slaughter of innocents in Palestine.

For anyone honestly confused, and not just trolling, I could also add this context that you may not understand: Tucker had previously denounced Nick Fuentes on his show, called him a gay, fed, COINTELPRO-type op against him and the antiwar right to make us look like racist types. But then he lost that fight pretty badly. Fuentes already had a huge audience, and in fact, there’s no real reason to believe he’s a plant at all. So Tucker had swung and missed and had to eat a bit of crow, by having him on to explain himself.

People are also mad that Tucker did not bring up all the meanest things Fuentes ever said to put his feet to the fire about them, but I read that instead as Tucker giving the younger man a bit of room to back away from some of that and come towards him, rather than pandering in any way or just performatively beating him over the head. Tucker made his views clear, and they were the same ones from before.

Tucker Carlson and the non-interventionist movement are going to win this fight because our enemies in the War Party are already all out of ammo. All they have is lies and smears. And they just do not work anymore.

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Nigerian President Denies Existence of a Christian Genocide and Denounces Trump’s Threat of Military Intervention

Nigeria has rejected President Trump’s threat of military intervention to protect the country’s Christian population.

As Christians continue to be massacred at the hands of Islamist militias in the northern region of the most populous African country, Trump has sounded the alarm and said he may even use military force to protect them.

“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

However, the Nigerian government has pushed back on this idea and denied that the persecution of Christians is even taking place.

Politico reports:

The U.S. cannot unilaterally carry out any military operation in Nigeria over its claims of Christian persecution in the West African country, a Nigerian presidential spokesman told The Associated Press on Sunday.

The military threat from Donald Trump is based on misleading reports and appears to be part of “Trump’s style of going forceful in order to force a sit-down and have a conversation,” according to Daniel Bwala, a spokesman for Nigerian President Bola Tinubu.

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“When it comes to matters of military operation in Nigeria, this is a matter that two leaders have to agree on,” he continued. ”It is not something unilaterally you can do especially since that country is a sovereign state and that country is not aiding and abating that (crime).”

Tinubu has also rejected the designation and promised to work with the U.S. government and foreign partners ”to deepen cooperation on protection of communities of all faiths.”

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The Drone War No One Can Stop: Mystery Aircraft Defy Europe’s Defences

In September 2025, a wave of incursions caused major disruption. 

Copenhagen Airport was temporarily closed. 

Danish military bases were breached. 

Drones were also spotted over a power plant, a hospital, and a ThyssenKrupp naval factory in Germany.

France and Belgium were affected too.

The countries hit seemed powerless to stop the drones.

On Saturday (1 November) and Sunday (2 November), drones were sighted on two separate occasions over Kleine Brogel Air Base in Belgium.

The base hosts F-16s from the Belgian Air Force’s 10th Tactical Wing.

Alarmingly, under NATO’s nuclear sharing program, the base also stores B61-series nuclear bombs.

Belgian Defence Minister Theo Francken confirmed that drones entered the area near the Base in northeastern Belgium on Saturday and Sunday nights in two separate phases.

Francken said the first phase involved “small drones to test the radio frequencies” of Belgian security services. Later, “big drones” appeared, apparently “to destabilize the area and people,” he told public broadcaster RTBF.

“It resembles a spy operation. By whom, I don’t know,” he said. “I have a few ideas, but I’m going to be careful about speculating.”

As in September, Belgian forces appeared unable to bring down the drones. Francken later explained why jamming efforts failed and why the military chose not to use kinetic force.

Francken said the security services’ jammer failed because the drones had adapted.

“The jammer didn’t work because they tested our radio frequency and changed it,” he explained. “They have their own frequencies. An amateur doesn’t know how to do that.”

When asked why the drones weren’t shot down, Francken said:

“If they’re over a military base, we can shoot them down. But if they’re nearby, we have to be very careful — they could fall on a house, a car, a person. That’s completely different.”

He added that the situation also raised legal questions. “It’s not entirely clear. We have to clarify the legal grounds.”

Francken admitted that Belgium was still playing catch-up.

“We’re chasing after the threat,” he said. “We should have bought air defense systems five or ten years ago.”

Similar failures exposing the limits of counter-drone technology have occurred in recent years, affecting key U.S. military bases.

In December 2023, Langley Air Force Base in Virginia was swarmed by dozens of drones over several weeks, sparking a major security scare.

In 2024, Liberation Times obtained twenty-two witness statements and an incident report through a Freedom of Information Act request, following incursions at the base.

These statements come from members of the 633d Security Forces Squadron, who are responsible for guarding Joint Base Langley-Eustis.

Witnesses from the 633d Security Forces Squadron reported observing the so-called ‘drones’ ‘moving at rapid speeds’ and displaying ‘flashing red, green, and white lights’.

Concerningly, one witness stated that their dronebuster ‘failed to register’ one of the objects, while another was unable to use a dronebuster ‘due to not having a visual’.

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Israel Arrests Ex-IDF Lawyer Who Leaked Video Showing Israeli Soldiers Rape a Palestinian Prisoner

On Monday, Israeli police arrested the Israeli military’s former top prosecutor for leaking a video that showed Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sde Teiman detention facility in southern Israel last year.

Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned on Friday after admitting to approving the leak, something she said she did in response to the backlash over Israeli military police arresting IDF soldiers who were suspected of severely abusing the prisoner, which involved stabbing him with a sharp object that tore his rectum.

Tomer-Yerushalmi went missing on Sunday for several hours, raising concerns that her life was at risk, but she was later found unharmed. The former military prosecutor has come under a torrent of criticism for her role in leaking the video, including from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the leak the worst public relations attack on Israel in the country’s history.

Israeli government officials have been strongly critical of the act of leaking the video, but of the horrific abuse inflicted on the Palestinian prisoner. According to Israeli media reports at the time, the prisoner was admitted to the hospital with an injury to his anus so severe that he couldn’t walk and also had severe lung injuries and broken ribs.

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Zelensky Says Ukraine Received More Patriot Systems

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Kiev had received additional Patriot missile defense systems from Germany. 

“Today, we can already say there is a good result for our air defense – Ukraine now has more Patriots. I would like to thank Chancellor Merz, I thank Germany, and everyone who helps,” Zelensky said on Sunday. “More Patriots are now in Ukraine and being put into operation.”

Ukraine has relied on its Western backers for Patriot systems, which are in high demand from Washington’s partners across the globe. While the Patriot is Ukraine’s most effective air defense system, the Financial Times reported last month that the American system is failing to intercept Russian missiles at an increasing pace.  

“Ukraine’s ballistic missile interception rate improved over the summer, reaching 37% in August, but it plummeted to 6% in September, despite fewer launches,” the outlet explained. “The Patriot interceptors are the only ones in Kiev’s arsenal capable of shooting down Russian ballistic missiles. Moscow’s cruise missiles can be taken down with less sophisticated air defences, but the updates have made it harder to do so,” officials speaking with FT said. 

Russian ballistic missiles are far cheaper to produce than the Patriot interceptors. 

After thanking his backers for sending Ukraine the advanced air defense systems, Zelensky asked for more. “Of course, more systems are needed to protect key infrastructure sites and our cities across the entire territory of our state.” He continued, “And we will continue working to obtain them – not only at the political level with states and leaders but also directly with manufacturers of all necessary air defense systems and missiles for them.”

NATO officials continue to claim that the bloc will provide Ukraine with all it needs to fight. However, Last month, the US Ambassador to NATO said that the alliance would only provide Kiev with $12-$15 billion in military assistance, far short of the $60 billion Zelensky says Ukraine will need. 

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Israeli Troops Advance Into Southwest Syria, Infiltrate Multiple Villages

Israeli troops have been launching operations in southwestern Syria on a fairly regular basis of late, and on Monday they carried out multiple incursions into both the Quneitra and Daraa Governorates, entering multiple villages therein.

Israeli tanks and vehicles raided the village of al-Mushayrifa and searched several homes. They went on to the village of Umm Batna and surrounded a house. It is unclear what they were doing, and the IDF has not commented.

Israeli armored vehicles operating out of the village of al-Hurriya moved against the village of Ofaniyah, also in Quneitra. There were no reports of any incidents in this operation, though again the IDF did not comment.

Further south, Israeli forces advanced into the Yarmouk Basin, in Daraa Governorate. The forces briefly entered the village of Ma’araba, though reportedly they withdrew back to the occupied Golan Heights shortly thereafter and seemingly didn’t do anything while there.

A lot of the Israeli operations of late have involved creating checkpoints along major roads, searching locals that try to pass by before packing up and leaving the area. There are sometimes detentions, though seemingly most of the detained are released shortly thereafter and their detentions are for no apparent reason.

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Report: US Preparing Mexico Mission Against Cartels That Would Include Troops and Drone Strikes

The Trump administration has begun developing detailed plans to send US troops and intelligence officers into Mexico to target cartels in operations that would include drone strikes, NBC News reported on Monday, citing current and former US officials.

The report said that US military personnel have already begun training for the potential mission, though a deployment is not imminent. Many of the troops would come from Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and would operate under the authority of US intelligence agencies, with involvement from CIA officers.

Unlike the current US bombing campaign against alleged drug boats in the waters of Latin America, which the Trump administration is conducting without legal authority, the idea of the campaign in Mexico would be to keep it secret and not publicize attacks.

The NBC report said the administration wanted to operate in coordination with the Mexican government but was also considering conducting the campaign without Mexico’s approval, which would mark a significant violation of the country’s sovereignty. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has increased law enforcement cooperation with the US and has allowed the CIA to ramp up surveillance flights along the border, but she has repeatedly ruled out US military intervention in her country.

“The United States is not going to come to Mexico with the military,” Sheinbaum said in August. “We cooperate, we collaborate, but there is not going to be an invasion. That is ruled out, absolutely ruled out.”

The Mexican leader has also condemned US strikes on boats in the region, saying she “doesn’t agree” with the policy. The US recently bombed several alleged drug vessels in the Eastern Pacific, and in one case, the Mexican Navy had to rescue a survivor.

The Trump administration has not provided any evidence to back up its claims that the boats it has been targeting were carrying drugs and has admitted to Congress that it doesn’t know the identities of the people it has killed. Since the bombing campaign began on September 2, the US military has extra-judicially executed 64 people at sea.

The strikes on boats and the push toward regime change in Venezuela have come under increasing scrutiny from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress due to the lack of transparency and lack of legal authority.

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UK Supplies Ukraine With More Storm Shadow Missiles for Strikes Inside Russia

The UK has supplied Ukraine with more Storm Shadow missiles, which are air-launched and have a range of 155 miles, for strikes inside Russian territory, Bloomberg reported on Monday.

The report came about two weeks after the Ukrainian military claimed an attack on a Russian chemical plant using Storm Shadows, which signaled the US was again backing Ukrainian missile strikes on Russian territory since the British-made missiles require US targeting data to be fired.

Ukraine first began firing Storm Shadow missiles into Russia last year, which coincided with the Biden administration giving it the green light to use US-provided ATACMS missiles in strikes on Russian territory. At the time, Russia responded by altering its nuclear doctrine to lower the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, making it clear that the US-backed missile strikes risk a major escalation from Moscow.

It’s unclear how many Storm Shadows or ATACMS Ukraine currently has, and the Bloomberg report didn’t specify how many Storm Shadows the UK has recently supplied. The US has also been backing long-range Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory, according to a report from the Financial Times.

The news about the Storm Shadow supply comes as President Trump has once again said that he doesn’t plan on providing Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles, at least for now. Sending Tomahawks would mark a huge escalation of the proxy war since they have a range of over 1,000 miles and are nuclear-capable.

CNN reported on Friday that the Pentagon gave the White House the green light to send Tomahawks to Ukraine if it chooses to, because it determined doing so wouldn’t negatively impact the US military’s stockpiles.

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Police raid nightclub in Ukraine over Russian song

A nightclub in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa was raided by police over the weekend after reports that a Russian-language song was played and that many of the guests were singing along, according to local media.

Since the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev, Ukraine has passed several laws restricting the use of Russian in public, revoking its official status, while politicians and activists have campaigned to completely phase it out.

A video of the performance – published by Strana.ua along with photos showing police inside the Palladium nightclub – shows a DJ playing the Russian-language track ‘Glamour’ by Belarusian rappers nkeeei, uniqe, ARTEM SHILOVETS, and Wipo in front of hundreds of guests. The song reportedly prompted the police raid.

Odessa Regional Governor Oleg Kiper denounced the incident, adding that the relevant departments of the Regional Military Administration were instructed to investigate and provide a legal assessment of the nightclub’s actions.

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US Bombs 16th Alleged Drug Boat in Latin America

The US has bombed another alleged drug-running boat in the waters of Latin America, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said on Saturday.

Hegseth said the vessel was targeted in the Caribbean and, as usual, he provided no evidence to back up his claims about what the boat was carrying. He said the bombing killed three “narco-terrorists,” a term the Trump administration is using to justify extra-judicial executions at sea for an alleged crime that doesn’t receive the death penalty in the US.

The attack brings the total number of boats the US has bombed since September 2 to 16, and the total number of people killed in the campaign to 64, according to numbers released by the Trump administration. Nine boats have been hit in the Caribbean, and seven were targeted in the Eastern Pacific.

While the Trump administration has claimed the boats that have been targeted were attempting to bring drugs to the US, a US official has told Drop Site News that many of the vessels that have been struck “do not even have the requisite gasoline or motor capacity to reach US waters.”

Trump officials have also framed the bombing campaign as a response to fentanyl-related deaths in the US, but the US official speaking to Drop Site also noted that little to no of the fentanyl in the US comes from Venezuela, where most of the boats targeted in the Caribbean have come from.

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