J Adventur

🇻🇪🇺🇸 María Corina Machado gave her Nobel Prize to Trump and she'd do it again. "There is a leader in the world who has put the lives of his country's citizens at risk for the freedom of Venezuela, and that is Trump." The Venezuelan opposition has watched every other world leader look away.

🚨🇮🇷 Large crowds filling Tehran's Revolution Square in a show of national solidarity. Nothing unifies a country like a war it survived.

What’s our plan to stop Hezbollah? How will we disarm Hezbollah, now that we have taken on this responsibility?  How will we prevent Hezbollah from regenerating and reconstituting its forces?  The Lebanese government has neither the will nor the way or they’d have done it in last year’s ceasefire that Hezbollah violated. I expect Hezbollah will see its tactics, of using buildings to organize, store weapons, and fire rockets , as successful and will do more of it given the declaration. And it will conclude that Israel can’t do anything about it as this declaration actually protects Hezbollah . So, we shall see. Israel has degraded Hezbollah without much help from anyone else.  They took out its leadership. They lost soldiers. They’ve relocated 1 million or so of its citizens because Hezbollah fires thousands of rockets into their towns. I doubt Israel thought it would be prevented by us from eliminating Hezbollah given everything our two armed forces have accomplished together as the closest of allies.  Iran wanted Hezbollah to survive. So, now it has.  And it’s on us to deal with it if Israel does not.

In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open for the remaining period of ceasefire, on the coordinated route as already announced by Ports and Maritime Organisation of the Islamic Rep. of Iran.

🇱🇧 Beirut soon to be completely demilitarized? Was that on your 2026 bingo card? Beirut's politicians just did something that almost never happens: they agreed. 15 out of 19 MPs, across all parties, gathered at the Phoenicia Hotel this week, crossing political and religious lines, around a single demand: make Beirut a weapons-free city. The meeting built on an editorial MP Fouad Makhzoumi published in The Economist less than a month ago, laying out a 5-step plan to reclaim the capital, with a weapons-free Beirut as step one. Now that vision had a room full of backers. The core principle: all weapons exclusively in the hands of the state. That of course includes Hezbollah's arms. With a ceasefire now in place and the region looking for an off-ramp, there may never have been a more united moment for this conversation to actually go somewhere.