Marco Rubio will visit Hungary and Slovakia this week as part of a Central Europe tour following the Munich Security Conference.

In Budapest, Rubio will meet senior officials to advance bilateral and regional interests, a trip that carries added weight ahead of Hungary’s April election.

In Slovakia, Rubio is expected to focus on regional security, NATO commitments, and cooperation on nuclear energy.

Source: POLITICO

Sudan Army’s drone strikes also destroyed RSF terror group’s Chinese-made CH-95 drone.

These systems had been deployed in Darfur and Kordofan.

Senator Graham once again posts about Iran.

JD Vance on Greenland:

If we're going to be on the hook for protecting this massive land mass, I think it's only reasonable for the United States to get some benefit out of that.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever:

We will buy more F-35s — there is no other choice.

Cutting ties with the United States would be a colossal stupidity.

From one day to the next, breaking with NATO is impossible.

Geopolitics must not be emotional.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever:

Some things coming from the White House hurt us and humiliate us. But a total rupture with the United States would be stupid.

Europe has been naïve. The world we dreamed of no longer exists — maybe it never did.

Ukraine showed how dependent we are on the United States. We may no longer be able to count on them as we did for 80 years.

But acting emotionally in geopolitics would be foolish.

Breaking with the US overnight would be total stupidity.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever:

We must integrate our market and use it as a weapon against the great imperial blocs.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever:

If we decarbonize Europe by de-industrializing Europe, then we have lost everything.

White House on Epstein:

We are moving on from that.

Colombian President Petro claims there’s an ongoing plot against him involving planted drugs, judicial persecution, and election sabotage:

Someone ordered the police to withdraw… to plant psychoactive substances in my car.

Their mission was to destroy the meeting with Trump.

They want to harm the president physically.

NEW: U.S. to send 200 troops to Nigeria to train its military (not fight) against Islamist militants, shortly after Donald Trump accused Nigeria of allowing the killing of Christians and threatened intervention.

Source: WSJ

Trump administration talked about seizing more Iranian oil tankers to squeeze Tehran, but backed off over fears Iran would retaliate, spike oil prices, or treat it as an act of war.

Iran could respond by seizing allied tankers or mining the Strait of Hormuz (≈25% of global oil).

Officials fear retaliation would “drive up oil prices sharply.”

Over 20 Iranian-linked ships are already sanctioned and potential targets.

Source: WSJ

Trump:

This is the greatest period of anything that we have ever seen.

Colombian President Petro on assassination attempt against him:

I have to confess… I’ve been traveling for two days escaping being killed.

I couldn’t land because the lights weren’t turned on. In the morning I didn’t land where I was supposed to, fearing the helicopter would be shot at, with my children inside.

So we went out to sea for four hours and I arrived where I wasn’t supposed to—but I arrived.

Trump: We can grow at 15 percent. I think more than that.

Larry Kudlow: Well, 15 is a big number.

Trump: But Larry, you can do it!

Trump on interest rates:

I’s just a paper charge when you think about it.

We should have the lowest interest rate in the world.

Trump on India-Pakistan:

It would have been a nuclear war. In my opinion, they were really going at it.

Ten planes were shot down. They were going at it.

They were going to go nuclear, in my opinion, without tariffs.

Trump on Iran:

I know one thing: they want to make a deal.

Trump:

I spoke to Mr. Toyoda in Japan. I said, “What is your name?” Toyota.

I said, if your name is Toyota you are a very rich guy. He is about 90 years old.